The MSM-04 Acguy (Thunderbolt Ver.)

The amphibious Acguy used by Daryl Lorenz's team is noticeably smaller than the standard version, being approximately 13 meters tall. Its Iron Nails were replaced with three-fingered manipulators, and its head, arms, and back can be fitted with various optional units, such as sensors and weapons, for specific roles.
The Principality of Zeon’s standard amphibious MSM-04 Acguy saw wide use on Earth during the One Year War in UC 0079. It continued to see use after the war with Zeon remnants committed to fighting the Earth Federation Forces. In August UC 0080, Zeon remnants deployed a specially outfitted Acguy team under the command of Daryl Lorenz to retrieve a spy embedded in the South Seas Alliance. The Enemy Search Type specializes in intelligence gathering and command, the Firepower Type provides fire support and serves as the rear guard, the Heavy Firepower Type acts as the primary combat element, and the Maneuver Type serves as the vanguard and scout, and support the other units.

[@chewbacca3269]

I really love these. I feel like something was missing on the original design, having a backpack and extraweapons and other gadgets makes this very cool.

[@ryananggoro493]

I can't agree anymore ☝️ it's look cool

[@epikmanthe3rd]

That's why I like the Thunderbolt designs, they all look like a cross between a cold war fighter jet and a commando. Something obviously mechanical, but also equipped to task like something out of a special tasks group.

[@gundamez8191]

Love how Thunderbolt turs old awkward design into guerrilla warfare commandos.

[@captaink48000]

Don’t you dare diss the acguy, that design was perfect from the beginning

[@matthewloh19]

You can think the author of Thunderbolt

[@arthurpendragon8768]

What the part of awkward in the acguy? It's just standard design of Zeon's seafood team

[@ryananggoro493]

Most versatile design this acGUYs can survived in desert despite aquatic lifeform 🤣

[@arthurpendragon8768]

​@fikriarieska8450is that a custom one? Or from Thunderbolt universe?

[@thebadshave503]

Thunderbolt really did the design justice. They were always kind of laughable but they managed to make them into crazy goblin water commandos. I think the altered weapons is a big factor. They look much more specialist.

[@Gundam_mug_liker]

The goblins who can throw hands in the sea is the best way to describe this whole suit to any person for so with this info is mobile suits like the zgok or the zo gok orks

[@poolee77]

The one in 08th MS Team was pretty badass

[@Propanesucka]

It's interesting that the only other time the franchise made the Acguy threatening, 08th MS Team, did it in the completely opposite way. These guys are small, fast commandos with varied loadouts who work as a guerrilla team. The one 08th was a big, heavy bruiser designed for amphibious ambushes and close combat with a single multi-purpose weapon. Piranhas versus a snapping turtle.

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

I imagine it’s mostly because 08th MS didn’t visually redesign its mobile suits as much as TB. If they redesigned their suits like TB I imagine they would’ve used the Gogg for that, since that’s much more how it was portrayed in 79 Gundam. Thunderbolt’s Acguy’s are strangely a lot closer doctrinally to those of the original than the one in 08th MS.

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

​@@suspiciouscheese4518yeah, the Acguys are used to infiltrate Jaburo in the og anime so this rendition is more faithful than 08th.

[@xanderlee51]

I would buy all four configurations if Bandai made kits for these guys. No questions asked.

[@tactision]

Lol just buy four originals and mod them yourself lol

[@ilhamwicaksono5802]

​@@tactisionsadly speaking, from my experience falling into gunpla rabbit hole so deep, the only thing that you can use from regular acguy to build thunderbolt acguy is just the head part

[@Jeddostotle7]

Since they're so much smaller than the normal Acguy, they could do a double set like they did for the Loto

[@Maki_Gundam_Talk_Ch_MegaliveGN]

Acguy is often said to be a cute mobile suit in Japan. But using weapons is scary. I can't hide my surprise at the difference between the cute appearance.

[@merciless972]

To me they look menacing. They resemble a grizzly bear.

[@harisatryo3760]

​@@merciless972 Well said, bro... And *they're now exactly just like the one and only Freddy Fazbear 🤖🧸 himself* tho... You know, that means...

[@Gundam_mug_liker]

@@merciless972, who the Frick gave Zion grizzly bears glocks

[@captain0080]

It's a shame we never got model kits of this version of the Acguy, it's the coolest it's ever been and in its intended role.

