Audience reviews
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whiteflame55
Overall, this show was just very messy. While I can say there were some improvements (this series did not start off slow like the 1979 original, getting into the action early and often), it shares many issues with that series and added a few more. Much of the finale felt rushed and too much was built on Kamille's sudden acquisition and use of certain absurd newtype powers. The whole narrative seemed like it was jumping from battle to battle, often with little rhyme or reason, and while the original series clearly was aiming to sell toys and finding any reason to come out with a new mech type, this series seems particularly interested in hyping up new models with little or no explanation. It did make some of the fights more interesting, since new tools got pulled out often, but with so much…
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After the surprising depth and satisfying conclusion to the original "Mobile Suit Gundam," I was riding high on Mecha Fever, buying my first two Gunpla models and excited to consume more of this landmark anime franchise. Hearing good things about "Zeta Gundam" and eager to see how this universe could be even better fleshed out than the good yet quite flawed original series (which I practically binged from start to finish!) I went into "Zeta" expecting great things!
But it turns out that even in the eighties, people should have been wary when a company wanted to turn a popular series into a genuine franchise. "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam" is bad. VERY bad.
While the first several episodes are easy enough to follow, adding new characters and bringing in the occasional fan-favorite from the ori…
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam has been one the least enjoyable anime series I've seen and finished.
Usually, whenever I'll watch a handful of episodes of a series, decide if I like it or not, and drop it if it's not enjoyable. In the case of MSZG, I felt compelled to keep watching after the initial "oh gosh, is this that bad?" of the first 10 or so episodes. This is due to the fact that I've seen and enjoyed the prequel to MGZS and would like to continue in its shared universe. After having slogged through 50 episodes of MGZS, I'm not sure if I made the right choice.
The best thing about this series is definitely the audiovisual art. While its animation might not be a technical marvel, it has this distinct 80's look to it that I certainly like. The color palette for the mech's and such is ver…
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Oh boy, what a disappointing ride. Coming off of Gundam 0079, which was a highly flawed but sort of interesting story that didn't use its potential to its fullest, I looked forward to seeing how a followup could improve on the things I liked about it, while hopefully trimming away all of the garbage that ultimately made it a meh experience. And for the first half of Zeta, I have to say that it is a remarkable improvement over 0079. A more developed cast of characters, the plot's far more dynamic and multi-layered, and all of the fillery mobile suit fights of the original series are greatly reduced and replaced with generally more meaningful conflicts.
I want to get to the bitching as fast as possible, but for context, my main interest in Gundam lies in when it's able to give a grounded, t…
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If I sold you a mecha/military anime that was 5% mecha fights, 2% extremely shallow politics and 93% girls nagging about their feelings, you'd probably think some wires in my brain were crossed and I was accidentally talking about some moeblob shovelware SOL, but I'd actually be talking about mobile suit zeta Gundam.
Having female/child characters with prominent screen time AT ALL in a military anime is already questionable but this anime definitely takes it to an annoying extreme; the second half of the anime has the same basic plot looping on every episode: child or female disobeys orders and takes off in a robot to play basketball or whatever dumb shit, something goes horribly wrong, character is not reprimanded at all. Rinse and repeat. There is no character growth at all, even the pr…
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is one of the more acclaimed series in the Gundam franchise. Yet, confusingly enough, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is also a poorly written cacophony of endlessly repeating plot mechanics and contradictory characters that does a severe injustice to it's predecessors quality and general nuance in depicting very serious themes.
The series starts and ends with its first contradiction, Kamille Bidan. An angsty newtype teenager hailed as the second coming of Amuro Ray, Kamille begins his journey by assaulting soldiers, hijacking a gundam, destroying buildings, and getting his loved ones killed as he joins Char and his compatriots in their rebellion against violence and tyranny. Kamille then embarks upon a cyclical quest of meeting random girls, falling in love with them afte…
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Hello, everyone, this is Shawn aka KurataTrigger and welcome to my next anime review of the month of Anime Limited.
For this one, I will be taking a look one of the most praised Gundam shows from the franchise Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
With that further ado let’s begin with this review.
Story.
