![]() I thought that if it did happen as a manga, it would take a very long time to do. Obviously, I was no longer an animator, but I still wrote manga. ![]() In that sense, I felt responsible that we hadn’t managed to make an anime that could endure for 40 years or so. At the same time, I did feel a degree of responsibility towards this new project, as I was a member of the original Gundam team. I told them I didn’t care about bringing Gundam to the US or any of the money they were offering. ![]() Sunrise was very keen on this idea, so they kept on coming back to me repeatedly about it. “My initial reaction to the request to reboot Mobile Suit Gundam as a manga was quite an unpleasant one. Forbes contributor and mecha anime guru Ollie Barder recently sat down with veteran director, animator and mangaka Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.ĭuring the fascinating interview, Yasuhiko recounts the conception of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin as an idea by anime studio Sunrise to reimagine the aged 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam as a manga series to appeal to the international and US markets and his reluctance to spearhead the project. ![]()
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