Audience reviews
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kekekeKaj
For a long time I'd thought the importance of the original Gundam anime Mobile Suit Gundam was mainly due to its founding of the Real Robot genre as well the huge, sprawling Gundam franchise that's still going strong today. Having actually sat down and watched the show though, I realised that I seriously underestimated the influence of this seminal series: not only did it make its mark in anime history, many of its ideas remain relevant to this day.
It always seemed a little strange to me how Gundam series often recycle the same elements over and over. What became obvious once I started Mobile Suit Gundam was how these traditions were inherited directly from the original series. Even the opening shot was a spine-tinglingly iconic one, with the sun peeking out behind Earth and the sunlight…
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0079.
As a fan of cel shaded works with intricate love and passion works, I waited a long time to watch it and I couldn't be happier. This is a masterpiece of an art that is timeless.
Gundam Gunpla and all of its fan base should be thankful for this fine art, the mecha genre took it flight off from here, this was the genesis point, journeying back to the 70s era of Anime from Japan surely is rewarded well.
The plot and it's core revolves around Military drama. It doesn't flat our explain everything that is where it shines bright, each and every single episode is of high value in entertainment. The story is expository but do not think due to the age of the show the action won't be impressive, it's not at all the case at all, the action is very thoroughly done for it's…
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"We'd done it. With a fraction of the resources, we'd done it."
These words by animation director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko perfectly summarize both the development and story of Mobile Suit Gundam. Despite numerous production challenges limiting its scope of animation, Gundam managed to be a fresh take on the mecha genre for the late 1970's and still stands the test of time to this day. In fact, given that no 40 year-old anime has aged well by 2020 standards, it's perhaps easier to overlook the shortcomings of Gundam's animation now than when it aired. Yes, characters frequently go off-model, and yes, numerous shots are reused time and time again, but it never gets in the way of the real star of the show: the story its creators were trying to tell.
Early episodes might seem easy to dismiss as t…
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I heard about this really old anime called Mobile Suit Gundam.. And if you know me i love old stuff! So i decided to watch this! And after month or so i have finally completed it... So let's start complaining!
Story sucked monkeys balls.. Okay first of all what is a newtype!?! Mobile Suit Gundam didn't explain a single thing about them, well except that newtypes can predict enemies moves in battle. But other then that i still not sure where do they come from? Are they humans? Lalah had to be worst character in this.. Sometimes he agrees with Amuro and sometimes doesn't, pretty dumb. Story was pretty bad 4/10
Art was really good. Yeah even though they used same animations for like 100 times, it gets really annoying. Animation is good (sometimes), character design is good, good example of…
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*Slight spoilers ahead*
The White Base steadily approaches its destination point. What the crew doesn't know, is that there's a trap laid down by the forces of Zeon right around the corner of the mountain. A sudden hit to the starboard puts everyone back on their feet. Bright quickly yells orders as Mirai turns the main ship towards the enemy. Sayla quickly informs Amuro, Kai, and Hayato and asks them to get into their respective machines and launch. As soon as they get out they're barraged by the enemy mobile suits. And so begins another battle, another day on board the White Base, and another episode of a legend, that is Mobile Suit Gundam.
1. Teenage struggles portrayed through war experience
Mobile Suit Gundam is a tale of a bunch of survivors from a space colony that incidentally he…
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Mobile Suit Gundam Review.
Hello everyone this is Shawn aka KurataTriggr and welcome to my month of Anime Limited project.
For the first anime that I will be reviewing for this project will be Mobile Suit Gundam or Gundam 0079 for short.
I will be reviewing the 43 episode TV series instead of the 0079 movie trilogy.
Now with out of the way let's begin.
Story.
It is the year 0079 of the universal century an era of mankind can now live in space in artifical homes called space colony's. The printability of Zeon have declared independence from the earth federation and subsequently launches a war for independence with Zeon having a upper hand thanks with the use of mobile suits giant palpable robots. Both side were end up with heavy casualties and they would enter a stalemate for eight month…
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Gundam is one of anime's most longest living franchise. With about more than 50 titles under it’s name, gundam has become one of main poster childs of the mech genre as well anime as a whole. All of this couldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the revolutionary title Gundam 0079 that redefined the mech genre.
