Hey Guys! GaiaGaiyus here! Here on my Channel, we talk and Dissect Tomino's Lost Testament to Gundam in the form of "Gaia Gear" (1989-93)
For almost half my life, I've obssessed with mobile suit gundam and the dense history and lore that's interwoven throughout it's main timeline. I love this stuff so much, that I created this channel where I get to share and geek-out about all the cool stuff I find. I'm a sucker for the obscure and lost things in the fandom. With my channel's namesake being a symbol of that. The forgotten 1989-1993 hidden gundam sequel. "Gaia Gear". I try to post often and my series where I breakdown these obscure tales is ongoing.
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Sunrise constantly scraping the barrel of early UC and ignoring the rich sandbox of the later timeline has been one of the reasons I fell out of love with Gundam in recent years. Gaia Gear in contrast has always seemed incredibly interesting. I'd also like to see a story of what happened to Judau's newtypes at Proxima Centauri. How did their society develop? Are they now even more powerful as Newtypes? Do they still have some communication with Earth?
gundam shoudl really go into how fucking scary new typewould be to a non new type legit mind reading to moving thing mind reading seeing time also fucking moving something that big from retrograde orbit to controlling fucking decay itself after green meth gets made and syncs
Another explanation for the gundam mkII B-Type is that the Titans would of likely created an ample supply of gundam mkII spare parts. So if any breaks it can easily be fixed without any delays or problems however with the Titans defeat at the end of the Gryps war. These gundam mkII spare parts would of likely been thrown into so federation storage depo somewhere to collect dust. But with chars return and the threat of another war on the horizon and with the stock pile of gundam mkII parts gathering dust. Well it's not hard to believe the federation wouldn't use up those spare parts and cobbled together a couple handful of gundam mkII and refit them for ground combat.
The one thing I always did find annoying about Gundam is how many stories are so obscure and hard to find in English, especially due to the amount of games that are now hard to obtain, or untranslated
Kondo and Makoto Kobayashi are my favorite mech designers. I have a custom built rx-78 model designed by Kondo and a Nightingale ground type that is Kondo designed, it has interesting patters and a paint scheme of a ww2 tiger tank.
The skirt armor through me off a little bit for a moment, but I think I overall appreciate it. Mobile suits were built by many different factions just like cars are in the real world, so it’s always nice to see a different take on things. I can’t wait for sentinel’s finale and I’m looking forward to the project that comes after as well. The only thing that hurts is that the suits may be too obscured ever show up in GBO2. Despite the graphics being “ PS3 quality” (as some complain) the team does a very good job bringing the 3-D models to life. I’d honestly love to see the suits in this in action.
The story isn’t clear where the first chapter takes place (only that it takes place in the eastern tip of Scandinavia) however it mostly is supposed to be somewhere within the vicinity of finland, or the northeastern part of norway judging by the harsh arctic terrain that the base it located in. The story never seems to properly explain where the events take place in.
No, honestly, I kind of like the longer skirt armor. It’s very different, but it is static design. It’s nice to look at just because it’s so different.
This is an amazing telling of a hectic story! Honestly i quite like the crazy designs here, maybe they can do a twilight axis with 5-10 min ovas of each chapter.
Kondo prefer to have large front skirt as he thinks legs are historically too skinny and get hits especially for ground fight, hence the skirt to cover it, carf has its own armour hence does not goes downwards.
Hey @GaiaGaiyus I actually came up with lore for the Gundam Mk.II B-Type during your video. Here it is. The year is UC 0090. Six months have passed since the 1st Neo Zeon War ended with the deaths of Haman Karn and Glemy Toto. Thanks to the military aid of the AEUG, the Earth Federation has survived another near brush with complete collapse. However, as the Federation takes stock of the military assets from AEUG high ranking military officials are faced with the grim truth. The Federation is exhausted! Back to back conflicts have drained the Earth Federation of a vast majority of its economic wealth, material surplus, and especially its manpower pool. In addition to these issues the Federation must also deal with the Axis Zeon Remnants left behind by Haman during her speedy retreat to protect Side 3. The Federation needs a way to increase its military strength and quickly. It is this scramble for a new Ace in the hole that the Federation sees that it has a surplus of spare parts for the Gundam Mk II and Hyaku Shiki amongst the supplies it recieved from the AEUG. Using the Nemo Rimes as the base frame, the Federation has its engineers quickly use the surplus Gundam MkII and Hyaku Shiki parts to create the Gundam Mk II B-Type. The Gundam MkII B-type is a limited production model mobile suit built using surplus parts for the Gundam MkII and Hyaku Shiki added onto a modified Nemo Rimes frame. This makes the Gundam MkII B-type a descendant of the RX-79 Gundam Ground Type which was also made using surplus parts from the RX-78 line of mobile suits. Despite this pedigree, the RX-178B is a pale imitation of the unit it is masquerading as. Sporting a higher level of speed and agility due to the Hyaku Shiki parts, but at the cost of durability and protection because of the lesser armor of the Nemo Rimes compared to the original Gundam MkII makes the Gundam MkII B-Type a paper tiger meant to give off the image that the Federation military is stronger than it actually is. The RX-178B would see service from UC-0090 until UC-0092 with the Federation beginning to get back something resembling the production capabilities it had lost, and began producing new MS like the Rg-Z and the Jegan Kai. By the start of UC-0093 all remaining examples of the Gundam MkII B-type would end being mothballed for emergencies or broken down for parts to be used in other mobile suits. The Gundam MkII B-Type: paper tiger of the Earth Federation and a false declaration of strength towards the remnants of Axis Zeon.
The first time I came across Gaia Gear was in late 1989 with an issue of September '89 Newtype Magazine. The awesome artwork and apparent story (obviously a story, but I could and cannot read Japanese) got me instantly hooked. I immediately grabbed whatever Newtype magazine came into the comic shop from that point on. I know there was a radio play collection put together sometime in 1992 and in 1991, a company called BuildUp made a few limited 1/220 scale Gaia Gear kits.
Hellllllll yeah bro. Some of these alt timelines and oneshot mangas etc need more light shined on them. 0081 Saigon is One i really would like to know more about, and across the sky.
I know Kondo's mecha-design is not for everyone, but there's a certain clunky, tangible quality to it that is perfect for messy, boots on the ground stories like Revival of Zeon. Something about them always felt a bit more "real" and terrifying compared to a lot of other designers.
Well, I must say something that is a very good and unique story same thing for the MS designs they all look awesome and one day wouldn’t mind a model kit of them that would never happen, but you could wish either way the story is very good, but as you said, it’s kind of rapid pace but still good Probably my most favorite suit from this is the “ORX-005EX Sturm Jaeger” it reminds me of BIG-DUO from BIG-O for some reason with the gigantic hands/thrusters But the most surprising thing was the prototype Nu Gundam It was a prototype and pushing it to its limits did has consequences but the deaths are very much surprising and are very brutal. I love it and thank you by the way for the story
Maybe the refined Barzam. Since it has the arms and similar legs. But this story deliberately uses Mk ii’s. So the Nemo Rimes just feels the most comfortable as the proper suit these guys probably are in reality.
