Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Vol. 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Black Gundam ??? There was only Amuro's White Gundam in the One Year War in the ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga... Where did this Black Gundam come from ? Who was the Pilot ? And above everything, such a thing shouldn't have existed in the One Year War. The Dark Colony, there was no mention of the Dark Colony in the ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga. Then again, i don't remember Cucuruz Doan character from the ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga as well. (lol) the vol. 1 was still an enjoyable read though. Gundam (The Black One) was this scary silenthunter, a total nightmare which put the Zeon's Zaku Pilots through all kinds of hell. This was how the Gundam was from the perspective of Zaku Pilots. Yeah, the Story was told from the perspective of Principality of Zeon's Soldiers (MS Pilots) in this manga series which is a 5 volumes long companion mini series to the ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga series.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Vol. 2
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The Story shifted between the years of UC 0078 and UC 0079 in UC time line. We were curently in the UC 0079 which was the Year of the One Year War, but we were also going back to UC 0078 which was one year before the One Year War mainly in the memories of Y-02 MS Team's Pilot, Vasily of Principalty of Zeon.

Why did Cucuruz Doan, the former leader of Y-02 MS Team deserted his team in the middle of the One Year War was still a mystery. I liked, how even one of the test pilots of Zeon who betrayed his fellow comrades had a legitimate reason to betray them. It is always like this right... People have some legitimate reasons, but to achive the goals of those legitimate reasons, they do horrible things.

like making wars. lol

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Vol. 3
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After the Black Gundam, there came another White Gundam in this volume... Together with the Amuro's White Gundam, there were 3 Gundams in the One Year War then... I wonder if we will have an explanation about why the other White Gundam and the Black Gundam never even mentioned in the ''Gundam: The Origin'' main series ???

And what was that ''important reason'' behind using poisonus gas on Halla Colony that Doan and Kitz wanted to explain Vasily to convince him that it was necessary ? I really wondered what made them do something so horribly monstrous... But the Explanation never came. I liked Vasily. Cucuruz Doan supposed to be the main character of the manga, but Vasily definetly stole the show from him so far.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Vol. 4
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After the Black Gundam and the Other White Gundam, another new Gundam MS also appeared in this volume. So far there were 4 Gundam Mobile Suits active in the One Year War (including Amuro's Gundam) I really wondered what was the reason for desertion of Cucuruz Doan ?

I mean Cucuruz Doan was in the operation of killing an entire colony with poisonus gas and he killed so many civilians including elderly, women and children on the Earth Invasion of America, but there were some hints like Cucurus was fighting for the freedom of Spacenoids from the Slavery of the Earth Federation and he did what he did for this cause and now the freedom of Spacenoids purpose turned into the Taking the Control of the Earth purpose because of greed.

Cucuruz Doan certainly wasn't happy about that. I wonder there will be any cameo appearance by Amuro or Char in the Manga in the Next Volume which is the last volume. So far there was only a very small drawing of Gihren on tv in one of the panels in one of previous volumes. Other than that no one from the main series ''Gundam: The Origin'' appeared, just some of their names mentioned.

The Manga's art style was different from Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's art style in the ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga so Gihren character design was different in his small cameo and i didn't like that at all. I am glad no one else from ''Gundam: The Origin'' manga appeared so far in the ''Gundam: The Origin MSD Cucuruz Doan's Island'' Manga.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Vol. 5
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Hey ! This was super cool ! I really liked how the Story in this spin off went paralel with the Story of the Main Manga Series, especially at the last volume with the Last Battle of the One Year War, the Invasion of A Baoa Qu military space station of Zeon by Earth Federation Forces.

And finally, we learned why Cucuruz Doan deserted. He had the Most Legitimate Reason a soldier could have for desertion. I liked all the Y-02 Test Pilots Team, especially Vasily. Calca, Hjal Mar (What kind of name is this Hjal Mar ??? ) Kitz. They were all very symphatatic characters. There was no explanation in the story for why there was no information, not even a single mention about the Gundam Units other Amuro's Gundam Unit in the Main Manga Series ''Gundam: The Origin'' though.

But here in the ''Gundam: The Origin MSD Cucuruz Doan's Children'' Spin Off Manga Mini Series, there was no information, not even a single mention of Amuro or his Gundam or the White Base. So it can be taken as a Gundam Series just doesn't tell everything that is going on about the subject of its time line in its story.

Binged it in 6 days. First Binge read of the Year 2026.