The folks at Bandai Visual brought out a Blu-ray release for the theatrical recompilation cut of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation back in 2019 and have kept the property in the marketplace pretty well. Now, as part of the celebration of the official Gundam YouTube channel closing in on 2 million subscribers, it’s added the first movie – Heirs to the Stars – to the service in its original Japanese with multiple subtitle tracks available that you can see below.
Check out our review of the US Blu-ray release.
Plot Concept: The Earth Federation stands victorious, but are they still on the right side?
Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a resistance group called the A.E.U.G. Kamille Bidan, a civilian student, gets entangled in this conflict when he accidentally steals the Gundam Mk-II and joins the A.E.U.G., running away from his home space colony. Then he begins to fight along with Char Aznable, a former Zeon ace pilot who has infiltrated the Earth Sphere for reasons of his own.
