Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin 4: Jaburo: 04 Hardcover – Illustrated, 12 Dec. 2013

Biggest volume yet, still the same extremely high level of quality of release. Still hardcover, still ~500 pages, art is still amazing, still has great paper quality, still has the same beautiful full cover pages and it has the best cover yet.Only downside is that the translation is a bit jankier that previous volumes in my opinion but eh.Story takes a departure from the TV series/movies with the trip to Jaburo happening before Operation Odessa and this volume details White Base's first encounter with the Black Tri-Stars and Char Azanable's attack on the capital.This volume's bonus is a comic about mangaka Yokusaru Shibata visiting Yasuhiko Yoshikazu and completely fangasming over how amazing he is. It's a bit jarring because Shibata is kind of obscure in the west and his comic has references that no one would get without knowing his work, especially the last page and also the fact that there will never be a manga about real life production of the Gundam saga that isn't complete and total endless raving about how amazing the makers are, and they are, but there's a darker part to the production history that no one will ever address officially.But yeah, buy it, buy the previous ones, buy the next ones, convince everyone to do the same because we need more quality Gundam releases in the west.

I was getting the other books from my local stores but where charging £21.95 each i am looking for a job so i only have a small income so it was taking me 2 to 3 months to save up for one i looked on amazon and there at a better pricethere a great series of books i hope these keep going until the last one and don't just stop

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