Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam.

Has anyone else read this manga?



It's a follow up to the movie Gundam F91, and I quite enjoy it. To a certain extent, it reminds me of elements of Zeta, with the former protagonist becoming a
mentor of sorts of a new one. It's written by Yoshiyuki 'Kill 'em All' Tomino, who wrote most of the Universal Century epics, and illustrated by Yuichi Hasegawa.

Plot

Universal Century (UC) 0133. Ten years after the events of the Cosmo Babylon Wars depicted in F91, 13 year-old protagonist Tobia Arronax is a transfer student from Earth heading to the Jupiter colonies aboard the Smashion Jovian transport ship. When space pirates of the Crossbone Vanguard attacks the Smashion with their ship, the Mother Vanguard, Tobia willingly sorties out in a Jovian mobile suit to hold them off. Unfortunately, he is captured by Crossbone Vanguard ace pilot Kincaid Nau and brought before their leader Berah Ronah, who offers him a choice: either head straight to Jupiter and forget what has happened or join them to discover the truth. Tobia hesistantly joins with the pirates, but little does he know the Vanguard's agenda is one of resistance than of piracy.

In reality, the Jovians have been secretly building up their military for years, forming the Jupiter Empire, with the goal of Earth Sphere domination. Their ruthless leader Crux Dogatie maintains a façade of partnership with the Earth Federation, so as to avoid suspicion by the Federal government. Learning the truth, Tobia allies with the Crossbone Vanguard, and under Kincaid's tutelage, becomes one of their most prominent pilots, while using the XM-X2 Crossbone Gundam X-3, while slowly developing his Newtype abilities.

If you're interested, you can download the whole six volumes of it here.

Never read it.

But I've seen the that Gundam enough in hobby magazines and websites that I'm getting curious.

Thanks for posting.