| Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam | |
| 機動戦士クロスボーン・ガンダム (Kidou Senshi Kurosubōn Gandamu) |
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| Genre | Military science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Illustrated by | Yuichi Hasegawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | December 1994 – March 1997 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart | |
| Written by | Yuichi Hasegawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | November 2002 – October 2004 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven | |
| Written by | Yuichi Hasegawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | July 2006 – September 2007 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (機動戦士クロスボーン・ガンダム Kidou Senshi Kurosubōn Gandamu) is a six volume manga written by Yoshiyuki Tomino and illustrated by Yuichi Hasegawa.
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Crossbone takes place ten years after Mobile Suit Gundam F91, and multiple characters from that movie return as main characters within the manga. The manga has never been officially distributed outside of Japan.
Universal Century (UC) 0133. Ten years after the events of the Cosmo Babylon Wars depicted in F91, 13 year-old protagonist Tobia Arronax/Tobias Allonax is a transfer student from Earth heading to the very affluent Jupiter Empire colonies aboard the Smashion Jovian transport ship. When space pirates of the Crossbone Vanguard attacks the Smashion with their ship, the Mother Vanguard, Tobia willingly sorties out in a Jovian Batara mobile suit holding them off as if he were a natural pilot. Unfortunately, he is captured by Crossbone Vanguard ace pilot Seabrook Arno, who has changed his name to, fittingly enough, Kinkado Now-(note: a Kinkado is a small rare bird)Kincaid Nau and brought before their leader Berah Ronah, who offers him a choice: either head straight to Jupiter and forget what has happened or join them to discover the truth. Tobia hesitantly joins with the pirates, but little does he know the Vanguard's agenda is one of resistance than of piracy.
In reality, the Jovians have been secretly building up their military for years, forming the Jupiter Empire, with the goal of Earth Sphere domination. Their ruthless leader Crux Dogatie maintains a façade of partnership with the Earth Federation, so as to avoid suspicion by the Federal government. Learning the truth, Tobia allies with the Crossbone Vanguard, and under Kincaid's tutelage, becomes one of their most prominent pilots, while using the XM-X2 Crossbone Gundam X-3, while slowly developing his Newtype abilities.
Crossbone Gundam had three sequels:
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart (2003), a single volume manga written by Yuichi Hasegawa, placed three years after the ending of Crossbone Gundam. The series consists primarily of short vignettes detailing the adventures of the Crossbone Vanguard three years after the original manga.
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven (2006). A three-volume story which takes place shortly after Skull Heart. Steel Seven introduces Bernadette's step-mother Europa, who flees to Earth to warn the Vanguard that the Jupiter Empire is building "Zeus' Wrath", a giant colony laser, in order to destroy Earth. Tobia must race against time and agents of the Empire to recover a means with which to get to Jupiter, and to recruit the best pilots he can muster for what will most certainly be a suicide mission.
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost (2011). A series currently being written, it begins 20 years after Steel Seven, during the events of Victory Gundam, and introduces a few new cast members: Font Baud, a Mobile Suit enthusiast; Curtis Rothko, a blind man working as a major member of Jupiter's special forces, Serpiente Tacon; and Belle, the daughter of one of Jupiter's leading families, and apparently Curtis's own daughter. Font Baud discovers plans for the super weapon of the Zanscare Empire, Angel Halo, and a number of Zanscare soldiers attempt to kill him to stop the leak, with Curtis and Belle arriving to save him. When the Zanscare soldiers field three Mobile Weapons, the Crossbone Gundam, after the last surviving model had been believed to have been destroyed at the end of Steel Seven, appears to save him.
The characters and mecha of Crossbone Gundam often appear in the SD Gundam G Generation video game series, although generally serving as extra content. The series also appears in 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha, part of the long-running Super Robot Wars franchise; it is the first non-anime series to be given plot significance in a Super Robot Wars game. In 2010, Crossbone Gundam appeared in Another Century's Episode: R, Super Robot Wars' action counterpart.
| Preceded by None |
Gundam metaseries (production order) 1994-2007 |
Succeeded by None |
| Preceded by Mobile Suit Gundam F91 |
Gundam Universal Century timeline U.C. 0133 |
Succeeded by Mobile Suit Victory Gundam |
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