Gundam Takes place in the far flung future and humanity has already begun journeying out into the cosmos and settling in space colonies. These colonies aren't situated on planets, but are rather giant space satellites/stations that were suitable for human living called sides. One of these "sides" have broken off from the rest of humanity in order to form the Principality of zeon which leads to a one year war killing off half of the human race. While the war continuously rages on the…
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It is not often I make such a foray into the past as I have now. Undoubtedly, if you are a fan of anime, it is almost impossible that you have not heard the name ‘Gundam.' Gundam, the series that gave life to the childlike fantasies of men(and women not to be sexist). I mean who doesn’t love the idea of Giant robots trashing each other into oblivion? Who doesn’t love pilots screaming and crying inside their cockpits after killing 20 or 30 people? I know I do. Or that might just be my sociopathic tendencies. Whatever, on to the review.
Mobile Suit Gundam takes place far into the future, where humanity now lives in space colonies scattered across the galaxy. An opposing government, The Principality of Zeon, has declared war on the Earth Federation in a battle for superiority. During an eigh…
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Mobile Suit Gundam is the very first Gundam anime ever made. Originally, I went into this anime deciding to get into Gundam with the first anime in 2013. I was worried because this was made all the way back in 1979 that the anime may have ended up cheesy. I couldn't have been more wrong though. Mobile Suit Gundam was a phenomenal anime that not only was incredibly far ahead of it's time when originally released, but it still holds up well today. First off, the writing is incredibly good.
Throughout Mobile Suit Gundam we're introduced to the protagonist Amuro Ray and his allies and foes. Amuro undergoes a great deal of character development over the course of the story. He not only grows as a character, but is a interesting character and one that the viewer will feel they can relate to. In…
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Here it is... Tomino's animated directed love child, which is one of my favorite anime of all time. The very first Gundam series has spawned a revolution of countless spinoffs, sequels, video games and movies.
Surprisingly enough this anime was not popular during its' initial airing and wasn't until later that this became more of cult following. Clearly while watching, the show takes a lot from Space Battleship Yamato by the characters, art, and overall plot development of the story. However, compared to Yamato which focuses on the ship, MSG focuses more on the characters.
Our main hero/pilot called Amuro Ray actually changed the game in regards to the man is tough and strives for battle to a male character exposing his feelings. This may not sound like much today for a male character, b…
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The original Mobile Suit Gundam - often known as Gundam 0079 to avoid confusion with later installments - is a clearly flawed work. However, it is a highly impressive and progressive work given its age, and we owe a lot of what makes anime great today to its existence.
Of course, being highly influential doesn't excuse its flaws. The most obvious is its terrible animation, which isn't a case of it aging badly - it was made on a shoestring budget, and the animation was very bad even for its time. This is forgivable, as a great story doesn't necessarily need good animation to thrive (although the mobile suit designs aren't as good as later Gundam titles). Its biggest problem, however, is one that it shares with every single Gundam TV series that I have seen so far: it is very badly paced. G…
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Oh wow. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079. The very first series in a franchise that has seen dozens of fantastic stories about people piloting giant robots and fighting on them. This series is the beginning of it all, telling the story of the White Base in the One-Year War between the Earth Federation and the Zeon Principality.
The White Base is a Federation warship that escapes with an unexperienced crew from the space colony Side 7 after it's attacked by the Zeon. A boy named Amuro Ray manages to steal a Mobile Suit called the Gundam and through the story, he learns to control it to become a formidable fighter and Newtype (some sort of psychic humans) at the end.
The art, sound and story are excellent but several parts in the middle feel longer than the should be. The very first episodes are f…
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Mobile Suit Gundam. Every anime fans (even some who aren't anime fan) must've heard of this metaseries. Gundam is a metaseries that have one of the largest fanbase in Japan. Not that big outside, but still has a considerable size. This anime is the original which started off the metaseries, which will later become a popular culture in Japan. Many people feel that this is a very good anime, though unfortunately this just doesn't cut it for some others. Now I'm one of the former, and I'll try to review this series based on my opinions.
Story: 8
The core of the plot is actually quite simple: War between Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon. Pretty simple? But the whole story itself is not so simple. Throughout the series, you will learn more about the war, and it's not as simple as "goo…
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Watching this show about 30 years after it was made, it can be easy to be a bit thrown off by Mobile Suit Gundam. It has some pretty old and kind of ugly animation by today's standards, there's still lots of corny dialogue like "WHY YOU!!!", and, each episode is basically the same thing over, and over. Build up to a fight, fight with Gundam, end episode.
