What is Gundam Build Fighters? Gunpla Anime [Gundam Timelines]
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Gundam exists to sell Gunpla. The cooler the Gundam series and its mecha are, the more likely you'll buy them as Gunpla. So... they decided to cut out the middle man, and make a Gundam anime about Gunpla. What's up with that!? Does it work? I talk about Mr. Ral a whole bunch on this latest Gundam Timelines!
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Interested in more videos like this? Well, I've got a whole playlist of it! czcams.com/play/PLaVQYuFaXnsxcRry42NI-ZXJ-CsfPBo8c.html
And yes, Build Divers will be getting its own separate video in the future.
Will you cover the Build Diver sequels? IBO? Pacific Rim?
@@akumaking1 Yes, yes, probably not.
Build river cwas first build series's to have mobile fighter from g gungam to get build series threatment
sunrise employee bursts into the head directors office: ok now bear with me beyblade.... but its with gunpla
Sunrise Head Directors: That is absolutely genius!!! You get a promotion and you get a promotion and you and you and you and you annnnnd you!!!
I'd say it's more like.....(slams line of coke) ok yu gi oh battle city ark but its gunpla
@@dhampirdp3489 so season one of danball senki which is basically gunpla sized metabots
@@Crim-kun I don't know that one
@@dhampirdp3489 check it out it even got a gundam breaker styled game on psp and 3ds good stuff its also called little battlers eXperience lbx for short
Hell yeah, Ramba Ral goes to heaven
I really enjoyed all the in-jokes and cameos. They are great ways to remember your favorite parts of the older shows and I like to see some of my favorite characters alive again and not getting shredded by the Alex Gundam’s Gatling gun
There's an in-joke among fans of Build Fighters that the Build Fighters universe is the "Heaven" of the regular Gundam universes where everyone who dies goes to. Then they basically get to live the happy life they didn't get to.
Now Bernie and Chris are together finally.
@@nikoladedic6623 also al isn't depressed from the final episode.
@@andrewowens4421 Gundam Valhalla 😂🤣
@@andrewowens4421 The Gunpla Eve episode certainly seems to show a lot of people who look verrrryyy familiar...
Personally, Build Fighters is a nice side attraction when you want to see Gundams clashing without the stakes of lives being lost. Sometimes you need a break from the dark realities of war and want to see a bunch of kids having fun, instead of being underaged murderers.
i think Build Fighters/Try Fighters was the peek. Build Divers is OK, but it lacks the stakes of having your Gunpla damaged.
That what make this series so boring
@@IN-tm8mw divers:re was a better alternative in the divers series. And there where also risks but yea... It didn't hit as hard
Nice refference for Iron-Blooded Orphans there.
6:34 I loved that part where we got to see a cameo of Domon and his family!!! It’s just so cute!
As one man said one time " GUMPLA IS FREEDOM "
“But there are rules you should follow as a person...”
I love Gumdam.
gumpla lmao
Man, someone talking about the anime that actually got me back into Gundam, true story, the last Gundam series I watched before this from start to finish was Gundam 00, I tried to get back into the franchise with Gundam AGE but couldn't, but then I saw this series released on the Gundam Info CZcams channel, and I felt nostalgic for the franchise yet again, so when it was time for Iron Blooded Orphans to drop, my hype was ready and willing to RAISE MY FLAG
I guess you're also a "Hiroto is Mikazuki reborn theory in divers" fan UwU. NGL Divers Re:Rise is what I feel what fighters should have been but then again, without "fighters" there wouldnt be "divers".
I guess you're also a "Hiroto is Mikazuki reborn theory in divers" fan UwU. NGL Divers Re:Rise is what I feel what fighters should have been but then again, without "fighters" there wouldnt be "divers".
Favorite fan theory: it is the Gundam afterlife where the horrors of war are forgotten
Divers Re:Rise is a must-watch after Fighters, although the Divers is somewhat a slog to watch, but its sequel has more story to it than its predecessor.
True, but if you re-watch Build Divers with the knowledge from Re:RISE, then that slog will be a bit more tolerable
To this day, I still pray for a season 3 of Build Fighters
To this day!
This is the only Gundam series universe I want to be in!
Isn't all the rest pretty much involved in apocalyptic space wars?
I mean colony drops ain't fun. Right?
Gundam Witch from Mercury laughs.
