Happy 30th Birthday! (lots of videos warning)

[Lumina Kruger]

Well late... but as of last Spring Mobile Suit Gundam was officially 30 years of age. Three long decades of success, failure, and tears of fans as Anime's greatest and most legendary anime saga brought war to the eyes of children, teens and adults alike. Not just war, but to a point you would literally feel it in your soul, and hate all it's worth.

Here is a youtube/short description list of every Gundam movie, OVA and TV series I had the honor of watching.

First on my list has to be the First I ever saw... Gundam Wing... Oh golly did I not enjoy watching this but it was on after Sailor Moon, and every once and a while it had it's moments. I'm pretty sure most if not all of you have seen this. Still one of the best opening credits in Gundam history though. I see nonthing more fitting for it than it's Opening as it pretty much shows what it is, a big Blowem all up Action Mecha TV show with blunt story plot and even blunter characters. lol


Next Up is Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team. This I saw a commerical for when I was very bored one night, it said it premiered that night at Midnight. It was the middle of the summer so I was like oh heck not like I had anything better to do, having Mobile Suit Gundam Wing fresh in my mind still. This actually turned out to be one of the best Gundam shows I ever saw and the first of one of the really good ones they made. It was a short OVA series 11 Episodes long originally but they added a 12th in later for the fans because they wanted to know what happened to thw two primary characters, it also got itself a Movie which unlike the other OVA based movies it was original, it used scenes from the OVA series but added a whole new character and sub plot, ie Shiro's Trial for possible acts of treason. Video I found an chose to put here fits the mood of 08th MS Team, it was about Comradery and Friendship among even enemies, and it did it very well.


Mobile Suit Gundam! The original. This actually played on TV at the very same time as Gundam 08th MS Team, except it was during the day on Toonami and not late nights. Dare I say, not the best personally the movies were much nicer, the TV show was a drag and you can see why it lost a lot of viewers since the story isn't told very fast in the TV show, but the movies are actually what made Gundam popular so go figure.. Since it was the epic story condenced down into a reasonable time slot. In otherwords... AVOID THE TV SHOW, watch the movies! lol Some spoilers...


Next Up is Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket... oh may when I first watched this it was so kiddish.. the music, the theme in General... but don't let first impressions fool you by the time you get to the very end of this short OVA series you will be in tears.. It has one of the most dramatic climaxs, and plenty of sad moments, seeing as all the main characters but two die. It was also the very first Gundam OVA series ever made, and one of the best drawn even still. Was the most violent Gundam series up until Gundam Seed where people puffed into marshmellows and poped... PS this video spoils the ending and a few deaths.


HAHAHA Finally the one that turned me to the dark side and CURSED the Gundams into oblivion. Gundam 0083 StarDust Memory, the title basically states the OVA series is the Memory of Operation Stardust, ie at the end all records and historical accounts were removed since it was such a shameful outcome for one of the nations.. of course the winning one. This was the second OVA seres ever made, it turned me into a Earth hater on Gundam shows... lol MAJOR SPOILERS... though this song fits the darkest Gundam OVA series ever made. *whispers* the Truely Evil Guys Win... literally. Even the Gundam Pilot turns out pretty much Evil. My favorite Gundam series of all times. ^.^


Haha my favorite movie time... about a year after Gundam 0083 I found myself with Gundam Char's Counter Attack in my hands, the very first Gundam movie I ever saw and the first I ever purchased, and I saw it because I purchased it. Didn't know anything about it, just know it was about Amuro and Char the two original characters from the Original Gundam TV series. Oh it is considered the best Gundam movie ever made, it's two decades old as well.. shows the utter failure of Gundam story writers now days... *laughs* This movie deserves two videos... the english Trailer and a great fan made video.



Next has to be G Gundam... despite how utterly stupid this TV show was at times, it was still great, and very funny... not much can really be said... but Gundam boxing... lol Best love admission in Gundam history! Worthy of tears of happiness, and smiles of pure brilliant comedy!


