Gundam Thread 5: That's no Anime, boy! No Anime!

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Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Lemon Curdistan posted:

There's no way to watch MSG79 that won't make it feel like it was animated on a shoestring budget in the late 70s. It somehow hasn't received a real remake. However:

If you're okay with the bad 70s animation, Bandai are literally releasing MSG79 on Bluray this year, so you can at least obtain the full show legally and in 1080p (for what little that last part is worth with bad 70s animation).

If you can find them, the show was also condensed into three films in 1981 which do a lot to fix the pacing and remove one of the most toyetic/super-robot-ish elements from the show (the G-Armor) in favour of something better (the core booster). I would argue these are worth watching more than MSG79 itself.

If you don't care about MSG79 itself and just want to know who Amuro and Sayla and Char and Lalah are, there's a currently ongoing manga reboot/retelling of MSG79 called Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin that is pretty good, although it diverges significantly from UC canon in quite a few places (sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much). There's also one (soon to be two) tie-in animated film that cover the prequel-to-the-One-Year-War part of The Origin, but I'd argue that that's one of the least good parts of it.

In what way is the Core Booster better than the G-Armor? It's probably the most boring plane-type thing from gundam except maybe the Skyfish or whatever that thing was called, and it can't even be converted back into the Core Fighter. The G-Armor has its faults, but it also enables my favorite thing from Gundam, Gundam + B-Parts. Honestly, I can see people picking on the G-Hammer and the Guntank in space, but the G-Armor never should have been removed.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 04:23

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:41

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Srice posted:

The G-Armor is lame because even ignoring how dumb it is, it takes up a lot of screentime in the show that serves no purpose.

You can tell it was mandated because they have multiple episodes where they're testing out the G-Armor for no reason, with the same stock footage.

Or, you know, they didn't have a lot of budget and people were getting *really* tired of that one sequence where the Gundam combines in mid-air for no reason.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 16:43

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Kanos posted:

In SRW Alpha 2 and MX it was one of the strongest units in the game. It was also really good in Alpha 3, though it was competing with lots more crazy bullshit. It hasn't actually been in a SRW since Alpha 3 though, which released literally a decade ago.

It was in OE.

It's a goddamn shame that game was such a clusterfuck of mechanics because it really had a ton of good ideas, it's just that they were drowned in microtransaction bullshit.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2015 07:08

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Weird that Kycelia is helmet-off on top, when Hamon and Lalah are helmet-on.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 02:07

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Lemon Curdistan posted:

Of all the episodes you could have picked, that's one of the ones that's most clearly not even remotely any kind of filler.

At least he didn't bring up the 'White Base needs salt' episode, because a ton of plot-related stuff happens in that one, too.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 20:35

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

I can't agree with that. When I watched it with a friend we referred to it as 'Budget Fighters' because of how little budget obviously went into the first half of the series, and too many fights in the second half devolved into 'throw away your weapons and just get into a punching fight with the enemy'.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2015 20:47

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Flippinlikebirds posted:

It's been a while since I watched it, but I thought they said it right. In Char's Counter Attack they definitely say it weird.

The proper way to say it is 'Tih-TANs', I remember in one of the SRW games some guy says it 'Tai-tans' and gets corrected. So I don't know which way you think is 'weird', but that's something to keep in mind.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 19:22

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Begemot posted:

They're saying it in English, not greek. It's tai-tan.

According to who? They're not referring to actual gigantic monsters, it's a name, they can have it pronounced however they want.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 20:09

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

It's kind of a shame you didn't do F91 before Victory, it's a very good lead-in to it.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 11:12

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Droyer posted:

The Crossbone Gundam manga is a sequel centered on a new conflict, although characters from F91 returned.

Also, the companion mangas (F90 and Silhouette F91) are both fantastic and both very worth reading. Def Stallion still beats out Bring Stabity as my favourite Gundam name.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 16:04

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

Midjack posted:

Don't forget these.

The latter two aren't even Gundams at all, though.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 07:14

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

"Wufei, you'd better throw that thing before you get shot!"

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 01:19

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:41

Son Ryo: Jun 13, 2007; Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

muike posted:

http://imgur.com/a/DKf8e

e: i still laugh at "i don't remember designing wendy"

Holy poo poo at "Too empowering for female viewers", holy poo poo at westerners being 'too simple-minded' to get Woolf/Wulf's name right, and holy poo poo at Sunrise giving pictures of Jewish celebrities to use as the basis for the villains. I know Japan is supposed to be really xenophobic, but I think this is the first time I've seen such blatant evidence of it.

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# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 22:08

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