Fellow Gundam fans, are you aware that the Gundam Official channel on YouTube started uploading the HD remaster of Gundam Wing? Do you miss your Boy Band Badasses and their Gaudy Gundam Goodiness? Do you miss one of the most Bright-Slap faces outside of the Universal Century timeline? (Relina, that means you.) Do you miss the brilliant magnificence that is Trieze Khrusrenada? Well wait no more! Here, for your convenience, is the lesser of the two Gundam shows released in 1995, now in glorious High Definition:
As of this post, there are only six episodes in the Playlist and they're adding three more a week. Once you're finished with the Universal Century shows and Iron-Blooded Orphans, come see what actually got briefly popular in North America due to airing on Toonami about 10 years ago- just before the anime crash. Yes, Endless Waltz is in there somewhere. Yes, this can be blamed (fairly or not) for the pretty boys of SEED/Age/00. Yes, this series would be improved with liberal employment of Bright Slaps.
But it had some good mecha designs, so I don't mind watching it again. Also, Treize's ranting against Mobile Dolls was prescient about today's talk about automating warfare and its ability to enable the feckless and cowardly to establish and sustain tyranny and despotism. That means that, for all its faults, this truly was a Gundam series that had something to think about for its audience- and done better than a lot of others approaching the subject.
Oh, and the OPs by TWO-MIX remain catchy fun songs- something else most Gundam shows lack.
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