#michelle luio

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Fairly appropriate, considering they did voice a character in a Gundam movie. Kind of a missed opportunity to not put a picture of the Unicorn Phenix or Narrative Gundam in the presentation. X3

Dear White House,

Please build Erika Ishii a Gundam.

Sincerely, Smartypants.

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old 2020 narrative gang easy breezy parody..... my most important gundam work tbh

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Jona Basta and the Gundam Narrative and how the existence of these 2 showcase Gundam NT's main point, or I talk about Gundam NT part 1

Gundam Narrative (the movie) on a both narrative (get it) and meta level approaches the Gundam franchise with a single point, having to live in someone else's shadow sucks.

(Obviously huge Gundam Narrative spoilers ahead)

I will go into every single main character in the movie and the mentioned Meta elements, but first I'll start with the protagonist:

Jona Basta, a war orphan turned a experiment by the Titans, not even good enough to be turned into a Cyber-Newtype, he's a unremarkable soldier for the Federation, more than likely choosing this path as his upbringing left him with no other options and one of the 3 Miracle Children he's the one without anything, while Michele is now working for Luio & Co. and Rita is in the Phenex, Jona is an ensign who's only here because Michele won't trust anyone else with the operation. He however is also set up to live in the shadow of Banagher Links, a young man with no achievements to his name is the next in line to deal with the Psycho frame, and yet he fails, and has to be saved by Banagher. Jona is also still stuck up on Rita which is his main driving point, to the extent that at the end when she leaves for good Jona loses all will to keep moving forward, and if it wasn't for Banagher he would have probably taken off his helmet there in the cold abyss of space, it's very clear that he's depressed with Rita being the only thing in his life being even worth looking forward to, and now that she was gone together with Michele the only thing that could convince him to not end it all just yet was the living embodiment of hope Banagher Links who tells him that even though he's alone now, someday that will change.

Now onto the RX-9 NT Gundam, or Gundam Narrative, the original prototype testbed for Amuro Ray's RX-93 v Gundam, a unit that's not even deserving of it's own armor, a unfinished suit never meant for combat that was brought around only because of it's usage of the Psycho Frame and because Michele managed to install the NT-D system on it. Just like Jona this suit was never much, completely unremarkable forced to exist in the shadow of the Gundam made for the White Devil himself, the hero who stopped Axis from freezing the Earth. The narrative isn't even good enough to have it's own primary weapon with the rifle it wields being a repurposed Beam Rifle taken from a Jegan. The suit itself also doesn't look like much, it's unfinished missing armor and not even featuring a panoramic cockpit pod, instead using a core fighter, it was outdated back when the RX-93 was being made and it most certainly outdated in UC 0097. It doesn't even survive the movie as it's shot to pieces by Zoltans Neo Zeong II and if it wasn't for Rita Jona would have died along with it.

These 2 serve as the perfect setup, they are on a meta level, rejects forced to pick up the slack for the mess made by other rejects, most notably Zoltan Akkanen, or the guy who I'll talk about tomorrow, along with the Taxi scene in Gundam Hathaway, the day after, Michele and Rita and something more about Hathaway.

(Image source undercut)

https://fanart.tv/movie/553610/mobile-suit-gundam-narrative/?section=wallpaper

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The Big Gundam Watch, Part 14: Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

What a mistake it would have been for me to skip this series.

I observed in my last post that opinions on Victory Gundam seem more volatile than ZZ, and now I understand why. Like F91 before it, Victory Gundam is an attempt at soft rebooting the Universal Century, but obviously unlike F91, it had the chance to be a full, ~50 episode TV series. I can say with confidence now that this is the format in which Yoshiyuki Tomino is at his most powerful.

For better and for worse, Victory Gundam takes the essence of nearly everything that came before and refines it into a more pure, undiluted version of itself. I'm of the opinion that this works brilliantly for the most part, although when it does fall flat, it really hits with an echoing thud. Even so, Victory Gundam has usurped ZZ when it comes to my opinion on "the true successor" to 0079. A lot of that is down to executing on a most of ZZ's plot beats and character archetypes better, but it also adds some new elements that improve upon it as well. With that said, I can think of no better element to start with than with the belle of the ball herself, Katejina Loos.

CATEGORY 5 WHITE WOMAN

I have been thoroughly enchanted by the story of Katejina Loos. I knew, via osmosis, that she was a Bad Woman who does Bad Things, but I wasn't exactly sure what that really meant. That descriptor applies to characters like Haman Karn- who I love- Reccoa Londe- who I hate (affectionate)- and Michele Luio- who I hate (derogatory). She has a little bit in common with all three, because she's all the most stereotypical "evil woman" traits wrapped into a single character, but what makes that so engaging is watching how those traits get worse and worse and fucking worse over time, in a way that is kind of disturbingly mundane.

Katejina starts out as what I can most succinctly describe as a Privileged White Liberal; she's from money, but because she hates most of the wealthy people around her- including her own dad- she considers herself wholly different from them. Because of how they shuffled the first few episodes, her introduction is literally "I'm glad all those rich assholes died", glazing over both the grotesque cruelty of the situation because she thought they were bad people who deserved to die anyway and also that she is, in fact, one of those rich assholes.

At first she goes along with the League Militaire, mainly because there's nowhere else to go anyway, but she often bristles against most of the other members. This is because they pretty willing to point out that she's a rich asshole, but also more importantly because she disagrees with them using Uso as a pilot for the Victory. It's entirely possible this may have been amicably resolved- especially considering her initial attitude towards the Zanscare Empire is "they're obviously bad guys"- if not for her abduction by Cronicle Asher (who, by the way, may have The Most Tomino Name).

At this point I need to take a detour to talk about him, and how one of the other smartest things Tomino did was make Victory's Char completely unlike Char. While he is scheming against the Zanscare Empire's military dictatorship, he's a genuine believer in Mariaism- a matriarchal doctrine advocating for peace in space- and wants to elevate his sister (the titular Maria from Mariaism and Queen of the Zanscare Empire) from merely being a figurehead to the actual ruler of the empire. However, instead of subterfuge and betrayals, he's trying to change the system from within, doing his duty as a soldier with the utmost diligence so he can rise through the ranks, which will allow him to achieve his goals while not inadvertently destabilizing the empire (and thus Maria's access to power). He's maybe the most Straight-Edge Good Boy I've seen in a Gundam series, but unfortunately, all of that Good Boy Energy is being used in service of the genocidal military dictatorship. He regularly expresses distaste for the methods Zanscare's military regularly employs, but he carries out those cruel tasks anyway, because ultimately, the end will justify the means.

