Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash

 The first movie of a series of three that will be released in the coming years, Hathaway's Flash takes us back to the Universal Century.

And that means a lot of familiar events and names will be popping up in the trilogy.

The story takes place 12 years after the Neo Zeon War, or Char's Rebellion, the world is still on the brink of chaos as conflicts can errupt anywhere and anytime.  

The anti-Federation organistaion Mafty, led by Hathaway Noa, son of Bright Noa (the captain of White Base in the original Gundam series), has taken a stand against the corruption in Earth Sphere.  Inspired by Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, he has become a soldier that wants to move forward through armed resistance, but this all changes when he meets Kenneth Sleg and a mysterious girl called Gigi Andalucia.

 

 

What follows is a visual spectacle, showing the hardships of battle.  For example the sequence where Gigi and Hathaway try to avoid a battle of mobile suits while fleeing away, as collateral damage rains down around them.  Or the distress of Emeralda as she needs to pick up valuable cargo, namely Hathaway's Gundam, in orbit, and the pressure of failing him...

 

 

A really great movie, and I look forward to the sequel next year!