Yet, despite all this, for some reason I just loved this show, for several reasons. First off, this is a great coming of age story for the main character, Amaro. It's really exciting to watch Amaro go from rookie pilot to one of the best over the course of the show, it makes things quite rewarding. In fact, I'd say almost all the characters in the show grow a little, almost every main character on the White Base gets developed pretty well…
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When I first sat down to view this anime, I knew that I would be entering a franchise that has spawn from the very depths of the post funky town/ karaoke disco era of Late seventies Japan. that being said, I tried to keep a clear head in the midst of all the "Gundam is a timeless anime classic" reviews and die hard fans who seem to hold that the original is the first and therefore the easiest to appreciate. As the series progressed the clunkiness of the different era animation grew on me just for the fact that this was probably the best of its time. Considering the idea that cartoon epics about battling in space were just launching due to space fever entering the world stage, Mobile Suit Gundam set a precedent for what animators could do with the potential a space setting had. It wasn't mi…
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This highly original and innovating anime offers so much in terms of being the original “realistic mech anime series.” It talks about the potential realities of war on both a battlefront and political scale. It’s a wonderful coming of age story for many of the characters that each develops for not only the good guys, but the bad guys as well. I’m not sure if relate to them is a right word, but you can sure bet sympathize and understand them is something you can certainly do. And it’s a story of trust and betrayal on both fronts as well. All I can say is, it’s the perfect story about everything you can possibly get on human nature in an anime. I feel that even if mankind can advance this far, sadly, there can never be any absolute peace, and the realities…
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Mobile Suit Gundam, a title every anime fan has surely heard. Some of us love and praise the franchise spawned by this original series, and for some of us it just didn't quite do the job. Regardless, there is no denying it is a revolutionary title that has advanced anime as a whole. It's truly a classic series that has left its impact, or rather, is still making an impact on anime. As you can see by my high rating of 9, I'm one of the fans that adored this series. So now let's see why this is an outstanding series.
The central plot of Mobile Suit Gundam is fairly simple, laying out a brutal war between two sides: the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. Amuro Ray, our main character, gets involved in the conflict by boarding the Federation's great weapon, Gundam (I'm not gonna e…
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Mobile Suit Gundam, the father of mecha anime, is without a doubt a revolutionary title. This is one of the titles that brought about more mature themes and stories to be animated. However, just because it was revolutionary doesn't mean the quality is up to par after 25 years. In addition, this review will compare MSG to the narrative standards of today and ignore the art and sound.
The first few episodes of MSG were interesting, setting up what would seem to be an epic tale. Also, we are able to see the origins of many mecha themes and ideas. My only real complaint with the first few episodes was the way Amuro (zero experience) was able to go toe-to-toe with Char, a legendary pilot. A mecha convention that just has to be accepted, not a big deal I guess. After the initial episodes, one…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: the series that sparked a genre. Being a pioneer at something is a tough thing to do and while there are some flaws with the original mecha powerhouse that is Mobile Suit Gundam, I can't help but love almost every minute of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam chronicles the adventures of the White Base crew and the enemies that are in a close proximity to them over the course of the series. The main crew consists of about ten characters with the famous Amuro Ray at the centre of it all. The story follows the White Base as it tries to evade the Zeon and complete its objectives. As a side plot to the main story of the White Base is the ongoing duel between Char Aznable and Amuro. As they both fight in the brave new world of Universal Century 0079/80. They have to deal with ever evolv…
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What's more to say about one of the grand daddies of all Mecha? Mobile Suit Gundam thats what it is.
First came out in 1979 by director and animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was able to make several animes during his time and still is. One of his most famous works is the Mobile Suit Gundam anthology, from the Original Mobile Suit Gundam to Turn A Gundam, Tomino was able to make most of all the Gundam Series.
We are all to familiar with the story liine, a boy with problems looking for answers comes across a large macha and uses it to save his friends and allies from utter destruction. The name of the Samurai shaped robot is Gundam.
The story goes with young Amuro Ray, becomes facinated by his father's creation for the Earth Federation Army, the Gundam. He uses the giant Robot to save his…
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