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What is Mobile Fighter G Gundam?
This year, things will be a little different. A young man named
Domon Kasshu has been chosen as the champion "King of Hearts" to represent
Neo-Japan in the Shining Gundam, but he's less worried about bringing his
country a victory and more concerned with locating a strange man in an
old torn up photo he carries with him. Along the way, Domon comes
into contact with many of the other Fighters, but not all of them will
remain mere tournament opponents. Many will be forced to choose a
side in the conflict ahead, as a deadly mobile fighter designated as "The
Devil Gundam" lurks somewhere on Earth, converting both humans and machines
to its cause for world-wide assimilation and destruction...
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Marking the 15th anniversary of Gundam, Mobile Fighter G Gundam is the
first of the alternate universe (AU) series. At the forefront of
the project was Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo), who created a universe that
was radically different from the original concept of Gundam wars.
Rather than an all out Earth vs. Space series of battles, the conflict
in G Gundam is reduced to a tournament that takes place every four years.
The arena is the ravaged Earth, populated by those left behind when the
colonies were launched to space. Each nation is represented by a
Gundam Fighter and at the end of the fights, the country with the last
mobile suit standing becomes the head nation in council for the next four
years. So far, sixty years have passed and twelve tournaments have
taken place. Mobile Fighter G Gundam picks up at the start of the
thirteenth tournament in the year Future Century 60...