Char at first seems like our typical “II’ll get you next time, White Base!” villain but opens up through the series to be a great character and foil for Amuro, which brings us to why even today people are still watching and enjoying the Gundam franchise because of the more grounded approach to the characters and universe.Īround this era in Japanese animation most mecha shows were of the ridiculously big, superpowerful weapons that were nigh invincible by anything conventional and the characters that piloted the mechas were just as ridiculous usually just adhering to cliches and common character tropes that would make us groan if they weren’t so fun and campy to watch. This causes dismay to our evident antagonist Char Aznable also known as The Red Comet, he’s a veteran Mobile Suit Pilot from the Principality of Zeon. Miraculously it is proven by that Amuro is a gifted pilot for the Gundam, first for its advanced computer that can learn the attacks of Mobile Suits and for other reasons later on in the series. Amuro is your typical nerdy/mechanically inclined guy who just loves to tinker with various machines and gadgets, but due to the events in the first episode, Amuro and his compatriots Fraw Bow, Kai, Hayato, Sayla, Mirai, Bright, Ryu and the B-Squad Katz, Letz and Kikka are forced to operate the White Base, an advanced Federation vessel when most of the adult crew is killed in the pilot.Īnd because of the presence of Amuro’s father on the colony they live on, one of the devices that was left behind by the Federation forces was the RX-78-2, the titular Gundam and with it the Guncannon and Guntank, which were designed by Amuro’s father.
Char, The Man From The Klan With A Plan.Īs mentioned above, the story of Mobile Suit Gundam takes place over the course of the One Year War in it we meet our protagonist Amuro Ray. While it didn’t have a good run in initial broadcasting, the merchandise and subsequent re-runs of the show have allowed Gundam to spawn into a sprawling media franchise of numerous sequels, spin offs, merchandise, toys and influenced numerous other works of the mecha genre and this is the start of my tale watching through all those sequels and spin offs. In this future, war is revolutionized by the introduction of the Mobile Suit, which is essentially a large mechanized vehicle that allows a man to tower over the enemy and fight like a normal person. So I thought that if I am going to watch all the Gundam series that it would only be appropriate to review each one, in true Tom fashion so Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the first installment of Blut Und Eisen: A Mobile Suit Gundam Retrospective.įor those that don’t know, Mobile Suit Gundam is a Japanese animated series set in the futuristic year of Universal Century 79 a time where the stalwart protectors of the Earth Federation fight against the forces of the Principality of Zeon throughout many theaters of war such as space, on colonies and even on Earth. This will be quite the undertaking as I can already see, being only a few episodes into Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. You may ask what are some of the consequences when you lose a wager over a game of Skullgirls? Well for starters your girlfriend decides that since she won that the both of you should watch the entirety of Mobile Suit Gundam! I thought to myself “Well it can’t be that bad, the series is only 43 episodes long” but that was for the first series, the original Mobile Suit Gundam. I was actually tasked with watching he entire series, from Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (the original Mobile Suit Gundam) to the latest iteration Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, which is getting a second season this fall.
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