Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam

Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam

Cover of Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Volume 1
機動戦士クロスボーン・ガンダム
(Kidou Senshi Kurosubōn Gandamu)
Genre Military science fiction
Manga
Written by Yuichi Hasegawa
Published by Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Shōnen Ace
Original run December 1994March 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 2002October 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 2006September 2007
Volumes 3
Manga
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost
Written by Yuichi Hasegawa
Published by Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Gundam Ace
Original run November 2011 – ongoing
Volumes 5

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 series written and illustrated by Yuichi Hasegawa, first serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace magazine from December 1994 to March 1997. A sequel to the animated theatrical film Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Crossbone has never been officially distributed outside of Japan.

Plot

In Universal Century (UC) 0133, ten years after the events of F91, Crossbone Vanguard forces attack a transport ship called the Smashion as it heads to the space colonies run by the Jupiter Empire. Tobia Arronax, a 13-year-old boy aboard the ship, flies out in a Batara mobile suit to fight the Crossbone Vanguard, who have long been derided as space pirates. Unfortunately, he is captured by Crossbone Vanguard ace pilot Seabook Arno, who now goes by the name Kinkedo Nau and brought before their leader, Berah Ronah, who offers him to join the Vanguard or go to Jupiter and forget the attack.

Tobia decides to be with the Vanguard, who reveal to him that the Jupiter Empire has spent several years building up its military strength to destroy the Earth Federation, with whom it has a partnership. Now armed with this information, Tobia is trained in mobile suit piloting by Kinkedo and to discover his own Newtype abilities. He flies into action as pilot of the XM-X3 Crossbone Gundam X-3 mobile suit.

Characters

Sequels

Crossbone Gundam had three sequels:

Crossbone Gundam in Other Media

The characters and mecha of Crossbone Gundam often appear in the SD Gundam G Generation video game series. The series also appears in 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha, part of the long-running Super Robot Wars franchise; it is the first non-animated 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.

The animated series Gundam Build Fighters has one of the participants in the Gunpla Battle Championships, Mao Yasaka, fielding a version of the Crossbones called the XM-X9999 Crossbone Gundam Maoh.

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Preceded by
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Gundam metaseries (production order)
1994-present
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Gundam Universal Century timeline
U.C. 0133,136,153
Succeeded by
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam