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NEWS: Gundam's 35th Year Marked With Reconguista in G, The Origin

Super happy to finally see a new Tomino project get off the ground. One of my favorite directors.

From the old news reports on "G-Reko" dating yeeeeears back, one gets the impression that perhaps this started life as an original project and ended up becoming a Gundam thing - but that's all guesswork, maybe we'll get some detail on that somewhere later. Either way, I'm glad this happening before the old man gets any older.

Gundam film trilogy -> Char's counterattack -> Turn A. Everything else Tomino has done in the Gundam Universe is at best mediocre and at worst a steaming pile of shit.

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Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Well there is also Wings of Rean which isn't bad at all.

You're kidding, right? That thing made even less sense than F91. It's one of the best examples of his godawful direction and screenwriting skills.

Actually if you go back to his initial interviews about this show in 2011, this was always meant to take place in the far future of UC. He was very explicit about that.

What he didn't want to do was to call this a Gundam show, since there are connotations with that name.

The final title seems to reflect that. The "Gundam" name seems to be slapped on, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was something the marketing division did to make Gundam fans pay more attention to this.

darkhunger wrote:

Actually if you go back to his initial interviews about this show in 2011, this was always meant to take place in the far future of UC. He was very explicit about that. What he didn't want to do was to call this a Gundam show, since there are connotations with that name.

So a show takes place in the UC timeline which up to now WAS the GUNDAM TIMELINE per excellence and it's not a Gundam show ? Yeah right. I mean Universal Century has the same connotation as Gundam.
Seriously saying that G Recko takes place in the far future of the UC means for all intents and purposes that it doesn't take place in the UC. The UC is inconsequential to the story. It might as well be any other timeline.

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The final title seems to reflect that. The "Gundam" name seems to be slapped on, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was something the marketing division did to make Gundam fans pay more attention to this.

If the Gundam name is slapped on, so is the UC name.

Truth be told Tomino has said time and time again that he doesn't want to make any more Gundam shows. I bet G Recko has nothing to do with what most fans expect of a Gundam show. Calling it Gundam and saying it takes place in the UC timeline won't change a damn thing.

I love being right
The UC is dead, and Sunrise righfully invests in alternate timelines.
Bye bye UC, you've done the job for more than 30 years, now it's time to let the youngsters come in.

Somewhere in this universe, a small group of irreducible UC taliban fans are going apeshit. Maybe they'll send death threats to Sunrise, like the eva fans did years ago against Anno ?

So now Sunrise has to figure out when exactly "Reconguista in G" is in the timeline. As F91, Victory Gundam & Turn A Gundam are all 3 take place after the UC era.

Huh?? Every title announced today was UC related in some way. And there were no major UC TV series for over a decade (correct me if I'm wrong).

Techinally F91 and V Gundam are Late UC as they are both in the Universal Century (F91 set at UC 0123 and V being UC 0153)

I wouldn't quite discount them doing a full adaptation of Origin yet. Maybe they are going in chronological order.