Everything you've heard about Gundam is a lie.

Think you know Gundam? Think again, weeb. Come back to 1979 with me and I'll show you what Mobile Suit Gundam is really about and the huge glaring problem with the Gundam franchise.
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[@WeebJail]

ok so it's been pointed out that there's a pretty major flaw with my thesis for this video. gundam clearly wasn't written to sell toys but it WAS made with support of a line of toys that was apparently SO unsuccessful that not only did the company go bankrupt after, the article about this anime i was reading literally didn't mention them lol. obviously the point of this video isnt the history of gundam, but my review and analysis, which i do stand by completely so mostly just extremely embrassing, but will maybe re-edit this. OR maybe i'll just leave my failures open for the world to see, who knows dude

[@glowstickless]

Yeah, the toy line is why the gundam and white base are so bright and colorful. Tomino originally wanted the gundam to be dark colors but was over ruled, however the toy companies didn't care about the "bad guys" as much which is why the zaku's are a more war appropriate army green. You did make a fair point though. Most people think the toys in question are gunpla but they didn't come untill later. And despite how much Tomino dislikes them the model kits are what saved the franchise in the end.

[@WeebJail]

@@glowstickless yea that makes total sense haha

[@dakotah7683]

It's still based on a faulty thesis

[@WeebJail]

not exactly. as other people mentioned he never wrote it for toys and its the toy company that changed some stuff for the toy line, which is completely in line with my analysis

[@BQD_Central]

1979 is 2 years after Starwars made merchendize THE one and only moneymaking machine that it is these days. So I don't blame you if you would think or believe, that there wasn't directly a goal to sell toys with the show.

[@lazygamer4746]

Neon Genesis Evangelion only did what Gundam did first. Especially Zeta Gundam. Can't understand why NGE gets credit for stuff Zeta Gundam did a decade before.

[@Soundwave32791]

I don't hate Evangelion it has to be the most overrated Mecha anime out there. Gundam is much better imo.

[@Noobnormality]

Marketing and exposure. NGE simply came first into the west before Gundam did, so everyone thinks that Eva did it first.

[@DemoniakalMk]

Zeta was so much better than NGE It's so good

[@eatsleepplayrepeat]

Because Evangelion was better written and directed.

[@DemoniakalMk]

@@eatsleepplayrepeat It really wasn't.

[@vajraentite133]

When Tomino was making gundam, he was probably executing one of the greatest scams in the animation world. He wanted to tell a story that has possibly never done before. A space opera set with giant machines as the backdrop. But nobody wants to fund such a profitably questionable endeavor. And so Tomino began to concoct his scheme of presenting this idea to a toy company, like it was just another super robot anime that will sell toys and appeal to kids. In the process though he had to make a lot of adjustments on his end. 1) The main protagonist was changed from a Military Aged Male, to a early teen so the target audience can hopefully relate. 2) The Industrial Machine that was the gundam, with its Gray and black look was recolored with Red White and Blues so the toy will hopefully appeal to kids. 3) Although he got his point across and introduced the concept of a 'Grunt Unit', he still had to somewhat make the MONSTER OF THE WEEK format the sponsors were looking for. Those are the major things I remember. As for the scam 1) He disguised his Space Opera show as a Show for kids that would generate toys for toy companies. 2) The real 'Protagonist' was actually the Zaku. Introducing the concept of the Grunt Unit and it showed. The Zaku actually sells more toys than the Gundam back in the day and the Zaku is still an Iconic design to this day.

[@vajraentite133]

Now I actually dont think too highly of Tomino personally. I mean, what he did is amazing and thank you very much for giving us gundam, but he is just an ok story teller. I find his works have charm but far from perfect. They tend to be preachy and going around in circles most of the time, and in some cases, like with Reconguista in G, absolutely hard to make sense of. His scenes tend to jump all over the place making it hard to follow. Its like he makes these amazing scenes but doesnt really think about how to connect the said scenes.