I loved Ramba Ral in MSG, I think it's hilarious that he's in this pretty much as himself.
He got isekaid
More specifically he became the mentor of the main characters in both seasons
Because of all the cameos I think this timeline is the Gundam Valhalla
The episode where Sei’s dad taught Reiji how to build really got me into building and now I can’t stop and even got my little brother into it
I still loved the fact that they came up with a free-of-charge arcade game that they install in just about every store that sells gunpla along with the build fighter series.
I think the gunpla plus anything bandai and Tamiya or any other official branded gunpla thing Carry the cost plus if from what I remember about the lore it's probably licensed and the revenue is made from sales plus damage gunpla means ppl buy more gunpla to build there gunpla again so it's basically a loop of spending
build figthers was my personal introduction to gundam and love it, try, and re:rise to death (og divers can just die)
as for gunpla i got recently
i got the HG master gundam and fuunsaiki
i like re rise a lot yeah og divers sucks tho
You wanna fight!
My Burning Z'gok type S will wipe the floor with your fuunsaiki, my gunpla is made of hg kits so YES it is fair
agree on og divers, the only good thing about that is ayame and her H fanart
I love build, I’ve enjoyed all 4 so far, and I’ve been taking a friend on a guided journey through Gundam, we watched 00(including the movie) and now we’re watching Build, almost done with Try, and it’s been an experience for me to explore things again with a fresh set of eyes and a new perspective. My 4th time watching OG Build Fighters, 3rd time watching Try, and gonna be my 2nd time with Divers and Re;Rise. It’s just fun, and that’s great
This series did what it was supposed to. I only recently watched it and I'm itching to buy and customise some Gundams.
I want Build to be real. SO MUCH. Fighting with your own crafted Gunpla is going to be so much fun.
The first season of Build Fighters is a fucking master work. likely in part cause, I don't think they really expected it to work so it just kinda does what ever, and ends up being a HUGE amount of fun in the process. The second season ... kinda misses the point ... but I don't think it's 'terrible' I mean .. SEED Destiny, G Reco, and the first season of Build Divers still exist, so there is absolutely less watchable, and way worse Gundam out there.
Build Fighters also got me back into building. something I hadn't done since Gundam Wing first really brought Gundam to the west, and indecently, one of the discord groups I'm in, really only exists BECAUSE we all loved the first season. Effectively, the first season of Build Fighters got me some new friends and a revived a great hobby, as cringe as that sounds. It even got me to make my own custom builds for the first time. One of which is a kit bash made ALMOST exclusively of the old Wing 1/100 kits (only thing not Wing is the double V-Fin I stole off the Nu Gundam), that I namde Viper, cause i use a color for the majority of it that is really only used on cars. Plum Crazy Purple case anyone is interested, although my favorite is a 1/144 IBO kit bash I call Therion.
as for recent Gunpla .... >.> I buy in 'bulk' ... to a degree .... but RX-78-2 The Origin Version, Gundam Marchosias, and the MG Gundam Barbatos are my most recent 3.
I've also started picking up the odd SD. only the CS frame ones though, I got a non CS frame SD and it SUCKS. The CS Frame SDs are SO MUCH NICER, though the majoirty of mine CS Frame SD, all 4 of them ... aren't Gundam. They are Super Robots. MajinKaiser, Shin Getter Robo and GaoGuyGar, the lone Gundam of the group is the Freedom.
That's not cringe at all That's awesome.
@@justinandrew5849 Freaking seconded mate.
Build fighters is definitely an anime that took me by surprise, it’s not ground breaking by any means but they definitely put care and effort into the show with an understanding of what makes us love gunpla and why we wish gunpla battles was real.
Build fighters try….was okay, definitely not better than the first season, but it was still entertaining.
And then we get to build divers……god I wish I could forget about it, it’s a god awful mess.
Build divers rerise is a direct opposite of build divers and is surprisingly really good, with actually having more interesting built gunpla, a group of characters that don’t really look like theyd be a team becoming a really good team over time, and overall just downright entertaining. I’m hesitant to say it surpasses build fighters, but it definitely comes close to matching its level.