Gundam X.... complete rip off story concept wise at the begining... on how well... colony falls on earth thing... well insted of one it was all of them and 99.999% of all of humanity was completely wiped from the Earth, and it perhaps has the only good "Star" Gundam pilot ie the star the main one... the story focusing one... not a secondary story focusing one like Athrun. Unlike Wing... this DOES have the best Opening Ever made for a Gundam TV show. PS this is where many of the Gundam Seed Gundam mecha were ripped off of.. lol


Finally did it take me this long to get around to see Gundam Zeta? Yes literally like 4 long years. Gundam Zeta was perhaps the darkest of the full length TV shows, it is actually... why did I say was? It was the direct sequal to the original Gundam series, and it has many similarities just like the original Gundam show to Gundam Seed, but it's very similar to Gundam Seed Destiny.. lol Phantom Pain literally being a complete rip off of the Titans.. They definity needed a hero in this show... none to be found, if their was he or she died long ago.. lol PS the best full length Gundam series ever made. I first watched this when I bought it on DVD, it is the only Gundam full length series ever made worth buying and paying for... *laughs*


Mobile Suit Gundam F91... ya it's a movie and not much can be said really about it, it wasn't as good as Char's Counter Attack and because of that a lot of fans give it much hate. Though I did enjoy it despite the story feeling a bit over condenced, but that was because it was original going to be a TV series but they scrapped the project and turned it into a movie insted, based like 40-60.. never counted years after Char's Counter Attack. Sums up the movie brilliantly with perhaps one of the most beautiful songs in Gundam history.


Oh Yes... Gundam MS Igloo time... the first fully CGI animated Gundam OVA ever made... it was originally three episodes long and only ment to be played during a Gundam Expo in 2004, but people loved it so much that it was later released on DVD, and proved worth making a whole second part which added in three more episodes in 2006. It is the only Gundam series of any kind souly based around a faction which never had a single Gundam in their entire history. Well I guess once but it was stolen.. lol This beat Seed and Destiny in the pants which I was watching around the same time... 6 episodes beat two full length series... *laughs* Even read the creator of Evangelion praised it for having the most human characters ever in a Gundam anime, ya he likes watching Gundam. lol


Woot Gundam Seed the show you guys love... yes I liked it, though I actually hate the universe it's in, too many retarded average joe pilots, well less than Code Geass which 99.99% of all the characters have 1 Braincell... But heck, it was the most dramatic and tear dropping Gundam series I ever watched so I loved Gundam Seed. Gundam Seed Destiny was coming out around the time when I started watching Seed, though I enjoyed Seed I found Gundam Seed Destiny an insult to the original show, only something which was a complete rip off of Gundam Zeta, but a bad version of Zeta and it was actually more funny than series at times.. all in all Seed was Great, Destiny was very bad... One Video sums up what I think of Seed, one thing nice about Gundam Seed, the Chairman fellow with black long hair was voiced by the same person who voiced Char, while the Captain of the Minvera was voiced by the same lady who voiced Kacillia from the original mobile suit gundam. YES Lacus should of had her own OVA series right after about turning EVIL, would of made Destiny so worth it... now that she took control of ZAFT... lol


Oh yes... finally Gundam Seed Stargazer... I know thats not the full and currect title, but gah.. i think C.E 73 was in front of that.. This is and will perhaps be for a long time. The best Gundam OVA series based outside of the Universal Century timeline. It was far better than Gundam Seed and Destiny actually, I enjoyed it a lot despite being only 3 episodes long it was truely the best thing that came out of the Seed Universe and if none of you have seen it I'm going to slap you all silly!! Episode 3 Preview, shows a nice preview of all the prior episodes like a well built trailer for a complete project..


