Watch it and find out.

>>23871565
it isn't everyone's favourite, but a lot of people like it because it doesn't take itself seriously. it's WWE with mechs. everything is silly. there's a horse that pilots a unicorn mech, there's a mech that transforms into a windmill to hide amongst the windmills, egypt has a "mummy gundam" piloted by a zombie. it's just good, campy fun.

>>23871579
It takes itself deadly seriously, and that's why it's so fun. Not once does it display an ounce of self-awareness and point and laugh at the ridiculous bullshit it presents you with, it treats it all like it's supposed to be normal.

>>23871604
i mean that the creators were obviously having fun with it and trying to make things silly. just because it is played straight does not mean it is taking itself seriously. something like nolan's batman is something that is taking a stupid concept and taking it seriously. a world where the galactic election is decided by a wrestling match between giant robots on an earth surrounded by a giant wrestling ring is absolutely not something that takes itself seriously, regardless of if the characters don't wink and nudge at the audience of ludicrous nature of things.

It's Imagawa's finger to all those edgy autists that worship overrated shit like Zeta Gundam like the best thing ever happened to mankind. And it was Tomino himself that gave him the blessing to make that, because you know, Tomino fucking hates the gundam audience. Of course it's good

>>23871565
>everyone's
Source?

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>>23871631
My favorite Gundam is Zeta and G is the only AU I can stand. G Gundam is just FUN. It's just good old fashioned FUN.

It's awesome. I have always loved old Shaw Bros kung fu movies and G Gundam is probably the best translation of them to anime of all time.

>>23871565
It's simple: G Gundam is fun. Do you hate fun?

Has the best and comfiest endings.

The dub is fantastic too I love Domon's voice so much

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>>23871939

>>23871604
And that's perfect, because laughing at itself is the most cringe thing any entertainment can do.

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>>23871634
For some reason that pic reminded me of this.

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>>23871565
It's ludokino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiBF3RDY8gU

>>23871565
Imagawa combined with wuxia

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>>23871634
I'm currently halfway in to watching G Gundam. Shouldn't Master Asia's new tag line be the Defeated of the East.

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>>23871604
>It takes itself deadly seriously, and that's why it's so fun. Not once does it display an ounce of self-awareness and point and laugh at the ridiculous bullshit it presents you with, it treats it all like it's supposed to be normal.
Because it is normal, also normal for colonies to be shaped like your nation or as a national monument.

>>23874968
>filename
In that screencap?

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>>23871565
I like Hong Kong martial arts movies

It's a nice little show that's definitely a fun watch but I don't think it's the best Gundam or best mech anime of this type. Still really worth a watch for...pretty much everyone IMO.

Something I think people don't mention about this show enough besides the whole "crazy premise but plays it totally straight" is that there's a really melancholic and bittersweet undercurrent to all of it. There's a good few episodes focusing on topics like sickness, aging, lost love, etc. Like Tequilla Gundam is such a goofy meme but it gets one of the most bittersweet episodes of the series with the dying childhood friend gf. If I had to describe the show in a way other than Wuxia Gundam or Super Robot Gundam, it'd probably be "Fairy Tale Gundam"

>>23871565
Because it's fucking fun.

>>23875425
You can find character drama in any show, of course people are going to talk most about what makes G Gundam unique

>>23871565
I like when robots punch each other

>>23871565
Watch some wuxia

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>>23875278
I don't get why the guy who made the screencap named it that way; still, Wing Gundam made its debut in G Gundam. It's the first and last time a new AU cameoed in another AU

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Only G Gundam, you get Zeta Gundam, F91, Wing, and Zambot 3 fighting together to fight a giant monster Gundam.

>>23871604
bro needs a fucking laughtrack

>>23875453
I think it's kind of key to the vibe of the series though. It's very classically "romantic" in a way that plays into the fantastical elements of the series.

>>23871604
This is correct.
For some reason shit like Code Geass and Valverave skewed the meaning of
>doesn't take itself seriously
around these parts.

>>23875514
>>23875516
Impressive how it managed to change its color registering in the middle of battle.