@@MusicFan752 I'll say it then, I like Re:Rise more then Build Fighters. not by much mind, but still more.
like the difference between a 10 and an 9.5
I only recently got into gunpla about a year ago mostly because of Bandais 30 Minute Missions line of kits. I have been into modelling, specifically Warhammer 40k, for about 12 years now, and I liked the gundam series I did watch, and the mechs were cool as hell, but the overly stylized main character gundams never really made me want to buy one, especially for steep prices. I really liked the idea of grunt suits, the mass produced rank and file, so I got some of the 30MM kits and loved them. Now my little collection is made out of a GM Ground Type, a Zaku High Mobility, a Leo, a basic Zaku II, and the GM Sniper K-9 from Build Fighters as well as half a dozen 30MM models. If and when I get more kits they are more than likely to be the grunt suits of various series because I like that aesthetic. I'm calling my small squad of mobile suits the Chump Blockers.
Seeing all the cameos and the characters having happy lives in the alternet universe made me happy.
honestly
It's a great introduction to gundam
Just watched the original mobile suit gundam trilogy and I'm hooked and get the references now
7:50 while yes it’s not a great intro to Gundam in my opinion it’s an amazing intro to gunpla. It’s the series that really pulled me into building and customizing gunpla and it still holds a special place in my heart.
I loved this Series because the Gundam designs reference past Series and Gundam design.
The premise of the series is very similar to that of Angelic Layer, and many people said that it was ashame that (at the time) there were no toys tied to Angelic Layer and how much it would sell, specifically comparing it to Bandai's Gunplas.
So it is no surprise that when they did a similar idea, gunpla sold like hotcakes.
Additionally, I like the cameo characters. It kinda feels like those people who suffered for so long finally got to live in a universe where they're not under constant war 24/7.
I grew up watching build fighters try, it’s literally my fav show when I was younger and got me into gunpla and model kits in general
1:45 honestly the designs of the gundams in Build fighters are more experimental I'd say. Not that they were worse than the later designs of the gundams from future series' in fact they were really cool, but the designs on the later series' was just more well thought I'd say.
Man I feel like I am the only person sometimes that absolutely loved OG Divers. It just seemed to capture the joy of gunpla building and kitbashing more than Re:Rise; it was just a fun time. Though part of my enjoyment was watching it after Sk8 the Infinity and just spending the whole series comparing Shari and Tigerwolf to Cherry and Joe. Also Kyoya Kujo is hilariously OP.
The second part to Build caught me off-guard. I feel a lot of things that reminded me of .Hack.
Even their own "Aura".
Build Fighters was just a great series that had no right to be as utterly amazing as it ultimately became, especially with moments like the Fellini vs Build Strike fight, or the Aila and Reiji romcom shenanigans. It's like the ultimate realization of CLAMP's Angelic Layer story, except with a franchise capable of giving us insane amount of merch for it.
I have a personal attatchment to Build Fighters, since it was my introduction to Gundam and Gunpla and to be fair, its not for everyone
but, its fun and so its Try but maybe to a lesser extend
I want to see the Build Series do well in the future, I really didn't like Divers but Re Rise hits really different and is the more interesting of the 2, and it has inspired me to open my self as an introverted person to open and share my hobby and passion with my friends, family and even strangers
what im trying to say is that I hope everyone can give a try to the Build Series and even if some view them as just "Toys", Gunplas are Freedom!
Second Gundam series that I watched from start to finished. Leaves me nostalgia
The only Gundam name I can immediately say when asked is "Star Build Strike" it's just so satisfying to say as a kid
Watching Build Fighters on youtube was part of me getting back into Gundam in 2020, and I gotta say I'm glad I did. Also looking at the amount of money I dropped on Gunpla that year, it totally worked for Bandai.
Let' be honest
Gundam Build Fighters is a Masterpiece.
(only Build Fighters. Non of that super robo jigen hao ryu build fighters try bullshit)
Also the 1st op SLAPPPPPPPPPSSSS
@dude look at her butt H90 delirious bro I watched all the Build series. Divers is shit. it has no main plot or villain. The story is just a bunch of kids spamming special ability that they didn't earn. Every solution for Riku's problem is "Trans Am" or "special move"
But
Re: Rise is good. It has heart and a good story. Like how they show kazami's character growth and how Hiroto learns how to open up to his team and learn how to work together.
I have never even watched Gundam but your videos singlehandedly caused me to gain interest and seek out series i think I'd like. Thank you.
Mission accomplished.
