i have been watching the original Gundam from 1980 and the series is suprisingly dope. gundam always had great robot designs and thats what i like it for but the show is suprisingly well put together for what i would have otherwise considered a kids show. the characters, altho sometimes cheesy, are well developed and feel 3 dimensional. Amuro becomes strained of constantly piloting the gundam episode after episode and it is evocative of Neon Genesis Evangalion, a show which took itself much more seriously. The struggle of the villains is spelled out and their losses and tragedies are expressed equally on the screen. One villains rise through the ranks and romantic struggle is built up over 6 episodes before he dies a sick death eating the blade of the gundam and one hundred million frigging bullets from the good guys. There are struggles from characters on all levels from leaders to soldiers to civilians, and makes it more fleshed out for a show that might otherwise seem like a stretched out toy commercial, as in Voltron. And there is a significant level of detail to the military strategy, more than a show even /needs/ to have, akin to Attack on Titan. The show is very well drawn, especially technically, but when fight scenes intensify and shit starts to hit the fan the animation breaks down into sketchy unfinished drawings, the pencil becomes apparent and feels very expressive for a show of this time and genre. This is something that is lost in modern anime and animation that are more reliant on computer animation. that hand-made human feeling is glossed over with photoshop gradients and flash-like smoothness of animation. All the later Gundam series have much cooler robot designs but I dont recall the storytelling or visual styles and moods being so cool. the raw human touch takes it from being a typical kids show and turns it totally badass.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:34:36 +0000
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