With all that in mind, Cronicle being the one to abduct Katejina is legitimately the point of no return for her. That genuine Straight-Edge Good Boyness of his endears her to him immediately, which leads her to reconsider what she thought of the Zanscare Empire; after all, Cronicle treats her with such a great deal of kindness and respect, so surely they can't all be bad. That one commanding officer even shot the subordinate who tried to feel her up, even! Combine that with the fact that the members of the League Militaire were mean to her, and that they have to use an innocent little baby boy like Uso to fight for them... maybe she was wrong about who the bad guys were.

I'll speed it along here, but what is essentially a corruption arc is on full display from this point forward. Slowly, she starts to integrate herself more and more within the Zanscare Empire's military, halfheartedly trying to justify what she's doing as "spying" to Uso and company until she doesn't even care to bother with that anymore, more and more convinced that Cronicle is just, and his plan to elevate Maria as the true ruler is for the greater good. The last act of kindness she musters for Uso is letting him know Shahkti and the others are safe, but the next time we see her after that is in a Zanscare dress uniform, and then later in the same episode, in a Zanscare mobile suit.

And once that threshold has been crossed, she continues to sink lower, going from "maybe we can just... capture Uso, and bring him over to our side" to "he's gotta go". And then she starts employing increasingly depraved methods of "he's gotta go", sliding from simply killing him in combat, to ordering the all-female imperial guard to fight him on foot and naked (or as naked as early 90's Japanese TV would allow) to try to fuck with his head, to finally faking a surrender after she's already lost everything so she can stab him, because fuck him.

If the League Militaire (and Uso as its spearhead) had just fucked off and let Zanscare achieve their goals, Cronicle would have eventually usurped the military dictatorship, given Maria the freedom to enact her will, and everything would have been perfect. It would've been like a fairy tale: she's swept off her feet by a handsome prince who enlists her aid to rescue to queen, and in saving her, they save the whole kingdom, and then they live happily ever after. The only minor caveat was the mountains of innocent corpses it was all built upon.

Uso- the innocent little baby boy no more- took all that away from her- the prince was dead, the queen was dead, and the kingdom had fallen apart- and rather than actually admit defeat or commit suicide, she instead continues to try to kill him, until her brain basically poisons itself as a self-preservation tactic- it's not the V2's Wings of Light that blind her, it's literally her own rage.

And, shockingly, that's where she ends up. Still alive, but unable to see the world around her anymore and with no memory of anything but where she lived. Karlmann's name evokes a memory she can't access anymore, which makes her cry for reasons she can't understand. Shahkti gives her a replacement compass so she can make her way back to Uwig and continue to live, and presumably just live... assuming Uwig has even been rebuilt, considering this series seems to take place within the span of a year (if Marbet's pregnancy is anything to go by). It's honestly a much crueler fate than I was expecting, but it's hard to argue it's not one she earned.

All of this is to say: it's possible I may change my opinion once recency bias wears off, but I think Katejina Loos is maybe my favorite single character in a Gundam show to date. A perfectly executed villainess, top to bottom.

And, you know, nice thick eyebrows, which is terrific.

Now that I've finished gushing, let's get to the normal segments:

THE STUFF I LIKED

This series is just ripe with Tomino names. Cronicle Asher, Maria Pure Armonia, Karlmann Dukatus, Junko Jenka, Duker Iq... and I would be remiss not to mention that while not explicitly said in the series, Marbet's last name is Fingerhat.

I adore the technology level of UC 0153. We've advanced forward from F91 and now goddamn near everything is beam-based; even things that aren't mobile suits use beams because the technology is so normalized. I'm also of the opinion that it's enhanced further by Tomino's obvious appreciation of the aesthetic of Pastoral European Landscapes and 20th Century European Cities; the visual clash of super futuristic robots and old-timey environments worked in F91, it worked better here, and I imagine it'll continue to be just as strong- if not stronger- in Turn A and Reconguista in G

I know on a meta level that Victory Gundam was pushed even harder than previous Gundams in the direction of MAKE TOY, which sounds like a nightmare creatively, but fuck if they didn't make it work. The in-universe justification for most of the wheel-based weapons is goofy, but damned if they don't make the Einerad (The Tire) one of the most devastatingly effective support units in the franchise. And, to be honest, if I had access to a toy as a kid that was just a cool robot inside of a wheel, it would've been, like, my favorite toy.

Plus, despite my noted dislike of the Zakrello from 0079 for being a Goofy Snake Ship, having most of the Zanscare's mobile suits have the dogu statue eyes that open into vertical slits is a great unifying aspect that is also super different from Zeon's monoeyes.

One of the coolest things about this series is how it flips the formula from 0079, Zeta, and ZZ with regards to setting. It starts on Earth, which frames space and the colonies as different and scary. Like, it was fascinating in 0079 to see the White Base crew react the way they did to a thunderstorm and other Earth phenomena we obviously take for granted, but here's it's like: hey man, space is fucking scary! I was genuinely anxious watching Shahkti and Suzy trying to get Karl and Flanders into normal suits.

This also extends to the finale taking place on Earth, which is a genuine first for the franchise. You'd think this would make things slightly less deadly overall, but man Cronicle goes out in a bad fuckin' way.

Following up on that: I love Angel Halo as the ultimate threat (with one caveat I'll mention that in the next section). "Total Human Regression as performed by Warhammer 40k's Golden Throne" is much more horrifying than what I was expecting (which was A Super Duper Space Laser), especially considering they showed what happens if everyone in an arbitrary area suddenly falls asleep, and that every time someone blew up a section of Angel Halo, civilian bodies would just FLOOD out.

I also really liked how the memories Angel Ring was evoking when Maria was trying to pacify Uso were just ever so slightly wrong, in terms of what the characters are saying. That's a very tiny detail to address in such a long series, where most people wouldn't even remember what was actually said as it was airing, but it's appreciated.

At this point I consider Tomino to be pretty masterful at a lot of things, but I think one of his strongest abilities is writing mascot characters who are good. Victory Gundam has a baby, a dog, and the most talkative Haro yet, and all three of them are great. Karl and Flanders are just a normal baby and dog who primarily either enhance hijinks or raise stakes, and Haro earns the extra lines it has by constantly being in MVP in bad situations.

