What sparked your fascination with Gundam?

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Read some seed destiny porn, snowballed from there

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>>14203183
Stardust Memory

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>>14203202
Which one(s), out of curiosity?

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>Was a kid in the 90's
>Wing came on
>boring as fuck
>got into shonens (mostly bleach)
>grew out of it
>watch 00 when it was airing
>eventually go back and watch Wing/SEED
>eventually tackle UC and all the OVA's
>currently reading Gundam Manga's

Basically it was 00. If Wing hadn't been my first exposure I'd have got into the series sooner.

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>>14203220
lots but this one came to mind
http://exhentai.org/g/630737/d96d88b11f/

but this ain't a porn thread, so no more from me

>>14203234
>snapshit thread
>worth preserving
Kek, just post whatever you want.

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>>14203183
seeing this magnificent bastard after school everyday on Toonami

and Sandrock and Heavyarms II are still among my most favorite mobile suits despite only liking Wing out of nostalgia these days

>>14203220
Why is she trying to eat her own dialogue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpneRK5dto

I found this on accident. started watching G Generation attack videos. watched a couple series...then I found the then-new G Generation World.

I...fell in love with the franchise and it's MSV.

Watched Wing back in the day.
Buddy had some gunpla.
Thought I might as well check out the rest of Gundam.

Stuck around because of the MS designs.

Cosmic Era got me into the franchise (I was a kid back then, okay).

0079, honestly.

Endless Waltz on Toonami
I actually missed the original runs of Gundam Wing, but EW looked really fucking cool compared to any other animated program on TV at the time. The Toonami broadcast of 0079 afterwards was my first real foray into Gundam

>>14203231
>Wing came on
>boring as fuck
In my case, Wing and Seed made me stay away from the franchise (mecha in general perhaps) until 2010. when I first played this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg3FSDZGuJI
The plot looked "surprisingly" interesting, so I went back and watched UC. And now I'm here, watched all Mazingers, Getters, Tomino shows etc.

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>>14203503
>Cosmic Era

0079

>>14203183
08th MS Team and 0080

Four words

JUST
WILD
BEAT
COMMUNICATION

Gundam Wing got me interested in it, then I watched Mobile Suit Gundam on cartoon network and fell in love with it. In fact, it was probably the Guncannon that really defined my love for Gundam as a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing.

Wing in the 90's, still love it for its insanity.

Bought Gundam Battle Assault when it came out in the U.S. and was fucking hooked by all the mecha it featured. I was entirely confused as a child with no access to the internet, much less with the convoluted story line that the game made up.

Eventually, Toonami showed 0079 and it was all history from there.

>>14203183
Gundam X truly involved me despite finishing 0079 and 00

>>14203529
This was sadly the case for me too. I'd watched a few episodes of Wang but did not get hooked.

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>>14203231
>>14203523
Similar case here though I really liked Wing and consider 00 to be my favorite. It was easy to digest and the story is compact. Went to watch SEED/Destiny and got burned. Enjoyed Stargazer though.

Before diving into UC I was playing DW:Gundam 2 a whole lot too. Had like 500 hours into it. I couldn't be bothered with 3 and Reborn after that.

With all that said however I don't consider myself a huge Gundam fan, or at least not a proper one. I like the designs sure but I mostly consider Gundams to be disposable war-machines and not the "extensions of your body and soul" or whatever the fuck. Also I don't collect and build models nor did I watch Gundam Build Fighters. Those are just toys fighting, what's the point? My friend said I'm missing the point of it all.

U.C Climax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GYTY388Uw

>>14203183
>>14203231
I always wanted to see Wing, but it never seemed to be on when I was watching TV. So when I got into anime I started looking for it, found it, thought "Gundamnium? That's way too stupid, that can't be it." And kept looking. I remembered a bit I'd seen where someone mentioned a 'Gundam 0', and accidently found the recently aired 00. I realised pretty quick that it wasn't the right one, but I was enjoying it enough to keep watching anyway. And that was that.

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>>14203771
I remember being excited for that game when I was in HS back when I had a PS2 and the prospect of this coming to the states was exciting, though it never happened.

