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    Japan 2005 MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM The birth of a genre

    Nov 12, 2021 4 minutes

    Animation – or Anime – is a major industry in Japan, with films and television programmes plus models, toys, t-shirts, comics and computer games that are sold all over the world.

    Anime productions began as adaptations of Manga, printed comic books, but soon started to develop on their own, encompassing romance, fantasy, sci-fi, comedy and a dozen other genres and sub-genres.

    Mecha is one of the most important of these and features huge, humanoid robots, frequently fighting each other. Most are under the control of a human operator, either inside them or operating remotely. Some have supernatural powers to boot.

    Metal Suit Gundum was not the first of these but it was one of the most successful. It was

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