Kidou Senshi Gundam I


Mobile Suit Gundam I

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Kidou Senshi Gundam I Gekijouban, Mobile Suit Gundam Movie 1
Japanese: 劇場版 機動戦士ガンダム I 特別編
English: Mobile Suit Gundam I
Spanish: Mobile Suit Gundam I: La Película
French: Mobile Suit Gundam Film I
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Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 14, 1981
Producers: Sotsu
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, DramaDrama, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: MechaMecha, MilitaryMilitary, SpaceSpace
Duration: 2 hr. 19 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.241 (scored by 2754327,543 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #30782
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3361
Members: 46,620
Favorites: 103

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Synopsis

In the future, with Earth's population rapidly increasing, humanity has developed giant orbiting space colonies gathered in clusters known as "Sides." As the elites on Earth force most of the populace into space, rebellion begins to brew. In the year Universal Century 0079, one of the colony clusters known as Side 3 declares itself the Principality of Zeon and launches a war of independence against the Earth Federation.

Despite having only a fraction of the resources of the Federation, Zeon quickly gains the upper hand in the conflict through the use of giant humanoid robots called mobile suits. Chief among Zeon's mobile suit ace pilots is Char Aznable, a mysterious masked man known as the "Red Comet." When Char's squadron comes across the Federation developing its own prototype mobile suit called Gundam in the colony Side 7, his men launch a brutal attack. Amuro Ray, the son of the prototype's developer, gets in the Gundam and is able to fend off the Zeon attack. As Amuro soon finds himself directly in conflict with Char, he is forced to flee the colony on a Federation ship.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Aznable, Char

Main
Ikeda, Shuuichi
Japanese

Ray, Amuro

Main
Furuya, Toru
Japanese

Noa, Bright

Supporting
Suzuoki, Hirotaka
Japanese

Haro

Supporting
Takagi, Sanae
Japanese

Mass, Sayla

Supporting
Inoue, You
Japanese

Ral, Ramba

Supporting
Hirose, Masashi
Japanese

Zabi, Mineva Lao

Supporting

Zabi, Garma

Supporting
Mori, Katsuji
Japanese

Shiden, Kai

Supporting
Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Zabi, Gihren

Supporting
Ginga, Banjou
Japanese

Staff

Tomino, Yoshiyuki
Director, Script, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics, Original Creator
Fujiwara, Ryouji
Director


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Ending Theme

"Suna no Juujika (Cross of Sand)" by Takajin Yashiki




Reviews

Jul 13, 2008
Mobile Suit Gundam: the Movie Trilogy is the definitive incarnation of the massively influential Mobile Suit Gundam TV series. It may not be perfect, but it definitely deserves its lofty status in the history of anime as a proven classic. As one cannot have one part of the trilogy without the others, this review will cover all three of the compilation movies.

The first question on any new viewer's mind regarding the story of Mobile Suit Gundam: the Movie Trilogy (MSG) would be: "Do the films condense too much story from the TV series to fit into its limited run time?" The answer to that is ...
Apr 29, 2009
The Gundam franchise holds a very special place in my life. Going back to my first exposure to it, my 11 year-old self was rather indignant that this new "Gundamn Wing" show was going to be replacing my favorite cartoon Dragonball Z. I now know that my local network was simply attempting to introduce a new, more serious anime and using the DBZ timeslot was a perfect test-drive. And I was hooked. A serious story, political drama, and giant robots, what wasn't there to love? As I put more research into this strange new series, I learned of course that it was only a small ...
Mar 1, 2010
Mixed Feelings
Story: At first it seemed pretty messed up. I couldn't distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys but then innocents got killed so yeah. The story started slowly with a little display of conflicts, nothing wrong here. The problem is that it kept dragging on till the first hour and a half. I got sleepy there and had to take a break. However the "second part" got a lot better because the actions made more sense and some characters got development.
A mix of good and bad so 5.

Art: The art part was good for such an old movie, the chara design was great, ...

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