Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Review 

I hope the box office success of this movie paves way to a fully-fledged Gundam remake in the form of a complete anime adaptation of the Origin manga.

This movie (along with the origin OVA) has got me craving for a reboot of the OG series in new animation style. 🥵🥵🥵🥵

I find it funny how Yasuhiko aged up Bright from 19 to 25.

I felt the same way you did when the song Ando played in the background during the conclusion. The OST of this movie is filled with nostalgic memories.

I wish they'll animated a complete reboot of the 70's first Gundam series.

I loved this film it’s easily the third best Gundam film I watched: It’s similarly structured like DBZ movie if the action was only in the beginning & end & if the slice of life stuff was the entirety of the movie it’s YAS Eva 3.0+1.0 slice of life sequence & said @THAT BUT FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE!!!” Honestly I’m thankful towards YAS for everything he did if I had to have one selfish wish I hope he reunites with Tomino & Okuwara for one final Gundam project together. But yeah thank you for reading this comment 😇😇😇

Now that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko has retired from directing I wonder if there's any chance his Manga would be adapted by someone else.

It was actually enlightening to see a good review on this movie that explained the plot and characters well, since I did see the movie too on yt of places funny enough but with no subtitles to really explain what anyone was saying but despite the language barrier, this was still really fun to watch and my understanding of what was happening was thankfully close to what happened on screen. Overall I also really like this movie, seeing the white bas crew and even the residents of cucruruz' island was just really sweet to watch, one thing I did like was the small rivalry Amuro had with the young boy who'd help Doan on the island and eventually they settle their differences and actually have nice interactions for the rest of the movie, I thought it was nice, and I also like the southern cross unit too even if I wish more detail was given about them, especially their dynamics with Doan himself instead of being an obstacle in the end but thats just me. And just one nitpick I have with the movie is that Char, (being decently promoted before the movie came out along with an announcement of a new zaku model) was kinda there for fan service or just to get people in the seats, and yeah I get he wouldn't entirely fit in the movie to play a huge role cause he wasn't a major player until half way into the original series but just the simple 3 to t second cameo was a bit disappointing to me since he just mocks Amuro and then proceeds to buzz off, but it's just a nitpick. But yeah, really good movie, and nice review Cheems! Take all the time needed for your future uploads man, I like your stuff but other things are important too and thats completely understandable, hope you have a good one. :)

Nice review Cheems, always looking forward to more of your content. Keep it up!

good review! I watched this movie twice this week, and it was exactly what I thought it would be and what it needed to be a little adventure, celebrating the original work with the production value of Gundam The Origin I don't think it's completely inconsequential as many people are saying, you can see the impact this little adventure had on the young amuro, but regardless of that, it's a very entertaining movie, whenever I miss 0079, I will watch it again I would really like them to do the same with Zeta and ZZ, adapt some small arc or special episode into a movie format, I think that adaptations like this would satisfy the desire of people for complete remakes of those works, which I don't think they have the courage to do

Now I look forward to getting this movie, when it’s released for u.s. dvd format. I just hope that this doesn’t take forever. Great movie review.

i have literally never seen better fight scenes in gundam. ever.

10:14 GOod I was honestly worried. that Yas got cold feet about his changes to Origin M'Quve and was reverting him into Show M'Quve.

Great vid man

Great review Cheems! So to understand the Gundam The Origin continuity, do I need to read the mangas? Because I was kinda confused to see Sleggar this early in this movie as opposed to the 3 original movies.

Same feeling on all points. Amazing Adaptation.

A comment about the absence of Newtype content in the film. If I’m not mistaken the director/artist has openly stated he doesn’t like the newtype subject. He thinks that it muddled the message and themes of what gundam was about for him, which focused more on the characters and impacts of warfare.

WELL DONE MY MAN WELL DONE

Hi. I'm just getting back into Gundam and enjoying your channel. I'm watching the original series with some friends seeing it for the first time. I know this movie is based on the manga and not the show but would it spoil anything to show this to my friends after episode 14 of the show?