I'd like to give a friendly reminder that GUNDAM BUILD SERIES IS GOING TO TURN 10 ON OCTOBER 7TH! MARK YOUR CALENDARS, FOLKS! 😆😆😆
Gundam Build Series is one of my favorite Gundam series that I've been following since its inception. I love how the show and the toys made use of its meta elements from the proper Gundam shows and how they use custom versions of existing gunplas.
I also love how GBF also had a neat cameo of pre-existing Gunplas from Gunpla-based installments like Beginning Gundam (Gunpla Builders) and Perfect Gundam (Plamo Kyoshiro)
With Build Series having its 10th Anniversary soon, I wish there would be a new crossover project that involves ALL of the protagonists and have them further explore Reiji's origins and the El Divers. Heck, having cameos from Gundam Breaker, Gunpla Builders, and Plamo Kyoshiro would be neat as a celebration of Gunplas.
If it were up to me, I wish there would be an Extreme Gundam variant in Build Series so that it'd goad Bandai into making and reissuing more Extreme Gundam kits since its also my favorite Gundam. 😆😂
I love the build shows. Inspired me to build my own custom.
Me too
In my opinion the build series is basically pokemon but gundam, and the slogan is not to catch em all, but to build and defeat em all
I could never get into the build stuff. But there is one singular thing I like simply because of how ridiculous he is: Captain Zeon and his Nu Gundam/Sazabi hybrid Super Gunpla.
I've only recently gotten into gunpla, and apparently gravitate to the villain suits given my collection is currently Char's Zaku, the Guntank Early Model (I know not really a villain, but given its pilot it gets an honorary spot), the Tallgeese, and soon the Zeong.
So while this video's the only real contact I've had with Build Fighters, I'm immediately warm to it just because they give so much respect to my boy, the red Zaku.
i need to finish IBO before he makes a video talking about it so i can get the inside jokes! (just started getting into the hobby and chose IBO as my intro. series)
I had watched _Gundam SEED_ and _Gundam 00_ before _Build Fighters_ , so I knew a bit, not not a lot, about the deep lore of Gundamology. It's a lot, since it started in 1979, and unlike _Star Wars_, never really stopped (thankfully). Yes, not all of them are hits, but most are. I think we need to be thankful for predecessor series (and models) for giving Sunrise and Bandai the blueprints for more successful series (and models). _Beginning G_ let Sunrise test what would and would not work for _Build Fighters_ , and with _Try_ they tried to go more _G Gundam_ . When that didn't work as well, after the mixed reception of _Battlelogue_ , they went VRMMO with _Build Divers_ . I think that didn't work as well as it should have because they spent so much time on particular plot threads and not on their characters. I like how the first arc built up the world of _GBN_ while also reflecting the experiences of both building gunpla and of joining a new MMO. I didn't like how the final arc focused a bit too much, and unrealistically, on responding to a growing data problem -- there are test servers and backups for just this sort of thing, and GMs respond very differently from what is shown. The result is that the stakes don't feel real, so the whole arc lacks the weight that _Build Fighters_ had. And when the stakes feel wrong, so do the characters. With _Re:Rise_ , you still had an MMO setting, but the stakes were ramped up to an incredible degree. Everything felt weighty, and character development made you cheer for each character, wanting to return for the next episode. It was undeniably a _Build_ series, but it also had _Mobile Suit Gundam_ stakes, making it an odd but working mix. Which also makes _Re:Rise_ one of the better-received _Build_ series right beside _Build Fighters_ .
Yes, there will be more _Build_ type series coming, but the mainline _Mobile Suit Gundam_ stories with high stakes and war themes won't be going away either. They are the mainstay of this massive franchise, that has kept it going for over 40 years. Why stop now? It's basically a license for Bandai and Sunrise to continuously print money, and even a certain virus hasn't slowed them down much. I'm thankful, since the quality on Western shows and movies has dropped significantly. _Gundam_ , at least, can keep on going.
In recent years I have looked for and watched a lot of the UC series. I have also seen some of the more recent entries, like _Unicorn_ and _Thunderbolt_ . I usually enjoy the different characters and settings, and the cool mecha designs also keep me coming back.
I honestly really enjoyed all the build fighter series, i never been much of a customize builder myself but this show really got the gears going on diving into kitbashing
Voice over, skits, bgm, I love them!
Nice Video!
A pricey obsession, but I love customizing
These shows always remind me of a video game series called Custom Robo.
