Forum - View topicName this Gundam series.
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Spintii
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Or at least I think it's Gundam. I saw it years ago on Cartoon Network before I started getting back into anime. It revolves around a series of pilots made to fight in a arena. I know it's not much to go on, but that's all I remember about it...that and it was really bad. Could of been the dubbing that turned me off though.
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Sword of Whedon
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G Gundam, but that was only on like a year ago
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ThatMatt
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Definately sounds like G Gundam, but I actually liked that one....
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ParaParaJMo
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G Gundam is most defenitley is. I got the DVDs just this summer and I saw it a long time ago as a kid in the Philippines. I really liked the action. But doesn't compare to the best Gundam series ever, Z Gundam.
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Nagisa
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The only Gundam title that even comes close to describing is, as everyone else has said, Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Unbelievably cheesy (especially in the mech designs, though even crap like Matador Gundam tops Wing's cannon fodder suits and just about anything in Victory Gundam), but I personally thought it had some interesting characters and nicely-written (melo)drama, if nothing else.
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Tony K.
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Yeah, although this is, in my opinion, the best Blue Water dub, it's still not that great. Lots of bad pronunciations, name changes, and voice acting are what make the dub not as likeable for me, although I do feel a lot of the voices themselves fit the characters pretty well, they just need to work on the emotion part. As for the show itself, I like it. As Nagisa said, it was cheesy in terms of Gundam design and overall plot, but the characters and melodrama gave it a good enough reason for me to like it; that, and I like the whole "street fight" theme (as I do with other titles having this element). |
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Deltakiral
 Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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I agree with Tony K, a lot of people on this board bash Seed for being nothing but a toy seller, but if you then look at G Gundam you couldn't begin to count the number of Gundams, and the different version of each gundam bandai processed to release. As for the Dubbing, I thought that the series did get a little bit more pleasant to listen to, espically Germany Gundam pilot, <------- GREATEST TWIST IN ANY STORY WHEN YOU FIND OUT WHO!!!! Seriously it watchable but don't expect much if you are a UC fan, AU fans do like it thou
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Nagisa
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Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Not just G Gundam, all of Gundam's been a shameless toy whore with the possible exception of Turn-A. If you look at it realistically, Gundam's just like Power Rangers and the like, as it's basically made with the primary motivation to sell Bandai's toy lines. The thing about Gundam though, is that they managed to employ some really fantastic writers over the years to give Bandai's marketing device a really wonderful and epic story to go along with it. As far back as the first series, it's been a toy whore. Why else would the Federation's first three prototypes be so strikingly different? Why else would Zeon go through four different mass-production infantry suits in the span of under three years? For that matter, why would they cough up about five amphibious suit types virtually all at once and produce a plethora of "monster of the week" prototype mobile armours? Granted, the mobile armours were removed from the movies allegedly to lessen the amount of shameless marketing interjected into the series...but really, who was buying Zakrellos to begin with? And why retain the other glaring merchandising-friendly flaws in Zeon's MS production? It gets worse in Zeta, what with even more mostly-unnecessary mobile armour prototypes, multiple Gundams, and even the same Gundam with multiple paint schemes (sell the same mold twice as much, and thrice as much when we add this jetpack on and dub it "Super Gundam!"). This continues on in Double Zeta, Char's Counterattack, and so on through the rest of UC. The OVAs are especially bad with it, with the endless variants of the same old suit; you've seen the Zaku II & GM, now get ready for the Zaku II Kai Bernard Wiseman Custom Panzer Type and GM Cold Climate Sniper Mk.II Command. Of course there's also the "MSV" line coupled with every main series to milk a few more yen out of the consumers with hip, new suits never seen in the show. And then G Gundam comes along, Wing, Endless Waltz (no, it's the same suits, just drawn differently and you're supposed to pretend they've always been like that!), X, SEED, SEED Destiny (Zakus sell like dynamite, bring those back!)...it's all been marketing with the happy coincidence that it's (usually) coupled with competent storytellers who are even capable of masking some of the massive logical loopholes (Zeon's excessive mobile suit & mobile armour prototype production being explained as a "rivalry" between the Principality's main contractors, for example, and some halfway convincing reasons why Miguel Aiman's Defrock ZGMF-1017 Speed-Bomber Supreme Kai Mk.XII Roy Fokker Custom GINN wasn't seen when he appeared in SEED, and was only released later as an MSV model kit). |
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Kruszer
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Agreed definitely sounds like G Gundam to me. I didn't like the series at first but it grew on me as the plot progressed. Still doesn't really get good until the tournament begins though and nothing I'd put out the cash to buy on DVD. Definitely not the worst of Gundams but not the best either.
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ThatMatt
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Well its not like Turn A doesn't have any model kits, I've seen them. I know those AU gundams are based on the same design, but I think all those series were enjoyable for various reasons.
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Emerje
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True, but that's not really important. What's important is when they were released. For most of the Gundam series they were pushing product well before the shows aired. Bandai experimented with a couple new toy lines with SEED before deciding to go back to the tried and true method of high grade kits and MSiA action figures. For Turn A that stuff took a while to happen, they had no idea if the new style would catch on and it wasn't until they were sure that it had that they went for the merchandise plunge. Not to mention that as far as Gundam merchandise goes, Turn A probably has the least, but at the same time it's mostly high quaility stuff. Just keep in mind that just because a series has some merchandise behind it doesn't mean it was made to push product. Just look at Cowboy Bebop, that series didn't even get a decent gashapon set until after its US release. Emerje |
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