[@kulvixy]

Mass produced assault teddy bears

[@user-ce8nj8gd6b]

出撃準備シーンが新生児室に並んでる赤ちゃんみたいで可愛い

[@user-ck2xs8up8t]

ベビーアッガイてか(笑)(⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

[@user-et9dt1cv5q]

@@user-ck2xs8up8tなるほど…そこからベアッガイと…

[@strcmdrbookwyrm]

Some small details I enjoyed: -The missile the Acguy fires at 1:18 seems to be wire-guided. The cables flying around confused me at first, but then I remembered that wire-guided missiles are a thing. -I'd like to point out that the GM at 1:37 is using a Heat Hawk! I'm not sure if many people noticed it when watching this video for the first time, but from what I've seen of Gundam it's not often you see a Mobile Suit pick up another MS's weapons, especially a opponent's (I'm very new to the fandom, just an FYI)

[@overlordpichu5577]

It's not a gm, it's a... zenny? I think? Though I also remember that the ssa call theres dahls. Point being it's a zaku that looks like and uses some parts of a gm, cause it was thrown together in someone's backyard with a box of scraps.

[@darko7432]

@@overlordpichu5577 It's called the Zanny in the original manga. The Lore is that the Zanny was one of the federation's first ever mobile suits made from captured Zakus (which DID happen, you see a squad of captured Zakus in IGLOO), but the project had very little funding, resulting in the Zannys being extremely shoddy and simple, and any that made it out were really just used for testing and training stuff. The Zanny design and name originates from an old 1996 PC game for a really old system. Why it's called the Dahle in the anime is something I'm not sure about, maybe it's copyright stuff.

[@quanlinglingdingle6122]

I like how the squad just handicapped the other MS instead of destroying their cockpits

[@danielhaire6677]

One, it forces the other side to expend resources rescuing the pilots and bringing them home Two, a lot of Mobile Suits used nuclear reactors so it prevents them being at ground zero for a nuclear detonation

[@joshuabean7167]

Wait, aren't Minovsky reactors meant to be non radioactive.

[@DevasiaMentalityGaming]

@@joshuabean7167 Minovsky reactors are not radioactive per-say, but they are nuclear so when they blow up they will blow up big.

[@navakijwattananarong7212]

​@@joshuabean7167 Some MS still use nuclear reactor like dom

[@labbit3574]

They use a fusion reactor supported by Minovsky particles to make it last (I think) forever

[@byte.mp311]

The fact that thunderbolt turns an all around joke of a suit into a legit threat is amazing, it's why it's my favorite of the Gundam series. Plus all the added realism in the RCS thrusters and gritty nature

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

The general design philosophy for Thunderbolt seems to be "strap a shitload of weapons and thrusters to the og designs" and I can't say I dislike it. Plus it looks like any new Origins content will follow that with the Cucuruz Doan's Island film outfitting mobile suits with shoulder cannons and missile pods.

[@byte.mp311]

@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 if I'm not mistaken I think Katoki designed most of not all of Thunderbolt. I do agree that the excessive amount of weapons and thrusters is awesome, especially with the psycho zaku and Full armor of the first movie.

[@BansheeNT-D]

I love how Thunderbolt turned the Acguy into a early Jesta :D

[@kutakichi]

パイロットのいる腹部じゃなくて頭部ばかり破壊する優しいアッガイ

[@KY-pr8pt]

一般兵的にはメインカメラは「たかが」じゃすまない部分だからな、無力化するには十分なのよ

[@babyred280sl]

​@@KY-pr8pt？「たかがメインカメラをやられただけだ！」

[@aceu.c.veteran5167]

​@@KY-pr8pt Are you sure about that? The cosmic era says different. But we are talking about TB and U.C. alone. Why not just shoot the cockpit?

[@atomsmasher026]

交戦は最重要事項じゃないから無力化できるならそれでいい

[@user-wo9om2ec4v]

軽やかに跳躍してヒートホークで敵モビルスーツの首をはねるアッガイなど誰が想像し得ただろうか？ ワザマエ❗

[@anwenlokier2292]

These cuddly units are ridiculously adorable, and in my school vr game, there's a pink version that ridiculously powerful

[@007natalie1]

What's your school vr game name?

[@anwenlokier2292]

​@007natalie1 it's called titans of potential

[@pinglefaz]

This is the first time I've ever seen a mobile suit with a large dome shaped head , definitely looks really unique and awesome

[@zolgamaxjones3334]

check out the juaggu from unicorn

[@typesaad]

It’s always fun when this channel releases a new video

[@matthewloh19]

Same here! However, JHHK risks a COPYRIGHT STRIKE whenever he does!

