Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counter Attack is by far one of the best animated films I've ever seen. How ever it could have done with some things changed (Contains Spoilers) #1 Quess Paraya: Not only is she annoying but you're actually happy when she dies. #2 New Characters: It's kinda hard to care for people who die when this is the first time we're seeing them i.e. Chan and Kayra #3 Where the heck is Sayla: For any of you who have seen the original series and Zeta, not to mention read the books of Mobile Suit Gundam you know that Sayla and Amuro get together and it even says in Zeta Gundam that the two were together before Amuro was put under house arrest. Plus I think it would really add to the fire which is Amuro and Char's Rivalry if Char found out Amuro was doing his little Sister. And Last #4 Why kill off your Main people I mean Amuro and Char are by far the coolest Gundam Pilots ever.Well besides those things the film was great. It was a little slow in the middle but it was great. The Animation was great, the story was awesome, and this movie has the coolest fight between a Gundam Pilot and his Enemy Ever!!!

Tomino finally cut the kiddy stuff after the fiasco that was ZZ. Unfortunately for everyone in the united states, when CCA was released on DVD and shown on Cartoon Network, only the most die-hard fans of gundam who had gone out of their way to get their hands on illegal copies of Zeta Gundam (and in some cases the even more illusive Double Zeta Gundam) had any idea what was going on. Seeing as the final episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam were never aired in the US because of 911, and Zeta Gundam was just released as a limited edition box set, and Double Zeta will probably not see the light of day for years to come, it made no sense for them to release the theatrical climax that concludes the saga after 3 series and roughly 145 episodes worth of women dying in outer space. And lets face it. Even gundam fans in Japan hated Double Zeta so it's gonna be a looooong time for we get it in the states just to see what happened and how Haman and Mineva are killed/deposed.

The movie adaptation of "Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children", follows the novel almost to the letter. There are only a few minor differences in both versions created by Yoshiyuki Tomino. 1-Amuro Ray is engaged to Beltorchika Irma (Chien Agi in the movie) who also appears in Z Gundam. 2-Some names differ from the movie: Gyunei Guss (Glab Gas in novel), Nanai Miguel (Mesuta Mesua in novel). 3-The origin of the psycoframe is different in the novel as from the movie. The rest of the movie is pretty much exactly like the novel. In the novel Amuro's girlfriend Beltorchika is expecting a baby and the baby plays an important part in the story. In the movie it's the psycoframe Chien Agi uses that is an important part of the story. There are more things explained clearly in the book and are missed in the movie.

Char's Counterattack is a worthy climax for the saga of Mobile Suit Gundam, as started in 1979's television series. A strong story, which logically concludes the storyline started in the original, is paired off with some of the best Mecha designs ever seen on screen and some seriously good performances by the voice actors who have made these characters into careers over the last 20 years.Unfortunately, the film also contains the single most annoying character ever devised for Gundam, or even any anime. Quess Paraya, the girl you just want to reach out and strangle.