| ▲ | Starlevel004 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a lunatic, I fumbled around for a good answer. But there is a good answer. It's Gundam 79. That's not hard. There are few forces in the world as strong as somebody seeing a long-running Japanese series and twisting and turning themselves into how to avoid release order. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | omoikane 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> But there is a good answer. It's Gundam 79. That's not hard. The hard part is that the older series relatively slow paced. I enjoyed most of them when I first saw them, but I am not sure I would have the patience to catch up from the beginning now if I had not watched them before. Newer series are much faster paced, but they build on the foundations of the older series. Like GQuuuuuuX is great but you might have to watch Zeta Gundam first to fully appreciate it (50 episodes, maybe a few movies). It can be a lot of time commitment depending on where you enter the Gundam universe. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nemomarx 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The memes around Fate were especially annoying for this. Anything but a "dated" entry, I guess. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | underlipton 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Because most Americans started with Wing, which (for whatever reason) turned out to be a brilliant synergy between timing and executive choice. I think we almost got X or Turn A first, and I don't know what that timeline looks like. MSG remains a masterpiece and a watershed and all of that, but it is possible to choose a Gundam series that incorporates many of its objective strengths without the aspects that can be hard for newcomers to approach. (But whichever one that happens to be depends on who you ask.) | |||||||||||||||||
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