I played Federation vs Zeon a lot after watching First Gundam on Toonami. I saw Wing, but First Gundam really hit me.

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>>14203183
Gundam Assault Survive.
I'd been playing Macross Ultimate Frontier for a couple of years (Macross fan from WAY back) and then Macross Triangle Frontier.
When I heard that Gundam Battle Universe and Gundam Assault Survive used the same game engine, I downloaded the newer of the two and basically just thought of it as new missions for the same game. As I'd really liked the way that MTF/MUF walked through the story of the entire franchise, I thought that GAS would be a good basic introduction to Gundam in the form of a game I already liked.
At this point, I should add, I thought that all Gundam was scream-what-you're-doing super robot stuff because of an inaccurate memory from high school. Somebody showed me an episode of some anime where the giant robot had a little dojo room inside it where the "pilot" did martial arts and the robot copied what he did and I thought it was incredibly stupid. No, it wasn't G-Gundam, the guy was in a traditional white karate gi in a bamboo-and-paper room inside the robot and this was like three years before G-Gundam was made. No idea what it actually was, but that's irrelevant.

So I came to /m/ and said that I liked old Macross but not song energy and pentagram lasers and asked what the least "scream-what-you're-doing" entry in Gundam was, and I was told to watch 0080: War In The Pocket.

Actually, 0080 started my obsession with Zaku. After watching 0080 I watched 00, and between Bernie, Louise, and the Flag Fighters I was thinking of Gundams as terrible cursed weapons that should not exist. It wasn't until I watched G-Gundam that I really went all FUCK YEAH, GUNDAMS!

Then I gave Mobile Suit Gundam a chance, and that completely blew everything out of the water, even wrecking my long-time appreciation of Super Dimension Fortress Macross when I saw how much of what I liked about Macross had been done earlier and much better by Gundam.

When I was a kid, I really liked watching G Gundam on Toonami, but it didn't really go past that.

In college I made friends with a guy that made gunpla models which got me interested in the series again. Started watching from 0079 and watched about 7 or 8 series over the course of like 2 months.

>>14203762
>Those are just toys fighting, what's the point?
They've always been "just cartoons fighting". The fights in GBF were pretty bad-ass. The best part of GBF was seeing a bunch of obscure MSV's finally get animated, plus the fact that the premise made the "1-3 fights per episode" feel perfectly natural. It's all about the mechaporn, not the story.

The story was cute, and the characters were likeable, but it wasn't even trying to be any kind of engaging drama, just the framework for a bunch of really kick-ass fights.

Watched wing when I was in high school. Cool cartoon about robots in space triggered something. Few years later I discovered anime. Watched wing/Seed/Destiny when I had my finals. Snowballed from there

>>14203803
I can't take it seriously because they're toys. Feels like Bay Blade. I need proper cockpits, war, death and internal conflicts to appreciate the mecha porn, screw plastic. I didn't watch G Gundam either because it's Super Robot.

I like Rinko though.

>>14203817
Why does something have to be taken seriously to enjoy it? There's this genre called comedy that isn't taken serious.

>>14203817
>didn't watch it
>telling me what it "feels" like
>i need war, death
>didn't watch G Gundam
Okay, well...
I can't take you seriously because they're cartoons. I need informed opinions, open-mindedness, and childlike wonderment to appreciate giant robot fans, screw SRS BSNS.

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Saw this at a store when I was a kid. Didn't buy it unfortunately, but I became a /m/an that day.

>>14203183
Years of priming from Toonami with G/Wing.

But there was this commercial for 0080 on one of the Wing VHS that ended with the shot of the Hygogg slinging a rocket from its arm that really got me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Bt4g6AP2A

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>>14203854
I watched like two episodes and I didn't like it. It's not for me. I'm not calling it bad mind you, I'm just saying that it doesn't appeal to me.

I didn't want to come across as edgy either.

>>14203183
My parents made damn sure I grew up loving mecha, so I just naturally picked up Gundam as one of the many robot shows I followed.

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Gundam wing on cartoon network.

then G gundam and seeing a burning gundam model at my friends house got me into models.

after 100 years IBO has got me back into it.

>>14204058
>wing
>g
>IBO
Toonamifags confirmed for having the shittiest taste.

