your top gundam series ^^

somethin like this for overall, and also to know how to enjoy the other shows that I disregard except on few aspect such as character and mech design like GW.

1 Seed
2 Stardust Memory
3 GZ

Make reviews if you like. Me, my interest in GW since I was 12 comes and go, they switch scene too much and the action is too short, also Heero is static(storywise) . GZ fights seems to be short but they don't seem to astray from fights too much and the drama on it is a bit climatic like how Camille damns or pleads to his enemies so hard. GS Kira is mostly silent and soft speaking on battle but not boring, there bunch of shots where he senses and targets, he can even go extra silent with seed mode. Stardust, how I see it, like the two, but with a bunch more of frames and hand drawn stuff, got usual classic Gundam formula with a nerd character.

I'm up to watch Char's Counterattack, but seems not easy to pirate. It might have been my 1 or 2 the way I see some clips of it

seems to be better on the anime forum, am too hasty T T

I actually like them all, I guess I'm just a hardcore mecha fan. I've watched all the Gundam series and watched Gundam Wing series twice.

I wish Gundam Seed was bit more orginal, from the the beginning to end except for the mecha designs, Gundam Seed rip all those scenarios from the other Gundam shows. In the beginning, it copied the orginal Gundam and Gundam zeta scenario. In the desert it copied the stardust scenario, the part where he was able to stabilize the Gundam onto the sand came from Gundam: 0083 stardust memory. There are too many too point out. When Gundam 00 came out I pleased to finally see something original to add to the Gundam franchise.

If I had to pick a favorite right now, I would have to say 0096 U.C. Unicorn Gundam. I hope they make it into a series.

1. Gundam SEED series
2. G Gundam
3. Gundam 00 series
4. Gundam MS 08th Team
5. Gundam Wing

Yea, I didn't like the UC stuff... the drama was so overdone and I couldn't stand the boredom. I gave up ZZ Gundam after 10 episodes of nonaction, and I cringe at the thought of wasting my time on Z Gundam.

Actually I like all of gundam series, because I'm a fan XD

well my personal choice within all is Zeta, Char's Counterattack, Crossbone, Unicorn, and G Gundam

Zeta...how can I say it...the series just give me more than enough surprise. Char's Counterattack is an epic conclusion for both Amuro and Char...I hope they make it series instead a movie or at least longer. Crossbone, concept of pirate gundam is interesting, design for gundams are awesome and it's continued the story of F91. Unicorn, never get enough of UC series and don't forget about the mechs, design is good too. G Gundam, interesting concept for series, GUNDAM FIGHT, REAAADDY GO!

And I always view SEED series as an adaptation of old gundam series. Like Jonoe said many similarities found from old gundam scenarios, so I kinda can guess it. Destiny...well it's a shame they shift focus from Shinn. Despite Shinn is being emo and annoying I think it'll be interesting to see him stay as main focus and see him grow mature, just my opinion.

Char's Counterattack is my first.
Followed by Zeta: New Translation
Followed by Double Zeta.

And yeah... Turn A is pretty good too.

For me... I think Gundamoo ripped too much just like SeeD. Innovators = Newtypes.... And then the storyline just resembled Wing way too much for me. Leo's are craps against Gundams so they develop stuff to counter it. Virgos and Taurus... Then there's Talguese, the prototype Leo.

Meh. You can see parallels with 00. We want peace. Yeah... =3= Meh.

SEED's copying turned it to a gallery of good stuff. Just pointing out so some fans won't miss on potential Gundam fun.

Did GG had dragonball kind of fighting, I kinda drowse in it (-_-). But the gundam character that affected my character most is Doemon.

Here's my drowser list

1. GG: I think it's due droopy dubbing on our national tv, on japanese, Doemon is furious like a monster
2. SEED Destiny: 2 Shinn stuff had impact on me but it just ends there, I hoped that he would be profilic like Camille whom they told to be "the second coming of Amuro" and they put more scenes how he's being a sucker to long hair guy(dunno name sorry T_T).
3. GW: It got potential for me to like, the first Heero's action scene, he's cold but bursted an arrogant evil laugh upon killing a bunch of common soldiers. Which a strong turning point from usual heroic main characters but it faded like thin air. It also got street fighter charisma as we can get educated by culture.

Meh most of the Gundam series rip each other not much of original ideas that I have seen in the Gundam series though to me Gundam 00 is way much better than wings and seed series.

Surprising enough the top of my list is Gundam 0080: War in the pocket. Its the most emotional Gundam series for me and the way they tell the story from a kids perspective view on the war between the EF and Zeon is pretty interesting.

