Continuing my series of articles detailing the history and production of Turn A Gundam! My goal is to provide an accessible source of context and knowledge for reference purposes, and to improve community discourse. This is the culmination of research I’ve done and continue to do over the past decade. It’ll be divided into four parts for easy reading as follows. I highly recommend you read and familiarize yourself with previous parts, as there is a lot of overlap between them.
- Part I – Victory Gundam & Battling Depression
- Part II – Influences & Inspiration
- Part III – Prelude to Turn A Gundam
- Early beginnings
- Brain Powerd
- “Ring of Gundam”, The “A Gundam Project”, and Tomino Memos
- Akira Yasuda, Syd Mead, and Yoko Kanno
- Goals and Aspirations
- Part IV – The Era of Turn A Gundam

Without further ado…
Continue reading “The History and Production of Turn A Gundam: Part III – Prelude”