Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru GQuuuuuuX

[lechuck]

 

[Big s]

31 minutes ago, lechuck said:

 

Finally. Looks a little rough, but they’ll probably fix that

[Old_Nash_II]

1 hour ago, lechuck said:

 

Animation by AI?

[Seto Kaiba]

4 hours ago, lechuck said:

 

Finally, some competent storytelling.

[Big s]

5 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Animation by AI?

I’m pretty sure it’s just rough test shots, the last time around they had some stuff to show that they fixed up a little and I’m hoping that’s what they’ll do here

 

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Finally, some competent storytelling.

hopefully, you never know until it’s finished, but I really liked the first movie 

[Seto Kaiba]

30 minutes ago, Big s said:

hopefully, you never know until it’s finished, but I really liked the first movie 

Eh... it should be pretty damn difficult for Bandai Namco Filmworks to screw up Hathaway's Flash Part II.

After all, Hathaway's Flash is an adaptation of the vintage light novel by Yoshiyuki Tomino himself that was penned at the peak of the Universal Century.  This isn't some half-assed fanservice-a-thon with an inconsequential plot like Unicorn or Phenix Hunt.  This is a story written back when Gundam had a soul and a message.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Eh... it should be pretty damn difficult for Bandai Namco Filmworks to screw up Hathaway's Flash Part II.

After all, Hathaway's Flash is an adaptation of the vintage light novel by Yoshiyuki Tomino himself that was penned at the peak of the Universal Century.  This isn't some half-assed fanservice-a-thon with an inconsequential plot like Unicorn or Phenix Hunt.  This is a story written back when Gundam had a soul and a message.

It should be good, but there’s always a way to screw things up

[F-ZeroOne]

So between witches from Mercury and sorcery is "Gundam" becoming a magical girl show? 😄

[Big s]

4 hours ago, F-ZeroOne said:

So between witches from Mercury and sorcery is "Gundam" becoming a magical girl show? 😄

They’ve just done time travel/ multiverse, next up is fantasy or stuck in a video game

[Seto Kaiba]

6 hours ago, F-ZeroOne said:

So between witches from Mercury and sorcery is "Gundam" becoming a magical girl show? 😄

Already has done... Char has a magical girl transformation in GQuuuuuuX.

 

 

 

[PointBlankSniper]

10 hours ago, Big s said:

They’ve just done time travel/ multiverse, next up is fantasy or stuck in a video game

Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet.

The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates. Since I have no hope of the mechs looking good, I'm hoping it's at least really about aliens, and they don't show up in humanoid mecha, or turn out to be space humans... It would be great if they go all in with the desolate space horror, and use ugly space monsters, since the gimmick is that the human head count is finite. Last thing I want to see is a kitbashed pla plate Zaku with a Char clone inside.

Maybe if it doesn't suck, they will animate it.

[Big s]

9 minutes ago, PointBlankSniper said:

Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet.

The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates. Since I have no hope of the mechs looking good, I'm hoping it's at least really about aliens, and they don't show up in humanoid mecha, or turn out to be space humans... It would be great if they go all in with the desolate space horror, and use ugly space monsters, since the gimmick is that the human head count is finite. Last thing I want to see is a kitbashed pla plate Zaku with a Char clone inside.

Maybe if it doesn't suck, they will animate it.

Just because there’s a manga doesn’t mean that we get a show, even if there’s a kit. That particular kit is also a web exclusive rather than a standard release making it more likely to be looked over. Not saying they won’t ever do it, but if they were doing an anime, they more than likely would do a standard release. There have been a few others like the one from double fake or the recent g-line kits that also came from a manga, but are also web exclusive.( by the way, those G-Line kits are really great and totally worth getting and probably would do really well as standard releases.) but I really doubt they’re gonna give them an anime anytime soon. I wouldn’t mind being wrong in some cases though 

[Seto Kaiba]

21 minutes ago, PointBlankSniper said:

Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet.

