Mine is pic related, the Victory Gundam. What I like about it is how modular the mobile suit is. It's the result of years of ms tech late into the Universal Century where now the Gundam is mass produced. In the show the rebel forces are shown to have a stockpile of Gundams in a bunker so they can burn through parts.
Honorable mention to the RX-79 G ground type Gundam from 8th MS Team.
That was my favorite for a long time and then I was partial to the Zaku I Sniper before settling on the Crossbone Gundam. Everything about it is so fuggin' sick
Hell yeah! May not be a Gundam, but it was the prototype that lead to all the other mechs for the Wing series. So I still more or less count it and its sequels on-par with the Gundams. I got an Endless Watlz special edition Master Grade model and was just sick! So was the whole set from that line of models, really need to finish collecting them. Aside from TG I, I have: Deathsythe (non-Hell), Wing (non-Zero), Heavyarms (pre-custom), and Sandrock (haven't built it yet though). It is nice to see what the original versions look like with the Endless Waltz treatment.
The RX-79(G) is my favorite! I loved it in the PS2 game, it had such a cool loadout to play with.
I loved it in the PS2 game
Which game, Federation vs Zeon by Capcom?
Love that game. Still have a working copy on the ps2 that i bust out every now and then.
My cousin had it and I used to borrow it from him along with Fed v Zeon and Zeonic Front, ZF is another gem that gets slept on, it's like Rainbow Six but with mobile suits.
Zeonic Front is so fucking good.
Please everyone play zeonic front and then talk to me about it
Journey to Jaburo had an arcade mode with unlockable suits that (I think?) included the Ground type. Might be that one
Confession time: I never knew why the "happy music" (Soldiers of Sorrow) would play during the Jaburo mission. It wasn't until I got back into anime a handful of years ago and watched the movie trilogy until it clicked lol.
I was too stupid to understand it as a kid, but Zeonic Front still holds up as a pretty cool tactics shooter.
I'm not sure if I should be offended because this is ... somehow racially insensitive... or I should celebrate the diversity of cultures depicted in the show...
G Gundam has some problematic shit in it. At least the pilot of the Tequila Gundam (yes, it's called that) is more or less a normal character. The depiction of the pilot and Gundam from Neo-India are just racist.
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Jokes aside, I'm a pretty big fan of the Turn A:
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And the Gundam X has a cool asymmetrical thing I like:
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I like the Zeta a lot, too, but that feels like a basic b choice.
I like the custom zeta from gundam sentinel
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The Amuro Karaba Zeta does have a cool color way. I think it was in Green Divers?
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In my rush to meme about the Fidel Gundam, I forgot about this dope one.
Allenby is pretty much Four from Zeta combined with Milia from Macross. Add in the Sailor Moon Gundam and you have three cool anime girls in one character lol.
I'm guessing they're meant to be some kind of heat vent for the berserker mode, but I don't think they obviously do anything in the show
I love how Hurricane Gundam only makes it to the tournament by pretending to be a windmill during the elimination round. That, and
Turn A spoiler
its cameo in the "dark history" files in Turn A.
tomino watched g gundam and got the important bits. there's a windmill and there's a horse and the main guy does a cool thing with a glowy hand. nothing else matters really
He saw the main theme of "boys' love language is karate" and realized Imagawa understood Mobile Suit Gundam better than most people.
i should (once i've seen them all) rank all the non tomino gundams by how well i think they understand gundam
'0083: seems to think the main ideas of gundam are 1) zeon is cool and spacenoids are treated poorly, 2) zeon are all 100% nazis, and 3) the protagonists should be as unlikable as possible. in fact, what sets gundam apart from other robot shows is that gundam is about characters who it's possible to feel emotions other than anger and frustration towards'
I also like the one with the cool laser sword, but ackshually on this model it's called a beam zanber
Crossbone Gundam X1
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Yeah, exactly, you know the one in talking about
Im sorry that’s just a queen slaying in some heels, you can’t fool me, that isn’t a mech
Edit: I’m so sorry about my reactionary perspectives. Of course mechs can be queens that are slaying. I have done self crit
I'm partial to a lot of the designs from Gundam Wing (which I feel was a visual high-point for the series both in design and in general art / animation quality), as well as the wacky-ass (and yes, at times "problematic", as in kinda racist) designs from G-Gundam.
