Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senkou no Hathaway


Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway

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Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ
English: Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway
Spanish: Mobile Suit Gundam Película: Hathaway
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jun 11, 2021
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Novel
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: MechaMecha, MilitaryMilitary, SpaceSpace
Duration: 1 hr. 35 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.821 (scored by 3404934,049 users)
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Ranked: #9982
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Popularity: #3168
Members: 56,588
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Jun 12, 2021
A PERECT Gundam Movie
Edit: and also probably the most realistic one

Now I don’t give out 10/10s very often. The only times I have are with the original Legend of the Galactic Heroes, original Gundam, Attack on Titan Season 3 part 2, and only a few other times.

I generally rate Gundam series very harshly, for example I have only given a 10/10 to the original Gundam, and even rated Z 9/10. I gave UC a 7/10 and things like NT, 00, SEED something between 5 to 6 out of 10 because although they were sometimes enjoyable, they were disappointing and somewhat boring on some level.

But I ...
Jun 11, 2021
I watch this movie yesterday and went bed thinking about it, and yes this is a pretty good Gundam movie.

Art. 9
What can you say about the art or cinematography on a film with this kind of budget on modern times?, they all just look stunning. but art in himself doesn't make a movie a good movie for that you need a good

Story (9) and characters. (8)
A story by Tomino Yoshiyuki make just 32 years ago, This story depict a bleak future in where the Earth Federation is more corrupt than ever making life on earth a hell for any one that speak up against the ...
Jun 14, 2021
Hathaway Flash is one of the best movie in 2021. No doubt about it.

The story is amazing, it is tightly paced so it won't bore anyone who watched this. There wasn't any point in the movie where it drags or it was too fast, everything was just naturally paced.

The characters are interesting to say the least. If Gundam has taught me one thing, it's that either all females are thots or all males are manwhore.
The main character, Hathaway Noa, is probably one of the best mc in Gundam. He's a passive character, but he's also not afraid to be the active character. Just an ...
Jun 13, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Hathaway's Flash is meant to be a sequel to Char's Counterattack, the greatest mecha movie ever made (tied with Ideon's Be Invoked and End of Evangelion, in my opinion) so one would expect the movie to try and be like CCA.

Maybe it's trying. I don't know. The music sounds very same-y, it lacks the kind of character that CCA's soundtrack has.

The character redesigns don't feel like they belong in the Universal Century. The action - operator gunplay like you're watching John Wick - also feels out of place.

The CGI works sometimes but other times, not at all.

Is this movie BAD? No - it's leagues above ...
Jun 13, 2021
In spite of my preconceptions about the film, I'm looking optimistically towards the following films. With good characterizations and a solid setup on differing viewpoints of the world, the directing of the movie seems solid. Minor things in the script were a bit weird if you look at it from a series standpoint, however it's a relief seeing seemingly good execution and presentation after the release of Gundam NT and Re:Rise.

Hathaway definitely feels like a feature film. From the visual budget to the names attached. But it's limited in that capacity to be able to fully adapt the novel. I personally have only read ...
Jul 2, 2021
Mixed Feelings
I was a little underwhelmed by this one, but that may have been down to an incorrect assumption on my part. I know that there are two more movies coming after this, but I was expecting each to be more self-contained. Instead this isn't the first story in a trilogy; it's the first act of one story that will be told across three movies. Consequently, this first chapter doesn't cover much ground, and the plot feels quite loose and insubstantial as a result, lacking the dramatic heft that you would expect from a theatrical release, and so doesn't work well on its own. I suspect ...
Jun 14, 2021
*THIS IS A SPOILER FREE REVIEW*

As this franchise settled itself, us Gundam fans have had to come to terms with the fact that Universal Century Timeline anime can more often than not be lackluster in audiovisual presentation, which makes them fail to reach their full potential except for a few cases. Hathaway's Flash is one of the blessed children that achieved excellence.

Tomino is a visionary with near unparalelled thematic depth and ambitiously deep concepts, but the actual execution of such ideas properly has often been held back by the plot structure limitations set by Sunrise and Tomino's own flaws, such as his bad storyboarding and ...
Jun 24, 2021
Definitely worth the hype for me, I loved every bit of it and Shukou Murase's direction was just the cherry on top, tho the movie had a lot of talking so I still believe that Tomino himself would've nailed it too. One thing I believe to be a clear problem was the lightning during the mobile suit scenes, it was indeed dark (tho not for people with good screens and in cinema).

As for the animation, it was one of the best I've seen in this medium. Gotta give it to Sunrise for mastering the animation of human expressions and emotions which makes the scenes and ...
Jun 27, 2021
First, for the cinematography aspect, the Gundam Hathaway anime movie which will become a trilogy feels very inspired by Christopher Nolan's film in the remaining 1/4 of its duration and for 3/4 of the film it feels like a combination of a Gundam-style James Bond film & something like Hideo Kojima or Ergo Proxy. .
Actually, the problem is that in the story about the relevance of Gigi to the main character, the motivation is not clear, but Gigi Andalucia are a typical trope that is mushrooming in the anime industry, the female trope model "Genki-girl" is a kind of cool girl who usually sticks with ...
Jul 6, 2021
A solid enough Gundam film, that is, as a work in its own right, hampered by its nature as the first in a trilogy.

