No Spoilers Thoughts on the new Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway Film

Finally had a Gundam film showing at a theater close to where I live after like 30 years of watching this franchise Thursday night I saw Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nypmh Circe in theaters. It's a weird experience seeing a new release from a franchise that's meant a lot to you throughout your life in theater for the first time. I don't wanna retread old posts too much but but growing up incredibly poor in the 80's/90's, one of the few TV channels I could reliably watch with an on-top-of-the-TV antenna was my local PBS station, KTEH which had been spearheading a project to get anime that had never been aired in the states before. Many franchises had their US-first debut on this small, arguably "lesser" PBS affiliate (KTEH was a 'joke' compared to KQED in San Francisco) most notably Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain but also the original Mobile Suit Gundam, aka 0079. This means I have got into Gundam early in its Western availability but watched predominantly in…