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| I'm glad I watched The Origin TV anime before because it explained Char's motives and personality. You can understand more about Zeon and the war. Honestly if I hadn't done so I would have been a bit lost and less interested. Also I can't believe Garma just died like that and the Gundam being left into Amuro's hands. He's still immature and a brat. He'd be dead already if he wasn't piloting the Gundam. I can only imagine if these movies had the quality of the 2019 The Origin anime. The old animation is still watchable, but new animation is just way too good. |
| A bit all over the place but at least more easily digestible for anyone wanting to go back and experience the first gundam generation! Glad netflix added this trilogy or it likely would've been a long time before I got to check it out! |
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| man, i had the wrong idea about the story of Mobile Suit Gundam. i saw a couple of episodes of the tv series (on Cartoon Network i think) a LONG time ago and it didn't really jive with me back then. to be fair, the episodes were somewhere in the middle of the series, so i didn't have much of an idea of what the overall situation was; all i really knew was that the white mobile suit was the gundam hahaha. also, i didn't like the look of it; i remember thinking that it looked old. knowing a little bit more about the process of making animation and some of the techniques involved, i can say i now appreciate it's place in the history of animation. that being said, the look of Mobile Suit Gundam is the main thing that kept me from revisiting it even though i've been curious about it for a long time. first, the story. wow! watching the Mobile Suit Gundam story from the beginning, i wasn't sure who the series was aimed at. my teenage self most likely wouldn't have caught any of the emotional or situational complexities. my childhood self.... forget about it. i was shocked that they showed the mass killing of civilians so earlier on! when Fraw runs though the scattered corpses and cries over her mom's dead body...... the intensity of that scene upended everything i thought i knew about the story of Mobile Suit Gundam. also, i didn't know just how powerful the gundam and it's new weaponry were; with all the giant robot stuff i've seen before, i expect the weapons to be powerful. but seeing Char's reaction to the destructive power of the gundam's beam rifle also surprised me. that's when i started to suspect that the story was going to deal more with the horrors and cost of war than crazy cool giant robot action; when it started doing that, it piqued my interest. the action scenes scared me more than excited me. Amuro's struggle to keep up with his foes, to survive, and to protect everyone on White Base was always fraught with tension. that, combined with how himself Amuro changes; going from first being unable to shoot at a human being to when he shoots and kills the Zeon solider..... those scenes were very well done. next, the animation. it was how i remembered it. what got me to check this movie out was that it played at a theater and i thought this would be as good a time as any to give Mobile Suit Gundam another shot (the movie theater really is the best viewing experience for anime :D). like i said earlier, even though i didn't dig the animation too much, i can still appreciate it. the use of color was super fucking cool. like when they would splash a color across the screen, i really liked that. oh! when Amuro fights the blue Zaku and as the Zeon retreat, they shoot out flares or something to blind everyone, that was super fucking cool! the animation had a lot more stand out moments than i was expecting it so have. as of right now, the story and the depiction of war are the main attractions for me. the other two movies are gonna play in theaters later in the month so i'm gonna aim to catch those as well. if those turn out well, it might make it easier to go back and give the series another try. i've read on a couple of earlier posts that say the movie cut out some stuff. whether or not i care about what that stuff is depends on the next two movies. |
| Wow, ive only watched suisei no majou and was putting off the gundam series for later but its amazing, the character archetypes and narrative elements are basically the same all these years later, chances are you can watch any mecha or even military anime and say: Gundam did it first. Very mature, somewhat realistic politics and of course the horrors of war are N°1 priority! It does have that silly old anime pacing where characters have these mini-arcs to them like the 5 min bouts of depression Amuro gets or some things not being explained at all but im sure the compression the movie did makes it worse. I love it |
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| I ended up choosing to watch the trilogy because I heard it aligned more with Tomino's vision... totally not because I was intimidated by the series' length. (Believe me.) The most strange thing is that they decided to keep the episode where Amuro visits his mother almost entirely which was strange since it wasn't that important compared to a lot of material being cut. 13 years late so I want to avoid quoting it directly. Given how apparent the anti-war theme of the movie here (Amuro's suspicion of his own side, the bad soldiers in his hometown, the occasional mentioning of kids, the fascism-coded Zeon, etc.), that scene does serve the purpose of reminding us Amuro is literally just a kid and a civilian like those refugees. That these battles aren't just about robot battles but that there are kids operating them that shouldn't even be involved in the first place. It may not be as important as the other scenes that you mentioned story-wise, but given that this is a movie, I think it serves the theme very nicely. |
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