[@typesaad]

@@matthewloh19 that’s because it’s always a fun thing to see it

[@cubrz]

制作陣、頑張りましたね！ 地味なモビルスーツをカッコよく戦闘させている

[@lileenleen]

First: why is thunderbolt animation so CRACKED second: awwwwww acguy really cute ☺️🥺

[@sakimori6631]

最初の方のモノアイ動かしまくってる所と、動作確認?でヒートホークを発熱させてる所好き

[@syanaoh999]

ファーストガンダムでは、そんなに目立つキャラではなかったが、サンダーの場合結構見せるところがあって、また武器も多様に使ってるから面白い。

[@user-qu6tf5db1z]

…それなぁ…🤔

[@Ranmaru_tenka]

パラレルだけどな

[@user-nv9td3mt4d]

​@@Ranmaru_tenkaそれがなに？

[@user-nv9td3mt4d]

​@@Ranmaru_tenkaで？

[@user-vh4ir2lo6k]

@@Ranmaru_tenka パラレルでも、アッガイがこんなにも活躍する上に 汎用性に長けてるとか感動もんだよ ロマンマシマシで最高や！

[@ringring8938]

One of the best iterations of AcGuy ❤

[@JeanLucCaptain]

I love this Fireteam concept and would love to see the EFF equivalent!

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

Probably would be the Jesta unit in Unicorn but they don't get much screentime and even less action

[@user-gq5kk4yk8n]

こんな強くてカッコいいアッガイ見るの初めてです！

[@user-rj4kn2xn5e]

最初のアッガイ可愛すぎる

[@thirstyserpent1079]

The level of utility and practicality the sits have in this is ridiculous and it is mind boggling why half the stuff present isn't standard issue xD

[@thefez-cat]

It's an alternate timeline with a slightly more competent version of Zeon. Also, these are special forces variants of the Acguy; Zeon typically has an obsession with custom variants and ace pilots. They'd rather spend a ton of resources and capital producing a handful of ultra-high-end specialist Mobile Suits to be given to a small number of high-end pilots then actually produce numbers that could win the war -- and that's before they lost Odessa, and not figuring in their gross misunderstanding of Earth geography and tactics.

[@Chondrichyes]

［アッガイ(TB版)］ ジオン残党軍が運用している 水陸両用MSの一機。 元のアッガイより小さい設計に なっている他、OVA版では役割り に合わせて武装が異なるという 違いがある。

[@user-xf6ej8fs8l]

可愛い見た目とモーションでえげつない事してんの草

[@ProtoAlpha]

I love thunderbolt so much, it actually shows Zeon winning fights!

[@VicVoss]

I noticed that too. The ACGuys pilots were definitely seasoned vets with how they all moved

[@SoulstrikerV]

1:35 Cultist: MY TIME HAS COME! Acguy pilot: Huh...

[@midgetydeath]

This is how Zeon should have fought. With types and variants of mobile suits meant for specific roles to compliment each other. Not as a hodge podge of random wunderwaffe. Even if some designs honestly were damn good wonder weapons and even produced in good numbers, to be fair.

[@dumpsterchild5734]

They might look goofy you're absolutely still more effective than any other mobile suits

[@fishpop]

The normal, recon and firepower types of this Acguy just got added to GBO2

[@appletherapy]

Love Acguy....he should be in all gundams. Best boy...even Bandai knows it.

[@exudeku]

I love these commando goombas

[@ghostofrandom]

Just got this little guy in GBO2. It's so fun to play.

[@judgeboony2695]

This video alone made me love the Acguy. Look at those doughy little teddy bears beat the crap out of those GMs. c:

[@LyonPercival]

They're basically SEALs of Gundams

[@appletherapy]

This looks amazing since its not CGI

[@user-wo9om2ec4v]

激しくも淡々と続く戦闘の雰囲気の演出が､今まで見て来たガンダムモノに比べて重みがあって好き｡ BGMの選び方も皮肉っぽくてなかなか斬新。 何より効果音が初代に準じているのがいい。 そんなわけで最近漫画読みはじめたから､アニメもじっくり見てみようか。

[@tokuchan0525]

サンダーボルトのMSの戦闘は、ファーストの時代には自分ではあまりそぐわないと思う高速のトンでも戦闘ばかりだけど、このアッガイとダーレ(ザニー？)の戦闘は、重量感と重機独特の鈍さがあり、マシンガンの弾道(曳光弾使用はおかしいとかあるが)やミサイルの軌道とも併せて、リアルロボットの戦闘描写でも飛び抜けて良いと思う。

[@user-gy1yy1ff5c]

アッガイのいる所に水が流れてくるシーン、妙な不安感がある

[@joshibata7014]

ハッチ閉める前に水流れてくるとか、不具合でちゃんと閉まらなかったら怖いよねと思った。

[@turtlekappa7141]

Finally a turtle corps!!! Let's Go!!!!

