It's a GUNDAAAAAAAAM. Your general Gundam natter thread! -

[Sayon]

So, did they make a Gundam villain whose thing is that space travel/colonization itself is evul and makes men soulless?

Anyway, IBO should've stuck with the planned ending where the whole team and the princess get slaughtered. If nothing else, it would've worked even better as a jab at the idea that one team of robot pilots and their princess/rich/other friend could police or otherwise butt too far into their settings conflict without proper consequences (see the Triple Alliance in Seed, Celestial Being in 00).

 

[Save the Loli]

So, did they make a Gundam villain whose thing is that space travel/colonization itself is evul and makes men soulless?

So reverse Char? Would make a great leader for a Titans knockoff faction like there's so many Zeon knockoff factions.

Anyway, IBO should've stuck with the planned ending where the whole team and the princess get slaughtered. If nothing else, it would've worked even better as a jab at the idea that one team of robot pilots and their princess/rich/other friend could police or otherwise butt too far into their settings conflict without proper consequences (see the Triple Alliance in Seed, Celestial Being in 00).

To make it even more edgy and "muh subverted expectations?" I have no problem with the intent of the ending but the way it was written (and most of IBO S2 in general which has awful pacing and wastes lots of time) would still make it terrible either way. Like are there any hints whatsoever in IBO that it's supposed to end like that, where it basically laughs at the audience for expecting a different result? Other than the show playing up archetypes like the peace princess and Char clone insanely straight, nothing in that show is much different than your usual Gundam (other than the pacing and it's more character focused).

It's a shame, since had they actually built up to an ending like that where you'd expect something might be off and then hammered you with the ending it would be a wonderful dose of realism and memorable as hell. Just subverting the audience's expectations out of nowhere ends up looking pointlessly edgy at best and The Last Jedi at worst.

 

[Sayon]

Eh, the IBO getting slaughtered thanks to their luck running out was foreshadowed well enough from what I see. And well, it fit since the overall story alludes to Spartacus (who if you recall failed miserably in his slave rebellion). They didn't commit to it (the heroes getting slaughtered and failing to achieve any everlasting change) since there was a riot among the show's devs over it so the ending's kinda sloppy. Even in the final cut you could see how it was set to have a bigger bodycount (see the princess, who can you see was set up to just get gunned down).

 

[sasazuka]

One of the manga I'm currently reading is Mobile Suit Gundam: École du Ciel since it's currently being posted at Mangadex.

I like Gundam 0080, with character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto, best so I'm obviously going to be partial to a manga drawn by Mikimoto, and I already knew that the military training school in the manga was in Montreal, where I grew up, so that piqued my interest as well.

Here's one thing that puzzles me about this manga: Side 3, the space colony, doesn't actually exist in the real world, at least not yet, but it's represented with illustrations that were obviously delicately traced from photographs of a real world city that I can't quite identify but it seems like it's somewhere in southern Europe, probably in Italy.

Montreal is a city that does exist in the real world and how is it represented in the manga? Aside from the futuristic-looking school itself, Montreal is basically just a bunch of pine trees. Which isn't even that representative of trees in Montreal, located in the eastern North American "temperate broadleaf and mixed forest zone". Mount Royal Park in October is a beautiful mix of red, orange, yellow and some green (both from pine trees and deciduous trees that haven't entirely lost their summer chlorophyll). You really have to drive up Highway 15 to the Laurentian foothills before you start seeing pine trees predominate.

I'm also a bit puzzled that the main delicacy in the Gundam version of Montreal seems to be sea urchin ice cream (instead of, say, Poutine). Montreal may have a major inland port due to the Saint Lawrence River Seaway, but I'm pretty sure that you can't catch sea urchins anywhere much closer than Nova Scotia or southern Maine. Maybe you can in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence around the Gaspe peninsula (Quebec's lower "lip") but you're basically at the Atlantic Ocean at that point.

I'm still enjoying the manga but Montreal in the Universal Century timeline isn't quite the city I remember.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

So should I watch the compilation movies of 0079 and zeta or the full series

 

[JongleJingle]

>Gundam thread
>Nobody has mentioned the almighty GM himself

The Ide is disappoint. Prepare for universal obliteration.

 

[Save the Loli]

I'm still enjoying the manga but Montreal in the Universal Century timeline isn't quite the city I remember.

If you want an accurate representation of your maple syrup cities just go watch Iron Blooded Orphans, it does a surprisingly good job at recreating Edmonton (and smashing it up in a major battle in the show).

So should I watch the compilation movies of 0079 and zeta or the full series

Watch the TV versions of both but if you aren't down with vintage late 70s animation and the occasional filler and need a quick introduction then go watch the compilation movies of 0079 since that's more true to Tomino's original vision. Do not watch the Zeta compilation movies, it changes stuff from the show.

 

[XYZpdq]

So should I watch the compilation movies of 0079 and zeta or the full series

Either works for 0079, Zeta definitely TV.
The Zeta movies are nice to check out later, they throw in some new robot animation including some cameos by stuff from 0083 and other side materials, but there'sissues with using them as a substitute for the series. Like "Luke doesn't get his hand cut off at the end of Empire" levels of issues.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Watch Engineers Take Their 60-Foot-Tall Gundam for a Walk

The world's tallest robot is set to premiere in a few months, and even COVID-19 can't stop it.

Since January, construction has been underway on a huge Gundam robot—a popular fictional robot that appears in some 50 TV series and movies since 1979, not to mention a slew of video games and manga. Coming in at about 60 feet tall, the Gundam will be impossible to miss from the Port of Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, where it will call home for a full year.

Full article: www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a33381411/japan-giant-gundam-robot/

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Sign me the fuck up.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I guess with the UFO sighting by US Navy they gotta prepare. Maybe they’ll make a functioning EVA unit for good measure.

 

[NerdShamer]

If only someone could make an energy -bladed sword....

 

[kcbbq]

The Odaiba Gundam is the only True & Honest Gundam.

 

[Desu Mountain]

Hell, it's about time.

 

[K. V. Bones]

So uh yeah NSA if you need unwilling volunteers for a super soldier program you know where to find me.

Mechs, UFOs, super soldiers isnt far off.

 

[Salubrious]

To be fair, if I had Jeff Bezos money, I would do the same thing.

 

[XYZpdq]

iirc it doesn't really walk
The rigging it's built on scoots forward while the robot flops its limbs around pantomiming walking.
Still cool though.
There's been a series of videos on its construction on the official Gundam youtube channel

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

tax money finally being spend wisely.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

A sick part of me is hoping it falls on a kid

I cant wait for them to make a zaku and to have the gundam duke it out with it

 

[Neil]

iirc it doesn't really walk
The rigging it's built on scoots forward while the robot flops its limbs around pantomiming walking.
Still cool though.
There's been a series of videos on its construction on the official Gundam youtube channel

don't ruin the fun dickface
let me dream