Gundam Thunderbolt review: Gundam goes Grimdark

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  • So, do you kids like Jazz? Do you like Grimdark? Let's do a Gundam Thunderbolt review then, since it has both of them in spades. Time to join the jazz band as we follow Io Fleming and Daryl Lorenz for this non-canon romp through the One Year War!
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  • @2saisai
    @2saisai ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I hope one day we get the rest of manga/series. It's genuinely my favourite gundam anime/movie.

    • @DICEBOY22
      @DICEBOY22 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Seems like their still releasing and coming out... Vol. 19 is out on March 21'st 2023 occording to Amazon.
      Is thier some debacle where we're missing a whole other 20 volumes or something?

    • @Jordanf777
      @Jordanf777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @nekomancer4641
      @nekomancer4641 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the rest of the manga honestly turned weird.

    • @robmar1014
      @robmar1014 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With how off the rails it goes I think they are hesitant lol. I know Japan is less focused on "canon" than western nerds, but the Thunderbolt manga breaks it so thoroughly after where the anime ends it's hard to rectify. The manga is incredible though so I could care less.

  • @clpfox470
    @clpfox470 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I think the manga did a few things better (like how Darrel lost his hand) but ultimately i think thunderbolts theme of the futility of war is well reflected in the anime. The sector that was contested didn't even play a part in aboa qu. The living dead was told to fight to the last for no good reason other than zeal. And many people were killed needlessly in a floating graveyard.

    • @saturationstation1446
      @saturationstation1446 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if you think war is futile its because you cant accept the reason why they actually happen in the first place. which is to cull the working class before their numbers give them too much power over the ruling class. every single war in modern times and many in antiquity are done solely for this reason. to consolidate wealth. and the rich people from each side are always working together, no matter what you want to think. its always rich vs poor.

    • @byakugan641
      @byakugan641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i love how they visualize the battlefield plus the sfx of the lightning always give me goosebumps, tho that's just my opinion on the first anime only

  • @caydensartanimations3301
    @caydensartanimations3301 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    One of my favorites actually. Not only for the quality but the JAZZ baby

  • @LetMeFLY649
    @LetMeFLY649 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "that the full armor gundam has the least fortunate acronym..."
    'what do you mean by tha- oh, i see it now'

  • @epikmanthe3rd
    @epikmanthe3rd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Probably already mentioned, but Thunderbolt was supposed to, and still very well may, get a third season and so on. The story was heavily delayed due to the mangaka, Yasuo Ohtagaki devoloping tenosynovitis (inflammation around the tendons) making it very painful to draw. The studio has gone on to say they would like to continue Thunderbolt, but understandably have other Gundam series in the works at the moment.

    • @Polymerata
      @Polymerata หลายเดือนก่อน

      the worse timeline to ever exist, grim dark reality of gundam that has the same energy as the original.

  • @henryfleischer404
    @henryfleischer404 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I see Gundam Thunderbolt the anime as Sunrise experimenting with animation techniques as they got ready for Iron Blooded Orphans, with a story on the side. I've got no idea if that's true.

  • @leeellis784
    @leeellis784 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thunderbolt is a series I've been meaning to get into.

  • @awkwardempire9956
    @awkwardempire9956 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm really enjoying these reviews. I'm currently watching Zeta Gundam but I'll definitely put Thunderbolt on my watch list

    • @Templarzealot89
      @Templarzealot89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Any suggestions on where to watch them?

  • @Nix91
    @Nix91 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    So, what is it with Gundam and some really lovely looking redheads?

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yup. Think tomino has a thing for red-head. Probably got his soul stolen or sumthin.

    • @theutheone
      @theutheone 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's one of the reason why I keep watching tbh

  • @talonryckert6084
    @talonryckert6084 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One thing I love about Thunderbolt is the contrast of both sides. Two different design philosophies for dealing with this sector of space. Both are scraping the barrel so to speak for pilots, Zeon using their wounded and maimed, while the Federation uses child soldiers. Pair that with the two contrasting protagonists, and their relationships, and music, I find it a simple yet very compelling story, one of the best we have gotten recently.

