So my brother loves the Gundam Wing series and he really wants me to watch with him the movie “Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway”.

However, I have never really watched the Gundam series as - I was never really into Mecha besides a few animes.

Thus my question is: Can I watch the Hathaway movie without knowing anything about the anime series?

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Can you watch it with no context, mostly yea, but you miss out on some of the motives. Mainly Hathaway, on why they are on this mission

  • Sem@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I guess you cannot watch this one without knowledge about Gundam. You need to know at least about civil war and the role of Hathway-senior in it... Otherwise you can enjoy mecha battles scenes but you will lose a plot.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    A lot of the stuff in the Universal Century (UC) timeline of Gundam will make a lot more sense if you've seen the first three shows and movie:

    Mobile Suit Gundam (some people will recommend the compilation movies - the show is much better imo)

    Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

    Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (some people recommend skipping this one - they're wrong)

    Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

    The Hathaway movies serve as a direct sequel to Char's Counterattack (they're based on a novel written by the series original creator), and CCA builds on events in the three TV anime preceding it. I know it's hard to recommend ~150 episodes of a cartoon and a different movie, but you'll probably enjoy the Hathaway movie more.

    If you do the homework or not, it's a pretty cool movie with some good visual set pieces. Enjoy!