How To Get Into Gundam 

That's something I think Evangelion did really well, despite its lack of focus on robot-fighting; the EVAs looked both terrifying and yet sleek & cool with great colour palletes

It makes perfect sense that the war machines of gundam are both cool and terrifying. An that they're coveted and sold as model kits. That's literally what happens with real world war machines.

Already a Gundam fan, but I just wanted to say this is the absolute best of these "where to begin Gundam" videos I have seen, especially with such an unusual recommandation.

I knew there was a reason I'm irrationally afraid of novelty-sized bullet casings! Outstanding video, made bitterly tragic by the fact this film isn't available to purchase in the UK :(

I think that there’s two ways to get into Gundam: 1. The best/most effective way 2. The easy/accessible way Either way is completely valid depending on your experience with the mecha genre or your willingness to overlook dated visuals. For the the best way, it’s pretty obviously Mobile Suit Gundam 0079. That series is one of the classic anime of the 20th century that is super important for anime in general, and you hit two birds with one stone. And it’s still an entertaining show to this day, and it just makes everything else click into place as it explains the world really well, and there’s obvious next steps for the franchise. For the easy way, it’s one of the AU series which helps you get your foothold in the mecha genre before knowing of the Gundam franchise is for you. For this option there is a couple of series, the big ones being 00 and Iron Blooded orphans, but Wing and Seed have their fans, but come less recommended. I actually have not seen F91, because I’m relatively new to the franchise, but it does seem like an odd choice considering it seems to have similar problems to the 0079 compilation movies from what I can tell. I think that the compilation movies are adequate if you here about how good Zeta is and want to jump into that, but I generally prefer the series to the movies and find it more enjoyable.

ALWAYS wanted to get into gundam. Great video ! Thank you for making this

I thought this was going to be a video showcasing various ways of getting into the cockpit of mobile suits.

Being a child of the 90s, I’ll always have a soft spot for gundam wing and G gundam, despite how different it is from the rest of the series 😂

"Gundam is really good at naming stuff" Gundam Death scythe Hell Custom: Am I a joke to you?

My first introduction was Gundam Wing, and while I have not kept up over the years, it's still one of he best to me

this actually made me really excited to watch Gundam. Youre a really thoughtful writer thank you for the recommendation!

I watch ALL the gundam franchise from 1979 to present inlcuding all Ovas and Movies. Its just a masterpiece👌🏻

Great video. In my opinion, Iron-Blooded Orphan I feel is the best way to get into Gundam. I've tried watching so many other Gundam series, but IBO I felt was the most interesting. I have even gotten my friends into Gundam because of it.

Somewhere in October I have a hyperfixation on Mecha and robots because I want to draw some soon. So I saw Gundam and I got interest in it and I want to get into it and your video is very helpful on that. Also I played Gundam versus beta years ago and I enjoyed it I was played it with my friends and we had fun.

This is a very well presented video and I like the formatting; definitely going to check out more videos :D

I have been thinking about getting into Gundam, after watching Unicorn.

Hey, great video! I'm currently watching the '79 series and I think I'm going to go through the list at 5:19, including your recommendation. I ordered my first gunpla, too, I'm excited to get into the series, thanks again. :)

Start with gundam seed

This is awesome, helped a lot ! I’m new to Gundam

Cool to see you again.

someone gimme dat intro music.. shits banging

F91 was actually the first Gundam I saw, on a fansubbed VHS back in the mid-late 90s… and it left me completely cold. I also tried some of 0083 and 08th MS Team, and wasn’t into them either. It was Wing that made me into a Gundam fan (although I did eventually try 08MST again and liked it the second time around)

43 isn't that bad. It's literally the equivalent of around 20 episodes of a live action drama show. It's shorter than the entirety of Stranger things.

I have to admit, you make this franchise sound pretty appealing.

Gundam The Origin is what the SW Prequels should have been. Near perfect origin/backstory of the main antagonsit.

I've watched a lot of gundam and I've built a lot more kits but this video was still very well made. I just have to say I think the compilation movies for the first series is better because of the filler cut and the improved animation

I've just watched Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterstrike, and I have no idea what happened at all, but there was a hell of alot of explosions. Which was cool.

YOURE SOO UNDERRATED!!!!

At 46 years old, last Christmas I received my first Gunpla. Two months later I am currently building my 8th Gunpla and I am a few episodes into Double Zeta. I have a long way to go, but I jumped in head first and plan on diving deeper every single day.

