GUNDAM's ICONIC Design Explained (History and Evolution of Mecha Design)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2024
- GUNDAM, or more correctly MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM is a franchise that completely redefined the real robot mecha genre and has continued to evolve since its inception almost 40 years ago.
So, let's take a look at the style and mecha design evolution of gundam since its humble beginnings with the RX 78 2 moving all the way through wing, iron blooded orphans, reco and more.
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I love how the Barbatos got more "feral" in Iron Blooded Orphans as the series went on.
Never heard of people not liking IBO because "it doesnt feel like watching Gundam" because the kits are so popular that Bandai milked it for years before going back to Seed and Unicorn and it is loved by the community eventhough they're divided for the storyline. Some embrace the change of style from military to pmc with a little bit of Mafia style and some hated the way the story goes. Im in the "the story was awesome" gang coz of the lack on ex machina and it shows the cruel reality of peace and freedom. Also, barbatos is iconic as fuck
Same here! I absolutely love the IBO series. The design of Barbatos is so beautiful for me. The werewolf theme coupled with the lack of beam weapons does bring a breathe of fresh air to the franchise.
Absolutely. Just finished the series for the first time as I've been hooked on Unicorn and Gundam Wing. IBO was amazing and was by far my favorite of the series.
@@Shakukirai completely agree. My only gripe is that they didn't show the "good guys" (i.e. government) on their good side enough so it kinda failed in portraying them as probably better characters than Tekkadan (especially considering how many atrocities they've commited, letting Iok live longer than 5 seconds being their biggest warcrime ever). Other than that show was fantastic in setting up the story and characters. Yes, it wasn't perfect but goddamit, it's really darn solid Gundam show. My favorite is still being Turn-A and IBO is on the third place after that and original series with 00 being really close to it.
Season 1 was better an s2 piss me off towards the end
"Will not attract the attention of the children.."
Me, a working adult with massive collection of gunplas: ok.
So true, the Zaku's not have big changes but currently have 8 model of them 😂
Gunpla ends in an "a." Non mouth breathers know; words tgat end in "a" or "i," *MUST NOT BE MODIFIED WITH ADDITION OF THE SUFFIX "S."*
@@fakrulabdullah although you types "Zaku's" as in reference to properties of one Zaku:
The Zaku are Zaku not "Zakus" because that would make it sound like "Zack-cuss," they don't cuss but instead; fight.
You mouth-breathers have false sense of phonetic flow~coherence.
@@linyenchin6773 chill out, grammar nazi.
@@linyenchin6773 We don't care if we spelt/spoke it right, what truly matters is that we understand each other in the end. The true meaning of communication doesn't exactly lie on whether you follow the rules, when the receiver understands the message, who cares about the technical mistakes?
It's kinda cool how the GM returns to the original proposed "spaceman" design
Basically the Gundam look was meant to be similar to the one of the other Federation Mobile Suits but Clover the manufacturer of the toys of the series imposed a different more super robot design for the meach piloted by the main character.
I love IBO.
The "controversial" thing about it was probably just a knee jerk reaction from old fans of the show who expected a traditional gundam story.
Now in 2022, i know a lot of people love IBO. Its more realistic approach is also greatly appreciated, i see more and more people lean into the likes of ms 08 team instead of hyper-devastating gundams like in 00 or wing (but let's face it wing have the nostalgia ace up its sleeves).
Thankfully it looks like sunrise is taking a note, can be seen in their more realistic approach on Hathaway.
Old fan here.
Still not an IBO fan, and same with Wing and G.
You can see the IBO influence in witch from Mercury with how even though they have bean weapons they aren't the ship destroying superweapons in other series.
@@diabeticmonkey well, Wing is way worse than IBO if we talk about Writing.
I think a lot of people were let down by how the plot of season 2 developted.
There is also the fact the Calamity War was not explored! Imagine a War raging between Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, Gundams Vs Mobile Armors. It would have been a great time seeing these titanic Battles.