>>23871604
>>23875670
Modern audiences seem to have lost sight/ forgotten the idea of 'camp' or something along the line. A lot of older movies, particularly old HK martial films tend to be very over the top and ridiculous in concept, but as said, that's just how the story's verse function and the actors, writers etc take them seriously and play it straight. It's part of the charm.

>>23871565
Because it aired on Toonami in 2002 and for many basedlennials, either that or Gundam Wing was their first (and probably only) Gundam show.

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>>23876873
/m/ hates Gundam
if only... I mean, Tomino himself hates gundam, so why shouldn't I

>>23875425
It plays the setting straight but it also doesn't forget it's Gundam. The setting kinda sucks if you're not a Gundam Fighter or live in the Colonies

If you don't inherently get the appeal of something no amount of another person "explaining" it to you will make it click. Just move on.

>>23876873
>G Gundam is the least Gundam of any Gundam series.
It's like you've never seen anything SD Gundam related or the Build series

You're not wrong though, I have zero interest in Gundam and never watched any UC Gundam

>>23876903
Is there something all those characters share in common aside from being anime characters?

>>23875514
Buster Rifle would be busted in G-Gundam. Not even the Wing Gundam itself, that thing was a piece of shit. But the Buster Rifle would probably be banned from the Gundam Fight.

>>23879994
>Not even the Wing Gundam itself, that thing was a piece of shit.
As is any machine without a primary weapon.

>>23875308
They do tend to be pretty outrageous.

>>23875516
>fish
>crab
>lobster
wat

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>>23883308
First time?

>>23875516
Is this still about the horrors of war? I see like a flying lobster or some shit

>>23883353
The horrors of war are contained in an electron system that's also a planet-sized tournament, since it was the only option for putting an end to the Earth Chaos War. Future Century timeline was pretty wild before the Gundam Fight became the norm.

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Future_Century

>>23883353
>>23883376
even just having the giant robot death match shit is STILL wrecking the environment/cities, so it's far from perfect

>>23883353
G's general premise is that humanity has eliminated/contained the problem of war by moving the entire population to space, and every four years a combat tournament is held on Earth with the winning nation becoming the ruling nation of humanity for that term

It of course be comes clear that this isn't entirely a clean system, and there are drawbacks to it that have been overlooked that form the basis of some of the antagonists motivations

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>>23883391
That's basically the summarized reason for Master Asia desire to end humanity because he saw the writing on the Wall and saw the major flaws in the Gundam Fight. Domon was starting to see it too, but like Amuro, he wants to put faith in humanity for future generations to find another answer then destroying the world to avoid war betwen earth and space.

>>23876873
G is far more attuned with the ethos of Gundam than pretty much anything the franchise has produced in the 21st century.

>>23871565
G has lots of shitty episodes but it was overall a fine show.
Americans loved it because it was similar to Dragon Ball, and everyone loved DB in the 90s

>>23883721
If you mean the ethos of selling colorful plastic robot toys to children while manchildren fool themselves into thinking its deep and meaningful, then yes.

>>23883808
>its
lol

>>23871565
I'll try to tell you, hot women including a dominatrix, a Tomboy, the American cheer squad, Love Love Tenyoken -sp with Rain.. uh. Some Gundam fights happen WITH HELP FROM KYOJI! Awesome music fitting the 90s vibe and of course Master Asia.

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>>23884816
Everything looks better in Titans colors.

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>>23871565
it turns gundam into a super robot show and its hype as hell, there's no point of arguing what gundam universe is the strongest when you have to fight the Windmill gundam or an old man that knows kungfu that can stop mobile suits by him self on foot., it's raw sillyness to the point it's funny so you can enjoy the ride.

>>23886620
this gets memed but it's barely the weirdest thing in the show

>>23884816
>sovl v soulless

>>23884702
We could already tell you're a pseud but thanks for confirming!

>>23886620
Did whoever made that demotivator not know what an interrogation mark was or how/when to use it?

>>23871565
It's a very odd Gundam series compared to all of it's AU peers and the UC, but damn, for the first time they had done this, they certainly made it incredibly memorable.

>>23889285
>That whiny botch wasn't even in one.
Were you, out of curiosity?

>>23889285
>sone
>botch

>>23889285
yeah I'm sure you're a veteran soldier lmfao

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>>23871565
>How come G Gundam is everyone's favorite?
THAT IS A LIE, we only got a dumb script novel instead of a new Anime

>>23892799
Pretty sure that's not how the abacus works.