It is the year Universal Century 0087 eight years after the one year war. The Zeon forces have been defeated and to make sure they never rise again the earth federation creates an elite task group known as the Titans. Unfortunately, the Titans will have they own agenda by becoming corrupt and try to gain control of the earth sphere. In response a space rebel group known as the Anti-Earth Union Group or the A.E.U.G for short attempt to stop the Titans. During a mission that would spark a war between t…
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Watching Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, there were times where I felt the same excitement I felt when watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam. After 50 episodes, I came to the conclusion that this show should never have been made.
The original Gundam was brilliant for being an enormous departure from other, very formulaic mecha titles of the 70’s. Suddenly there was a gritty war story, about humans against humans, with grey characters, instead of a simplistic black and white story about men in giant invincible robots fighting evil aliens. It was as far as I know, the first attempt at realistic science fiction and the first sci-fi anime to delve into the psyche of the characters and portray the internal struggles of a pilot killing another pilot. Tomino didn’t just evolve the genre one step ahe…
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"Kamille Bidan, Zeta Gundam, launching!"
Zeta Gundam is many, many things.
Zeta Gundam is boring, Zeta Gundam is hypocritical, pretentious, and filled with the sort of dialogue that makes Air Gear look like 20th Century Boys (and even then it's not that good). Zeta Gundam is filled with annoying characters that need a good gunshot to the head, Zeta Gundam is confusing and Zeta Gundam is overrated.
If it hasn't been made clear.
I hate this show.
Yes that's right hardcore Gundam fans, I hated it, I'm talking to you Tomino fanboys, especially the one's that think that Zeta Gundam is his chef d'oeuvre and the only Gundam worth liking. Go on, hit that not helpful button because I know you've got your finger ready to click it.
Also, let me be quick to clear something up, that 8 is purely b…
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The question of what series best defines Mobile Suit Gundam rages far and wide across forums, anime convention hotel rooms, and instant message windows. Each Gundam fan takes a different message from the Universal Century, some even preferring alternate universe Gundam series. But make no mistake, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is the definitive Gundam series. Without question Zeta represents a definitive and exhaustive vision of Yoshiyuki Tomino's idea of what Gundam is really about and what defines the future of the human face, the Newtype.
For those who watched Mobile Suit Gundam and the subsequent side stories prior to Zeta, Kamille's tragic adventure is grander in scope both of the conflict and in regard to the ideas explored by the series. Not shying away from topics like the prevalence an…
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If the original Gundam depicted a bloody war on an unprecedented scale, then Zeta Gundam shows the profound human breakdown that followed. Set eight years after the first series, the post-war reconstruction is shown to have badly failed. The Federation, once a system the heroes fought for, has been corrupted by a military unit fanatically devoted to Earth supremacy.
Arguably the central theme of the Gundam franchise is the struggle between Earth and the space colonies that orbit it. Zeta takes this concept very far. As newtypes (theoretical evolutions of mankind, meant for space) have evolved and research on them has advanced, a growing divide has formed between them and normal people. This jealous paranoia turns the ruling Earth bureaucracy against its colonies, before they grow too pow…
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Important: Forgive my english please. As a french person it's not very easy for me.
Zeta wasn't my first introduction to gundam as a tv serie, but when I sat down and watched the first episode, I already have the feeling that this serie was gonna be great. Boy, I was right!! Zeta Gundam kicks out seven years after the original story (I will not go far in the plot). A group under the Federation control, Titans, are created to hunt down Zeon remnants. They opressed the spacenoids and a rebel group rise to deliver the spacenoids from the opression. The AEUG was born.
Story: Although the story seems not necessarily interesting on paper, it surely the greatest story of the gundam serie. I respected Yoshiyuki Tomino for all his great work on the Gundam franchise. This story doesn't waste any e…
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a show that did many things excellently and had the potential to be not just the best show in the Gundam metaseries but one of the pinnacles of anime in the 1980s. Zeta introduces many memorable and well fleshed-out original characters. Unfortunately, as the cast for the show began to bloat, many major and minor characters got lost in the shuffle and had their sub-plots resolve poorly. The handling of these characters and the plot particularly towards the end of the series are what keep this otherwise great anime from being one of the all-time classics.