@@MrTigracho well, with this I totally agree. The calamity war was 100% wasted potential
I really like the IBO designs, the kits looks so amazing when you build them and the kits are quite popular.
the blocky gundams have that nostalagia from before, and the more recent gundams like barbatos just adds some fresh air with these curves
You're really gonna just ignore Victory and X like that huh
Rip war in the pocket
Also 08th MS team
to be fair, they didnt introduce THAT many changes
@@YiminyCricket I mean it still sucks that they ignored 2 major series like that
and thunderbolt :c
Everyone complains that gundam isnt popular in the west, do people forget that gundam is the granddaddy of both power rangers and transformers?
Pretty sure wing blew up in the west too
Gundam doesnt have much influence over Power Rangers tho. Particularly not the first ones, which seem to follow more the concepts of Golion or Getter Robo, being combinable Super Robots and all.
Power rangers is influence by Super Sentai, which was influence by Kamen Rider
@@paranoidise6458 and guess what those ripped off? Gundam, thanks for comming to my Ted talk
@@hypnoticrobotgaming
....Both Super Sentai and Kamen Rider predates Gundam doe (1975 and 1971 respectively). Not to mention that they are completely different genres with no resemblance in design nor themes, so calling them a rip off is little more than a stretch.
What makes them similar is that all gundams are basically prototypes...
Not entirely.
Gundam X and F91 become Mass produce later
Gundam Ground Type is mass produced Gundam
Barbatos is an old relic.
This is mostly for Universal Century and Cosmic Era because Seed is supposed to be a reboot of UC. In some other shows, its either a relic of the past era or a top of the line weapons, altho in UC the Earth Federations turn heavily customed units into Gundams or Gundam-like suits (Theta Plus, Sinanju, Striker Custom, Blue Destiny etc) to strike fear into Zeon since ever since the first war that twin horned rainbow colored sonovabich has been wrecking ships left and right
The exia had the silhouette of a woman ... just look at it it literally has an hourglass shape. Still it’s one of my top 3 gundams and it’s in my top 5 of my top favorite mobile suits.
Reborns would like a word with you.
Of course exia has the silo une tte of a women it is best girl after all
There's a reason why a woman is depicted as Exia with Setsuna in the first OP
Of course it is. There's a reason setsuna married his Gundam.
I feel its really important to look at the evolution of the Zaku and enemy Mecha as well it was always the counter point to the Gundam designs and it's evolution followed that of the Gundam as well. Also the TH-cam CC writes condom every time you say Gundam.
Nu condom, god condom, wing condom... What else?
@@daffayudono4071 Iron blooded condom....ewwwwwww
Zeta condom
What’s cool is that they keep at least 3 design elements from the original so you’ll recognize them no matter what
i may be biased, but people who complained about IBO designs not being "GUNDAM" enough completely missed the point if IBO
theyre demons, and as the series moved forward, they needed to be less and less human to reflect the chase for more power.
imo the decline of morality and eventual rejection of humanity comes form tekkadan's moral center's death, Biscuit. since then they became more brutal, and even though they reach their goal by the end of season 1, the whole second season is Orga reaching for more and more and that mistake is reflected in Mika's body becoming less and less....uh, working, outside of the barbie, as well as the barbie itself becoming more and more beastlike.
how can you forget Gundam Thunderbolt.
its the best series of other gundam and newbie friendly imo
Well, the main Gundam is just an upgrade of the RX-78.
The Impulse Gundam and Destiny Gundam are more similar to the Victory Gundam and V2 Gundam respectively.
One thing I noticed is that you have not mentioned and maybe forgot Gundam X, other then that this was an amazing and interesting video. I learned quite a bit.
He also forgot victory gundam
And Mk-II, Psychos, Alex,GP01, GP02, GP03, Victory, V2, God/every other mobile fighter in G, and all X's Gundams.
There are so many holes...
