Bright is reunited with his young son Hathaway, who was also on the escaping shuttle. The Nu Gundam is equipped with new “psycho-frame” technology, which amplifies Newtype abilities. Their space shuttle meets with Londo Bell's command ship, the Ra Cailum, which has just finished collecting Amuro's new mobile suit, the RX-93 Nu Gundam, and Amuro's close friend Chan Agi. Char is successful and the asteroid crashes into Lhasa, Tibet.Įarth Federation Prime Minister Adenaur Paraya and his teenage daughter Quess narrowly escape the crashing asteroid.
Special task force Londo Bell, whose members include veteran soldiers Amuro Ray and Bright Noa, attempt to prevent the catastrophe. As the film opens, Char's forces have arranged to drop the asteroid Fifth Luna on the Earth. In UC 0093, Char Aznable has returned to lead Neo Zeon.
Char's Counterattack was released in America on DVD on Augand was broadcast on Januon Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. In addition to being the first original Gundam theatrical release, Char's Counterattack was also the first Gundam production to make use of computer graphics during a five-second shot of the Sweetwater colony rotating in space, being made at Toyo Links. Making its theatrical debut on March 12, 1988, Char's Counterattack is the culmination of the original saga begun in Mobile Suit Gundam and continued through Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, marking the final conflict of the fourteen-year rivalry between the characters Amuro Ray and Char Aznable. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack ( Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Gyakushū no Shā) is a 1988 Japanese animated science fiction film set in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam franchise.