[@burnruler7449]

最初のシーンで両手でGood👍サインする整備士さん可愛くないか？ (サンダーボルト初見)

[@user-gm1td9ff9z]

俺もそう思う

[@thefez-cat]

The Acguy might be a goofy-ass-looking Mobile Suit, but it's a bad idea to underestimate it.

[@aceu.c.veteran5167]

These 'goofy ass' mobile suits are one of the most feared by far.

[@coolguy10060]

Bandai really needs to make kits of these

[@wafuusouseki]

Acguy: is that machinegun? Or water gun GMs: (Instant death sound)

[@2233forlolz]

it is not a GM it is called Dahle, a mix of federation and Zeon tech of a machine use to replace the Zanny in the manga

[@googlesucks6029]

Not going to lie, the Acguy is still kind of cute

[@user-ce4ne2bo9l]

1:15　ぱぱが帰ってきて抱っこされに 行ってるみたいでカワイイ

[@midgetydeath]

The drop-bears learned to swim.

[@gagefarmer9615]

AC Guy robots like in Mobile Suit Gundam and Gundam the 8th MS team.

[@MS-06R]

このシーンで流れているbgmが個人的には好き、何ならサンダーボルトで流れているbgm全て好き

[@greatgatsby0174]

I’m usually a little eh when it comes to some of Thunderbolt’s redesigns of the amphibious mobile suits (namely the Gogg) but I absolutely adore these Acguys. They add so much badassery to them whilst keeping the goofy (and honestly cute) design spirit of the OG.

[@user-tq1yn3vp3x]

アッガイの手がマニピュレータならジムのマシンガン使えそうだったのにね・・・

[@user-keiyuuki]

ジムじゃなく、ダーレという機体です 一年戦争中に回収したザクやジムの残骸から再生《レストア》した機体で、実は機体ごとに構成や出力に差があるんです

[@hunbaltbendel.von.Jussenpeyer]

DAHLE 型式番号　SRf-06 南洋同盟が、資金力不足のため、一年戦争終結後に廃棄された機体のパーツを組み合わせて製作したモビルスーツ。連邦とジオン双方の形状が各所に見られる。武装はグレネード弾装備のマシンガン、ザク・バズーカ、ヒート・ホーク、シールド。フロート装備の水上型も作られた。 だって ずっとザニーだと思ってた

[@bloodraven8020]

I may be an eternal Zaku-1 fan, but hell if I dont love the ACguy. Big goofball of a MS.

[@martinithechobit]

They are so cute.

[@HewhoPonders-kq4bx]

Acguy mobile suit is a beast in Gudam Battle Assault ps1 video game.

[@TheAccursedHunter01]

Talk about a tiny terror going off of this performance, don't count the Acguy out.

[@zugotarou]

アッガイかわいい❤

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

"acguy?" - Heero yuy

[@brendonbalow6488]

I always hated the acguy ever since I played federation vs Zeon. They were the equivalent to the Ball but for Zeon in my eyes.

[@ryugamer4493]

U know I just realized this is the First appearance in anime of Zanny

[@user-cu3mp8tp2l]

ACGUY IS CUTE

[@user-sw9yx3nk3r]

총알은 피해도 칼은 못피하는 놀라운 기계들

[@jazzthegamerz2966]

Can wait for releases in hg forms which is never or it'll be in p bandai.

[@Sturmdude]

Teenage Mutant Colonial Marines.

[@user-zw3lf9xe9z]

モノアイ音かっこよすぎていきそう

[@gizmogizmo3649]

"Its zako zako hour" - cute Maniacal noises

[@user-by8hv7mt8m]

バトオペで暴れまくってるスーパー害悪機体

[@Reticulosis]

Biggest crime is that finding the series is impossible. I watched I think 1 or 2 episodes and of course the movie. I love this type of gritty-real-war-vibe of gundam/mobile suit action and not that twink stuff (gundam wing was ok when I first saw it as a kid but no way I can watch it now, I just ffw to the fights)

[@LizzieHohenstein]

Cute potato with legs. Just forget it has a warship grade gun on its palm.

[@mrvespula]

damn youtube already on you for the upload ?

