Personally, I thought the critiques about the characters' 'wooden' facial expressions seemed exaggerated considering similar examples from the: - Resident Evil, Starship Troopers and Appleseed CGI animated movies - FPS video game cinematic scenes like in Call of Duty, Mass Effect and Halo. I found myself enjoying the more limited mecha scenes+action, which I think enhances the mecha scenes+action enjoyment whenever they appear. They also further sell how deadly the Gundam is against Zeon's Zaku, Zaku Tank and Gouf models. It's like I'm watching the original first two Predator movies where the Gundam's the Predator and Zeon's Zaku, Zaku Tank and Gouf models are the unlucky human soldiers/warriors/fighters the Predator aliens usually hunt for sport and trophies. Plus, I found myself enjoying the details given to show the mobile suits' body+limb movements as I personally felt it reminds the viewers they are heavy, humanoid machines, not giant humans with fluid, organic movements. I also enjoyed the greater amount of Zeon vs Federation action scenes involving their regular infantry, conventional AFVs and aircraft. The scenes where we see the regular Zeon and Federation regular infantry also try to face off against each other's mobile suits using their existing conventional AT weapons, Zaku Tanks and Guntanks and AFVs (especially the Type-61 and Magella tanks) adds more immersion and further sells how dangerous humanoid mobile suits are in-universe, which required the need to have humanoid mobile suits in-universe to face enemy mobile suits. That portrayal reminds me of the Titanfall 2 trailer which mentioned that while overwhelming firepower+numbers and combined arms by conventional infantry and AFVs could take down Titan mechs, the most efficient counter against enemy Titan mechs and Pilot would be having your own Titan mechs and Pilots.
Honestly, as a Gundam Noob myself, I think its sick as hell. The horror aspect is really selling it for me. The fact that the Gundam is mysterious and sinister really sells it for me!
@djciregethigher I honestly might do a series of myself just going through all of gundam and experiencing it for the first time and seeing how it goes. My robot mech mood is at an all time high. Loved that the white devil got portrayed like this. I liked the horror too. I would definitely take more series like this....as long as they update how the humans look xD
The Gundam is actually sinister in the eyes of Zeon military, once you see it on the field you are going to be fucked. Its moniker for the Zeon was "White Devil". I would recommend you look up, Gundam Thunderbolt. You will see the reaction of the Zeon soldiers when they saw the gundam. There are clips here on YT BTW.
I recommend reading the manga "mobile suit gundam: battle tales of flanagan boone" its also focuses on Zeon's perspective on to how they view the gundam types. I also recommend watching the ms: igloo series, although the cg animation is bad, it focuses on the grunts of the OYW.
RFV ain't half bad, but If you want more Zeon focused show, I'd recommend 0080 war in the pocket. Despit the fact that it was released back in 1989, it is a damn masterpiece, both in terms of story and animation.
I recommend: For a reset or singular Gundam storyline: Gundam Seed (Destiny, the follow up, bad) the movie Freedom was good, but you might need Destiny to see that one. Gundam 00. Iron Blooded Orphans. Gundam After War X. Turn A Gundam - a fantasy Gundam series - lots of fun and unique. Build Fighters Try is a unique spin about GUNPLA - so the gundam models - best of this type in my opinion. You can watch the initial Gundam Build Fighters too, but I thought Build Fighters Try was better. Gundam Wing was good in the 90s, but I don't know how well its aged, it has pacing issues, Endless Waltz however, the movie, or special, still holds up. Main timeline of Gundam recommendations: Origins. Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team Thunderbolt War in the Pocket Zeta Gundam Double Zeta (or ZZ Gundam) Char's Counter Attack Gundam Unicorn (I really loved this one). Those are, in my opinion, the priorities for Universal Century - the official timeline. Skip Witch from Mercury - in my opinion, it fails at being its own Gundam and more just uses Gundam to tell a very flimsy high school drama that somehow, the children's drama is the importance of the world/universal affairs - its stupid in my opinion. F-91 not great... has potential but failed overall... maybe give that one a chance. G Gundam is unique, its very dragon ball Gundam, its fine, I wasn't a big fan - see, I'd rather go Build Fighters Try. Anyways, enjoy, Gundam has a wide range and a lot to offer - so you do you and enjoy what you connect with.
The ending was just stupid, in both how the Gundam was taken out and the utterly nonsensical decision making of Iria Solari. In saying that though I really enjoyed the rest of it, I mean the voice acting was a mixed bag, even comical in places but the action was by and large *chefs kiss*. The titular Gundam was for the majority of the show an excellent representation of exactly why Zeon named them 'The White Devil', the thing was fucking terrifying, it was less mecha action in some parts and more Slasher horror.
@Sevarrius Yeah did feel a bit wild to have leeshaun appear out of thin air and rumble the gundam. Like is that how the gundam dies or like does it get a new mantle. Or is that not even the main gundam. Yeah the voice acting was ehh at best but iria was definitely bad ass and the gundam fighting was definitely chefs kiss !! I'm excited to embark on more gundam. Hope you enjoy the future vids xD
@@TheBoomerBase hah, yeah sneaking up on and backstabbing a newtype like that shouldn't really be possible from everything we've seen of newtypes over the course of the Gundam franchise. It was very silly. Yup its not actually the main hero Gundam(the RX-78-2), I'm pretty positive it's the Gundam EX. It's much the same as the Hero Gundam, but it's specifically made for Ground combat and reconnaissance, which is why the head looks quite a bit different from the Hero Gundam because it has to fit a load of extra sensor equipment. I personally prefer the head on this Gundam, it just looks meaner and was a good choice for what was supposed to be a terrifying unit. Plus it's pretty close to the Gundam ground type which is my favourite Gundam unit from my favourite Gundam show: 08th MS Team. If you want to watch a similar Gundam show, from the same time period of the Federation and Zeon war on earth, with a much better and far more satisfying story and action that's just as good(the last fight is considered one of the best in the enitre Gundam franchise) I can HIGHLY recommend it.
