First Gundam Explained in 16 minutes (Gundam ASAP) 

Once you get use to the old school animation and you understand the context were this serie was developed and release, this is the best Gundam ever.

Dude this is actually a great recap of the original trilogy! Thanks for putting this together!

I don't expect the plot to be this good, I can see why it expanded into a massive franchise

I love the OG and how the nostalgia kicks in, but I would kill for a shot for shot remake using modern techniques. Both Char and Amuros original voice actors are still alive, as well as Tomino of course. Seems like the perfect time since Gundam has blown up so much overseas

The first time I watched these movies was in the late 90s on cable and without subtitles, it was mind blowing at the time. The movie trilogy were good compilation but there are still parts of the series that I wish were included.

Char really was such a narrative icon. A villain, rival and deutaragonist all in one.

That part with Amuro and his mom always messes me up.

I always forget Ramba Ral is only 35, He looks like he should be in his 50's at least.

Amuro accidentally killing his soulmate while upbeat electric music plays in the background will never stop being funny to me

I have a headcanon that Gihren's betrayal of his father had more far reaching consequences just Kacilia killing him. I feel by killing alot of the Federation top brass with the Colony Laser it caused the more corrupt leaders in the Federation like Jamitov to be the ones higher in the ranks allowing him to take control and form the Titans.

i know a lot of the other gundam shows are supposed to be like a similar take on the original but man, Seed really took a lot more from the original than I realized.

The first UC Gundam I watched was the original series, not the movies. Still see why it spawned the whole franchise. The movies are superior for cutting out a lot of the fat, but the plot, characters, and overall themes are just so crisp even 40 years later.

Great synopsis. Very well done. You should summarize the various incarnations of shows. I would definitely watch that.

this was so helpful! I wached the movies years ago but never got around to zeta before now, but was completly lost on the plot. This was perfect to fill in the holes!

I hope they make gundam thunderbolt season 3. I’m caught up with the latest chapters that are translated. I hope we get more UC animes. Not a fan of build divers.

Great video. I needed this. The first thing I ever saw was the Origin. Which was fitting...and it was great. So I have been watching in order but I skipped the movies because they felt too slow. But I also needed to know certain things. I'm up to Zeta now and even though I'm watching in UC order it's still a unique experience because the multiple animation and music styles that each series takes on does NOT disrupt the consistent flow of the story and their characters. It didn't feel out of place to watch Thunderbolt and then Starsust memory even though they were created 20+ yrs apart.

Good job summarizing!

I refuse to believe Ramba Ral was only 35 lol

Now I finally understand the story and the background of the original gundam, thank you!

Thank you so much for this. Am I the only one that sees hints of Gundam with AOT? Like AOT was inspired by it.

You made me fall in love with this beautiful series... Thank you 🙏🥲

I mean, I can summarize the original Mobile Suit Gundam in 16 seconds: Get in the damn robot, Shin-er, Amuro! 😁

Very good summary of the 50+ episode show 😊

such good summarization I didn't event need to speed things up 1.75x xD

This was so good. You earned a sub. I watched the movies but I found them so slow that they took me weeks to finish and I had already forgotten so many things. This was a great refresher!

I am totally new to Gundam, just getting into it initially because I like the look of the Rouge Strike Gundam haha. Anyways, this is super helpful to me, thanks!

Gundam Seed must have been inspired by this early work, some story elements like Newtypes (Coordinators) and opening sequence of the new Gundam prototype (Heliopolis), to the aesthestics, like White Base (Archangel) and uniforms of Earth Federation.

Bro this is good well done!!! Really appreciate it! I always have loved the old-school Gundam UC series the most

I loved gundam seed. The base plot seems almost exact. Which I think is really cool.

Fantastic recap!

Watched the compilation films while high. While I enjoyed it, this video really helped me solidify some thing.

0:30 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Side 3 / Zeon already independent for nearly a decade? (Or maybe I'm using a different continuity, Japan doesn't really put weight on canon timelines like we do). The info I had was that Zeon asked for independence, and Terra gave it to them in a "now choke on it" maneuver -- it fully expected the economic disruption to ruin the fledgling state. It was basically Brexit in space, except externally inflicted.

That was a great sumarization! I really enjoyed your editing style

Excellently done. I need to rewatch the sections I missed as a kid

This was really well done! Ty for the recap!

Always loved the OG Gundam. The animation is outdated in most of the 50eps, but rewatching it after decades of UC feels refreshing. The one that started it all.

thanks for the upload. i cant sit still enough to read subtitles. So, this helps me understand the lore that Iron Blooded Orphans and Witch From Mercury are based on. I found both shows so good

Great summary! I was half way through the second movie and I just figured a summary would do the trick.

Awesome, just watched your other recaps yesterday and was hoping to see the original done too! I’ve watched the movies but I’m trying to get my friends into the newer stuff and 8 hours of 80s anime is a hard sell haha. You rock dude!

Now I know the story lol. Not all hero’s wear capes.

Great recap. Godlike ! thank you for this. Now i fully understand the story of first gundam. Just finished watching hathaway from netflix tho

Best Gundam series are: Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans

The background music is distracting, but your story is excellent.

Before, I hated the old animation and it makes me want to stop watching the old series but when i started to Understand the Plot of it and the story, I became a Universal Century fan and watched it all.

great summary!

I feel like I committed a great injustice by watching this and not committing to watching the series or movies. Even from this, I can see the story telling was stand-out incredible. Great video nonetheless

im sure it exists but i would love to see a slap compilation from all of the gundam series... they get me every time

Today, the 24th of July 2022 is the first time that I have actually watched any Gundam Series or even episode of any type, including even a recap, and I am over 40. I've known of the cool looking piloted robots and the huge cylindrical space habitats for decades, and also for many years I have read and heard that Gundam is military SciFi, delving into strategy, with the politics of intrigue, while also going deep into character development of the major characters, but even watching this video recap, I am amazed that it is actually so compelling.

nice recap, thanks for posting

Great video for this master piece 😍

Wow! Well that escalated! Great video!

