Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam)

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Synonyms: Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam

Japanese: 機動戦士Vガンダム

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Type: TV

Episodes: 51

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 2, 1993 to Mar 25, 1994

Premiered: Spring 1993

Broadcast: Fridays at 17:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Asahi, Sotsu, Apollon

Licensors: Nozomi Entertainment

Studios: Sunrise

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, Military, Space

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.82¹ (scored by 11,316 users)

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Ranked: #5148²

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Popularity: #4163

Members: 28,326

Favorites: 164

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In the year 153 of the Universal Century, the tyrannical Zanscare Empire has taken hostile control over Side 2, a space colony outside of Earth's orbit. Following in the footsteps of the long expired Principality of Zeon and the more recent Crossbone Vanguard, Zanscare rules over its subjects with cruelty, routinely using a large guillotine for public executions.

Living in Central Europe, space immigrant Üso Ewin joins the League Militaire, a militia made up of civilians frustrated with the Earth Federation's inability to combat the Zanscare Empire. Üso's latent abilities as a psychic Newtype awaken and allow him to pilot the Victory Gundam, the only mobile suit capable of holding off the elite BESPA forces of the Zanscare Empire.

Hoping to protect his best friend Shakti Kareen and locate his parents within the ranks of the Federation, Üso fights on with the Victory, striving to bring an end to the empire's reign.

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Adaptation:	Kidou Senshi V Gundam
Prequel:	Kidou Senshi Gundam F91
Sequel:	Turn A Gundam, Gundam: G no Reconguista
Summary:	Kidou Senshi Gundam: Hikaru Inochi Chronicle U.C.

Koorogi, Satomi
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Yatate, Hajime

Producer, Original Creator

Ueda, Masuo

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Tomino, Yoshiyuki

Director, Original Creator

Sekita, Osamu

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Opening Theme

	1: "Stand Up To The Victory" by Tomohisa Kawasoe (eps 1-31)
	2: "Don't Stop Carry On" by RD (eps 32-51)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Winners Forever" by INFIX (eps 1-31)
	2: "Moichido Tenderness" by KIX S (eps 32-51)

Reviews

Aug 19, 2008

ninjasan8

Recommended

Story: Without a doubt, V Gundam is the saddest Gundam story to date. And before anything else is said, I think it's worth a mention to say that a lot of people die, and most of the time for no good reason at all. That aside, I have to say I really loved the storyline. However, some of the story arcs in the middle could have been left out, and the story would still be intact; a lot of the time during said arcs I found myself wondering why the characters were doing what they were doing. There's not a lot of narrative glue to ... stick the parts together, and to keep one interested during some of the low parts. But, overall it's a nice story, with an emphasis on death, and at least during the last arc, a huge emphasis on the beauty of life.

Art: Very good. V Gundam uses a very simple art style to convey the characters and the Mobile Suits; which is both good and bad. Most of the Suits are very similar to each other, and are very rarely any unique. Characters however, look very nice, and some are just too cool for words, while others are just meh. Battles are everything you would expect from a mecha show, and although somewhat exaggerated at times (or almost all of the time), they're mostly very good. The simple style works here to make the art very nice looking even today.

Sound: Not much to say here. There's an excellent cast of actors working on the voices, and the mecha sounds are great, but nothing really stands out in this category.

Characters: We've got a cast of mostly children and women, with the main villain and one of the main characters being male. The rest of the male cast are either lesser characters or very old men. I can't quite remember why the cast is like it is, but it brings a fresh look on what might be a stale storyline. It also has the effect of removing almost all romantic involvement between the main characters. There's a peace-loving-battle-scarred boy, a princess girl, and a group of what seem to be orphaned children. Interaction between them is what really pushes the story along. Without a doubt, Oliver and Captain Gomez were my favorite characters, both of which received little screen time, but both of whom were very central to the story.

Overall: No where near as good as First Gundam, V Gundam is nonetheless a very nice looking, anime featuring a somewhat lacking storyline that'll get your emotions running if you're not prepared for it. Definitely recommended if you've seen the other UC animes, however, the story is completely separate from the main meta-plot.

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Jul 12, 2018

TakaCode

Mixed Feelings

At one point Mobile Suit Victory Gundam was my most hated Gundam Show of all time. I hated the narrative and plot of Victory Gundam. I hated the characters, aboustly despite the pacing, hated the lack of actual substance of the show where characters would die randomly for no reason in the show and I hated the visuals for Victory Gundam as it’s very poorly animated and lack any detail. Even if Victory Gundam had a great soundtrack I still despise it for being a poorly animated and written shit show where I thought Gundam Seed Destiny, ZZ Gundam, and Gundam Build Fighters Try were ...

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Jan 30, 2022

Thetrebekoning

Not Recommended

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Man this was a slog. So many problems but I'm too tired to go into it all. Scattered observations to follow:

- The Music is legitimately good, and the cast is doing their best with a really bad script.
- People talk about how brutal the deaths are in this show but they really aren't. Like, there's nothing visceral in most of the deaths in this show (except maybe three or four, and most of those are confusing in just how much more violent they are that it doesn't work, it just shocks), and almost every death is telegraphed to shit and played up ...

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