Mobile Suit Gundam was developed principally by Yoshiyuki
Tomino, along with a changing group of Sunrise creators
who went under the collective psuedonym "Hajime Yadate".
The series was originally titled Freedom Fighter Gunboy
or simply Gunboy, because the title robot was armed with
a gun and the target demographic was young boys. In the
early stages of production, there were numerous references
to the word freedom, such as the White Base being originally
named Freedom's Fortress, the Core Fighter as the Freedom
Wing, and the Gunperry named the Freedom Cruiser. The
collective Yadate team combined the English word "Gun"
with last syllable of the word "Freedom", "Dom",
to form the word "Gundom". Tomino then changed
the name to the current title "Gundam", suggesting
that the name Gundam signifies a power wielding a gun
that is strong enough to hold back enemies like a dam
holds back floods.
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