Turn A Gundam | The Gundam Retrospective
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2022
- In the year 1999 Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Gundam franchise, would return to the series and create what some would call the culmination of his life's work. Turn A Gundam is a series so full of heart, soul and compassion that it has become a must watch for any Mecha anime fan.
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Turn A Gundam deserves infinite respect for being the only lead Gundam who does laundry.
It's a laundry machine with blow-dry feature, that just happens to be a barn, a nuclear missile silo, and a civilization ending nano machines container.
@@DomFortress don’t forget the cow storage
@@MadDragonify I didn't, hence it's a barn, a farm building made to shelter livestock.
No.
Piloted by a responsible man
Turn-A really ties all the Gundam themes that came before it together:
1. There are Newtypes, but their powers don't matter, because nobody even remembers why they were important. Instead, the Newtypes did what they were always supposed to do: resolve misunderstandings peacefully.
2. Earth and space are fighting, but only Agrippa believes in any kind of space centric philosophy, and everyone knows he's full of it, and just kinda play him. I also imagine it's not a coincidence that the fake pacifist is named after the first Roman Emperor's second in command.
3. The apparent Char clone has no secret ambitions, and no tragic past: he really is exactly what he acts like, because he has no need to be anything else.
4. The low body count really helps paint each death as a tragedy instead of a statistic.
5. All of the war mongers are blatantly childish, even the few smart ones, to the point where everyone just eventually seems be done with their crap. Even Guin and Merrybell seem to have finally grown up by the end of things, becoming actually likeable people.
Remember that fat guy who wanted to fight the Gundam at the end but the bad guy in the turn x just killed him. We didn't even see his reaction. He was like "come on, general." Still thinking he might fight the turn a and pow!
True. They all feel like Star Trek The Next Generation characters. All mature and well written, a joy to watch them be and interact with each other.
@@augustoch.7341more like deep space 9 imo
This was definitely made when Tomino was in a good mood.
I will always be confused how so many people let the "white mustache" stop them from watching this amazing show.
I always saw them as tusks. thought it looked really cool
Thats what I liked about the series. Not alot of viewers back then, so it made it feel sort of exclusive.
Probably the people whose favorite show is Wing.
THE GUNDAAAAM
THE GUNDAM IS REAL
I watch Gundam for the Gundam itself, I acknowledge Turn A as a good anime based on what I saw but I just hate the designs, to each their own
The best WMD that is also a washing machine, a clothes hanger, and a cow holder.
I love that they made a Master Grade model of the cow with a free Turn A Gundam
One thing that really makes much more sense in hindsight, after watching the show, is that episode where Korrin desperately tries to destroy the Gundam float. Well, really, his desire to destroy the Turn A from the moment he's introduced makes much more sense in hindsight. He's one of the few characters who actually knows what that machine is capable of doing and just how dangerous it really is right from the start.
Happy Tomino is something else as a director, I'm always amazed of how someone can make both this and Zeta.
I would also recommend Overman King Gainer, the very next show Tomino would direct after this, and one that would probably solidify his style to this day. It is also a sort of happy mecha show, but much more focused and "hype", it has similar beats to Turn A and overall just top notch.
Turn A Gundam is not just my favorite Gundam anime next to Zeta, Char's Counterattack and Unicorn, it's one of my favorite anime next to Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Macross Frontier, and Akira. The sheer amount of world-building and storytelling is just a sight to behold, especially if it's done by a one Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Turn A is something really special. The setting is so unique and its a shame people immediately disregard it based on Mead's design.
It's probably just the protagonist being utterly unrelatable to 99% of Gundam fans
@@theedwardian How so? I mean aside from looks.
@@theedwardian because he doesn't have depression and/or anger issues lol
No but honestly, Loran is best boy
@@theedwardian Seethe more about the brown boy being a nice kid.
Turn-A also commemorates Gundam's 20th Anniversary, and ties the previous shows into its timeline. The 2nd ending song brings a tear to my eyes.
Tsuki no Mayu is absolutely beautiful.
Hell yeah! One of my favorite Gundam series 🙌
Well if it ain't that man himself
"With the help of some moon whales." I love how so nonchalantly you state that, as if thats just a thing that doesn't need any explanation lol. Great review!
Part of my strategy is throwing lines like that in to make people want to watch the series themselves!
Won’t be the last time moon whales appear in gundam
Final Fantasy IV fans get it !
And startrek fans.
