Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin | |
Volume one cover of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga | |
| 機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN (Kidō Senshi Gandamu Ji Orijin) | |
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| Genre | Mecha, military science fiction, space opera |
| Created by | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
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| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | June 25, 2001 – June 25, 2011 |
| Volumes | 24 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Takashi Imanishi |
| Produced by | Osamu Taniguchi |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Takayuki Hattori |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Released | February 28, 2015 – May 5, 2018 |
| Runtime | 58–84 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin MSD: Cucuruz Doan's Island | |
| Written by | Junji Ōno |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher |
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| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | June 25, 2016 – May 25, 2019 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Advent of the Red Comet | |
| Directed by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Takashi Imanishi |
| Produced by | Osamu Taniguchi |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Takayuki Hattori |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Original network | NHK General TV |
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| Original run | April 29, 2019 – August 12, 2019 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Ji Orijin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It is a retelling of the story from the 1979 anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam, of which Yasuhiko was the original character designer.
An original video animation adaptation of the manga, focusing on the stories of Casval Rem Deikun (more famously known as Char Aznable) and his sister Artesia (aka Sayla Mass), produced by Sunrise was released between 2015 and 2018 in six parts. Yasuhiko was the chief director of the adaptation, with Sunrise veteran Takashi Imanishi as director, and Katsuyuki Sumisawa as the scriptwriter. A 13-episode anime television recompilation of the OVAs aired on NHK General TV in 2019.