THE AESTHETIC. THE CLOUT. THE SHEER FASHION CHOPS ON THIS MAN. im wowed

A Gundam Watch Thread

://////// amuro pls dont break quarantine

hey im starting to think that uhhhh War might be... Bad?

haha lmao forget about war, look at this Cool Robot!!!

HEY THIS WHIPS ASS THO THE ROBIT CUT THE OTHER ROBIT IN HALF HAMBURGER STYLE

damn right boi you SHOULD be breaking a sweat, you just stole a robit and killed like 5 people as well as causing major damadge to your community infrastructure, putting everyone you know at risk. not to mention the escalation in military aggression your actions will appear to re

LOOK AT THE STYLE I MEAN WOW

everyone: AMURO GET OUT OF THE ROBOT
this guy: no, we will make the child fight

the children in this show are so fucking cute im going to cry

Thats it thats the entire show huh

NOOOOO HTYEYVE BEEN INDOSCRITNATED INTO THE ETERNAL WAR MACHINE (and i dont mean the Big Robits i mean War As An Institution) NOOOOOOOOOOO YOURE ONLY 5 YEARS OLDD NOOO

Baby get Costume Change tho

mood

instead of Worm On A String, consider:

robits onna strin g

I love him SO MUCH

Amuro, about to burn up in Earth's athmosphere because he took a wrong turn: *calmly reads the gundam instruction manual*

THE INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO COVER WITH CLINGWRAP AND LEAVE TO CHILL FOR 20 MINUTES?

hell yeah another extremely cool and sexy character to be enjoyed and appreciated by me, Sarah

on the first eipisode of this show I watched the OP and was like "ehhh this is a one I can skip" AND YET here I am, 6 episodes later, doing the disco dance moves alongside the robits because actually i was wrong and this slaps

THEYRRE BOYFRIEDNNS?

take a fucking sip, arnold

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OH SHITT BABY BBOY GO SICKO MODE

oh shitt baby boy emotionaly disnant T^T

pfft fuckin evangelion ripoff, much? ugh

EYYYYY He's havin a 'char

(and i realise this only works in my accent, in which Char and Shower, rhyme perfectly. Rip to all you other accents but im different)

Colin @padgettish reading this thread

THEYRE HANGING OUT HAVING TEATIME TOGETHER AAA

take a fucking sip, Amal

he is jj... he is jjust lyin' there......

Y E E T

I do not think i have yet mentioned how much I fucking love this little orb robit. I would die for them

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BABY BOY HAVING A NORMAL ONE HUH

oh HELL YEAH garma looking FRESH

oh no

I just realised........ Garma is........... lorenz firemblem

T^T
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These guys are so fucking married

BABY IS ANGY

Hey i was gonna make a tweet about how everyone should stop being mean to baby because baby has Trauma but actually?

hey Fuck this Guy LET FRAU BOGET INTHE ROBOT

look at you u funky lil lesbian

Char when he finds out the gundam is being piloted by a literal actual Child

THE BOYS ARE DRANKIN

and Thats the Tea

THEYRE PARKING THE BIG SHIP IN A BASEBALL STADUIM

Big Boy get a hug!

"char where are you going"
"out"

another thing i've still not mentioned is how much i LOVE the design of the Big Purple ship. She's so round. I love her

He's doing Praxis!!!!!

HEY REMEMBER ONE TWEET AGO IN THIS THREAD WHEN I SAID HOW MUCH I LOVE THE BIG PURPLE SHIP

FUCK this show fucking how fucking dare they kill off my best purple boy iM FUCKING LIVID

Big Same, Kid. I also watch this show in a horrified daze with my mouth half open because every other episode its "Oh My Fuck, They Just Did That"

Me:

Taking a break from Gundam because of ...reasons, and I've decided to warch the rest of the Sharpe films because FOR SOME REASON im in the mood for Napoleonic War period dramas

Lets see if Sean Bean lives this time (spoiler alert: there's 10 Sharpe movies)

after a 3 day decompression period (during which I've started building my own Gundam IRL) I'm ready to wtart watching this show again.,.

we are ELEVEN episodes in and this is the first time we are given ANY information about the "antagonists".

It fucking RULES, tbh. The Chaos.

THIS IS WHAT MY HOUSE LOOKS LIKE AS WELL, GURL

BIG HAND! BIG HAND!

asdfghjkl i did NOT realise the guy in the tank top was Amuro

look at him, all casual, baby on his day off. im sure he'll have a nice day and nothing bad will happen.