  • @CMTechnica
    @CMTechnica 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love Thunderbolt. The first one that actually had me invested in the characters

  • @plaingreekyogurt996
    @plaingreekyogurt996 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is the series that got me into gundam. The manga is also really good. Io fleming is my favorite pilot and just finished my custom mg full armor thunderbolt ver ka this month.

    • @BigMicahC
      @BigMicahC  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dope. I'm hoping to get to do the MG Full Armor ver ka sometime in the near future. Just need to figure out the shelf space for it.

    • @KillerOrca
      @KillerOrca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BigMicahCIt's a hell of a kit

    • @Torriotorres
      @Torriotorres 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The original Gundam, got me into Gundam. Amuro

    • @kamilazman2943
      @kamilazman2943 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I syphatize with daryl and I bought hg psycho zaku. ver ka cost 3x more where I am from

  • @silverheart302
    @silverheart302 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    12:39 fellow redhead addict here, I gotta gush about the red hair AND ponytail. Perfect combo and then she EVEN GOT TATS, she is perfect ❤

  • @Balevolt
    @Balevolt 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Man I always thought of Darrel as the protagonist of Thunderbolt and Io as the antagonist.

  • @sebc8627
    @sebc8627 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just the usage of jazz, the art of finding rhythm in the chaos of noise, is the representative theme of an ace pilot who is shown numerous times flawlessly weaving through the heavy sniper fire and terrain of the thunderbolt zone, with an ace pilot themselves being people who have found, albeit temporary, rhythm in the chaos of war, just speaks volumes as to how peak of a miniseries/movie this was

  • @UrbanS_69
    @UrbanS_69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still need to watch Thunderbolt, but have built a couple of the HG kits. Wish they would have put out some kits of those Acguys, though.

  • @emmetfeely7760
    @emmetfeely7760 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:19-7:24 Full Armour Gundam, I see what you did there Micah😏

  • @rmw9420
    @rmw9420 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this... THIS IS GUNDAM.

  • @benlex5672
    @benlex5672 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just a note that the thunderbolt sector doesn't have EFSF presence, rather Moore Brotherhood takes charge here. Think of it as the National Guard of side-4 that's hiring from side-4 refugees only. As seen early in a meeting scene (when gundam was delivered) Moore brotherhood is very rich to the point that they bought enough warbonds and donations to persuade EFSF to send them a Gundam, which at this point of the war is a strategic psychological weapon, and later guncannons.
    On the tech side, considering that the wave riders, G-liners, and EXAM units were developed during the OYW on the EFF side in the original timeline, Gundam Atlas really isn't that far off tech-wise. Not to mention all the Zeon experimental suits that were developed by the end of OYW and ended up in the hands of EFF.

  • @NeoGato2point0
    @NeoGato2point0 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’ve been trying to get my best friend into Gundam and this one was the first one he really got into. I was curious if he would root for Io or Daryl since they’re both kind of the main characters. I was interested that he actually rooted passionately for Daryl and against Io. They’re an interesting pair of dual protagonists.

  • @Choso_Kamo_Productions
    @Choso_Kamo_Productions หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think if there’s a lesson/theme to be derived from Thunderbolt, it’s that there isn’t necessarily a good or bad side in war, and that despite their actions, soldiers on both sides of a war are human

  • @blessedbydarkness
    @blessedbydarkness 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was dark AF and I loved it. That Psycho Zaku was so awesome. It's because of the Zaku I got into Gundam. The first Gundam I liked was the Deathsythe Gundam and not another until Gundam Aerial but, the Zaku will always be my favorite mobile suit and the Psycho Zaku will always be my favorite of all Zaku.

  • @michaelsong3733
    @michaelsong3733 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "If your an anime fan"
    Me who has not see any of those other 3 anime: Guess I'll just die.

  • @RyohuHajimeRX-0UnicornGundam
    @RyohuHajimeRX-0UnicornGundam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely want to see where they go with Requiem for Vengeance! Might give this anime a run for its money.

  • @VoltitanDev
    @VoltitanDev ปีที่แล้ว +6

    4:57 Yeah both sides are complete assholes if there's one thing I like about UC Gundam is that they don't put either side in a positive light most of the times.

  • @deleonfrancis60
    @deleonfrancis60 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why in the hell do people call this not Canon it’ set in the UC era. It uses the uniform factions the story. It’s a side story isn’t it?

