Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | The Gundam Retrospective (Reupload)
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2023
- Original Upload Date: Apr 29 2022
Released in March of 1988 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack gained success at the Japanese box office, and cemented itself as a classic piece of theatrical animation. The saga of Char and Amuro is finally wrapped up in a film that not only looks and sounds amazing, but is an entertaining ride through the world of Sci-Fi mecha action. Let's take a look back at one of the most important Animated films of the 1980's!
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When I watched Chars counter attack as a 15 year old girl I also fell for his ideology and it was totally not.... cause Chars a hot guy in a cool suit
I honestly really dislike Quess, if you removed her completely and just gave Hathaway different reasons for his arc they could've put more emphasis on Char's and Amuro's rivalry which is really more what I came for. The movie feels like it has a few too many characters in it.
The appeal of CCA to me - aside from the animation and my general affection for this period of the franchise - is that it takes two characters who have in many ways defined eachother's existence, with many similar excellent qualities as people, who've both fought eachother and along side one another, have achieved literal supernatural understanding of one another's mindset and character, and fundamentally agree on so much about the nature of the world... yet even with all that they're like "fuck this guy".
That balloon thing happened in real life an army used them to confuse drones and aerial surveillance leaving large balloons shaped like tanks while they retreated
Glad to see this back. Now to salvage my old comment. Honestly, the most interesting thing to come out of CCA was how that story was adapted in the Super Robot Wars games, where they mostly try to fix most parts of the narrative that most of the fans can't stand like Char's motivation for why he did his heel turn, Amuro not bothering to wonder WHY Char would do this or the whole reenactment of the Lalah Suun incident with Quess, Gyunei and Hathaway. Personally speaking though, I just got the feeling that Char was just burnt out by the time of the movie. The dude was just plain sick of seeing the Federation being more blatant with their fascist bullcrap, from them being the catalyst for the Zabis to create Zeon, what happens in Stardust Memories (no spoilers), creating the Titans which resulted in Kamile....yeah. And their monstrous apathy to Haman's colony drop in ZZ along with Amuro still having his head shoved up his ass about working with the Feds even after everything I just said. Now I know that in the movie Char gives some reasons why during his big speech and with his alone time with Nanai where he just seems to be burnt out and wanting this whole song and dance to end but still it seems to be implied. Also the ending is the biggest pile of Bullshit ever. Speaking of SRW as cool as the Sazabi and Nu Gundam are, the Nightingale and Hi-Nu Gundam top them in my opinion.
The use of inflatable decoys is actually a tactic that dates all the way back to WWII, being used to trick airplane photography since it's hard to tell the difference with the quality of cameras at the time at the altitude that they took them. It absolutely makes a lot of sense in this setting as well for the same reasons, space is so big and you can get sightlines from so far that it'd be hard to tell if they were fake ships unless you got real close to em.
"I feel like a bunch of people are coming into me" not exactly a line that i would want to hear from a 13 year old female character in a Gundam film.... Hmmm
"This ones a real rock!?!?!?!" classic
I love how they're in space, they have cities in space, they have giant robots in space, they're able to do wireless communication between robots in space, meanwhile they still have telephones with cords. I was taken aback I think when I saw Char's origin at one point A guy uses a cell phone if I remember correctly.
Take 2...Action!!!!
"The most manipulative compulsive liar in the universe"
In case anyone is curious, the Titans just kinda grabbed a lot of Federation stuff and had no issue wrecking it, so the state is pretty much broke by Char's Counterattack. Char knows this, and he knows the Federation isn't really in a position to stop the space colonies from doing whatever they want now, so his entire plan here is just a flimsy attempt to get the Zeon Zum Deikun fanboy funding for his plan to fight Amuro.
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So glad this is back. I’d seen CCA after watching the Gundam trilogy and loved it. It helped me to see how Gundam really is the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars. I mean I believed it since I’d seen 2 giant Gundams there and loved wing as a kid. But this in light of MSG and Zeta and thinking back on how Japan has grown it made sense. I never did see ZZ but once I finish that I plan to rewatch this with new eyes.
I enjoyed the manga Beltorchika's Children(based on Tominos original novel) a bit more than the movie
Nice job on the whole video, thanks for putting on all the extra work to get this back out to us. as a CZcamsr of myself I understand the struggle of having to work around a lot of the issues you mentioned in this video at the beginning. 🤘😎
balloons as decoys is actually a real thing for intercontinental ballistic missiles. they're deployed during midcourse flight to confuse ABM
Undoubtedly the best Gundam movie!
It's funny, I was gonna rewatch this exact video today too but the yt algorithm had other plans... I'm glad to see it up again ❤
I hate Quess. Thanks for the re-upload, I wasn't able to watch the original.