Gundam
Reconguista in G (Japanese: ガンダム Gのレコンギスタ Hepburn: Gandamu G no Rekongisuta?), also referred to as G-Reco
(Gレコ), is a 2014 Japanese science fiction anime television
series and the thirteenth incarnation of Sunrise's long-running Gundam mecha
metaseries. Created for the Gundam 35th Anniversary celebration, it is the
first Gundam TV series
to be written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino since Turn A Gundam in
1999 and features character designs by Kenichi Yoshida of Overman King
Gainer & Eureka Seven fame. Airing in the MBS/TBS networks' Animeism
block starting in October 2014, it is the first traditional Gundam TV series to
be initially released as a late night anime.
For the
song, the first opening theme is "Blazing" by Garnidelia, and the
first ending theme is "G no Senkō" by Daisuke Hasegawa
Plot summary
The series
takes place in the timeline after Universal Century, called Regild Century
(R.C.), in the year R.C. 1014, and follows the story of a young pilot cadet
named Bellri Zenam (ベルリ・ゼナム), who is a member of the Capital Guard, an
organization charged with protecting the orbital elevator, the Capital Tower.
When the Capital Tower was under attack by a band of space pirates called the
Pirate Corps, Bellri encounters and captures a highly advanced mobile suit, the
G-Self, and its pilot, Aida Surugan (アイーダ・スルガン). Feeling an immediate connection with both the
G-Self and its pilot, Bellri was somehow able to pilot the mobile suit, which
is only operable by a few. Joining the Pirate Corps to fight the Capital Army,
Bellri and the rest of the pirates would be involved in a plot that will shake
the entire Regild Century era.
Production
Background
News of
Yoshiyuki Tomino's new mecha work was first unveiled in September 2011 under the
codename G-Reco. Prior to that, in November 2010, Tomino had previewed
an unfinished novel in the 100th issue of the magazine Gundam Ace called Hajimetai
Capital G no Monogatari (はじめたいキャピタルGの物語), which revolved around a space elevator, and had
similar characters and settings. The scenario for the show was completed and
the anime began full production in 2012.
Reconguista
in G was
officially unveiled in a Gundam 35th Anniversary event on March 20, 2014.
During the unveiling, Tomino explained that the "G" in the title
stands for "Gundam", but primarily means "ground". He also
explained that the word "reconguista" is a coined word based on the Spanish
word reconquista; however, the Japanese audience prefers a hard "g"
in the title which necessitated the change.
Staff
Gundam
Reconguista in G is
Yoshiyuki Tomino's first major original animated work since The Wings of
Rean in 2004, though he had directed a CGI short for Gundam's 30th
anniversary in 2009 called Ring of Gundam. The character designs of the
series are by Kenichi Yoshida, who had his first character designs credit in
Tomino's Overman King Gainer. The mechanical designs are by Akira Yasuda,
who previously worked with Tomino as character designer in Turn A Gundam
and mecha designer in Overman King Gainer, Kimitoshi
Yamane, who also worked with Tomino in Overman King Gainer,
and Ippei Gyōbu. Yuugo Kanno is the composer of the music.
List of episodes
| No. | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Mysterious Mobile Suit" "Nazo no Mobiru Sūtsu" (謎のモビルスーツ) |
October 2, 2014 |
| R.C. 1014: A mysterious mobile suit, G-Self, is being pursued by a group of space pirates, and the Capital Guard. The suit is captured by the pirates, and the pilot of the suit, Raraiya Monday, was captured by the Capital Guard. A week later, a class of Capital Guard Academy cadets are riding a Crown transport module up along the orbital elevator, Capital Tower, to reach space where they can conduct their first live mobile suit training. On the way up their Crown is attacked by space pirates and their mobile suits, one of which was the G-Self. Bellri Zenam, the youngest of the cadets, pilots a maintenance mobile suit to hold off the G-Self, and helped capture the pirate suit as well as its pilot, Aida Rayhunton. | ||
| 2 | "G-Self, Start Up!" "G-serufu kidō!" (G-セルフ起動!) |
October 2, 2014 |
| Capital Territory is attacked by a squadron of space pirate mobile suits led by Cahill Saint, who wanted to rescue the captured Aida. Bellri and his friend Noredo managed to rescue Aida as the structure she was being held in was damaged during the attack. Tasked with piloting the G-Self to repel the pirate attack, Bellri kills Cahill in an act of self-defense as Aida watches. | ||
| 3 | "The Pressure of Montero" "Montēro no atsuryoku" (モンテーロの圧力) |
October 9, 2014 |
| Piloting the Montero, space pirate ace pilot Klim Nick tries to once again assaults Capital Territory in an attempt to rescue Aida from its crutches. As the battle breaks out, Bellri, Aida, Noredo and Raraiya happened to be in G-Self's cockpit while testing their abilities to pilot the mobile suit. Aida succeeded in wrestling control of the G-Self from the others, who remained in the cockpit as she escape from captivity with Klim. | ||
| 4 | "Wild Dance of the Catsith" "Kattoshī ranbu" (カットシー乱舞) |
October 16, 2014 |
| Klim and Aida returned to the space pirates' mothership, the Megafauna, with the G-Self along with Bellri, Noredo and Raraiya, who are held hostage. Meanwhile, the Capital Army, the Capital Territory's new military, is officially unveiled to the public, and its first mission would be to rescue the hostages from the Megafauna. Bellri, wanting to protect Noredo and Raraiya, piloted the G-Self to put a stop to the fighting, but ended up being forced to defend himself from the Capital Army mobile suits and repelling their attacks. | ||
| 5 | "The Enemy is the Capital Army" "Teki wa kyapitaru āmyi" (敵はキャピタル・アーミィ) |