One does not simply, remember every Gundam there is (including the enemy)...😅
Well, one of the things that i forget after watching G Gundam, that there is a kangaroo Gundam, from Neo Australia.
Although i remember about thta Tequila Gundam and Nether Gundam.
I'm freshly new to gundam at the age of 43 and I just love the back stories and so many ways to make the look real. Gotta say I'm hooked
the zeta is chronologically the 8th
and the 3rd on screen gundam
Who resides in the second series which is named after it.
weird right
@@flamestoyershadowkill6400 actually more like the 13th chronological gundam, since i didn't count RX-78 units 4 to 7.
@@SoulcastProductions also 7th "main Gundam", since there were 4(with 0083 having 2 MGundams) series before Zeta and another main Gundam in its own series.
@@uandresbrito5685 i counted the gp01,2, and 3, as well as the mk 2
@@SoulcastProductions I discounted the GP02 because it's not a main MS.
There are quite a few mistakes in this video, the RX78 design wasn't original at all, and it was on purpose, Bandai told Sunrise to make the main mecha as most similar as possible to the average super robot of the time, just look at Voltes V, Zambot 3, Baldios, and even Optimus Prime, that was the trend at the time. Okawara didn't do much for the RX78 design, but he was free to do whatever he wanted with the designs of villain mechs, that's why the Zaku is so original.
Shut up weeb
Optimus Prime wasn't even a concept in 1979 when Gundam was made lmao
@@user-il2yu6mm5d technically was, he was just under the name convoy
Besides the fact that quite a few of the early Gundams were left out, at least 3 of them. Poor research into this...
@@tetraswift Still incorrect, the diaclone toys that set everything for Generation started production in 1980, after MSG finished airing.
Barbatos design is heavily inspired by GBWC entries were builders re-imagine gundam with edgy and more mechanical looks. go search of winning entries around or before that year
20:32 "But ofcourse, the Chaaampion~ of thiccness is the Virtue."
You got that right.
Also also, not talking about the Planets system and Core Change from Build Divers in a "Gundam design" video is a sin. That shit is rad af XD
Sandrock's blades are actually called shotels, but i can see where you got scimitars from. They're very similar blades.
Him:Barbatos’s red chin looks like a beard
Barbatos:it is.well im called the bearded demon
00 is prob the most "weird" design for it's time
What i mean is that comparing the 00 suits to the other mobile suits before 00 has a really diffrent feel to it
The edges and curved line that the 00 suits (at least until S2 goes for more blocky looks, like the Cherudim) makes it look more futuristic which is the aesthetic that they are going for. It's no wonder why "looks" wise they're very different than most others, ecxept probably IBO suits
Jumped straight from F91 to G? Victory and V2 had very radical changes imo. Also, G did the multiple diverse looking Gundams thing first, Wing was a development of that trend (and this continues through to Cosmic Era and Anno Domini series).
Gundam IBO was meant to bring back the classical 2D animation and the classical sound effects where are the sounds of metal hitting each other
Classic* classical (I think) is a music genre.
It won’t fit
It’s a different era and the mechanics are different from UC to whatever timeline they are in
I really loved IBO tho
@@Shinman2 correct but mouth-breathers re stupid so they enjoy double~redundant conjunction to cover their uncertainty~confusion.
They can't see that classic already means "of class," in that it(class) means reliable~tasteful + age .
i enjoyed iron blooded orphens, in a way the show did things backwards, the endng of the first story takes place on earth where IBO was in space and the ending of the second arc takes place in space where IBO was on mars
Right I also noticed that unlike other Gundam series where the protagonists or Gundam Meisters at the beginning of the series try to force a change in their circumstances and eventually learn that change can only happen with time and become noble heroes by the end of the series. This series does the opposite instead you have Tekkadan which starts out as a just organization seen as knights protecting their princess Kudelia then they slowly lose that reputation over time hence why the end is the way it is.
Plus Barbatos is awesome design
"The new main robot: The Destiny Gundam"
Yeah, about that...
