Typically if this were a regular Gundam series, resources would be no issue and the RX-78-2-Super-Mega-Awesome-Prototype would be fixed in a jiffy. Nope! Not here.
This Gundam series takes a dysfunctional cast of regular Feddy soldiers and shows their day to day cases in a war with the Zeonic forces, and it really does truly does show how difficult the logistics needed to maintain the Mobile Suits are required. For one thing, instead of the typical super prototype, the Gundams here are actually precursors to the famous RX-78! And as they get more and more broken, more and more needs to be replaced with spare parts, because this is war and god damn it a giant robot is hard to maintain!
As for the characters I am a big fan of the non-newtype leads, characters that manage to fight the good fight without needing ESP to pull off great feats, each and everyone of them is a flawed human being plagued with doubt, hate, and unrealistic expectations, and even the Federation forces (while still the good guys) are not portrayed as unambiguously good, here they are flawed human beings with awful people just as much as the Zeon forces, who, while some are portrayed as total bastards, are established as Soldiers fighting for a cause because that is what they know. It creates a nice clear contrast of grey in this world, and helps keep me interested in the character conflicts.
I have very few issues with this beyond some minor nitpicks (poor voice acting in dub that leads to Narm for one) but my biggest issue would be the love story which feels very forced, not enough to distract me from the rest but notable enough to be present as a issue. Gundam never has been really good with love stories has it?
Regardless I'd recommend this series as quite a enjoyable ride as a real robot series.
What do you do when your Mobile Suit breaks
Typically if this were a regular Gundam series, resources would be no issue and the RX-78-2-Super-Mega-Awesome-Prototype would be fixed in a jiffy. Nope! Not here.
This Gundam series takes a dysfunctional cast of regular Feddy soldiers and shows their day to day cases in a war with the Zeonic forces, and it really does truly does show how difficult the logistics needed to maintain the Mobile Suits are required. For one thing, instead of the typical super prototype, the Gundams here are actually precursors to the famous RX-78! And as they get more and more broken, more and more needs to be replaced with spare parts, because this is war and god damn it a giant robot is hard to maintain!
As for the characters I am a big fan of the non-newtype leads, characters that manage to fight the good fight without needing ESP to pull off great feats, each and everyone of them is a flawed human being plagued with doubt, hate, and unrealistic expectations, and even the Federation forces (while still the good guys) are not portrayed as unambiguously good, here they are flawed human beings with awful people just as much as the Zeon forces, who, while some are portrayed as total bastards, are established as Soldiers fighting for a cause because that is what they know. It creates a nice clear contrast of grey in this world, and helps keep me interested in the character conflicts.
I have very few issues with this beyond some minor nitpicks (poor voice acting in dub that leads to Narm for one) but my biggest issue would be the love story which feels very forced, not enough to distract me from the rest but notable enough to be present as a issue. Gundam never has been really good with love stories has it?
Regardless I'd recommend this series as quite a enjoyable ride as a real robot series.