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gundamboy55 · 1 year

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Narrative and Phenex

#gundam #gundam narrative #narrative gundam #unicorn phenex

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scarletlotus182 · 4 months

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Narrative was uhhh, interesting.

I think as Unicorn sequel I kind of hated it? As a standalone thing it was alright though. Really could have benefited from being a series like Unicorn instead of a movie. Or idk, maybe an extra 30 min runtime.

It had cool MS designs though, Phenex fucking ruled. Soundtrack slapped too.

#scarlet.txt #gundam #uc gundam #narrative gundam #if anything though i think Narrative might be one of the most egregious cases of fridging women in a gundam series

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kocurek1921 · 1 year

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1/144 HGUC RX-9/C Narrative Gundam C-Packs

Been a while since I finished a conventional HGUC and this one felt great. What can say, I love that "we have Unicorn at home" suit.

1/144 EDM-GA-02 Gundam Lfrith Thorn

After the initial reaction to a meme that are the proportions of this design it downs that it's... not a very good kit. Stickers in places that should have been parts and plastic that's marks extremely easily during removal from parts tree and it's almost impossible to clean without paint. No doubt worst G Witch kit I've built.

Also bonus:

Narrative Gundam Low Mobility Type:

#gundam #gunpla #narrative gundam #g witch #mid from Mercury

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macks-mechas · 2 years

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Today’s review: HGUC Gundam Narrative C Packs!

This Gundam is not a design from Katoki’s art book I ever thought I’d see on screen. Mostly due to the fact it was never designed for combat. Originally a prototype of the Nu Gundam that was meant for testing equipment, the Narrative Gundam lay in mothballs until it was retrofitted for battle to capture the Gundam Phenex. Now we see the mobile suit in its final form, with psycho frame hastily installed across the body in an attempt to increase its reaction times.

As this is a prototype test machine, there are various places where armour is at a minimum or just non existent. Some of these areas have now been fleshed out with psycho frame which gives the mobile suit a more impressive silhouette. The colour and parts separation makes the build very fun, but I will admit some lesser than clear parts to the instructions made me second guess a few fittings and was a bit annoying.

The articulation of the kit is a real shining point for the NT Gundam. On top of the usual it also has flexing shoulder mounts that bring the arms forward across the torso and rotating forearms separate to the upper biceps, meaning the shield is not restricted to being fitted behind the arm.

Accessories are minimal as the main draw was the psycho frame. You have the shield, 2 beam sabers and a beam rifle cobbled together from old Jegan parts. The beam sabers, unlike the conventional pink blades, are fitted with two red ones that have no flex to them as they were molded together with the psycho frame sprue rather than coming separate.

I give the Narrative Gundam 8/10 - for the diehard fans its a must buy, but worthwhile still for those on the fence.

#mack reviews #mobile suit gundam #GUNDAM #gundam narrative #narrative gundam #gundam nt #NTD #psychoframe #Mobile Suit #sinanju stein #sinanju #EFSF #earth federation #Model kit #action figure

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jlcomicsandgames · 6 months

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Gundam, Gunpla from Japan, the most ever!

#youtube #Gundam #Gunpla #Japan #Tokyo #Bandai #Pokemon #Super Mario Brothers #models #Narrative Gundam #Gundam Sandroc #Gundam Endless Waltz #gundam g40

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prokopetz · 1 year

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I think Witch from Mercury's smartest narrative choice is a. putting the obligatory "but we're both GIRLS" moment in, like, episode two, and b. being super passive aggressive about it.

#media #cartoons #animation #anime #mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury #gundam #witch from mercury #gwitch #tropes #but we're both girls #mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury spoilers #gundam spoilers #witch from mercury spoilers #gwitch spoilers #spoilers #the narrative is judging you SO HARD for expecting that moment

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jounouchis · 3 months

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old 2020 narrative gang easy breezy parody..... my most important gundam work tbh

#mobile suit gundam narrative #gundam #jona basta #michele luio #rita bernal #dylan needs an art tag

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a-river-of-stars · 1 year

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One of the things I love about Gundam Wing is that its ENTIRE CAST is made up of characters who SHOULD be doomed by their narrative--some are based on character archetypes that usually are doomed by their respective narratives, others are based on tragic real world historical figures--and (almost) every single one of those doomed characters is saved as a result of interacting with the other doomed characters. I once said “Gundam Wing is a very long anti-suicide PSA” and that pretty much sums it up.

#I may write an essay expanding on this #gundam wing #doomed by the narrative #tragic hero #mobile suit gundam wing #new mobile report gundam wing #heero yuy #duo maxwell #trowa barton #quatre raberba winner #chang wufei #zechs marquise #it's all very shakespearean actually #still have that essay in my drafts somewhere

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gundamfight · 6 months

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andrewandthehouseofhorrors · 7 months

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Ballad for the UC- AMV.