Gundam build fighter and its sequel gundam build fighter try is one of my favorite gundam anime
I dunno. One thing to consider. If Gunpla and the Plavsky particle system were real (and the government didn't try to harness it for war and profit) it would be a huge deal. Much in the same way if YGO had Kaiba's tech or even better the Solid Vision system this would be a world wide sport TODAY. Gunpla would be serious business because people can break all of your hard work and you have to be commited to building.
As ridiculous as it is if you could get plamos to act and behave like real machines you'd have e-sports teams ready to go
Its funny. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of the mainline UC timeline, but I would be lying if I said that it was my favorite. My two favorites are unironically G-Gundam and Build Fighters. It comes down to the battles for me. Competition battling with both parties fighting because they enjoy it always get my blood hotter than simple fights for survival. I always love those warrior characters more too, especially when they are put up against one of those reluctant soldier types. The conflict always rattles the soldier and even if they die the warriors are almost always an influence on the soldier going forward.
Gundam try fighters was my introduction and I loved every second of it
What if they toys are the series is a neat and dumb concept at the same time. I personally love it
3 years ago I was watching hunterxhunter on some sketchy anime site and when I pulled up an episode, it was randomly an episode of gundam build divers instead, but I had neve heard of the show and had literally never watched a single gundam anime. but I was so depressed I watched the whole episode and that is what got me into gundam
Gundam build fighters was the first esports anime. 😎
I stand by my head canon that gundam build fighters is heaven for all the gundam series characters.
Build fighters is one of my personal favorite gundam series ever. Too many traditional series just have a huge stick up their *** so it is great to see something that is having fun.
Gundam build fighters and build fighters try was the first gundam I watched. Been a fan of the franchise ever since.
I’m curious to know how these people will react to warhammer tabletop games
As someone who just watched '79, all you had to say is that Ramba is in it... I just built the HG Revive Gouf 😅
I’ve always wanted to get into Gundam but found it too drawn out and technical unfortunately. Then, I recently stumbled upon build fighters, and love it. I’m about to order a few Gunpla now I think.
Okay, so that’s why there’s so much hentai about Sei’s mom.
Another very fun one! Hoping you'll do a seperate one for Divers and especially ReRise when the time comes. Also both looking forward to and dreading what you'll have to say to IBO
I'll say this: I am saving IBO for last. Take that as you will.
This Series gave us Beargguy-III. It’s already high up on my list for it
Awesome vid, might check out build fighters soon because of this. Almoat done with my hg full armor gundam, after that I have to build the gm sniper
I haven't watched the show but I'm just gonna guess they don't let people compete with a full armor Unicorn Gundam cause they'd just wipe the floor with everyone if they have a base level experience in the sport
Completely forgot about Reconquista in G.
watching this all I can think about is the time me and my family visited Hong Kong to see old family friends my parents made years ago when they first moved to HK and when I Was born there. The only memories I have because I was still very young was of a sort of country club the friend was a member to that and he also either sold toys or designed them or made them. But all I remember was down in the basement there was a room for kids and there was a wall lined with little arcade like machines that all had Gundam like games on them if I'm remembering correctly again I was still young but thats what I think it was just a wall of Gundam themed arcade cabinets in the basement of a country club lol
Gundam Build Series Ranking (based on everyone's opinions) :
1. Build Fighters
2. Build Divers Re:Rise (close to 1st)
3. Build Fighters Try
4. Builder Beginning G (close to 5th)
5. Build Divers
P.S. : Personally, while I do think that the gunpla-damaging aspect from Build Fighters with the Plavsky Particles shenanigans could give more impact to the players, I do also think that it's not quite as realistic as GBN, which used a 3D scanned model of your gunpla without a physical manipulation nor alteration of your scanned gunpla.
This is also why I kinda bummed out when Build Divers introduced GPD (which is basically just like what we see in Build Fighters) as a predecessor of GBN. 3D scanning your gunpla is way more realistic than physically controlling your gunpla with a magic crystal or something like that. Another -1 for Build Divers for me, I guess 🙄 But the thing is, that episode was pretty much the best episode of Build Divers 😂🤣
Honestly, I think a series that has normal 'scanned in' fights with an underground/high steaks circut of full on 'trashes your model' fights showing up some times would be good. Frame it as an older system that got phased out because it's more expensive to run and hard on people's model kits, but have a sub-culture akin to the street racing 'for pinks' scene. Then again, I'm also the nutcase that wants essentially 'Gunpla battles, but it's a team game with a performance/parts value points system and team budgets' as a series format. So you can have some fun pilots and a strategist coordinating them on each side... also so you can have some real fascinating 'is this worth the points?' questions on assorted Gundam UC/AU technologies and the fun of points updates and balance changes that are so much a part of any long standing game. (Should I just go with EXAM or is ZERO system worth the points cost?)