Like, does baby KNOW he's doing war crimes? does he know theres people in there?? genuinely not sure here

I feel like Amuro is one of those guys who doesn't quite connect the fact that Burger comes from Cow

this shot rules and Char is the coolest charachter i have ever seen in Media, ever.

You construct intricate rituals to allow you to touch the Mobile Suits of other men

I literally said "who the fuck is that-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" out loud to myself

WH

ok never mind chars still outside

I thougt the show was doing a really cool and clever thing where Char's disguise is him taking Off his mask but, nope he's still outside

ah well there's still time i guess

im so glad there's an entire family of Zabis for me to mark out over

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THE BOYS OUT HERE DIGGING GRAVES HUH (censored for spoilers)

ASDFGHJKL HOLY FUCK the jaunty happy preview music played but THIS WAS THE IMAGE THEY FLASHED TO

I HAVE PHYSICAL WHIPLASH WHAT THE FUCK

bodily oscilating between "how the fuck am I gonna watch 43 episodes of this trauma show" and "this is the best trauma show i've ever seen"

PRESIDENT ZABI GET IPAD!

!!!! The robot is also an emotional support robot!!!

Unfortunately Amuro is probably beyond that now T^T

I...... have never been so emotuionally disturbed at seeing a Teen Eat a Sandwich holy shit

this show is INCREDIBLE at displaying the subtle ways in which Piloting a Giant Death Machine Made In Man's Likeness can fuck you up

The presence of these CHILDREN on a WAR SHIP and what that means etc is like, the core of this show tbh. I love these kids so much and anyone who finds them "annoying" needs to reconsider their shitty opinions. They are SO important to the Mood of the ship

Genuinely for real like actually really nearly started crying at this scene. this boy. Is So. Goddamn. Traumatized.

!!! They don't know what lightning is!!!!! omg!!! this also explains why everyone on white base is so afraid of it as welll - thats worldbuilding baybee!!!

HEY WHY IS THIS WATER THE BEST ANIMATED THING ON THIS ENTIRE SHOW?? look at these holy shit hokusai reture bitch

UMMM IM?? TAXIDERMY_FOX.JPG??

The journey we've taken from "I don't want to get in the robot because doing war crimes sucks" to "my brain is shutting down cognitive functions in order to protect me for when I inevitably have to get in the robot again" IS UHHHHHHHH ITS A LOT

I'm loving this show A Lot, but I DO watch it with my hands covering half my face, most of the time

Baby is going to have (is having?) a panic attack and So Am I

Didn't take any screencaps of the new extremely cool and sick new Zaku model because I was too busy worrying about Baby Boy

I SCREAMED look how F U C K I N G cool he looks

ok I know the show means it in like a "so thats's our enemy's ideaology" kinda of way but also ITS KIND OF PLAUSIBLE THAT AMURO GENUINELY DIDNT KNOW WHO THEY WERE FIGHTING UNTILL NOW

so, I tend to translate this show into Beam Saber mechanics in my head?

e.g in this episode Amuro had level 3 harm "traumatised" from the Icelina incident, pushed himself to fight, took Stress and ending up with another scar on top of the "Haunted" one he took a few episodes ago

anyway next episode is called coming home and amuro's mum is in it and im sure there won't be any negative consequences from having those TWO scars and returning, irrecovably changed, to a place that was once familiar to you, eh?

Beach Episode?! BEACH EPISODE!

[pointing and yelling] BABY BAby boy!

Amuro's face when he says this is SO HAPPY AAAHH

MY face when I realise he'd immediately assumed his ma was dead: T^T T^T

Amuro No Longer Baby Now He Does Violence

THEYRE DROPPING GUNDAM'S PANTS

Hi ma'am, we've been making your son do war crimes for the last 3 weeks so now he's indoctrinated into the Blood Space War amd the son you once knew is basically dead now

no problem T^T

this one was weirdly dark for a beach episode, hm.

WOW OKAY the federation really just took a massive bong rip and said "whatever, man, it'll be fun to watch the c h i l d r e n fight"

OH SHIT SO THEY'RE LITERALLY ACTUALLY DOING WAR CRIMES WITHIN THE TEXT OF THE SHOW

ugh i forgot Amuro has a crush on the ginger war crimes excuser lady

Surely this will not result in him doing more war crimes in order to impress her

surely no one could have predicted that it was a bad idea to let a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD pilot the giant terrifying DeaTh RoBOT

The ~aesthetick~ of this entire show WHIPS tho

Yet again, we return to how Amuro doesn't want to take human life but feels okay taking out a mobile suit - its almost like the point of Gundam is that having a Giant War Machine be shaped like a Human Person like, Means a Thing

but hey. cool robot tho amirite?

