S4 065: Happy Birthday Gundam! A Giant Robot Celebration

On April 7th--today--my favorite anime, and one of the greatest dramas in Japanese history, Mobile Suit Gundam (1979). Although most Americans wouldn't get to enjoy and appreciate Gundam until around the time the franchise was celebratring its 20th anniversary as one of the most widely revered, influential, and iconic giant robot animes, largely in part Cartoon Network's March 2000 debut of the mega-hit Gundam Wing (which ironically always premiered in Japan on April 7th, 1995), Gundam is now 44 years old. Let's talk about my favorite anime ever that in part inspired the likes of Macross, Evangelion, Code Geass, Darling in the Franxxx, and more, and still continues to move.