>>14204103
you also forgot to complain about tumblr.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNj5UaE6SAc
wing came out in 2001 so my 70's mecha enthusiast uncle bought me a toy model of the wing gundam
I didn't even watch the show/liked robots then
had forgot about its existence then I found it in a box like 2 years ago and I started watched wing then 00 then the UC

Gundam Wing, babby's first gendum in Canada
specifically Heavyarms

I vaguely remember watching bits and pieces of Wing, but the original series when it was airing on Toonami is what sparked my interest. That and the MSIA line that came out in stores at the same time. I had to buy the rest of the series on VHS so I could see it to the end.

From there it was 08th MS Team, 0080 recordings from late night airings, Char's Counterattack and 0083 on Saturdays when those series came out along with MSG: Federation vs Zeon & Zeonic Front. Watched G too, although it felt like they only showed it because DBZ had been such a homerun. For whatever reason, that made me resent it for years.

SEED too when that came on, but even then Kira felt like a crappier version of Amuro. I kind of fell off the Gundam train for a few years while my interests shifted from robots to cute jr high school girls and GTA. I got back into it in 2010 when I found /m/ but everything I remembered fit like a glove. I've been on /m/ ever since.

>>14203183
Seeing Heavy Arms Gundam.

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>>14204209
>>14204170
>>14203455
>Heavy Arms
my boys

G-Saviour

Bought a bootleg VHS copy from a Florida import store, loved and went back to get a copy of the third MSG movie and a HG RX-78

>>14203817
You aren't supposed to take it seriously dingus.

You watch GBF as a comedy tribute to the franchise. For the Easter eggs and 4th wall breaks. To see units from different series facing off. Fellini.

This only applies to the first season though. Avoid TRY like the plague.

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I thought G and Wing were really cool when I watched them on TV. I think there was an SD gundam show on TV as well, but I can't remember anything about it. Was there something like that that aired on toonami or something?

>>14203183
Seeing the advert for Wing on Toonami. Previously I'd only never seen military sci-fi anime and so the idea of a sci-fi war cartoon blew my mind as a child.

The MSG trilogy VHSs were a great value for a poor college kid.

Otaku no Video and various writings made it clear that Gundam was a big deal.
So I got a fansub of CCA then the first few eps of Wing, then I got the AnimeVillage vhs subs of the First movies

>>14203183
Best friend is a huge Gundam fan. Has shelf after shelf of models from over the years.

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I loved the shit out of this as a kid. Still quite fond of it explicitly because of how cheesy it was.

G Gundam is my favorite series and there's nothing you can do about it

>>14204568
Yeah, when I rewatched it later it was the worst. I cringed so much with how I used to like it.

Gundam Wing on toonami got me into mecha, but I didn't start to like Gundam in particular until I saw Stardust Memory. When I look back on it, I can't see what I saw in Wing beside the music; the fights were retardedly, unrealistically one-sided.

BRIGHT YOU NOW

Played dynasty warriors Gundam 2

>Gundam Wing
>this is bretty good
>MOTHER FUCKING G GUNDAM!
>FUCK YES!
G Gundam is best Gundam.

Other shit was entertaining because giant robots are fucking cool.

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Rewatching G got me back in to the series and now i'm working my way through UC

Tokyopop's localisation of the G-Unit manga. It was in my local library. Then I ended up seeing SEED and spread further out.

I used to see episodes of Wing back on Toonami. But then Seed aired and that's when I got hooked and started watching all the others.

>>14204568
Yeah, SD Gundam Force

Force is awful, stuff like Sangokuden or Gaiden is much better

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SD Gundam musha kits. Was 10 or something. Didn't watch anime, didn't have much access to them, but the kits looked cool on the shelf and were cheap compared to western toys.

I don't really know. I watched Zeta one day, then stopped halfway since I figured I should watch 0079 first. I just finished Zeta the other day and I'm 8 episodes into ZZ now.