[@WeebJail]

amazing

[@arx3516]

Back then almost all anime were about giant machines, it was the peak of the super robot hype started by Mazinger Z. Tomino didn't even want to make a mecha show, he already had his fill with Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3, he just wanted to make an anime about war, but no super robot meant no sponsorship from toy companies, and so the Gundam was born, your generic, bright colored super robot, but with a big gun!

[@BQD_Central]

Isn't that pretty much all of anime more or less to this day? Cloaking serious topics (not always, but often enough) in children/teenager backdrop situations .... like highschool.... to increase the appeal?

[@WeebJail]

@@BQD_Central i mean that's just how you tell a story, you have to make it relatable in some fashion. it isn't just anime, a disproportionate number of american movies are set in high school for the exact same reason. it's the oldest age that everyone gets to have the same experience.

[@Sturmdude]

Back in 2001, when I was a 11 year old kid, I saw 0079 and 08th MS Team, and got action figures from the franchise. One toy I got, and I don't know how it was OK to get this, but it's awesome that it was, was a Zaku I that came with a special duel rocket launcher that specifically disperses poison gas to kill space colonists. It came with that accessory. I played with that toy. My little Micro Machine people in the Micro Machines Super Van City playset died a horrible death to that. My parents bought a war crime toy at my local K-Mart and I reenacted war crimes from Gundam in the weeks after 9/11 . . .

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

Weird that they made that toy given that the dual rocket launcher is both dubiously canon and only ever shows up the one time in Shiro’s hypothermia induced nightmare. Fun story though. 👍

[@alexrodriguez9441]

Bandai acquired the rights to manufacture plastic models, traditionally a cheaper licensing arrangement than toys. Clover had the die cast metal toy license from the show’s inception, and in fact was very influential on the show’s colorful, traditional Super Robot aesthetic. If it was up to Tomino, everything would have been drab a gritty looking, it was the sponsor (Clover, not Bandai) that demanded transforming and gattai gimmicks and “monster-of-the-week” tropes.

[@solastro5595]

You should have a look at Gundam the origin and it will be an interesting review vid if you make. It is basically a prequel to the OG gundam.

[@WeebJail]

i will check it out : D

[@titan133760]

Actually, it's not a prequel to the OG MSG anime. It's an alternate retelling of that series

[@Noobnormality]

​@@titan133760 More accurate depiction of GTO. Tho, i would say it's still worth the watch, and it still gives you an idea on how it started despite it being different.

[@Noobnormality]

Oh yeah, i should probably mention that it's a prequel/adaptation of the GTO manga, adapting volumes 5-7 of the aizoban volumes, which serves as a backstory filler arc for Char and Sayla.

[@androyus]

"War is bad" & "Buy our toys" are not mutually exclusive messages. They can go hand in hand 😎. Also, now that you've watched the OG Gundam, you are now free to watch various anime that took place around the famous One Year War coz you know the context now. You can watch the other Gundam show as follow: *Gundam: The Origin* *Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket* *Gundam: 08th MS Team* *Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky* *Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory* Give them a try and make reviews outta them 👍.

[@WeebJail]

yea but its not just war is bad, it's war is bad AND commercializing war is bad haha i may go watch more : D ty for the list

[@eh9618]

@@WeebJail honestly, war in the pocket addresses that pretty well

[@jparkerj20]

Origin and Thunderbolt are parallel universes.

[@TempoLOOKING]

War is good. War is why your gas is cheap.

[@jandro4644]

I had this exact same reaction when I watched Gundam a few years back (the tv series, not the movie). It blown my mind how advanced it was a a series back then. A powerful anti-war story with real crude scenes for a... giant robot anime in space made too many decades ago :) Gundam has more crude stories, and other spinoffs are pure comedy and auto-parody like G Gundam. It gave me a big lesson on how not to take anything from granted and don't look down on classics just because they are supposed to be the origin of genres and tropes, because... there is always a reason they are CLASSICS!