@Sevarrius Love this !!! I am happy to know it's not the hero gundam that makes more sense then. Was going to say it would be bizarre if that's how the hero bit the dust. Cause I swore he becomes like an adult. Another gundam series added to the list. I think im going to be doing a series of going through each season I have enjoyed dipping my toe into gundam
@@TheBoomerBase As you look more into Gundam, it will help to keep in mind that RFV is not in continuity with the main Universal Century property, that was stated when it was first announced; same applies to things like The Origin and Thunderbolt (two of the more popular examples anyway) - they use the Universal Century setting but are their own isolated works outside of continuity. A LOT of the manga spinoffs are like this too or at least run on the conceit that the events might not be accurate or might have never actually happened...most of anything staring Johnny Ridden is like that. This is usually done to just not have to worry about consistency with decades of material or with staying within the technical limitations of the time period (since a major element of the IP is the pretty rapid improvements in MS engineering, like even the obsolete starting machines in Zeta like the Hi-Zack and the GM II vastly outperform what was being used in the One Year War). None of that is considering all the different alternate universes with no narrative ties to UC- Wing was one of those, so were G Gundam, 00, Iron Blooded Orphans, and the most recent Witch from Mercury, to name a few examples- any of those can be consumed without worrying about a million other shows and spinoffs (they have their own spinoffs too but not the quantity of UC) and make good jumping on points for the collective Gundam IP So when looking into other mainline UC shows, don't scratch your head too much about if stuff you see in this just doesn't sync with the original 1979 series, 0080, 0083, Zeta, etc. A lot of entries are set in the One Year War, that is to say the time period of the original 1979 show, as sidestories to it. 08th MS Team (1996) for example is a very narrow focused sidestory about a Federation battalion fighting in Southeast Asia, but it's at the very tail end of the war as Zeon has already lost all momentum on Earth and is in process of evacuating back to space where the back stretch of the 1979 show takes place. Similarly 0080 takes place in the final days of the war, in a colony largely away from any of the major battlefield lines. Also happening in the middle of it would be video games like ever-popular The Blue Destiny (focusing on a MS field testing team for the Federation as they get pulled into a very shady project involving a powerful blue MS that seemingly moves with a will of its own) or Rise From the Ashes (focusing on a Federation special forces team fighting in Australia to prevent the release of a bioweapon) By the by, you did pronounce GM correctly, it's read as "Jim" and they were from the original series. They're a design scaled-down for mass production unit produced from the project data the Gundam, Guncannon, and Guntank were designed in- they were not as durable but significantly lighter, and still more durable, faster, and heavier armed than almost everything Zeon had during the OYW. RFV's design for them is not one of the more well received depictions, there's something kinda uncanny and wrong looking about it (to me it's over detailed and they're not supposed to have monoeyes- GM's are supposed to have binocular eyes under the visors)
@gtf234 I legit love this comment. So full of knowledge I love it. Gundam is a hurdle I have wanted to cross for so long. But it's so daunting. Starting with origin will give me a nice feel I think and then I can just go forward with things and hope for the best. Worst case I get to learn more from awesome viewers like yourself !! Yes for pronouncing jim right i normally suck at that XD
@@WAMoralesIgnacio the scrap zakus looked dope as fuck. Reminded me of like Reel Steel and Pacific Rim just building with what you got and making the most out of the materials at hand to make some powerful zakus that could go toe to toe with the non scrap ones
@@TheBoomerBase and the Gundam design looks unique with a very mechanical design like it's a prototype rushed into service so soon that they haven't even installed the final V fin yet
@@WAMoralesIgnacio I wonder if there is a series that focuses more on scrap gundam and zakus. Like I have heard of build fighters but I don't know if that's the right vibe
@@TheBoomerBase Iron Blooded Orphans. All the suits there are recycled MS frames and drive cores. Technology sort of stagnated after their last great war and a lot of the tech to make the MS are no longer available or is heavily controlled.
@@TheBoomerBaseIron Blooded Orphans comes to mind. The suits there are made from recycled MS frames. Turn A is also full of relic weapons but the design is an acquired taste
Something that really seems off about this, at least to me, as how.. wrong all the Mobile Suits in this show move. They don't move like massive war machines, they move like people in mo-cap suits. No weight, no momentum, it's honestly TOO fluid. Couple that with the lighting and this honest feels much more like Pacific Rim than Gundam. Except PR at least did remember that these are giant robots. And while I love Pacific Rim to death (such a shame we never got a sequel) that isn't the kind of vibe you'd look for in a Gundam show.
I liked the show and i hope for S2 that has a little bit bigger budget, slighty better animations, similar story and more Magella Attack Tanks, Magella Eins, Dopps and Zaku 1s.
@Mestari1Gaming You know what I think after more reflection I did too. To a degree at least. I think if there is a continuation then they need to up there game with the human side. But yeah need more mech on mech fights as they were awesome !!
If you want to watch Gundam I recommend you start with the rest of the UC timeline like Gundam 0079 and 8th ms team and war in the pocket they are in the same year as this one and war in the pocket is a great christmas series then Gundam 0083 then you have zeta (the Z one) then ZZ (double zeta) char's counterattack then unicorn then NT then Hathaway then f91 and last victory If you want other timeline then you have seed/seed destiny and seed freedom and you have Gundam 00 S1 and S2 and Gundam age and Gundam X sorry for the very long list
Besides the last 5 minutes of the series (which to me is really bad) as a hardcore Gundam fan I really enjoy the series. The one downside of this show for someone like you that is a noob, is that down plays the evil of Zeon in the One Year War. Zeon is literally space Nazis and thanks to them half of the total human population is killed in the first month of the war.
I don't know if I'd say it downplays it, it just doesn't have a chance or a reason to touch on it. The literal space nazis are the people at the top of Zeon, most of the rank and file are just soldiers following orders, kind of like actual WWII Germany and all we see are rank and file soldiers. You do get to see a flash of the reality in the Gundam pilots pretty strong and hateful reaction to Iria Solari when she later tries to talk with him during their final fight...before he does a 180 flip because of newtype feelings magic. I guess the real Gundam was the friends we made along the way? I interpreted how the Gundam Pilot acted and the things he said as hinting that his mother/parents were killed by Zeon. Who knows, maybe they were casualties of Operation British, that would make someone driven and hateful alright. Either way I would be interested in actually finding out more about the Gundam Pilot at some point.
