Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel (manga) volume 1

The volume release for Ecole du Ciel is here after 10 months of us beginning this project. Feels a little wrong, but whatever. A lot has happened since then. Hichi's accident, the launching our Patreon, among other things. In undoing the sins of Tokyo-Pop Hichi has declared that the original version of volume 1 was roughly 60% accurate. She also observed that the people who worked on it clearly had no knowledge of Universal Century lore and it showed. I translated the bonus content myself, due to Hichi's accident and not wanting to create extra work for her. So my own editing and translation skills may be a bit jarring or notably worse.

Asuna's journey starts with humble beginnings. I hope you're excited to see where it goes from here. The first arc of this manga encompasses twenty-two chapters, so we're nearly a quarter of the way there.

No reading order for this post, since this is just a volume of the manga. Though you can find the reading list on the chapter release pages. Stay tuned for a bonus post relating to this release at some point in the near future.

The year is Universal Century 0085, 5 years have passed since the end of the most devastating war mankind has ever seen. Asuna Elmarit is a Zeon exchange student at the Earth Federation's pilot school in Montreal. Despite showing poor skills as a mobile suit pilot, her future and her mother's future rests on how well she does in school. Asuna soon finds herself caught in between her school work and the dark machinations at play as the Universal Century once again slowly moves on the path to yet another war, with the school in danger of being swallowed up by it.

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