[@WeebJail]

for sure : D classics are classics for a reason

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

I know I'm a year late, but I highly recommend watching Turn A Gundam and After War Gundam X. After War is another Gundam show that also got cut short during its run, while Turn A was the first Gundam series Tomino had worked on since 1993. Also, Turn A is just a unique show when compared to the rest of the franchise as a whole. It's the only Gundam series (at the time of this comment being typed and posted) where you can see a Gundam being used as a wash line for drying clothes, a laundry machine for cleaning clothes, a transport for cows and farm equipment, a transport for nuclear warheads, and a destroyer of civilization. Sure, you can get the destroyer of civilization in other shows, but can you get it WITH all of those other uses? I think not!

[@KimberlyPinkney]

People died all the time in early Speed Racer. No one ever looked back at those fallen racers. Racing is Hell!😂

[@TempoLOOKING]

Seen Kimba.

[@azatshakenov195]

This was such a great video...got goosebumps several times, and added Gundam to my watch later list

[@WeebJail]

ayyy thank you friend : D its definitely worth a look if you're interested in older anime. i do think it doesnt quite hold up in a lot of areas but i definitely liked it and it surprised me with what it had to say : D

[@azatshakenov195]

@@WeebJail i like watching older animes because you can kinda see their contribution to what we see in more modern animes, and yeah, general feeling of low budget production is something i like i also want to know your opinion on Marinjo's backstory in Ousama Ranking, with that 'village', because upon rewatching i think this arc destroys the message about empathy they were going with by 'uncoditionally bad' people of said village

[@WeebJail]

@@azatshakenov195 w8 remind me of what episode this was

[@azatshakenov195]

@@WeebJail 18 episode, where there were gods terroryzing humans. After Miranjo's mom took the 'village' it started flourishing, everyone started learning magic and then, because of 'culture differences' Mom gots murdered and then they supposedely do brutal stuff to Miranjo herself

[@WeebJail]

ok so i rewatched it. i dont think it really ruins the message about empathy. they aren't really characters and more just a set up for miranjo's character. it'd be nice if they were a little more nuanced but empathy for miranjo is like 3 layers deep already and it kinda has to stop somewhere. also fun fact, i literally just noticed another pun for this and i have no idea how i didnt notice this earlier (basically all the names for everything in this show are puns lol). gyaku means opposite in japanese, and obviously yakuza is yakuza, so gyakuza basically means opposite gang lol

[@eh9618]

Seems like Gundam's relationship with merchandise was strained at the start.. the gunpla saved the franchise, without it it wouldn't be as big as it is now, but it's also the antithesis of the story itself. The story about how war changes people and how horrific it can be, but also buy the toys about war. But i think it's ok. Cuz without those gunpla sales, we wouldn't be able to get more stories about the horrors of war like war in the pocket

[@WeebJail]

yeah it's this weird dichotomy that totally got to me lol

[@rewinderon707]

Great video! The editing is out of this world, the tv trick is nice and how it transitions into reality is nice too!

[@WeebJail]

ayy ty friend : D

[@Noobnormality]

Part of if the reason why i always recommend watching the show itself than the movie compilations. Although I don't dismiss them nor do i discourage people from watching them, I feel like both have completely different vibes from each other. The og show has more focus on the misadventures of the White Base whereas the compilation movies have more focus on the war itself. Both aren't wrong, but the show is more cohesive because of that reason. But because the movie HAD to cut a lot of content, it sometimes doesn't present its idas well enough and at times kinda makes it feel a little incoherent. While the show gives its characters a lot of time to develop,along with the war itself in the background. One of the major plot points i love about this show specifically is how it deicded to present itself and the story. It is a war drama, in the eyes of our protagonist Amuro Ray. It isn't surprising considering everyone already knows this fact, but instead of the war revolving around him, he is instead part of the war itself. And you see the whole plot unveils itself, and it creates depth to the world, making it feel larger, more nuanced, as opposed to feeling bare bones. It is a world that looks familiar, but not a world that you'd like to live in. It gives you a sense of peace and connection despite the chaos that's been happening on the story. And THAT'S what the show wants you to feel, it wants you to feel at home, because that's what the main characters are feeling, and are striving to acheive. The war backdrop was used as a metaphor to the hardships the White Base have faced, and it all converges into a beautiful conclusion near the end, where we finally find out the true nature of the war, how it started and why it happened in the first place. Suddenly we feel small, suddenly it felt like the world was bigger than it should be, but all the experiences and struggles we have faced makes us feel less insignificant. We grew up.

