■Illustration by Masami Goto
■Cell Work by Keiko Onuki

ADVENT OF A NEW ERA
From F-90 to F-91

The F-91 movie has finally been set in motion.

Since the 1979 TV series, Gundam sagas were always state-of-the-art, and one of its eras came to a close in 1989 with Char’s Counterattack.

However, as we enter into the 90s, the curtain rises on a new story. F-90 was designed as a culmination of ten years of Gundam. And now there is the F-91 movie which is said to be a completely new concept for Gundam. In order to master the origin of Gundam’s theme, the original staff of Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yasuhiko Yoshikazu and Kunio Okawara were brought together. So, just what is it about?

Digging into my collection of older material yet again, these Gundam F91 model variations appeared in Gundam Magazine, which was published by Kodansha. Originally debuting in 1991, the magazine series was recompiled in a complete box set released in 2006 for Comic Bonbon’s 25th anniversary. The mobile suit variation series was presented in the No.5 issue of the comic series. These color variations differ from those seen in B-CLUB’s MS Journal as well as later appearances. The names and specs that appear here differ from subsequent publications like the Gundam Perfect File series or Kadokawa’s Mobile Suit Encyclopedia. Information has been translated as it appears on the pages.

With the announcement of Gundam Narrative having come to pass, I thought I’d like to remind fans that we have a database section for the novel that the series was based on available on the site. You can view the novel section here. I’ve added a relatively detailed summary on the page for the first part of the novel so fans can know what to expect from the upcoming movie that it’ll loosely be based on. The Gundam Narrative section can be viewed here. I’ll have the second half of the story up shortly.

A small batch of updates today since I received my copy of the Gundam the Origin Character and Mechanical Works book (Volume 1):

For new pages, I’ve added the Arcana-class Space Passenger Ship and the Large Civilian Spaceship Lunar Line. The Papua-class has been updated with color lineart as well as lineart exposition for the hangar deck. More coming soon!

Delving into some more mechanics for a change, here’s the complete profile for the Atlas Gundam from the Bandit Flower movie! For those of you having a hard time reconciling this particular suit, give the page a read. It solves a bunch of issues (at least I think).