Gundam have spent almost 50 years reinventing themselves through amazing side stories, new universes and reimagings of the story that started it all in the events of the “universal century” That started in the original 1979 series Mobile suit Gundam. There are so many ways to enter the franchise, newer starting points, perhaps less intimidated starting points than a 43-episode television series. But there is reason the original Gundam still lasts as one of the best, If not the best, entry points all these years later, especially after Gundam gquuuuux Only spent 12 weeks beating and remixing it: not only the show remains as important and moving as it did every year, visiting it now beyond the context of its legacy is fascinatingly rewarding.
Or the original GundamA compilation trilogy or its television anime (for which it is worth, it’s a bigger request, but the show is Worthy of its runtime) still gives you a fascinating meditation on the effect of a war on a generation of young people demolished by the powers and generations that have come before them. Its mecha action remains convincing despite someone perceived “dated” animation of a 46-year cartoon, especially for the way the series frames the impact of that action on the people pushing it. A show still feeling the early forms of the genre it will take to help define, the original Gundam endures as a classic because its ideas remain so powerful; It is not surprising that the series has spent the decades, because either trying to build and continue that story or create new imaginations and parallels that exist in conversation with it.
Gquuuuux represents arguably the vertex of that decade-long desire consider the inheritance of what Mobile suit Gundam came in the minds of legions of fans and creators who came in his wake. The original show is great Gquuuuuxnot only for the pure amount of context of it the series finally demanded its audience, but because Gquuuuux exists in the context of Mobile suit GundamHeritage. Figures like Char are treated less as people in the storytelling and more emblematic of their reputations, not only in the universe, but their reputations of years of fascination with these characters and the original series. Even the own act of being a direct, alternative universal remix about the outcome of the original show is acknowledging that the reputation of the original Gundam It is so vast that the act of its own work with what it would mean reissue that its story is worth building a whole series. GquuuuuxThe creators were not afraid of the goals of the show not only their own business, but a way to encourage new generations of audiences to go and explore the original show and see what caused their own fascinations to see what created the legacy, which Gquuuuux celebrates.
This is why it is so interesting to go back to this original show and to see that it is a show particularly removed from the legacy it will last. The original Gundam was not necessarily made with the future of the franchise – almost did not go be to be A franchise, with the show that reduces its initial run time and will end with the almost certainty that will not come more. With all these years and pictures fans and the wider franchise itself guessed in their heads about its events and characters through years of reviews and expansions, through years of commentary and conversations through litany of side stories and other series, there is something remarkably refreshing about experience Mobile suit Gundam When it was just that show and not the herald of one of the most influential series in anime.
It allows you to be able to go back in time, somehow, and see when Char and Amuro was not Char Aznable and Amuro Ray However. Amuro spends most of the first half of the series struggling to survive to the horror he endures, even less to be formed in the heroic figure and a symbol he eventually becomes, metanarrative or otherwise. Because acknowledging something of a reputation even first meeting him in comparison (half of the cast of the show, an ally or enemy, will not stop “the red comet” and his ACE pilot skills), but not so much that the show is not afraid to humiliate him or move a focus away from him, because it does so for the good of the series “. damaged and to be challenged, rather than the subjects of GundamThere is a whole legacy. It is noticeable to look at them humanized in this way, instead of holding themselves as almost untouchable figures. In the original GundamIts world and its characters are still not looking at an inheritance and simply simply … is.
Would it be the first time you see it or you are Gundam Diehard reviewing for the tenth time, it is important to be reminded of what Mobile suit Gundam It was above all. Even without the context of its legacy, it continues as a remarkable show.
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