With the push towards more late UC content, I thought I’d go back old school to the ORIGINAL Gundam F90 manga. You’ll notice the change in story and artwork, but it’s interesting nonetheless. You can read the first chapter by snagging the link below.

Episode.1: F90, Stolen!

Hiding premonitions of a new conflict, the F90 races through space! A bold new series opens the Gundam Century!

Episode.2: Sortie! Destination: Mars

Where is the unknown enemy that stole the F90 heading? The fleet has departed for Mars. What awaits them there?

Original Story: Hiroshi Yamaguchi & Rei Nakahara
Artwork: Masahiro Kanda
Release Date: 1990.09.10
Publication: SD CLUB

A bright light floating in the darkness. To the young man, it was… 

Universal Century 0111. The Earth Federation Forces ordered development of next generation mainstay mobile suits. The requirement was difficult to deliver on, for a small-scale mobile suit that can be easily supplied, without losing out on the performance of existing machines. In response to this, the winner of an eventual competition, developed by SNRI, a military research facility with its base of operations located at Side 4, was the F90. There were two F90 units, Unit 1 and Unit 2. They were assigned to the Earth Federation Forces System Command in a Team A and Team B of the 13th Experimental Squadron. Their final goals were to discover defects during testing and to acquire data from the new mission packs development test. In the following year, U.C.0112, both those teams spent their days conducting tests in space and on land. Those tests, “should” have been highly confidential and known only to a few…

The test was successful. However, whose eyes are on the B Team?!

DOWNLOAD CHAPTER.01 HERE!!

My quest for Gundam material doesn’t seem to know any bounds. I’ve been trying to acquire random Model Graphix issues from yesteryear in attempt to see what changed from original serialization to compilation. One of the odd materials that I noticed was the absence of a color page from the manga short by Hajime Katoki called “The Day Before – New Desides: Eve of Formation.” Granted, color really shouldn’t make a difference, but I’m a stickler for uniformity. At any rate, enjoy the 5-page short that takes place prior to the Pezun Incident!

U.C.0120. Twenty four years have already passed since the Third Neo Zeon War, a conflict involving Laplace’s box. In the time since then, though small and mid-scale conflicts sprung up in various places, it could be said that humanity as a whole today had achieved peace. The Earth Federation government made no attempt to change that political system, governing society from the surface of the planet. Progress still continued, albeit slowly. However, in recent years, a terrorist organization advocating for the independence of spacenoids, free from the oversight of the Federation Forces, began carrying out large scale activities. They were called the Oldsmobile. Their armed conflict would later be known as the First Oldsmobile War. Two years following their defeat at their own base on Mars, they are revived with newfound strength and once again threatened the Earth Sphere.

Scenario by Nobuyoshi Ino
Character Design by Sejoon Kim
Mechanical Design by Yosuhiro Moriki
Artwork by Kiyoshi Imanoya

DOWNLOAD THE PROLOGUE HERE!

SERIES WILL CONTINUE IN THE AUGUST ISSUE OF GUNDAM ACE (ON SALE JUNE 26TH!)

Breaking another translation dry spell of sorts, I’m diving into the pre-F91 world again with a relatively old Gundam comic from 1991’s Gundam Magazine. It’s called “Formula Wars 0122.” U.C.0122. One year prior to the completion of the F91, an organization known as Oldsmobile was active. The Earth Federation Forces had organized a unit to suppress them, but outer space has once again turned into a battleground. A courageous young man fights with a Gundam in order to protect the peace, yet many sacrifices are made…  You can download the one-shot manga here.

FORMULA WARS 0122
Artwork by Toshiya Iwamura
Original Work by Yoshiyuki Tomino & Hajime Yatate
Mechanical Design by Kunio Okawara
Character Design by Toshihiro Kawamoto
Story Cooperation by Bandai Toys 2nd Division (Junichi Satou)

In light of people seeing Gundam Narrative in theaters and having a bizarre reaction to Newtype resonance and psycho frame mumbo jumbo, I thought I’d introduce a relatively old Gundam comic from 1991’s Gundam Magazine that exhibits an external mobile suit control system via the psycommu. It’s called “The Ghost of Neo Zeon. You can download the one-shot manga here.

THE GHOST OF NEO ZEON
Original Work by Yoshiyuki Tomino
Mechanical Design by Kunio Okawara
Planning & Scenario by Craft Group
Mechanical Design Cooperation by Takahiro Yamada

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