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gundam anime

I would like to know if this list is complete or am I missing something.

mobile suit gundam 0079
mobile suit gundam movie I,II, & III

mobile suit gundam the 08th ms team
mobile suit gundam the 08th ms team movie

I've heard of a second 08th ms team movie & a turn A movie but can't seem to find anything about them.

I also would like to know the order I should watch all these in.

that told me everything I need to know but I have one more question. If the three gundam movies are a complilation of the origial series and are better should I skip the series & just watch the movie.

Unfortunetly, i nover got around to watching the rest of War in the pocket which had an interesting story premise from what i could remember. (war between different factions witnessed from a child's perspective.) Maybe one of these days i'll pick up where i left off. Hmm maybe the cartoon network will re-air the series. Then again, i'm not happy with the network's mono audio.

Firstly, a humble request to ANN's staff: since this question is asked so much by people who refuse to actually go through old threads and look it up, perhaps one of these "how many Gundam and how should they be watched?" threads should be stickied? Answering the same question literally every other week-and-a-half gets kinda old...

cloud1989 wrote:

that told me everything I need to know but I have one more question. If the three gundam movies are a complilation of the origial series and are better should I skip the series & just watch the movie.

By my understanding, that's what quite a few fans have done. It's much easier on the wallet (movie trilogy goes for around $60 depending on where you shop, which would only get the first fifteen or so TV series episodes if you're lucky), plus it tells you everything you need to know without a lot of the unnecessary filler that popped up in the TV series. Of course, whether you prefer to watch your anime with subtitles or dubbed into English is also a majour factor here. The movies are not dubbed into English at all, while the TV series isn't available locally in any other way except English (due to massive deterioration of the original Japanese audio track from years of neglect & such).

Zeta Gundam was also recently released in a DVD Box Set, retailing around $200...might wanna wait a bit on that though. With the 3 Zeta movies coming out later and all.

But if you really wanna get it all cheap, I suggest eBay.

The 0079 movie trilogy was actually dubbed about 5 years ago. I remember because David Lucas played Char, and it was a different cast than the dubbed 0079 TV Series that Cartoon Network aired back in 2001.

And just my opinion, the 5 dvd boxset of the Gundam movies was mentioned, I'd recommend it, I've seen it for as low as $45 at the local Best Buy.

If you want to see everything in order, watching them in that succession is advised. However, you can skip a few and still be fine. 08th MS and 0080 have practically zero bearing on the story at large, and can be skipped over if you want. 0083, while tying the end of Mobile Suit Gundam & the beginning of Zeta Gundam together in terms of the politics involved, is also not exactly vital to grasping the concept of either series. Lastly, Double Zeta can be skipped, as it has no real bearing on Char's Counterattack (Zeta could be skipped too, really, though it is referenced in the movie fairly often...it's possible to skip, but really not advised at all).