Gundam More Edited than Previously Believed

The Anime No Editing Zone has discovered that besides having altered opening and ending animation sequences and digitally “modernized” animation footage, one entire episode of the original 43 episode Mobile Suit Gundam TV series has been removed from the American home video and Cartoon Network broadcast version. According to Bandai’s Charles McCarter on the Anime on DVD Forum, series creator and director Yoshiyuki Tomino personally requested that the episode be removed because it “wasn’t up to par with the rest of them.”