[@rome8531]

I recommend watching "gundam 0080 war in the pocket" it's a short 4 episode ova. The ova takes place during movie 3 and follows a regular child who thinks that mobile suits are the coolest. So yeah, you can probably guess the potential plot. It's my favorite gundam show, and doesn't take much effort to watch.

[@WeebJail]

oo alright : D

[@mohdfaismohdfais5477]

@@WeebJail its sad the foe that bernie fought was his love interest. Well atleast he died instantly without his soul knowing the truth.

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

I’m doing a UC rewatch with a friend whose seeing it all for the first time. Seeing it again, I think 0080 is my fav UC show.

[@ANDREALEONE95]

@@WeebJail and 8th MS Team too.

[@jparkerj20]

Here's a list I'll leave for reference. Absolute canons: Gundam 0079, Z, ZZ, CCA, UC, NT, Hathaway, F91, V, CC, RC. Almost absolute: 0080, 0083 Parallel universe: Origin, Thunderbolt. Things some wish were canon: AoZ, Moon, Beltorchika, Sentinel (/Green Divers), 0094 AtS, Crossbone, and so much more. Completely separate universe: CE, AD, AW, AG, AC, PD, FC, Tomato Funni: Build Fighters series Don't @me if you don't even know Hambrabi was developed by the EFF and Jegans have immovable monoeyes.

[@mr.b89]

Crossbone isn't Canon after f91?

[@helsreach8954]

it really interesting looking through yoshiyuki tomino works and how his view of war change overtime

[@KimberlyPinkney]

It's hard to find an 80's toy without it's cartoon origins seeped in violence, and we loved it!

[@TempoLOOKING]

Yah then the wokes ruined it. Capitalism my ass. It was Marxist

[@lorenzobarducci8353]

14:04 do not worry, most of the Gundam sequels and side-stories, at least those settled in the "Universal Century", the main Gundam narrative universe, with the exception of ZZ and some other minor entries are as if not even more grim and socially/politically-focused than og series, it's first direct sequel (Zeta Gundam) as well (although it's been 3 months so there's a chance you already know that by now)

[@WeebJail]

ooh alright ty : D

[@lorenzobarducci8353]

@@WeebJail The suggestion i always give is the 6 episodes OVA series War in the Pocket, a side-story of the 1 year war (the war in the og series) seen from the perspective of a civilian children living in a colony that remained neutral until the last phase of the conflict, experiencing the brutality of it for the first time, imo one of the highest point the franchise have ever touched

[@WeebJail]

oh ok that does sound sick ty : D

[@MrCreepjo]

This is so fucking wrong on so many level Gundam was made to sell toys the people making the toys was a bankcrupt toy company called Clover this is where majority of the funding coming from where Tomino had to begged them to get a few more episodes. The fact there are scripts for 50 episodes says it. Tomino knows the fact he's writing a toy series but he give almost zero shit and spite on toy companies on the basis.

[@WeebJail]

oh GOD how did i miss that thats what i get for only fact checking wikipedia by looking up gunpla lmao well turns out this video was the lie. well, the point of this video isnt the history of gundam but the narrative analysis which i stand by completely, so will leave this up until i get around to re-editing it, this is why im a narrative expert not a historian lol

[@unclebobboomergames]

No the creator very clearly cares more about the show than toys. The toys were a means to an end. Clearly the show is the actual important art piece. Models are cool and all. But ill take my anti war show over the models any day

[@MrCreepjo]

@@unclebobboomergames Tomino mindset now don't really mind the toys and even whatever Bandai is doing actually to the franchise.

