Almost a year to the day was when we heard that Right Stuf was going to be bringing over the G Gundam series to North America. At Otakon today they began to reveal their more formal plans for it and there’s a lot to like. The show is getting released on December 4th, 2018 with the first part while the second part is getting a January 8th, 2019 release. An ultimate edition is getting a December 4th, 2018 release with the whole run:
Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Ultra Edition (Blu-ray) – 1225 minutes – $239.99 – 12/4/18
Special Features: Cleaning Openings, Clean Endings, and Commercial Collections.
Mobile Suit G Gundam: Collection 1 (Blu-ray) – 600 minutes – $74.99 – 12/4/18
Special Features: Cleaning Opening 1-2 and Clean Ending 1.
Mobile Suit G Gundam: Collection 1 – 600 minutes – $59.99 – 12/4/18
Special Features: Cleaning Opening 1-2 and Clean Ending 1.
Mobile Suit G Gundam: Collection 2 (Blu-ray) – 600 minutes – $74.99 – 1/8/19
Special Features: Cleaning Opening 3, Clean Ending 2, and Commercial Collections.
Mobile Suit G Gundam: Collection 2 – 600 minutes – $59.99 – 1/8/19
Special Features: Cleaning Opening 3, Clean Ending 2, and Commercial Collections.
The 49 episode series saw a Japanese Blu-ray release on September 27th, 2016 and November 25th, 2016. They’re priced at 34,000 yen each. The property was previously released in North America by Bandai Entertainment in bilingual form and was a huge one for me back in the day as it was my kids’ first exposure to Gundam and got them to recognize and engage in the franchise as they got older.
Plot concept: In the Year FC 60, much of mankind inhabits space colonies which orbit the Earth. Dominance over the colonies is decided once every four years by a large tournament in which each nation sends a single representative to fight the others with a giant robot called a Gundam. Domon Kashuu is selected to represent Neo-Japan in one of these tournaments, but he fights less to ensure his nation’s victory than to find his brother, who has been blamed for the deaths of Domon’s parents and the disappearance of a very dangerous weapon, the Dark Gundam or Devil Gundam.
