gundam series

[crystalalien87]

not sure if there is a thread for this but ill just start one. lately i have been watching gundam seed and destiny and now i am to a point where i am collecting the models so this thread is made for people who enjoy gundam and which series. i like 08th ms team, gundam wing,seed and destiny. music is great and the story lines are awesome. so all haters be gone

[Kyosuke Kagami]

I want to watch Turn A Gundam, but finding the DVDs here is impossible :/

The only Gundam season I had to watch (don't ask why) was Wing... UGH. Someone shoot Hiro and Relena. The show was average, but the characters touched my nerves a lot of times.

I'll probably see the other seasons, if Animax dares to buy the rights. I am curious to watch Seed and see why people hates it, it looks nice in my opinion.

[The Chemist]

Gundam Wing and 08th MS Team were my favorites

Seed and Seed Destiny were EXCELLENT no matter what critics say.

[MomoChan]

I liked Seed and Seed Destiny. In fact, I wish they'd make more new chapters for the U.C. series.

The haters are only clamoring against it because they don't want a contemporary legend overlapping Amuro Ray. Well, screw them, I like Kira Yamato and all of his Ultimate Coordinator goodness.

I only support the hating towards Gundam Wing. The only saving grace for it was Trowa, Quatre, and Zechs. the rest of the cast can throw themselves off a cliff for all I care, ESPECIALLY Heero and Relena.

Seed Destiny was a bit annoying though, thanks in part to Shinn Asuka and his Kamille Bidan-esque charm, complete with an almost emotionless clone for a devil's advocate in the person of Rey Za Burrel, as well as an ill-fated love interest (who went in almost the same way as Four Murasame), Stellar Loussier. But that's no big deal, the original cast from Seed still proved to be the true stars of the show. He was just there as an integral pawn to Gilbert Dullindal's Destiny Plan. In other words, Shinn was a total spazz just like Bidan.

If there's one thing I really didn't like about Seed Destiny, it's the fact that they're reviving the Zakus and Goufs and passing them off as "new" in ZAFT when they're already old hat stuff for the Zeon forces in the original series. It just goes to show that the mecha designers aren't particularly inspired when designing non-Gundam units. Most of the funny-named ZAFT mobile suits (i.e. JINN, BuCue, and BaBi) looked like total garbage to me.

But beyond those little whiskers, I still like the series. I wish I can get to read the actual manga of it one day.

[Mangojoyride]

im a big fan of gundam, its my favorite anime. Wing got me started, then i watched the original 0079 and it just grew from there.

my favorite would have to be 8th MS team, as real as it could get. seed and destiny had great MS designs, but the story could have been a little bit better. i wish i could watch Turn A though, i cant find it anywhere. all i have are boxsets for 8th MS team, 0080, 0081, Z gundam, ZZ Gundam, Wing, G Gundam, and Seed.

[rogeriidx]

Gundam is pretty sweet, I'll blame my uncle for this obsession. I was introduced to a lot of old school mecha cartoons through his collection. He likes cartoons like Mazinger, Gigantor, Macross, and Gundam U.C. Not to mention he was a giant trekky.

So far I watched or own the dvd collection of the entire series: Gundam 0079, Zeta Gudam, ZZ Gundam, X Gundam, Gundam Wing, G Gundam. I'm nearing the end of Stardust Memories right now, I got three more episodes to go.

The thing about these more recent series is that the pilots are young as hell, sometimes that translates into their personalities. I hate an annoying little brat piloting a mobile suit, it just turns me off. Heero should have died a long time ago, I don't care how he dies. Relena should die with him, locked in a flaming cockpit, so they could both burn in hell. Oh hell, I hate Gundam Wing in general.

The latest mobile suit designs are also very strange and flashy on occasions. I'm not really digging the latest gundams.

Also accompanying this unhealthy obsession are the Gundam Models. I only buy the 1/100th scales though, so it's expensive to keep building.

[VGD]

Originally Posted by Momochan

The haters are only clamoring against it because they don't want a contemporary legend overlapping Amuro Ray. Well, screw them, I like Kira Yamato and all of his Ultimate Coordinator goodness.

