Hot off the recent addition of the newest Gundam anime on Prime Video, Kodansha announced they will be publishing their successful Gundam Manga, adapting the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime story by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko‘s Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN in a brand-new Deluxe Edition arriving in Fall 2025.
This new deluxe edition of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, will feature a faux leather debossed cover with a larger 7.5” 10” trim size, and quality printing of the interior color and black and white pages to highlight the artistic beauty of this phenomenal story. Kodansha also confirmed that the first volume will be released on August 12, 2025, and will distributed by Penguin Random House, and available where print manga is sold. Pre-orders are currently available via Amazon.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin was written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, it was first serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Gundam Ace Magazine in June 2001 and ran until June 2011, and the chapters collected into 24 tankobon volumes. Viz Media would publish the manga for English Audiences, but due to low sales, it would cease publication. In 2012, Vertical announced that it would publish an English language adaptation of the series in hardcover format similar to the Aizoban editions. The first volume was released on March 26, 2013, and the series was completed with the publishing of the 12th volume on December 17, 2015. The Origin series would continue with a spin-off manga, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin MSD: Cucuruz Doan’s Island from Junji Ōno would follow shortly after. The six-episode Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA debuted in Japanese theaters from 2015 to 2018. The anime project adapts Yasuhiko’s manga of the same name Yasuhiko designed the characters in the first Gundam anime, and he serves as the chief director and storyboarder for the Gundam: The Origin anime.
In the world of Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN: It is the year Universal Century 0079, in a space colony the Earth Federation is storing and testing a new piloted robot for use in the battle against the Principality of Zeon. The experimental RX-78 Gundam mobile suit is scheduled to be transported to Federation command in Jaburo, deep within the Brazilian jungles. Unfortunately, before the transporter would arrive, the Federation would come under attack from Zeon. With few resources available against the Zeon’s most mobile mechs, Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam.
Caught in the crossfire is a young teen named Amuro Ray. Not willing to see innocent people die like this, Amuro crawls into the cockpit of the closest machine around him. Whether it be a tank, jeep or jet, he was going to use it to help stop this slaughter. And what he happened to slide into was another Gundam. Having never operated a machine like this, what are the chances he can do anything to repel an experienced squad of mech-piloting invaders?
Source: Press Release
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