THE STUFF I LIKED LESS:

It was dumb that they arbitrarily had Episode 4 as the first episode so they could show the completed Victory Gundam right away, and then spend the next three episodes framed with Shahkti going "well Karl, as you know...". I know this ties back to toys, but surely it could've just been written differently in the first place.

While I did like Zanscare's refusal to acknowledge the Victory, Hexa, and V2 as Gundams, I'm so mad they were mainly referred to as "the white ones" instead of "white devils". "The White Devil" is my favorite name for the RX-78-2 and I hate that it doesn't get used more referencing Gundams, especially in contexts like this.

So obviously from a series composition point of view it was never going to be the case, but I was bummed out that in-universe, Marbet was intended to be the League Militaire's ace and got sidelined due to her injury. This isn't such a big deal, because she contributes regularly and actually lives through to the end in what I would consider to be the best possible circumstances (Oliver is dead and instead she has Uso, Shahkti, Karl, and Flanders as a family), but it's was just like "aw no you're so much cooler than this dumb kid with a bowl cut!"

I straight-up don't like Oliver. He just shows up randomly but everyone knows who he is, he's revealed to be the commander of the Shrike Team (who actually are foreshadowed in an earlier episode!) but arrives without them for some reason, he has a strained romantic history with Marbet, and he gets a completely unearned Bright Slap shortly after showing up, which is already something I hate outside of its original context in 0079. Then despite denying it, it really seems like he shacks up with Marbet because Junko died and she wins by default, and then after nutting inside he just killed himself in spectacular fashion, achieving nothing. Fuckin'... bad vibes, all around.

Lupe Cineau, huh? My complaint here isn't that she's a weird pedophile, bur rather that she really shouldn't have been? Her introduction is that she's a Stone Cold Bitch, murdering the guys in the bar she just got information from when she first shows up. And her tactic to try to seduce Uso into joining up with Zanscare seemed less like "oh my, a cute little boy, I know exactly what to do..." and more of a dismissive "he's like 12, all I need to do is show hole and he'll be in our pockets forever". Like, 'she fails at seducing a 12 year old because she's too much of a Stone Cold Bitch' is the point of that entire scene! Statistically, not every antagonist could be a quality one, but it felt like they just scrambled to figure out how to reintroduce and get rid of her, and the bath scene was the most memorable thing about her, so: pedophile.

There sure is a lot of biology in this series! Most of it has to do with Karlmann, naturally, but I was taken aback at the scene of Shahkti washing the diapers in the river and you see his poop get washed away. Odelo pissing himself and it filling up the bottom of his normal suit was gross but like... kind of informative on how that works? But then the scene where Cronicle redirects Suzy to the bathroom when she sleepwalks to pee in the hallways was just... eugh.

I don't know why they felt compelled to allude to the threat of Angel Halo's psycommu physically degenerating people as well. "Everyone on Earth will mentally become an infant, and if they don't die in the initial collapse of infrastructure that causes, they'll eventually starve to death because they lack the capacity for self-preservation" is scary enough!

I can't really begrudge Tomino for reusing it, because it's a powerful scene, and Karl was much more important to this story, but the fact that Karl has the same origin story as the F91 baby was just like "you can't just do that again, man". It's not even as good a moment because the pilot intentionally shoots down Karl's mother, versus F91 baby's mom just accidentally getting brained by a spent shell. They're even wearing similar outfits!

OTHER OBSERVATIONS

I've read that this is, or was at the time, Hideaki Anno's favorite Gundam series, and lines up with when he would've been making Evangelion- and I definitely think he cribbed some things. As soon as I saw the episode title "Beneath the Ultra-High Altitude Attack" my eyes narrowed, and I can't be convinced that Arael wasn't inspired by the Zanneck and Fuala's mental instability. Also: Angel Ring and Human Instrumentality and the associated Christian imagery.

Speaking of Fuala Griffon, she is Victory Gundam's winner of the "fucking insane fit" award, wearing an oversized suit and porkpie hat while riding a dirtbike with the biggest case of resting bitchface I've seen since Monsly in Future Boy Conan.

I kind of regret learning about trigger discipline (keeping your trigger finger extended along the side of the barrel of a gun until you're actually going to fire) because now it's one of those things I look for everywhere, but in this case I do think it's the second most telling detail about Cronicle's character. The other being the fact that Flanders is cool with him.

Speaking of Cronicle and guns, for however out of character it may have been I was hootin' and hollerin' when Shahkti stole his gun and shot him.

Final note on Cronicle: My favorite thing about his mask that I only realized in writing this post is that it's the inverse of Char's, covering everything but his eyes and hair.

I really like the Eyecatch Flipbook they must have made to include as an extra for the laserdisc release of the series, but it does kinda... disrupt some things. Most notably in the last episode where you get the very violently abrupt shot Cronicle slamming into a piece of Angel Halo before cutting to HARO WORLDWIDE with the cute little jingle.

I legitimately thought Maria's demonstration where she healed the sick was staged. Like, it would be revealed that Maria was a low-level Newtype with some genuine power, but all the people who claimed to have been healed during that demonstration were crisis actors designed to make the public fall in line. In hindsight, I don't even know if "crisis actors" was a concept anyone had ever thought of before the turn of the century.

I alluded to it in another post, but due to the scant few memes that have circulated about this series, I was shocked to learn the Shrike Team were protagonist-aligned. I thought that they were the ones who did the Bikini Bazooka Attack, because a second faction made up entirely of beautiful women just seemed unlikely, and I kept trying to figure out at one point they were going to turn on Uso, especially considering most of them are dead before the halfway point.

I'm really proud of the image I used for the header, and was initially planning on doing a full video of the clip, but video editing is hard. Then I was going to photoshop in more characters' faces but I didn't want to hunt for images of the right angle for that many characters. But that was a really good Shahkti face, so I left it in.

IN CONCLUSION

Victory Gundam is without a doubt my favorite of the Tomino-directed TV shows thus far, and in the upper eschelon of favorite Gundam shows. For however much he hated doing the series and may still hate it in hindsight, it's not like he just phoned it in. It's got a good cast, good conflict, good mobile suit designs, and despite a massive kill count and some really fucked up parts, it doesn't strike me as being particularly edgy or even mean-spirited. It's absolutely not going to hit the same for everyone, but I think if Tomino's other Gundams clicked with you, it's more than worth a shot.

