Turn A Gundam
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∀ Gundam or Turn A Gundam (∀ガンダム Tān Ē Gandamu?) is a 50 episode anime series that aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks and the anime satellite television network, Animax, 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. Turn A Gundam was the last Gundam anime to be directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the main creator of the Gundam franchise and had written and directed many previous Gundam works. This series was made after Tomino had recovered from his depression that influenced Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, and the general tone and mood of Turn A Gundam is much more hopeful and less dark than his other Gundam series. It is important to note that Turn-A Gundam is also the last of the Gundam metaseries (not counting the compilations and future video game cut scenes) to be hand painted on cels. 2002's Gundam Seed would be the first series to use digital coloring.
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). The English acronym CC is Correct Century（コレクトセンチュリー）in the official Japanese ∀ guide book and Correct Century in English in the 2001 Correct Century A Bibliographical Study of "Black History" as the black paged introduction of Gundam Officials.[1] ∀ 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 technology to counterattack. ∀ Gundam is a dramatic departure 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 aesthetic 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:
Generally, acceptance of this theory is spotty at best. Some fans subscribe to a literal interpretation, attempting to piece together the specific order in which Tomino intended the prior shows take place. Others believe the theory, but prefer a less strict delination of time, accepting the show as the cumulation of 20 years of Gundam. Still more fans reject the theory outright, considering ∀ Gundam to be another alternate universe, possibly one in which events similar or identical to the other Gundam shows took place. However, the 2001 Correct Century, A Bibliographical Study of "Black History", printed in black pages in front of the Universal Century, Gundam Officials Encyclopedia, that is supposed to be uncovered by a fictional Lecturer in Black History named Yokk Wakk Onimott during Correct Century 1993 who spent 2 years to fix the broken pages, 5 years to interprete the language and a year to find a publisher, stated the book was first printed in around 3000 years ago by the Rhea branch of the Earth Federation Government University, and included a picture found in 1993 Correct Century in the mountain cycle Library A-a drawn by Kunio Okawara showing a mobile suit supposed to be MS-04 as a S.U.I.T. project of the Zeon forces in UC0072~0075 and the white page introduction stated by another fictional writter, Minaka Junkers, an economy assistant professor of the Rhea branch of the Earth Federation Government University, the book was bublished in UC0100, celebrating the Centennial anniversary of the Universal Century. Thus officially claimed that the Universal Century is a time before Correct Century, possibly around 3000 years before the story of Turn A begins. [2] Image:Gundam-Century.jpg
Image showing relationships of different Gundam series' timeline from SD Gundam G-Generation DS promotional leaflet
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-Gaim, Zambot 3, etc), not just Gundam.[citation needed] 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 apocryphal work "Turn-A Space". After the end of Victory Gundam in early 1994, Yoshiyuki Tomino took a five year hiatus from Gundam. In 1999, he returned to the Gundam franchise with the 50 episode series ∀ Gundam (read as Turn A Gundam) as part of Sunrise's "Gundam Big Bang" 20th Anniversary celebration. As to where this series falls in continuity wise, it is set neither in the Universal Century or any of the the previous alternate universes. Set in Correct Century (CC) 2345, this series 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. Turn A 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 suit comes courtesy of American designer Syd Mead, best known for his work in the film Blade Runner. The series also features the musical talents of Yoko Kanno, who previously worked on Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop and Tomino's own series Brain Power'd. The series finished its run in early 2000, and in 2002 Tomino directed two compilation films, entitled Earth Light and Moonlight Butterfly. Both the TV series and the movies are now available on DVD in Japan, but they are not available in the U.S. Mobile UnitsEarth Militia
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