Two episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt streaming on YouTube until July 28th

It's the hot new property within the Mobile Suit Gundam universe, and if the prospect of importing the Japanese home video release is too rich for your blood then the good news is that you can now watch at least some of online for free!

Thus, the official English language website for all things Gundam, GundamInfo, have announced that the first two episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt will be streaming on their YouTube channel between now and 28th July 2016, in 720P HD and complete with English subtitles (amongst other languages).

Thus, you can now watch episode one and episode two of this four-part OVA series (which has also been compiled into atheatrical film, December Sky).

What are you waiting for? Oh, a plot synopsis? Here you go then:

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.