Next up: considering I've already watched the next two entries in chronological order, I'll be moving ahead to the third Gundam OVA series, The 08th MS Team, notable for being the first new entry in the Universal Century timeline following G Gundam and Gundam Wing and for often being recommended in the same breath as War in the Pocket. Considering how that turned out, I'm optimistic that this will also be good, and if nothing else, it's sure to have that 90's Anime OVA budget going for it, much like Stardust Memory.

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[Gundam NT] RitaMiche w/ Jona

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friend requested that I draw michele when work slowed down again. happy halloween?

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Gundam Narrative: Thoughts

This movie had something of a lukewarm reception from critics and fans. I think a big part of that is that it was more or less a direct sequel to Gundam Unicorn, which as I mentioned earlier was excellent in most ways. Directly compared to it, Narrative doesn’t really stack up. It looks worse than Gundam Unicorn (despite being a theatrical release,) the story is worse than Gundam Unicorn, and it’s a hell of a let cornier than Gundam Unicorn.

That said, being worse than Gundam Unicorn doesn’t necessarily translate to “bad.” While I definitely wouldn’t consider this to be an excellent movie, and in fact there were parts of its runtime that I’d consider to be downright poor, ultimately by the time the end credits rolled it had done enough to win me over. While I definitely see why some fans consider this movie to be one to forget, I ultimately enjoyed my time with it.

The plot setup is that while we saw only two RX-0 units in Unicorn, there exists a third unit called the Phenex that went rogue. In UC 0097, one year after the conclusion of the events of Gundam Unicorn, the Phenex has reappeared and has gone on the rampage. The Federation has dispatched a task force to capture it, only to be joined by Michele Luio and Jona Basta, respectively a representative of a powerful corporation who has a special interest in the Phenex, and Jona Basta, a fairly average mobile suit pilot who’s nevertheless been assigned the Narrative Gundam in order to recapture the Phenex. Both have history that ties them to the elusive machine’s former pilot, Rita Bernal. Meanwhile, a rogue Neo Zeon faction also seeks to capture the Phenex for themselves. Amongst their number is Zoltan Akkanen, a mentally unstable reject from the cloning project that brought forth Full Frontal, who seeks to enact his own agenda.

The movie’s biggest problem is that it’s straight up too short for what it’s trying to do. It’s 90 minutes long, and honestly it felt like a full hour of extra runtime to fill out blanks and just slow down what feels like a rushed pace a little would not have gone amiss. It doesn’t help that much of the runtime is flashbacks to Jona, Rita and Michele’s past, which is delivered in chunks and makes things feel choppy and sometimes repetitive as the narrative keeps revisiting the same flashback scenes multiple times. This is kind of a shame as the actual story itself is pretty good once you get past the sometimes-confusing way it’s delivered. Honestly it took me right up until the end for me to come round to liking the movie, and I think a part of that is because that’s when everything finally clicked into place. The characters are mostly pretty good - Jona’s a sympathetic lead, Michele is a fairly nuanced character, especially once her backstory’s all delivered, and Zoltan comes across as totally unhinged in a way that makes him an engaging villain, but not so unhinged that his motivations don’t make any sense. As far as the storytelling goes as a whole, I think it has a strong beginning, a weak middle and a strong conclusion. This is largely because the best animation and battles are front-and-back loaded, but also because the early part introduces the characters and builds intrigue, the middle starts to make things confused and things don’t resolve properly until the dramatic conclusion.

I can’t really sign off on talking about the story without mentioning what’s likely to be the biggest sticking point for a certain segment of fans. Some gundam fans express disdain for “newtype magic,” and prefer it when the series trends more towards being a more grounded war drama. If that describes you, this movie is definitely not for you. Unicorn was already considered excessive by many in regards to the power level afforded to newtypes by psychoframe-equipped mobile suits and their overall centrality to the plot. Narrative goes even further beyond that, to the point where it honestly gets silly. Personally, while I like the grounded war drama side of Gundam, the newtype stuff’s always been important to UC ever since the original series, so I typically welcome its inclusion, but even I thought that it was pushed to beyond reasonable levels here. I made the conscious choice to just try and accept it and enjoy it for what it was, knowing that this was ultimately just a side story rather than anything with real lasting ramifications for the setting, but I think that many others will hate it and see it as the series jumping the shark, and they might not be wrong.

On the presentation front, as I mentioned in the preamble, it’s definitely weaker than Unicorn. It’s not bad looking, but as a followup to Unicorn that was released on the silver screen you’d probably expect more, doubly so considering the movie’s short runtime. That said, it makes do with what it has quite well - while most of the mobile suit designs return from Unicorn, the two stars of the show, the Phenex and Narrative Gundam (coming in three variations,) are well-animated and feature in exciting battle sequences. The final battle in particular is a glorious pyrotechnic ballet with an exciting conclusion. While visually it falls short of the mark that Unicorn set, Hiroyuki Sawano returns to deliver another excellent soundtrack that elevates the rest of the package another level - particular mention deserves to be given to the track “Vigilante” which was probably the highlight of the whole movie.

Ultimately, while I think that as a direct sequel to Unicorn it’s definitely lacking, I think it’s still better than its reception would indicate and that it’s at least worth a watch. Just know that it’s more of a bonus side story and not the next epic chapter of UC Gundam - if you set your expectations accordingly I think it’s definitely at least worth a watch.

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Early this morning Sunrise held a conference at Gundam Base Tokyo that featured details on the next Gundam project. The presentation revealed that the next Gundam project will take place during the Universal Century, and after Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The new project is a film titled, “Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (Gundam NT),” and will be set in U.C. 0097. The film is set release in Japanese theaters this November. The project is stated to be featured in various media, which include but not limited to Video Games, toys, and more.

  Gundam.info updated with an official trailer for the project.

The tagline for the project is “The next destination of the Newtype legend.” The anime is part of a new “UC NexT 0100 Project” that will tackle the future of the UC timeline. The Gundam Narrative project will also be apart of an all-new tactical game that will span across smartphones, manga, and novels. Currently, this game is merely listed as “New Tactical Game Project.”

