Mobile Suit Gundam I

Original title: Kidô senshi Gandamu

1981
TV-PG
2h 17m

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A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

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Tôru Furuya

Amuro Ray
(voice)

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Bright Noah
(voice)

Shôzô Îzuka

Ryû Jose
(Japanese version)
(voice)

Toshio Furukawa

Kai Shiden
(voice)

Kiyonobu Suzuki

Hayato Kobayashi
(voice)

Fuyumi Shiraishi

Mirai Yashima
(voice)
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Yô Inoue

Rumiko Ukai

Frau Bow
(voice)
…

Shûichi Ikeda

Char Aznable (Casval Rem Daikun)
(Japanese version)
(voice)

Katsuji Mori

Garma Zabi
(voice)

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Degwin Zabi
(voice)

Hidekatsu Shibata

Degwin Zabi (2000 DVD version)
(Japanese version)
(voice)

Mami Koyama

Kishiria Zabi
(voice)

Banjô Ginga

Giren Zabi
(voice)

Tesshô Genda

Dozul Zabi (2000 DVD version)
(voice)

Daisuke Gôri

Dozul Zabi
(Japanese version)
(voice)
(as Yoshio Nagahori)

Masashi Hirose

Ramba Ral
(Japanese version)
(voice)
(as Tadashi Hirose)

Yumi Nakatani

Hamon Crowley
(voice)

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Trivia
Weapons used by the RX-78-2 Gundam omitted from the TV version includes the 'Gundam hammer', essentially a chain mace (introduced in Re-Entry to Earth (1979)) and the beam javelin (introduced in Icelina- Love's Remains (1979))

Quotes
Giren Zabi: My younger brother, Ghama Zabi who was beloved by you all, is dead! Why?
Char Aznable: Because he was a stupid kid.

Alternate versions
The new DVD versions in both Japan and the US uses a recently-recorded Dolby 5.1 surround stereo track, complete with re-recorded dialogue from all of the original cast. Tape versions use the original 1979 mono sound track.

Connections
Edited from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

Soundtracks
Star Children
Composition by Takajin Yashiki
Arrangement by Hiromoto Tobisawa
Lyrics by Yoshiyuki Tomino (as Rin Iogi)
Performed by Takajin Yashiki
Courtesy of King Records

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5/10

A not-so-impressing retelling of the first series

That dumbs out important character development and world building elements (and pacifist messages, I might add) more pronounced in the original series while slightly improving on some side things, most notably the Gundam now not being made of three separable parts and the way the Gundam descends into the atmosphere. Not really that worthy of attention, IMHO.