Kidô senshi Gandamu: Gyakushû no Shâ (1988)

Director:

Yoshiyuki Tomino

Writer:

Yoshiyuki Tomino (writer)

Release Date:

4 January 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | War

Plot:

Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settle their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War.

Plot Keywords:

Charisma | Manga | Meteor | Hong Kong | Giant Robot

Cast

Tôru Furuya	...	Amuro Ray
Shûichi Ikeda	...	Char Aznable
Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Bright Noah
Maria Kawamura	...	Quess Paraya
Nozomu Sasaki	...	Hathaway Noah
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Gyunei Guss
Mitsuki Yayoi	...	Chan Agi
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Nanai Miguel
Fuyumi Shiraishi	...	Mirai Yashima Noah
Shingo Hiromori	...	Astonage Medos
Shinobu Adachi	...	Kayra Suu (voice)
Kazue Ikura	...	Rezun Schneider
Keiko Han	...	Lala Sun
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alaina Burnett	...	Cheimin Noah (voice: English version)
Louis Chirillo	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Trevor Devall	...	Adenaur Paraya (voice: English version)
Brian Dobson	...	Space Port Attendent (voice: English version)
Jenn Forgie	...	Nanai Mingueru (voice: English version)
Angela Hendricks	...	Kayra Su (voice: English version)
Mitsuaki Hoshino	...	Officer
Masaru Ikeda	...	Host Harness (voice)
Tatsuyuki Ishimori	...	Clop Captain
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Meran
Willow Johnson	...	Lalah Sune (voice: English version)
Chris Kalhoon	...	Bright Noah (voice: English version)
Kazue Komiya	...	Kathy
Michael Kopsa	...	Char Aznable (voice: English version)
Nicole Leroux	...	Chan Agi (voice: English version)
Jocelyne Loewen	...	Quess Paraya (voice: English version)
Dane MacFahden	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Dane B. McFahden)
David Mackay	...	Cameron Bloom (voice: English version)
Tomoko Maruo	...	Anna
Scott McNeil	...	Lyle, Shuttle Pilot, Londo Bell Technician (voice: English version)
Kirby Morrow	...	Gyunei Guss (voice: English version)
Yasuo Muramatsu	...	Kaizes M. Buyer
Colin Murdock	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Ty Olsson	...	Astonaige Medoz (voice: English version)
Poppy Ona	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Hiroyuki Shibamoto	...	Operator 2
Bin Shimada	...	Attendant
Shunsuke Shima	...	Adenauer Paraya
Yutaka Shimata	...	Yunkyard Man
Mayumi Shô	...	Cheimin Noah
Kazuyasu Sogabe	...	Captain Lyle
Brad Swaile	...	Amuro Ray (voice: English version)
Bill Switzer	...	Hathaway Noah (voice: English version)
Shunsuke Takamiya	...	Policeman
Taku Takemura	...	Operator 1
Kôji Totani	...	Tooth
Shigeru Ushiyama	...	October Saran
Cathy Weseluck	...	Mirai Yashima, Hotel Clerk (voice: English version)