Still waiting from 2010 😭
As far as i'm concerned, they did what the writers of seed and seed destiny did best, they recycled. They needed a new "main robot" (emphasis on the "") so they took the perfect strike gundam, repainted it, added iron man repulseors on the palms, (at least that's how there're SUPPOSED to be used!) Gave it wing instead of a backpack which don't even function like actual wings, gave it a new "edgier" face design that lacked the mouth vents and decided to call it a day.
@@ewancook351 the astray mangas had the destiny impulse(impulse but with destiny wings). zaft wanted another ms that is dedicated to using the new backpack so they went and made the destiny.
I'm the only one who loves G-reco. And also, it's not the designs why people won't accept IBO as a gundam, it's the lackluster storytelling. Fans were entitled to have a epic storyline and plot but was completely derailed by that season 2. But atleadt we got a really cool ending.
Yeah season 2 was really all over the place (particularly Orga), but because it was emotionally impactfull enough for the general audience (as in for those not familiar with Gundam tropes), it's able to make a lasting impression on them.
Season 2 completely smashed the fact that the entire main cast are still children. Tekkadan was just to young to burden so much responsibility and we all saw how it went when Orga pushed the wrong buttons.
For myself, my first introduction to Gundam was what I'd call "the three eights": 0080, 0083, and 08th MS Team. Those OVAs were so powerful for me, they really did shape my outlook about what UC Gundam "ought" to look like and feel like. It doesn't mean I don't appreciate the Tomino inspired UC, or Unicorn, or Hathaway. They are beautiful in their own rights, and I enjoy them as well. But the newtype heavy cosmo-magic wasn't as satisfying to me as the gritty realism and the maturity found in something like MS IgLoo, or Thunderbolt.
This is a great vid! I’ve been a gundam fan for about 5 years and I learnt a fair bit from this vid. It’s like a little documentary. Great work 😁
Its strange that while Turn A headpiece does not look like a Gundam at a glance I can tell its a Gundam. Not from the anime but from holding the toy in my hand my first thoughts was this is definitely a Gundam.
I'll be honest I started with seed and 00 and when I went to IBO I wasn't upset at the designs at all in fact their one of my favorite and has sense then became my favorite series
As a kid I started with seed and went on to watch 00 and Unicorn and got into some of the media for the older ones, when I first saw IBO tbh I was a bit weirded out with the frame design but I guess it grew on me
I wonder next year gundam story 2021 adaptation gundam walpurgis, moon gundam, gundam 0081, gundam 0094 across of sky, gundam f90 fastest formula or gundam burai.
Maybe Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis and mobile suit Gundam Crossbone series in adapted into anime I hope in future anime.
Moon gundam is next, they kinda teased it before.
I definitely hope for all of those titles to be adapted as well. An adaptation of Gundam Walpurgis would be awesome. However, the upcoming Moon Gundam one (as teased at the end of the U.C Chronicles short) is pure hype.
I want an anime of sentinel, crossbone and 0083 rebellion
I will admit, Reconquista of G is one of my favorite Gundam Series because of the Gundam Design. I just love how smooth, curved and pretty the G-Self looks.
There's been a lot of Gundam-Type mobile suits that i really liked despite them not keeping key parts of the iconic design. such as the Nobel Gundam or Noble Gundam from Mobile Fighter G. It's actually a fan favorite from what i understand, it looks like Sailor Moon, that's all there is too, it's cool and i really like the far more feminine design. Overall i've always been a fan of the Feminine looking Mobile Suits(IE: Curvier, Smaller, Less Bulky) such as the Nobel Gundam, G-Self, Exia(Best Girl), the list goes on and expands A LOT with the Build Fighter's and Build Diver's series.
To help inform people of Build Fighter's and Build Diver's, i highly suggest it to those that have watched all of the far more serious Gundam Series. They're both really fun, include a lot more gags and joke's not common in the other series and overall i kind of see them as a love letter to Gundam Fan's. There's so much fan service in them(No not the kind where the girls strip naked for no reason) that every single episode of each, especially when seeing a new Gunpla, you can tell what the Gunpla is based on and as a person who collects them and builds customs myself, i just love it and i love that Bandai and Sunrise have given us something so lighthearted and fun to watch.