>>23890910
It amuses me to think of how the very first time they decide to get away from UC Gundam, SD and G Gundam are what they come up with

>>23893526
Hey, it worked, didn't it?

>>23871565
It was their first gundam.

>>23886620
>>23886632
>canonically hid itself as a windmill for the entire fucking qualifiers and then just booked it to Hong Kong
Based retard

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>>23893526
It's not surprising if you consider it' them pumping the brakes when UC didn't sell as Japan expected it to. They have a stark realization that, come 2002, there's really nothing they have that doesn't requite at least early UC to make sense of. I suspect the reason X wasn't used was due to it using UC as a basis of the backstory. Turn A also had the non-traditional design and probably would've had to deal with a lot of censorship. Both underperformed too, but I think that wasn't the only faactor.

G and the SD show was basically "Kids don't get the politics/like old animation, we have to get something else." G was leaning to the shonen audience. SD was frankly just hedging bets that if nothing else they could sell the mecha designs to little kids.
Around...02-04? Or so, Bandai America seemed to lean in on Char's counterattack in the US, I'm sure part of it was due to reused MSiA toys from Japan, but pushing CCA seemed like an attempted to salvage the stalling UC marketing. CCA's designs are more in line with modern Gundam of the time and more traditionally cool. They seemed to have ambitious plans for Seed that quickly got cut by retailers not wanting stock and CN all but abandoning the show. Seed was effectively a way to modernize traditional Gundam to new markets, and it worked well in places with America being a huge exception at the time.

>>23893526
Maybe they figured everyone needed a break from heavy war dramas.

>>23883775
I kind of agree. I rewatched it a year ago and it was worse than I remembered but still good. The problem is that a lot of the one off episodes actually weren't that interesting. It was very entertaining when the actual plot was happening though, it's one of those shows that makes me wish 3 cour shows were more common. It didn't need an entire 50 episodes but 24 would have been too little.

>>23883775
>it was similar to Dragon Ball
WUT

>>23883775
>>23897373
>it was similar to Dragon Ball Z
ftfy

>>23874968
>says heero
>posts Tobia and Amuro

>>23897690
Retard.

>>23874968
>filename
What's that got to do with the pic?

>>23899081
Bot post.

>>23899084
Bot post.

>>23886620
Thanks for making me feel old!

Am I the only one who was disappointed with the actual fights?
I enjoyed the tournament-oriented plot and how this was basically Gundams doing martial arts, but the actual battles were rather static and action was sparse.
Fights feel like they start and end in an instant, as soon as G Gundam does his special god fist attack

>>23895323
They didn't use Gundam X because there was no action figures of X in the pipeline. All the MSIA stuff was re-packaged/recolored releases for outside Japan, which obviously was pretty much just UC at that point. Big box retailers like ToysrUs were wanting additional Gundam merchandise (read as "WE DON'T WANT NON GUNDAMS, THESE CYCLOPS THINGIES CLOG SHELVES) in addition to the model kits to justify Bandai's shelf-real estate.

>>23883775
Bro most people in America did not watch DB, they watched DBZ because while DBZ was on US TV in1996, Toei/Funimation didn't release original Dragon Ball until 2001 in the U.S. If you were American and watched Dragon Ball, it's because your ethnicity was Asian or from Mexico and you had access to localized ethnic programming which was showing Dragon Ball.

>>23895028
The qualifers were survival, and that sure as hell counted.

>>23903310
Well yeah, but the sporting idea is to be fighting, at least a little bit
Don't get me wrong, I love him, but also no one else was doing what he did

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>>23894470
Well, kinda in the case of G, since they went back more or less to status quo for Wing, except now it's full of pretty boys (and women, just because they weren't the protagonists they were actually important), but it certainly did work wonders for SD Gundam.

>>23906558
So he'll crush our heads if we give him a lead on where to find his brother?

>>23876547
Unfortunately, a generation raised on marvelslop thats always winking at the camera cant comprehend sincerity in media.

>>23875516
I see GP02 but it didn't use the nuke.

>>23908876
Because the nuke is loaded in the bazooka.

