Some people say that Tomino is some sort of genius. But the whole thing is actually super dumb.In one year this happens:Gundam gets transfered from side 3 to the base on earth.THEN ONLY THEN the feds begin the mass production of the GM. One explodes every second in the battle of A Baoa Qu, so I guess they made somewhere near 5000 units at least.THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking year.Zeon watches their Zaku II get btfo by the Gundam, and then design and mass produces the gelgoog which has a higher performance than the gundam.Tomino should have made it more realistic, and made it last at least 3 years.
It's not dumb. The show lasted one year, why not integrate that into the story itself. It's the only reason they did it that way.
>>23603780>Tomino should have made it more realisticHe did, he wrote the novels.
>>23603793>The show lasted one year, why not integrate that into the story itself.But the show only takes place over the last 3 months of the war
Anon the show wasn't written with the idea of it being a long running franchise in mind, no one could have predicted what Gundam eventually turned into. I think the main reason it was such a short war was to make the sheer scale of the loss of life hit harder. In a little over a year half of humanity is fucking dead.
>>23603780>THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking year.That has more to do with latter installments made after the fact jumping into things. Don't blame the original for not forcing how bid shit would be milked especially when Tomino probably didn't have a lot to do with any of this. You're an idiot.
>>23603780>THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking yearYou don't have to believe every single side story actually occurred. You can elect to stick with only animated stories, or not even them.
>>23603780There's like only around 7 produced Gundam types in OYW, everything else is just blueprint stuffOYW never really ended until zeeks went extinct
>>23603780it was assumed that they had advanced manufacturing techniques by that UC timeline.They had the ability to produce and sustain MASSIVE space colonies; cranking out mobile suits and their variants seems within that industrial capacity & scale possible in 1 year (not including the years of military buildup and tension).
>>23604791World Wars, like pandemics, tend to burn themselves out quickly (and with a high death count).
>>23604794>high death count>Tomino
the novel lasted like a year and a half
>>23603780>yet another engagement bait test thread
>>23603780Have you seen what happened during WW2?>1938, Hitler pulls the Anschluss, nobody says anything>1938, a couple of months later Hitler wants Czechoslovakia too because after all there's germans in there, everybody else not only says nothing but bullies the Czechs to get partly annexed in the Munich conference>Chamberlain gets all giddy about somehow bringing peace to Europe with this while Churchill facepalms hard>Hitler sees people lets him do anything, he decides to get ALL Czechoslovakia now>"Lmao I got away with it again">Chamberlain starts shitting himself now>Hitler gets really giddy. he wants Poland now>1939 Hitler invades Poland after half of Europe told Poland to let him do it>Actual war starts after barely a year of Hitler trying to play Hearts of Iron and failing>Nobody in Europe including Hitler actually wanted it, they just were all fucking retards who let Hitler do the unthinkable until he crossed too many red lines>Actual war lasts like six years topsThe OYW was really just the war itself, the conflict lasted longer than that
>>23603780>Gundam gets transferredThe White Base complains the entire time that they almost never get to stop and rest, just go go go.>mass production of the GMThey had already started mass production toward the end of Operation V, just not mass deployment until they had Amuro's combat data to make the switch to mobile suits easier for the majority of their forces.>Gundam variantsHard to call them ALL (if any) canon besides the Ground Combat which was just a GM with a Gundam head, but all of them, outside of most of the RX-78 designations, were essentially pet projects for different groups and internal factions who wanted their own "Gundam".>ZeonThey were morons who kept rolling out prototype after prototype because no one could decide on one design to keep improving upon and the higher ups wanted an instant win weapon, otherwise it was trashed. Which is why they lost. By the time they perfected the Gelgoog and began producing it, not even truly mass producing (there were a ton of older models being fielded at Solomon and A Baoa Qu) due to factions scheming and having supplies redirected all over the place, they had already run out of time and soldiers.But most importantly, it was to sell toys.
>>23603780>Gundam gets transfered from side 3 to the base on earth.Operation V was on Side 7. Side 3 is the Principality of Zeon.>THEN ONLY THEN the feds begin the mass production of the GM.08th MS Team showed that the GMs were in production long before Amuro got into the cockpit of the RX-78-2.>One explodes every second in the battle of A Bao Qu, so I guess they made somewhere near 5000 units at least.4,800~ GMs and countless more Ball units, to be exact.>THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking year.8 months actually. It helps that the bulk of the prototyping was already done by the Zekes for building the mobile suits. So only Tem Ray and his team was responsible for was developing the Gundarium alloy armor to defeat regular Zaku mobile suit firearms, the learning computer to quickly assimilate and disseminate combat data, and miniaturizing beam tech to mobile suit sized.>Zeon watches their Zaku II get btfo by the Gundam, and then design and mass produces the gelgoog which has a higher performance than the gundam.They also produced the Dom series, the Gouf, the Gyan, and its endless parade of limited Mobile Armors.Which is pretty much in line with IRL fascist regimes who pour their resources into creating wünderwaffens that "promises to end the war".
>>23603780This circuit found its way into Zeon hands and it sped up the Gelgoog's timeline by 6 months. Prove me wrong
>>23605208Accidentally, I met masked Tomino on my trip to Japan this Summer. He figured out I recognized him, as I couldn't contain the expression of surprise. With casual nonchalance, he said "Tem Ray's circuit was the psychoframe research prototype." "What?" I ask, "what do you mean?" He just laughed with a bit of a cough, answering "Nobody will believe you, anyway." He pushed me to the side and walked away to the public restroom.
>>23603780The original Star Wars trilogy also covers a short amount of time.>>23605127Zeon also managed to prove the existence of NewTypes and develop the Psycommu system, which is insane. Meanwhile the feds were using Balls.And Zeon wo/could've won the battle of A Baoa Qu had Kycillia not murdered her brother, our great Leader Gihren, and taken control of the operation.
>>23605222can confirm this is true, Tomino and I had sex in that restroom and he told me the same thing
>>23605222Trips of truth.
>>23603780>>THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking year.That shit is just AU stuff to sell gunplas and books.
>>23605222>>23605975Guys, for real, those Toto toilets are too nice for you to be doing this.
>>23606529They have a button specifically for that scenario! It plays the MSG theme while the seat vibrates.
>>23605222I believe this story but Tomino was still lying as he does in half the interviews
Less than a year. Colony drop is like early mid January, Gundam is prototyped and produced by September, the actual show starts late September and follows them around till New Years.
If you take into account all the OVA's and mangas and ignore the contradicting stuff they also include, they had the RX-78-1 operational by June but it lacked and combat data, learning computer, and the core fighter was still in prototype phase. From that they put out the RX-79[G], RGM-79[G], and variants by July so the Federation had their own MS in the field from that point on. Earth and the space around it just happens to be a really huge area and minovsky slows down communication by a lot so most of Zeon wasn't aware of or didn't have enough data about EFF mobile suits until the White Devil appeared and started really wrecking shit.
>>23603780>THEN WE HAVE FUCKING 10000x Variants of the Gundam, a fuckton of prototypes, in one fucking year.The OYW was written only with the original work in mind, merchandise and additional material wasn't really accounted for.>everything else in the posthonestly don't see how any of this is that terribly unrealistic, aside from maybe Zeon throwing so many mobile suit variants at the gundam to see what sticks.
