Awakening

Mobile Suit Gundam #1

by Yoshiyuki Tomino

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera

212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

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]

Happy 40th anniversary, Gundam

When I started reading the omnibus collecting Tomino's trilogy of Gundam novels on the day celebrating 40 years of the franchise, I was thinking about it being just a novelization of the fan favourite 70s mecha series that ended the cheesy and beloved golden age of Nagai's cartoonish invincible metal giants, fighting against aliens/dinosaurs/demons and other monstrous bad guys with flamboyant poses and ultimate final attacks, and started the new age of sci-fi based anime with mechas as mass-produced weapons of war based on consistent laws of physics, complex stories, moral conflicts and troubled characters instead of dauntless heroes and dastardly villains.



Surprising, the novels are not just a novelization/tie-in of that series but a full more mature re-imagining of it with lots of differences, mature themes, lots of Starship Troopers vibes and definitely aimed to a more mature target.



Amuro Rey and his comrades in arms are no more just teens stumbling into top secret military weaponry, seizing it and using in battle just using an user manual or else (you really need to fully suspend your disbelief while re-watching the 79 anime to fully appreciate that after 40 years) but fully trained soldiers since the start of the story, the action takes place all in space, gore abound, and major characters deaths and many other things are very different here: for example, the Char's kick signature attack, source of endless web memes, was hilariously changed into Amuro's Gundam kicking Char's Zaku and leaving the Red Comet  shocked and wordless together with this reader here (still laughing about it).



First book was just a page-turner addicting read that kept me up reading until late night, just can't wait to start next one and really hope the upcoming Gundam live-action movie is going to be based on this trilogy.

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first volume of the "Mobile Suit Gundam" trilogy takes some getting into- the prose is dry seemingly by design, and the sudden shifts in perspective from character to character can be jarring. Despite this, there's an element of Tolstoy in this one: there's clearly more influence from "War and Peace" than any Japanese fighting-robots media.

[Will Sisco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Almost a 4. Exciting action novel and glad to learn a part of Japanese culture I knew nothing about. Probably enjoyed it enough to read the next in the series, but not right away.

[Joey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kill Them All Tomino is a master of telling a gritty story. This translation of his novelization of the origin of the Gundam story is concise and does a really good job of filling in the early series drama and grittiness. People die, Amuro is not some bumbling teen. He's a military recruit! Green and inexperienced but overall the plot is 'slightly' different than the TV series or movies, but in many ways more believable. If they ever did a live action series based on the Anime I'd do it based on this work.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know F-all about the anime but it was a quarter at my library book sale and it was a very entertaining space battle read.

[Aarón Borrás · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si buscas una historia de robots asi positiva, no te acerques a este libro ni con un palo de tres metros, es un drama militar.

Dicho eso, me parecio un muy buen libro de ciencia ficcion dura, que deja un poco atras algunos de los elementos mas sacados de la manga, como el titanio lunar de la armadura del Gundam cambiandolos por cosas más realistas como titanio laminado. Hace bastante enfasís en temas mecanicos y del funcionamiento de las cosas de lo que esperaba, cosa que agradezco.

En cuanto a los personajes, son un grupo muy variopinto, y hay algunos que para entender sus motivaciones o sensaciones, creo que tienes que estar bajo la influencia de sustancias alucinogenas. De las fuertes

[Seven Pesos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amura Rey is a virgin boy who is good at piloting space robots. This book won't make you think much, but I liked it.

[Nicolaus Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was absolutely amazing. It was a nice throwback to the original series and it included many things, as the creator of the series stated, for one reason or another he couldn't include in the anime. It's a great read with plenty of action and mystique, the fight scenes are wonderfully fleshed out, and everything is described in a sci-fi-like detail that would make George Orwell excited. This book is definitely worth your time, my one and only complaint was that it was too short; however, it is a trilogy so that is forgivable. If you've never watched any Gundam, do yourself a favor and give this a try, I bet you won't regret it.