{"id":28288,"date":"2019-04-07T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28288"},"modified":"2019-04-11T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:14:12","slug":"happy-birthday-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/happy-birthday-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Gundam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/gunconv981.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>It was 40 years ago today when <i>Mobile Suit Gundam<\/i> premiered on TV. In honor of the anniversary, NHK (the public broadcast channel in Japan) aired a documentary that interviewed Tomino Yoshiyuki and other creators who were there at the start to find out what it was like behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the special is in Japanese, making it indecipherable to us, but someone has quite handily taken the time to <a href=\"https:\/\/criesinnewtype.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/07\/behind-gundams-creation\/\" target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translate all the pertinent information<\/a> into English. Learn why there are no aliens in the story, why Amuro Ray is a loser, why the enemy Gundams could have wilder designs than the heroes, and more. It's a really cool look back.<\/p>\n<p>In creating <i>Gundam<\/i>, Sunrise just wanted to create something that would last long enough to get a compilation movie. Forty years and dozens of series later, <i>Gundam<\/i> has far surpassed that goal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"RX-ponential Growth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/rx-ponential-growth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">RX-ponential Growth<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Ace is the place with the helpful hardware Newtypes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/ace-is-the-place-with-the-helpful-hardware-newtypes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ace is the place with the helpful hardware Newtypes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Regular Show is aware how much its toys suck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/regular-show-is-aware-how-much-its-toys-suck\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Regular Show is aware how much its toys suck<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Today is a day for learning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/today-is-a-day-for-learning\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Today is a day for learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Still less offensive than anything in G Gundam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/still-less-offensive-than-anything-in-g-gundam\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Still less offensive than anything in G Gundam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 40 years ago today when Mobile Suit Gundam premiered on TV. In honor of the anniversary, NHK (the public broadcast channel in Japan) aired a documentary that interviewed Tomino Yoshiyuki and other creators who were there at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/happy-birthday-gundam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-28288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gundam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28289,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288\/revisions\/28289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}