The Men Who Created Gundam

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Requiring no prior experience with anime or mecha or Gundam...full of thrills and spills and lucky breaks and narrow escapes and preening villains you'll love to hate and pigheaded heroes you may hate to love, and expert drawings by a master craftsman, and hard, sturdy violence. - Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal on Gundam

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-10,000 unit print run -Gundam themed events planned for 2021 -Co-op available -Cross promotion on twitter: @hideki6809 -Dedicated website: https: //en.gundam.info/ Mobile Suit Gundam to the uninitiated is best known as the Star Wars of Japan. The series debuted in 1979 and has since spun off more than 17 TV series, almost all of which have been broadcast on English television (namely Cartoon Network). Another 26 movies have been produced of the franchise, making it one of the most commercially successful properties globally of all time. A number of novels and manga are also part of the property with a few of them becoming NY Times Best-Sellers. Vertical's Gundam: THE ORIGIN sold more 100,000 copies of its English hardcover edition since 2014.

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A comical look at the two masterminds behind one of Japan's most influential sci-fi robot anime franchises.

Contributor Bio:Owada, Hideki
Born in 1969, Hideki Ohwada is a beloved comedic manga creator. Best known in the West for his long-running mahjong political parody The Legend of Koizumi, Ohwada actually made his debut in 1999 on the baseball comedy Fun Koshien. Since then he has contributed in nearly two dozen series, mostly for Kadokawa Publishing.

While Ohwada may be best known for his sensational genre work in the West, he is respected across Asia for his passion for the Gundam franchise. Ohwada has been working within the world of Gundam continuously since 2009 and has created a number of works that have seen multi-media adaptations.