  The staff includes:

Shunichi Yoshizawa: Director

Harutoshi Fukui: Script Writer

Kumiko Takahashi: Character Designer

Se Jun Kim: Character Animation Designer

Hajime Katoki, Eiji Komatsu: Mechanical Designers

Takako Suzuki: Color Key Artist

Yukiko Maruyama, Yoshimi Mineda: Art Directors

Eriko Kimura: Sound Director

Hiroyuki Sawano: Music Composer

Daisuke Imai: Editor

Kumiko Taniguchi: Special Effects Director

Kentarō Waki: Photography Director

Sunrise: Production Studio

  The official website provided a synopsis for the film along with an official visual.

U.C. 0097. The year the Laplace’s Box was opened. Despite the revelation of the original charter for the Universal Century, which acknowledges the existence of Newtypes and their rights, the world remains largely unchanged.

  After the destruction of the Neo Zeon remnant force known as the Sleeves, the event that has come to be known as the “Laplace Incident” seems to have drawn to a close. In the final battle, two Full Psycho Frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human imagination. The menace of the White Unicorn and the Black Lion were sealed away from public consciousness, and were consigned to be forgotten by history.

  But now sightings of the RX-0 Unicorn 03, long thought lost two years ago, are being reported. Its name is Phenex, an immortal golden bird.

  The main characters and mobile suits include:

Yona Bashuta, 25 years old. A second lieutenant in the Earth Federation Space Forces, and the pilot of the Narrative Gundam. He is the childhood friend of Michelle and Rita. He was a victim of a disaster in Australia as a child.

  Michelle Luio, 25 years old, and a special adviser to the Luio company. She is a specialist at fortune telling via bamboo stick divination, and has earned the complete trust of the financial world. 

  Rita Bernal, 25 years old, and also a second lieutenant in the Earth Federation Space Forces, and the pilot of the Phenex. She, like Yona, was the victim of a disaster in Australia in her childhood.

  Zoltan Akkanen, the pilot to the Sinanju Stein, and the “rival” to the main character.

Yona Bashuta

Michelle Luio

Rita Bernal

Zoltan Akkanen

The new character Michelle Luio is stated have a connection to Stephanie Luio who was featured in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.

Gundam Narrative

RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03 Phenex

MSN-06S Sinanju Stein

Source: ANN, Official Website

      New UC Gundam Project Announced, #GundamNT

Early this morning Sunrise held a conference at Gundam Base Tokyo that featured details on the next 

New UC Gundam Project Announced, #GundamNT Early this morning Sunrise held a conference at Gundam Base Tokyo that featured details on the next 

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i ended up Really liking michelle. i don’t agree with her actions but she still ended up as sympathetic. she’s well-meaning but flawed and that’s not a bad base for a character.

she genuinely believed that she’d be saving all three of them when she “confessed” that she was the newtype of the miracle children. but it ended up dooming rita and creating a rift between her and jona.

and even with her final comversation with stephanie, all she gets is “Come back home, or it won’t look good for Luio and Co.” she doesn’t even get the satisfaction of having her adopted family come around to her, and she ends up feeling vindicated. she’s confirmed that she made the wrong choice and all the questionable lengths she’s going to for rita and jona in the present at least have meaning.

she’s trying and struggling to make up for her critical past mistake and that’s something anyone can sympathize with.

[acparadise]

Voice of Michelle Luio, Erika Ishii with our cosplayer at the premiere of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative #GundamNT https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1SLUQD5ZC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mvli05129yzs

[black-duo-maxwell-0085]

NarraTive Hype Intensifies:

Woke up early this morning and found that clip on YouTube that was the first twenty minutes of Gundam Narrative.  I didn’t really want to watch it at first, worried that it might spoil a bit of the movie before I get to see the whole thing next week...but then again, I also really did want to watch, because I figured it would be just what I needed to whet my anticipation further.

Gotta say, I quite like those first few scenes.  I’ve said before that I’m not really a fan of subtitles, but I’m getting better at enjoying them, and they worked well here (especially since there was so much in the way of action set-pieces and mecha spectacle).  

The increasing political turbidity of the last decade of the first Universal Century was something that I initially found a bit less engaging than the rawness of the One Year War, but here, I think things work flawlessly.  

I really liked the callbacks to Zeta with the resurgent emphasis on Luio & Co. as a rival corporate faction to balance against Anaheim Electronics and the various foundations brought up in Unicorn.  Those opening shots of New Hong Kong were gorgeous.

I think I might like the dynamic amongst the ‘Miracle Children’.  At first, I wasn’t really anticipating much from them, but Jona and Michele are fascinating in the relationship that emerges with them, and to see the way that Jona reacts to Rita in the Phenex too...man, this jont seems like it’s gonna be dope.

[hath-e]

Soo I still haven't finished the ST Gundam file but I love the idea that the Narrative B-packs kit that's in UC Engage is canon just that it went unused during the Phenex Hunt

(This one)

So I think that it would be cool if Luio & Co. directly used all of their left over Psycho frame material to build what is essentially the Narrative C-packs but instead of giving it a Jegan rifle they would fit these 2 shields with Psycho Frame and turn into into what are essentially the Unicorns Shield funnels.

So it'd be a full Gundam based on both the construction of the v and the Unicorn but made specifically for Jona as a parting gift from Michele who pulled all the strings she could to get it made before she died in NT.

Definitely I'm not just writing this because I finally found where to use this machine I've dreamed up so many months ago :P.

[fostersffff]

I know just enough about Victory Gundam to be both very excited and very scared to find out if Katejina Loos winds up being a Reccoa Londe (miserable horrible monster who's fun to hate and gets zero redemption), a Michele Luio (miserable horrible monster who makes me genuinely mad and gets redemption for some reason), or some secret third thing.

[ljaesch]

Cast Announcement for the Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative Anime

Cast Announcement for the Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative Anime

A cast announcement has been made for the forthcoming Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative anime:

Junya Enoki is Yona Bashuta

Tomo Muranaka is Michelle Luio

Ayu Matsuura is Rita Bernal

Shunichi Yoshizawa is directing the anime at Sunrise Studio #1. Harutoshi Fukui is writing the script. Kumiko Takahashi is in charge of the main original character designs, and Se Jun Kim is designing the characters for…

[kadirranfan]

Salah satu hobiku di bidang pop-culture adalah ini :D

Mari berbagi sedikit tentang Gundam, yuk meski ini cuma copas :D

April 2018 lalu, studio animasi Sunrise menyelenggarakan konferensi pers untuk memperingati ulang tahun waralaba anime dan mainan Gundam yang ke-40.

