Can't find the last volume online (and I don't have room for hardcover comics in my house lol), so I'm done with Gundam the Origin for now. The full color version of this comic looks gorgeous.
The prequel portion of the comic is pretty mid. All the lore and extra background stuff about UC0079 isn't really what I find exciting about the series.
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Deguin calls his son a Hitler ass:
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Love the "giant death robot as extension of the body" stuff:
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after age they probably aren't going to give it to a non-anime industry pro anytime soon, but i could see them tapping a novelist as writer. iori miyazawa is a gundam fan and i'd love to see his gay gundam. i mean, he's not high profile enough and otherside picnic is a completely different type of scifi, but there's a million ln authors out there, probably a few of them are big names who are good at the gundam millieu
directors is tougher, but g-witch and ibo both just had industry professionals. tatsuyaki nagai was a bigger name, but hardly a super well known director. there's all kinds of journeymen out there who would be good enough. obviously you want more than good enough, but sunrise will take what they can get
When they tapped Nagai for ibo he kinda just brought his entire crew from Ano Hana along (including Mari Okada). I remember when the show was announced a lot of people were speculating about why Sunrise would go with the director/writer pair that did Toradora/Ano Hana, I think a lot of people expected a melodramatic romance... and then the warcrimes started from ep 1 lmao.
It's interesting to think about because most of the big names in the new generation of directors have ended up at MAPPA/Madhouse, and unlike Kyoani or UFOtable, Sunrise doesn't really have an in-house team besides maybe the Hathaway movie crew.
i think they've had a couple shows recently trying to develop an in house team. that's my impression of what amaim was, at least, and i've heard that about a few others. but i don't know anime industry on that level. i know studios and big name directors, and i know the broad strokes of how production works, but i'm' definitely not an expert on this
Oh I'm not either I'm just thinking out loud, for example
I didn't even know this show existed hahahahaa!
its got really bad vibes, seems super nationalistic. but i've heard it mostly exists to give animators a mecha series to work on