Not to mention the Nobel Gundam in Mobile Fighter G Gundam already totally looks the part of a magical girl-themed Gundam since its motif is sailor fuku... so much so that even the Gundam franchise itself has joked that it looks like Sailor Moon, and the high-mobility version from the manga is acknowledged to be based on Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon S.

 

21 minutes ago, PointBlankSniper said:

The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates.

Woof... yeah, that Gundam ain't winning any beauty contests.

[Big s]

29 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Not to mention the Nobel Gundam in Mobile Fighter G Gundam already totally looks the part of a magical girl

Except for the weird chin hair

[PointBlankSniper]

On 6/27/2025 at 5:32 PM, Big s said:

Just because there’s a manga doesn’t mean that we get a show, even if there’s a kit. That particular kit is also a web exclusive rather than a standard release making it more likely to be looked over. Not saying they won’t ever do it, but if they were doing an anime, they more than likely would do a standard release. There have been a few others like the one from double fake or the recent g-line kits that also came from a manga, but are also web exclusive.( by the way, those G-Line kits are really great and totally worth getting and probably would do really well as standard releases.) but I really doubt they’re gonna give them an anime anytime soon. I wouldn’t mind being wrong in some cases though 

I fully understand how dead in the water Gundam mangas are. I'm not saying it will get a show. Just addressing that it is their next immediate venture into tropey themes that they are throwing money behind, yet not fully commiting to it, exactly in the way you described.

Just tacking on personal hopes that the writing does something I want to see, so that it could turn into something worth animating, not saying that has anything to do with plans for the project actually going anywhere.

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, PointBlankSniper said:

I fully understand how dead in the water Gundam mangas are. I'm not saying it will get a show. Just addressing that it is their next immediate venture into tropey themes that they are throwing money behind, yet not fully commiting to it, exactly in the way you described.

Just tacking on personal hopes that the writing does something I want to see, so that it could turn into something worth animating, not saying that has anything to do with plans for the project actually going anywhere.

Give it time. 

Bandai Namco Filmworks has been picking over Gundam's light novels for material to adapt for a decade or so now and they've already adapted a few higher-profile manga titles into animation like Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, and Mobile Suit Gundam-san.  Eventually the light novel well will run dry and they'll start picking over the less-well received parts of their licensed manga catalog.

Lots of fans are still holding out hope that, since we've seen Unicorn and Hathaway's Flash get animated, that Crossbone Gundam is next.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Give it time. 

Bandai Namco Filmworks has been picking over Gundam's light novels for material to adapt for a decade or so now and they've already adapted a few higher-profile manga titles into animation like Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, and Mobile Suit Gundam-san.  Eventually the light novel well will run dry and they'll start picking over the less-well received parts of their licensed manga catalog.

Lots of fans are still holding out hope that, since we've seen Unicorn and Hathaway's Flash get animated, that Crossbone Gundam is next.

I’m one of those holding out hope for Crossbone, but not holding my breath 

Edited June 29 by Big s

[PointBlankSniper]

Crossbone should have been the brain dead pick, since a long time ago. But the problem now is that they've already milked it to death. I'm not sure anyone actually cares about the buggo and clow looking grunts, so theres probably little incentive to squeeze it anymore. Astray is in the same place imo. 

The one that probably has the best chances now is probably going to be Seed Eclipse. It's part of seed and part of their never ending anniversary celebration banner, it launched with kits as well, and they made it free to read with official translations on their gundam.info youtube channel, or so I've heard. It's ongoing too, so they could change gears and start pumping out marketable mechas and alt colors for easy cash grabs the moment they decide to go all in and animate it.

[F-ZeroOne]

Or... F-91 as originally planned? 

[Seto Kaiba]

On 6/29/2025 at 8:12 AM, PointBlankSniper said:

Crossbone should have been the brain dead pick, since a long time ago. But the problem now is that they've already milked it to death. I'm not sure anyone actually cares about the buggo and clow looking grunts, so theres probably little incentive to squeeze it anymore. Astray is in the same place imo. 

From what I've seen, there's still plenty of demand for Crossbone Gundam among the UC fans.

