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The show was written and directed by Tomino Yoshiyuki, with character designs by Yasuhiko YoshikazuManga artists Anime Gundam Yasuhiko Yoshikazu is a well-known man in the anime industry. He was born in Hokkaido in December, 1947. He dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later we, while the series' mechanical designs were split amongst Okawara Kunio , Nagano Mamoru , and Fujita Kazumi . It is well known that Tomino was suffering from clinical depression while producing Zeta Gundam, and the series reflects its creator's dark mood - many characters both good and evil die throughout the series, in what is arguably the bloodiest Gundam series.
In celebration of Gundam's 25th anniversary (and also the 20th anniversary of Zeta Gundam), this series will be compiled into a new movie trilogy in 2005. Bandai is also releasing in the US a limited edition Zeta Gundam box set that incudes several collectibles along with the full series.
In the fictional Gundam universe, the Titans were an elite counter-insurgency group formed by the Federation Council in the wake of . The group was tasked with the job of hunting down any remaining Zeon sympathizers within the earth sphere; however this objective eventually expanded to include all persons who opposed the FederationThe Earth Federation , (Chikyuu Renpou), is a fictional organization in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam anime series. The Earth Federation's heraldry is a golden or white northstar, similar to that of NATO, over a horizontaly lying crescent,.
The Titans were founded by Jamiov Hyman, who argued that the safety of the Federation displaced the civil rights of the citizens living under the Federation. In creating the Titans, he essentially created a special forces unit that had the ability to act outside the limit of Federation's supervision. As timed passed more and more people lined up to join the Titans, inspired by the group's success in repelling Anti-Federation movements.
Eventually, the Titans got overzealous in their pursuit of dissidents, and began resorting to Zeon-like tactics to force people to do their will. The Titans were called in to supress the citizens on Side 1's 30 bunch, who had originally gathered to protest Titans actions but ended up rioting. In an extremely cruel move, the Titans shut down air circulation to the colony and pumped it full of piosonous gas, killing millions. When the Federation Council refused to charge the Titans with any wrong doing, dissident citizens and soldiers both on earth and in space formed the Kabala and AEUG resistant movements, respectively.