October 23, 2014 |
| The Capital Army unveils a new mobile suit, the Elf Bullock, piloted by the mysterious Mask, who leads a team to once again attack the Megafauna. After having gained the trust of the Megafauna crew, Bellri also promises to Aida that he will protect the ship in order to make up for his killing of Cahill, and once again helps fight off the attacking Capital Army mobile suits. However, Bellri and Noredo reveal that they are secretly spying on the pirates and have a plan to escape with the G-Self. | ||
| 6 | "Dellensen, A Fearsome Foe" "Kyōteki, Derensen!" (強敵、デレンセン!) |
October 30, 2014 |
| The Megafauna launches into space in order to create a distraction for the assembling Amerian Space Fleet. Dellensen Samatar, Bellri's old instructor at the Capital Guards, pits an Elf Bull to leads a squad of mobile suits to once again attack the Megafauna to try to rescue Bellri. Unbeknownst to Dellensen, the G-Self was actually piloted by Bellri, and the two engaged in combat. The two eventually discovered each others' identities, but it was too late as Bellri shoots Dellensen's Elf Bull down, killing his old instructor in the process. | ||
| 7 | "The Mask Corps's Fierce Assault" "Masuku butai no kyōshū" (マスク部隊の強襲) |
November 6, 2014 |
| Frustrated with the increasingly power of the Capital Army, as well as their militaristic behavior, and in order to see her son Bellri, director of the Capital Tower Wilmit Zenam decided to flee to Earth on a small aircraft, but with no space suits to put on. Meanwhile, a new attack squad was being formed by the Capital Army, composed of Kuntala and led by the enigmatic Mask. Their mission was once again to attack the Megafauna. Mask and his squad attacked as Raraiya was piloting the G-Self during a test flight, and with the Capital Army winning the battle, a powerful Amerian mobile armor, the Armorzagan, made an appearance in the battlefield and forced the Capital Army mobile suits to flee. | ||
| 8 | "Mother, Father and Mask" "Chichi to haha to masuku to" (父と母とマスクと) |
November 13, 2014 |
| Mask's forces pull away from attacking Megafauna's mobile suite due to the sudden attacks by the appearance of a Amerian mobile armor. Ameria army of Mick Jack's test machine, Armorzagan, holds off Mask's Forces as Amelia Army inspector general Gusion that appears with supply force traveling to the Megafauna. Bellri to be surprised to know that it is the father of Aida. The Inspector General's supply task force refit's G-Self's damaged flight pack with an experimental flight pack called the "Tricky Backpack", which gives Bell's G-Self new capacities to interfere with a mobile suit electronics. Aida's takes her G-Arcane is regulated to the escort her father by riding with his transport aircraft. However, she suddenly abandons her father when they detect an emerging of unidentified machine intercept from Capital Tower direction. Mask struggled against the G-Self's Tricky Pack equipment, find himself having to abandon the battle. Meanwhile, Aida pilot's her G-Arcane to limits of her machine's flight capacity higher altitudes try to intercept unknown object. Unknown to Aida the unidentified machine she is try to intercept is Bell's mother. After conclusion of the battle with Mask, Bellri rushed G-Self to aid Aida, but soon discovers inbound orbital glider is his mother. Bell manages to restraint Aida and catches the glider and brings it safely back to the Megafauna. Capital Tower Operation Director Wilmit Zenam (Bellri's mother) meets face-to-face with Gusion on Megafauna, is given her explanation of his nation's motives as posing as pirates and reviving forbidden technologies. Zenam find it hard to believe, however Aida presents photos of illegal actives accruing around the Moon. Wilmit becomes distruated and tells Bellri and the other former kidnap victims that their returning to the capital. Elsewhere, Manny who was aboard the Garanden is a recruit of Capital Army and serves as volunteer on the warship. She encounters Captain Mask after arriving from his defeat. Though he does not admit it, but Manny becomes aware of Captain Mask's true identity. | ||
| 9 | "The Megafauna Heads South" "Megafauna minami e" (メガファウナ南へ) |
November 20, 2014 |
| Thanks to Bellri's suggestion, the Megafauna decided to head to the Capital Territory to gain more information about the coming conflicts. The ship would come under attack from the Capital Army but manages to fend them off. Through Wilmit's connections, the Capital Guard, led by Lieutenant Kerbes, escorted them to a hiding place. | ||
| 10 | "Escape From Territory" "Teritorī dasshutsu" (テリトリィ脱出) |
November 27, 2014 |
| Having been discovered by the Capital Army, the Megafauna escapes from Capital Territory while being pursued by the Capital Army officer, Becker Shadam. The G-Self helps protect Aida and her G-Arcane while defeating Becker. The ship then launches into space in order to investigate the rumored threat from the moon. | ||
| 11 | "Entering the Space War" "Totsunyū! Uchū sensō" (突入!宇宙戦争) |
December 4, 2014 |
| With both the Capital Army and the Amerian Army greatly boosting their space forces as well as the perceived threat from the moon, a space war is brewing. A squad of mobile suits from the Capital spaceship Garanden, led by Mask, sorties to attack the Megafauna in space, but was fended off by Bellri and the G-Self. | ||
| 12 | "Capital Tower Occupied" "Kyapitaru· tawā senkyo" (キャピタル・タワー占拠) |
December 11, 2014 |
Amerian
Army's fleet battles the Capital Army. After withdrawal of Capital Army
forces, the Amerians quietly occupies the top of the Capital Tower and
holds the Pope captive. However, unknown forces attacks one of the
Amerian Army from Luna orbit.
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