#Once the big zam is mass produced series#
#Once the big zam is mass produced tv#

He's worked on Macross, Aura Battler Dunbine, Starship Troopers, Turn A Gundam, and Gundam Seed. Shigeru Morita: A Studio Nue member who specializes in settei-literally 'setting,' and generally used to refer to background creation and world-building. His detailed illustrations of Starship Troopers powered suits in SF Magazine are said to have been the inspiration for Gundam's mobile suits.

#Once the big zam is mass produced series#

Kazutaka Miyatake: A core member of Studio Nue who served as a mechanical designer on series like Space Battleship Yamato and Macross.

In addition to his work on Gundam Century, he also wrote the Science Establishment columns in the Roman Album Extra books, and recently supervised settei (setting) research for the newly opened Gundam Museum. After founding Studio Nue with writer Haruka Takachiho, artist Kazutaka Miyatake, et al, he worked on Daitarn 3, Macross, and Space Runaway Ideon, and scripted twelve episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam (episodes 2, 8, 12, 17, 18, 22, 26, 32, 35, 36, 38, and 41). Ken'ichi Matsuzaki: As a member of Crystal Art Studio, the predecessor to Studio Nue, he worked on Zerotester and Space Battleship Yamato. Shoji Kawamori: A Studio Nue member who served as a mechanical designer for Macross and played a major creative role in many of its sequels. He scripted eleven episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam (episodes 1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31, 34, 42, and 43). Hiroyuki Hoshiyama: The chief writer for Mobile Suit Gundam, who also worked on Zambot 3, Daitarn 3, and Round Vernian Vifam. Much of the material in Gundam Century has since been refined or replaced by later writers, but it remains a fascinating historical artifact.Д«efore we begin, here are brief profiles of some of Gundam Century's principal contributors, many of whom also worked on the pioneering dojinshi (fanzine) Gun Sight which served as a predecessor to Gundam Century. Aside from the novels written by director Yoshiyuki Tomino and the original series proposal published in Sunrise's Record Collection books, there was little information on the back story of Mobile Suit Gundam at this point, and the explanations in Gundam Century became the foundation for the Universal Century world we know today. Gundam Century was first published in September 1981, two months after the premiere of the Gundam II movie, making it one of the very first sources of detailed background information on the Universal Century world.

#Once the big zam is mass produced tv#

TV series chief writer Hiroyuki Hoshiyama was also a supervisor of the Gundam Century project, so this section is essentially the One Year War background as envisioned by the people who together wrote roughly 60% of the original TV series. Ken'ichi Matsuzaki, the author of the historical Zeon War Chronicles section, was one of the principal scriptwriters of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. It's hard to overstate the importance of Gundam Century in shaping the Universal Century world as we now know it. Translator's Note: The legendary reference book Gundam Century is remarkable not only for its role in establishing the history and technology of the Gundam world, but also as the debut effort of Studio Nue, showcasing the early work of celebrities like Shoji Kawamori and Kazuya Miyatake.