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Gundam Sentinel
Masaya Takahashi
Gundam Sentinel (ガンダム・センチネル, Gandamu Senchineru) is an original story which takes place in the Universal Century timeline. Set during the same timeline as Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (which is the sequel to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam), after the fall of the Titans the Earth Federation sends an expeditionary force called Task Force Alpha to deal with a group of elite Federation officers who’ve formed their own Earth-supremacist faction called the New Desides.
Conceptualized in the fall of 1987, the Japanese magazine Model Graphix began serializing a monthly Gundam novel named Gundam Sentinel. It ran from September 1987 to August 1988 and was a groundbreaking combination for a Gundam novel, featuring extremely-detailed mechanical designs by Katoki Hajime (Gundam Sentinel being his debut), paving the way to his becoming the main mechanical designer for the Gundam franchise, and the technically detailed storyline by veteran Gundam fan Masaya Takahashi, writer of the “MS Senki” comic called Gundam Sentinel: Confessions of ALICE.
The story realistically depicts Mobile Suits as military equipment rather than heroic robots. After Gundam Sentinel completed its run, Model Graphix combined all the work, and with the addition of new material, it was published as Gundam Wars III: Gundam Sentinel -The Battle of Real Gundam-. The story was republished in July 1990 as novel subtitled Confessions of ALICE.
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“We spent billions to create a machine that could perfectly calculate the logic of killing. But by watching us bleed, and by watching us weep for our fallen comrades, the machine learned the one thing we had forgotten. In the end, the only entity on this battlefield that truly understood the sacred value of a human life… was a weapon.”
▸ I’m not sure if i would call it my favorite since the MC is extremely unlike-able and frustrating to follow, but this series is up there. But within this story, possibly the best subplots within the entire Gundam franchise exists. Instead of a heroic pilot carrying the story, the real emotional hook is the experimental AI observing him. Watching a cold, calculating machine slowly learn what it means to be human simply by analyzing the flaws, fears, and frustrations of an incompetent pilot.
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