Turn A Gundam
| Turn A Gundam | |
Cover art for Turn A Gundam Blu-ray Box I featuring the titular mecha and three of the main characters, Loran Cehack, Dianna Soriel, and her lookalike Kihel Heim.
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∀ガンダム (Tān Ē Gandamu) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Romance, Steampunk |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Written by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Music by | Yoko Kanno |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 4, 1999 – April 14, 2000 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Illustrated by | Kōichi Tokita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Kodomo |
| Magazine | Comic Bom Bom |
| Original run | April 15, 1999 – March 15, 2000 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Illustrated by | Atsushi Soga |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Magazine Z |
| Original run | June 26, 1999 – March 2002 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime film | |
| Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | February 9, 2002 |
| Runtime | 129 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Released | February 10, 2002 |
| Runtime | 130 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Turn A Gundam: Tsuki no Kaze | |
| Written by | Akira Yasuda |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | 2004 – 2005 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Turn A Gundam, stylized as ∀ Gundam (Japanese: ∀（ターンエー）ガンダム Hepburn: Tān Ē Gandamu?) is a 1999 Japanese Mecha anime series produced by Sunrise and aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks. It was created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration and is the eighth installment in the Gundam franchise. It was later compiled in 2002 into two feature-length movies entitled Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light and Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly.
Turn A Gundam was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the main creator of the Gundam franchise and had written and directed many previous Gundam works. Tomino created the series as a means of "affirmatively accepting all of the Gundam series," which is reflected in the series title's use of the Turned A, a symbol representing universal quantification.
Turn A Gundam takes place in the year Correct Century 2345 (正暦2345年 Seireki Nisen Sanbyaku Yonjū Go Nen?, CC 2345), in a different calendar era than the previous Gundam projects. The Japanese term for Correct Century, Seireki, is a wordplay on the Japanese term for the Common Era (CE) Western calendar system (西暦; pronounced Seireki). The population of the Earth is, at the beginning of the series, limited to simple, steam-driven technology after past cataclysms; the Moon is populated by the Moonrace, humans who left Earth after a great war long ago to reside in technologically advanced lunar colonies until such time as they deemed the Earth suitable to return to.
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