
I had fun writing my retrospective on Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and as the year of Gundam’s 35th anniversary continues, I have been getting hungry for more Gundam excitement in terms of not only in terms of looking for updates on the latest in merchandise goods (example: plastic model kits by Japanese toy company Bandai), but also trying to find out exactly what websites will stream the latest in Gundam anime for legal and free access by viewers. Anyway, Sunrise, the studio behind the various Gundam anime, so far promised three things to launch during the year: the Gundam parody series Mobile Suit Gundam-San (which premiered a few months back), Gundam Build Fighters Try (actually season 2 of 2013’s Gundam Build Fighters, launched on October 8), and Gundam Reconguista in G (premiered on October 2 and alternately known as “G-Reco”). As for me, I wanted to start with Gundam Reconguista in G as I wanted to revisit the fictional universe that started the whole franchise (that of 1979’s Mobile Suit Gundam) to see its next era of mobile suits, and I wanted to see what Mobile Suit Gundam creator and director Yoshiyuki Tomino (the writer and director of this new series) had to deliver story wise as this new series is the first Gundam television series to be produced with his involvement included in years (the last one he worked on was 1999’s Turn A Gundam, in case some of you are new to watching Gundam). Now, on to the review of the series’ first two episodes, which were released on the same day.
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