@cpgrad07 Yeah I certainly get what you mean. Like I know Zeon are some rough guys and are very bad. But it was nice to see that not all are bad. I assume they gave us some like rag tag zeon people. Like a couple of the characters you could see were down right horrible like that major or captain guy from the scrap yard was a nasty man. But hoping we get more in the future !!
@@TheBoomerBase Operation British was one the crazy atrocities Zeon did in the beginning of the war. Basically they dumped a 20km-long space colony (a big tubular space station where space people live in) onto Australia, cratering Sydney and creating massive damage on Earth both from the impact and environmental changes. It's a cool part of the lore and really gives the nuance that shows even if the Feddies are bad, Zeons are bad too.
For Gundam, I would recommend Gundam Thunderbolt (Both December Sky and Bandit Flower). The AV shows the POV of Earth Federation and Zeon Principality. Really good show, specially the music. If you already watched The Origin and the 1979 show, the story would be really easy to understand. Since Thunderbolt was supposedly happening during and after the One Year War. For other timeline, I really liked Gundam 00, since the show happens during our time (Anno Domini). But if you want some wacky stuff and not so serious, my favorite Gundam series was G Gundam.
@jessfarinas1842 Thankyou for the recommendation. I have added them to the list. It turns out I watched the tv show origin the advent of the red comet. But I am now watching the original origin in movie form
I just discovered Gundam through the model kits so my opinion carries no weight here but I just can’t stand the look of the show. It looks like video game cutscenes.
A good video I recommend watching to understand the Gundam universe timeline is by BigMicahC. Title : Gundam Explained: The One Year War - THE FULL SAGA #gundam #mobilesuitgundam. Its about 4hrs long but they explain really well from start to finish on what goes on and at what point each show and movie from Gundam started. I just finished watching Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance and I would have to give it a 5 out of 10.
@JuanJohnSmith 5 outta 10 is certainly very fair ! I will add that video to my list. I think I will wait till I have consumed more as don't want to spoil stuff for myself. I will be doing a series going through gundam as a whole and my experiences with it !
personally just started by looking up which series/ movies were in the universal century timeline and then went through the ones I found interesting in release order. original Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ and Char's Counterattack are sort of the base of the timeline and you can basically fully enjoy anything in the UC (Universal Century) timeline after watching those afaik.
Can I just say loving the Preyas profile pic ! Ooo very interesting and nicely simple, thankyou for this. Think my journey so far is going to be rewatching the Gundam Origin, maybe reading the manga alongside. Then watching either the original gundam or the films and deciding from there. Does that sound ok?
@@TheBoomerBasePreyas the man, but yeah sounds good. From what I've heard you might miss some references and stuff to og gundam in origin but I think it's a valid starting point
@cash445 Honestly it's got me watching bakugan again xD I think I own most of those as well as being on crunchyroll so I am certainly excited to embark down the route. I started origin tonight! Although I found out I had watched the 13 ep origin not the movie one I am watching now
As a long time UC timeline fan, I thought this show was a very good entry. Is it perfect? No. As you said the human animation and look is very rough and plasticky. It is a time and budgetary limitation. As someone who works in the animation industry I know this all too well. You have to pick your battles when it comes to production. The Unreal Engine can produce much better looking humans, so it's not a limitation of their choice of tools. I mean look on the other side of the things. The warfare, hardware, and mobile suits I thought were depicted very very well. The way they move had weight and impact. The show had some pacing issues, but it never took away from my engagement of the story. Back to the humans, although they moved and looked a little stiff, the characters themselves were interesting enough. I hear some complaining a lot of them were generic. I think they focused on the main character(s), then kept the side characters as, side characters. Gone are the days of 22, or 45 episode seasons. We don't have that time to expand on everything. Overall very good show. Something I'd rewatch again down the line, particularly for the mobile suit scenes.
@raimee81 100% agree. I hope that Netflix will continue with gundam as a property. Would be nice to have newer viewers for it. I really am kicking myself its taken this long to embark on the journey
Just a few things for background: The Midnighters were a group of Gouf units, not Zakus. They are upgraded units meant to replace the Zaku and have upgraded speed and power, different armor and different weapons. Notably Heat Swords instead of Heat Hawks (axes). The majority of Gundam stories come from the Universal Century timeline which can be seen when in universe time is refered to as UC0079, etc. After Colony for example, is the Gundam: Wing timeline (taking place in AC195) The Zeon vs EFF thing basically boils down to Space Nazis more or less. The Principality of Zeon declared independence from Earth on the space colonies (called Sides) and were extremely Militaristic, Fascist, and later became "Racist" in a sense in an attempt to cultivate "New Type" humans who had extrasensory abilities and allowed them to pilot mobile suits at a much higher level. Zeon is definitely evil as a faction. They killed billions on 3 different "Sides" in space amd nerve gassed whole colonies along with dropping space stations on strategic Earth locations.
@Trayton what's the difference between gouf and zaku or is this something I will learn down the line. It's good to know i wasn't wrong with thinking zeon are evil. I'm trying to stick to UC stuff. But hoping when I start doing videos on gundam. People like yourself will guide me in the right way :)
@@TheBoomerBase the MS-07B Gouf units were produced and meant to replace MS-06 Zaku II's as the standard infantry unit. They're better in just about every way in terms of armor, speed, and maneuverability but the increases weren't enough to justify the costs so only a small run was made. A more cost efficient unit was produced shortly after the Gouf saw combat which was the MS-09B Dom.
