GUNDAM - 'Nuff Said

Of the many things that have followed me through my childhood, the two things that Japan has contributed to my life has been Dragonball and Gundam. Dragonball will be saved for another time, as it is my favorite anime and requires its own post. Gundams also require their own place, because its awesome. What young boy wouldn't like watching robots, guns and explosions.

My most favorite gundam of all is Wing Zero Custom. It was cool back then, its still cool now. The main character was an emotionless guy (reminds me of someone...) with an awesome gundam. Yes, his rifles are just as big as the gundam itself, its that awesome. The Gundam Wing series was from my childhood, and it was awesome. Then came the new generation.

Freedom Gundam. The Gundam Seed series that not only brought Gundams back into my life, but in HD. Look similar to Wing Zero, but thats just because both were awesome and blew stuff up. Can't do much better than that.

If you have spare time, its definitely a good investment to spend a few hours watching the series, because its not just some fanboy robots blowing each other up and peace occurring at the end because tahts the way it should be. Instead, it develops intelligently, utilizing possible scenarios that we ourselves may face in the near future. Sure maybe not big gundams and stuff, but there are political, racial, and even religious values that can be commented on, though some may be more apparent than others. It also helps to have awesome looking robot blowing each other up on a consistent basis. Transformers had the main characters fighting each other, and once in a while a main character dies. In Gundam, its not a question of if a character dies, btu when. It just adds to the series itself.

And of course, Kampfer. He just screams explosives with the bazookas on his back, primary shotgun, mini backup shotgun, explosive javelin thingies.

This leads us to the next series of Gundam, Gundam 00. More political implications, more explosives, more awesomeness. ***Spoiler***Spends an entire first season basically using a bunch of primary characters only to kill them off just to lead up to the second season showing the actual Gundam 00

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