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_Mobile Suit Gundam_ premiered on April 7th, 1979 in Nagoya, Japan, and with
it came the now three-decade-old franchise that launched a thousand plastic
model kits. **WARNING:** MAY CONTAIN spoilers for a thirty-year-old beloved
cultural touchstone that you’ve likely never seen or possibly even heard of.
**WARNING:** DEFINITELY CONTAINS many, many links to TV Tropes. **28.8k
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**〜_Mobile Suit Gundam_〜**
Named for a portmanteau of “gun” and “freedom,” _Mobile Suit Gundam_ first
aired this year, watched by… frankly, not a huge number of people. The
rather odd number of episodes (42 episodes, to be exact) was caused by its
lack of viewers leading sponsors to demand a cutback from the originally
planned 52 episodes.
After Bandai’s Gundam model kits showed up in 1980, though, the series’
popularity blossomed and in national rebroadcasts it was well received.
Why was it popular? _Gundam_ was largely to the Super Robot genre what _Star
Trek_ was to American sci-fi: it was the flower that blossomed from a pot of
dirt, bringing with it the idea that it doesn’t _have_ to be pulpy kids’
stuff. _Gundam_ was the first entry in what became known …
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