It's pretty much the #1 most-requested adaptation whenever anyone mentions what they should do with the UC next.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, of course, is a mostly dry well to the point that they're doing a prequel to the movie to explain a fairly trivial background event because that's all they can think of.

[pengbuzz]

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

From what I've seen, there's still plenty of demand for Crossbone Gundam among the UC fans.

It's pretty much the #1 most-requested adaptation whenever anyone mentions what they should do with the UC next.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, of course, is a mostly dry well to the point that they're doing a prequel to the movie to explain a fairly trivial background event because that's all they can think of.

I have an idea for what would probably be the shortest Gundam series of all time.

Ready?

Spoiler

Crossover Event: Mobile Suit Gundam Vs. Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross.

*ducks and runs away*

 

Edited July 1 by pengbuzz

[Seto Kaiba]

5 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

I have an idea for what would probably be the shortest Gundam series of all time.

Ready?

  Hide contents

Crossover Event: Gundam Vs. Super Dimensional Army Southern Cross.

*ducks and runs away*

There are loads and loads of crossovers between Gundam and other mecha anime... that's pretty much the entire Super Robot Wars game series in a nutshell.

That other series was never popular enough to be included, AFAIK, but plenty of others have already done.

 

If they really wanted the shortest-possible story... all they need to do is do a SEED spinoff where Kira isn't feeling angsty.  He's the Godmode Sue.  The minute he gets serious the fight is OVER.

[PointBlankSniper]

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

From what I've seen, there's still plenty of demand for Crossbone Gundam among the UC fans.

It's pretty much the #1 most-requested adaptation whenever anyone mentions what they should do with the UC next.

I'm not saying Crossbone animation isn't in demand. I'm just saying, the lead Gundams being their primary merchandise, has been done to death, on every product line. I just don't see the remaining circus insectoid grunt bots being popular on the mass market, with those aesthetics of theirs in 2025. It just makes the whole idea of animating Crossbone to sell toys at this point seem rather unprofitable to me. If they want to do charity and feed the old fans with little return, I'm all for it.

[pengbuzz]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

There are loads and loads of crossovers between Gundam and other mecha anime... that's pretty much the entire Super Robot Wars game series in a nutshell.

That other series was never popular enough to be included, AFAIK, but plenty of others have already done.

 

If they really wanted the shortest-possible story... all they need to do is do a SEED spinoff where Kira isn't feeling angsty.  He's the Godmode Sue.  The minute he gets serious the fight is OVER.

I figured use the suckiest of mechanimes, it'd be over before Jean has a chance to say something stupid.

[JB0]

5 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Crossover Event: Mobile Suit Gundam Vs. Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross.

Does it end with Gigantis unleashing the ide and retconning the universe out of existence?

 

Sorry, I just love that "Mobile Suit Vs. Giant God of Legend: Gigantis' Counterattack" is a thing that exists.

[pengbuzz]

1 hour ago, JB0 said:

Does it end with Gigantis unleashing the ide and retconning the universe out of existence?

 

Sorry, I just love that "Mobile Suit Vs. Giant God of Legend: Gigantis' Counterattack" is a thing that exists.

It does now. 

[davidwhangchoi]

i'm glad the show is over and we can finally move on to other gundam series. 

I will watch Erin Hathaway be a terrorist. I hope his dad show's up and slaps him. 

 

 

[kajnrig]

I wouldn't say no to a Gundam Sentinel or Advance of Zeta animation. I know both are something of a rights abomination, but I would certainly appreciate the resulting repops or new molds entirely of model kits.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

I wouldn't say no to a Gundam Sentinel or Advance of Zeta animation. I know both are something of a rights abomination, but I would certainly appreciate the resulting repops or new molds entirely of model kits.

I’d love to see Sentinel somehow adapted to anime. I’d also like some hg revives of the Xekueins and its variants as well as other designs that haven’t been done in hg along with revives of the s gundams as well. Lots of cool stuff there, but I’ve also heard it’s a rights nightmare 

[Seto Kaiba]

10 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

I figured use the suckiest of mechanimes, it'd be over before Jean has a chance to say something stupid.