@@Sorain1 That's literally what happened in Build Divers, bruh 🗿 It's way more plausible to make GBN in real life than making Plavsky-powered arcade game. I mean, what was Plavsky particle even made from? Radioactive crystals??? That shiet would be very unsafe if you're using it for a commercial arcade game 😂🤣😂🤣
I love the gunpla shows, they remind me of shows like Yu-Gi-Oh Pokemon and Beyblade and Digimon whilst giving me something new at the same time. I think a huge attraction is getting to see stuff like Wing Gundam up against the Strike. Very appealing to me haha
Good to have you back on board pilot, we are stronger together.
Glad to see this show's still being talked aboutm
Love build fighters! just finished sharing it with some friends and they were into it as well. They are a little tri-curious so I wanted to show the highlights while minimizing episodes. SO far had come up with episode 1, 8(snap-build Simon), Everything with Trion 3, both of dark martial arts rival episodes, and the one with overboosted/resupplied mech vs the final rival team. Anything I missed?
Me watching this video building a stand for my latest Gunpla.:
“I think their marketing team is on something”
Thank you so much I honestly thought the while series was my own personal fever dream
Build fighters is honestly awesome, really had a lot of care and effort put into it with honestly understanding fans who build gunpla and would love to have that one day where they could pilot their personal gunpla in a battle. Build fighters try is….okay, it’s not great by any means, but it’s still entertaining, and is at least better than build divers.
So I didn't start with the beginning of the series. I actually started with rerise thanks to captain zeon and his mobile suit. And I was suddenly swallowed into what's basically yugioh but gundam. Rerise so far to me is the best of the series. It's a very mature children's show and I love it alot. It still shows the horror of war, extinction and ptsd of all forms.
I really enjoyed it and it's gotten me into kitbashing despite being terrified of it. I highly reccomend this story if normal gundam is to dark. It's a great starter in the shape of "here's what you can expect in some stories".
This is a series meant to celebrate Gundam, you can tell the people writing it love the franchise. The series also should've ended with Ramba dating the kids mom
The dad is stil alive bro
Yeah, and besides. Ral’s heart belongs to Miss Haman.
Build Fighters honestly reinvigorated my love for mecha shit (and Gundam in particular) after having dropped it when Gundam Seed was being shown on Toonami back in the day. I still don’t really catch up with anime in general as often as I want to, but Build Fighters was just this really fantastic, pretty light anime with relatively low-stakes and some absolutely *fantastic* action scenes due to the fact that all the mechs were really just models.
I watched Build Fighters Try and, yeah, it just wasn’t as good. It has some amazing moments, like the Tryon 3, but otherwise just isn’t as good.
This series was my introduction to gundam, and i think its a good soft introduction to the series. Even if Turn A is my current favorite.
Honestly after watching all the gundam timeline videos you made (up until now), I can sense that gundam really isn't for me as I really don't like the designs. Still, it's nice hearing people talk about things they like, ill keep watching the next ones as well.
I liken Gundam Build Fighters to the Yugioh of Gunpla, which isn't a bad thing, seeing as I like Yugioh. Both have highly iconic casts of unique, fun, and cool characters. Both insist that their particular corner of geek culture will essentially inexplicably replace all other hobbies. Both games use their mechanics to illustrate what kind of characters their players are. Heck, both even have a protagonist who is extremely skilled but too much of a wimp to fight on their own, thus putting the weight of combat on the shoulders of a more assertive character. (I can't have been the only one to notice that...)
