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 11,350 users)

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Ranked: #5230²

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Popularity: #4163

Members: 28,372

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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Summary:	Kidou Senshi Gundam: Hikaru Inochi Chronicle U.C.

Koorogi, Satomi
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Yatate, Hajime

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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)

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Aug 28, 2023

vexium

Recommended

After having watched many an anime and not bothering to review one, even after several years of not logging into this account, so comes a time when, after viewing Victory Gundam, I felt compelled to deliver this abrupt introduction to the most misunderstood Gundam show to date...

Hey there, reader, do you like motorcycle tires? Do you like bike wheels so much you wish they could fly? What about if they could tread the ocean surface and act like whimsically half-rotated UFOs swarming about the seas? And how about if they were the entire bottom hull of a ship, like one massive tank tread - big ... enough even to squish your mom? Or dare I say, would you like them if they spun about, rotated, and generated motion in space? You do? Well then, do I have the show for you.

Hey there, reader, do you like fan service? Do you like harems of girls in your anime shows, void of a reasonable explanation but bountiful in the voluptuous department of volume? Do you like entire companies of soldiers clad in nothing but bikinis for the sole purpose of trolling the protagonist? Do you like your main character to be suggestively dominated and put in inexplicably compromising situations with women twice their age? Boy, do I have the show for you.

Hey, reader, do you like popcorn blockbuster action movies? Do you like action scenes with completely unrealistic outcomes, where the Hero performs stunts that make Tom Cruise look like a girl scout scared of knocking at the neighbor's door? Do you like when people parachute onto buildings and objects from impossible heights, with no realistic chance of survival, yet done with such impeccable grace as to seamlessly move on with no comment to the next insurmountable feat? Well, you guessed it, I have the exact show for you.

And that show is: Victory Gundam. Put your grievances aside. The plot is impressively terrible. The characters are surface-deep at best, inscrutable at worst. The ending makes absolutely no sense. The entire 3rd arc of the story is a ramshackle-monstrosity of motifs coagulating into a climax of needless death and seemingly random conclusions to arcs we didn't know existed until but an episode prior.

But that doesn't matter, because you know what does? Victory. Victory is what matters, and our boy, -the- boy, if you will, Uso, is going to achieve it. By God, he's going to achieve it even if Shahkti has to walk into the enemy encampment a thousand more times. He will achieve it so hard, every girl on Earth and in space is going to be 'miring so hotly that the Char Aznable of the story will actually disappear from the story for no good reason other than that we are simply too busy admiring Uso from the perspective of literally every female character in the show. Mission achieved, Victory accomplished.

Plot holes? Yes, those exist - in fact, if you look closely, you can glance through the swiss cheese of the show and stare into the realm of what could have been, and with that glimpse, great sadness will creep upon you, wondering what actual heights our Victory could have risen to. BUT NONE OF THAT MATTERS, because we have Victory. And Victory is sweet, if not a little bitter at times.

Still, you might ask, what will Victory get me, in the end? Will Victory be worth it? Victory, with a visually augmented and stunningly clear capital 'V', is not only worth it; it's so worth it, you might find yourself wondering what else is. For instance, is a coherent story worth it? If we can just enjoy unique artwork and oddly captivating hand-drawn combat scenes of giant mechs delivering ultimate annihilation, do we really need any characters to make actual sense? Apparently we do, because Uso is that character, and for the better part of the story, you will be fooled into thinking that Victory is the development of this young boy into a war-torn but headstrong soldier, overcoming all odds and miraculously accomplishing the impossible, all to finally save the day.

But, FOOL that you are (for taking popcorn action too seriously), none of that matters, because you will undoubtedly find that true Victory, and incidentally the actual best case I can make to watch this show, is found in the hearts and souls of us all. We all share a passion for life and love that Uso and crew serve up in spades across the breadth of the story, making it real even when it's absolutely, certifiably, nonsensically surreal. These genuinely human moments, while fleeting, recapture the heart-wrenching success of the whole Gundam universe, despite taking place in a surfeit of flimsy plot developments.

In all seriousness, the real Victory is getting through this series without saying "huh?" once, but if your faith holds fast and you remain constant to your beating heart, to that undying, innate dream to live and love beautifully this one life we have, you may find you actually enjoy this wonky ride for what it is: a winning excuse to spend some time with Gundams, those beasts of burden tearing our hearts and souls out over endless, wanton strife.

Oh, except for Katejina. She has no soul.

10/10, would never watch again. 7/10, if you choose to take this show seriously (if it wasn't clear by now, you shouldn't).

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Aug 10, 2022

Babineaux

Mixed Feelings

I dub thee, Gundam of Thrones. Seriously, this one is brutal, with gore, decapitations, and lots of death. In spite of its otherwise childish tone and visuals, literally no one is safe, so be sure to lock up your waifus and children. This is called "the most depressing Gundam" for a reason.

To qualify this review, going into this I've watched basically all of Universal Century Gundam back to back in more or less chronological order, and this was the last one on my list. And boy was this an interesting one.

There is a lot to like (and a lot to dislike) about this show. In ...

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Sep 19, 2023

Armio

Not Recommended

A Gundam for Completionists

The show is not very good and barely ties into the grand narrative of UC (unless you end up reading Crossbone). To keep it simple, I would only recommend this to people who are all in on Gundam.

The animation is inconsistent, and the plot has no idea where it's going, it just knows that it wants to talk about the weakness of women and their power over men.

There are positives though, the show starts off very interesting, and has some unique mobile suit designs. Uso is also a very cool Mc who has to struggle with a lot of things despite ...

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