Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
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Volume one cover of Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin manga
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機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN (Kidō Senshi Gandamu The Origin) |
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| Genre | Space Opera, Military science fiction, Mecha, Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | June 2001 – June 2011 |
| Volumes | 23 (12 in English) |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Takashi Imanishi |
| Produced by | Osamu Taniguchi |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Takayuki Hattori |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | February 28, 2015 – November 19, 2016 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes each |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Original video animation | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: Loum Arc | |
| Directed by |
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Takashi Imanishi |
| Produced by | Osamu Taniguchi |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Takayuki Hattori |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | Q3 2017 – 2018 |
| Episodes | 2 |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN Kidō Senshi Gandamu The Origin?) is a manga written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It is a retelling of the story from the 1979 anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam, of which Yasuhiko was the original character designer.
An anime adaptation of the manga, focusing on the stories of Casval Rem Deikun (more famously known as Char Aznable) and his sister Artesia (aka Sayla Mass), produced by Sunrise began releasing in 2015. Yasuhiko is the chief director of the adaptation, with Sunrise veteran Takashi Imanishi as director, and Katsuyuki Sumisawa as the scriptwriter.
The plot of the manga follows somewhat closely the plot of the original series. It is the year Universal Century 0079, and the eighth month of a vicious war between the Earth Federation and a breakaway nation of space colonists, the Principality of Zeon. The story follows the crew of the warship White Base, as they fight to ferry the experimental RX-78-02 Gundam mobile suit to the Federation base at Jaburo.
Although for the most part faithful to the original series' plot (all of the major events unfold in mostly the same manner as the TV series, though often in different locales), Yasuhiko has taken the liberty of changing certain elements in the series universe, giving a different character to the series and the struggle that unfolds. Primary among these is the presence of mobile suits in both sides well before the conflict begins—in fact, in the flashback sequences, both the Earth Federation Forces and Zeon use Guntanks in 0068, and they and the Guncannon mobile suit are described as "obsolete" and fit for target practice in the first volume (in the TV series proper, both the RX-75 and the RX-77 were as new as the RX-78 Gundam itself, designed to serve as long- and mid-range fire support units).
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