After the newtype dolphins of X this didn’t surprise me
Kind of love the implied sentience of the two Turns, little moments through out the show, but it when the two suits are clearly still struggling with each other in the background as Loran bails the cockpit just before the sword fight that really makes me wish we could learn more about the era they come from.
My favourite Gundam series, though I might say it's Zeta some days. Zeta is a mood.
I love the way Turn A humanizes its characters while still maintaining Gundam's more operatic - almost Shakespearean - feel. That persistent tension of war running through the series works because I genuinely did not want to see these two peoples fight, which is truly an achievement given that that's usually what I'm there for in what is a giant robot action series like Gundam.
On another note, I have a Turn A Gundam artbook which contains the iterative design process by Syd Mead, it's genuinely fascinating. Mead's initial design for the Turn A was essentially a slightly rougher version of the SUMO but with a Gundam's face hidden in the dome-like helmet, he'd retool it into the SUMO later with a very Mead-esque asymmetric sensor unit over where the Gundam face was that we'd eventually see. Two of the elements Tomino asked for initially were the "womb-like" cockpit and general sense of sleekness, the defining charm point of the Turn A - the mustache - came about as Mead played around with the samurai aesthetic.
One of the earlier things Tomino noted on Mead's Gundam designs, the main hero Gundam should:
- Be thin in design like a karateka or kickboxer while enemy units can be bigger and more wrestler-like in contrast (which is funny since the SUMO unit was originally dubbed Sumo Gundam by Mead).
- It should look "benign", at least when it's inactive.
- It should have a head that looks like it could have a person in it even if in-uinvese it's technically just a housing for the external sensors.
- It can't be too detailed because reproducing such a thing for an animated series would be impossible.
These details are pretty consistent with every Gundam series that followed as well if you think about it.
There was a lot of details on things I'd never imagine considering, like "how to design a cockpit where two people can survive the vaccuum of space for a week" or the elaborate inner-workings and the loading process for the Turn A's chest-based missile launchers which... it would never really use.
" It should have a head that looks like it could have a person in it even if in-uinvese it's technically just a housing for the external sensors." I don't really get how this is 'shown' in the design compared to like any other gundam haha. I'm not doubting what you are reporting, but do you have more information about the implementation of this design request specifically? Or can you explain how Turn A implements this specific aspect (or is this just something that Tomino requested as a general sort of thing to make sure it would still be consistent with prior Gundams just so that Mead wouldn't do something really weird with the head shape?)
Just under 45 minutes to cover the show, and you had to leave out a lot of the weird little side stories, like to turn a being used as a washing machine, or the tourney transporting a cow, or Keith industrializing bread making and becoming some kind of super CEO. Turn A is such a unique series, and supposedly seeing the concepts for the series is what brought Tomino back and cured him of his desire to torch the franchise
I love the Turn A washing machine haha.
I missed out on this entire series somehow, and as an adult, I really do appreciate missing out on it as a teenager. With more life experience and general knowledge of the franchise in it's entirety, finding out about this series now only makes it even better.
Thanks for spending so much time diving deeply into the story and themes of the show, it is appreciated.
Can I just say that your utilization of Gundam game music - particularly that of Gundam Battle Assault 2 - really lends a relaxing, if upbeat atmosphere to these reviews.
Battle assault 2 is one of my favorite games ever so it’s awesome people still reference it. My main is Zaku 2.
@@masterzombie161 Gundam Heavyarms for me. There's actually a Discord server where you can play it with netplay and at 60fps.
Oh cool so it’s emulated on pc
Battle Assault 2 is amazing. My main is RX78 Gundam hammer on the head and drop a life bar ftw!
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Some of the suits in that are absolute units, you wonder how you ever stand a chance against them.
Corin Nander was great and I totally support his nomadic lifestyle. That guy deserves so much rest, he's clearly been through so damn much.
Rest in peace Syd Mead.
Honestly, I tend to be very critical of Tomino's work, often feeling like his shows are incredibly messy at the best of times. And if they work, then it is usually in spite of his involvement rather than cause of it. Turn A however I have felt being an exception. While some of my usual gripes with him are still present, I found them not as overbearing here as in his other shows and the whole show was just something special.
Messy maybe. But interesting.
To me, a quality infinitely more valuable than polished and bland.