Gundam 0080 was probably the most emotional series yet. Started with a boy that was all gun-ho about war thinking how it's all cool but realized the horror when he got too close. This was a perfect example of the realities of war from a Gundam series.

As for my top:

1) Gundam 00
2) Zeta Gundam
3) G Gundam
4) Gundam SEED Stargazer
5) 08th MS Team

I agree with Temcor that most Gundam series do rip each other off in someway or another but they have their own tracks to follow even though you can relate to previous series.

Regarding SEED, I thought the first one was mediocre though I couldn't stand Kira's whining. Destiny was a total failure because everything just went off track and completely repeated SEED's final 10 episodes, not to mention it shifted focus from Shinn, the original protagonist, to Kira. Some will view Shinn as an incompetent however that was only because Kira stole the show from him leaving no further development which could have made Shinn a better character compared to the what he has now. I'm not saying that the SEED series was a complete failure, there were good aspects to it like mecha designs and character designs.

@Mr. Bushido: I didn't think anyone would put 08th MS Team as one of their Gundam favorites. Hat's off to you.

Destiny was horrible, the director is the one to blame though. The anime starts really good, I for one think Shinn is pretty much a better character than Kira. However the series suddenly took a nosedive. The one that makes me angry the most is Kira stealing the show, Destiny becomes nothing since the Destiny Gundam lost to a kick by the 'new main' character buddy. Another disapointing aspect to the show is that I can't get a glimpse under the skirt of my waifu though she is the main reason why I keep watching the show but it doesn't change the fact that SEED destiny is the worst series for me.

@ g-money, 08th MS Team showed that Gundams aren't invincible and could be destroyed by mere Zakus. I enjoyed it and thanks :D

@ Temcor, I think Shinn has a lot of potential which could have made him into a much better character rather than a low dog working for Durandal. The shift from Shinn to Kira was unnecessary cause I think Kira's character was done, same goes with the Archangel crew. Athrun, well I would say developing him should be fine cause they introduced him in the beginning of the anime. I'm also rather annoyed at the Freedom and the Strike Freedom, that thing never got touched. And Kira's mentality to stop battles in the middle seems really naive. And the ending was a deja vu, even if it was a SEED sequel, make the final battle different. I feared this with Gundam 00 and thank god it did not fail like Destiny.

True, and we got to see the various uses of Gundams on the Earth's surface, which kind of brought a sense of realism to the Gundams as something that isn't invincible where dust can fuck up a Gundam in no time at all.

I also enjoyed the romance in the story. Aina's hot.

Ouch, ironically, what I less liked on SEED are character design and mech, I kinda only liked Kira and Athrun's mechs, then, and the only cool mech on the enemy for me is Legend Gundam due to freakyness and nostalgia. But character personality though, most are cool, just the thought of druggies, and Rau's krazie ^_^

About SEED, redoing scenes from 0079(right?) and GZ, y'know, those shows gave Gundam a jumpstart. I only had watched last episode of G00 2. Kinda, not as satisfying as my top 3. Whining of Kira, he's a kid and gets shocked or getting reckless by what happens so, suitable for me. Camille sort of whine too but with ranting which he sorta do to most male characters, he's kinda soft on women

And good thing, we agree on Destiny, pretty painful shot down of a potentially memorable show. I liked the Destiny mech, I woulda bought a toy of it but it will make me remember the show, ouch!

And, if the series don't have similarities, it would be weird of such show to call it Gundam. They kinda put guys with mask whether be they near cool as Char or not

Pretty much, what I got something to like in every series are the main character's mech designs and usually how the show starts.

hey man, I hope you got GP-03 ^^ they rarely do give equipment like that, so far, SEED's Meteor's the one revived it and stardust memory guys, hardcore stuff, 1. Overboosting, 2. w/ oversized equips 3. More booster and oversized equips And also G00 and GW. But, that's from someone talking who had no model kits.

By stardust memories do you mean the Dendrobium?

Somewhat related image

I wonder if you don't really know GP-03. Thanks for the pic. Oh, for the caption maker, I don't mean revival to be exact or just used the word wrong, I should've wrote basis of idea

I hoped they put bad guys on G00 in level of the main guys, as seeing the last episode, they seem to be mech dependant. I wish there's GW/G00 crossover.

Nah I know about it though sometimes I might confuse it with Stamen instead of Dendrobium. And the image doesn't relate to your previous post, its just kinda related and I just post it for some laugh, no harm intended. I understand what you are trying to say so don't worry.

About the bad guys in 00 I'm sure they will considering one of them is a pyscho who only lives for battle and another one have god complex. Anyway did anyone kinda notice the relation between Amuro Ray and Ribbons Almark?