Huge combat robots, crashing explosions and a war for the fate of mankind: long before Michael Bay created Transformers blockbusters with these ingredients, the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam told a dark sci-fi story of trauma and guilt. With Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island, a new film to the series is finally showing in selected cinemas. The plot of the film is notorious among many fans of the series.
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In the Gundam universe, the world is at war between the so-called Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. Armuro Ray (German voice: Marco Eßer) leads a huge, new type of combat robot model called Gundam into battle as a soldier of the Federation. An order leads him to a supposedly deserted island, where he meets the deserter Doan (Florian Hoffmann). He has made it his mission to protect a group of children and their caregiver on the island. But the war soon catches up with the island.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island – Trailer (German) HD
The plot of the film has a dazzling history. The story about Doan and his island was originally the content of the 15th episode of the anime series. At the will of series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, it was never released outside of Japan. According to a report by Anime News Network Was that due to the comparatively inferior animations, for which the media site gives some bizarre examples.
Nonetheless, Tomino and art director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, who directed the feature film over 40 years later, rightly convinced of the story of the episode. On the one hand, Cucuruz Doan’s Island offers various battle scenes for action fans, but also questions the nature of war with a story in which there are no clear good and bad schemes. The film portrays bloodshed as a kind of disease that plagues combatants. And long after they have laid down their arms.
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