Dalam presentasi acara, diumumkan sejumlah proyek baru yang tercakup dalam “UC NexT 0100 Project”. Proyek ini yang dikabarkan akan menangani masa depan dari linimasa Universal Century (UC) yang digagas sutradara Tomino Yoshiyuki dari seri-seri Gundam yang orisinil. Tagline keseluruhan proyek ini adalah “The next destination of the Newtype legend.” yang kurang lebih mengindikasikan kelanjutan bahasan mitologi Newtype yang linimasa ini usung.

Sebagai penyegar, linimasa UC sebelumnya mencakup seri-seri animasi Gundam (seri-seri manga tidak dicantumkan agar tidak tambah ribet) berikut:

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (UC 0068-0077)

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO (Januari, UC 0079)

Mobile Suit Gundam (September, UC 0079)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (Oktober, UC 0079)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (Desember, UC 0079)

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (Desember, UC 0079)

Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu (Desember, UC 0079)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (UC 0083)

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (UC 0087)

Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Divers (UC 0087)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (UC 0088)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (UC 0093)

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (UC 0096)

Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis (UC 0096)

…

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (UC 0123)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (UC 0153)

G-Saviour (UC 0223)

Sebagaimana yang bisa kalian lihat, mengingat cerita Gundam Unicorn sebenarnya dimulai dari Insiden Laplace pada tahun UC 0000, abad pertama linimasa Universal Century kurang lebih telah terpapar.

Rangkaian proyek NexT 100 ini, agaknya, menjadi tahap baru untuk menyentuh abad berikutnya linimasa ini, yang hampir tak ‘disentuh’ dalam proyek-proyek animasi Gundam yang modern.

Dari sudut pandang lain, mungkin ini upaya untuk melangkah dari konflik antara Federasi Bumi dan Zeon, yang diperkenalkan lewat seri Gundam orisinil. Khususnya, konflik ideologi tentang hakikat manusia, antara dua tokoh utama Amuro Ray dan Char Aznable. Konflik ini sebelumnya sudah tertuntaskan lewat CCA, tapi sempat kembali jadi bahasan dalam Gundam Unicorn.

(Peringatan spoiler bagi anime-anime Gundam lawas!)

Narrative

Anime baru pertama yang diumumkan adalah seri Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative. Ceritanya berlatar di UC 0097. Formatnya sama dengan Gundam Unicorn, yakni seri OVA yang episode-episodenya juga akan ditayangkan di bioskop (belum jelas totalnya berapa) film layar lebar. Episode pertamanya dirilis pada penghujung tahun 2018 ini. (Pada saat ini aku tulis, cuplikan 23 menit dari episode pertama tersebut dapat ditonton di saluran Gundam.Info di YouTube.)

Dengan cerita yang digagas oleh Fukui Harutoshi (novelis militer yang mencetus cerita Gundam Unicorn), Gundam Narrative bisa dibilang semacam semi-sekuel dari Gundam Unicorn. Ceritanya memaparkan kesudahan dari kejadian-kejadian di seri tersebut.

Cerita Gundam Narrative sendiri sebenarnya ekspansi (yang lumayan drastis) dari novel Gundam Unicorn yang kesebelas, “Phoenix Hunting”, yang terbit lumayan lama sesudah cerita utamanya berakhir. (Porsi cerita anime Gundam Unicornmengadaptasi 10 buku yang terbit antara 2007-2009. Buku 11 ini terbit di tahun 2016.)

Berlatar di tahun UC 0097, satu tahun sesudah rangkaian kejadian di Gundam Unicorn, pembukaan Kotak Laplace membeberkan isi Piagam Universal Century yang asli. Pembeberan ini memberikan basis hukum bagi kemerdekaan simpatisan Zeon sekaligus pengakuan publik terhadap keberadaan manusia-manusia Newtype. Pembeberan ini diiringi dengan demonstrasi nyata terhadap betapa mencengangkannya teknologi psychoframe yang Unicorn Gundam punyai.

Dalam Gundam Narrative, dikisahkan bahwa unit ketiga dari MS tipe RX-0, yakni Unicorn Gundam 03 Phenex, tiba-tiba saja muncul setelah dua tahun lenyap. Semua pihak jadi memburunya karena ingin memperoleh teknologi pscyhoframeyang unit tersebut punyai.

Sekilas, tema Gundam Narrative mirip dengan yang diangkat dalam Twilight Axis, yakni seputar rebutan teknologi psychoframe (yang pada seri tersebut, dilakukan lewat ekspedisi militer ke puing-puing markas asteroid Axis, di mana teknologi itu diteliti pihak Neo Zeon). Nyatanya, Gundam Narrative berpusar pada tema yang agak lebih dalam daripada itu.

Cerita Gundam Narrative berfokus pada tiga yatim piatu sekaligus sahabat masa kecil, yakni Jona Bashta, Michelle Luio, dan Rita Bernal.

Ketika masih anak-anak, pada masa Perang Satu Tahun, ketiganya melihat visi akan jatuhnya koloni luar angkasa ke Australia. Dengan bersikeras memperingatkan orang-orang sekitar, mereka berhasil menyelamatkan sejumlah penduduk dari bencana tersebut. Oleh media massa, mereka lalu disebut-sebut sebagai Miracle Children(‘anak-anak ajaib’, memperlihatkan tanda-tanda kekuatan Newtype sekalipun berada di Bumi).

Sesudah dewasa, dan sama-sama sempat berkarir dalam kemiliteran Federasi, Jona suatu hari direkrut Michelle, yang kini berstatus anak angkat Luio Woomin, kepala perusahaan dagang Luio & Co.

Michelle rupanya telah punya nama di dunia bisnis sebagai ‘peramal’ yang memprediksi berbagai kejadian besar. Dengan kemampuan Michelle memprediksi kejadian-kejadian di masa datang, Luio & Co (salah satu sponsor AEUG dan Karaba semasa Konflik Gryps) tumbuh menjadi perusahaan sangat besar.

