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 the 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
• Part IV – The Era of Turn A Gundam
  • Turn A Gundam officially begins
  • The main voice cast
  • Storyboards
  • “Live-action approach to storytelling”
  • The scriptwriting team
  • Assessing ratings and popularity
  • Legacy

Without further ado…

Continue reading “The History and Production of Turn A Gundam: Part IV – The Era of Turn A Gundam” →

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” →

Continuing my series of blog posts 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 discourse. This is the culmination of research I’ve done over the past decade. It’ll be divided into four parts for easy reading as follows:

• Part I – Victory Gundam & Battling Depression
• Part II – Influences & Inspiration
  • The Takarazuka Revue
    • Dance & Theater
  • The Moon
  • The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter / Princess Kaguya
  • Miscellaneous influences
• Part III – Prelude to Turn A Gundam
• Part IV – The Era of Turn A Gundam

Without further ado…

Continue reading “The History and Production of Turn A Gundam: Part II – Influences & Inspiration” →

It’s Turn A Gundam‘s 22nd anniversary! To celebrate, I’m unveiling something big.

Welcome to a series of blog posts 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 discourse. This is the culmination of research I’ve done over the past decade. It’ll be divided into four parts for easy reading as follows:

• Part I – Victory Gundam & Battling Depression
  • The 1980s
  • Victory Gundam
  • Depression
• Part II – Influences & Inspiration
• Part III – Prelude to Turn A Gundam
• Part IV – The Era of Turn A Gundam

Without further ado…

Continue reading “The History and Production of Turn A Gundam: Part I – Victory Gundam & Battling Depression” →