There are places where people are seen floating and using handrails to get around. Gravity is conditional, and isn’t in effect throughout White Base. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin is another hard sci-fi series from Vertical that takes the realities of space travel seriously. White Base is pursued mercilessly by Char back to Earth, and then by Zeon forces on the planet, with only minimal help from the Federation, as the crew tries to get to the Federation headquarters in Jaburo, South America. A battle soon erupts that destroys Side 7, and White Base is forced to take on refugees from Side 7 as well as the only working prototype of the new weapon developed by Amuro’s father, the Gundam. Meanwhile, a Zeon ship commanded by Char Aznable has followed White Base to investigate the rumors that Side 7 is developing weapons for the Federation. His father has been away but is returning on the supply ship White Base. It follows a ragtag group of survivors from Side 7 as they fight Zeon forces to try to deliver the new mobile suit, called a Gundam, and its support ship, White Base, to Federation headquarters on Earth.Īmuro Ray is the son of a scientist that is in charge of construction on Side 7. It is based on a sci-fi mecha anime from the late 1970s and has been reworked into a manga by the man who was in charge of visual design on the original anime. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volumes 1-3 were among them. Of the 78 titles listed, ten of them were manga. ISBN: 978-1935654872, 978-1935654889, 978-1935654971Īt the 2014 American Library Association Midwinter conventions, YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association announced their Great Graphic Novels list for 2014. YALSA GGNT Top Ten Manga: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume 1-3 Eight months of stalemate have gone by, and rumors of a new Federation weapon being developed on neutral Side 7 brings Zeon in to investigate. In just over a month, the fighting killed half of humanity’s total population. In the year 0079 Universal Century, one such colony, Side 3, calling itself the Principality of Zeon, declared independence from the Earth Federation, and war broke out. Mankind has moved out into space, populating huge colonies called Sides that have orbited Earth for over half a century.

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