Alasan Michelle merekrut Jona rupanya untuk melibatkannya dalam perburuan terhadap Phenex. Pilot Phenex, yang lepas kendali dua tahun silam, ternyata adalah Rita, sahabat mereka yang telah lama menghilang. Oleh Michelle, Jona dijadikan pilot dari Narrative Gundam, suatu MS prototipe yang dilengkapi berbagai perlengkapan khusus untuk ‘menangkap’ si burung emas.

Cuplikan 23 menit yang diperlihatkan Gundam.Info benar-benar keren. Terutama, buat kalian yang menggemari Gundam Unicorn. Animasi berbagai adegan aksinya terbilang luar biasa. Ada banyak tokoh baru diperkenalkan. Lagi-lagi, diberi kesan kalau dunianya sangat besar.

Masih ada banyak hal dalam ceritanya yang belum jelas sih. Seperti, soal bagaimana Rita awalnya bisa berada di kokpit Phenex, misalnya. (Ada indikasi kalau dia diculik?) Tapi, sejauh yang kutangkap:

Dua unit Unicorn Gundam dan Banshee sama-sama telah disegel dan tak lagi dapat diakses teknologinya?

Michelle mengejar Phenex bukan untuk Rita, melainkan karena terobsesi kemampuan manipulasi waktu(!) yang nampaknya Phenex punyai. (Gagasan soal manipulasi waktu secara fisik ini juga menjadi sesuatu yang sempat kontroversial di kalangan penggemar.)

Ada… empat kepentingan yang bermain?

Pihak Federasi Bumi yang tak mau ada psychoframe lepas lagi.

Pihak Republik Zeon yang ingin mendapat ‘jaminan’ atas kedaulatan mereka. (Di cerita ini, agaknya diwakili oleh perwira Zoltan Akkanen, seorang Cyber Newtype psikotik—dan bahkan mungkin klon dari Char—yang di cuplikan baru tampil sebentar, tapi nantinya akan jadi rival Jona.)

Pihak Luio & Co yang digawangi Michelle, yang ingin memperoleh teknologi manipulasi waktu. (Sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan ayah angkatnya yang menjalani tidur es? Pihaknya bahkan sampai membebaskan Martha Vist Carbine untuk rencana mereka ini.)

Pihak Mineva Zabi, yang ingin sekali lagi mencegah pecahnya perang. (Meski belum tampil, tapi aku dengar kalau tokoh Gundam Unicorn, Banagher Links, direncanakan muncul di kemudian hari.)

Narrative Gundam, MS utama di seri ini, dikisahkan adalah prototipe uji untuk perlengkapan MS Nu Gundam yang digunakan Amuro Ray di CCA. Narrative Gundam tak terintegrasi dengan teknologi psychoframe. Secara spek, usianya dibandingkan Phenex pun tertinggal beberapa tahun. Namun, dengan penambahan perlengkapan-perlengkapan khusus, sekaligus baju kokpit istimewa yang berbasis material psychoframe, Jona bisa agak mengimbangi performa Phenex.

Phenex ditampilkan sebagai MS yang sangat OP. MS ini seakan tak terkejar, bahkan bila dibandingkan dengan Unicorn dan Banshee. Warnanya emas secara menyeluruh, dan menggunakan dua funnel mirip ekor/sayap yang berfungsi sebagai remote weapon. Desain MS ini sebenarnya cukup lama telah diperkenalkan dalam berbagai material sampingan. MS ini bahkan sempat muncul sebagai lawan antagonis dalam animasi CG pendek untuk Reconguista in G.

Sinanju Stein yang akan digunakan Zoltan kudengar adalah prototipe MS Sinanju yang digunakan Full Frontal di Gundam Unicorn. Lebih banyak soal itu mending aku ulas sesudah melihat episodenya secara lengkap.

Selebihnya, masih agak susah menebak arah ceritanya.

Cerita anime ini kudengar berbeda drastis dibandingkan di novelnya. Anime Gundam Narrative berlatar setahun penuh sesudah Gundam Unicorn, misalnya. Sedangkan novel “Phoenix Hunting” berlatar menjelang akhir penyelesaian cerita. Jona bahkan hanya menggunakan MS produksi massal Stark Jegan dalam novel, dan karakter Michelle bahkan sama sekali tak ada.

(Edit: ternyata novelisasi untuk Gundam Narrative sudah dibuat! Jadi ada versi novel lain lagi!)

Senkou

Pengumuman berikutnya yang mengejutkan, yang sempat di-tease dalam acara presentasi, dan juga sempat diindikasikan lewat kemunculan MS Gustav Karl(penerus MS produksi massal Jegan) di episode-episode terakhir Gundam Unicorn, adalah produksi Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash. Ini merupakan seri baru lagi yang akan dibuat dalam format tiga film layar lebar.

Yang membuat ini mengejutkan adalah karena proyek ini diadaptasi dari novel Senkou no Hathaway yang dikarang sendiri oleh Tomino-san. Novel itu, pada dasarnya, merupakan sekuel novel CCA yang beliau buat. Meski begitu, latar belakangnya agak rumit…

Jadi, sempat ada dua (beberapa?) versi novel dari film layar lebar Char’s Counterattack. Yang pertama adalah novelisasi animenya (yang dipenai oleh Tomino juga). Lalu, yang kedua adalah Beltorchika’s Children (pertama diterbitkan dari 1989-1990). Novel kedua ini yang konon merupakan versi cerita orisinil yang punya banyak perbedaan dibandingkan animenya.

Perbedaan-perbedaan tersebut di antaranya:

Amuro di versi ini menggunakan MS Hi-Nu Gundam, pengembangan Nu Gundam. MS ini yang digunakan dalam klimaks cerita untuk menghentikan jatuhnya Axis.

Char di versi ini menggunakan MS Nightingale yang merupakan pengembangan dari Sazabi. Seperti kasus Amuro, MS ini yang digunakan dalam klimaks saat Axis jatuh.

Pacar Amuro yang diperkenalkan di Zeta Gundam, Beltorchika Irma, menggantikan peran Chen Agi dalam versi ini. Beltorchika (yang juga sempat tampil di Gundam Unicorn) bahkan dikisahkan tengah mengandung anak Amuro.

Di versi ini, karakter antagonis Quess Paraya tewas tak sengaja saat melindungi Char, berbeda dengan nasibnya di CCA.