Syd Meads interpretation of a gundam is amazing, and it really shows his roots with car design when the gundam looks less like a mecha but rather a vehicle with the eyes being like headlights and the v fin as the bumpers, and the overall sleek and abstract shapes that make up the entire body is so unique its like looking at a futuristic rendition of the humble beetle although that analogy would be wrong since its actually a butterfly nonetheless it is truly beautiful, people specifically the really critical gundam fans are more used to the generic formula or outline of what a gundam should look like and even Turn A isn't that huge of a departure that even if you showed it to someone who hasn't watched that much gundam and have them guess if the robot is a gundam or not they would probably say it is, point is Turn A is a very unique take on gundam and it is truly a breath of fresh air when every gundam goes through the same kind of thing within their own universes, heck after war X literally looks like gundam wing but it was actually part of the universal century timeline that's how bad the uncanny similarities are and Im glad Turn A took a different route and chose to be the black sheep of Gundam
I watched the first half thinking it was a pretty messy and goofy show but the end gave good context as to why is started that way.
The idea that a story always has to 'move forward' is such an immense flaw in the way so many people consume media. Stuff like Turn A that focuses on being in the moment and developing an atmosphere and characterization is just as valid as any other way to tell stories.
This "always move forward" mindset is something I see everywhere in films, and tv. Nothing is allowed to just take a break to exist. It's a shame so many people have been trained to experience stories in one way.
I see criticisms like that pop up all the time in anime discussions people will say things like "this arc is taking too long" or "nothing is happening" when in reality they're just not paying attention. There's always a lot of characterization or other developments but they ignore it because they're too focused on the next big event occurring or some reveal happening. It's like missing the trees for the forest.
The thing is that if you watch shlock, the plot moving is all there is to enjoy. Once a show is beautiful, it can just be.
Just finished it for the first time it was the final gundam series i needed to see so i can now say i have seen them all! Def top three for me!
Sochie deserved so much better. She lost her dad, her fiance, her love and was left to be the sole heir to the Heim house, which is a destiny she rejected at the start of the series but was it was forced upon her. I love Turn A but this poor girl deserved a happy ending.
I never got a single hint Sochie loved Loran after all the racism, slapping and generally catty and annoyed behavior at him that she never really apologized for. Heck if I were Loran I’d dip with Diana too
@@Soniman001 lmao you must be blind then, that was literally one of the first aspects of her character that was shown to the audience, particular in an early episode where she's standing in a doorway next to her sister looking in at Loran and getting excited about explicitly asking to bring Loran with her somewhere
@@burtdanams4426 moments like that are far FAR outweighed by well, the racism and general mistreatment she gives him despite the dude being endlessly patient with her
@@Soniman001 that’s just how some people are haha, when they don’t get reciprocated interest early on turn cold and borderline cruel. Loran is a simple boy with simple needs and he doesn’t yet understand the complexity of romance; just admiration of and loyalty to his queen. So he never picked up on Sochie’s interest in him, even after she picked him for the ritual, because he doesn’t understand the importance of those rituals. If he can’t understand that, he’s not gonna understand the romantic interest sochie has in him even though, to viewers, she’s not subtle AT ALL.
Why do you think that she pays attention to Gavan and always makes a big show about him in front Loran other than to try and evoke a response from him and also because she feels like if she can’t get that kindness and investment from Loran, then she might as well get it from Gavan. And she explicitly remarks about this to Mieshei when she asks if sochie is gonna go through with it even though her heart clearly isn’t in it and mieshei knows that, ‘but Gavan is so nice to me’, or something along those lines.
I dunno, maybe it just makes more sense to me because I know people who are exactly like her IRL and act the same way about romance and tend to act out their feelings in really weird or passive, aggressive ways and try to find replacements for the love they cant get from the person they want and so they act in irrational and dramatic ways
“I can’t get love from the one I want and I don’t know if it’s something he thinks is wrong with me or something wrong with him, but regardless I’m mad at him for not feeling the way I do even though I haven’t explicitly told him how I feel, and If I can’t get it from him, I’ll just take the next person who shows me interest.”
Which is Also another part of why she hates Dianna and especially resents her sister so much, even after learning that it’s not really Diana’s fault that her dad died, but because LORAN always talks about how Diana is the best. Also when he was constantly projecting his feelings about Diana onto Kihel, this also bothered sochie because he seemed to have a particularly intense attraction and admiration of her for seemingly no reason that he shouldn’t also appreciate sochie (at least in her own mind)
Basically, she just hates it that he seems to give more attention and care towards people that are not her. It’s pretty obvious what the author was intending to do with this one sided romance story that is woven throughout the show and why it is even brought up in the epilogue at all.