Ahhh Gundam MS Igloo 2, this wasn't as good as MS Igloo however it was nice seeing "NO Gundams" just like on MS Igloo. This time there were infantry fighting mobile suits, tanks fighting mobile suits, then uber battle at the end which was just pure eye candy in CGI, the characters were also great, and since there wasn't really a story in it, just each episode focusing around different people, it was pretty good over all. lol


Thought I added Gundam 00, though I only seen random episodes of it, it is the NEWEST Gundam full length TV series out there, and it's available on youtube.. atleast the first season of it, legally as Bandai released it on youtube as well as the Scifi channel. From what I seen, and heard about it, primarly Gundam 00 is kind of Gundam Wing with Code Geas slapped into it. Literally.. Actually I think it is what Gundam Wing "SHOULD" of been, it isn't bad, just I can't say if it's bad or good, I haven't gotten into it seriously, and the fact it's tooo.... un soldierly for a Gundam series makes me not able to get into it, Primarly it's about Gundams being almost like terrorist in a way blowing up military insulations all across the planet, turning the entire world against them, thats where it feels like Geass uniting the world making them the enemy, just to end war itself... oh golly I spoiled... lol Trailer for Season 2 sums up with scenes from Season 1 with epic drama... good trailer.. lol

Added Note about Gundam 00, it proves why I HATE most new Gundam series... lol The Gundams are just not fair to everyone not in a Gundam.. lol

[Shani Andras]

*coughs* I have to do this,. just because i'm prob the oldest member on this board. and one of my very first animes was gundam wing. and for you to say it was blunt and a boring story and blunt characters, for one either you must not of watched it right or was to dumb to under stand each character had a deep story and for once in most gundam shows didnt go around just 2 or 4..when the gundam wing had over a hand full of characters going deep into each one. Yes i do admit some of them just seemed odd and what not. but down far one of the best gundam shows ever had been made. and the endless waltz has been one of the best gundam movies ever made. hence why i love it so much..the best char returned from the dead .

Also Gundam seed was great. Destiny i just finished i dislike it and made the hole series total crap. that is why i refuse to say i watched destiny. it had its moments but a few chars should of died and staid dead.

That is all.

[Lumina Kruger]

*coughs* in 2002 I BOUGHT Gundam Wing on DVD, and also own the Special Edition Movie Edition which came with the OVA and Movie version of the Gundam Wing Endless Waltz OVA, which wasn't that bad, I liked that. I traded Gundam Wing Box Set in for credit at a used game store which also dealed with movies, the "Only" Gundam anything I've owned which I thought not worth ever keeping.

Zech, Treize, Heero, Duo, Quatra, Trew... Trowa... bah I gave up spelling his name, and the idiot with the Nataku Gundam, Wuffey or something. Noine, Lady Une *spelling is bad, I remember the names just not how to spell* Reliena. All the way from Heero's anti war speech on a school paper, the fact most of the mobile suits are named after Star Constulations, which also are greek gods and mythological monsters, heck I can remember all of Zech's outfits and the moment he was in a bar which was a 100% clone moment when Char was in a bar even dressed the same....lol Wing Sucked in General. The only Gundam Pilot in the show who had any personality and character was bloody DUO, and I even hated DUO because he had the most retarded Gundam in the entire show.. and had TOO Much personality but atleast had some, I guess he shared all the personality weight for the show so he seemed OVER zellous, the rest crossed their arms leaned against walls acting all cool, and quiet. It was also the FIRST Gundam I ever saw. Didn't impress me then, still doesn't impress me now, I only bought it because it was "GUNDAM" and I wanted to give it a second try thinking "Oh it's been a few years perhaps I matured enough to understand it more or maybe I missed a lot when I first saw it" nope, it was still awful, and more plot hole twist than Gundam 0083 which was a very short OVA so actually had an exuse to have some plot holes. The only thing Gundam Wing had going for it was it's Politics, thats it, nonthing else, really, if I was the Pig from Wanerbrothers i'd do the "Thats all Folks" thing. lol I'm not the only Gundam fan who thinks this way, there are quite a lot, Wing just wasn't that impressive of a Gundam series definity compared to many of the older series and it's the worst of the Alternate Century Gundam series easily, even G Gundam was far better, atleast it was more entertaining if not "not" trying to be serious at times.

There ranting over... *hehe* Best thing to ever come out of Gundam Wing, the best gundam based music video ever made, this is the real music video for the main song from Gundam Wing Endless Waltz. It told a better story than the Gundam TV show, and no words needed.



PS... sorry if i'm cruel, I ge worked up and can become very evil and incensitive.