GUNDAM'S ULTIMATE WEAKNESS: THE LEGO BRICK

THEY CHILLIN'

asdfghjkl the zeon guys throught amuro did a good job so they drove over in a van to say Hi

What chill funky dudes

AGFKSHGJKASD

I Love You Ryu

WHY IS BABY ALLOWED TO HAVE A GUN HE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED IT LET ALONE ALLOWED TO ACT SO CONFIDENT WEILDING IT WHEN ITS ONE OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF HIS TRAUMA

werk it

"Pointless Quarrels" eh? WOnDER if this lil island episode is gonna allow amuro space to step outside the conflict he's been completely immersed un up untill now and see it as a "Pointless Quarrel". Will it make him think?

lmao he's 15 he doesn't have thoughts

oh OKAY he's just gonna spend the rest of the episode in his undies i guess do you think this means anything Do You Think the uniform he wears is also an Instrument of his Trauma do you think stripping him of it will do anythgikhgfcasdg

every time a real geographical location is mentioned my brain does Mr_krabs.png because IT FEELS SO WRONG

They're out of Salt, eh?

COINCIDENTALY, the preview last time said that Char was going to show up in this episode.... MAKES YOU THINK

(im thinkin' char's pretty salty. charred and salt grilled.)

Not Salty enough 2 fight

take a fuckin' SIP my guy

AW FUCK YEAH LOOK AT THIS HUBERT FIREMBLEM LOOKIN ASS DUDE I love him immediately

SAYLA'S GONE AND NICKED THE GUNDAM HELL YEAH LOVE THAT FOR HER, live to see a Woman Do Something in this show T_T

OH NO NOT HE FEETS!!!!!

after 16 episodes, we have an answer to the question of "what thos feets do?":

:/ :/ :// really not a fan of how this immediately happens the moment a woman pilots a mobile suit. Like yes, this was Always going to happen when someone other than Amuro piloted Gundam, but did they really have to word it that way??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

bruh if that HAD been Sayla's only motivation she'd be So Fucking Valid

hm. Think I relate a lot to Sayla just because her name sounds like Sarah when they say it in the sub

HELL YEAH MY DUDE!!!! GET THAT SALT!!!!

Starting to think that "char" is some kind of false name or alias @padgettish DO NOT INTERACT

Damn but Amuro is SO emotionally uninteligent (not a fault, just a feature of being 15) that I completely forgot he's a braingenious untill I saw him doing Battle Maths here

i'm so used to Yucky Things happening whenever a bra appears in an Anime that this scene shocked me with how normal it was.

Like he fixes a tap and is the regular amount of embarassed about seeing a tiddy. Absolutely no anime buffonery, guess they hadn't invented it in 1979

SAYLA CONCOCT A SNAFU!

SAYLA'S TRICK!

this shot slaps!

???this 10-second hallway fight scene contained dramatic tension fit to rival the famous Daredevil Hallway Fight Scene

it also confirms that sayla could beat the shit out of amuro which is v good to know

BITCH? A SCANT 3 EPISODES AGO YOU WERE GOIN' NUTTY WITH UNNECESARY GUNDAM USE ARE YOU JUST GONNA PRETEND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN????of course you are, you're 15 years old

HEY This show is NAILS its Teen portrayals like when i was 15 i needed to be constantly told that I was good at stuff

Also when I was 15 school gave me the keys to the theatre costume room and I burnt down the theatre. Teens aren't very responsible. he shouldnt have the robit

Char, I'm really sorry but. I think this bitch has you beat when it comes to aesthetic clout because DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

GUNDAM GET BLANKIE

just like episode 1 :thinkingaboutit:

asdfghjkl ok so this is what the subs say BUT THE DIALOGUE IN THE DUB IS
Sayla: we can't ignore amuro's constant immature behaviour
Ryu: he did violate every rule in the book and he shouldn't be rewarded for that

FUCKING GET HIS ASS RYU

oKAY this composition is... INTERESTING....

its good I just wasn't expecting constructivist painting to appear in my robot anime

it KEEPS HAPPENING? I LOVE IT????