In particular, I like Heavy Arms (Custom or regular), Sandrock, Grizzly Gundam (Representing Canada), Zebra Gundam (Representing the entirety of Africa except Egypt for some reason), and whatever Denmark's doofy fucking whale-transformer Gundam was called. I don't even actually like that one, but I feel compelled to at least mention it because of how absurd it is.
Yeah G Gundam does encroach into some very old timey racist caricatures of other countries through the lens of Japan.
Zebra Gundam is racist as fuck, which sucks because I think the design is genuinely rad. Also, if anybody hasn't seen Gundam Maxter, that's the US gundam from G-Gundam, and it's fucking hilarious. Chibodee Crocket , the pilot of Gundam Maxter, is canonically the shittiest of the main cast of G-Gundam.
Gundam Maxter, that's the US gundam from G-Gundam, and it's fucking hilarious
The football player/surfer/cowboy/boxer lmao
Chibodee Crocket , the pilot of Gundam Maxter, is canonically the shittiest of the main cast of G-Gundam.
He just wants to be loved by his mommies (and Domon)
Turn A, has a cool mustache.
I always like the Rick Doms as well. Their skirt is great.
The Rick Dias is one of my all-time favorite anime robots.
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"What if the Rick Dom was just a friendly little guy?" seems to be the concept to me lol
Gundam Wing was my first experience with Gundam, so they've all got a special place in my heart. But, "It's Wing Zero!" Is what pops in my head on a regular basis.
Gundam Wing was my first experience with Gundam
Same. The Deathscythe has a special place in my heart, I had a kit of it as a kid.
As a kid I loved Deathscythe and Epyon, though I only ever got the Epyon kit(3 times!)
Deathscythe and Wing Zero were so great. I remember saving up my pocket money to get kits of the both of them - they even had little figurines of Heero and Duo!
The Wing Zero Custom from Endless Waltz with the silly angel wings is such a classic lol
It makes me feel such Rhythm Emotion.
Edit: ah yeah, that's the stuff.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4yqZF2rrfpk
As a kid I used to watch this Endless Waltz ad over and over (from a DVD or one of the PS2 games) because it had a snip of this scene and other dope stuff with Last Impression over it lol.
i don't love the default wing zero but i do love the wing zero with the angel wings from endless waltz. i pop for that shit so hard
Probably the Ez8 Gundam, for being the closest a Gundam would get to being a grunt suit. GP01, Turn A, Unicorn, Barbatos and Aerial are cool too. (But my guilty pleasures are the Freedom/Strike Freedom and the Wing Zero Custom EW for how stupidly over-designed and OP they are.)
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I'm relatively new to Gundam compared to a lot of people here maybe, but right now I think the Schwarzette is a pretty cool design:
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Also, maybe this is heresy talking about it here, but some of the recent Transformers designs are also pretty neat:
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Can you tell that I really like glowing neon swords?
schwarzette rules
also if we're talking transformers i like the valkyrie from macross (which was stolen a few years later for transformers)
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That is a pretty cool design. Also, I wasn't previously aware that Transformers took anything directly from Macross, but I just looked this up and discovered that the team who created the original Transformers mech designs included Shoji Kawamori, the creator of Macross, which is pretty interesting.
EDIT: Kawamori was just part of a larger team, and other other designers also had a hand in creating some of the more well known Transformers characters. Interesting video on that here.
the valkyrie turned into the transformer jetfire! it was also stolen for some battletech mechs, as were a bunch of mechs from fang of the sun dougram and crusher joe! the rights to macross are a mess
Gundam has so many great grunts, the Zaku II being such an iconic design.
I particularly love the Grimoire from G-Reco:
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And the Tieren from 00
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I'm not sure if it still counts as a grunt, but Chuchu's Demi Trainer is awesome:
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I think my favourites are all grunt designs: Jesta, Jegan ECOAS type, Chuchu's Demi Trainer
Also the Ball. I love that thing
Not the biggest Gundam guy but I like the Zaku, the main Gundam, and the Sandrock from Wing since it was the first one I ever saw.
I know 'real fans' tend to not like Wing but it was such a great entry point and the designs are so great. Wing Zero is still my number 1.
Wing is really emblematic of trends in anime at the time, which makes it a bit dated but also I grew up with anime of that era so I love it a lot.
