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Mobile Suit Gundam
1979-80. The highest peak of robot animes. A watershed between the 1970's heroic 'Super Robot' anime and 'Real Robot' anime since the 1980's. The story of a civil war in the future space-colonization age ('the One Year War' between the Earth Federation and Duchy of Zeon in 0079-80 Universal). Gundam is one of the Giant humanoid fighting vehicles called 'mobile suits', and the pilot is a 16-year-old boy named Amuro Ray. The 1st TV series directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. 43 episodes. Produced by Sunrise. There is also the movie version trilogy edited from this TV series. In Conjunction with the popularity of the models of mobile suits, many other 'Gundam' series have been produced as TV series, movies OAV's.
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