Gundam Barbatos will always be My Number one Favorite Gundam because it is REALLY Cool
"Although, chronologically in the series, you can say it's the third."
Eeeehhhh... depends on what you mean by chronologically...
Great video, I've been a fan for a long time and I still learned a bunch.
Binging your videos! Thank you for a great one to go through the Gundam designs in the franchise in a great package. Was hoping to see Gundam Ez8 from my favourite Gundam series 08th MS Team~
Gonna share this lekker video to my GUNPLA South Africa community! ;)
This is a really great video. Thanks, bro!
Barbatos Lupus Rex..... An unique Design that Loved by milion, yet also Hated (Or even Abhorred) by billion.
The Community treats the series, Especially the Barbatos itself like it's a Catasthropic doom of gundam series, which is quite sad.
To me, I always believed Gundam’s were samurai robots because they looked like polygonal samurai armor and the way Gundams carry their beam sabers behind their back to be used like ninjas and how they draw their beam sabers by their sides, as if they were drawing a katana sword, always gave it a samurai look and feel to them in my opinion 😁
Definitely explains the crested headgear. During one scene in Mobile Fighter G Gundam the mc and his enemy were shown to personify their respective gundams. It went from their faces with the helmet section, adding on the mouth guard and finally the eyes till the heads were back to normal. During that process it smack me in the face with how obvious the gundam heads were reminiscent of samurai helmets and mouthguards.
Thats because they are samurai robots. (Im not joking). They used samurai armor as inspiration for the gundam design during the show's development
The designs of Iron Blooded Orphans always resonated with me. I think it has something to do with the fact that the Gundam frames have a “feminine” twist to them as opposed to the other series’ design aesthetics.
The Gundam frames in Iron Blooded Orphans are very unique. The slim and questionably vulnerable waists, the emphasis on the legs, feet with heels, sharper designs, and demon motif of the mobile suits has a subtle appeal, at least to me. The blocky design of the other series never really grabbed me in all honesty, with the exception of 00’s, which feels like a middle ground between IBO and the original Mobile Suit Gundam
Demon like
Gundam gusion : ....
The Impulse functioned more like the Victory Gundam in modular application. V2 is evoked by Destiny with the Wings of Light.
F91and Vgundam designs became small because Plastic became expensive back then. Bandai execs wanted smaller more affordable products in the early 90s :D
Thank you for speaking English. When I saw the comments section I was worried I wouldn't be able to watch lol
Haha yes, the video is in english but since I'm not american, other people thought that I was going to speak in another language. Hope you liked the video!
Same
Pense que tambien hablarias del Gundam Atlas Chalo, éxito en el nuevo proyecto
Great video, you have gained a new suscriber!
Super cool video! When I first got into gundam I was definitely put off by how similar they were haha
Yo i was inspired by you and other TH-camrs to get deeper in the series and I am great full
GUNDAM WING Endless Waltz was my first experience with GUNDAM. I loved the Heavy GUNDAM with tons of chain guns the most.
Heavy Arms?
Good job on explaining those. Thanks
He talked about every main Gundam except for the Victory/V2, X/Double X & Stargazer.
Dude awesome video! I hope you do more design themed videos, but I mostly hope you continue to make content in general! I'm gonna share this around hopefully get you some more subs c:
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your words. And yeah, I'll try my best to continue to upload anime and comic videos. Talk to you soon!
Good job on the video 👍
What makes the Gundams so special is the head, face, & whatever weapons it uses.
I really like the designs of ASW-G series they look like fit and flexible
Happy to see you enjoy gundam as a whole.
