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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The franchise bearing the name Gundam can be considered the Anime equivalent of Star Trek. In 1979, a planned 52-episode series got cut down to 43 due to low Ratings,[context?] Mobile Suit Gundam (Kidou Senshi Gundam in Japanese) became easily one of the two most well-known and long-running series of the Humongous Mecha genre (the other most well-known being Macross) Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it's a veritable merchandising empire encompassing manga and video game tie-ins, plastic models and toys, theme park rides, and race team sponsorships. The comparisons to Star Trek line up in the rousing success of reruns, movies and the sequel series Zeta Gundam, which solidified its status as a franchise, and where a Western show would have a Trekkie, a Japanese show is likely to include a Gundam fanatic. Theme-wise, however, the franchise could be considered an antithesis of what Roddenberry's work represented: Where the future of Star Trek is one of idealistic explorers who meet strange and exotic aliens, the future of Gundam is one where mankind rarely reaches beyond Jupiter and continues to kill each other in new and horrifying ways, never meeting any species that did not originate on Earth and weren't created by humans. |
