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12 unusual facts about Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam


Ballute

In the animated Gundam series, ballutes are used for ships or mobile suits to reenter Earth's atmosphere, as seen on Episode 11 of Zeta Gundam ("Entering the Atmosphere").

Gundam Mk-II

II (in RX-78-esque AEUG colors) is a conservative, no-frills design in Zeta Gundam.

The RX-178 Gundam Mk-II are three prototype mobile suits developed by the Titans, an elite special unit of the Earth Federation forces, in UC 0087 - the first Gundam units seen in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.

A collaborative design created by Kunio Okawara, Mamoru Nagano, and Kazumi Fujita, it is featured prominently as protagonist Kamille Bidan's mobile suit in the first half of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and used by various secondary characters throughout the rest of that series and its sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

The AEUG eventually launch a full-scale attack on the Earth Federation's assembly at Dakar, leading to an Earth Sphere civil war.

Majority of the series' background music were written by Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa.

MS-06 Zaku II

First appear as part of Mobile Suit Variations and later got animated in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, design by Kunio Okawara.

The design of the Zaku II influenced the later designs of the RMS-106 Hi-Zack in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and AMX-011 Zaku III in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.

Psyco Gundam

Two Psyco Gundams, the original and its Mark II successor, appeared in Zeta Gundam.

The animation incarnations were designed by Kazumi Fujita (original work by Katsuji Murakami), and have appeared in both Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and its sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, both by the antagonistic Titans force, and later, the Neo Zeon movement.

Travis Milne

He is also a voice actor, notable for being the new voice actor of Kamille Bidan, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, replacing Jonathan Lachlan-Stewart in the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games.

Z Gundam

Although the unit was seen receiving minimal damage in the end of Zeta, it is portrayed as a battle-worn unit in the beginning of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ when the main character Judau Ashta is seen stealing it from the hangar of the Argama.


Gihren no Yabou

The game's graphics are rendered in 2.5D in line with PSP hardware constrains, Also, unlike its predecessor 'War Of Independence', the game features conflicts from the One Year War (including the events of MS IGLOO) to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (with some events that occurred during the spinoff manga Advance of Z: Flag of Titans), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, and the events that take place during Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.