It’s Turn A Gundam‘s 25th anniversary! What a milestone achievement for such a culturally relevant anime. I want to do something special to celebrate—a deep dive into the sequels that never came to fruition. This article will replace my outdated What do we know about Turn A Space? article, but I’ll leave the link active and redirect readers to this page. Bear in mind that this is a work-in-progress. New details will continue to surface as time goes on, but I figured I had accumulated enough to write an updated article.
On August 10, 1999, while Turn A Gundam was in-between episodes #18 and #19, Director Yoshiyuki Tomino was informed by Sunrise producer Masuo Ueda that Turn A Gundam would NOT be greenlit for a second year of broadcast. A sequel story had never officially been in the cards, but Tomino had hoped that one would be made. He had already been planning scenario ideas, after all, and this news didn’t necessarily stop him from continuing to expand on them. In fact, planning documents and memos for a sequel concept were on display at The World of Yoshiyuki Tomino exhibition (2019-2021). Sadly, due to photography limitations, photos haven’t surfaced on the internet.
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