>>14203183
Growing up I really didn't care for giant robot series or even anime all that much, but later in high school best friend's gunpla piqued my interest, Kshatriya and Geara Zulu in particular. He slowly indoctrinated me with zeek propaganda and then finally lent me Zeta to watch on my own. It was a great escape from shitty family situation at the time, and I gradually gained a greater appreciation for mech desgins and the history/military philosophy aspect of the Universal Centruy. After 0083, there was no turning back.

>>14203183
I wanted to see if any of the sequels lived up to the original. They didn't

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>>14203183
>What sparked your fascination into Gundam?

This gaem

Damn, that was a good times

>tfw unkillable Amuro
>that many heat hawk strike only dent his armor a little

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it was this game

>>14203183
I wasn't much of a weeb until 2006. My friend got me into 00 when it was airing but didn't really enjoy it. Started from 0079 and worked my way through UC.

Never watched Wing or G on Toonami when I was a kid either. Really enjoyed Big O and Evangellyo at that age, though.

>>14209688
I still don't know how to unlock Kisama Yatsu

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>>14209709
Giant robots...

Wing certainly started things.

But it was just a mild fascination until I wound up catching 0079. It captivated me in a completely retarded way.

>>14209709

play vs mode and defeat them all

>>14203183
Gundam 0083, Gundam 08th MS Team, and Gundam 0080.
Then I watched Wing which was okay. Liked Heavy Arms and sorta liked Duo(I thought he was supposed to be Italian).

>>14203455
>Sandrock and Heavyarms
You could not have worse taste

Wing Zero > Wing > Altron > Epyon > Deathscythe Hell > Deathscythe > Shenlong > Tallgeese > Heavyarms > Sandrock

>>14210063
>Wing Zero > Wing
Please tell me you're referring to TV Zero and not those stupid feathers.
You've put Tallgeese below Deathscythe and Altron, so I'm assuming you have shit taste but I'll give you the opportunity to exonerate yourself by confirming Proto/TV Zero.

I used to borrow tapes from the library down the block, so I ended up watching 1980 Astro Boy and GaoGaiGar as a kid on my TV. And the rental near my grandma's had Robotech, so I watched some of that too.

Much later, having forgot about most of these, I saw Gundam 00. It just felt so cool, and I continued watching Gundams along with some other series.

Bought a Burning Gundam SD figure and a Wing Zero Custom SD kit as tiny babby, read a Robotech novel set as elementary school babby, played SDGO as teenage edgelord, started playing SRW, then fucking finally figured out that giant robots are really cool.

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Around 2012, my friends talked about it all the time and I watched them play a GGen game, and I guess I wanted to see what it was all about.

I never knew how much I loved giant robots until I saw Wing Zero and 00 Raiser after I watched them all starting from 0079. Now I buy plastic crack and love seeing eyes and visors light up along with missile barrages and V fins.

My library had the first volume of the 0079 Kondo manga that Viz put out, then I found volume 2 of the original tv show at Big Lots.

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>>14203183
Tallgeese.

>>14203183
When I was 7, I had a cheat magazine that included a strategy guide for the Federation campaign in Federation vs Zeon, and had a page showing all of the mobile suits.
When I was 17, I was downloading Dreamcast ISOs and I discovered that same game, and decided to give it a try.
When I was 18, I was modding my PSP, and I found Gundam Battle Universe. I decided to try it since I liked FvZ, and I got a completed save off of Gamefaqs so I could just free battle in it.
When I was 19, I decided to actually try playing the campaign, which made me interested in watching one of the shows. I went with 08th MS Team because I loved using the Ground-type Gundam the most in GBU. Then a week later, I saw a video that was all of the EXVS intros. That was when I decided to watch all of it, and I started going fucking crazy about Gundam soon after.

>>14203529
There is literally nothing wrong with Cosmic Era.

I'm seeing a lot of Wing mentions, I'm the same.

Years ago in high school I saw bits and pieces of Gundam Wing on Toonami UK, and got a buddy to burn me a copy of Endless Waltz. That kind of kicked off anime since then as I've watched dribs and drabs of other things.

It's only since last year I got into Gundam as I randomly came across a "Top 5 Gundam Battles" Youtube video which was pretty awesome.

So I watched 08th MS Team, then 0083, then 0080, then really fucking begrudgingly got through 0079, Origins, Thunderbolt, a few episodes of G Fighter, and half watched about half of Zeta.