>>23871565
God fingered.
i think Wing is betterer though

>>23908747
You don't get a choice.

>>23901555
Ok but it was still similar to the part of the manga adapted as Dragon Ball Z, autist.
There's even Golden super modes.

>>23912970
Which part is that?

>>23911945
Don't you mean more betterer?

>>23871565
>Male power fantasy with Domon/Master Asia destroying buildings with their fists
>The dumb whore who does everything wrong at all times gets the guy in the end anyway
>Chibodee and his pink hair
It was truly a catch-all to appeal to men, women and even trannies

>>23901555
>retarded amerifat thinks "DB" and "DBZ" are two different series
Every. Single. Time.

>>23912971
Chapters 195-519

>>23913589
>>The dumb whore who does everything wrong at all times gets the guy in the end anyway
Rain was pretty on top of things wasn't she? It's Domon who was kinda dumb

>>23915462
he was talking about master asia

>>23913589
>>Chibodee and his pink hair
It's more purple than pink.

>dont need to watch 200+ episodes of UC to understand
>similar tone, themes and structure to normie shonen greatest hits like DBZ, One Piece, etc
It's just hype fight in to "believe in yourself " in to hype fight. You don't need to keep track of 20 characters and their ever changing allegiances, motives and knowledge, you follow like 4 people as they Do Hype Shit. It's easy watching. It's dumb fun with a heart of gold.

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Chibodee and his four weed smoking girlfriends. You agree.

The presentation is campy as hell, but people often forget that the main driving evil/bad guy in the story is a rogue AI with turbo nanomachine bullshit that can adapt any technology it sees within seconds, have near instantenous recovery, forcefully assimilate and corrupt living entities and has a burning hatred for humanity.
The Devil Gundam is unironically the most terrifying enemy in the gundam series. All conventional attacks fail against it and it was only defeated by the power of love and friendship.

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>>23917238
>The Devil Gundam is unironically the most terrifying enemy in the gundam series. All conventional attacks fail against it and it was only defeated by the power of love and friendship.
Now give it the Instant Lobotomy Beam.

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>>23917238
>>23917248
Just the OP alone showing a giant Gundam swallowing the earth paints a big picture of how terrifying Devil Gundam is. And this was before we knew what the hell it even was.

>>23917275
To be fair, it's actual scale isn't like that. Just a case of >shit that never actually happened in the show that was actually rather common in 90s and 00s anime OPs. Even at its strongest within the show, it was only as big as about maybe a third of the Neo-Japan colony.
Now then, it the Devil Gundam actually succeeded in assimilating the earth, could it have grown as large as it was depicted in the OP? Yeah, probably. But we thankfully never got to that point.

>>23917195
Since when did they smoke weed?

>>23917344
They do, actually.

>>23917353
Not what I asked.

>>23883335
Neo-India?

>>23919671
Can't be. It's not covered in shit.

>>23913436
cooler edgier teenage gundam pilots piloting gundams of DOOM that can destroy colonies in 1 laser shot?
and better OP songs.

>>23905806
Why do the Maxter and the Dragon not have head vulcans?

I'm convinced casual fans say this to more hardcore fans because they know how srs bsns Gundam fans are and someone saying a parody type show is their favorite is like saying they find the entire thing just one big lark.

>>23920944
>srs bsns Gundam
Mobile-Fightan had the most realistical/practical cockpit design for a future sci-fi show.
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Future_Century_technology#Mobile_Trace_System

>>23921102
mobile trace makes no fucking sense at all. furthermore what the fuck is practical about feeling pain when your suit takes damage?

>>23921145
then just don't wear the pain suit, that's what someone did

>>23921145
same reason why you have nerve endings. force feedback in realtime lets you know immediately which parts got damaged. so you won't do stupid shit like bite your own fingers off.

>>23921152
mate a simple alert will do that too
>>23921150
i wonder how running even works in those things. how do they work in space? it's dumb

>>23919675
Proving too much.

