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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Kidō Senshi Gundam: The Origin (Japanese)
機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN (Japanese)
Themes: real robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: U.C. 0068 - Zeon Zum Deikun suddenly dies while giving his speech to declare the Autonomous Republic of Munzo's independence from the Earth Federation. As Munzo falls in turmoil while the House of Zabi rises to power, Deikun's children Casval and Artesia flee the colony to Earth. In the years to come, Casval and Artesia live in secret while the Principality of Zeon develops its military power before finally declaring war in January U.C. 0079.
Ratings: 108 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 20 votes (sub:18, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 28 votes (sub:18, dub:10)
 Very good: 37 votes (sub:25, dub:11, others:1
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 15 votes (sub:8, dub:5, raw:1, others:1
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 So-so: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: 1 vote (?:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 207 s, rank: #3842 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.259 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.4232, rank: #349 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 8.260 (Very good+), rank: #306 (of 10154) (seen all: 8.33 / seen some: 8.11 / won't finish: 5.46)
Bayesian estimate: 8.175 (Very good+), rank: #237 (of 7635)
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage:
2015-02-28 (ep 1 theatrical event premiere)
2016-09-18 (Philippines, Hero TV)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Hoshikuzu no Sunadokei" (星屑の砂時計; Stardust Hourglass) by Takayuki Hattori ft. yu-yu
#2: "Kaze yo 0074" (風よ 0074) by Takayuki Hattori ft. Takumi Ishida
#3: "Eien no Astraea" (永遠のAstraea; Eternal Astraea) by Kou Shibasaki
#4: "Sora no Kanata de" (宇宙の彼方で; Beyond the Sky) by Hiroko Moriguchi
#5: "I CAN'T DO ANYTHING -Sora yo-" by Takayuki Hattori ft AYA
#6: "Hasen no Namida" by Masayoshi Yamazaki
Insert song:
"By Your Side" by Kaori Sawada (ep 2)
"Don’t Say Good bye" by Kaori Sawada (ep 5)
Trivia: We have 1
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Blue-Eyed Casval [Import][Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray 1) 2015-04-24
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Artesia's Sorrow [Import][Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray 2) 2015-11-07
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Dawn of Rebellion [Import][Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray 3) 2016-05-28
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Eve of Destiny [Import][Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray 4) 2016-11-26
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Clash at Loum [Import][Collector's Edition] (Blu-ray 5) 2017-11-10
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Rise of the Red Comet [Import][Collector's Ed] (Blu-ray 6) 2018-07-13
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Chronicle of Char and Sayla (Blu-ray 1-4) 2017-08-01 (from $56.75)
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Chronicle of the Loum Battlefield (Blu-ray 5-6) 2019-07-02
DVD (Region 1)
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Chronicle of Char and Sayla (DVD) 2017-08-01 (from $69.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Director: Takashi Imanishi
Screenplay:
Katsuyuki Sumisawa (eps 1-4)
Storyboard:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (eps 1-6)
Unit Director:
Nana Harada (eps 2, 4, 6)
Original creator:
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Original Manga: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Character Design:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Art Director:
Yukiko Maruyama (eps 1-2)
Chief Animation Director:
Takuya Suzuki (Mechanical)
Animation Director:
Yuji Ito (eps 1-6)
Mecha design:
Mika Akitaka
Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino
Cgi Director: Kiichiro Inoue
Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama
Executive producer: Hideyuki Tomioka
Producer:
Osamu Taniguchi