Spoilers for all of UC Gundam + Thunderbolt & The Origin.

cw // flashing

Kudos if you understand the reference in the first half.

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gundamboy55 · 2 years

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Been quite a while since I've been on here.

#gundam #gundam narrative #narrative gundam

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scarletlotus182 · 4 months

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I feel like I should also say this about Narrative- and it's that I don't mind the weird newtype shit in Gundam, in fact, I love it! But it really bothers me that they tried to explain it and that they retconned stuff?

Like wasn't the entire point of Newtype stuff that it was a change brought forth from humans living in space? So why are the earth kids newtypes before the OYW starts? Idk, maybe i missed something but it was something I got hung up on the entire movie

#scarlet.txt #narrative gundam

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quattroqunt · 12 days

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For Children's Day May 5 2019, gundam.info asked people which gundam characters they would like as a daughter or son. These are the results.

source: https://www.gundam.info/special-series/gundam-census/608.html

#gundam #leina ashta #sayla mass #kikka #amuro ray #char aznable #garma zabi #katz #letz #shinta #qum #gundam.info #gundam x #war in the pocket #iron-blooded orphans #gundam narrative #gundam build divers #gundam wing

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gremoria411 · 2 months

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How to get into Gundam

Because fuck it, I was gonna do one of these sooner or later anyway.

So you want to know what this Gundam thing’s about, maybe you like the mecha design, maybe you caught part of an episode one time and want to catch up, or maybe you saw a nice piece of Chamuro fanart and want to go to the source.

But there’s so many shows and timelines that it can be quite daunting on first look, so this guide is intended to give a rough overview.

I would however like to stress two four things beforehand however:

This guide is not intended as “The One True Way” or anything. There’s no harm it coming into it a different way, and these are only my own opinions.

There’s nothing stopping you from just watching one show and leaving it there. You don’t have to watch every single show going, even I’ve only seen most of these, not all. Gundam typically has variations on similar themes - it’s very nice watching multiple shows because they complement one another, but it’s not necessarily required.

I am very much an insider looking out here, so let me know if there’s any details I’ve missed.

I’m not gonna recommend these on a “if you like X, then watch Y basis”, mostly because I don’t personally find genre recommendations helpful, so I’d recommend picking based on promotional material (vibes, if you will).

I’ll be using this chart, supplied by the excellent@l-crimson-l, to illustrate everything.

Gundam as a whole can principally be divided into three sections: Universal Century (or UC), the Alternate Universes (AU’s) and the Build Series.

The AU’s are below the light blue line, near the bottom of the Chart, the Build Series is within the bright green line at the top-right corner of the chart and UC is the big line in the middle. We’ll talk about each of them individually.

The AU’s

The Alternate Universes were conceived as a way to get away from the continuity-heavy nature of Universal Century and provide an easy jumping-on point for new fans. The AU’s are standalone and require no prior knowledge, and are thus an excellent place to start. Honestly, I’d recommend quickly searching some promotional materials (like posters) and just going with the one you find most appealing based on that. They are (in production order):

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994)

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995)

After War Gundam X (1996)

Turn A Gundam (1999)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)

Gundam: Reconguista in G (2014)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (2015)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2022)

There’s side series and movies and other things besides, but these are the mainline shows, if you will. I have specific notes on a few of them:

Witch From Mercury - It’s of a shorter length than is usual for mainline shows, so consequently it’s a much smaller time investment than the others.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam - While undeniably rad as hell, I would recommend watching another AU first. G Gundam differs from its stablemates in a few key areas, and I find it helps to have a contrast to fully appreciate those differences.

Gundam AGE - is probably the only one I wouldn’t recommend. I didn’t like the art style and the technical explanations just got on my nerves, so I stopped watching.

Turn A and G-Reconguista are technically part of UC as well, but it’s not really crucial information so don’t feel like you have to watch UC first (I’m only including this detail for completionism).

I’ve found all the AU’s I’ve seen to be pretty good, so I’d say that which one you start with really just comes down to personal taste.

The Build Series

Is just kind of doing its own thing. The Build series is basically Buy Our Toys: the series. It’s got a far lighter tone, and I’ve had cause to compare it to pokemon prior. It’s also chock full of references and in-jokes to the other series.

Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try are the ones I’d recommend - they’ve got actual stakes and the fight scenes are really good.

Build Divers and Build Divers Re:rise I can’t recommend - I just find Build Divers aggressively boring. Build Divers Re:Rise is just okay - neither standout good or particularly bad. Its main flaw is that it’s a sequel to Build Divers.