[@matthewloh19]

Yes, damn KZbin and their copyright policies, which are strict as hell!!

[@spongeman1512]

0:11 kinda scary tho seeing this irl

[@Igarappappa]

Considerate that after crushing the heads they just move on.

[@user-os1bf6sw3y]

アッガイ、格好いい❗

[@user-jn1ee8yz5r]

ｱｶﾞｰィざます

[@user-ji1fk3mb3h]

楽しいアッガイ💕

[@user-kz6km5eb1w]

マシンガン持ってるアッガイ可愛すぎやろ

[@cmlace]

Why were one of them using a Zaku cannons shield?

[@user-gm1td9ff9z]

ガンダムシリーズに携わっているスタッフの中にアッガイ推しの人がいるんだろうな

[@syuang]

앗가이 증말귀엽단말이지...

[@fishpop]

Short Kings

[@pauljordan0203]

those enemy mobile suits they were fighting against, they look like modified Zaku's, with GM designs.

[@dragolorian4526]

It’s called the zanny. Very first fed mobile suit, couldn’t even walk without breaking down

[@pauljordan0203]

@@dragolorian4526 was there a problem with the motor functions?

[@tomhuynh3867]

@@pauljordan0203 probably motor issue. it is basically a Zeon zaku with awful federation armor skin and mostly used to test out fed MS earth weapons that would be used by the Ground GM and Gundams.

[@pauljordan0203]

@@tomhuynh3867 of course, that would make sense, trying to reverse engineer an enemy mobile suit, without understanding it's full capabilities, talk about armature hour.

[@spyrelle3970]

​@@dragolorian4526Small correction: those aren't RRf-06 Zannys. They're RSf-06 Dahles; exclusive to the ONA ver. of Thunderbolt.

[@xpluscollectorscrew]

I was hoping for a Dahle hg kit...

[@jinsungchoi790]

acguy is cute

[@monpa555]

どんだけ武器あるんだよ…びっくりするわ

[@klobribirds7670]

So this units is only being user for guerilla attack and they're realy had a very tanky armor

[@danyleon4870]

Dont forget the swimming part. It was meant for amphibious operation.

[@Drownedinblood]

They cant keep retconning 0079 like this...

[@youthrighthand2676]

アッガイて以外に装甲厚いんやな

[@rt-kl1nt]

プラモデルの説明に「超鋼スチール」とあります。自分も仕事で超鋼のキリを使いますが何回か使うと研がなくては切れません。ジムはチタン合金なのに簡単に破壊されるの意味がわからない。でもアッガイは一番好きなモビルスーツです。

[@HamanKarn567]

I never liked thr Acguy much but this pretty bad ass.

[@benjieaguilar6941]

ACdude

[@goldminer1173]

Is it me but does it look like it has a third arm

[@michaeledwardnewgates6806]

What version of thunderbolt is this one? Which series to be precise

[@idranardone4500]

How big are those trees bruh?

[@肉棒]

アッガイは可愛いだけじゃない

[@pauljordan0203]

interesting how they modified each of these Acguy's with various designs for combat, why didn't they do this during the One Year War?

[@tomhuynh3867]

Beside Thunderbolt being in a alternate UC timeline, Zeon during the OYW was investing a lot of resources from Earth into Space. Losing the Odessa mining base caused the Zeon Earth forces to be cut from their main supply line and started a massive escape back into space. Zeon due to lack of understanding Earth geographics , invested in making a naval force instead of strengthening an air force where most of the Federation rule the skies along with having a steady supply line. Eventually aquatic MS development reach a halt when Zeon started abandoning Earth.

[@sirbachelorboredmen1314]

​@@tomhuynh3867basically WW2 Germany attacked all nations at the same time

[@solastro5595]

UC gundam was less expanded back in the day.

[@nicholas.e5158]

@@sirbachelorboredmen1314nah the war started in space. Zeon wiped the federation forces in the battle of Loum. After that they invade Earth while the federation was on there heels playing catch-up with ms development. In the Uc timeline the one world government is the federation.

[@madmacvengeance6131]

Acguy in thunderbolt much better than the previous existence, its expanded his technological capabilities not some kind ugly and lazy designs of mobile suit

[@harisatryo3760]

...that later *become an inspiration to a hilariously cute teddy bear of a Mobile Suit's ever designed* yet (the Beargguys) 🤖🧸

[@user-zu4vx5do3f]

アッガイと戦っているジムは何だ? (誰か教えてくれないか？)

[@dufgufzy]

기모찌!