Topic sez it. Just wanna see/talk about anything involving gundam? Well, personally i like all the series's so far, I just havent seen Turn A gundam yet. However the orriginal series seems to be a little to drawn out. Well, post away!
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Any Mobile Suit Gundam Fans? (Any series)
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I enjoyed what I've seen of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, as well as the 08th MS Team, War in the Pocket, and Stardust Memory. They're appealing to me as they mark a shift in the nature of the robot in Anime from Giant Robot Superhero (Gigantor, Mazinger Z, Giant Robo, etc.) to that of mass-produced military mecha (Macross, Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Patlabor, etc.) which allows more complex and adult stories.
I'm a Gear-Head Otaku from way back; when I was about 10 or so, I used to draw my own Field Recognition Technical Manuals for the ships of Star Blazers. While the RX-79 Gundam itself is a little too close to the primary-colored action figures of earlier anime for my taste, I think the MS-06 Zaku and its many mission-specific variants are the some of the coolest 'mech designs I've ever seen.😎
I couldn't really get into Gundam Wing because the politics were too labyrinthine and not very logical. The original MSG did something new by portraying Char Anzable as a noble and honorable adversary, and by showing the Federal Forces could be brutal occupational troops even though they were the default "Good guys", which brought an element of the realistic moral grayness of war to what could have been a childlike "We must defend the Earth from the Evil Zeons!" plotline. Gundam Wing just seemed to have every faction fighting every other faction for the heck of it, and I couldn't really grasp what any particular side wanted to acheive apart from domination. "We believe in total peace, so we're going to declare war on everybody else." 😕 Huh? Also, I couldn't keep the Backstreet-Boy hero team straight either. I'm sure they had motivations and backstories, but none of them interested me enough to bother finding out more.
I haven't seen Mobile Fighter G Gundam yet, but what little I've seen at www.gundamproject.com doesn't fill me with enthusiasm. Tequila Gundam of Neo-Mexico with a gigantic metal sombrereo?
At least the Canadian Gundam looked like a lumberjack with a useful axe instead of an enormous Maple Leaf.
I'm a Gear-Head Otaku from way back; when I was about 10 or so, I used to draw my own Field Recognition Technical Manuals for the ships of Star Blazers. While the RX-79 Gundam itself is a little too close to the primary-colored action figures of earlier anime for my taste, I think the MS-06 Zaku and its many mission-specific variants are the some of the coolest 'mech designs I've ever seen.😎
I couldn't really get into Gundam Wing because the politics were too labyrinthine and not very logical. The original MSG did something new by portraying Char Anzable as a noble and honorable adversary, and by showing the Federal Forces could be brutal occupational troops even though they were the default "Good guys", which brought an element of the realistic moral grayness of war to what could have been a childlike "We must defend the Earth from the Evil Zeons!" plotline. Gundam Wing just seemed to have every faction fighting every other faction for the heck of it, and I couldn't really grasp what any particular side wanted to acheive apart from domination. "We believe in total peace, so we're going to declare war on everybody else." 😕 Huh? Also, I couldn't keep the Backstreet-Boy hero team straight either. I'm sure they had motivations and backstories, but none of them interested me enough to bother finding out more.
I haven't seen Mobile Fighter G Gundam yet, but what little I've seen at www.gundamproject.com doesn't fill me with enthusiasm. Tequila Gundam of Neo-Mexico with a gigantic metal sombrereo?
At least the Canadian Gundam looked like a lumberjack with a useful axe instead of an enormous Maple Leaf.Tequila Gundam...
Im sorry, but i kinda love that idea. It's kinda funny. I havent seen all of G Gundam yet, but am becoming interested. I, myself have always been into the giant robo series's. Armored core for PS was one of my bigger inspirations though. Customizeable mechs? Kick ass.
Im sorry, but i kinda love that idea. It's kinda funny. I havent seen all of G Gundam yet, but am becoming interested. I, myself have always been into the giant robo series's. Armored core for PS was one of my bigger inspirations though. Customizeable mechs? Kick ass.
Armored Core!
That's one of the few PlayStation games I get a kick out of. I never played the 1-Player story mode, but my brother and I used to wear the controls out having 2-Player deathmatches. We'd usually waste each other fairly quickly in the Forest stage, but we'd chase one another through the City stage all night long. There's nothing like using your jump-jets to get to the top of a skyscraper and raining missiles on your opponent, who's panic-stricken trying to find you at street-level. 
I've got two books full of mechanical designer Kunio Ookawara's original sketches for Gundam, VOTOMS, & Dougram mecha, and I am forced to admit that some of the G Gundam designs are kinda nifty. I particularly like Neo-Russia's Bolt Gundam, though I'd have painted it in red and grey for a more authentic Soviet look instead of the traditional Gundam blue and white. Some of his unused drawings show Gundams styled after Samurai and Roman Centurions, which might have been impressive when finished.
That's one of the few PlayStation games I get a kick out of. I never played the 1-Player story mode, but my brother and I used to wear the controls out having 2-Player deathmatches. We'd usually waste each other fairly quickly in the Forest stage, but we'd chase one another through the City stage all night long. There's nothing like using your jump-jets to get to the top of a skyscraper and raining missiles on your opponent, who's panic-stricken trying to find you at street-level. I've got two books full of mechanical designer Kunio Ookawara's original sketches for Gundam, VOTOMS, & Dougram mecha, and I am forced to admit that some of the G Gundam designs are kinda nifty. I particularly like Neo-Russia's Bolt Gundam, though I'd have painted it in red and grey for a more authentic Soviet look instead of the traditional Gundam blue and white. Some of his unused drawings show Gundams styled after Samurai and Roman Centurions, which might have been impressive when finished.