Great video man. Thanks

Step 1: Watch Gundam Step 2: Be hooked for life

I started my love of Gundam with GundamWing. Been hooked ever since.

Yo the whole time you were doing your intro I’m thinking F91 would be a great entry point, then you said it and I was like omg I agree!

this video deserves more views, im excited i have so much more to dive into, looking forward to this one soon as i’m watching in pretty much production with a couple things moved around.

I’ve been trying to get into anime, and figured I would like gundam. Currently watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00” because I read a Reddit post that said it was a good starting point. I like it so far, but I’ll definitely check out F91 next. Thanks!

I remember watching gundam back in the turn of the century on toonami. It was awesome, totally got hooked, ended up playing online in rpg chat rooms on AOL. Lmao the good ole days

that explained why f91 felt like a whole season worth of story

Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket is the best Gundam serie.

Here's the thing though the compilation movies are very improved in terms of animation and plot movement I would say as a starter show the 08th MS team is the best despite my start with 00. It is UC during the 1 year war. Great animation and plot not too long not too short and quite frankly awesome I would personally not do F91 but that's just my opinion

Never Forget: Mechs don't need legs in space.

When they signed Tomino and his crew to create toy advertisment series i bet they didn't expect he will bring them an epic space opera.

Xenoblade is my favorite thing of all time amd i just got the model kit for the artifice siren mech and its been so satisfying to build that i wanna get into gundam so i have a reason to get into gunpla model kitting.

I thought this was a tutorial on how to get into the actual mech itself

I think you got confused at around 15:09. The Vanguard are definitely the good guys.

F91 is a guilty pleasure Gundam title for me I would recommend watching Gundam '79 or Gundam 00

The new series Gundam The Witch from Murcury is amazing! It’s stand alone and great and has a female protagonist and is gay

I like Gundam Seed. The second series of Seed: Destiny, not so much, but Seed was good. It was my gateway series, and it is good for being an origin story, excellent animations, and none of that psychic stuff I hear is in other series have.

F-91 Was my first introduction to the Gundam Universe, back in 1991.

I have to mention that ORIGIN the OVA *is not* part of the main UC timeline. It's a UC spin-off that Sunrise tried to turn into a prequel; the ORIGIN manga is just an alternate retelling of 0079.

Erupting burning finger, nuff said.

how crazy you'd say that, since F91 was the FIRST model kit series i started building back when they first appeared in Hungates in the USA.

I first heard of gundam when I was a kid I played dynasty warriors gundam 2 after getting it for like 10$ at GameStop and now 5 years later I’m just learning that it was a show before a game

I started with SEED and got back into it with IBO.

i remember watching g gundam on toonami in random order and being so confused as a adult i got back into gundam and started with the gundam movies 1 -3 and then i watched chars counter attack. I was super confused because of the time gap i didnt know anything about zeta or double zeta i was used to seeing the gundam and then the nu gundam shows up blew my mind lol didnt even know how much time passed in between the movies i should of looked up a order of the series for sure 😂

I thought that mobile suit Gundam was made in 2000s so I watched the 1st episode and holy was the artstyle and the animation sooooo outdated so I checked the release date of it and found out it was made in 1979 HOLY THIS SHOW IS SO OLD

I Recently got into Gundam because my buddy told me to watch gundam IBO and it was amazing definitely should watch if you want to get into gundam then after watch gundam 00

The series I’m most familiar with is the Gundam series with the Shuffle Alliance. While I only saw a couple of episodes, I remember seeing it airing on Toonami when I was growing up

for some reason i am fondest of V-Gundam. It may have been the first series i ever fully watched.

start with g reco, its the most buck wild and stuff will only get more comprehensive after it. i do actually like g reco alot lol.

Thanks for the video…just a tip: if you read a script make the text size smaller, it won’t make your eyes flicker across the words so rapidly

a great first choice absolutely wonderful

Sorry if this has already been answered but what is that song after the intro, between 2:18 to about 3:00 I love that sort of industrial/shoegaze sound, reminds me of silent hill.

