Turn A Gundam
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is a 50 episode series that aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks, created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration. It was also compiled into two feature-length movies titled ∀ Gundam I: Earth Light and ∀ Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly.It was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who had written and directed a number of previous Gundam works as the main creator of the franchise. This series was made after Tomino had recovered from his depression that influenced Victory Gundam, and the general tone and mood of Turn A is much more hopeful and less dark than his other Gundam series. Still, it is considered his one Gundam sequel that he ever enjoyed working on out of all of his Gundam endeavors.
Overview
∀ 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). Its kanji literally means "Correct Calendar" and is unofficially interpreted as "Correct Century" by English-speaking fans.∀ Gundam 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. ∀ 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 Mobile Suit comes courtesy of American Syd Mead, best known for his work on Blade Runner. The series also features the musical talents of Yoko Kanno. The series finished its run in early 2000, and in 2002 Tomino directed two compilation films, entitled "Earth Light" and "Moonlight Butterfly."
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". Thus, the title can be translated as For all Gundams. This is neither an oversight, nor just arbitrarily selected symbol used for athsetic 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. As such, the series frequently features cameos of existing technology from the widely diverse gundam incarnations, examples to that effect include:
- Several of the mobile suits in the series are clearly from earlier series - the Luziana fiefdom'proudly maintained army of MS-06 Borjarnon units is, in fact, a collection of excavated MS-05 Zaku I and MS-06 Zaku II units. The AMX-109 Kapool appeared initially in Gundam Double Zeta, and the G-M2F (AMX-102) Zssan appears to be a heavily modified AMX-102 Zssa, also from the aforementioned show.
- In the Turn-A novel and manga, Gwen pilots a machine called the Black Doll, which is described as a giant black Gundam with three beam cannons in its belly and the ability to transform into a box-like form. This description strongly implies that it is, in fact, the MRX-009 Psyco Gundam from Zeta Gundam. The Super Robot Wars and G Generation video games would borrow this concept, having Gwen pilot the Psyco Gundam and calling it "Black Doll".
- The Turn A Gundam, and associated Earth Militia suits occasionally make use of a 'Hyper Hammer', a large, MS scale flail with mounted rocket verniers. The weapon iself bore a striking resemblance to a similar weapon from Mobile Suit Gundam of the same name.
- Eventually, the main character is assigned an excavated land-faring warship identical to Mobile Suit Gundam's Gallop land battleship. Coincidentaly, it is nicknamed "Gallop" to evoke horse-like swiftness, without prior knowledge of its true name.
- Queen Diana's palace is, in fact, an erected Squid class battleship from Victory Gundam.
- Both introductions, as well as Episode 43, present a montage of scenes from previous series as being part of the apocalyptic "Dark History" preceding the events in ∀.
- In one manga adaptation, Sochie finds a Haro while on the Moon. Dianna panics, telling Sochie to get away from it, as the Haro sprouts sharp saw-like teeth. It turns out to be Bug, one of millions of automated killing machines from Gundam F91 disguised as Haro.
- Several characters explicitly mention periods of the Dark History based on the callendar system of their respective series. Most notably the Universal Century calendar system is frequently described as taking place several thousands years before the events in ∀ Gundam.
- Panicing on the battlefield, Corin Nander, a pilot who supposedly served during the Dark History and was subsequently frozen cryogenicaly, briefly sees the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero.
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-gain, 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. 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 apocrypical work "Turn-A Space".
