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View Poll Results: Your Favorite Gundam Series is?
Mobile Suit Gundam 31 5.74%
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 66 12.22%
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ 7 1.30%
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam 11 2.04%
Mobile Fighter G Gundam 15 2.78%
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 69 12.78%
Mobile Suit Gundam X 22 4.07%
'∀' Turn A Gundam 57 10.56%
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED 152 28.15%
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny 38 7.04%
Other (Explain) 72 13.33%
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Old 2012-11-01, 09:47   Link #401
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F91 & Crossbone involve Tomino.. And I just don't see Tomino returning to Gundam anytime soon. (or ever)
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Old 2012-11-04, 22:00   Link #402
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Funny people should mention Gundam F91 because I recently saw it again and it actually holds up better than my first viewing. I think it's aged really well and the 1080p remaster looks absolutely stunning. I'm tempted to say perhaps even the best Gundam has ever looked (that early 90's standard of movie animation) and if you take the plot as is, an uprising and resolution where the victory at the end is a pyrrhic one it doesn't come across as anything I would really describe as bad. It's very obvious it was meant to be longer and there was enough story with some filler episodes in there to probably make a full series, but for what it is and how it was cut down it's a great Gundam flick that's about the length of a 6 episode OVA.

It's just a shame I can't really say the same for the Crossbone Gundam manga, which picks it up but just never feels like it has the same gravitas as the Cosmo Babylonia arc of U.C.
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Old 2012-11-04, 22:10   Link #403
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It's just a shame I can't really say the same for the Crossbone Gundam manga, which picks it up but just never feels like it has the same gravitas as the Cosmo Babylonia arc of U.C.
I recently read the Ghost Crossbone manga and I think the story is pretty decent (so far). But it’s a bit light-hearted for a UC series and some elements do feel like a Super Robot (like a “hat-wearing” MS that looks like Kamen Rider Skull )
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Old 2012-11-04, 22:17   Link #404
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I recently read the Ghost Crossbone manga and I think the story is pretty decent (so far). But it’s a bit light-hearted for a UC series and some elements do feel like a Super Robot (like a “hat-wearing” MS that looks like Kamen Rider Skull )
Well, when you consider the overall series (and the Victory Gundam side-story manga) has Grey Stokes...

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...in it, I guess it's not too surprising. Then again, Victory had someone as young as Uso and that was more dark than even Zeta Gundam.
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Old 2012-11-04, 23:03   Link #405
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It's just a shame I can't really say the same for the Crossbone Gundam manga, which picks it up but just never feels like it has the same gravitas as the Cosmo Babylonia arc of U.C.
While I do agree with the original Crossbone manga, I actually think Steel 7 to be decent enough to make up for this (more serious theme and the ending). And I thought it was a pretty good closure for the whole Jupiter saga. Sadly, I think they are trying to milk Crossbone too much with the Ghost. I thought they had already found a good place to end with Steel 7.
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Old 2012-11-05, 02:17   Link #406
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I wouldn't call Ghost milking, it's actually very well done and is just another step in the story of
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After all, Crossbone was his story.

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Victory also needed some more leading up and explanations for it which Ghost seems ti be providing already from the get go.
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Old 2012-11-09, 10:50   Link #407
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Trust me, they're milking that series.

And that isn't Tobia's daughter.
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Old 2012-11-11, 01:06   Link #408
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Old 2012-11-20, 06:01   Link #409
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Sometime last year I watched the MSG 0079 movies on Youtube - I remember an official Bandai channel uploaded them, but I can't find them now. Any idea which channel has them, or if it's been removed?
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Old 2012-11-20, 06:13   Link #410
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You are talking about GundamInfo right ? they(0079, Wing, G) have been removed recently, the only thing that are still there :
-SEED (HD Remaster)
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-SD Gundam Sangokuden
-Gunpla Builder
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Old 2012-11-20, 06:51   Link #411
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You are talking about GundamInfo right ? they(0079, Wing, G) have been removed recently, the only thing that are still there :
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-SD Gundam Sangokuden
-Gunpla Builder
What a shame. Looks like I'll have to watch it somewhere else. Thanks for the info!
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Old 2012-11-20, 16:46   Link #412
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New Short OVA of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Announced

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=507507
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Old 2012-11-29, 05:25   Link #413
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Did anyone else see this?

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Old 2012-11-29, 05:33   Link #414
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Live action gundam?

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Old 2012-11-29, 06:21   Link #415
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Maybe after seeing Mike Bay’s Bayformers profit and the excitement of Del Toro’s upcoming Pacific Rim, Sony wants a piece of giant-robot-cow to milk by securing rights on Gundam? I really hope not. IIRC Sony haven’t produce many great movies lately. Amazing Spiderman, Resident Evil: Retribution, Underworld: Awakening and MIB 3 are just passable.
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well is not like you watch it for story anyway. as long we have great CG gundam battle. it will be fine
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well is not like you watch it for story anyway. as long we have great CG gundam battle. it will be fine
Well, I don't know about you, but I prefer getting nothing than getting Gundam: Revenge of the Fallen (Colony) .

Also, one of the major appeals of Gundam franchise is the story. Scrap that and you'll have a movie worse than Bayformers.
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Old 2012-11-29, 07:08   Link #418
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Well, I don't know about you, but I prefer getting nothing than getting Gundam: Revenge of the Fallen (Colony) .

Also, one of the major appeal of Gundam franchise is the story. Scrap that and you'll have a movie worse than Bayformers.
well certainly it will have more story than transformer due nature of original medium. . beside, to me. reason why i watch Gundam is because mecha action :3

thought i wonder how they will do it. the only way i can think is to make something like 08TH MS team
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Old 2012-11-29, 12:38   Link #419
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well is not like you watch it for story anyway. as long we have great CG gundam battle. it will be fine
If it's UC-era Gundam, I fully expect story and character development to play just as much, if not more of a role than just the MS action.

If it's related to an AU-series (which is what a lot of US fans started with; with Wing on Toonami), not so much.
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Old 2012-11-29, 22:01   Link #420
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Well, I don't know about you, but I prefer getting nothing than getting Gundam: Revenge of the Fallen (Colony) .

Also, one of the major appeals of Gundam franchise is the story. Scrap that and you'll have a movie worse than Bayformers.
Eh, Gundam stories tend to be formulaic and non-nonsensical. Definitely not a core element. The core of the franchise is mecha in a war/military setting, along with some pseudo-sci-fi gibberish. Everything else is basically dressing.

On that note if they do make a live-action Hollywood movie, its to market the franchise to a mainstream/international audiences, and the easiest way to do that is to go the route of Transformers - something straight forward, not trying to tread any new grounds with the story or stray too far from its roots, action-oriented to appeal to lowest denominator, etc. Its definitely a shot in the arm that the franchise needs in terms of expanding the audience, so I definitely see them going that way.
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