Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Happy 20th Anniversary to "Mobile Fighter G Gundam!"

In 1994, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the franchise, Sunrise kicked off the "alternate universe" Gundam series. These still featured Gundam's fundamental conflict between Earth and its orbiting colonies, but departed from the continuity of the original Universal Century with the aim of bringing new viewers into the fold. 


 


In April, the first of these alternate universes, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, would stake out just how far the new Gundam series would take the original's implicit real robot manifesto. Rather than boxy, industrial robots deployed by armies at war, Mobile Fighter G Gundam looked to shonen martial arts tournaments for inspiration, with extravagantly colorful national Gundams like Mexico's serape and sombrero clad Tequila Gundam, the windmill shaped Nether Gundam and Sweden's Sailormoon-esque Nobel Gundam fighting it out.


 


Some of the series' colorful, super robot style mecha you might remember include:


 


Neo America's Gundam Maxter





Neo France's Gundam Rose



Neo Sweden's Nobel Gundam





Neo Holland's Nether Gundam



Neo Mexico's Tequila Gundam



 


Neo Greece's Zeus Gundam



Neo England's John Bull Gundam



 


Neo Norway's Viking Gundam




Neo Kenya's Zebra Gundam



 


Neo Denmark's Mermaid Gundam



Neo Canada's Lumber Gundam



 


Neo Spain's Matador Gundam



 


Neo Nepal's Tantra Gundam



 


















































































 



 


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