


Seeing his potential, Bright Noa assigned the reluctant Amuro to the Gundam and repeatedly sent the boy out against Zeon forces.īright Noa - Bright is a loyal and dedicated soldier both in war and peace. Unfortunately, due to his lack of experience, Amuro also blew a huge hole in the colony cylinder, nearly destroying Side 7 in the process. Using his intuition and reading the manual, Amuro manages to start up the Gundam and defeat the two attacking Zaku mobile suits. In sheer desperation, Amuro ended up piloting the RX-78-2 Gundam to defend his home. When Char Aznable sent a group of Zeon mobile suits in a reconnaissance mission on Side 7 (with the purpose of gathering information on the Project V), one of the new recruits from the squad decided to attack the colony. This trend continued into the One Year War period. His neighbor Fraw Bow took it upon herself to take care of him. Amuro became a social misfit and kept to himself, spending most of his time at home building and repairing gadgets. Once Amuro and his father made it to space, Tem was often not home for long periods of time. When Amuro reunites with his mother during the One Year War there is some animosity between them, as Kamaria could not tolerate her son taking part in the violence of a military life. Though Amuro's father wanted his mother to come with them, she declined (it was implied that she was having an affair at the time). Amuro is a talented amateur mechanic, who spends a lot of time in building different mechanical parts with little social interactions with other people.īorn on Earth in Prince Rupert, Canada, Amuro's early childhood was spent on the planet with his parents, Tem and Kamaria Ray, until Amuro's father was called up by the EFSF to do weapon research under the guise of colony construction.
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At the beginning of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, Amuro is merely a 15-year-old civilian, along with his friends Fraw Bow and Hayato Kobayashi, living in Side 7, one of the few space colonies untouched by the One Year War at the time. Scrambling everything they can, the White Base sets out with her newly formed crew of civilian recruits and refugees in her journey to survive, and unknowingly, change the course of the war.Īmuro Ray - The hero of the series, Amuro is the son of Tem Ray, the project leader for the Earth Federation's Project V, which produces the prototype mobile suits Gundam, Guncannon, and Guntank to combat the Principality of Zeon's Zaku. Out of desperation, teenage boy Amuro Ray accidentally finds the Federation's new weapon-the RX-78 Gundam, and neutralizes the situation. A Zeon reconnaissance team member disobeys mission orders and attacks the colony, killing most of the Federation crew and civilians in the process.

However, they are closely followed by Zeon forces.
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The series begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the White Base, arriving at a secret research facility located at the Side 7 colony to pick up the Federation's newest weapon. After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called mobile suits. The conflict has directly affected every continent on earth, also nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. Set in a fictional universe in the Universal Century year 0079, the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a One Year War. However, the final episode of the series eventually aired on Toonami's " A Night of New Years Eve-il" special on January 1, 2002. It was abruptly pulled from the block before it could complete its run.

The English adaptation aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's Toonami programing block from J to September 12, 2001. The series was broadcast in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network between Apand January 26, 1980. However, the staff was able to negotiate a one month extension to end the series with 43 episodes. It was originally set to run for 52 episodes but was cut down to 39 by the series' sponsors. The anime was not popular when it first aired in Japan, and in fact came close to being cancelled. The anime is licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment which produced an English adaptation. Janu Mobile Suit Gundam is a Japanese anime series created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Sotsu Agency, and Sunrise.