@Trayton I understood all of that other than the gundam names xD but that does make sense to have a more elite unit. Like a special ops squad of better gundams sounds dope tbf
@@TheBoomerBase yeah, Zeon mobile suit names are a bit wild lol. MS denotes Mobile Suit and the 2 digit number is the military designation. It also shows what iteration or revision of this particular mobile suit is. So a standard Gouf unit is designated MS-07B or Mobile Suit-Type 7, 2nd iteration. There were 6 different mobile suit types before it, and the Gouf model designated A was improved or modified, bringing about the B model.
@@RamansSon I think is the largest property for anime as a whole. But I still believe that statement of not enough are watching it. As long as I continue to get on with it I'm going to advocate for it !!
NO. Gundam 00. Gundam Seed (don't need Destiny). Gundam After War X. Gundam Unicorn. Build Fighters Try (very fun spin/take on Gundam). Gundam Thunderbolt. Gundam War in the Pocket. Gundam Zeta. 08th MS Team. These are the best of the best. Iron Blooded Orphans is good too, but not the ONLY THING "WORTH WATCHING"... how dare you. On my list its like number 5 or 6... I am bias to Gundam Seed being my fave, followed by 00. Zeta. Unicorn. After War X. IOB. Try Fighters. These are such good ones, oh, and Turn A Gundam - a more fantastical Gundam series... but all great.
I normally HATE Gundam and the anime series it's success spawned. Every series boils down to: "I'm a child prodigy soldier, but I hate war. Oh and I have a big overpowered mech that is bigger and better than all the other mechs for some reason, but I hate using it in war. Oh and I am sent out to do missions where I mow down enemies in job lots, but I feel bad about it... because war. I'm never in any danger because you know, big overpowered mech that is unstoppable, but the drama isn't if the machine can do the job but if I can... because I'm conflicted.... about war." Spinning the camera around and showing the Gundam as a Jason from Friday the 13th style monster the other side must view it as was a GREAT idea. My biggest complaint with the execution of that is they did far to many "Oh shit the Gundam is going to shoot me... oh never-mind someone off-screen to the right shot it I'm good now" saves. They also managed to frustrate me by introducing previously mentioned emo child soldier in the last two episodes which I could have done without, I feel it would have been better if they just left the Gundam as a human-less "monster" but overall this was a nice change of pace. TLDR: Better than it had any right to be given the franchise.
@mafuletrekkie that is a very interesting take on how to view gundam. I can see how that could be quite annoying and cliche if it happens in near all the shows. I defo feel in this they should have made the gundam humanless I agree on that. It was nice just having the gundam be ruthless
This is the type of comment I love, although my smooth brain took a few minutes to work out what MSG meant xD are these the starting points or like series that I can watch without context? Heard of Iron Blooded being a good standalone!
Gundam 0080 war in the pocket, gundam 0083 stardust memory, gundam thunderbolt anime and manga. Stick to the universal century timeline it’s the best. If you watch the first gundam watch the movie trilogy rather than the series.
@Spacewolves206 It was just from watching transformers one and watching armada I am on a mech hype so thought I would tackle gundam. Seemed like a good time to do so :)
I am a long time GUNDAM fan and this...OMG is the wrost in the UC series. Firstly, the GUNDAM pilot doesn't even have a name. secondly, the first appearance of the GUNDAM was described as a white devil that almost wiped out the entire squad which I assumed the name of white devil comes from killing lots of Zeon MSs and soldiers before the first encounter with the main character. However, the GUNDAM became weaker and weaker that it didn't even live up to its name THE WHITE DEVIL as I kept watching. Lastly, the GUNDAM pilot was killed because of some BS conversations with the main character? As a hardcore fan, every GUNDAM has a sound alert in the cockpit when enemy approaches and he did nothing? Even if the alert fails to work, the GUNDAM pilot is a Newtype, how the hell did he not sense danger? The most rediculous thing is when the main character says I am a Mother just wanna go home to see my family...the GUNDAM pilot stopped attacking....so he never thought about the zeon soldiers he killed might actually have been fathers or brothers that their familes are also waiting for them back home? I bet the scrpit writer knows nothing about GUNDAM and the only thing I like about this series is the CGI and remodeling the MS in great detail...that's all.
@922apocalypse Yeah I was not a fan of him dying to be fair. It felt just for the sake of the plot. The white devil was much more menacing on first contact and his threat felt less and less every time we saw him
This is by far the worst Gundam animation I’ve ever seen, and I give it a negative rating. The dialogue in the animation says that the Zaku saved many lives, but in the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, the war initiated by Zeon against the Federation killed nearly 6 billion people. The ironic part is that the Zaku was Zeon’s most advanced killing machine.
@@yueli9984 I think the mech animation was good and looked great in some of the fight scenes. But the human aspect really let it down. Now I have only started watching gundam origin and even for a show that's nearly 10 years old now it looks fantastic
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Personally, I thought the critiques about the characters' 'wooden' facial expressions seemed exaggerated considering similar examples from the:
- Resident Evil, Starship Troopers and Appleseed CGI animated movies
- FPS video game cinematic scenes like in Call of Duty, Mass Effect and Halo.
I found myself enjoying the more limited mecha scenes+action, which I think enhances the mecha scenes+action enjoyment whenever they appear. They also further sell how deadly the Gundam is against Zeon's Zaku, Zaku Tank and Gouf models.
It's like I'm watching the original first two Predator movies where the Gundam's the Predator and Zeon's Zaku, Zaku Tank and Gouf models are the unlucky human soldiers/warriors/fighters the Predator aliens usually hunt for sport and trophies.
Plus, I found myself enjoying the details given to show the mobile suits' body+limb movements as I personally felt it reminds the viewers they are heavy, humanoid machines, not giant humans with fluid, organic movements.
I also enjoyed the greater amount of Zeon vs Federation action scenes involving their regular infantry, conventional AFVs and aircraft. The scenes where we see the regular Zeon and Federation regular infantry also try to face off against each other's mobile suits using their existing conventional AT weapons, Zaku Tanks and Guntanks and AFVs (especially the Type-61 and Magella tanks) adds more immersion and further sells how dangerous humanoid mobile suits are in-universe, which required the need to have humanoid mobile suits in-universe to face enemy mobile suits.
