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Tequila Gundam Is Back! Pass the Tequila!



From Anime News Network:

The August issue of Kadokawa
Shoten
‘s Monthly Gundam
Ace
magazine is announcing
on Saturday that a new manga version of the Mobile
Fighter G Gundam
television anime series will launch in the
next issue in July. G-Gundam‘s original
director Yasuhiro
Imagawa
is scripting the tentatively titled Kid?
But?den G-Gundam the Comic
(Mobile Fighter G Gundam the Comic), while Kazuhiko
Shimamoto
  and his Hon? Production studio are drawing the
actual manga.

Holy shit. For you guys who were either too young to remember G Gundam on Cartoon Network or never cared for anime in the first place and are wondering why I’m so excited about a manga adaptation of a 15-year-old anime, well, I need to point out you’ve clearly never watched G Gundam. All the reasons why Japanese people love Gundam — the hard sci-fi, the elaborate future politics, the realism of giant robot combat — G Gundam had none of those things. Instead, it had a great deal of (mostly) benign racism, as each nation of Earth was represented by an incredibly silly Gundam. Mexico? Represented by the sombrero-wearing, mustachioed Tequila Gundam. Egypt? The wrapped in bandages Pharaoh Gundam. America? The football helmet-wearing, boxing gloved, gun-toting Gundam Maxter. And they all wandered the planet and fought each other. It was so, so ridiculous, and in this case, ridiculous often meant awesome. I’ll be happy just to re-live the G Gundam saga in manga form, although I can’t help but hope that this is a prelude to a Dragonball Z Kai-like rebirth of a G Gundam anime. Or a sequel. God help me, I just want to see Denmark’s Mermaid Gundam in action again, because it’s a Gundam wearing a giant fish suit. How on earth can you not want to see that?