| ∀ Gundam | |
|---|---|
Turn A Gundam title screen |
|
| ∀ガンダム (Tān Ē Gandamu) |
|
| Genre | Drama, Mecha, Romance, Science Fiction |
| TV anime | |
| Director | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Network | Animax, Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 4, 1999 – April 14, 2000 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Manga | |
| Author | Yoshiyuki Tomino (story) Koichi Tokita (art) |
| Publisher | |
| Serialized in | |
| Original run | April 15, 1999 – March 15, 2000 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Author | Yoshiyuki Tomino (story) Atsushi Soga (art) |
| Publisher | |
| Serialized in | |
| Original run | June 26, 1999 – March 2002 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Manga: ∀ Gundam: Tsuki no Kaze | |
| Author | Akira Yasuda |
| Publisher | |
| Serialized in | |
| Original run | 2004 – 2005 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Animated film: ∀ Gundam I: Earth Light | |
| Director | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | February 9, 2002 |
| Runtime | 120 minutes |
| Animated film: ∀ Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly | |
| Director | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | February 10, 2002 |
| Runtime | 128 minutes |
∀ Gundam or Turn A Gundam (∀ガンダム Tān Ē Gandamu?) is a 50 episode anime series that aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks and the anime satellite television network, Animax, created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Word origin and usage The term "mecha" is derived from the Japanese abbreviation for the English word " mechanical " While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a Subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any Film in which the central Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic (anime in Japanese, is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist is a Japanese Anime studio and production enterprise It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. See also Animax Mobile TV is a Japanese Anime Satellite television network dedicated to broadcasting anime programming is a Japanese Television station based in Daiba, Minato Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist is a Japanese manga artist and Illustrator that is best known for his Gundam Manga. is the largest Japanese publisher headquartered in ( Bunkyo) Tokyo. is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Kodansha. Its main target is Elementary school aged boys and a new issue is released on the 15th of the month Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series though the Manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist is the largest Japanese publisher headquartered in ( Bunkyo) Tokyo. is a Japanese Seinen mixed-media magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at teenage males and above but particularly at hardcore Anime and Manga Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series though the Manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly (born July 21, 1964) is a Japanese Illustrator, Animator, Character designer, Game designer and Mecha designer who works ( is a well-known Japanese Publisher, based in Tokyo. Kadokawa has published many Manga titles as well as magazines such as Newtype is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series though the Manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist is a Japanese Anime studio and production enterprise It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist is a Japanese Anime studio and production enterprise It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Events 1355 - The St Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. (anime in Japanese, Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Satellite television is Television delivered by the means of Communications satellites as compared to conventional Terrestrial television and Cable See also Animax Mobile TV is a Japanese Anime Satellite television network dedicated to broadcasting anime programming It was also compiled into two feature-length movies titled ∀ Gundam I: Earth Light and ∀ Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly.
Turn A Gundam was the last Gundam anime to be directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the main creator of the Gundam franchise and had written and directed many previous Gundam works. is a Metaseries of English Anime, featuring tiny robots or " Kounans " created by Sunrise studios is a Japanese Anime creator director screenwriter and novelist This series was made after Tomino had recovered from his depression that influenced Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, and the general tone and mood of Turn A Gundam is much more hopeful and less dark than his other Gundam series. is an Anime Television program set in the Fictional universe of Gundam.
It is important to note that Turn-A Gundam is also the last of the Gundam metaseries (not counting the compilations and future video game cut scenes) to be hand painted on cels. A cel, short for Celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional hand-drawn animation. 2002's Gundam Seed would be the first series to use digital coloring. shortened to Gundam SEED, is an Anime television series and a Manga series by Sunrise.