Mobile Units
Earth Militia
- AMX-109 Kapool
- * AMX-109 Kapool Corin Nander Custom
- FLAT-L06D FLAT
- MR-Spi05 Rib
- MRC-U11D Walking Dumpling "WaD"
- MS-05 Borjarnon Gavane Goonny Custom
- MS-06 Borjarnon
- NRS-P701R Godwin
Moonrace
- SYSTEM ∀-99 (WD-M01) ∀ Gundam "Turn A"
- CONCEPT-X 6-1-2 Turn X
- FLAT-L06D FLAT
- G-838 Mahiroo
- G-M2F (AMX-102) Zssan
- GMIF (XM-0754) Bandit
- JMA-0530 Walking Dome "WaDom"
- MR-Spi05 Rib
- MRC-C03 Verona
- MRC-F20 SUMO
- MRC-F31 (J-2126) Mutto
- MRC-U11D Walking Dumpling "WaD"
- NRS-P701 Gozzo
- NRS-P701R Godwin
- SPA-51 Cannon Illefuto
- TAF-M9 Eagel
Cast & Crew
Japanese Cast
- Loran Cehack/Laura Rolla - Romi Paku
- Dianna Soreil/Kihel Heim - Rieko Takahashi
- Sochie Heim - Akino Murata
- Harry Ord - Tetsu Inada
- Guin Sard Lineford - Tsuyoshi Aobane
- Keith Laijie - Jun Fukuyama
- Gym Ghingnham - Takehito Koyasu
- Merrybell Gadget - Rio Natsuki
- Gavane Gooney - Yoshitada Ohtsuka
- Meme Midgard - Ryuji Mizuno
- Sid Munzer - Akio Nojima
- Muron Muron - Fumihiko Tachiki
- Yani Obus - Takuya Kirimoto
- Joseph Yaht - Satsuji Satou
- Corin Nander - Yasuhiko Kawazu
- Cancer Kafka - Urara Takano
- Horace - Hirohiko Kakegawa
- Phil Ackman - Shigemi Ikeda
- Teleth Halleh - Yumi Touma
- Fran Doll - Kumiko Watanabe
- Pou Aijee - Yumiko Nakanishi
- Bruno - Kazunari Tanaka
- Jacop - Hidenari Ugaki
- Lily Borjarnon - Ai Kobayashi
- Will Game - Kenichi Sakaguchi
Staff
- Director - Yoshiyuki Tomino
- Character Designer - Akira Yasuda, Yoshihito Hishinuma
- Art Director - Ikeda Shigemi
- Mecha Design - Atsushi Shigeta, Kunio Okawara, Syd Mead, Takumi Sakura
- Sound Director - Yota Tsuruoka
- Music - Toshiaki Ohta, Yoko Kanno
- Prducer - Hideyuki Tomioka, Takayuki Yoshii, Yoshihiro Suzuki
Episode list
- 01 - Howl to the Moon
- 02 - Adult Ceremony
- 03 - After the Ceremony
- 04 - Soldiers from Home
- 05 - Arrival of Dianna
- 06 - Forgotten Past
- 07 - Training to be a Lady
- 08 - Laura's Cow
- 09 - Corin called it a "Gundam"
- 10 - Grave Visit
- 11 - Nocis Destroy
- 12 - Underground Corridor
- 13 - Older Person
- 14 - Separated Again
- 15 - Disappearing Memory
- 16 - All about Turn A
- 17 - Nation Founding's Dust Blow
- 18 - Kihel and Dianna
- 19 - Sochie's War
- 20 - Power of Anis
- 21 - Hard Battle of Dianna
- 22 - Harry's Disaster
- 23 - Teteth's Will
- 24 - Loran's Distant Howl
- 25 - Willgem Taking Off
- 26 - Refining Battle
- 27 - Daybreak at Midnight
- 28 - Entrusted Object
- 29 - Two of Soleli
- 30 - Hugging in Chest
- 31 - Pursuit! Crybaby Pou
- 32 - King of Myth
- 33 - Strategy of Manuipich
- 34 - Fly! To Stratosphere
- 35 - Zacktraeger
- 36 - Militia's Space Decision Battle
- 37 - Gateway to Moonworld
- 38 - Battle God Ghingnham
- 39 - Explosive of Small Planet
- 40 - Sea Battle on Lunar Surface
- 41 - Determined to Fight
- 42 - Turn X Activate
- 43 - Shocking Dark History
- 44 - New Enemy
- 45 - Guin's Betrayal
- 46 - Again, to Earth
- 47 - Ghingnham's Invasion
- 48 - Return of Dianna
- 49 - Moonlight Butterfly
- 50 - Golden Autumn
Openings & Endings
Openings:- Turn A Turn by Hideki Saijou (Ep. 2-38)
- Century Color by RAYS-GUNS (Ep. 39 - 50)
- AURA (Ep. 1 - 40)
- Tsuki no Mayu (Moon's Cucoon) by Aki Okui (Ep. 41 - 49)
- Kagiri naki Tabiji (The Endless Journey) by Aki Okui (Ep. 50)
See also
Preceded by: After War Gundam XFollowed by: (In production order) G Saviour.
External links
- http://www.mahq.net
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| Universal Century and Cosmic Era timelines |
| Universal Century - Cosmic Era |
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