The prequels are good smooth brain

Sick intro 🤤

I love F91, it's really the only self-contained movie in the series except the compilation movies of 0083 and 08th MS Team. However, I think part of my enjoyment came from having watched all the previous entries in the series. F91 feels like the original series, Zeta, ZZ, and maybe Char's Counterattack mixed together, and watching those series first helps you "fill in the gaps" as it were, since F91 can be a bit confusing. In other words, watching those previous series will introduce you to tropes and ideas that F91 reuses and helps to understand the movie better. Heck, Seabook is like Amuro, Kamille, and Judeau rolled into one. It's a rewarding experience. Oh, F91 isn't a 13 episodes series squished into a 2 hour movie, it's a ~50 episode series squished into a 2 hour movie... Hathaway is cool, but I'm honestly more excited for what comes after with the UC next 100 project. I think After War Gundam X is also a good recommendation, at least for anyone that likes 90s adventure anime.

bruh i have a one gunpla since i was a child bc my father kinda liked these things now im 15 and i just saw a gunpla that piqued my interest now i want to get into gundam

This is useful to me so i can further this addiction.

I've gotten my girlfriend in through Origin, and then 08th MS Team and 0083 while I kinda explained the OYW and then CCA. Edit: Also, you look kind of like a serial killer from the 70's, thats pretty neat!

I luckily perchance saw a mecha gaikotsu video on gunpla and I though they looked so cool, I bought MG Exia (still my favorite kit btw) then watched 00 to completion. That's how I got into Gundam

Even if G Gundam was my first series, my first completed Gundam experience is F91 (also, I like Cecile's drip)

I don't think Gundam is up my alley, personally, but thanks for an interesting video!

This dude would totally fit perfectly in marvel vs capcom

Great video, great song, what’s the track used at 2:18?

Yea My introduction to Gundam was Iron Blooded orphans and Wing! Which I watched all of that I watched Gundam the origin! I did watch the Compilation movies on Netflix I watched Gundam thunderbolt love the movie edition compiled of that! I watched Gundam build fighters season 1! I need to watch Gundam The original all the way through and Zeta, and F91! And the ovas

Is the gundam manga a good place to start?

I just finished 8th ms team 🔥 il will be watching more

i professionally model gundam kits but have never watched any gundam content, cant deal with old animations, can recommendations other than the ones mentioned?

Started with war in pocket then started the og 3 eps later I went the origins and just gonna commit to time line

I'm trying to get into Gundam and while this video has been really helpful in figuring out where to start, it's still difficult due to how limited and overpriced the dvds and blu rays of gundam are here in the UK. As far as I know, there are no official versions of F91, 0080, or 08th MS available in the UK, so I've had to resort to buying bootleg versions as my only way of watching them which isn't the most convenient. I've heard there's some Gundam stuff on Netflix? But idk if it's worth the monthly subscription. Sunrise, why do you have to be so difficult?

Freaking love original Gundam.

I watched gundam trilogy and I really liked it.

Only 40 episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam? Chump numbers. Imma finish this in 1 maybe 2 days.

The first Gundam *anything* I watched from start to finish was actually SD Gundam Force. I'm not afraid to admit that, because I really appreciated how much fun it was. However the first real Gundam show I watched was Wing, during College. But my favorite show, full stop is Gundam 00.

As long as you don't try to tell me Hong Kong Phooey was geared toward kids we'll be ok!

First series I watched was IBO, hard to see anything topping that

So what to watch after that?

I'd still recommend origin as starting point, to anyone trying to get into the UC

0:33 so now you tell me! I finished the third movie like 10 minutes ago I’m burnt out

Recommending F91 over Thunderbolt? That's a paddling.

Does the Musou Gundam Series help ? As an entry point.

I started with the model kits because big robot cool lmao, it all started with transformers for me but i have a lot to watch and i kove it

My first introduction to Gundam was Stardust Memory. Then I watched the 08th MS Brigade, then After War Gundam X, then War In The Pocket, and then the 0079 Series, and then Turn A Gundam.

I think I picked the wrong time to try and get into gundam. After 2020, I am so tired of politics and death and from what I've seen. Those are the bread and butter of this series.

I want to start watching gundam if I start from war in the pocket what order do I watch it in

15:19 lmao he voiced the doc from akira aswell i think

Maybe thats why i found Gundam 00 easier to get into. Because the main character Setsuna isn't scared of Killing from episode 1. Which i guess makes him the Gundam Series Oddball MC. XD Gundam 00 is also to this day the only Gundam series i could get into at all. And that's after 4 attempts based on fans recommendations.

I may be late so you probebly wont see this but from what ive remembered it was toonamis gundam wing that brought in new people during the time. so wouldnt gundam wing itself be a good starting point for new comers in our current time as well?

The funny thing is another "How to Gundam" article specifically recommends the compilation movies.

Some of these civilian deaths like the one with the lady and the baby I feel could have been avoided

Man... if only F91 got that 13 episode format that it should be 😔😔😔