Just because it doesn’t make sense to you why someone would act that way. It doesn’t mean that it’s not in there and that it’s not very obviously what the author is intending.
I think you all are getting a bit ahead of yourselves. Sophie and Loran are 18. She needs time to heal from Gavane even if she thinks she doesn’t. Diana is dying and wanted to die on earth. Yes Loran is caring for her but her body is breaking down and she will die. The retrospective touches on it briefly but you’d be better served reading the Reddit rewatch thread around ep 42-44 when she explains this to Kihel alongside her wish to die on earth. I beleive that ring is for Willghem and Loran is caring for her as he would a sick mother or grandmother almost. Does he love her? Yes, in the same way Harry loved and revered his queen. She cares about him almost like a child. I believe she will pass peacefully, beautiful and young in appearance, on earth as she wanted. Loran having served his duty will go back to society and Sochie will be waiting. That’s just my thoughts though
Keep up the awesome work! I love your recap videos of these gundam series! Look forward to the next!!
Fun fact: the Zacktrager shares a lot of design aspects with an IRL theoretical tech called a space tether.
Lots of gundam tech is based on irl theoretical or real tech dialled to 11.
@@nicodalusong149 Inb4 the twist that it's the other way around with irl tech being based off gundam cause japan is making one in secret and what we see are just tech spilling out of that project.
Very glad to see someone enjoy Turn A as much as I do. It's such a beautiful show, visually, musically, and thematically, and really feels special in a way thats kinda hard to describe. The slower pace might be a downside to some but I really enjoyed how the show really puts a lot effort into letting its characters shine, even if it meant slowing down the plot. I love the brighter, softer tone of the show compared to most of Tomino's earlier works, you can really see how Tomino has grown over the years. Even though it didn't end up being his last Gundam show it really nails that feel of "This is what every Gundam has been leading up to". You can kind of see how it influenced his next (and last, for real this time, he swears) Gundam show, G-Reco, which is even more bright and colourful (though the directing in that show is... a lot harder to follow than Turn A, let's just say).
I was originally pretty iffy on the Turn A's design and felt it was really silly, but as I watched the show I really fell in love with how unique it is, along with all the other MS. I love seeing Syd Mead's design documents/sketches for the Turn A and Turn X. The soundtrack is also stunning (as expected from Yoko Kanno). The 2nd ED, "Tsuki no Mayu", is genuinely breathtaking and has become one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. The way it plays throughout the epilogue is just...so beautiful.
Tsuki no Mayu is an extraordinary song, and Kanno’s OST for the show is among her very best work.
I was actually significantly sadder for Sochie at the end of Turn A than I was for anyone in Victory becausr I was prepared for victory completely. Preemptively emotionally dead.
Turn A is if Jules Vern made a mecha book.
And in regards to your claim about Loran having the lowest kill count of any Gundam protagonist, I've actually counted. He ranks 18th of 25. And of those that rank lower than him the only one from an arguably full series is Bellri.
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Gotta confess, when Turn A first came out, I didn't watch it because of the mech designs. It wasn't until I discovered the song, Moon, and dug into its OST that I finally gave it a chance.
It is definitely an acquired taste, as the pacing is not your typical mecha series, but I ended up liking it. The Turn A and SUMO definitely grew on me, along with the WaDom, and when the Turn X got revealed, I was sold on Syd Mead's MS designs. What especially helped was the revelation that Turn A was practically a WMD itself, along with its role in the Dark History, as well as revealing both UC and AUs were connected.
As grating as Sochie was, I ended up liking her alot, along with Queen Diana and Harry Ord. I also find Loran to be a proper pacifist as opposed to peace by guns from other series, so he ended up near the top as far as Gundam protagonists go.
And in mentioning Moon, pretty much any song that shares the same melody as Moon ended up being instant favorites in the soundtrack, especially Tsuki no Mayu, the second ending theme. I also don't think Yoko Kanno could make a bad soundtrack, but was especially true for me with her 90s work. Her music got me liking Macross Plus, and I was more willing to give jazz a chance through Cowboy Bebop. Beyond the 90s, we have Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. Both Inner Universe and Rise gave me chills.
Anyways, happy to find fans of Turn A Gundam. It was definitely unlike any Gundam series before or after it. And we had G Gundam.