The OVA’s are pretty much bad across the board - I’d particularly recommend avoiding Gundam Build Metaverse.

Universal Century

Universal Century is the big main timeline of Gundam, and is the timeline the original Mobile Suit Gundam from 1979 takes place in. There’s a tendency among certain fans to place UC as the one-above-all of Gundam, but I wouldn’t really go that far. It’s all pretty good, but I wouldnt really say one timeline is better than another (save personal preference, anyway).

Because UC is so big, it can be subdivided a couple times. The primary division is “Mainline” UC versus everything else. Basically there’s four-five shows in Universal Century from which everything else flows. As long as you know roughly what happens in these shows, then you can watch basically anything else in UC and have a good idea of what’s going on. These are (in order):

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) - sometimes called Mobile Suit Gundam 0079.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)

With Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) as a nominal fifth (honestly I feel like you could argue either way).

The rest of the shows are:

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989 Three-Episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991 Movie)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991 Thirteen-episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1999 Twelve-episode OVA)

G-Saviour (2000 Live Action Movie) - nobody ever talks about or acknowledges this one, it’s just here for completionism.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS Igloo (2004-2009 Three OVA’s with three Episodes each)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015 Six-Episode OVA, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015 Eight-Episode Series, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis (2017 episode, adapted from a light novel of the same name. Later rereleased as Gundam Twilight Axis Red Trace, with additional footage)

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018 sequel movie to Gundam Unicorn)

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021 ongoing movie series, very much adapted from the novel Hathaway’s Flash)

Most of the other series relate to events in the aforementioned “mainline” shows in some way, but a lot of the sidestories set during the One Year War require very little introduction (Thunderbolt, 0080 and 08th MS Team). Similarly, works set in “Late UC” (F91 and Victory Gundam) carry on from the other series thematically but don’t have any plot connections, so they can all be watched without any background knowledge of the rest of the Universal Century.

Compilation Movies

Just a quick note here - many of the Gundam series have compilation movies, where either a whole series or part of one are compressed down into a movie. While each movie compares differently, they usually boil down to this: Compilation Movies usually have worse pacing, but really nice animation.

One of the great things about Gundam is that different shows offer variations on themes, so seeing how different characters react to similar situations, or how different settings change their approaches can make it incredibly rewarding.

I haven’t seen enough of SD Gundam to make any sort of recommendations there, and Manga is something I might touch on another day.

EDIT: Oh hey also: You can watch a good chunk of these on YouTube, for free, officially. The Official Gundam.Info YouTube channel rotates the series shown on its channel periodically. I think it’s got F91 and SEED on there currently? But it’s had Wing, 00 and Witch From Mercury before. Also all of the Build Fighters series are there.

So yeah, that’s a thing.

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slpytired · 8 months

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Watching the whole Gundam series in 2023 masterpost

After watching the first cour of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, I became curious as to what the rest of the franchise was like. So obviously, I had to watch the whole thing to get the full Gundam experience. I did a little research and came up with this watchlist:

UC Timeline:

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative

Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Gundam Reconguista in G

Turn A Gundam

AU Timelines:

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

After War Gundam X

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE 73: Stargazer

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

I've also linked my little reviews on each entry if anybody wants to check them out :)

I also read/am reading these related mangas:

Mobile Suit Gundam Aggressor

Mobile Suit Moon Gundam

Arasa OL Haman-sama

Mobile Suit Gundam MSV-R: Return of Johnny Ridden

HG ni Koisuru Futari

Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury: Vanadis Heart

Feel free to send me asks about Gundam stuff! I'm planning to explore other mecha series next year like Code Geass, Magical Knight Rayearth, Macross, Full Metal Panic, Wasure Hoshi no Volicia, Transformers: Armada, etc.

I also want to start playing through the Armored Core series of games, starting from AC6 and For Answer and then checking out the rest of the games.

#mobile suit gundam #zeta gundam #gundam zz #char's counterattack #gundam unicorn #gundam narrative #gundam hathaway #turn a gundam #gundam wing #gundam seed #gundam x #g gundam #gundam 00 #gundam age #gundam ibo #g witch #slpytalk

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master-thief-gray-shadow · 1 year

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So with episode 12 it’s established that “run, gain one, move forward, gain two” is not the mantra of heroic resolve it’s initially presented as, but rather both a tool and a symbol of Prospera’s control over Suletta. Which means that at some point she’s going to have to free herself from it. But what else would be left to do, if not move forward? Probably not running, that’s for sure.

Well,

If you’re not running,

And you’re not moving forward,

What are you doing?

You’re staying.

#like you know this exchange has to have greater significance than ''aww they made up''#like that kind of promise is gonna hold narrative weight #g-witch #gundam #gray posts

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