That portrayal reminds me of the Titanfall 2 trailer which mentioned that while overwhelming firepower+numbers and combined arms by conventional infantry and AFVs could take down Titan mechs, the most efficient counter against enemy Titan mechs and Pilot would be having your own Titan mechs and Pilots.
I don't care what other people say but gundam being terminator is so cool, as cool as those realistic Gouf!
@@kamilazman2943 it was very cool to see it in such a dark menacing light. No feelings slaughtering all with ease
Honestly, as a Gundam Noob myself, I think its sick as hell. The horror aspect is really selling it for me. The fact that the Gundam is mysterious and sinister really sells it for me!
@djciregethigher I honestly might do a series of myself just going through all of gundam and experiencing it for the first time and seeing how it goes. My robot mech mood is at an all time high.
Loved that the white devil got portrayed like this. I liked the horror too. I would definitely take more series like this....as long as they update how the humans look xD
Hey me too!
The Gundam is actually sinister in the eyes of Zeon military, once you see it on the field you are going to be fucked. Its moniker for the Zeon was "White Devil". I would recommend you look up, Gundam Thunderbolt. You will see the reaction of the Zeon soldiers when they saw the gundam.
There are clips here on YT BTW.
@@retrodemogamer we love to hear more gundam noons!!
I recommend reading the manga "mobile suit gundam: battle tales of flanagan boone" its also focuses on Zeon's perspective on to how they view the gundam types. I also recommend watching the ms: igloo series, although the cg animation is bad, it focuses on the grunts of the OYW.
I liked that you can see the perspective of Zeon. Series was really nice
@@xavierfroidevaux955 The perspective of zeon knowing they are the bad guys as a gundam noob was really interesting to see ! Thankyou for the comment
I’m a Gundam fan since it’s inception in 1979. This series is pure Gundam spirit and I like it very, very much!
@@natalebabbo-gunplaanddioramas So cool to have been a fan. I am now definitely a fan from 2024 and hope to continue !!
RFV ain't half bad, but If you want more Zeon focused show, I'd recommend 0080 war in the pocket. Despit the fact that it was released back in 1989, it is a damn masterpiece, both in terms of story and animation.
@@kenlee2193 Added to my list !!!
I recommend: For a reset or singular Gundam storyline:
Gundam Seed (Destiny, the follow up, bad) the movie Freedom was good, but you might need Destiny to see that one.
Gundam 00.
Iron Blooded Orphans.
Gundam After War X.
Turn A Gundam - a fantasy Gundam series - lots of fun and unique.
Build Fighters Try is a unique spin about GUNPLA - so the gundam models - best of this type in my opinion. You can watch the initial Gundam Build Fighters too, but I thought Build Fighters Try was better.
Gundam Wing was good in the 90s, but I don't know how well its aged, it has pacing issues, Endless Waltz however, the movie, or special, still holds up.
Main timeline of Gundam recommendations:
Origins.
Mobile Suit Gundam
08th MS Team
Thunderbolt
War in the Pocket
Zeta Gundam
Double Zeta (or ZZ Gundam)
Char's Counter Attack
Gundam Unicorn (I really loved this one).
Those are, in my opinion, the priorities for Universal Century - the official timeline.
Skip Witch from Mercury - in my opinion, it fails at being its own Gundam and more just uses Gundam to tell a very flimsy high school drama that somehow, the children's drama is the importance of the world/universal affairs - its stupid in my opinion.
F-91 not great... has potential but failed overall... maybe give that one a chance.
G Gundam is unique, its very dragon ball Gundam, its fine, I wasn't a big fan - see, I'd rather go Build Fighters Try.
Anyways, enjoy, Gundam has a wide range and a lot to offer - so you do you and enjoy what you connect with.
The ending was just stupid, in both how the Gundam was taken out and the utterly nonsensical decision making of Iria Solari.
In saying that though I really enjoyed the rest of it, I mean the voice acting was a mixed bag, even comical in places but the action was by and large *chefs kiss*. The titular Gundam was for the majority of the show an excellent representation of exactly why Zeon named them 'The White Devil', the thing was fucking terrifying, it was less mecha action in some parts and more Slasher horror.
@Sevarrius Yeah did feel a bit wild to have leeshaun appear out of thin air and rumble the gundam. Like is that how the gundam dies or like does it get a new mantle. Or is that not even the main gundam. Yeah the voice acting was ehh at best but iria was definitely bad ass and the gundam fighting was definitely chefs kiss !! I'm excited to embark on more gundam. Hope you enjoy the future vids xD
@@TheBoomerBase hah, yeah sneaking up on and backstabbing a newtype like that shouldn't really be possible from everything we've seen of newtypes over the course of the Gundam franchise. It was very silly.
Yup its not actually the main hero Gundam(the RX-78-2), I'm pretty positive it's the Gundam EX.
It's much the same as the Hero Gundam, but it's specifically made for Ground combat and reconnaissance, which is why the head looks quite a bit different from the Hero Gundam because it has to fit a load of extra sensor equipment. I personally prefer the head on this Gundam, it just looks meaner and was a good choice for what was supposed to be a terrifying unit. Plus it's pretty close to the Gundam ground type which is my favourite Gundam unit from my favourite Gundam show: 08th MS Team.
If you want to watch a similar Gundam show, from the same time period of the Federation and Zeon war on earth, with a much better and far more satisfying story and action that's just as good(the last fight is considered one of the best in the enitre Gundam franchise) I can HIGHLY recommend it.
@Sevarrius Love this !!!
I am happy to know it's not the hero gundam that makes more sense then. Was going to say it would be bizarre if that's how the hero bit the dust. Cause I swore he becomes like an adult.
