A boy with Gundam

About A boy with Gundam

At the Gundam Factory Yokohama, the short film's middle-aged protagonist watches with his family as the RX-78F00 Gundam statue take a step forward. Turning to look at the amazement in the eyes of his young granddaughter, the protagonist reminiscences back on when he was her age, inspired by the battles of the RX-78-2 Gundam to try to fight his own battles against a guard dog on his way to school. At the end of the day, he and his brother rush home to watch Mobile Suit Gundam. In the world of the Universal Century, the titular Gundam launches from the White Base hovering above Earth to fight alongside the Guncannon and Guntank. The shot of the Gundam's beam rifle is evaded by Char Aznable's Zaku II flying to the battlefield of A Baoa Qu, where Char symbolically cycles through all of his mobile suits until he and Amuro Ray's battle culminates in the Gundam and Zeong's Last Shooting. The protagonist imagines himself as part of the crew aboard the escape shuttle used by the White Base crew at the time of the finale's airing, and witnesses the return of the franchise in his junior high school years as the Zeta Gundam's Waverider mode descends from the sky to transform into mobile suit mode and engage Paptimus Scirocco's The-O and Haman Karn's Qubeley, the latter's fight continuing through Haman's confrontation with Judau Ashta's Enhanced ZZ Gundam to the delight of the protagonist and his brother watching Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ back home.

Now an adult and married to a former classmate, the protagonist's wife notices an advertisement for Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack during a drive. After having watched the movie, the married couple find amusement in the ν Gundam's climactic push against Axis mirroring their struggle to push their car back home. As time goes on and their young son takes an interest in the franchise through Mobile Fighter G Gundam, the protagonist is bewildered by the sight of the God Gundam and Master Gundam's high-energy brawling being so different from the Gundam series he grew up with. About to leave for work, the protagonist sees his son and several friends he brought from school (one of which is the protagonist's future daughter-in-law