Here’s G Gundam in a nutshell:
In any other Gundam show, if they needed to get a bunch of mobile suits into space, they would load them onto a space ship, or launch them from a mass driver or something. They would not have the robots grab onto some rockets and blast off into orbit.
Thus, G Gundam is the epitome of the show where everyone will tell you to turn off your brain and just enjoy it. Normally, that statement is a lame rationalization for something that isn’t at all interesting. Here, instead it’s because you’ll start to confuse yourself if you keep asking yourself questions like “Since when did Chow Yun Fat become the king of space?”, “How does a horse pilot a Gundam?”, or “What exactly is ‘German-style ninjutsu’ anyway?”
So far, this show sounds completely absurd. And it is, and that’s what makes it awesome. It’s not, however the sort of thing that most people immediately think of when they think about Gundam. And that’s also a good thing. Making this show an alternate universe frees it from any kind of continuity baggage (cough cough Macross cough cough) and allows it to be as silly as it wants to be with all the upside and none of the downside for the franchise as a whole. It was honestly incredibly refreshing to see an AU Gundam series that wasn’t just the One Year War for the umpteenth time (but with different character designs and names, natch.)
Also, I can’t be the only person that thought that Domon was a huge asshole, right? You’ll have someone like Chibodee be like “Hey there new Gundam Master! Let’s be bros!”, to which Domon will sucker punch him and say something like “GRRR I ONLY FIGHT PEOPLE AND I WILL NOW FIGHT YOU GRRR”. Or Rain (who is BTW the best female character in the entire Gundam franchise, not close) be like “Hey Domon, while we’re at Niagra Falls let’s go sightseeing!”, to which Domon will raeg and say something like “GRRR I ONLY FIGHT PEOPLE AND TAKING PHOTOS IS NOT FIGHTING GRRR”.
In conclusion, lolololololololololol absurdly racist Gundams lolololololololol.
Domon was a complete dick in the first half of the show. I remember being really annoyed at him when G Gundam aired here, but then he became much more likable when he got his mid-season upgrade.
People who don’t like G Gundam hate fun.
This was entertaining to read. And that picture I must say, lol. I remember I used to watch this back wen it aired on TV, the first Gundam series I watched actually. And Only…. and I was to young to actually get anything or think about anything to deeply… so yeah…. I’ll have to re-watch it.
Good Job, though.
Even though I pretty much nothing about this. XD
German-style ninjutsu? Damn, why haven’t I seen this yet?
G Gundam is my favorite after Zeta. Loved this shit the whole way through, although some of the episodes were too silly even for me. (Chibodee and his fear of clowns LOL)
I think the best thing is the giant horse MS piloted by a real horse.
I’m pretty sure that most of the time Domon has the mental age of the show’s target audience.
You said it. Rain Mikimura is the Queen, Dianna Sorel notwithstanding.
Fun fact: Crossbone Gundam actually did the “ride onto rockets to get onto space”. Granted, they weren’t actually hugging the rockets and they used the Beam Shields to remove the air resistance, but it still counts.