I also have a newfound love of Gunpla, but haven't had much free time to dedicate to it.

>>14216062
Mein Nigga

Probably my first favorite mobile suit.

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>>14216077
>There is literally nothing wrong with Cosmic Era.

I played ZoE2 which sparked my interest in Mechas. Tried to get into Muv-Luv alternative but it was 2edgy. Eventually I found 00, not knowing anything about Gundam and hoped that it wasn't a sequel to a series already finished. Then I watched Build Fighters after researching Gundam more because it had superb animation and I've always liked shonen tournament shows. I got most of the references because I played Gundam Warriors Reborn

I wanted to download the first one but ended up getting Wing by mistake which was shit. But then I later watched 0079 and that was cool as shit so I watched all the rest of them except Seed, 00 and AGE

Not really fascinated by it but I enjoyed it a bit. Honestly it was those little MSiA figures that came out when Wing was airing. Damn fun little toys that made me want to see what the source was.

I got into it from Build fighters. Then snowballed from there to 00, IBO, AGE, and now I'll try and watch some Z.

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Somebody recommended Turn A on /wsr/ when I asked for 90's mecha anime. I was not disappointed.
>tfw no art of best mobile suit

Gundam kills brain cells
https://twitter.com/VSkrmbot/status/612893271086399488
https://twitter.com/VSkrmbot/status/612927167266029568

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>>14203183
super robot wars

I was into tactical rpgs and saw srw j and alpha and was intrigued. I was always interested in mecha but never was really into it. Watched Victory and Zeta started playing sdgo and i was gone mecha head since.

The original MSG and 08th MS Team when it was airing on Toonami, which I thought was fucking rad, and G Gundam was also great. Never liked G Gundam as much, though.
And there was Zoids, because I was like 9 when Toonami aired it and giant animal robots with rocket launchers on their backs was neat.

Also when my older brother showed me Armored Core on the PS1, which was fucking radical.

>>14216854
I really miss this game. There are no PC gundam games out there and this gave me something to stop my craving for Gundam. Now all I got is MSGO which is great but can't understand any of the moonrunes, so it's difficult to get a hung of it.

>>14216833
kekekekekeek Damn japanese and their arcades. Even though I understand their enthusiasm for fighting/hack-n-slash games. I am like this when I play them with friends (but not in public).

>>14209488
>Federation vs Zeon
My Spacenoid

I used to play this at my friend's house all the time when I was a kid. I haven't played a game since that captures the same terror of being a no name grunt fighting one of the aces.
>be federation pilot
>fighting in space
>suddenly the first notes of Meguriai
>a red Gelgoog appears
>YES MY SWEET, YES MY SWEETEST
>meanwhile you're getting your ass kicked

ROBOTS

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This game

I actually never watched any of the animes or read any of the mangas.

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>>14219189
I feel you man, I tried to play MSGO but not understanding anything makes it hard.

>>14203183
I always enjoyed mecha since i was a little kid thanks to KI in the snes(fulgore the best),dexter's lab, transformers and later on zoids and medabots. Evangelion was being aired back in highschool but dropped it right away.

What got me into gundam was playing a bunch of mech related games in highschool, the one with most impact being gundam vs next +. The Zeta was so awesome(i was "newtyping" my friends with hard reads so often they stopped playing the game) i had to watch from where it was from and then it snowballed into watching most of UC, followed by wing and G. Tried watching SEED but i couldnt handle it being so dull that i dropped it at episode 12, didnt even bother with destiny. Still have to watch turn A,00,victory and a few others.

>>14203183
One of the older kids in my neighbourhood was into Gundam and he'd talked about Wing and SEED with me because I'm the only one who watchs anime seriously.

Years later, I found out about 00 in one of the local anime mag. Then I watched it and everything snowballed from there.

At first I thought Exia was kinda ugly, but after watching a lot of Gundam it's actually really sexy.

>>14203183
Definitely Gundam Wing.

My gunpla fascination began elsewhere though.
My uncle had a Perfect Grade RX-78-2 in his room. It was really cool.

>>14216854
darkness pangure!!!!