I'll take Amuro and his awesome jewfro over Kira's bishie emo whining anyday, thank you. Nobody can replace Amuro Ray, the only exception being Char.

I really dislike the Z Gundam remake to 'appeal to more modern audiences'. More like appeal to Gundam Seed fanbrats, amirite.

To not completely bash the series, I love Seed and Destiny's mobile suits. The Zaku, Gouf and Doms got a decent remake, and the Gundams are, while not so innovative weaponry-wise, pretty cool in terms of design. I just absolutely loathe the characters. Almost every single one of them. Actually, just the young ones. People like Mu and Waltfeld could very well fit in most of the older Gundam series.

Originally Posted by rogeriidx

Gundam is pretty sweet, I'll blame my uncle for this obsession. I was introduced to a lot of old school mecha cartoons through his collection. He likes cartoons like Mazinger, Gigantor, Macross, and Gundam U.C.

I assume/hope you've played any of the SRWs?

Originally Posted by MomoChan

Most of the funny-named ZAFT mobile suits (i.e. JINN, BuCue, and BaBi) looked like total garbage to me.

Their designs weren't that bad, especially the Bucue and Lagowe, quite creative on that part. It's just that they made them even more cannon fodder than the Zakus in OYW (One Year War). Arming the Jinns with normal non-beam/heat blades and machine guns against Phase Shift armor? Nice job there.

[rogeriidx]

I heard, read about, and seen Super Robot Wars before. However, it had never really interested me that much. I got Gundam artbooks, technical books, comics, but no games. Hmmm...I wonder why.

Oh and I place a wager that Amuro, Char, and Camille can single handedly take down all the Gundam Wing and Gundam Seed characters. Because they are just that damn good!

[VGD]

Not likely, if the Seed pilots are going to use their horribly overpowered Gundams.

Throw in Judau however...

[rogeriidx]

Judau, I almost forgot about him! With all the pretty ladies on the ship with him and all that. Char can take on atleast two of the Seed suits, I remembered in a movie, a Feddy officer told of Char destroying five ships in a single battle by himself.

[PICASIO PICASIO]

I liked 8th MS Team

EDIT: Wow, that was quite possibly the worst post I've ever made.

I really should get back into Gundam but I don't think I ever will. I don't really like seed, because, I don't know, space fights never really interested me. Hence why I liked 8th MS Team.

[Akkaraju]

8th MS team was awesome. Lots of the more ancient series are pretty fun to watch too.

One of my favorites, though was After War Gundam X. I just liked it. Shame to see it being cancelled and scrapped, I liked some of the ideas the show had.

I liked Wing a lot when I was younger, but when I rewatched it a number of years later, especially after seeing the other series, I thought that the really generic characters ruined it. Some of the designs for the MS were really nice, though. Deathscythe Hell Custom was badassedry in pretty much it's pure form.

[VGD]

Originally Posted by rogeriidx

Char can take on atleast two of the Seed suits, I remembered in a movie, a Feddy officer told of Char destroying five ships in a single battle by himself.

That was in One Year War, but that was with Char in assumedly a Zaku, and the ships were Federation-Class Salamis. Which were quite crap.

Originally Posted by ParadoxVincent

I don't know, space fights never really interested me. Hence why I liked 8th MS Team.

8th MS Team had like, just space fight where Shiro beat a High Mobility Type Zaku with a Ball. Which pretty much made me love the series immediately.

Originally Posted by Akkaraju

One of my favorites, though was After War Gundam X. I just liked it. Shame to see it being cancelled and scrapped, I liked some of the ideas the show had.

Gundam Seed ripped off from Gundam X too. Some people even mistook the Freedom and Double X with each other.

[rogeriidx]

I'm speculating Char was in a red Zaku during that battle, he was piloting one during that time of recollection. Salamis class ships or not, the ships were not bobbing out there by themselves with no weapons or defenses. The fact that Char got passed the defenses of enemy mobile suits, then avoid enemy fire from the ships, then destroyed them with the weapons he had. That is a testament of his skills as a newtype.

[VGD]

I checked up on it again. It was in the Battle of Loum, and Char was in a regulation Zaku II. Which makes it even more impressive.