A smile crept on my face when I saw this thumbnail.
Just wanted to say I have really been enjoying your retrospectives. Keep it up dude, these are fantastic!
Turn A is one of my favorite Gundam series as well as up there in terms of my favorite anime.
There's just something about it I adore which connects so well for me.
Great video man!
I watched this when it was new, and im rewatching after finishing the series this weekend.
I see Guin Rhineford and Harry Ord as two halves of the Char clone, each taking on different parts of the role and appearance. It also fits well into the repeated theme of twins, mirrors, foils, etc.
I really do love Turn A Gundam, it's got a War of the Worlds meets Prince and the Pauper vibe too it, I like the mythology on display, the FLATS might just be one of my favorite mobile suits because they quite literally "T pose" for dominance, and I'm also just a sucker for stories where the mystery is "How far DID we go?" and if given the chance, would we go that far again? It was one of my favorite aspects of Gurren Lagann and I really like it here!
I was waiting for you to cover this one!
I enjoy your work so much thank you .
i jsut finished the series and it's so amazingly perfect, also a surprising amount of parallels between this and Xenogears which was a year prior (and the other xenogames in general)
I'm a relatively new subscriber and I am thoroughly enjoying your content. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Now that you mentioned Garzeys Wing.
I actually may have figured out what Tomino was trying to do with that Show had he’d made that series with a functional Plot!
The Main plot I figure would be focused on two Guys from Different Worlds, one from Boston Wells and One from Earth. Both would end up having their Souls bonded and shifted Over to the Other’s body. And only when one’s asleep can they Contact the other. However when both are asleep at the same time they can interact with each other and even see each other through the Veil.
It’s an interesting premise had Tomino carefully applied these ideas. But he didn’t, and it didn’t work out in the end, especially with the Feathered wing feet.
was looking forward to this review turn a is hands down my favorite gundam show and one of my favorite shows in general! i really love loran as a protag since he does want peace for all life but unlike how most mc pilots start out loran is always ready to fight for his ideals.
The fact that you said YYH is your favorite of all time and put this anime up there with it has convinced me to check it out
The theme of Gundam is never the robot, it’s the people, the whole humanity, it’s always start with one person and rise up to all the people alive or dead. Don’t skip it because the appearance of TurnA gundam
31:23 - And if you put 2 and 2 together, it explains why Loran and he could communicate the way they did. They're both descended from Spacenoids. Spacenoids (specifically the Zeon) are the ones that typically call the Gundam the White Devil.
I've been waiting a long time for this retrospective! This is not just one of my favorite Gundam shows - this is just one of my favorite television programs ever made. Just absolutely beautiful.
I'm commenting now at the start of the video, I'll check back in once I'm done, but I'm looking forward to your perspective.
ETA: haha, less than a minute in and you said basically what I wrote. Well, I'm looking forward to your *full* perspective.
Alright, I finally finished the video (I have a 3 year old and it's a Saturday) and I'm glad you loved this show as much as I I do - I love it too. I think that meandering early in the narrative is really important; you get to care about the world the characters live in, and the characters too in, what they hope for and dream.
To add something to your retrospective - Corin Nander saw the Wing Zero, but I've seen people extrapolate on what that means. I think it's implied that Corin's hatred of "Gundams" comes from being a victim of Quatre's rampage when he was piloting the Wing Zero, which is just a cool bit of canon welding.
To paraphrase one of my favorite tweets:
Me the first time Corin shows up: Who is this clown?
Me when Corin shows up on my rewatch: Ah yes, the King has arrived.
20:55 "What? We some kinda... THE Suicide Squad?"
The 'telepathic communication' might have been an extrapolation of the old adage of only really being able to understand someone when you cross swords with them.
Aka during battle.
I finally watched this after holding it off for *ages*
and man
it's peak 😭😭. I have so many goosebumps
Bruh talk about coincidences, I was just watching Turn A (I'm on episode 20) I was seriously looking forward to when you'd cover this series didn't know it would be this soon XD, can't wait to watch this!
I literally started watching this recently and I'm a huge fan. In a weird way it is more grounded than a lot of the gundams. Like that it isn't one arc then another arc. It's just one continues show
Turn A is also one of my favorites. It feels very different compared to other Gundam series.
Seed is gonna be interesting. I personally LOVED Seed, wasn't as much a fan of Seed Destiny though.
T H A N K Y O U
Turn A is amazing
Gundam washing machine.
