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Jose Cruz
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Thanks for your opinions. I guess I need to get myself up to speed in Gundam. I watched the movie trilogy adapted from the classic TV series. I think it was excellent and one of the best movie trilogies I ever watched. So now it appears that Zeta Gundam is the stuff I need to watch ASAP. 
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Sailor Sedna
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@AiddonValentine
But the trilogy had bad transitions and left out a lot of important stuff and things came out of nowhere: animenewsnetwork.com/review/gundam-movie-iii-dvd |
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Fourteenthangel
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You give Tomino far too much credit. While I agree the Zeta Gundam is a great mecha series and I haven't seen all of Turn A to judge, Tomino is really hit or miss. |
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SilverTalon01
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You don't have to like it, but you don't get the highest ratings for gundam in a decade (and nothing higher since) and keep characters on top of character polls for another decade by being soulless and bland. Turn-A by comparison is forgettable. How do I know? Look around, it has been largely forgotten. Better than the classics? Ok, well maybe not. Though personally, in hindsight, I think First was a mess in terms of execution, and I think 'better executed' is correct. I don't think that necessarily means better, nor do I think you can even make a fair comparison. I'm with you on Zeta being the best mech series I've ever seen though. |
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penguintruth
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Kira Yamato and most of the other bland characters are just audience proxies. Because there's nothing like characterization to get in the way of projecting yourselves onto them, like silent RPG protagonists. |
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Cptn_Taylor
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Seed is vastly better than 0079 if only for the fact that the original gundam was suspended. It didn't even manage to do the full run so the final episodes are very very rough. 0079 is not a real robot mecha series too much "trasforming" going on and invincibility for that. Those aspects were eliminated in the films. Animation wise there is simply no contest. How could there be, since one was 20+ years old by the time Seed was made. Music wise idem. Technically 0079 is shit. Low quality fare. As for the characters, Flay, Kira, Murue etc... are great characters. Certainly better than emo-Amuro who bitches constantly and is Bright slapped every other episode. He's no role model. Turn A is a great series (if you can get pas the classical Tomino weirdness). Tomino manages in this series to deal once and for all with the underlying theme constant in all Gundam series (mostly UC but not necessarily) and that is the necessity of war as a consequence of the human condition. Something that he had already tackled decades before in Ideon by the way. Still Turn A ranks as the best of all the UC tv series. And because it is so separate from all the other series it is the best to be approached by someone who's never watched the rest of the UC. It's your Gundam for the masses. As for the rest ha ha, Gundam is not a masterpiece especially not 0079. Zeta is mediocre at best (there must have been a writers guild strike during production) because the narrative is much much worse than standard Tomino. Graphically it is nice, but it's not sufficient to give it a good mark. ZZ is vastly better (minus the first 10-12 episodes). As for CCA, it's serviceable as the sequel to 0079 (eliminating Z and ZZ). But not much else going for it. |
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Snomaster1
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It's sad that "Turn A Gundam" doesn't get an English dub. If any of the "Gundam" series is deserving of a dub,it's this one. Why not? Heck,the original "Gundam" got a dub and it's twice as old as this one is. Age has nothing to do with it. I hope at a later time,this one gets a dub. From what I've heard of this one,it deserves it.
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Sailor Sedna
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@ Jose Cruz
Honestly, not trying to start a fight, but I think one of them's just stating what they think are "facts"/"truth" and sound completely biased; sounds very annoying 
But like I've said, I haven't seen any Gundam series yet 
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SilverTalon01
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Turn-A isn't UC though. Yeah, I know about the dark history stuff, but the official canon is that it is an AU, and they gave Tomino's unification the finger. |
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levonr
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Very different times. First Gundam was dubbed in 2001 when just about everything was dubbed. The market has greatly changed since then. I do wish Turn A Gundam got a dub however because it is very dialog heavy. Much like Fate/Zero(dub is more enjoyable than reading what feels like a textbook). |
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SilverTalon01
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Well, I think with the exception of Z, all of the dubbed gundams were on tv so they pretty much had to be dubbed. |
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jr240483
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the same can be the same for ZZ and victory. |
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JonLa
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It absolutely is good enough for a dub, but it just won't sell enough to be profitable. It's an esoteric Gundam that won't appeal to everyone, so sales won't be high enough to make the money back they'd have to invest in it. and if it's an unexpectedly huge hit on this release, then you can bet there'll be a dub down the road! |
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SilverTalon01
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ZZ probably. Victory... doesn't even deserve a sub. |
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pajmo9
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As much stuff that comes out over here that gets a dub I think Victory at least deserves a sub. 
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