Another gundam series added to the list. I think im going to be doing a series of going through each season I have enjoyed dipping my toe into gundam
@@TheBoomerBase As you look more into Gundam, it will help to keep in mind that RFV is not in continuity with the main Universal Century property, that was stated when it was first announced; same applies to things like The Origin and Thunderbolt (two of the more popular examples anyway) - they use the Universal Century setting but are their own isolated works outside of continuity. A LOT of the manga spinoffs are like this too or at least run on the conceit that the events might not be accurate or might have never actually happened...most of anything staring Johnny Ridden is like that. This is usually done to just not have to worry about consistency with decades of material or with staying within the technical limitations of the time period (since a major element of the IP is the pretty rapid improvements in MS engineering, like even the obsolete starting machines in Zeta like the Hi-Zack and the GM II vastly outperform what was being used in the One Year War). None of that is considering all the different alternate universes with no narrative ties to UC- Wing was one of those, so were G Gundam, 00, Iron Blooded Orphans, and the most recent Witch from Mercury, to name a few examples- any of those can be consumed without worrying about a million other shows and spinoffs (they have their own spinoffs too but not the quantity of UC) and make good jumping on points for the collective Gundam IP
So when looking into other mainline UC shows, don't scratch your head too much about if stuff you see in this just doesn't sync with the original 1979 series, 0080, 0083, Zeta, etc. A lot of entries are set in the One Year War, that is to say the time period of the original 1979 show, as sidestories to it. 08th MS Team (1996) for example is a very narrow focused sidestory about a Federation battalion fighting in Southeast Asia, but it's at the very tail end of the war as Zeon has already lost all momentum on Earth and is in process of evacuating back to space where the back stretch of the 1979 show takes place. Similarly 0080 takes place in the final days of the war, in a colony largely away from any of the major battlefield lines. Also happening in the middle of it would be video games like ever-popular The Blue Destiny (focusing on a MS field testing team for the Federation as they get pulled into a very shady project involving a powerful blue MS that seemingly moves with a will of its own) or Rise From the Ashes (focusing on a Federation special forces team fighting in Australia to prevent the release of a bioweapon)
By the by, you did pronounce GM correctly, it's read as "Jim" and they were from the original series. They're a design scaled-down for mass production unit produced from the project data the Gundam, Guncannon, and Guntank were designed in- they were not as durable but significantly lighter, and still more durable, faster, and heavier armed than almost everything Zeon had during the OYW. RFV's design for them is not one of the more well received depictions, there's something kinda uncanny and wrong looking about it (to me it's over detailed and they're not supposed to have monoeyes- GM's are supposed to have binocular eyes under the visors)
@gtf234 I legit love this comment. So full of knowledge I love it. Gundam is a hurdle I have wanted to cross for so long. But it's so daunting. Starting with origin will give me a nice feel I think and then I can just go forward with things and hope for the best. Worst case I get to learn more from awesome viewers like yourself !!
Yes for pronouncing jim right i normally suck at that XD
I like the Zaku design in the show. The welded on extra armor make sense.
@@WAMoralesIgnacio the scrap zakus looked dope as fuck. Reminded me of like Reel Steel and Pacific Rim just building with what you got and making the most out of the materials at hand to make some powerful zakus that could go toe to toe with the non scrap ones
@@TheBoomerBase and the Gundam design looks unique with a very mechanical design like it's a prototype rushed into service so soon that they haven't even installed the final V fin yet
@@WAMoralesIgnacio I wonder if there is a series that focuses more on scrap gundam and zakus. Like I have heard of build fighters but I don't know if that's the right vibe
@@TheBoomerBase Iron Blooded Orphans. All the suits there are recycled MS frames and drive cores. Technology sort of stagnated after their last great war and a lot of the tech to make the MS are no longer available or is heavily controlled.
@@TheBoomerBaseIron Blooded Orphans comes to mind. The suits there are made from recycled MS frames. Turn A is also full of relic weapons but the design is an acquired taste
Something that really seems off about this, at least to me, as how.. wrong all the Mobile Suits in this show move. They don't move like massive war machines, they move like people in mo-cap suits. No weight, no momentum, it's honestly TOO fluid. Couple that with the lighting and this honest feels much more like Pacific Rim than Gundam. Except PR at least did remember that these are giant robots. And while I love Pacific Rim to death (such a shame we never got a sequel) that isn't the kind of vibe you'd look for in a Gundam show.
I liked the show and i hope for S2 that has a little bit bigger budget, slighty better animations, similar story and more Magella Attack Tanks, Magella Eins, Dopps and Zaku 1s.
@Mestari1Gaming You know what I think after more reflection I did too. To a degree at least. I think if there is a continuation then they need to up there game with the human side. But yeah need more mech on mech fights as they were awesome !!
If you want to watch Gundam I recommend you start with the rest of the UC timeline like Gundam 0079 and 8th ms team and war in the pocket they are in the same year as this one and war in the pocket is a great christmas series then Gundam 0083 then you have zeta (the Z one) then ZZ (double zeta) char's counterattack then unicorn then NT then Hathaway then f91 and last victory
If you want other timeline then you have seed/seed destiny and seed freedom and you have Gundam 00 S1 and S2 and Gundam age and Gundam X sorry for the very long list
Besides the last 5 minutes of the series (which to me is really bad) as a hardcore Gundam fan I really enjoy the series. The one downside of this show for someone like you that is a noob, is that down plays the evil of Zeon in the One Year War. Zeon is literally space Nazis and thanks to them half of the total human population is killed in the first month of the war.
I don't know if I'd say it downplays it, it just doesn't have a chance or a reason to touch on it. The literal space nazis are the people at the top of Zeon, most of the rank and file are just soldiers following orders, kind of like actual WWII Germany and all we see are rank and file soldiers.
You do get to see a flash of the reality in the Gundam pilots pretty strong and hateful reaction to Iria Solari when she later tries to talk with him during their final fight...before he does a 180 flip because of newtype feelings magic. I guess the real Gundam was the friends we made along the way?
I interpreted how the Gundam Pilot acted and the things he said as hinting that his mother/parents were killed by Zeon. Who knows, maybe they were casualties of Operation British, that would make someone driven and hateful alright. Either way I would be interested in actually finding out more about the Gundam Pilot at some point.
