Tomino said G Reco takes place 500 years AFTER Turn A
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August 27, 2015by
rockmanshii
The G Reco cap that Tomino wears won’t be commercialized.
Tomino was invited the 27th of August 2015 (today) at the Gundam Café for an event. Bell’s seiyuu Ishii Mark was there too. They talked about Gundam in general. It was streamed online but it was blocked outside Japan so I didn’t watch it. On twitter
#Gレコ, there’s some impressions and quotes by Tomino picked by people who watched the event, I mainly picked stuff from
this account.
“There’s toilets because you’d want to go to the toilet and it can’t be helped.”
“People don’t grow up if they stay in friendly lukewarm environments”
Yoshida once said Bellri is called like that because he’s the child who RINGS THE BELL (to warn you about the problems tackled in the show etc.)
“I always disliked Ishii kun’s voice.” TOMINO STUCK THE TROLL THROTTLE ON FULL THROTTLE (do kids on the net these days still use this expression? I try not to swear, so I’m trying to find other ways to show my excitement and how hilarious all of this is)
Twitter guy says Tomino is currently working on compilation films. (I actually just wrote “Tomino is working on compilation movies” at first, before correcting it. I almost started reporting stuff without verifying it, like french tv news channels, how disgusting.)
“One cup of whisky per week keeps the doctor away” Suuuuuuuuuuuure.
“I go mad in my own fantasy world 30 minutes after I start working” And something about skinship with women or whatever. Maybe translating Tomino actually talking is as hard as translating Tominospeak.
“I keep looking at AKB girl’s legs. The space between their knees and their skirts” (so the zettai ryouki)
“While there’s some characters I want to reject completely by their designs, Yoshida’s work on the show is 75-80 points. It’s lukewarm.”
Tomino’s favorite design in the show is the spacesuit. I love them too as it’s always hilarious how they can’t zip the crotch area.
“I’d like to keep trying hard at work a bit more” Twitter guy says it means he’s doing compilation movies.
Ishii: “I’m really happy to have worked on G Reco”
“In G Reco, the definition of a Newtype is being aware of your surroundings and acknowledging your relationships. Being modest, reasonable and with individuality.”
“I can’t watch other people’s Gundam shows. Why other people are making Gundam shows too. If I was making them all things wouldn’t be like this now. Because I feel this pain, I will never ever watch the other shows. But I wouldn’t have broadened my horizons if things didn’t go that way. So in a sense it’s nice.”
“Gundam shows made by other people are crap, including Origin.”
“I’m the one who gave the go sign to Imagawa to make G Gundam. It was supposed to be a breakthrough but it ended up being whatever.”
“There’s a person who’s the copyright holder of Gundam… Don’t look at me. If I was the copyright holder, this Gundam Café wouldn’t even exist. Or it would have more girls”
“I don’t think people who post on 2ch are THAT stupid.”
“G Reco takes place 500 years after Turn A.” I don’t know when he decided that but if he really was planning to do this from the start, it explains why he said “Reguild Century was supposed to be a sequel to UC, but it didn’t turn out like that” in the other interview I posted about.
“G Reco is doing the opposite of the Chinese army, it has a more realistic feel that Turn A didn’t have”
“I think I failed raising it. It doesn’t align with my ideals. I’m sorry.”
Something about Mt Fuji growing, or being slightly bigger in the show. I have no idea what he means for a bit now.
Bell’s seiyuu and Tomino get along very well. He doesn’t think Ishii kun is special though.
“The G Lucifer has a functioning Moonlight Butterfly. The technology was preserved after Turn A. I like to think that hopefully no one crazy like in Turn A’s era will pop up to misuse it”. G LUCIFER CONFIRMED FOR HAVING MOONLIGHT BUTTERFLY.
“I hate anime with bad animation” at least that’s one thing consistent with the other interview.
“Why is there Gundam shows where they don’t show the mouths moving when they talk” But then he apologized for saying that.
On Seed: “There’s no way a beautiful woman with a big chest would be a battleship captain”
The twitter guy also commented on how this “G Reco is after Turn A” twist is similar to the “Gothicmade is after Five Star Stories” twist that Nagano recently, and that Tomino really is Nagano’s teacher.
Twitter guy also thinks that if you want to believe in the thing that said that every single Gundam show (including Seed, 00 etc) takes place before Turn A, it means that the Gundam world is in a time loop or whatever.
That’s all the funny or interesting things I saw.
So Tomino just retconned that pamphlet supposedly saying G Reco is before Turn A that was distributed when G Reco started airing. Or maybe they published that as marketing without asking his opinion. Or maybe he just wants to screw with Sunrise. It’s probably this yeah. In any case this is really fun and I’m looking forward to seeing people who overly care about canon getting mad.
Anyway, most Japanese authors don’t really care about canon, best example of this is Leiji Matsumoto, so while I’m surprised about this, I’m not too surprised. (I always try to be Japanese like and put the family name first, so, Matsumoto Leiji, but it’s not his real name anyway so I don’t do it. Same thing with Go Nagai.)
We were all blinded by this paper, but even when watching the show, it actually makes more sense that it takes place after Turn A. Since Ameria is also in Turn A, it would make more sense that it’s still there a few hundred years later, rather than surviving Moonlight Butterfly and thousands of years. Same with everything else.
IMPORTANT EDIT: Nevermind about some of the stuff above.
Some Japanese guy on twitter took the pics above of the pamphlet distributed before G Reco aired on TV. The one distributed at the first episode screening event, and that everyone said that it was written on it that “G Reco is before Turn A”. The paper actually never said that. It was just a rumor that spread, and I feel shameful for never actually verifying the info until now. I feel very shameful, I thought to myself I’d stop believing rumors and spread them but I fell into the trap once again.
The pamphlet says that “G Reco takes place after the Correct Century depicted in Turn A” .
Tomino actually didn’t even retcon anything.
Edit again:
Gyoubu Ippei: “I think it’s wonderful that the giant wall saying that “any Gundam work leads to Turn A” was just swept away like that. It’s like we’re back before Turn A existed now and there’s no ending anymore.”
Akiman: “So G Self is actually the strongest in history?”
Judging from this even some staff members didn’t know about it, which is why some books etc printed when G Reco was airing had the error that it takes place before Turn A.