Best Gundam show ever. Pure Tomino at his best. And Jesus, the music at the end of the final episode.
This is my second favorite gundam show (zeta being first). I discovered turn a when I was playing super robot wars alpha taisen. Turn A's story is perfectly integrated in that game.
Turn A (along with Reconguista in G) has this really odd way of addressing combat that has really grown on me. It's not full-on anger-driven annihilation like a lot of UC's combat. It's almost... I don't know... accidental? There will be escalating tensions, then a misunderstanding will set something off, but then everything resolves quickly and everyone settles back into a truce again. It's _very_ strange, but oddly mature, I guess... like that's how Tomino sees how humans will behave in the far future. Like humans will always have wars, but we won't feel the need to take it to such extremes as we used to. It's a much more evolved take on humanity than anything you see in Star Trek's enlightened future civilization.
I _love_ the SUMOs and WODOMs, too. I desperately wish Bandai would release MGs of both. You bet your ass I built the HG Wodom Pod when I learned that was released. The art style and color palette remind me of Ghibli. It's just a wonderful show all around. The only stipulation is that you need to go into it with an open mind. If you go in expecting Zeta, you won't like it. You need to take this one on its own terms. 10/10 - this (along with Zeta, but for different reasons) is the best Gundam has ever offered and some of the best of anime ever.
10:35 given the whole War of The Worlds vibe with the moon people and their Wadomes being tripods but bipedal they're literally going for "It's like War of the Worlds but they don't die because they overlooked germ theory, we have to sort it out ourselves."
Turn A started off slow to me but if become one of my favorite Gundam shows. I liked the fact that it takes place in the region that was once America.
One of the reasons why I love TA so much is how cleverly written are the characters;
Like just imagine if the animators didn’t bother to leave the eye distinction between Diana and Kihel, that’s the perspective of the characters in the show
Yes! Recognition at last! Turn A was the one that cemented me as the Gundam simp I am today... Don't read too deep into that.
Turn A is a weird series, but it's a Tomino series, so it's to be expected. The mustache threw me off before I started watching it, but the design grew on me, I'll admit. It's very much a character-driven story than a plot driven one, as there really isn't an in-depth explanation for how all the universes coalesce into the Correct Century, but it serves its purposes well enough. It's here that we do get female characters who are well written, a protagonist who isn't overbearing with his ideals and is willing to fight for it, and a real sense of optimism for once, at least where Tomino related entries are concerned. I probably like Century Color more than the average person ought to. Favorite Easter Egg is seeing Fuunsaiki and Nether Gundam from G Gundam be considered as potential candidates of MS to develop. Glad to see you liked it a lot, it's definitely top 3 in ACs for me. It really is the end of an era in a sense...for better or for worse.
Before knowing Turn A Gundam, I always laughed at the Turn A in games. After the show, I fell in love, it's in my top 5 both in design and in Gunplas. And the show, is just fantastic. Grim but hopeful and the lack of constant combat with more narrative in it's place as well as the fantasy elements just made me love every minute of it. To the Moon is a wonderful theme.
Turn A Turn, Turn A Turn, Turn A. My absolute favorite gundam, felt like a studio ghibli movie in the vein of Laputa with the steampunk setting, and showing all the old Universal Century gear and connecting it together, ugh so good. 15:31, that’s me.
Get ready for the most decisive series in SEED.
I love the designs, but... i dunno about the character interactions...
Oh yeah, i love this series too
Plus, the almighty "gundam hammer" never loses
I'm currently going through SEED! It's actually pretty good, as I feel the relationships between the characters are well explored (namely the relations between Kira and Athrun, and Kira and Flay) and the writing is good. It even has pretty solid HD remastered version which comes with a surprisingly good English audio track... Once you get over how it was recorded during the great pandemic of 2020 and that it's a dub of a show from 2002 that was remastered in 2011 which had to be re-localised due to the change in certain plot details.
So yeah! SEED is good. _So far._ I know that once Kira will pull his first "Jesus Yamato", it will be all downhill from there. And I have noticed certain flaws pop in in the good episodes too.
Seed is mostly okay but certain decisions irk me. Destiny, or rather it's back half is where everything just bombs so very hard.
@@nicodalusong149 this. This is SO accurate. At least the Cosmic Era isn't a flop itself, thanks to stargazer and astray
@@XTempestBuster Astray is a fun time and all, but it almost feels like it wants to be part of the G Gundam timeline more than Seed's.