"USE YOUR TURN SIGNAL AMURO GODDAMNIT"

"tHAtS NoT YouR TuRn SiGnaL AMURO"

Frau Bo GRIMY with it this episode

Ok so i know zeon are like, fascists or whatever, but... The a e s t h e t i c...... THE AESTHETIC

LOOK at them

S T Y L I N G

Glamour Shots

Baby showing compassion 2 the fallen T^T

I'm #thinking he mighta learnt sth this episode

HOLY SHIT FRAU BO FUCK IT UP FUCK IT UP FUCKITUP YAS

hey WHY IS IT that every time Baby Boy eats food it's like, somehow the most visceral presentation of his Trauma that the show has to offer???

See also
-that one time with the tomato
-that one time in the cafeteria
-that one time with the sandwiches

why THIS motif...

Me and my wife we are at the pub one day and we see the most adorable little boy-child. my wife says to me let us adopt the adorable little boy-child i say yes dear for he is the sweetest little boy-child i have ever seen - but Oh No! Alas! He Has The Vibes Of A War Criminal!

HELL YEAH MIRAI'S GONNA DO A FLIP HELL YEHA

Look out he's got a knife!

IT WASNT A KNIFE JASDFGASF TNHIS IS THE SICKEST SHIT I EVER SEEN AAAAAA THERES TWO ROBOTS HAVIN A SWORDFIGHT AAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

"You're... Baby?!"

STUNT DAD STUNT DAD STUNT DAD STUNT DAD

"Amuro Regrets This"

just wana take a second to emphasise that I LOVE how much of a Wife Guy Ramba Ral is

Wife Guy and also "Friendly but Canny Dad" - The Dynamics between him and Amuro are *cheffs kiss* excellent

Wanna take a second Second to emphasise just hoW SICK THE ROBOT FIGHT AT THE END OF THIS EPSODE WAS HOLY SHIT I watched the whole thing with my mouth hanging fully open in awe

and then the scene after that my was mouth open in "Oh....nNo....hhh"

once day i'll close my mouth

MIRAI NO!!!

I have a chip in my front tooth from doing EXACTLY this

omg these CUSHIONS

The grown ups* are having a sleepover on the bridge!! They're so chill!!

*everything is relative

take a fucking sip ambrose

Why do I get the feeling mobile suit gundam is going to end up like
"The Tale of Amuro Ray: From Baby to Bastard in 43 episodes"

Look at him hes thirsty for blood

ALSO its v interesting how Baby seems to know what the enemys plans are, just like Char was in the early episoides

You LOVE TO SEE IT
You love to see Sayla in the ROBIT
You love to see Sayla in the Robit do a sick HEADSHOT
You love to see babyboy finaly drinking his Women Respecting JUICE

yet again, I say, These toddlers are THE most important characters in the show

Gundam is Simultaneously:

1. BiG FRIENd
2. the absolute most terrifying weapon that i am extremely scared of holy fuck it can just koolaidman into ur house and kill u at aNY TIME

well, looks like episode 20 is another episode of Gundam where no one died and the cycle of escalating revenge doesn't continue to cyclically escalate! Goodnight gamers!

Ryu is the onNLY one with ANY emotional inteligence on this ship like "jUST TALK TO YOUR SHIPMATES AND WORK OUT YOUR ISSUES mmmMMY GOD"

idk what it means here that ryu is a)fat, b)black, and c)the only one with any sense. He really does carry this entire show in his back huh.

[wipes away a single tear] baby boy is becoming less of an idiot

H-

god these kids really have never known how warfare is supposed to go, the federation has basically abandoned them, and now u can just throw anything at them and they're like "okayl!"

V. interested to know how shit will go when they have to try and reintergrate back into society

Y E E T

i will use these later to make a Fun Meme

T-T

asdfghjkl i feel bad for laughing at this but its really funny WHY IS THE CHAIR UP THAT HIGH IN THE FIRST PLACE

I! Love! these! casual washing scenes! I love the casual funny parts of this show! The Children are The Most ImpoRTANT CHARCTERS IN THIS SHOW!!!

Graphic Design IS this show's passion i love these lil compositions

J A Y S I S FECKING chRIST THATS A ROUGH ONE HOLY SHIT

hey this guys been onscreen for 30 seconds and I already hate his guts

Thats the power of a cigar + RP voice (and yes, I switched to the dub, its a good translation)

Im gonna be generous to the show here and say that this is an interesting power struggle between Sayla, brash and daring, and Mirai, who is depicted as the responsible motherly on this ship. Could still be called a catfight between two struggling women tho. Ur on Thin ice, gundam

You know what you love to see? 20 episodes of XP, and Amuro levelling up to being an extremely competent pilot.