2DCG Works:
Natsuki Nishigai
3D Background Modeling:
Ryota Fukai
Advertising:
Takayuki Hatakenaka
Art Board:
Yukiko Maruyama (Atelier Musa)
Art Setting:
Yohei Kodama (eps 3-4)
Art Setting Assistant: Yūta Fujii (ep 3)
Artist Coordination:
Yasuyuki Hirata
Assistant Art Director: Takeshi Kodaka (eps 3-4)
Assistant Director of Photography: Ryō Iijima
Background Art:
Yusuke Mizuno (Studio Easter)
CG Assistant Producer:
Taisuke Iwakiri
CG Chief Designer:
Yoshinobu Inano
CG Producer:
Taisuke Iwakiri (ep 4)
CG Production Advancement:
Yūki Itō
CG Production Affairs:
Mariko Shiba
CG Setting Production: Enami Heishi
CG Setting Production Assistant: Yūtarō Shiraishi
Character Naming Assistance:
Tomoko Hongo
Check Recording:
Kasumi Ubukata
Color design: Nagisa Abe
Color setting:
Takako Uemura
Costume Design: Takuhito Kusanagi (Military Costume & Equipment)
Dance Scene Recording:
Tomonari Takagi (ep 4)
Display Design: Yoshinori Sayama
Distribution Manager:
Toshio Iizuka
English Supervision:
Nobuo Masuda
Homepage Production:
Tomoko Uchida
In-Between Animation:
Yukie Kaneko
In-Between Check:
Yutaka Sugiura
Insert Song Arrangement: Takayuki Hattori
Insert Song Composition:
Yuji Matsuyama ("Chi Nurareta Zabi-ke;" "Chi Nurareta Zabi-ke C1;" "Jinkou no Daichi M-1"; "Hisou, Soshite Ketsuzen to")
Insert Song Lyrics: Kaori Sawada ("By Your Side")
Insert Song Performance: Kaori Sawada ("By Your Side")
Key Animation:
Yutaka Sugiura (ep 4)
Literature Production: Tetsuko Takahashi
Music producer:
Tomoko Yamada
Music Production Assistance: Kozo Araki
Network Promotion: Masato Utsunomiya
Online Editor:
Tetsuro Tsukada
Overseas Promotion: Eri Suzuki
Paint:
Yūsuke Ishihara (Wish)
Paint Check:
Takako Uemura
Paint Check Assistant:
Yukari Kunō
Paint Manager: Yoshiki Ito
Photography:
Yuuichirou Nagata (Asahi Production)
Planning Manager: Kōji Nakajima
Planning Producer:
Shin Sasaki
Production Advancement:
Zengo Ozaki (eps 2, 4)
Production Affairs: Chie Ishige
Production Desk: Kika Tsukamoto
Recording Adjustment: Norio Nishizawa
Recording Assistant:
Shuji Suzuki
Science Fiction Research: Tsukasa Shikano
Science Fiction Setting Assistance:
Yūya Takashima
Setting Production:
Yūtarō Shiraishi
Soldier Equipment Design: Takuhito Kusanagi
Sound Effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura
Sound Production Manager:
Junko Murata
Special Effects:
Yoshitaka Murakami (ep 4)
Studio Coordinator: Chiharu Ikemoto
Subtitle Production: Shiho Inazawa
System Management:
Shunpei Kurosumi
Theater Manager:
Tōru Igawa
Theme Song Arrangement: Takayuki Hattori
Theme Song Composition: Takayuki Hattori
Theme Song Lyrics:
Yukinojo Mori (ED4)
Theme Song Performance:
yu-yu (ED1)
Title Design: Daisuke Umino
Trailer Production: Tomotaka Kawabe
Mayumi Tanaka as Casval Rem Deikun (young)
Megumi Han as Artesia Som Deikun/Sayla Mass
Shūichi Ikeda as
Casval Rem Deikun/Édouard Mass
Char Aznable

Ai Kayano as Zenna Mia
Akeno Watanabe as Kycillia Zabi
Ayumi Tsunematsu as Astraia Tor Deikun
Banjō Ginga as Gihren Zabi
Chafūrin as Jimba Ral
Eizō Tsuda as Zeon Zum Deikun
Hironori Kondō as Clamp
Hiroshi Naka as Johann Ibrahim Revil (ep 4)
Jin Urayama as Degwin Sodo Zabi
Kenta Miyake as Dozle Zabi
Kōichi Sakaguchi as Tem Ray (ep 4)
Kouichi Makishima as Don Teabolo Mass
Misato Fukuen as Fraw Bow (ep 4)
Miyuki Sawashiro as Crowley Hamon
Saori Hayami as Lalah Sune (ep 4)
Shigeo Kiyama as Ramba Ral
Tetsuya Kakihara as Garma Zabi
Tōru Furuya as Amuro Ray
Toshihiko Seki as Char Aznable (ep 2)

Akio Ōtsuka as Narrator
Asami Seto as Fang Li (ep 5)
Ayumi Fujimura as Mirai Yashima
Hideki Nakanishi as Hayato Kobayashi
Hiroshi Shirokuma as Gambler (ep 4)
Jin Yamanoi as
Gungen
Military commander
Katsuya Shiga as Agha (ep 4)
Ken Narita as Bright Noa
Kenji Fukuda as Erdush
Kenji Sugimura as Bergmann
Kenshō Ono as Yuki (ep 5)
Kōji Ochiai as Granada Mayor
Miō Tanaka as Ryu Jose (ep 6)
Mitsuru Ogata as Donovan Matgloss
Miyuki Ichijō as Roselucia Deikun
Naoki Bandō as Torenov Y. Minovsky
Naomi Kusumi as Gopp
Naomi Shindoh as
Fam Bow
Michelle Aznable
Riki Kitazawa as Tachi Ohara
Satomi Arai as Haro
Shigenori Sōya as Roger Aznable
Shigeru Ushiyama as Shuu Yashima
Shinshū Fuji as Sasro Zabi
Takeharu Ōnishi as Anaheim Electronics Plant Manager
Takumi Yamazaki as M'Quve (ep 6)
Teruyuki Tanzawa as Cozun Graham
Tomoaki Maeno as Lino Fernandez (ep 3)
Tōru Ōkawa as Tianem
Toshio Furukawa as Kai Shiden
Yoshihisa Kawahara as Slender
Japanese companies
Blu-Ray Disc Production: Q-Tec
CG Animation:
Sunrise D.I.D.
Digital Cinema Lab: Q-Tec
Distribution Assistance:
Bandai Namco Rights Marketing (ep 4)
In-Between Animation:
xenron
Key Animation:
ZEXCS (ep 5)
Materials Assistance: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Music Production: Sunrise Music Publishing
Music Production Assistance: Face Music Publishing
Paint:
Wish
Photography:
M.S.C
Planning: Sunrise
Production: Sunrise
Production Cooperation: Bandai Hobby Division
Promotion Assistance:
Kadokawa
Recording Studio:
Tokyo TV Center
Sound Production: Cruise, Inc.
special effects: Production I.G (ep 5)
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Michael Sinterniklaas
Translation: David Fleming