Turn A will always be my favourite Gundam show. Never before watching an anime have i just enjoyed my time more!
Regarding the ending. In all likelyhood Loran and Diana are not married. The Ring on her finger is from the original Will Game as well as Loran Still using honorifics and sleeping in 2 beds. The reason for him staying with her is probably loyalty.
The cane also suggest that Diana is prob gonna die in the near furture as a consequence of the repeated hibernations, after which Loran is most likely gonna go back to Sochie (though if she is gonna accept that is another matter).
But srsly how hard Sochie got shafted at the end is probably the only real flaw with the series IMO.
also shout out to one of the greatest anime Openings and endings with Turn A Turn and Tsuki No Mayu
it's not a flaw, I consider one of a few perfect possible endings for her character + her relationship to Loran throughout the show. Just because it doesn't fulfill some desire for fan service doesn't make it a flaw, it just means that you dont like it because you wanted your expectations or desires to be fulfilled a certain way.
I do like the point you make about how Dianna is likely dying SOON though, I hadn't really considered the immediacy of it. I mostly just thought she was trying to lie low for a while and cross some stuff off her earth bucket list at the same time
Yes! The Whitebeard Gundam review hehe
The music selection is solid. Love me some Armored Core and Gundam Battle Assault II
Reconguista n G is a "sequel" if you are interested. The Reguild century follows the Correct century by about 2k years.
@Retcon_404 As you know Turn A Gundam has a Lighter & Softer tone.
Turn A has one of my favorite settings in all of gundam along with haveing some of my favorite MS designs. I love the sumo, Turn X, and The Turn-A while not my favorite Gundam as that would be the Double X, it's still in my top 5 above the phenix but behind the Xi and Zeta
Welcome to the cult.
Yeah this show is amazing
Good timing. Just woke up lol.
When it comes to story, people are going to care more for the characters than overall plot. Even if a plot has holes in it or falls flat at times, if the characters are engaged in it or interesting enough, people are more willing to overlook that.
Turn A is truly the hidden gem in the Gundam franchise. Definitely my #2 after the 8th MS team. You should rank the Gundam series after you review them all.
The ampibious suits are based on some from ZZ and it was a favorite of everyone with good taste since then.
10:35 - I do appreciate that he got his villain costume from the Pokemon world.
just found out that turn a gundam was the one who's responsible over the many gundam universe variants, the gundam resets the world and it's history then put itself on a long slumber once again. a machine god
Domon got a happy ending
I like the Quake 2 music that was neat!😍
I swear to god, I have never been more bored out of my mind watching anime than I was while watching Turn A Gundam... 😐
Yeah...i am with you i don't understand where this hype for this show comes from!!!
That's my exact feelings about After War Gundam X, on the other hand I loved Turn A
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I enjoyed After War Gundam X, the characters were a lot more enjoyable and I wasn’t bored out of my mind watching it.
Your experience with Gundam is G gundam and Turn A? Okay this video makes more sense. I'm glad you could enjoy it summer child :)
I mean, no look at the channel lol. G is just what started me watching gundam when I was a kid.
@@Retcon404 Ah my mistake entirely lol but Turn A a magnum opus? hm perhaps I should give it another chance. I watched your other reviews though since then good stuff :)
Turn A.... One of the Gundam series I havent watched yet! Great summary about it and I'm still gonna watch it!
As always Super Robot Wars time!
I've really only used the Turn A in the Super Robot Wars Z series and they even have the Double X but guess who's the bigger monster among the two? 😁
Sadly despite Loran's great character development, I just end up putting Char in the Turn A and he just wrecks everything and everyone!
Speaking of the Moonlight Butterfly... The most memorable thing about it was in Z2 Saisei-hen during a 00 scenario when Celestial Being destroys the orbital satellite and you have to shoot all the debris down.
In the first game Hakai-hen the Turn A was damaged and cannot use the Moonlight Butterfly, but its been released here and its got a massive range and will help destroy the debris much faster! And the best thing? Turn A can regenerate its HP and Energy meaning the Moonlight Butterfly is spammable!
Been watching some Gundam series but never had the chance to see Turn A due to where I was didn't acquire the rights to air. But thanks to your video I get why this is something I can get behind.
My suggestion is will you do a weekly review of each ep og Gundam Witch from Mercury?
28:15 - This is something people often forget about the UC mobile suits. When they explode, it isn't like in Power Rangers where there's just a little explosion in the Abandoned Building District. If a Zaku explodes, Angel Grove is GONE.