[@unclebobboomergames]

@@MrCreepjo "cared" not "cares" There all fixed

[@IxyCrystal]

Great review video. I also like how this video was really experimental with the editing features. I might just watch the first movies, seems pretty interesting. Only Gundam I've watched is IBO.

[@WeebJail]

thanks!! i wanted to see how it works if i put a little cinema in it, so to speak haha. they're pretty good! definitely aged a little but for sure not bad

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

Always fun to watch people get “Wow, cool robot”ed when they watch their first Gundam/real robot show.

[@neaosmt1562]

I prefer super robot anime but real robot anime is great to

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

And then you get to see them witness the war crimes for the first time. It's truly a magical thing to behold.

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

@@neaosmt1562I tend to watch more real robot personally, but it’s important to spritz in a little super robot. I find that watching them both helps me appreciate them both for their own values.

[@dorianjaypaat6239]

2yrs late but what “they” sore in Gundam is exactly what “they” saw in hip-hop. And did the same thing.

[@Idazmi7]

Watch the original Anime in Japanese. The Japanese actors put WAY more effort into their performance. Also, no: the movies are NOT a replacement for watching the original anime. You are missing *a LOT* of context.

[@WeebJail]

oh for sure i watched it in japanese lol

[@lazygamer4746]

Char was excellent in English though.

[@Ermagron]

the point of not sellign toys was exatly to make a product able to stand on its own, to push animation to be a state of art rather and advertaise, the irony was that it only worked when they started selling toys and cosplay, yes gundam invened cosplay for what i know., then it really became much more all around fenomena.

[@hannibalkim]

There were Gundam toys before bandai. Clover had made an action figure not a plastic model. Some of mecha of tv show were made to sell as just toys. Bandai did make gunpla for tie up movie.

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

You explain this like someone who read a few wikipedia pages.

[@ANDREALEONE95]

So there are two possibilities on how it happened: Tomino tried and failed to do something that would not be so marketable or he knew that would end in that way, creating a sort of meta-critic toward capitalism in the process.

[@EmeryCalame]

The attack on Abaoaqu was "glorified" because Zeon gased a colony and dropped it on Sydney having missed South America, massacred two Federation fleets, invaded the Earth, and was combing other space colonies for Federation supporters and war material with commando teams. The war had lasted about a year and a hell of a lot of people had died in it. Giren Zabi had killed his own father and a chunk of the Zeon military with it with a massive colony laser (death star basically) at that point to stop him negotiating a peace as Zeon was nearing exaustion. Solomon had fallen. Axis had run away seeing which way the wind was blowing. Pezun was preparing to surrender. Delaz fleet had fled seeing they would be turned over to the Federation. Kishiriya had killed Giren partly for revenge for her father and partly to enable her to take power and negotiate a surrender. Char used the confusion to kill her on her command ship's bridge after losing the Zeong & destroying the Gundam then stabbing Amuro in the arm. The idea that people just hated violence at that point and should have taken no side in the war is silly. The Federation, as stupid and corrupt as it was, had a chance to end the war and defang Side 3. Most spacenoids saw that as a good thing.

[@sonofsisyphus5742]

You, uh, realize that Zeon realizing the Federation developed mobile suits of their own is enough to start another war, right? It wasn't by any means because of the ship they were just following - both sides were preparing for war.

[@amfram]

I’m watching SDF Macross right now and it’s good but not exactly clicking with me, but I will say I watched Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam (they’re connected storywise) and they were amazing, so I totally say you should watch those!

[@WeebJail]

alright ill check it out : D are you watching the original series or the movie? because if the anime is a longer, worse animated version of the movie there's no way it doesn't lick like, a LOT of balls. the movie was soooooo shallow and if the animation was anything less than literally 10/10 i would have turned it off. it was, however, seriously some of the best animation i've ever seen, like god damn this must have cost an actual fortune to produce in the 80s

[@amfram]

@@WeebJail I’m watching the original series and then the movie, I like to go through stuff in release order which is also how I did Gundam. Yeah the anime is kinda long but it’s only 36 episodes and I’m at 22 now so it’s not too bad

[@arx3516]

Back when Gundam first aired japanese TV was already full of shows about giant robots in space, each with its own licensed toys. At first glance Gundam was just another clone of Mazinger Z.

