Gundam 0080 is getting a new manga that retells the anime

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

I just found out about this. I went over the preview pages from a Japanese website and it looks pretty good so far. It is pretty violent. The prologue seems to flesh out the Cyclops Team and the main cover has Chris going over the Gundam Alex on Earth (it seems)

The manga is being published by Kadokawa and the main person behind it is Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, never heard of him before.

Don't know if I can put a link here but there is a reddit post on it and animenewsnetwork talked about it

[SonicSP]

Pretty sure you can post articles on it as long as it doesn't have like illegal scans or anything.

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

Pretty sure you can post articles on it as long as it doesn't have like illegal scans or anything.

nice. this is just a link to the preview pages on a Japanese book website.

https://viewer-trial.bookwalker.jp/03/1 ... nt=7qM_Nkp

[Underrated GM Custom]

Wow, that was a lot more violent than I expected..

[Mafty]

Definitely, though to be fair Gundam 0080 was fairly violent itself, so at least they aren't really exaggerating anything from the original.

I wonder if it will ever by translated and sold abroad?

[Dark Duel]

I just hope this one doesn't go off the rails, narratively speaking, the way the 0083 manga adaptation did.

[SonicSP]

I wonder if it will ever by translated and sold abroad?

By who?

[Mafty]

Maybe by Viz Media, or whoever it is that translates Gundam Manga.

Also that 0083 manga, is that 0083 Rebellion? If so how does it go off the rails? Does the story diverge from the original anime?

[Underrated GM Custom]

0083 Rebellion went off the rails in the last few volumes so to speak. I liked it quite a bit in the original where it mostly followed the same plot while introducing some more modeling quirks (Bandai always has to sell more Gunpla of course) but I appreciated them incorporating in 0081 elements and the cameos from 08th MS Team weren't bad in the slighest.

It starts to diverge quite a bit when they get into space. (Well, I guess it started with the Frankenstein Mobile Armor with the Kimberlite forces). I like what they did with Kelley Layzner quite a bit, but there's a lot of things that leave you scratching your head. Certainly a lot of scenes that are more about the spectacle than being realistic. If you have the time I'd say read it for yourself, it does some things well and others...are a bit bizarre.