Anime movie released from Jun/2022.
It is a substantially cut and added version of the 15th episode of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, "The Island of Cruz Doan," which was broadcast on July 14, 1979, which means that it is a re-description of the TV series after 43 years.
Indeed, when I watched the TV series, I wondered why this story was suddenly included in a complete episode.
Although Cucuruz Doan is an ace pilot in the Zeon, he has doubts about the war involving civilians and the use of weapons of mass destruction, so he leaves his unit and starts living on an island with war orphans, which is carefully portrayed in this episode.
The content of this film makes us think a lot in these uncertain days.
The production team of Sunrise, the original story by Yatate Hajime and Tomino Yoshiyuki, and the director Yasuhiko Yoshikazu remain unchanged from the TV series, but the voice casts are a mixture of those who have remained the same and those who have changed over the past 43 years.
The cast members who have not changed are Amuro Ray (Furuya Toru), Char Aznable (Ikeda Shuichi), and Kai Shiden (Furukawa Toshio), while those who have changed are Bright Noah (Suzuki Hirotaka → Narita Ken), Cucuruz Doan(Tokumaru Kan→ Shunsuke Takeuchi), Mirai Yashima (Shiraishi Fuyumi → Arai Satomi), Sayla Mass(Inoue Yo → Han Megumi), etc.