Great video, but could you make the music even louder? I could still hear what you were saying.

Thanks a lot for the Gundam Recap!!!!

I appreciated the slap counter.

I enjoyed watching each of the Gundam movies chars counter attack was very awesome as well Hathaway's movie.😎👍

This is an excellent video!

I have a copy of 1 & 3, but not 2 so I must thank you for the summary of said movie; I need to find one to complete the trilogy (format irrelevant)

Wonder whether the series or the movie is canon, because m'quve is part of CDA,would like an explanation.love this video btw,very nicely put together 👍

Overall pretty good. The reason Amaro took the Gundam was b/c he was the only one with any knowledge on how to use it. Also, i never got the impression that LaLa and Amaro were sole mates, just bonded through their new type connection. Char hadn't really developed this yet.

The old man in the hospital bed looks like the CEO of Anaheim electronics!!???

The gba game made it kinda dark like I never was paying attention but when I did it was dark

What do you think about the movie version's rearranging of the Texas colony events? I always was thrown off by that because in all 0079 media, except the movie version, the Texas event happens after Solomon.

This story was ahead of its time.

Thanks for making this. I tried to watch this trilogy but cannot finish the 2nd one. I just finised the origin series.

This was a good refresher before I watched Zeta Gundam.

Q: if you were tasked with writing the Legendary/Sunrise collaboration live action gundam movie with Netflix... what would you portray? IMHO, I'd come up with a novel universe for the movie that's as close as i can get to an updated UC gundam universe, complete with minovski physics, the sides, overpopulation and newtypes... but condense the plot almost like 0080 meets f91, but with a basic gundam plot: latent newtype angsty kid whose parents work on the gundam project gets thrust into the horrors of war and because of his background in gaming amd robotics at his high school he pilots the new prototype to victory... enter a char character to drive political intrigue. But make the style like Interstellar meets "The Creator". Mayve you could introduce something like a psychoframe, and mind based piloting or the bio-computer, to explain how fast the protagonist learns, meanwhile the enemy has a plan to drop a colony and must be stopped and theyre piloting a powerful mobile armor with funnels, but the hero wins by "feeling" them and or communicating with an Ally to do a coordinated attack... but in the process they "understand" an enemy who then dies and this tears them apart... In a heroic turn of evebts the gundam saves them but is destroyed, meanwhile the villain uses the confusion to get revenge, and leads a coup which results in a cease fire. Mayve do a scene with nukes where newtyoe powwrs get used to destroy the nukes early like in Chars coubterattack.

Thanks for this video. I just finished the trilogy.

Wish i was abke to watch this when i was a kid. I just cant get throufh make through fhe first movie now. As a kid would have been no problem . Thanks for this video

Yea old school is where it’s at, just has that feel

I like the Movie Trilogy because it was the first time I saw boobs back in 1990 on Cantonese LaserDiscs and then I watched the comedic SD Gundam OVA on VHS and I didn't understand what was going on besides most of the UC characters being perverts lol...I only remember 3 names in Cantonese, "A Boa", "Ma Sa" and "Ga Mei Yau" haha. I started rewatching all UC stories on Yellow English Subtitles on DVD in the late 90's while my friends lent me G-Generation after I bought a modded PS1 in Hong Kong for $140.

What's the song you use in the background? It's great, and a great choice!

Ah thank ya man, really did not want to put myself through 40 episodes of outdated animation ... I get that its a staple in the series and i just got done finishing all of origins so really appreciate the break down.

Overall a good recap. But I'd recommend to not put the Music in the background. It's distracting in itself and too loud at that

Greatest gundam series

Nice job!

I feel like you're missing some points here and there but yeah that's a pretty good fist of it.

Good recap!!

on a side note, if zeon put their ace pilots in the same corps earlier, they probably would have won the war.

UC is the best gundam, but oh my is the original series confusing.

original gundam need a Reboot with new animation

Every one needs to go read the novels too !!! A very similar but alternate story with lots of more details !!!

Love the videos

Can someone tell me what's next in the gundam timeline I've always played the games but was too young to understand what was going on, I just enjoyed destroying while getting surrounded by the enemy

The only complaint I have is the background music.

I thought sayla stole the gundam to find char

I feels the death of La La even to this day..

BIG ZAM BABY 2BIG2FAIL HELL YEAH, GET ZAM'D EDIT: Man I haven't seen this series in a few years and I forgot the sheer ambition and horrors of war the series portrays, man I love Gundam

Ramba Ral cannot be 35....

I didn’t watch your zeta Gundam videos because I didn’t want to get spoiled but I just wanted to know is Zeta Gundam worth watching all 50 episodes. Is there any episode that are bit filler like? I did start to watch like 17 episodes of wing Gundam and I personally didn’t quite like it. I just felt like it was a very slow pace show in my opinion.

You should do a video like this for the zeta movies

I'm Gundam fan for a long time just to know from your video that Amuro has a mother?

thanks FUCKING GOD i quit after 8 episodes

tq and kudos to you boss, great explanation and summary, totally i understand now the story lol hahahaha, can't even watch the old animation, hope bandai remake as like the Origin

Now I remember...the Gyan was left out from the movies and only shown in the TV series...such a waste

I said "Le Ding!"

Is this of the original timeline and do you watch these in order? Thanks

Although I wish it was dub on Netflix

What is the name of the background music?

Ranma ral is 35???

Wow