#Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway Isn’t Your Typical Gundam Show

I wouldn’t recommend Hathaway as a newcomer’s first Universal Century Gundam show, but I do think that Gundam first-timers won’t struggle with following its main plot beats, aside from a not very well-explained space-set retrieval sequence near the end. 

However, to better understand the setting and the events that directly connect to Hathaway, there’s no escaping the past. The good thing is that, instead of spending hours on the old shows, you can simply head over to the Gundam Wiki and read up on Char’s Counterattack, Beltorchika’s Children, the Earth Federation, Anaheim, NewTypes, the Universal Century setting, and the famous rivals Amuro Ray and Char Aznable. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Unicorn’s pages, along with the Dublin incident in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, can be looked at too, to get a better sense of why the Federation isn’t a “good guy.”