@cpgrad07 Yeah I certainly get what you mean. Like I know Zeon are some rough guys and are very bad. But it was nice to see that not all are bad. I assume they gave us some like rag tag zeon people. Like a couple of the characters you could see were down right horrible like that major or captain guy from the scrap yard was a nasty man. But hoping we get more in the future !!
@Sevarrius 100% agree here. Glad we got to see how the bottom of the barrel feel and fight. Oooo operation British sounds cool but tragic and sad
@@TheBoomerBase Operation British was one the crazy atrocities Zeon did in the beginning of the war. Basically they dumped a 20km-long space colony (a big tubular space station where space people live in) onto Australia, cratering Sydney and creating massive damage on Earth both from the impact and environmental changes. It's a cool part of the lore and really gives the nuance that shows even if the Feddies are bad, Zeons are bad too.
@reggiekoestoer1511 dayum that is nuts. Why is it operation British if its in Australia or is just British was a cool name to have?
For Gundam, I would recommend Gundam Thunderbolt (Both December Sky and Bandit Flower). The AV shows the POV of Earth Federation and Zeon Principality. Really good show, specially the music. If you already watched The Origin and the 1979 show, the story would be really easy to understand. Since Thunderbolt was supposedly happening during and after the One Year War.
For other timeline, I really liked Gundam 00, since the show happens during our time (Anno Domini). But if you want some wacky stuff and not so serious, my favorite Gundam series was G Gundam.
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@jessfarinas1842 Thankyou for the recommendation. I have added them to the list. It turns out I watched the tv show origin the advent of the red comet. But I am now watching the original origin in movie form
I just discovered Gundam through the model kits so my opinion carries no weight here but I just can’t stand the look of the show. It looks like video game cutscenes.
A good video I recommend watching to understand the Gundam universe timeline is by BigMicahC. Title : Gundam Explained: The One Year War - THE FULL SAGA #gundam #mobilesuitgundam. Its about 4hrs long but they explain really well from start to finish on what goes on and at what point each show and movie from Gundam started. I just finished watching Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance and I would have to give it a 5 out of 10.
@JuanJohnSmith 5 outta 10 is certainly very fair ! I will add that video to my list. I think I will wait till I have consumed more as don't want to spoil stuff for myself. I will be doing a series going through gundam as a whole and my experiences with it !
personally just started by looking up which series/ movies were in the universal century timeline and then went through the ones I found interesting in release order. original Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ and Char's Counterattack are sort of the base of the timeline and you can basically fully enjoy anything in the UC (Universal Century) timeline after watching those afaik.
Can I just say loving the Preyas profile pic ! Ooo very interesting and nicely simple, thankyou for this. Think my journey so far is going to be rewatching the Gundam Origin, maybe reading the manga alongside. Then watching either the original gundam or the films and deciding from there. Does that sound ok?
@@TheBoomerBasePreyas the man, but yeah sounds good. From what I've heard you might miss some references and stuff to og gundam in origin but I think it's a valid starting point
@cash445 Honestly it's got me watching bakugan again xD I think I own most of those as well as being on crunchyroll so I am certainly excited to embark down the route. I started origin tonight! Although I found out I had watched the 13 ep origin not the movie one I am watching now
As a long time UC timeline fan, I thought this show was a very good entry. Is it perfect? No. As you said the human animation and look is very rough and plasticky. It is a time and budgetary limitation. As someone who works in the animation industry I know this all too well. You have to pick your battles when it comes to production. The Unreal Engine can produce much better looking humans, so it's not a limitation of their choice of tools. I mean look on the other side of the things. The warfare, hardware, and mobile suits I thought were depicted very very well. The way they move had weight and impact. The show had some pacing issues, but it never took away from my engagement of the story. Back to the humans, although they moved and looked a little stiff, the characters themselves were interesting enough. I hear some complaining a lot of them were generic. I think they focused on the main character(s), then kept the side characters as, side characters. Gone are the days of 22, or 45 episode seasons. We don't have that time to expand on everything. Overall very good show. Something I'd rewatch again down the line, particularly for the mobile suit scenes.
@raimee81 100% agree. I hope that Netflix will continue with gundam as a property. Would be nice to have newer viewers for it. I really am kicking myself its taken this long to embark on the journey
Just a few things for background:
The Midnighters were a group of Gouf units, not Zakus. They are upgraded units meant to replace the Zaku and have upgraded speed and power, different armor and different weapons. Notably Heat Swords instead of Heat Hawks (axes).
The majority of Gundam stories come from the Universal Century timeline which can be seen when in universe time is refered to as UC0079, etc. After Colony for example, is the Gundam: Wing timeline (taking place in AC195)
The Zeon vs EFF thing basically boils down to Space Nazis more or less. The Principality of Zeon declared independence from Earth on the space colonies (called Sides) and were extremely Militaristic, Fascist, and later became "Racist" in a sense in an attempt to cultivate "New Type" humans who had extrasensory abilities and allowed them to pilot mobile suits at a much higher level.
Zeon is definitely evil as a faction. They killed billions on 3 different "Sides" in space amd nerve gassed whole colonies along with dropping space stations on strategic Earth locations.
@Trayton what's the difference between gouf and zaku or is this something I will learn down the line.
It's good to know i wasn't wrong with thinking zeon are evil.
I'm trying to stick to UC stuff. But hoping when I start doing videos on gundam. People like yourself will guide me in the right way :)
@@TheBoomerBase the MS-07B Gouf units were produced and meant to replace MS-06 Zaku II's as the standard infantry unit. They're better in just about every way in terms of armor, speed, and maneuverability but the increases weren't enough to justify the costs so only a small run was made. A more cost efficient unit was produced shortly after the Gouf saw combat which was the MS-09B Dom.
@Trayton I understood all of that other than the gundam names xD but that does make sense to have a more elite unit. Like a special ops squad of better gundams sounds dope tbf
@@TheBoomerBase yeah, Zeon mobile suit names are a bit wild lol.