As someone who had very little exposure to Gundam by the time I saw Build Fighters (I had seen Build Divers, about half of 00, about 10% of 0079, and about 5% of Seed and Wing each by this point), I felt *VERY* adrift in references I didn't get. Now that I'm on the far end of 00 (including the movie), Re-Rise, IBO, and Origin, I've been rewatching the Build Series to see if I get the references. Either stuff is still going over my head, or I don't see not being in on the jokes as being that detrimental to the experience. Fighters is generally kind enough to explain its more exotic references. Divers *loves* its obscure trivia and in-jokes, to the point where at least one major fight hinges on knowing how the Unicorn Gundam works. Re-Rise seems content to do its own thing as far as Gundam goes, though be warned that a working knowledge of what happened in Divers is critical to getting the full experience.
Do I feel that the Build series is a good intro to Gundam? Well it's absolutely not *representative* of Gundam, but that may not be a bad thing depending on how you're wired. If you want to know if Gundam proper is right for you, go IBO if you prefer raw human characters or 00 if you dig complex worldbuilding. I'm apparently a big weirdo in that I really gravitated towards the Build series. In fact, the Build series is home to my favorite Gundam installment to date: Re-Rise. To be perfectly honest, the 'proper' Gundam installments tend to get too politically obnoxious for my tastes when their message invariably becomes what I like to call "war has cooties". If you know Gundam, you know what I'm talking about. That moment where the anti-war message gets so blatant that it smacks its own characters around with rolled-up newspaper for daring to fight for *any* reason, even if the characters have a point in context. Looking at you, Marina Ismail... If you feel similar, rest assured that the Build installments aren't about getting particularly sanctimonious. It's all in good fun, even in-universe.
Besides, Gundam is always, always, always at its best when it's about people, and IMHO the Build installments are the writer's sandbox to play with characters. Even the widely-disliked Divers has some really satisfying character moments in spite of having plot twists a third grader could see coming... but I'll save that for the comments section of a future Divers video.
My favourite gundam series 😮
Gundam Build Fighters is not "Gundam", and to be honest, it's not trying to be and it works very well. It's in my opinion the most "fun" Gundam anime. Watching it makes me happy and enthusiastic about every episode coming out. Yeah, the stakes are considerably less than an actual war, but there's a reason why the Slice of Life genre of anime is one of the most popular ones. It feels good watching a bunch of friends building Gunpla and enacting badass space battles between their "babies". Watching Reiji and later Sekai discover the joy of building and playing with Gunpla made me actually try building Gunpla (and also made me perpetually in Gunpla backlog hell). It's a chill show that I'd greatly recommend to watch with people unfamiliar to Gundam even if some of the in jokes fly over their head. And if they seem interested in that suit you can point out where that's from and maybe that'll pique their interest in watching more of it.
It's my favorite Gundam anime for the simple reason that it gives me joy while watching it. War dramas has it's perks, but normal kids playing with toys just invokes the same feeling of watching Beyblade or Bakugan all those years ago that makes it hit different.
Build Fighters is 10/10, a must watch for all Gundam Fans and Try is a very solid 8/10 that while flawed is still just as passionate and fun.
To me, Gundam Build Fighters is Gundam meets Angelic Layer.
So.... when we getting build fighters 3rd season for sei vs sekai?
Laughs because this was my entry point to gundam and gunpla and also iron blooded orphans on Netflix the other i had to see it elsewhere
Actually I just finished watching this show with a friend a few days ago! I loved my time with it
"all the Gundam cameos and goufs"
>_________> I see what you did there
i'm gonna go watch build fighters now thanks
I enjoyed gundam build fighters and try so much, it was what got me into gundam in the first place.
I remembered someone who asks another guy why would you watch Gundam without a politics.
And I was like, well, Build Fighters/Divers(never watched it. Which should I start. Re:Rise or just watched the entire show?) exists.....
7:40 that one couple hurt, a whole lot, guess which couple ;-;
Gundam series: nooooooooo.he died
Gundam build fighters:oooh!cool robot!
I saw Turn A Gundam, imagine seeing that thing fight
the first is the best imo,it has its own feel that the sequels doesnt have
My gateway series was Stardust Memory, but I have to say I actually enjoy the gunpla based series (even it the voice acting is rather iffy). While I know Divers has it's flaws, there is a topic that should not be ignored given the speed at which computers are advancing, what do we do when artificial sentience is reached?
It was a combo of this anime and covid that got me into gundam and gunpla building was a great hobby when I was stuck at home but now I have 15 ish kits left to do and not as much time 4 them 😅😅😓
Build fighters is just pokemon with gunpla and it’s great
Ah, this is the one I watched a 7 years ago. Man, the nostalga.