Needs a "pretty sweet" "pretty cool" "pretty _inset_" counter on screen. On a serious note, great video as always.
I will always love how early in this show they use Turn A's hand for a washing machine in a river haha. That and early on when Turn A gets into a fight they realize and mention it self repairs slowly(nanomachines son) after battles.
It's crazy how much turn a takes from war of the worlds
THE MOONRACE
THE MOONRACE IS REAL
Not even a minute in and i’m so damn glad your opinion on the show is as high as mine. Turn A is one of my favorite Mecha, and probably my favorite Anime ever
The only reason I found turn a gundam and gundam as a whole is gundam evolution. Turn A is my favorite gundam anime and one of my favorite animes of all time.
I first saw Turn A as an internet bootleg and that is a travesty. Living in the US, the only way I knew to look for Turn A, was because I played Dynasty Warriors: Gundam.
Garzey's Wing is not terrible, I would suggest the opposite. It is hyperactive and exhaustive, but such a wild trip, with really interesting direction of mass in motion, as Tomino has a brilliant knack for. I've been watching Turn A, and I really love it. I'm way more attached to and engaged by Tomino's Gundam programs, although some of the non-Tomino Universal Century media (those 80s/90s OVAs in particular) is pretty killer!
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Holy 😂 turn A .......OMG thank you
Killvount wise Domon is pretty low depending on how you count dg cell zombies.
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Now I need a zaku version of the berserk skeleton meme
probably the creepiest thing of this show is how guin is very clearly trying to groom loran into his trap waifu.
loran : sir, my name is loran, i'm a guy
guin : shhh, stfu laura
Did you skip the scene where a Gundam was used to do laundry?
Mustache gundam is fantastic. I'm pretty interested to hear your thoughts on brain powered. I found out about it from super robot wars J and its.... something else
Man, SRW is the champ when it comes to introducing people to different Mecha series, gotta love it.
@@Retcon404 they definitely pull out some really obscure shows sometimes too which can be a lot of fun. If you ever decide to check out some of the more super robot shows, Dancouga is a great one imo. It's strays from the formulaic monster of the week trope and they don't let you see the Dancouga for quite a bit.
@@Retcon404 I certainly do. I consider it an encyclopedia of mecha anime (funnily enough, one of the SRW titles is just an encyclopedia). That the folks writing the stories and making the games are mecha fans themselves is an absolute blessing. SRW is officially recognized as the world record title holder of "series with the most crossovers" and that's something to be proud of.
@@Retcon404 Speaking of SRW, I'm checking almost daily on your CZcams and Twitch channels if you're streaming SRW 30 again. It's fun to watch fellow mecha enthusiasts discover new mecha.
I also love getting introduced to new mecha through SRW. The best one for me was when I read through a summary of SRW UX, which doesn't have English translation, I discovered Demonbane. I watched the anime first and thought it was interesting, but it was a whole new world when I played the narratively superior visual novel. I swear you'll never look at Judau Ashta the same way again when you hear his VA play a villain who uses his intestines as tentacles. Or at Heero Yuy, as a Cthulhu cult leader.
I will say that the ranking of Turn A Gundam depends from where you are, and it's pretty relaxing anime to watch.
Ps. Gundam Seed, and Gundam Seed Destiny is 10/10. Were one have really awesome story, and the other has a really fantastic Mecha designs.
3:11 - I'd say that as far as UC goes, it's pretty successful at being an epilogue to Gundam. But since the only baseline for any time frame we get in the show is the Correct Century year, and a few approximations, it's entirely possible that every Gundam series takes place after UC, but before Turn A. The only real information we have on the timeframe is a line that states that the book was written around 3000 years ago and that's when UC would've taken place. But the some of the show's staff would later go on to state that this was an approximation by the characters using their own frame of reference based on the numbers in the book and at least one staff member would say that it's more accurate to state that it was 3000 years before the Correct Century timeline started and that all other timeframes are based on that period instead. It's kind of weird.
I personally think it's easier to just say this is an epilogue to UC Gundam. But you could theoretically call it an epilogue to ALL of Gundam if you go by what the staff says.
It should also be noted that the show was made in 1999 and was intended to be the end of ALL of Gundam. Since we've had many new non-UC Gundam series' since then, at some point it's likely we'll get one that exists outside of this time frame, Correct Century or not.