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There are instances of it contradicting the narratives of prior UC stuff.

    • @halifaxsteppenwulf7980
      @halifaxsteppenwulf7980 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s more… dubiously canon. It had a bunch of contradictions with well established tech and events, but other parts fit into the existing canon just fine.

    • @ronansorgdrager
      @ronansorgdrager 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Gundam is full of contradictions and whatever, just chalk it up to in-universe propaganda or inaccuracies as if it was a retelling. Everything animated is "canon"

  • @081Ghost
    @081Ghost 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has there been any news of a part III?

  • @basteagui
    @basteagui 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lol i gotta borrow that one.
    "if you remind me of a gundam it would but a Full.Armored.Gundam."

  • @impulse_media
    @impulse_media 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My wife and I just finished "December Sky" and it's near impossible to find "Bandit Flower"

    • @jasond2333
      @jasond2333 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I somehow got the Blue rays for both. I believe I got them both on Amazon.

  • @grizz7271
    @grizz7271 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for the vid- check your local library, they may have the Manga there 😁. The manga is amazing, and worth the read

  • @locdogg86
    @locdogg86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love how this show was produced. I wish more gundam shows were like it. I get tired of the whiny kids and pretentious rants and Ill timed rants.

  • @striker7469
    @striker7469 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fucking lit.

  • @johnsouto5221
    @johnsouto5221 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Michael Bay and Gundam!! How Dare You even think about that concept!! Keep that Spoiler out!!

  • @crozraven
    @crozraven 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Based on manga, it really goes deeper imo. I would say Thunderbolt really became style & substance. It really be asking you what does it mean to bring peace & how much are you willing to sacrifice for it. A lot people be saying that Hatheway is the best Gundam movie in recent years, while personally I would disagree with it & still pick MSG Thunderbolt December Sky or MSG Origin instead.

    • @CMTechnica
      @CMTechnica 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      “In recent years”
      The latest Thunderbolt was animated was 2017.

  • @KillerOrca
    @KillerOrca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sweet music, war crimes, bullying the diabled and no newtypes in signt. Thunderbolt was and still is my favorite Gundam show

    • @enrique6042
      @enrique6042 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      idk if I would recommend the manga to you then 🥴😭

  • @jasoncombs3232
    @jasoncombs3232 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    By far the best gundam anime imo.

  • @Nimrod336
    @Nimrod336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They say it outright in the second movie "hes no hero he just a pilot who hid behind kids" I can't believe they are making a new gundam seed and not a 3rd movie. Seed destiny was crap. Thunderbolt is amazing

  • @TheIntratec9
    @TheIntratec9 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Micah Curtis I hope you cover Destiny one day.

  • @D3sertGh0st
    @D3sertGh0st 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I mean gundam has always been grimdark especially UC. Its just that in msg 79 they never really panned too much into the cockpits of zakus that amuro sliced in half or shot up.

  • @williamcase426
    @williamcase426 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Gundam is the best

  • @giyoza1825
    @giyoza1825 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The narration is great but the actual video is so hard to watch because of the ultra low framerate

  • @pauljordan0203
    @pauljordan0203 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is an intersting series, though I'd wished they finished the manga and anime versions of the story, and not leave it indefinitely incomplete.

    • @enrique6042
      @enrique6042 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The manga is ongoing…

    • @pauljordan0203
      @pauljordan0203 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@enrique6042 well that's good news, hopefully they'll continue the anime version once the manga version is done.

  • @redpillforreal3053
    @redpillforreal3053 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its on no streaming apps

  • @bboyx2456
    @bboyx2456 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was saying the music sounded similar to something fr...

  • @shreypaliwal9170
    @shreypaliwal9170 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spoilers alert
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    Gundam Thunderbolt version Perfect Zeong looks amazing

  • @benparker1822
    @benparker1822 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's not canon, huh? That's too bad.

  • @mechamaniac1567
    @mechamaniac1567 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I must say that my feelings over Thunderbolt are really split. It's both OVERRATED and UNDERRATED.
    The OVA is definitely tremendously overrated because of one thing: Bandit Flower. It's just not an enjoyable watch. No, it's not because of the brutal fights and pretty terrifying fates of some of the characters. It's because it ends on a cliffhanger. Bandit Flower is just a 90 minute manga ad that's better off skipped. Now December Sky, that's a recommended watch. It's self-contained, ends conclusively and it has most of the same strengths Bandit Flower has.
    The MANGA, on the other hand, is incredibly underrated. Mecha is the one genre where anime absolutely trumps manga in terms of availability and approachability, so seeing it get licenced was amazing. And it's got so much more goodness the anime version simply never covered. Definitely worth the money.

