Gundam light novels
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Hi there, as far as I know there is a bunch of gundam light novels and none of them have been translated in english.
I for one would like to read them.
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Information from the copies I just pulled off of my bookshelf.
Author: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Translator: Frederik L. Schodt
Imprint: Ballantine/Del ReyTitles:
Mobile Suit Gundam: I Awakening ISBN: 0345357388 Sept 1990
Mobile Suit Gundam: II Escalation ISBN: 0345357396 Nov 1990
Mobile Suit Gundam: III Confrontation ISBN: 034535740X Feb 1991Technically these aren't Light Novels as we now know them, as no illustrations.
Now, if these aren't part of what you are interested in, more details would be good.
Even if they are...I'll concede they're likely out-of-print. -
As the poster above mentioned, the original Gundam novels ARE available officially in English, but say, the Wing novels for Frozen Teardrop are not and I don't think any group ever even tried translating them
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Gundam light novels:
Information from the copies I just pulled off of my bookshelf.
Author: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Translator: Frederik L. Schodt
Imprint: Ballantine/Del ReyTitles:
Mobile Suit Gundam: I Awakening ISBN: 0345357388 Sept 1990
Mobile Suit Gundam: II Escalation ISBN: 0345357396 Nov 1990
Mobile Suit Gundam: III Confrontation ISBN: 034535740X Feb 1991Technically these aren't Light Novels as we now know them, as no illustrations.
Now, if these aren't part of what you are interested in, more details would be good.
Even if they are...I'll concede they're likely out-of-print.I think that I still have those; I remember purchasing them as they were released, at least. Those three books are still available as a 3-in-1 omnibus book from Stonebridge Press (says Amazon).
As for other Gundam novels (LNs or otherwise), I don’t even know that they exist. :)
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Gundam light novels:
Technically these aren't Light Novels as we now know them, as no illustrations.
That's what I'm talking about, but I think barely any have been translated from the link I posted below
@Ingraman said in Gundam light novels:
As for other Gundam novels (LNs or otherwise), I don’t even know that they exist. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gundam_manga_and_novels
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@ManusDei said in Gundam light novels:
@Ingraman said in Gundam light novels:
As for other Gundam novels (LNs or otherwise), I don’t even know that they exist. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gundam_manga_and_novels
There is quite a few :)I’ve still got the 9 volumes of Mikimoto Haruhiko’s MSG École du Ciel that TP translated. I’d like to see someone translate more volumes. Did it conclude in Japan? I know that there are more books.
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (1992-1995) by Kazuhisa Kondo. A later adaptation of the original series.
Viz Communications published this in four volumes, which I also just happen to have on the bookshelf.
William Flanagan was the translator.
December 2001-April 2002 publication dates for the first printings.I should reread all of these sometime, to justify having retained them if naught else.
Japanese Wikipedia Gundam Article provides greater detail concerning the various works.
小説/富野由悠季 朝日ソノラマ【全3巻】/ 角川書店 1979年–1981年 is the work published by Ballantine/Del Rey I mentioned previously.
「機動戦士ガンダム0079」 近藤和久 メディアワークス【全12巻】 1992年-2005年 appears to be the work I mention earlier in this post; I haven't checked to see if Viz released the additional volumes beyond the four I currently own. Ah, Viz only released nine volumes; that's still five more than I currently own.
