Cucuruz Doan’s Island
Doan vs. the Southern Cross Corps
The latest Gundam movie’s nostalgic lens on the original show did more than just have a chance to bring justice to a much-maligned episode of the original 1979 animated series, it delivered an incredible Zaku versus Zaku fight for the ages in the last-act battle between the deserting Doan and his former, horrifying comrades in the elite Southern Cross Corps unit. A brutal fight scene that sees Doan defend his new family by carving through his old one, no matter the cost to his soul, it’s a perfect balance of the kind of electrifying action you only could’ve dreamed of in the original show—while still showing the tragedy and horror of war that Gundam’s thematic core has always been about.