  • @AzraelThanatos
    @AzraelThanatos ปีที่แล้ว

    Honestly, with Katoki, I've been getting more annoyed with him and constant tinkering with things.
    Glory of Losers is the big thing that kind of soured me on anything beyond his art, and he starts dumping retcons into things...with complexity only to make things convoluted.
    But I like his designs, just not the application of them with some things

  • @jaromswenson7541
    @jaromswenson7541 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i like thunderbolt up till a point. it had things i like and things i didnt. oftentimes it negated some of my least liked tropes
    - the trope of the overpowered gundam that trumps everything was negated by the high mobility zaku with cybernetic controls
    -there wasn't a single child soldier main character. all the main characters are adults and with previous military experience, and when they do add kids they are cannon fodder that die realy quick (just like how child soldiers actually perform in war)
    -the newtype stuff is almost nonexistant outside of the cult, but that was fine as it was less "super soldiers" and more "religious organization" (i dont know if this changes in the manga)
    -i normally get realy bored with gundams space combat (i much prefer ground combat), but the thunderbolt sector has so much debris that "cover" is actually a thing and much of the combat is about using cover.
    -the acguy stuff is just realy fun, realy wish there was more of it
    where the series fell off for me was when the introduced the atlas gundam. just seeing the hover skis realy triggered the "this is just made to sell a toy and not a serious war drama". i hated everything about it, it is nowhere as interesting as the full armor gundam and just overpowers everything it goes against, with no real challenge in the series. i dont know if this changes in the manga, but just seeing it made the manga less interesting to me (im still going to have to check it out sometime out of curiosity).

    • @KillerOrca
      @KillerOrca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On one hand, hover skis.
      On the other, it's a Gundam armed with a FUCKING RAILGUN

  • @louishavens7849
    @louishavens7849 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yo dude are you seriously trying to hurt yourself right now? You're about to buy the deluxe edition of berserk holy f****** s*** meant get ready for some new levels psychological scars you think you're messed up now get ready, because the s*** is about to get darker than you've ever seen dark get

  • @bkh3218
    @bkh3218 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    impressive video!! yes they hired a guy who worked with Yoko Kanno on CowBoy Bebop. but i felt the music in December Sky was not as good as Bandit Flower. i'm praying that they adapt the remainder of the Thunderbolt Manga as they have barely scratched the surface with the 1st 2 movies compilation films. I want 2 see the 'perfect' gundam in animation. i didn't like thunderbolt at first but once i sat down and watched it - it grew on me. now that i understand it, i love it. if they adapt the remainder of the manga to animation it will be the BEST 0079 side story series ever. even surpassing 0083 stardust memory which i feel is the best side story series.

  • @marcosdheleno
    @marcosdheleno หลายเดือนก่อน

    "gundam thunderbolt is gundam grimdark" original release 0079: thats so cute...

  • @azrael1045
    @azrael1045 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i hate the Atlas Gundam so very much

    • @Pokey_Puni_
      @Pokey_Puni_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who hurt you?

    • @thomasistheman1
      @thomasistheman1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Must be a Zeon fanatic. Death to the cowardly Zeon. Love live Side 4 Moore

    • @kindlingking
      @kindlingking 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I sorta agree. Seeing and entirely company of GMs getting slaughtered in seconds so this thing (or Full Armor for that matter) can they swoop in and solo all enemies with ease is boring as hell. Atlas feels like a solidified walking power fantasy for people obsessed with gundams.

  • @BLARG313
    @BLARG313 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Imagine being ignorant enough to say December Sky isn’t deep

    • @BigMicahC
      @BigMicahC  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Compared to a lot of other Gundam shows and stories? No, it isn't.

    • @BLARG313
      @BLARG313 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@BigMicahC false information sir. The film is a masterpiece

    • @Torriotorres
      @Torriotorres 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's 4 books. Not a movie so much