Confrontation

Mobile Suit Gundam #3

by Yoshiyuki Tomino

Confrontation ( Mobile Suit #3) (Mass Market Paperback) by Yoshiyuki Tomino (Author)

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 14, 1991

About the author

富野 由悠季 in Japanese, best known for creating the "Gundam" franchise.

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes author's sexual objectification of female characters went just off-scale, but endless list of surprising climaxes and the shocking ending of the trilogy, far better, bleaker and different than the original 1979 Gundam 0079 anime series, were just a real blast for me.



In the end this was an amazing military sci-fi space opera classic trilogy that stood the test of time for good, Tomino's world-building of the One Year War setting is a real well made one and the mature themes and differences from the 40 years old anime who inspired it are going to keep engaged die-hard fans and casual readers too.



100% pure great entertainment and I really hope the upcoming live-action movie is going to be based on these three page-turning novels.

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The finale of the trilogy caught me genuinely off-guard in its final chapters, fusing the Tolstoy-in-space philosophical war drama of the past two parts with the sort of sweeping space opera the post-Disney "Star Wars" films have standardized. Here at last we get a final sequence to rival that in "Awakening," and the final moments blaze forward with an almost disorienting speed. That's probably my only complaint: some of the final chapter, which accomplishes so much, feels rushed in comparison to the more deliberately-paced chapters beforehand. In that way, it resembles a Stephen King novel more than Tolstoy, but it sticks the landing admirably.