Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Vol 11: To War (Beginning)
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"Part XI: Most of the war has been fought. Zeon is crumbling. But there is still some business left between two of this generation's top mecha pilots--Char Aznable and Amuro Ray. Their rivalry now goes beyond just robot piloting. After what occurred with Lalah, there is bad blood between these two and nothing is going to stop them. Not the destruction of their mecha. Not the death of most of the Zabi clan. Nothing!"--Publisher's web site.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN is a 12-book series with 12 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Yoshiyuki Tomino.
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This is a very good re-telling of Mobile Suit Gundam, with this volume starting with the fall of Side 7, and the re-entry to Earth, which is a pretty good stopping place for the volume. Some of the plot alterations are interesting, like Garma's base being in LA instead of NYC, and Char launching a commando raid on Luna II as well. I gotta say though, considering how successful the Luna II attack was, I'm surprised the war isn't fought with more of those, and less open battles with Mecha.
This volume is also considerably more bloody then the show is. Now, to be fair, the TV show is just that, a TV show, and there are limits to what they can get away with (even Fist of the North Star had to show all their head explosions in silhouette). Still, it's enough where it definitely shifts the tone of the work a little bit.
I'm definitely looking forward to reading volume 2.
I have Gundam brain worms now so I enjoyed this! The color sections are really wonderful but sometime the black and white illustrations can be hard to parse.
