Underplayed Gems

Mobile Suit SD Gundam

Mobile Suit SD Gundam poster
Genre
mecha
Country
Japan
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This collection of short animated films takes characters and mecha from the Gundam universe and remakes them in cute chibi form for comedy sketches. The early shorts make fun of the mainline Gundam stories while later ones introduce original toy-inspired characters.

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What happens

Mobile Suit SD Gundam (Japanese: 機動戦士SDガンダム, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Esudī Gandamu) is a Japanese anthology of animated shorts produced by Sunrise between 1988 and 1993. The series was released theatrically alongside anime feature films and as original video animations (OVAs), and forms part of the broader SD Gundam franchise, which draws from Bandai's popular Gashapon capsule toys and plastic model kits. Early installments parody the mainline Gundam franchise using super deformed (chibi-style) mecha and characters. Starting in 1989 with Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack, the series began incorporating recurring teams like Command Gundam, Knight Gundam, and Musha Gundam—characters developed through toy lines, Carddass trading cards, and manga tie-ins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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