Spoiler reaction Loved what they did with Bright, with him struggling with the pressure behind the scenes. Fun to see people taking off without orders treated seriously, when people do it so much in gundam. Awkward Amaro is insanely cute yet feels very in character, as do all the cast. Not a fan of them completely removing Doan's backstory, it seems to create a lot of holes (where did he meet these kids, why does he care about them?) the original answered. Unsure if that change is for the better or worse. They gave him a new reason to be on the island that makes him a more generic good guy and feeds into the broader plot of Odessa. I guess his dream could be giving that backstory the way you say? The Mobile Suit Breakdown podcast raised some good points about how silly the "scent of war" bit was in the original episode, so I was disappointed they kept it in. A lack of newtype BS is good.

I feel Amuro would still have at least tried for a grab rather than... That.

I really like this movie glad you like it too, but its a bit disappointing to see that some people doesnt understand the point of this movie

Now streaming on CR!

This movie was great. Meanwhile, I'm just chilling still hoping they do an adaptation for Gundam Wing Frozen Teardrop. Gundam Wing was huge for the franchise as it was the original introduction for most people outside of Japan. It would be awesome for them to adapt the conclusion to that series.

Glad they made the zeon character a deserter.

Where do we watch the movie?

Movie opens with Doan thrashing GMs while the theme from Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla plays

I've watched this at least 2 times, it's probably the most Ghibli of all the UC movies/anime I've seen.

How can u watch this film?, as I'm unable to watch it

Is there an English dubbed version?

Where can I watch this?

Why did the gm's body explode when it got headshot ? Gm is the new leo i guess

Damn so amuro really did stomp on that guy?! I dont watch gundam that often

So they decided to run with the upside-down shield as a legit design?

The only one thing I don't like about this movie is the skating Zaku cause early MS unit better stick with running and walking for the base logic of the universe and the best thing I like about the movie is the ending song, probably the best song I've ever heard from several gundam titles I've watched up until this point

Great movie

where can you watch it legally?

I think the origin continuity should be used as a way to launch a more refined and complete UC, Round out Zeta and redo double with an inclusion of amuro and chars character progressions to where they end up in CCA. Because Beltorchika disappears, when does Londo bell get formed and why? The EF seemed pretty apathetic at the time of ZZ, could also feed the psyco frame development since we dont see the technological development, only the Nu getting put together and getting some maintenance checks, and Char looks like he instantly gave up after Zeta? Then spends the next few years getting ready for his plans in CCA. I don't know if CCA needs to be redone. You could, but it would essentially have to be a recreation. Since it's used to end gundam's arc with char and amuro. But that would be a very ambitious and costly project. I don't think think it would be done lightly but honestly, at somepoint gundam 0079 needs to be retold for gundam to be gundam. Amuro char zeon and the RX-78-2 are an iconic part of the franchise, and they need to stay relevant into the future if they are going to be used for cameos for product comercials or have derivative work from them(all the char clones and literal clones)

The movie left a question that never answered it for me Is doan better than char(oyw)?

I want Apocalypse Now meets Gundam....

Has this been legally available to watch anywhere in the states? I've searched high and low but nothing but the overpriced Blu Rays from the Japanese theater release and T0RR3NT5 are keep showing up. I'd love to buy it but not for $100+. You can buy the entirety of Zeta for $100 or even the original movie trilogy of 0079 for far less than that.

I got into gundam from watching mobile suit gundam wing and then the original gundam and then other gundam cartoons

We all know that Bianca was the real MVP of this movie

I took a peep at it and got annoyed by how it feels like a doraemon movie lol

if cgi isnt good enough to not be noticable as cgi then it fails the style of the animation . it just looks out of place and breaks the style to have an obviously 3d object in a obviously 2d style . imagine the next pixar movie cuts cost and has randomly some 2d side characters that obviously dont fit in with the rest of the world just because it would have been expensive to give them a full 3d model for the few scenes they are in. it would look awful and take you out of the experience. similarly if you use a model a lot and make it 3d to safe costs but the rest of the world is 2d it just looks awful and out of place. there are some really pretty cg anime out there. the problem is not cg itself . the problem is that it doesnt fit in and breaks the style