Directed by
Yoshiyuki Tomino

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Yoshiyuki Tomino		writer

Original Music by
Shigeaki Saegusa

Art Direction by
Shigemi Ikeda

Animation Department
Hitoshi Abe	....	inbetween artist
Akihiko Adachi	....	inbetween artist: Group Donburi
Tôru Aida	....	inbetween artist: Studio Dub
Rieko Akasaka	....	inbetween artist
Hiroshi Andô	....	inbetween artist: Studio Wombat
Yoshinobu Andô	....	animator
Mariko Aoki	....	inbetween artist
Satoshi Aoki	....	animator
Tomoko Araki	....	inbetween artist
Kôichi Chigira	....	animator
Akihiro Enomoto	....	animator
Yasue Furuse	....	animator
Nobuyoshi Habara	....	animator (as Mamoru Konoe)
Eriko Hashimoto	....	inbetween artist: Studio AP
Nobumasa Hayashi	....	inbetween artist: Studio Mark
Futoshi Higashide	....	inbetween artist: Studio Wombat
Hiroyuki Ijiri	....	animator
Hiroyuki Imai	....	assistant animation checker
Shin'ichi Imakuma	....	animator
Yoshinobu Ineno	....	animation director
Noriko Ishihara	....	animator
Etsuko Ishiwari	....	inbetween artist: Group Donburi
Mitsuo Iso	....	animator
Yurie Itakura	....	inbetween artist: Group Donburi
Koichi Iwanaga	....	assistant animation checker
Hiroshi Kato	....	animation checker
Yoshisada Katô	....	animator
Eizô Kawada	....	assistant animation checker
Emiko Kawakami	....	inbetween artist
Toshihiro Kawamoto	....	animator
Mayuko Kikuchi	....	inbetween artist: Studio Wombat
Yoshie Kikuchi	....	inbetween artist: Studio Dub
Misako Kinoshita	....	inbetween artist
Yûki Kinoshita	....	animator
Hiroyuki Kitakubo	....	animator
Hiroyuki Kitazume	....	animation director
Hiroyuki Kitazume	....	character designer
Katsuharu Kobayashi	....	inbetween artist
Toshimitsu Kobayashi	....	animator
Toshimitsu Kobayashi	....	assistant animation director
Kôji Koizumi	....	animator
Chieko Kudô	....	animation checker
Hirohiko Kumagai	....	animator
Ryuichi Makino	....	animator
Yukihiro Makino	....	animator
Tomoyuki Matsumoto	....	animator
Shinichirô Minami	....	animation director
Tôru Misaka	....	animator
Etsushi Mori	....	inbetween artist
Yûji Mukoyama	....	animation checker
Terumi Mutô	....	animator
Shigenobu Nagasaki	....	animator
Nobuko Nakagawa	....	inbetween artist
Misao Nakano	....	animator
Miyuki Nakano	....	animator
Miho Nakata	....	animator
Kazunobu Nakazawa	....	assistant animation director
Hideki Nimura	....	animator
Yoshiko Ôbuchi	....	inbetween artist: Studio AP
Hiroyuki Ochi	....	animator
Mikio Odagawa	....	animation director
Koichi Ohata	....	mecha design
Shin'ya Ôhira	....	animator
Takaharu Okuma	....	inbetween artist: Studio Wombat
Hidetoshi Omori	....	animation director
Naoyuki Onda	....	assistant animation director
Hiromitsu Ôta	....	animator
Masanori Sakuma	....	inbetween artist: Studio Dub
Shigeko Sakuma	....	animator
Shin'ichi Sakuma	....	animator
Chiharu Sato	....	animator
Hideyuki Satô	....	animator
Keiichi Satou	....	animator
Yoshinori Sayama	....	mechanical designer
Masahiro Sekino	....	animator
Takatsuna Senba	....	animation director
Atsushi Shigeta	....	animator
Atsushi Shigeta	....	assistant animation director
Satoru Shigeta	....	animator
Takashi Shimano	....	inbetween artist: Studio Mark
Eiji Suganuma	....	animator
Katsuhiko Suzuki	....	animator
Hiroyuki Takagi	....	animator
Keiko Takagi	....	inbetween artist: Studio Dub
Chiyoko Takahashi	....	animator
Setsuko Takenouchi	....	inbetween artist
Shinsuke Terasawa	....	animator
Tomokazu Tokoro	....	animator
Norimoto Tokura	....	animator
Masaharu Tomoda	....	animator
Naoji Tsuge	....	inbetween artist: Group Donburi
Yorihisa Uchida	....	animator
Ken Ueno	....	animator
Yasuomi Umetsu	....	animator
Kôichi Usami	....	animator
Hiroyuki Yamada	....	animator
Kisaraka Yamada	....	animation director
Kenji Yamazaki	....	animator
Hiroyuki Yoshino	....	animator

Other crew
Rob Bakewell	....	talent coordinator
Robert Chomiak	....	adr writer
Yutaka Izubuchi	....	mobile suit designer

Distributors

• Cartoon Network (English dubbed)

Also Known As:

Gundam: Char's Counter Attack
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (USA) (DVD title)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Counteractive Char (literal English title)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Trivia:

The bright, multicolored Hi-zack Mobile Suit that makes its appearance inside the colony is called a 'Hobby Hi-Zack' This is a civilian use version of the rms-106 hi-zack used by the earth federation and titans during the zz gundam series the neo zeon faction also operated ones acquired during there alliance with the titans and after capturing eff bases. the one seen in cca was sold after being stripped of combat equipment and programming and sold to the public. essentially it was a surplus sale unit that hobbyists can modify and operate.

Quotes:

Amuro Ray: [Axis falling towards Earth] Gundam will have no problem pushing back that worthless piece of rock.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Megas XLR: Rearview Mirror Mirror: Part 1 (#2.12)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Beyond the Time (Mebiusu no Sora wo Koete)

Pretty good.

The Amuro-Char rivalry could not have ended better. I'm not going to say how, but the ending was totally satisfying. I also liked Bright Noa's predicament here. He's always been the flawless starship captain, and now he has to deal with his son Hathaway being underfoot. I'll leave the telling of the plot to somebody else. The ending theme, "Beyond the Time" was what got my attention the most. Wow.

The thing with this movie is that it suffers from Red Shirt Syndrome (RSS). Red Shirt Syndrome is when lots of extra characters are brought into a story and then killed off for no apparent reason other than adding to the tragedy/seriousness of the story. Red Shirt Syndrome is so named because on the original 'Star Trek', a crewmember would accompany Captain Kirk and crew down to the planet...and the red shirt wearing crewmember would be killed for no apparent reason.

Char seems to have gone through quite a bit of change in this movie. Compare this Char to the Char in the original series, and you'll see a difference. In this movie, Char begins to become like his father, Zeon Zum Deikun. He gives speeches and becomes a political figure...a change that started when he was going under the name Quattro Bagina in Zeta Gundam. On the other side, Amuro hasn't changed much. He's lost a bit of his idealism, but he's still the same Amuro. Basically.

I think that Quess and Hathaway would've made a charming couple. That's all I have to say about that.