The manga is based on of the original TV series. The first volume was released on the Maand the series was completed with the publishing of the 12th volume on December 17, 2015.A spinoff of the manga, titled Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin MSD: Cucuruz Doan's Island (: 機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN MSD ククルスドアンの島,: Kidō Senshi Gandamu THE ORIGIN MSD Kukurusu Doan no Shima), was written by Junji Ōno and serialized in on June 25, 2016, 10 years after the original manga's serialization and currently collected to 4 tankobon volumes. This retelling cuts out some of the more trivial encounters seen in the original series, while keeping and expanding on important characters like Garma, and the Black Tri-Stars.

Where it's implied that the White Base's journey to Jaburo in the series was pretty much a circumnavigation of the globe unconnected to many real-world locations, Yasuhiko's journey places the White Base's landfall near, the headquarters of (in the series, Garma was based out of a generic - Origin in fact states the Zeon occupation HQ as, with Garma residing in /) and moves the craft steadily to the southeast, and down the coast-past and through and into, where Jaburo, the headquarters of the Earth Federation, is located. Primary among these is the presence of mobile suits in both sides well before the conflict begins-in fact, in the flashback sequences, both the Earth Federation Forces and Zeon use Guntanks in 0068, and they and the Guncannon mobile suit are described as 'obsolete' and fit for target practice in the first volume (in the TV series proper, both the RX-75 and the RX-77 were as new as the RX-78 Gundam itself, designed to serve as long- and mid-range fire support units).Other differences concern the breadth of the Gundam's journey to Jaburo.

The story follows the crew of the warship, as they fight to ferry the experimental mobile suit to the Federation base at Jaburo.Although for the most part faithful to the original series' plot (all of the major events unfold in mostly the same manner as the TV series, though often in different locales), Yasuhiko has taken the liberty of changing certain elements in the series universe, giving a different character to the series and the struggle that unfolds.

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