Adaptation: David Fleming
Additional ADR Director: Michael Sinterniklaas
Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Sevakis (Anime Limited UK release; eps 1-4)
Casting: Stephanie Sheh
Mixing:
Oscar Garcia (eps 3-4)
Production Coordination:
Stephanie Sheh
Production Staff:
Mark Simmons
Recording engineer:
Stephanie Sheh
Subtitle Timing: David Fleming
Voice Direction: Stephanie Sheh
Karen Strassman as Casval Rem Deikun (young)
Keith Silverstein as
Casval Rem Deikun/Édouard Mass
Char Aznable
Maggie O'Connor as Artesia Som Deikun/Sayla Mass

Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld as Fraw Bow (ep 4)
Amanda Schuckman as Crowley Harmon
B.J. Oakie as Tem Ray (ep 4)
Ben Diskin as Char Aznable (eps 2-3)
Bob Johnson as Dozle Zabi
Chris Niosi as Garma Zabi
David Vincent as Gaia
Doug Erholtz as Ortega
Doug Stone as Jimba Ral
Erin Fitzgerald as Zenna Mia
Jason Simon as Johann Ibrahim Revil (ep 4)
Kirk Thornton as Ramba Ral
Liam O'Brien as Gihren Zabi
Lipica Shah as Lalah Sune (ep 4)
Lucien Dodge as Amuro Ray
Marc Diraison as Zeon Zum Deikun
Marc Thompson as Degwin Sodo Zabi
Mike Pollock as Teabolo Mass
Robbie Daymond as Lino Fernandez (ep 3)
Tom Wayland as Mash
Veronica Taylor as Astraia Tor Deikun
Wendee Lee as Kycilla Zabi

Braeden Fox as Sasro Zabi
Bryce Papenbrook as Ryu Jose
Chris Hackney as Yuki (ep 5)
Danny Katiana as Shu Yashima
Edward Bosco as Tachi Ohara
Fryda Wolff as
Amuro Ray (Young; ep 2)
Mirai Yashima
Jason Simon as
Coscon
Gopp
Kevin T. Collins as Kai Shiden
Kirk Thornton as Narration
Kyle McCarley as Hayato Kobayashi (eps 5-6)
Maggie O'Connor as Garma Zabi (Young; ep 1)
Marc Thompson as Roger Aznable (ep 2)
Melodee M. Spevack as Roselucia Deikun
William Frederick Knight as Trenov Y. Minovsky

Bill Rogers (uncredited) 
English companies
ADR Production: NYAV Post
Distributor:
The Right Stuf International (USA & Canada)
Internet Streaming:
YouTube
Licensed by: Sunrise
Subtitles: NYAV Post
Korean staff
Korean companies
(none)
Distributor: Mirage Entertainment (Korea)
Korean cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
Translation, Subtitle Timing, Subtitling: Jun'Ichi Takeda
(none)
French companies
Distributor: Anime Limited () 
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: FUNimation Entertainment (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
(none)
Andrea Di Maggio as Casval Rem Deikun
Sara Labidi as Artesia Som Deikun

Alberto Angrisano as Ramba Ral
Antonella Baldini as Kycilia Zabi
Antonella Rinaldi as Crowley Hamon
Benedetta Degli Innocenti as Astraia Tor Deikun
Dario Penne as Jimba Ral
Diego Reggente as Degwin Sodo Zabi
Fabio Boccanera as Char Aznable
Gerolamo Alchieri as Zeon Zum Deikun
Luca Ward as Gihren Zabi
Manfredi Aliquò as Donovan Matgloss
Mario Bombardieri as Dozle Zabi
Mirko Cannella as Garma Zabi

Bruno Alessandro as Trenov Y. Minovsky
Davide Perino as Amuro Ray
Domitilla D'Amico as Fraw Bow
Eva Padoan as Zenna Zabi
Joy Saltarelli as Lalah Sune
Mauro Gravina as Tem Ray
Renato Cecchetto as Sasro Zabi
Roberto Fidecaro as Ortega
Italian companies
Distributor:
Nexo Digital
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: HERO TV
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: FUNimation Entertainment (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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