Thread: What is Gundam?
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Old 2006-08-03, 10:32   Link #3
Vallen Chaos Valiant
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Originally Posted by Nightengale
Gundam is a giant franchise, the leading figure in the mecha world of anime, and it spawns all over into animation, games, cards, models and any form of medium that attracts money.

Seriously, I think Gundam suffers from being known as a robot show rather than a war show with humans piloting robots. One thing I've noticed is the trend of conceptuality that Gundam drives the story of cool robot action/battles and the contrast of slower, more methodical structure of telling a story on characters piloting robots in war. And thus, I think it's fairly obvious that almost every Gundam anime employs episodes where the battles fought weren't meaningful and while a minor part of the story, it could've contributed so much more as a character episode than a more fighting episode with only little character development.
I remembers as a child (primary-school), watching the original Gundam, and complaining about all those scenes of talking and not enough mecha battles.

Ironically, if I was watching GSD instead back then, I would have loved it.
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