>>23922230
ackuaslly no. they eat the poo and use it for perfumes. sometimes they bath in it. it not scifi anime science.
>>>/int/

>>23922430
Doubt.jpg

>>23921170
How is an alert supposed to quickly communicate information in the heat of battle? Let's say that you're a fighter and your opponent picks you up and powerslams you against the ground. You can either have the forced feedback instantly tell you what got hurt and react accordingly. Or you can have a visual popup saying that your neck, spine, and shoulder joints have suffered critical damage, with moderate to severe damage to your lower back and also several sections of your arms from reflexively trying to break the fall, as well as your... -oh while you were trying to read/listen to all that in the timeframe of a fraction of a second, your opponent is chaining you into a combo and damaging you even further. Want to ignore all that and counterreact instantly? Too bad, the previously mentioned arm damage you took from reflexively breaking your fall has rendered your arms immobile, and while you try to react to his next attack by moving your nonworking arms for a parry, the elbow joints give in and your forearms fly off because the lack of a nerve ending warning system didn't notify you in time to tell you how bad an idea that was.

There's a reason why people evolved with sensitive nerve endings and not a flashing red video game ui at the corners of our eyes to tell us when we get hurt.

>>23871565
i get the impression it's similar to a lot of people's experience with dragon ball
they only watched it during the toonami broadcast and remembered it fondly but never really came back to it decades later

>>23875516
>Burning Gundam
Based
>Zeta
Based
>F91
Based
>Wing
. . .
>Zambot 3
Fuck Banjo that rich mother fucker.

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>>23923661
>Burning

>>23924474
based

>>23917275
Would that be considered putting a spoiler in the OP?

I think "Burning Gundam" is a really good name for a Gundam.
Shame it came from shitty localization.

>>23925657
It makes a lousy substitute for the original name. Why didn't they go with Divine Gundam or something?

>>23925657
>>23926953
>A thing that burns is hotter than a thing that shines
>"This hand of mine is BURNING RED"
>The delivery of the line in English
Also, it would be too on the nose that Japan's colony not only made a Gundam called "Devil," but its main Gundam to represent them is called "God," fighting against every other nation that's inferior to them.

>>23926953
>Why didn't they go with Divine Gundam or something?
A bunch of Deathscythe Hell toys got pulled from shelves, so the localization team got afraid of any kind of reference to religion.

>>23927239
which god was that aping?

>>23927239
Did it never occur to them that Hell tends to be perceived as profanity? They could've easily changed it to Deathscythe Hades.

>>23927239
That is dismaying for so many reasons.

>>23927015
How do you mean "on the nose"?

>>23927296
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the god of death.

>>23930556
Basically, the God of Gundam is made in Japan, and every other Gundam is beneath it.

>>23879994
>>23880768
remember, Gentle Chapman changed the meta of the Gundam Fights for about 12 years because he relied on guns, and made everyone chase firearms as important parts of their loadouts. It took Master Asia beating him for everyone to shift gears for the current tournament.
There's a legitimate reason for Wing Gundam to exist in FC as a proposed Neo-Japan fighter that was scrapped when Master Asia won and Neo Japan recruited his pupil. Which worked perfectly because Ulube already had plans in place to exploit his father's work and use him as collateral

>>23931202
That's not how animism works.

>>23932894
it's not about animism

>>23932944
It's not about what you're trying to make it out to be.

>>23932783
I think the Wing Gundam was scrapped because the Buster Rifle would inevitably inflict obscene amounts of collateral damage.

>>23935201
world governments not being terribly concerned with collateral damage is a major plot point though

>>23935254
One Gundam knocking another into a building is one thing; vaporizing everything beyond a target because the weapon is overpowered is a considerably greater order of magnitude.

>>23932783
Or, y'know, it was just thrown in as a cameo appearance from an upcoming new series that was then in the preliminary stages of production.

>>23871565

Because its fucking stupid and fun.

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>>23905806
Wait a minute...

>>23937248
That's the real and only reason, but it's fun to reason how it could work a little. Took me a few seconds of brainstorming, trust me I won't try to make a video essay about how AC is just an alternate FC timeline or whatever.

>>23939723
What about the CC timeline?

>>23940416
The result of someone playing god with some spacemagic quantum bomb during the conflict between whoever made the turns.

>>23940733
Sounds like someone divided by zero.

>>23923661
Got a problem with Wing?

>>23871631
G sucks lmao.

>>23943592
That exchange seems uncharacteristic of Domon.

>>23942394
it's shit