Look at him, he's now framed in a similar way to how Char was intruduced to us. Would love to see them meet again. when will they meet again. please. im begging u

me 10 mins ago: [sarcastically] wrow I sure hope amuro doesn't beef it this episode doing something stupid because he has a crush on matilda
me now: [being smug]

what if....... they were in lesbians....... with each other

This is a Kai appreciation post! RT to appreciate Kai, the most relateable character in the show!

HAROOOOO NOOOO NOOOOOOOO DONT KICK THEMMMMMMM

Babyboy building Haro you LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!!

Salya get pilot outfit YOU LOVE TO SEE IT!!!

Frau Bo get promoted to the Sayla Chair YOU LOVE!!! TO SEE IT!!!

This Guy has

a) red spikes on his helmet
b) an OUTRAGEOUS southern(?) american accent

10/10 love him hope nothing bad happens to him like has happened to every single other charachter i've proclaimed affection for

So these new mobile suits have cool jets in their feets that makes them move like they're on roller skates
and
so
HEY S
so
SSO,
CAN THERE BE A GUNDAM STAGE MUSICAL AND CAN IT BE IN THE STYLE OF STARLIGHT EXPRESS

Every explosion in this show is drawn in excrutiatingly gorgeous meticulous detail

Do you think this means anything?
Do You Think This Means Anything?

BABYBOY DISPLAY HYPERCOMPETENCY!!!!!!!! IM MARKING OUT!!!

LOOK AT HARO! HARO IS SALUTING WITH THEIR LIL FLAPPIES!!!! I LOVE HARO SO MUCH wonder who built it

HMMM WHITE BASE ABOUT TO JOIN UP WITH THE REST OF THE FEDDIE FORCES AFTER HAVING BEEN ABANDONED AND FORCED TO DEVELOP INTO AN ELITE TEEN KILLSQUAD (allow me to clarify thats a killsquad made OF teens, not FOR teens) HOW WILL THEY CHALLENCE EARTHS PRECONCEPTIONS OF WAR!!!! !!!! !!

soon.... I will watch.... mobile suit gundaM EPISODE TWENTY SIX:

oh GREAT babyboy is now decorating the inside of Gundam's cockpit with PICTURES of his fallen COMRADES fuck this T-T

Are? Are all th- ARE ALL THE ZEON TROOP UNITS NAMED AFTER FOOD?????????!??!????????????????? they better be

FINALLY, someone with some goddamn sense on this show. thanks Hubert Firemblem.

Neither Sayla nor Amuro have ever obeyed an order in their whole entire lives and they aren't about to start now

"Ooh, this is the first time Amuro has interacted with the rest of the Federation army, I wonder how it will go?"
WELL Folks, pretty bad!

lmao this isn's a war with Grey areas this is a war where literally everyone propelling it sucks.
Which.... is All war, tbf

The compositions in this show absolutely Floor me every time, they work so fucking well

Antarctic Treaty: hey no hydrogen bombs*
M'Qve: nuclear warfare go brrrrr

*INTERSTING NOTE the dub calls it a thermonuclear missile whilst the subs straight up say Hydrogen bombs, & I think if I didnt have the subs on i just mightve missed that theyre using nuclear weapons now

HOLY FUCK THE MISSILE MUST BE LIKE 100 METERS LONG WHAT THE SHIT ITS LIKE THE SIZE OF A SKYSCRAPER

I would like to know if there's an in-text reason white base gets nice blue and pink uniforms while the rest of the army has beige ones.

At first I thought it was a rank thing but I've literally not seen a single non-beige uniform outside of white base.......

hhhHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEE I WANT TO SEE M>Y BASTARD MAN HERE HE COMES I WANT TOS EE MY BASTARD MAAN HEREHECOMESS

hEY! THATS ME! IM THERE!

:poggers: :poggers: :poggers:

IM MARKING THE FUCK OUT WHATS IT GONNA BE LIKE I CANT BELIEVE THE CHAR RETURNS EPISODE IS OFF TO NORTHERN IRELAND WHY DID THEY PICK NORTHERN IRELAND IN AN ANIME MADE IN 1979 INVOLVING A COMPLEX DECOLONIAL CONFLICT OOOOHHAAH