MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN MSD Cucuruz Doan’s Island 1

Based on the legendary “lost” episode from the First Gundam TV series, this is the story of Cucuruz Doan like you’ve never seen it before. Created as a spinoff of original character designer and animation director Yoshikawa Yasuhiko’s own manga retelling of First Gundam in Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN, this 5-volume series explores the ramifications of Cucuruz Doan’s actions from the perspective of the Zeon soldiers under his command. Gundam veteran Junji Ohno brings us brand-new characters and a new view of the development of the original mobile suits, all with the imprimatur of Yasuhiko himself.
Series Overview: “Cucuruz Doan’s Island” was created as a spin-off of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s “Gundam: the Origin” manga, taking up and expanding a story that Yasuhiko had left out of his original series. The story of “Cucuruz Doan’s Island” originally saw the light of day as episode 15 of the original “Gundam” television show, but due to sub-par production it was omitted from later film and manga versions, and was never imported to the US at all. The story therefore has something of a legendary status in the Gundam fan community, and here Junji Ohno has expanded the core of the story into something grander altogether, with the imprimateur of Yasuhiko himself.