Gundam Wing G-Unit / The Last Outpost

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Alright, it's OP and it's story time /m/!

Back when I was in Junior High, I had to participate in the school science fair. Like the nerd I am, I really enjoyed it and usually placed top 3 every year (mostly first). The top 3 students from each grade could then participate in the State Science Fair. The State Science Fair was fun at times, I even think I placed 2nd one year, but it was really boring! You had to sit all day in a metal chair with nothing to do. 80% of the time you just sat there bored trying to kill time, but ocasionally a judge would walk up and you would have to give your rehearsed spiel about what your project was, answer a few questions, and then it was back to the bordom.

I would try to kill the time by talking with the other kids around me, drawing, playing a hand-held game for as long as the battery lasted, and reading comics and manga. Knowing that the next State Science Fair I would have to attend was coming up my parents took me out on the town to find something to occupy myself. We visited the local Bookmans (a used bookstore) to find some comics or manga. While there I found all 3 volumes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Last Outpost, the Tokyopop printing of Gundam Wing G-Unit. At the time I was a budding Gundam fan. I watched re-runs of G Gundam, occasionally watch SD Gundam Force, and had a complete dvd set of Gundam SEED & SEED Destiny. It was crap but I still enjoyed it. These manga volumes to me were pretty rare. You hardly ever find Gundam on american manga shelves, at least back then they were, so I jumped on the chance to get them. The manga saved me at that convention. It was perfect. The volumes made the time fly while I waited, and it was nice to a complete Gundam story, beginning, middle, and end, all in a nice quick to read package. There were even gag 4 panel comics about all the different characters from this story and past gundam series aswell.

To Be Continued...

>>15249563
It's basically a UC side-story with AC MS designs. I love it.

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>>15249650
Cont.

I still have the mangas to this day. In fact, I just read them last night and surprisingly they're just as good as I remembered them. Sure the story wasn't the best and most original Gundam story I've ever read, but it was still great. Far better than the mediocrity that was Gundam Wing. It was also refreshing to enjoy an entire Gundam story in a single night rather than binge 50 episodes or 7 hour and a half long movies.

I also feel kind of bad that this story has kind of been forgoten. It had five HG kits on release. Had playable characters in Battle Assault and SD G Generation. In recent years they came out with Roboit Spirits figures of Gundam Geminass 01 & 02, and from what I hear they even had a pretty lengthy cameo in Gundam EXA. Also a cameo from the Geminass 01 in GBF that got jobbed imemdiatly, but that's about it. It would be nice if they came out with updated kits for what we got and even kits for the other cool suits that got the short end of the stick, like Gundam Burnlapius.

In conclusion, what does /m/ think of G-Unit / The Last Outpost. Have you heard of it before? If you did, what did you think of it? Does it deseve more recognition? Love it? Hate it? Anything! I wanna know! I hope my story was slightly interesting. Keep being awesome /m/!

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>>15249703
I know right?! Thinking about it now, it really did condense everything that made UC good into a small package and put it in the AC universe. Also love all the new ms designs. I like every Gundam in this series better than the Gundams in normal Gundam Wing. Except maybe Heavyarms Kai EW.