MS denotes Mobile Suit and the 2 digit number is the military designation. It also shows what iteration or revision of this particular mobile suit is. So a standard Gouf unit is designated MS-07B or Mobile Suit-Type 7, 2nd iteration. There were 6 different mobile suit types before it, and the Gouf model designated A was improved or modified, bringing about the B model.
Here's a good summary of the UC timline and then it got worse
@@stephhamelink529 I'm not sure if you forgot to add the UC timeline ? As there isn't anything in your comment xD
@@TheBoomerBase No he didn't. You can pick any moment in the UC timeline and it can be followed by: "And then it got worse."
@@mafuletrekkie oh xD well I look forward to the. Oh its got worse xD
Gundam is weird, the Gunpla is number 1 most popular merchandise from an anime , but the anime itself is unknown and not universally watched
@@RamansSon I think is the largest property for anime as a whole. But I still believe that statement of not enough are watching it. As long as I continue to get on with it I'm going to advocate for it !!
I like it when gundam doesn’t have that stupid jewel in the chest.lol
This had a much more militant feel.
@@Anaken12 I don't even know what this means. Am I gonna hate a jewel ? I did enjoy the militant vibe. Does this jewel grant powers or something ?
Honestly the only thing worth watching is Iron Blooded Orphans
@@KindaCool843 On my list. Looking forward to it !!
NO. Gundam 00. Gundam Seed (don't need Destiny). Gundam After War X. Gundam Unicorn. Build Fighters Try (very fun spin/take on Gundam). Gundam Thunderbolt. Gundam War in the Pocket. Gundam Zeta. 08th MS Team. These are the best of the best. Iron Blooded Orphans is good too, but not the ONLY THING "WORTH WATCHING"... how dare you. On my list its like number 5 or 6... I am bias to Gundam Seed being my fave, followed by 00. Zeta. Unicorn. After War X. IOB. Try Fighters. These are such good ones, oh, and Turn A Gundam - a more fantastical Gundam series... but all great.
I normally HATE Gundam and the anime series it's success spawned. Every series boils down to:
"I'm a child prodigy soldier, but I hate war. Oh and I have a big overpowered mech that is bigger and better than all the other mechs for some reason, but I hate using it in war. Oh and I am sent out to do missions where I mow down enemies in job lots, but I feel bad about it... because war. I'm never in any danger because you know, big overpowered mech that is unstoppable, but the drama isn't if the machine can do the job but if I can... because I'm conflicted.... about war."
Spinning the camera around and showing the Gundam as a Jason from Friday the 13th style monster the other side must view it as was a GREAT idea. My biggest complaint with the execution of that is they did far to many "Oh shit the Gundam is going to shoot me... oh never-mind someone off-screen to the right shot it I'm good now" saves. They also managed to frustrate me by introducing previously mentioned emo child soldier in the last two episodes which I could have done without, I feel it would have been better if they just left the Gundam as a human-less "monster" but overall this was a nice change of pace.
TLDR: Better than it had any right to be given the franchise.
@mafuletrekkie that is a very interesting take on how to view gundam. I can see how that could be quite annoying and cliche if it happens in near all the shows. I defo feel in this they should have made the gundam humanless I agree on that. It was nice just having the gundam be ruthless
MSG 8th MS Team
MSG The Origin Advent of red comet
Gundam Wing
Iron Blooded Orpans
This is the type of comment I love, although my smooth brain took a few minutes to work out what MSG meant xD are these the starting points or like series that I can watch without context? Heard of Iron Blooded being a good standalone!
Gundam 0080 war in the pocket, gundam 0083 stardust memory, gundam thunderbolt anime and manga. Stick to the universal century timeline it’s the best. If you watch the first gundam watch the movie trilogy rather than the series.
@WasabiAwesomeSauce on Netflix in the UK there is 3 movies and i think they are the ones your talking about is that right?
@@WasabiAwesomeSauce forgot about thunderbolt and bandit flower.. those peak gundam
@@TheBoomerBase gundam wing is stand alone with endless Walt’s… ibo is stand alone as well
if you want a goofy time try G Gundam .lol
Gundam not similar transformers
@Spacewolves206 It was just from watching transformers one and watching armada I am on a mech hype so thought I would tackle gundam. Seemed like a good time to do so :)
@@TheBoomerBase gundam seed freedom
I am a long time GUNDAM fan and this...OMG is the wrost in the UC series. Firstly, the GUNDAM pilot doesn't even have a name. secondly, the first appearance of the GUNDAM was described as a white devil that almost wiped out the entire squad which I assumed the name of white devil comes from killing lots of Zeon MSs and soldiers before the first encounter with the main character. However, the GUNDAM became weaker and weaker that it didn't even live up to its name THE WHITE DEVIL as I kept watching. Lastly, the GUNDAM pilot was killed because of some BS conversations with the main character? As a hardcore fan, every GUNDAM has a sound alert in the cockpit when enemy approaches and he did nothing? Even if the alert fails to work, the GUNDAM pilot is a Newtype, how the hell did he not sense danger? The most rediculous thing is when the main character says I am a Mother just wanna go home to see my family...the GUNDAM pilot stopped attacking....so he never thought about the zeon soldiers he killed might actually have been fathers or brothers that their familes are also waiting for them back home? I bet the scrpit writer knows nothing about GUNDAM and the only thing I like about this series is the CGI and remodeling the MS in great detail...that's all.
@922apocalypse Yeah I was not a fan of him dying to be fair. It felt just for the sake of the plot. The white devil was much more menacing on first contact and his threat felt less and less every time we saw him
This is by far the worst Gundam animation I’ve ever seen, and I give it a negative rating. The dialogue in the animation says that the Zaku saved many lives, but in the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, the war initiated by Zeon against the Federation killed nearly 6 billion people. The ironic part is that the Zaku was Zeon’s most advanced killing machine.
@@yueli9984 I think the mech animation was good and looked great in some of the fight scenes. But the human aspect really let it down. Now I have only started watching gundam origin and even for a show that's nearly 10 years old now it looks fantastic