Tag: Mobile Suit Gundam
The last 20 years have seen a boom for anime entering the Western mainstream, with titles old and new gaining success in regions such as America and Europe. The United Kingdom has been part of this but one franchise...
Any sizeable pop culture franchise will likely reach the point where it has at least one piece of lost media, an instalment lost to time. Reasons for this vary but all tend to stem from behind the scenes politics....
Although Gundam is largely known for stories told in animation, like other large franchises it has expanded into other media. This of course includes novels, which often tell alternate or expanded stories. One of these by original creator Yoshiyuki...
If you were asked to point to the central story of the first decade of Gundam, it’d likely be the rivalry between Amuro and Char. But with that feud ending in 1988's Char's Counterattack, where if anywhere was Gundam...
It’s been roughly half a decade since Anime Limited announced they had partnered with Sunrise in order to release the Gundam franchise in the UK and France. Generally I’ve been quite happy with their handling of it, though with...
On the Saturday of MCM London Comic Con Anime Superhero had the chance to pose some questions to the Anime Guest of Honour for the event, Hibiki Yoshizaki. His work includes Evangelion 3.0 with his colleagues at Studio Khara...
Gundam is no stranger to having sequels and spinoffs. The canon, loose as it may be at times, stretches far and wide. What’s a more recent tactic, however, is animating works that began as novelizations or manga. This seems...
Anime Limited have announced that the UK will see a Blu-ray release of the Mobile Suit Gundam movies. The trilogy, due to ship 27th March, will be limited to 500 units and sold strictly through the company's online store....
After much preparation the fan run Gundam convention G-Con is set to launch in the UK this September. Celebrating the popular Japanese sci-fi war drama, G-Con is the first UK fan convention for the franchise. Organised by model kit...
Loot Anime, the anime focused avenue of the popular Loot Crate subscription service, have announced their next theme to be 'SQUADRON''. This means a focus on the various elite squads of Japanese animation with exclusive products inside to draw...