Contents |
∀ Gundam takes place in the year Seireki 2345 (正暦2345年 or CC 2345), in a different calendar system than the previous Gundam projects. Seireki is a wordplay on the Japanese term for the Common Era (C. E. ) Western calendar system (西暦; also pronounced Seireki). The English acronym CC is Correct Century(コレクトセンチュリー)in the official Japanese ∀ guide book and Correct Century in English in the 2001 Correct Century A Bibliographical Study of "Black History" as the black paged introduction of Gundam Officials. [1]
After the end of Victory Gundam in early 1994, Yoshiyuki Tomino took a five year hiatus from Gundam. In 1999, he returned to the Gundam franchise with the 50 episode series ∀ Gundam (read as Turn A Gundam) as part of Sunrise's "Gundam Big Bang" 20th Anniversary celebration. Set in Correct Century (CC) 2345, this series tells the story of a war between space colonists calling themselves the Moonrace who wish to colonize Earth, and the Earth Militia forces, which use the ancient Turn A Gundam to retaliate. Turn A Gundam is a dramatic depature from the franchise in many ways. Instead of being set in an era of high technology, it is set in a future that has regressed to the early 20th century. Also, the unorthodox design of the title suit comes courtesy of American designer Syd Mead, best known for his work in the film Blade Runner. The series also features the musical talents of Yoko Kanno, who previously worked on Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop and Tomino's own series Brain Power'd. The series finished its run in early 2000, and in 2002 Tomino directed two compilation films, entitled Earth Light and Moonlight Butterfly. Both the TV series and the movies are now available on DVD in Japan, but they are not available in the U. S.
It is important to note that the "Turn A" (∀) in the title of the series is the universal quantifier used in discrete mathematics meaning roughly "all units in a set". In Predicate logic, universal quantification is an attempt to formalize the notion that something (a Logical predicate) is true for everything, or every Thus, the title can be translated as For all Gundams. This is neither an oversight, nor just arbitrarily selected symbol used for aesthetic purposes - Gundam creator Tomino clearly intended the series to be a sort of "unification" of the Universal Century and the myriad "alternate universes" into a coherent whole. Universal Century is the English name for the original timeline of the Gundam Anime Metaseries. As such, the series frequently features cameos of existing technology from the widely diverse gundam incarnations, examples to that effect include:
Generally, acceptance of this theory is spotty at best. Some fans subscribe to a literal interpretation, attempting to piece together the specific order in which Tomino intended the prior shows take place. Others believe the theory, but prefer a less strict delination of time, accepting the show as the cumulation of 20 years of Gundam. Still more fans reject the theory outright, considering ∀ Gundam to be another alternate universe, possibly one in which events similar or identical to the other Gundam shows took place. However, the 2001 Correct Century, A Bibliographical Study of "Black History", printed in black pages in front of the Universal Century, Gundam Officials Encyclopedia, that is supposed to be uncovered by a fictional Lecturer in Black History named Yokk Wakk Onimott during Correct Century 1993 who spent 2 years to fix the broken pages, 5 years to interprete the language and a year to find a publisher, stated the book was first printed in around 3000 years ago by the Rhea branch of the Earth Federation Government University, and included a picture found in 1993 Correct Century in the mountain cycle Library A-a drawn by Kunio Okawara showing a mobile suit supposed to be MS-04 as a S. Universal Century is the English name for the original timeline of the Gundam Anime Metaseries. is a mechanical designer in the Japanese Anime industry A mechanical designer is similar to a character designer but the design is for robots ships and other mechanical U. I. T. project of the Zeon forces in UC0072~0075 and the white page introduction stated by another fictional writter, Minaka Junkers, an economy assistant professor of the Rhea branch of the Earth Federation Government University, the book was published in UC0100, celebrating the Centennial anniversary of the Universal Century. For the Shining Force II character called Zeon see Shining Force II For the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! character called Zeon see Thus officially claimed that the Universal Century is a time before Correct Century, possibly around 3000 years before the story of Turn A begins. [2]
One of the more fantastic rumors concerning Turn A is that Tomino wanted to create a series to be a grand union of all his shows (Ideon, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Zambot 3, etc), not just Gundam. One such rumor states that Tomino wanted the battleship Willgem's main weapon to be Ideon's wave leader gun. is an Anime television series produced by Sunrise. It first premiered on the Tokyo 12 Channel (later to be TV Tokyo) from 1980 to 1981 followed by two feature When he presented the idea to Sunrise, they turned it down and suggested downscaling it to just contain the Gundam saga and its various alternate universes. Fans of Tomino's works have dubbed this apocryphal work "Turn-A Space".
Openings:
Endings:
| Preceded by Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
Gundam metaseries (production order) 1999 — 2000 |
Succeeded by G-Saviour |