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

@@YonIon996 You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@arx3516]

​@@BioGoji-zm5ph it's not, but you have to understand that the market was saturated. It was like the car industry with SUVs nowaday.

[@medranodiego8641]

Gundam attracts people with its cool mecha designs but people stay for the story ❤

[@kolinmartz]

What people are forgetting is the reason why the mechs in the original series are very colorful and you like isn’t because they had the toy line in mind, it’s because most mecha anime at the time had this well established trope.

[@WeebJail]

yeah apparently tomino wanted them more realistic (which is why the zaku suits are green) but the toy company sponsoring this insisted that the main gundam be colorful to sell toys, which tomino didn't really give a shit about. if i re-edit this video im gonna talk about this point lol

[@kolinmartz]

@@WeebJail the toys have always been an afterthought. Nobody bought them when the show was airing. The plastic model kits sold afterwards is what got 0079 back on the air and skyrocketed its popularity. It was a network decision to make them colorful, not a toy merchandise deal decision. Sunrise wasn’t going to air it unless it was a safe bet, meaning it was familiar with what the target audience were already watching. The story was already a radical departure for the genre, a radical aesthetic change would have been too much for the network to agree with. Bandai didn’t purchase the rights until after it already failed on air.

[@kolinmartz]

@@WeebJail the toys have always been an afterthought. Nobody bought them when the show was airing. The plastic model kits sold afterwards is what got 0079 back on the air and skyrocketed its popularity. It was a network decision to make them colorful, not a toy merchandise deal decision. Sunrise wasn’t going to air it unless it was a safe bet, meaning it was familiar with what the target audience were already watching. The story was already a radical departure for the genre, a radical aesthetic change would have been too much for the network to agree with. Bandai didn’t purchase the rights until after it already failed on air.

[@WeebJail]

@@kolinmartz yea this was the main thing i wanted to get across, that this story is such at odds with the idea of selling toys lol

[@kolinmartz]

@@WeebJail thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t sure at first if you were agreeing with me or not. Lol

[@vileone1313]

Shocking amount of misinformation in this. Firstly, Gundam wasnt the first gritty Mecha series, plenty of Super Robot stuff had gritty hyperviolent content. The series that Tomino (the creator of gundam) made before this Zambot 3 had TONS of death and calamity, in fact two of the three main Pilots die at the end! Secondly, Gundam anti-mechandise? Thats a bit of a joke. Tomino fully understood that merchandising kept your wheels running and knew if his work had some mainstream appeal his message would never get out there. Not to mention, Clover one of the companies who was liscencing Gundam wanted to cancel the show *earlier* so they could rush the toys for it out by Christmas!

[@captainexcabier]

It would be kind of cool to see you go over some older stuff. Ever watch Dirty Pair?

[@WeebJail]

oh ill be covering some older stuff soon. but oh my god what in the fuck am i looking at looool

[@Tsarivan7]

You should watch the full series.

[@WeebJail]

maybe!!!

[@schlaus]

I very much recommend watching 'Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin' before the original 3 compilation movies.

[@WeebJail]

before? too late : ( but why whats different about it haha

[@schlaus]

@@WeebJail It's the prequel and gives A LOT of background information. But it's also a bit weird, because the plot almost seamlessly flows over into the beginning of the first compilation movie. But then you first watch the nice 2018 animation and then continue to watch the crude 1979 animation. I needed some time to get used to that. But the prequel nicely shows how Zeon turned into a fascist dictatorship and especially explains the origin of Char.

