Yasuo Ohtagaki has announced that his Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga will be ending after eight more chapters. The series recently entered its final arc and returned from hiatus on June 13.
The series entered its final arc on May 29. Ohtagaki launched the manga in 2012. It has inspired multiple anime adaptations, one of which is available now on Crunchyroll. The manga has previously gone on hiatus due to the author’s health issues. It is currently unknown when the manga’s final chapter will release.
Crunchyroll describes the story of the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt anime:
It is Universal Century 0079, at the end of the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.
The space colonies of Side 4, or Moore, were previously destroyed by a Zeon attack, and many colonists lost their lives. Side 4 became a shoal zone filled with the wreckage of destroyed colonies and warships, lit by constant flashes of lightning due to collisions between electrified debris. It soon came to be known as the “Thunderbolt Sector.”
The Moore Brotherhood, an Earth Federation Forces unit made up of surviving citizens from Moore, set out to exterminate the Zeon forces in the Thunderbolt Sector in order to reclaim their homeland. To halt the Federation advance, the Zeon forces deployed their own Living Dead Division, which was established to collect combat data on soldiers with prosthetic limbs.
Io Fleming, though part of the Moore Brotherhood, hates being tied down by his homeland and family history. Daryl Lorenz, having lost his legs in earlier battles, is now an ace sniper of the Living Dead Division. When they confront each other on the battlefield, they will reach a mutual realization. These two are destined to kill each other.