From a production standpoint, there's little to complain about. The artwork and animation is exactly as sharp and high-quality as you expect from Sunrise. I always particularly like the very specific style of character design that gets used in all modern Universal Century Gundam stories, and this gives plenty of that. And, of course, the mecha designs and animation are top-notch, as should be expected.

The characters are interesting and are, for the most part, established well enough. Even as someone ...
Jul 7, 2021
10/10 - Not only a great Gundam movie, but a great film in general. Gundam Hathaway does so many things well.

VISUALS/ANIMATION (9/10) Visually, it is extremely appealing and I thought the animators did very well...including the usage of CGI. I know some people have griped about how dark the movie was, but I didn't seem to have that issue. There were a few moments that looked mildly awkward, but I did not think those moments detracted from the movie's quality enough for me to dock points there all too much. There is so much attention to detail throughout the entire movie. Backgrounds look fantastic. Character ...
Jun 14, 2021
This is probably the best Gundam movie ever made at the moment, but that doesn't really say much as Gundam tends to have a lot of difficulty when it comes to movie outings. CCA nd Narrative were pretty ok, Endless Waltz looks good but doesn't make much sense story-wise, F91 was rushed to hell and back, and Awakening of the Trailblazer was again, just pretty ok. So taking an unbiased look and viewing this movie as a standalone work or movie in its own right, how is it?

Again, it's pretty fricken great!

To start off with, I think special attention must be paid to the art ...
Aug 30, 2021
Loved this movie so much. Right up there next to Unicorn in terms of quality and content. As a long time Gundam fan, I've actually rewatched this movie more than any other Gundam movie. I just wanted to rewatch all the awesome scenes and catch the little things I missed. Everything from the characters, story, music, sound effects, voice acting, animation is top tier. The voice actors did a stellar job, especially Reina Ueda doing the flirty wildcard girl Gigi. I was really intrigued by Hathaway and Gigi and how their ideals could change the course of the world. Where Gigi is a wildcard that ...
Jul 1, 2021
Mixed Feelings
An insipid cash grab fluff piece made to sell model kits with no innate moral integrity.
If you go into this expecting a true follow up to Char's Counterattack, you'll find yourself sorely disappointed. The first in a planned trilogy, it stretches the plot of its respective novel paper thin and chews its scenery in a garishly overproduced fashion. Every single plot point of this film is set up in anticipation of its follow ups; it feels like if you took a rolling pin to a flashy 24 minute episode and rolled it out to feature length.
The character art is gorgeous, sometimes excessively so, ...
Jun 21, 2022
This is a setup movie.

NOTE: If you have never seen any Gundam media, this movie is still enjoyable for the action and story. If this got you into Gundam then I recommend going back to watch the 0079 compilation movie and its continuity up until Char's Counter Attack before rewatching Hathaway's Flash

This is a very late review. I've watched this movie countless times over the past year even getting my friends into 0079 Gundam and having them watch everything from Zeta, to ZZ, to CCA, everything in between just so they can experience Hathaway's Flash in its full entirety. (I did try to make them ...
Feb 4, 2025
Hathaway's Flash is simultaneously a true joy for any UC enthusiast while being nigh impenetrable for people with it as their first Gundam experience. This is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The culmination of all of the early UC narratives, it serves as both a continuation of the dialogue raised in Gundam Unicorn as well as a dismal rebuttal- proving that the corrupt nature of institutions can not be changed with dreams alone.

Cinematically Hathaway's Flash is a true joy to watch. The animators have done brilliantly, the entire sequence of action scenes in Davao City are some of the best animated and ...
Feb 16, 2022
to be perfectly honest this is my second gundam series as i am watching the original '79 series, so i'll be quick and honest here

story 10
the movie is amazing, the build up, the exposition, the realism (minus ofc the gundam and some science stuff)

art 10
this is the smoothest animation of the combined cgi and hand-drawn i've ever seen, the fight between Xi and Penelope is ofc the highlight of this movie, but what i want to tell is the "flashback" scene, it just perfect

sound 10
its Hiroyuki Sawano, there's no arguing, the sfx is also one of my favorite, the laser beam sounds meaty unlike the ...
Jan 3, 2022
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (2021)

The latest part of the Gundam series is an excellent one at that. Especially when you can relate the main character all the way back to the first Gundam film and see the connection to the stories origin was amazing. That might involve going on the fandom to see though. Well worth it, I must say though.

The art is excellent and great to look at.

The sound is awesome and well done.

The characters are great and fun to watch interactions and also when they realise who each other is seeing those scenes was awesome.

I must say obviously ...
Dec 25, 2023
This movie does an amazing job with the cinematography, very deliberately choosing specific angles, in-camera focus, and lighting to draw watchers’ attentions. Maybe it’s just that this is a movie and therefore has more budget and time put into it, but much as other entries have looked pretty great before (Unicorn, The Origin, and IBO in particular), this is the first modern incarnation of the series to do more than just make a bunch of exceptional fight scenes with some pretty good general animation. I’ve had my issues with the human-centric work done on the recent Godzilla films, for example, but this is a very ...
Jul 1, 2021
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash Review


Story (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.50/10) Very Good

The story for Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway in a nutshell quite easy to grasp. And it is presented in a way that if you don't have prior knowledge of main Universal Century Timeline for Gundam, you could still very quickly grasp what is currently going on. For a story that is to be a three part trilogy I went into this movie knowing that this will be mostly the setup movie and indeed it was. This is definitely the movie to lay all the groundwork and in that regards, firstly I wasn't ...