[Lumina Kruger]

Found a very good video to one of the best Gundam supporting characters in Gundam history... Cima Garahau, Commander of the ex-zeon space marines responsable for the gassing of the colonies of Side 2, unknowningly until it was too late... their home colony was used for the construction of the Solar Roy Colony Laser as an aded insult. After the war they were shuned by their comrades and abandoned after sacraficing their humanity, and youth, hunted by the Federation for War crimes and no home to return to, they became pirates, only to return in Gundam 0083 playing both sides during the conflict only to finally decide to betray their fellow Zeons who long ago betrayed them. Hated by one group of Federation and now fighting relentlessly against their own, the Cima fleet was all but wiped out by the end of Gundam 0083 Cima herself included, what remained joined the Federation Titans Elites. She is one of the few supporting role characters to get her own manga, and spin off, she apears in many of the Video games as well, most notablely Encounter's in Space on the PS2, she gets her own series of missions actually...


Kind of wish there were subtitles.. 5:06 is a nice sceen from the show... were one of her pilots tells her they have to retreat, she replaying that there is no place to retreat..

[Shani Andras]

And the ranting was fine. Its under standable you disliked the show.,..and for one..all the chars seemed truly over demanding..Zechs..by far for some reason was my fav along with Treize..even tho he died. and all the main characters where fucking numbers..what didnt make sense to me...Treize begin 13 in french and Zechs six in german, just with a 'Z' and not a S..but anyway...and Duo...just needed to be shot and just die...in the subbed version his nick name was the god of death...and in dubbed they fucking changed it to the great destoyer...what...does he fight godzilla when he isnt in is un cool gundam..and i do admit it was a extremly bad anime. and really a disgrace to all gundam shows. But it was my like one of my first animes...besides..samurai pizza cats..what we shall not speak about..ever...but anyway.. didnt want to sound like an ass..and reading over my last post...i was.


And for m fav gundam char..of all shows...

would have to be..Shani Andras or a tie between Kira Yamato/Athrun Zala...But prob Athrun or maybe Rau Le Creuset...but ya..SHANI FOR THE WIn..i would tag a vid..but there isnt much vids..like none of SHani at all..since he was insane..and not in seed that long. and he was killed by fucking Yzak.

[Lumina Kruger]

Zechs is pronounced [ Z ex s ] I'm pretty sure they got his name right on the english dubs. At least it sounds like they have it right. Germans in their none english way of spelling things, but golly you have to love how similar the language is, it is "english" closest related "Major" world language. Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Nederlands, Sweden, Denmarck, they are all Germanic speaking nations just with varied languages of it, even England, and the British Isles are considered Germanic though a very distant causin anymore. Even Germany has different variations of German within it's own borders since historically it was a fragmented culture up until one Germanic Nation which no longer exist "Prussia" Murged with Brandenburg, and over a span of 200 years saw the unification of most of the Germanic nations in central Europe, Prussia is well Northern Poland, so it doesn't exist, even the name's of the provences and cities have changed, as if the Poles decided to wipe all existence of the once history making Prussia from the planet. Most German speaking peoples in Poland/Prussia fled from the Russians so really, who was going to stop the name chanages and stuff locally? lol

Actually for ahistorical note... Blame Prussia for training many of the world's none Euro armies in the Americas... during the American Revolution it was actually a Prussian officer who trained much of the colonial continental army, and many South American countries still salute the long vanishes nation of Prussia by using it's Military Music in military parade since nations like Chile had their military trained by Prussian elitist officers. Spanish American war Cube American soldier's faced German weapons with Cubian soldiers with Prussia military advisers commanding them. I find it funny for a nation which never really attempt to build a world empire that it was hated so much by Europian powers of old. Like France, and Britian. Entired the Empire Building game very late, and only so it wouldn't fall behind everyone else hense why it got the left overs a few scattered small islands, and some small parts in Africa, heck Belgium had more Foreign ground Germany. x3

I love to rant. ^.^ Hmm *watchs video* I think the German elitist monsters must of moved to Chile all their military parades use famous Prussian Marchs actually! lol They even dress the same.