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It’s been announced that starting September 6, BS12’s “Sunday Anime Theater” will air the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam movie trilogy (the re-edited versions released in 2005–2006) along with Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack. On the forums, discussion centered on how the movie versions, unlike the TV series, mix newly drawn cuts with old ones, and how the ending — where protagonist Kamille suffers a mental breakdown — has been softened. Opinions were also divided on whether newcomers unfamiliar with Gundam could enjoy it without doing any homework first.
On BS12 Twelve’s “Sunday Anime Theater,” airing every Sunday at 7:00 PM,
the following works will begin airing from September 6.
September 6: “Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation – Heir to the Stars” (2005 / General Director Yoshiyuki Tomino)
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Probably not — you need to do your homework first.
[Earth Federation]
Amuro: Hiroshi Tachi
Bright: Kyohei Shibata
Sayla: Atsuko Asano
Matilda: Nana Kinomi
[Zeon]
Char: Kazuki Enari
Gihren Zabi: Takuzo Kadono
Lalah: Pinko Izumi
Ramba Ral: Nobuto Okamoto
What a dangerous crowd (likely a pun on actor Enari's famous drama roles).
Live-action Fist of the North Star casting
Kenshiro: Hiroshi Abe
Toki: Etsushi Toyokawa
Raoh: Koji Kikkawa
Jagi: Hayato Ichihara
Yuria: Minami Tanaka
Mamiya: Ami Inamura
Bat: Fujii Kaze
Rin: Yumi Adachi
Ein: Ken Shimura
That's what came to mind.
Is the guy with sunglasses on the left the one who took down Captain Woody at Jaburo even after his main camera got destroyed?
Probably plays out the same way—
Scirocco: 'Why, The O — why won't you move!?'
Haman: 'Why, Qubeley — why won't you move!?'
But it's precisely because Yazan was such a goofball that he felt right at home as Johnny Ridden later…
Back then I just accepted it as 'that's how it is,' though.
I don't want to see Lady Haman forced into that Saint Seiya-looking cosplay outfit…
Yeah, I get it, this is like 'Look Back,' right? Once you're fully invested and a great character like that gets killed off, of course it's shocking and tragic. But that doesn't automatically make the whole work a masterpiece.
Wait, is it 'Ruby no Yubiwa' (a famous old Japanese pop ballad)?
'Doman Seman, Doman Seman — quick, someone call an onmyoji!' (a ritual chant used by Japanese exorcists)
First time I saw that transform-and-combine sequence, I thought, 'huh, it's like a Gundam version of Ideon.'
Yeah, that'd suck.
Half-assed mix of new and old animation
Dialogue got slightly softened
Kamille doesn't have his mental breakdown at the end
Watched it back in the day — it was pretty rough, honestly.
Fa: 'What's wrong, Kamille? Kamille!'
Jerid: 'You know Second Lieutenant Kakurikon?'
Fa: 'Kamille! Don't, not that way!'
Kamille: 'Don't underestimate me!'
Jerid: 'Huh?'
Kamille: 'Guaaah!'
Jerid: 'Whoa!'
Emma Sheen: 'Stop it!'
Jerid: 'You picked a fight with us knowing we're Titans?'
Kamille: 'What's wrong with Kamille being a man's name!? I'm a guy!'
Getting me fired up now.
Background and Points of Debate
The “Zeta Gundam” movie trilogy, commonly known as the “Shinyaku” (New Translation) version, was released in theaters from 2005 to 2006 as a re-edit of the TV series that originally aired in 1985. Director Yoshiyuki Tomino himself added new footage, and changed the ending so that Kamille no longer suffers a mental breakdown. What split opinion on the thread was how to judge this change — some favored the original’s bitter ending, while others appreciated the more redemptive conclusion of the movie version. It was also pointed out that “Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam,” the sequel series, isn’t included in this broadcast lineup, meaning viewers who only watch the movies may find some characters’ backgrounds hard to follow. “Char’s Counterattack,” released in theaters in 1988, is an original theatrical work that serves as the definitive conclusion to the series.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[TV] BS12 ‘Sunday Anime Theater’ to air the ‘Zeta Gundam’ movie trilogy and ‘Char’s Counterattack’ starting September 6.”
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