Nah, handle that SRW style and you'd have half a dozen episodes of Marie and Lana gushing over Bright for slapping some sense into Jeanne. 😆

 

7 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

I will watch Erin Hathaway be a terrorist. I hope his dad show's up and slaps him. 

In the light novel, his dad does show up... but not to slap him.

 

 

Honestly, if we're talking UC... I'd like to see some capital emphasis New Development.  We've seen too goddamn much of the One Year War in terms of do-overs, alterniverses, side stories, and such.  The UC timeline has some war or other major conflict in the Earth Sphere every few years for three quarters of a century from UC 0079 all the way to UC 0153 and the ending of Victory Gundam.  That balloons out to almost a century (93 years) if you count Crossbone Gundam's spinoffs about conflicts with/within the Jupiter Sphere which drag out into the UC 0170s.  

Depending on how canon they decide G-Saviour is, they potentially have a free run of hundreds or thousands of years before the next story in the chronology... lots of room to do something new.

[Bolt]

They really multi-versed the hell out of GQuuuuuux. 

[pengbuzz]

9 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Honestly, if we're talking UC... I'd like to see some capital emphasis New Development.  We've seen too goddamn much of the One Year War in terms of do-overs, alterniverses, side stories, and such.  The UC timeline has some war or other major conflict in the Earth Sphere every few years for three quarters of a century from UC 0079 all the way to UC 0153 and the ending of Victory Gundam.  That balloons out to almost a century (93 years) if you count Crossbone Gundam's spinoffs about conflicts with/within the Jupiter Sphere which drag out into the UC 0170s.  

Yeah... I think by now, the One Year War has been fought and refought so many times in the various series, that Amuro and Char are probably receiving royalties.

Edited July 2 by pengbuzz

[Seto Kaiba]

32 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

Yeah... I think by now, the One Year War has been fought and refought so many times in the various series, that Amuro and Char are probably receiving royalties.

When all's said and done, the conflict between the Federation and Zeon actually lasted 43 years.

The One Year War may have officially ended on New Year's Day UC 0080, but Sunrise's writers were so unwilling to let Zeon go and come up with a new antagonist faction that the Earth Federation is stuck fighting a seemingly neverending supply of Zeon remnants and splinter factions literally right up to the point that the Crossbone Vanguard takes over as the main antagonist in UC 0123.  (Seriously, the last battle against a Zeon remnant is just a couple months before Cosmo Babylonia is founded.)

Even then, Cosmo Babylonia's philosophy and goals are little different to Zeon's and the same is broadly true of their successors the Zanscare Empire.  Even the Juptier Empire is essentially just Zeon with the social darwinism and contempt for life turned up to 11.

I'd like to see them branch out and try something different with the UC timeline instead of just swapping out store-brand Zeon stand-ins.  

There's a few thousand years to play in before they run into the Correct Century and the Regild Century.  

[pengbuzz]

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

When all's said and done, the conflict between the Federation and Zeon actually lasted 43 years.

The One Year War may have officially ended on New Year's Day UC 0080, but Sunrise's writers were so unwilling to let Zeon go and come up with a new antagonist faction that the Earth Federation is stuck fighting a seemingly neverending supply of Zeon remnants and splinter factions literally right up to the point that the Crossbone Vanguard takes over as the main antagonist in UC 0123.  (Seriously, the last battle against a Zeon remnant is just a couple months before Cosmo Babylonia is founded.)

Even then, Cosmo Babylonia's philosophy and goals are little different to Zeon's and the same is broadly true of their successors the Zanscare Empire.  Even the Juptier Empire is essentially just Zeon with the social darwinism and contempt for life turned up to 11.

I'd like to see them branch out and try something different with the UC timeline instead of just swapping out store-brand Zeon stand-ins.  

There's a few thousand years to play in before they run into the Correct Century and the Regild Century.  

Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation- One Trick Pony.

[Big s]

8 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation- One Trick Pony.

Lalah was definitely into more than one trick