DO NOT WATCH THIS PLEASE WATCH THE ORIGINAL SERIES IT IS A MASTERPIECE! Gundam has a history of bad compilation movies. Both Gundam and Zeta were around 50 episodes and each got a trilogy of films that missed an extreme amount of important content, the Zeta films were especially outrageous. So turning this 50-episode show into just 2 movies was already a recipe for disaster. Turn A Gundam in my opinion is one of the greatest anime series of all time and should be watched in its entirety. The speed this film moves at is insane. You will see 10 seconds or so of a scene from anepisode and it will cut to the next scene and then repeat, so many cuts.

The characters are not introduced, we are just thrown into the story without any setup. The relationships are also affected by this as a lot of them do not feel as genuine or earned as they do in the series.

The Moonrace and Earth's communication and invasion was cut extremely short. The meeting between Dianna Counter and Guin's people was also rushed to save time. Episode 8 is completely missing and this in my opinion was one of the best episodes in any Gundam series and it has a major turning point for our protagonist that we do not see here.

Episodes 13 and 14 are also skipped and this might be the most criminal change of them all. Cutting out Will Game as a character entirely is a choice that also removes a vital development point for Dianna and to an extent Loran. This also means Teteth's proper introduction is skipped.

Lily Borjano is also hardly present in this movie which is worrying considering how an important character she is to the story. And Sochies character is done a major disservice in this as her romance subplots are barely touched upon yet we still have the second person she fell for die and it is nowhere near as impactful as in the show.

Fortunately, Turn A Gundam is such incredible source material that we still have some of the heavy scenes even if they are rushed and worse here. Sochie burying her father is still present. Dianna posing as Kihel breaking down in front of the grave is still there and impactful.

The visuals are still spectacular too, as is the soundtrack. And the final fight sequences as well as the later arc with the nuclear bomb were still an insane spectacle.

This film is carried heavily by the quality of the source material, there is no proper reason to watch this over the superior 50-episode series which is genuinely incredible