Set some eight years after the end of Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeta Gundam tells the story of a new conflict between the Earth and space with a new cast of characters. However, nearly everyone who survived the end of…
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"Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam", the smash hit of 1984, was often seen as the better offspring of "Mobile Suit Gundam" which was cancelled in 1979. Having completed the series within a couple weeks time, I was able to assess the entire universe of Zeta following the one year war and can confidently say that while yes, the series expanded to major dramatic plateaus, astounding animation for its time, and compelling character development, that I missed the optimistic ideologies concerning war that were so evident in the original Mobile suit series. This fact compounded with many shortcomings made me a confused fan by then end of the series' run.
The evolution that takes place after the end of the one year war made for a compelling plot turn, that caused viewers to change their whole perspective o…
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Even though this is a direct sequel to the first Gundam series, it primarily relies on a new cast of characters while other major characters like Amuro are now secondary and has a very small but significant appearance as well as Kai Shiden and Hayato Kobayashi. Despite this, little to no previous experience of the first Gundam series isn’t required to really follow the story though it is highly recommended to mostly understand Char or Quattro or whatever you want to call him. This series has a reputation amongst Gundam fans as being dark and gritty, and I can’t deny that. But I believe that whatever is presented should not be found offensive since there is meaning to what happens in this series and helps progress it, but I don’t think that this quality alone should define…
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (A) – my favorite Gundam series. This direct sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam (0079) is a coming-of-age, giant/real robot masterpiece. Sure the show is old (I never got to watch it until the highly affordable 2 disc sets started coming out around 2005-06), but it can’t be punished for that.
The story is told well, with some primer not necessary, but very helpful to help understand whom some characters are and where they come from. Amazingly, for a series that spans 50 eps, they never let anything meander too long. It constantly changes and evolves as new characters are introduced or leave the show. The action is great and happens often with all the characters’ lives on the line. Honestly, you don’t know who is going to die or when.…
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is, of course, the second installment in the Gundam franchise, so first off watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam beforehand. That should go without saying. Comparatively, this sequel not only lives up to its predecessor, but even surpasses it.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam's tale is set seven years in the future after its prequel, and quite a bit has happened since then. In the One Year War we watched a brutal war between the Earth Federation Forces and the Principality of Zeon. Now, we watch as a tyrannical sect of the Earth Federation, known as the Titans, and the Anti-Earth Union Group, a faction of rebels, duke it out. In the beginning of the series, we're sort of just quickly tossed into the middle of things, but as the story progresses things make more sense and i…
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Zeta Gundam (Zeta) is considered by many to be superior to the original, Mobile Suit Gundam (MSG) as well as being Tomino’s masterpiece. I decided to watch Zeta right after being disappointed by MSG. In particular, I was interested to see if Zeta would be as dark and realistic as many fans say. Like my previous MSG review I will judge Zeta by today’s narrative standards as well as ignoring art and sound in the overall grade.
First off let me talk about the technical aspects. Animation wise it is definitely one of the better animated series of the 1980’s. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality for a mid 80’s anime. Music used is more universal than that of MSG as they used many orchestra pieces, thus giving it an ‘era-less’ feel. However, the music is…
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Most of you who read this know the synopsis for the story, so I will skip that.
The only reason I didn't give this series 10 across the boards is because it is old. The artwork is amazing, don't get me wrong, but it is dated by most standards. However, this is a part of the charm of the series.
The plot twists, character developements, awesome and weird mobile suit designs, and general Gundam plot devices are what make this show as good as it is. The good guys and bad guys are not definate or clear cut (as they were more easily shown in Mobile Suit Gundam). There are people who are bad guys, or good guys, but many of the characters fall into both that neutral area and the grey area where they cross both boundaries.
After seeing the Mobile Suit Gundam movies, I wanted to see the sequel. I…
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After I became addicted to the Gundam universe, there was one series I was dying to see next, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. This series was to original continuation of the Original Mobile Suit Gundam. The anime was made during the early 80's by the most famous anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino (who also Directed Mobile suit ZZ Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counter Attack, Brain Powered, Invincible Superman Zambot 3, and many more).
The story takes place seven years after the war between the Principality of Zeon and the Earth Federation. The Earth Federation creates a task force called the Titans to destroy any Zeonic remnants. But eventually the tyrannical Titans begin to take control of the colonies, thereby oppresing the Spacenoids once again. A rebel task force made of Earth Federation an…
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