Darn you didn't talk about God gundam thats my all time fav. Great video all around
Started with gundam wing and fell in love with series and started building them with model kits
Haters can hate but barbatos is the most beautiful and elegant gundam
New in your channel nice video I m only have one year with gundam and I feel in love with the series and with the gundam kits
Nice vid man
Good review dude.
What is the more realistic animation that showcases ones like the G-self, Unicorn, Turn A and 00 Gundam? Any links to that video??
"Machine Guns everywhere".
Gotta love Heavy Arms
Excellent overview, thank you.
This will be the most divisive way I'll say here on TH-cam, and I'm not taking it back.
People who say IBO Gundams don't look like Gundams are either not true Gundam fans, or are more blind than I am(and boy am I fucking blind, I can't see the words on a street-sign from across the street, even with my glasses).
What video did you use for the montage? The one with every gundam in it?
Doesnt matter what video i will rewind the Unicorn part several times coz damn that horse is BEAUTIFUL
LOOK AT IT ALL OPEN UP AND GLOWY
Gundam Wing was my initiation to the series, than 00........ Nice video, man.
Great video!
Dude it was very cool, You did a long research lol thank for the video keep it up I would like to see more videos...
Thank You... I'll try to release more videos soon!
@@absa yo u forgot victory,8th ms team, war in the pocket, and gundam x, could u make a follow up vid or smth?
I enjoyed myself thoroughly with this video!
Excellent doc.😄👍
Gundam barbatoes is the best design of all the mobile suit, but the ending was sad
Syd Mead R.I.P.
Prettiest curves of all Gundams.
i do love the savage gundams in ibo :)
Love this video man ^_^
Where is the all gundams scene in the intro part from? Just wanna know
Great video, but you skipped Ez8 from 08th MS Team. That is probably the least Gundam looking Gundam.
Its look is justified in the show as it's basically a field patch job, but the only classic Gundam design it keeps is the mouth vents and eyes.
Regardless, this was still a very comprehensive look at the design over the years.
The mustache gundam the turn a looks a lot less gundam them the ez8
ABSA this is nice video!
The Lupus Rex is the best Gundam design ever. Full stop.
Barbatos Lupus Rex and The Gremory model are one of my favorite designs but there are so many other good model designs gundam or non gundams.
From where is the NU Gundam scene taken from which comes at 00:31 ?
Very well presented video. Gundam has sure come a long way regarding its designs.
Yeah, the franchise has evolved a lot since its early days. Looking forward for the 40th anniversary projects.
What is the animation used at the start of this video?
the unicorn gundam actually has 3 humanoid modes, normal, destroy, and awakened
Does anyone know where I can watch this full clip? 13:45
Woah theres still comments from 2 weeks ago
Gundam fans never get tired of robots huh
I still like the classic rx78 design, in cucuruz doans island recently towards the end it looked downright menacing and it was glorious
Absalonikas saludos aca si explicaras todas las lineas de como ver gundam, o por lo menos explica la universal centuary que debo ver primero las peliculas, los mangas, los especiales o las series, aqui esta gundam origen
Si me gustaría intentarlo... pero creo que todavía no estoy preparado para explicar la cronología de Gundam jaja.
after main UC story gundams evolved according to its surrounding
G: is a mechafied dragonball
wing: people digs fantasy that time so feather and bat like wings are just there
seed: try to modernized the design
Unicorn: to bring back Old fans
Age: For all ages (doesnt live up)
ibo: year before in Gunpla contest, those no waist armor is a thing and sexy . after that we were surprised the next gundam has no waist armor
True
One does not forget gundam x. It was before seed
the champion of thickness got me
Regardless of what people say, Seed designs are my favorite.
I'm with you there
Same
amen my brother!
my personal fav are:
Nu Gundam
Aile Strike Gundam
Force Impulse Gundam
and still unshaken.
I just hope you meant it's only the shape/color stuff, because damn their security design needs some work
champion of thickness🤣 20:31
I get why you didn’t include the Build series though you may have needed to mention the Beginning Gundam from the OAV.
No one cares about Gunpla Builders