However, while this is a Blu-ray release and the image quality is definitely far improved over the prior DVD releases, the original Mobile Suit Gundam is not a well-animated series. To think that we not only have the original Mobile Suit Gundam widely available and on a format like Blu-ray, is still not something I am entirely used to. This is because I can remember a time when the only Gundam we had in the West were the novels written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, excellently translated by Frederik L. The unfettered start if you will and to have it on Blu-ray is both strange and remarkable. This series then is a relic before all that happened.
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This then resulted in the edited down movie trilogy, which is what the main timeline is now based off.
It was only later when model kits depicting some of the mobile suit variations, or MSV, in a more realistic way did the Gundam franchise really take off. What’s interesting here though is that on Mobile Suit Gundam’s initial airing, it actually bombed and nobody wanted to buy the toys. The story is generally very well crafted in this series and the main characters are all warm and likable.
There are both good and bad people on either side and the characters simply want to survive. The other facet to all this is that while Mobile Suit Gundam is a story about war, it is very honest in showing that no one side is good in the conflict. This makes their rivalry unique in the annals of storytelling, as how can you kill your enemy when you know who they fundamentally are. (Photo credit: Sunrise, Right Stuf Anime)