Nah, versi novel Hathaway’s Flash ini semacam sekuel dari Beltorchika’s Children. Jadi, bukan sekuel anime Char’s Counterattack yang lebih banyak dikenal.

Berlatar di UC 105, novelnya sendiri mengetengahkan putra kapten kapal induk legendaris Bright Noa dan Mirai Yashima, Hathaway Noa. Hathaway pertama diperkenalkan di Zeta Gundam kemudian menjadi salah satu karakter utama di CCA.

Hathaway, yang kini dewasa, dikisahkan telah menjadi ahli botani. Pekerjaannya menuntut ia bolak-balik antara koloni-koloni luar angkasa dan Bumi. Diam-diam, ia masih saja dihantui kematian Quess Paraya. Kematian Quess yang tak sengaja disebabkannya itu secara ironis telah membuat Hathaway dipandang sebagai pahlawan. Karena tuntutan pekerjaan, Hathaway lalu bisa melihat sendiri ketimpangan kualitas hidup antara penduduk Bumi dan luar angkasa.

Pemerintahan Federasi dalam cerita ini digambarkan sudah benar-benar korup. Bahkan sering ada esktradisi orang-orang yang menentang kebijakan Federasi agar dipekerjakan sebagai penambang di luar angkasa.

Cerita dibuka dengan perkenalan Hathaway dengan dua sesama penumpang, dalam pesawat yang tengah dibajak teroris. Pertama adalah perwira militer Kenneth Sleg. Kedua adalah seorang perempuan Newtype (sekaligus simpanan seorang pengusaha) bernama Gigi Andalusia. Teroris tersebut berasal dari organisasi Mufti (atau Mafty) yang menentang pemerintahan Federasi Bumi. Organisasi baru tersebut dipimpin oleh sosok misterius Mufti Nabiyu Erin.

Yang tak orang-orang tahu: Mufti tersebut tak lain adalah Hathaway sendiri.

Pertemuan ini menandai awal mula persaingan Hathaway dengan Kenneth. Sesudah insiden pembajakan itu, Kenneth diangkat menjadi komandan kesatuan khusus Circeyang ditugaskan menumpas Mufti.

Gigi menjadi semacam karakter yang terjebak di tengah mereka. Gigi terlibat dalam Circe karena visi-visi masa depan yang diperolehnya berguna dalam membaca manuver Mufti. Di sisi lain, Gigi juga merasakan simpati dan ketertarikan kuat terhadap pemimpin organisasi misterius ini.

Seri ini memiliki nuansa suram dan dewasa dengan pemaparan Hathaway sebagai penjahat. Seri ini terutama dikenal karena akhir cerita yang sangat tragis. Hathaway akhirnya tertangkap Federasi dan dijatuhi hukuman mati tanpa pengadilan oleh ayahnya sendiri, sebelum Bright sadar yang tertangkap itu siapa. Cerita berakhir dengan bagaimana Kenneth, muak dengan segala kebusukan Federasi, akhirnya menyatakan niatnya pada Gigi untuk memulai organisasi Mufti buatannya sendiri.

Menilai tema-tema yang diangkatnya, menurutku wajar bila novel ini menjadi salah satu favorit Fukui-sensei.

Dalam novel, Hathaway menggunakan Xi Gundam, prototipe MS keluaran terakhir dari Project Zeta. Sementara saingannya, perwira federasi berangasan Lane Aime, menggunakan Penelope Gundam yang merupakan MS pendahulunya. Kedua MS ini menarik karena menggunakan teknologi mengapung Minovsky Craft (yang terakhir kita lihat telah digunakan pada kapal-kapal induk di seri Reconguista in G), lengkap dengan berbagai persenjataan remote dan beam.

Hal lain yang membuat menarik adalah desain mekanik keduanya yang dirancang Moriki Yasuhiro, mangaka dari seri super robot dewasa Hades Project Zeorymer.Beliau dikenal dengan motif badan mecha lancip khas beliau. Terus terang, aku penasaran bakal kayak gimana bentuk MS-nya dalam wujud animasi nanti.

Detil-detil cerita di filmnya nanti dijamin bakal beda dari novelnya. Kayaknya filmnya akan dibuat agar nyambung dengan apa yang terjadi di anime CCA. Satu perbedaan yang jelas adalah gimana anime Hathaway’s Flash diumumkan akan berlatar di UC 0103, dua tahun sebelum latar cerita di versi novel.

Selain itu, kurasa elemen-elemen ceritanya juga akan dibikin nyambung juga dengan apa yang nanti terjadi di Gundam Narrative.

Abad yang Baru

Melengkapi Gundam F91 dan V Gundam, kira-kira bakal ada apa saja di abad baru linimasa UC?

Agak susah bilangnya.

Sejauh ini, kita cuma tahu bahwa Twilight Axis nyambung dengan latar cerita F91 (dengan mengenalkan nama-nama yang kelak mendirikan faksi Crossbone Vanguard). Lalu, masa-masa ini banyak menyorot masa-masa keruntuhan Federasi Bumi. (Selain itu, gagasan manipulasi waktu yang Fukui-san usulkan masih menuai tanda tanya besar bagi penggemar.)

Selain yang di atas, juga sempat ada teaser untuk Gundam Unicorn 2 (!) yang akan berlatar di UC 0104. Lebih jauh soal infonya jelas belum ada, tapi itu indikasi bahwa sebuah gagasan cerita telah ada di kepala Fukui-san.

Selebihnya, rentang waktu ini baru disorot lewat rangkaian seri komik Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam karya Hasegawa Yuichi. Seri sekuel Gundam F91 ini punya basis penggemar lumayan kuat (dan sudah lama diharapkan bakal diangkat jadi anime). Elemen-elemen cerita Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Steel 7nyambung dengan elemen-elemen cerita V Gundam lewat perkenalan awal mula teknologi sayap cahaya. Kelanjutannya, Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost,bahkan berlatar di rentang waktu yang sama dengan V Gundam, dengan tampilnya Kekaisaran Zanscare sebagai antagonis. Rilisan terbaru saat ini aku tulis, yakni Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Dust, bahkan berlatar lebih jauh lagi, yaitu sekitar 15 tahun sesudah V Gundam, menjadikannya cerita paling jauh dalam linimasa UC saat ini.

Kayak biasa, kalau aku udah kesampaian nonton, aku janji bakal menulis sesuatu tentang Gundam Narrative.