[@WeebJail]

interesting, im not sure that sounds like you should watch it first though, im always suspicious of watch orders like that, just because it takes place first doesnt mean you should be watching it first haha 0079 isnt about either of those things at all

[@fissure12fish39]

it shouldn't be watched before, its an alternate history, not cannon UC, and also spoils the background of an important character

[@WeebJail]

@@fissure12fish39 hmm ok that's kind of what i thought, i have watched the 3 compilation films already though so maybe i will go watch this haha

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

Some inaccuracy btw

[@ImportedCheese]

Bruh how do you make these so quickly and at such high quality?! Must not work for a Japanese company!!!

[@WeebJail]

this is the only one with real editing the other ones are just me yelling at a camera!! how do you make such good edits while working at a japanese company?!?

[@MrGoatFish10]

The story starts Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin you need to watch it.

[@AzraelThanatos]

Gundam the Origin is in it's own timeline that's parallel to the main one, there's some major differences as it continues

[@staples.]

It was made for toys? Die-cast robot figure company "clover" was the original sponsor and created the weirdest crappy Gundam figurine ever

[@WeebJail]

oh yea see my pinned comment haha, it wasnt WRITTEN for toys but it was sponsored by a toy company so a lot of things were made to be better toys

[@kriemhild9425]

War is good actually?

[@WeebJail]

nice try putin

[@jayhoffmayer8581]

“One Year War Arc” Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Mobile Suit Gundam I Mobile Suit Gundam: 08 MS Team Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO 2: Gravity Front Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December sky Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket “Bloody Decade Arc” Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ “New Type Awakening Arc” Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 2 (TBA) “Human Rebirth Arc” Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash Mobile Suit Gundam: Son Of Bright Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway’s Flash III (TBA) “Late UC” Mobile Suit Gundam: F91 Mobile Suit Gundam: Victory

[@jayhoffmayer8581]

Like dune, you need to read more than just the first book to understand and appreciate the scope of the story

[@WeebJail]

lol damn ok

[@jayhoffmayer8581]

@@WeebJail it’s definitely a lot but it’s well worth it to watch the characters and world grow and adapt with the other conflicts and issues that all stem back to the first conflict and how that effected humanity

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

@@YonIon996 It's an Alternate UC.

[@AzraelThanatos]

There's also Gaia Gear later on in it that's post Victory.

[@noodles2459]

The sub of the 0079 movie part 1 is awful unless you're watching the TV show dub.

[@ilhamwicaksono5802]

Human federation and zeon empire, bruh

[@aaronmathews6932]

Damn I heard gundam was about giant robots and some space wars I guess that was a lie

[@WeebJail]

you were lied to

[@gundam5281]

@@YonIon996 No it isn't

[@lolsaidthescorpionlmao]

So Gundam is not an anime?..

[@WeebJail]

shit you got me

[@kindlingking]

Only ZZ

[@Krysnha]

Also i think, that yes war is hell, was is bad, violence should be last resort, and that is the idea, last resort, i always remember that episode of the smipsons when they were more or less good, that march was convincing bikers violence is bad, and she was succedeing, and homer comes out and attack the bikers and one of the bikers ask, he is using violence what should i do. Yes war is bad, and violence is bad, but what do you do when another country do something, i hate when said, in WW2 and even now in the war with Ukraine that country is neutral, how can you said is neutral if you are giving weapons to an enemy, or said that country is a peacfull one when is funding terrorist or doing shadow things to destabilize others, was is bad so we endure abuse. Gundam is a good step, but still too naive

[@gooseabuse]

you got my attention

[@SlayerGodOfDeath]

Its fantasy call marketing 😂

[@emsilly741]

Zeta is pretty goood

[@Fred1032MC]

Better watch Evangelion

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

You sound exactly as how you look

[@WeebJail]

ty

[@Krysnha]

I atempt to watch it, it start good and get bore, i think as oyu said the movies are better

[@Galdenberry_Lamphuck]

The anime is better than the movies and I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL BEAM SPRAY GUN IN HAND

[@lazygamer4746]

Agreed. The show is way better than the movies. The movies cut out a lot of character development

[@grizz7271]

Agreed wholeheartedly

[@jamiwami7280]

you did not understand a single thing about this show huh