Mobile suit Gundam, the origin
Subtitle: Jaburo
By: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko ; original story by Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate ; mechanical design by Kunio Okawara ; [translation, Melissa Tanaka]
Contributors: Tomino, Yoshiyuki, author; Yadate, Hajime, author; Tanaka, Melissa, translator
Edition: First edition, Collector's edition.
Publisher: Vertical
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9781935654988
Subjects: Space warfare; Graphic novels; Mecha (Vehicles); Life on other planets; Space colonies; Translations into English; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Jaburo; Mobile suit Gundam, the origin.; Origin.; Aizouban mobile suit Gundam, the orgin.
Work titles: Kidō senshi Gandamu ji orijin
Description: "In a civil war, half of humanity has been wiped out, and Zeon's army of Zaku mobile suits have been the decisive weapon. With the Federation's first Gundam out of action, civilian Amuro Ray miraculously stumbles on a second unit. Now, in control of a machine with unparalleled destructive power, will Amuro's actions save the colony's survivors or destroy them?"--Amazingfantasycomics.com.
Notes: "First published in Japan in 2008 by Kadokawa Corporation, Tokyo"--Colophon.

"Originally published in Japanese as Kidou Senshi Gundam THE ORIGIN volumes 7 and 8 in 2003, 2004 and re-issued in hardcover as Aizouban Kidou Senshi Gundam THE ORIGIN IV--Jaburo in 2008, by Kadokawa Shoten Co., Ltd."--Colophon.

This book reads from right to left.

Includes original color pages and additional essay and illustrations by Yokusaru Shibata.

Translated from the Japanese.