How ZETA GUNDAM Evolved Universal Century (With a Story that Changed EVERYTHING) 

Almost everyone: Quattro, are you Char Aznable? Quattro: I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude

Favorite Gundam hands down. Glad it's getting some love.

"I'm not here to talk about contemporary politics, I'm here to talk about Zeta Gundam" .. same thing bro lol

I think it's implied that Paptimus Scirocco's psychic attack is what destroyed Camille, but I actually think that it's actually a misdirection. I think that Scirocco's attack was actually blocked by the Newtypes who connected with Camille, and they gave to Camille what he always wanted. Camille never wanted to fight and previously always just wanted love and connection with people. At about the middle point of the show Camille got drug through the emotional mud of war and by the mid-end point of the show he has become super delusional, even telling Fa some seriously disturbing comments eluding to him disconnecting from himself, and accepting a role for himself out of his own emotionally shattered and delusional state of mind. Camille at the very end is Camille returning to himself. Sure, he definitely seems amnesiac, but he seems happy and more the Camille he was before the war started.

This is the sequel series Star Wars fans wished they had.

i can't believe i sat through that lol. that just proves how much i enjoyed the video. looking forward to a ZZ analysis!

Beltorchikas Children also adds more to Chars development from Quattro to Casaval, worth the read for sure.

Series = canon. 3 part movie = kamille mind. Well said. The way sun rise changed the endings to be all happy is like how Disney is doing star wars dirty

This was so well thought out and articulate! Thanks for covering one of my favorite series of all time!

evil begets evil, The Titans are a direct result from the actions of 0083's Stardust.

Seed destiny: Can I copy your homework? Zeta: Eh, sure.. what the f*ck are you writing? Is that poop?

I'd argue that Tomino didn't earn his nickname here but rather on his other series: Space Runaway Ideon

I’ve gotta watch zeta now....

Thank you for making this. I loved it and would love a breakdown of the mechanical designs. Keep up the great work!!!!

Great video, man! Your synopsis was very well written. Keep it up.

God I do love this show. So much depth in it's Mobile Suit designs, as well as the main characters. Just completed a fourth rewatch last night. Ending is very haunting.

Oh, yes, this is beautiful.

If you think the Titans were bad, wait till you’re introduced to the Zanscare Empire from Victory Gundam. Great review!

Honestly, I don't actually think that Zeta was more mature than the 1979 original. Part of the charm of this franchise is that it has actually done a wonderful job of having surprisingly deep themes. One of my favorite scenes in the original Gundam was when Amuro meets his mother in a field hospital on earth, and two Zeon soldiers arrive. There was a lot that was said in this scene in a remarkably tight package. I also felt the same way when Amuro meets Ramba Ral for the first time, and Ral casually lifts his pancho to find Amuro clutching a pistol under his belt, and just nods. I watched Zeta first, and I was expecting a "kiddy" experience when I went back to the first MSG, and was thoroughly surprised by the emotional and psychological depth from the very first episode. The original show's strongest theme in and of itself was about becoming mature in the midst of an uncompromising situation.

This is an excellent analysis! You’re very articulate and concise!

Awesome video. I just finished the series and it’s a good review/summary.

Just discovered this video while assembling one of my gunplas. Completely agreed on the love for Zeta, and completely agreed in the charade that was ZZ. And all the video without even mentioning some of the side stories that I loved so much when I watched the show, like what happened to Fraw, the orphans, Kai, La Vie en Rose, Heneken... Zeta is for me the best Gundam show by a far margin, and still the excuse to watch other Gundam shows even when their quality is not exactly at their highest

Thanks for the research and summary of a very complicated story

Stardust memory is actually pretty key to Zeta if you want to really understand the Titans.

W o w , describing the ending of the movie trilogy as a scenario happening in Camille's mind..... Damn. That's a brutal, twisted and extremely interesting theory. I really liked it. Great video👌

Well written and presented. Great essay on the series.

Love your accent my dude. Great video; editing is top notch.

oh.. and it might have been beneficial in the background to explain the 30 bunch incident which was a major catalyst to the formation of the resistance to Titans, when they nerve gassed an entire colony and killed 30 million people for anti-federation demonstrations. People often equate it with Zion atrocities like Operation British, but IMHO it is much much worse, as the latter atleast happened during a war, whereas the former was in peace times.

I'm not even really a "Gundam fan", but I think Zeta Gundam and Kammille's character arc is a masterpiece.

I love how many time you emphasis that papatimus is beautiful 😂

Just found your vid, and i love it! Please tell me you'll do the rest of all the gundam animes!

We don't talk that on Jerid around these parts

The BEST Gundam series hands down! From the characters, storylines, BGM, Opening and Ending Theme. The series would later lay the foundation for series like Gundam Seed, some might even say, Kira Yamato is a clone of Kamile Bidan >.

This was great, keep it up!

Review gundam wing and how weird and extra it is. Loved it as a kid. Watched it again recently and I'm shocked at how ludacris the plot and everything in its universe is 😂

Great video, man

More gundam content please, subscribed!

Thanks for the resume. I only played Gundam Dynasty warriors on the ps3 with my brother and loved the game. I might watch the anime someday

Interesting take on the movies and how they fit into the canon.

Really enjoying your retrospectives on these. I agree that second only to the original series, Zeta is probably the most important Gundam series in the broad scheme of things. It's still one of my favorite anime series', even if I will admit that there's plenty about it that maybe hasn't aged as well as some other parts, which is why I was really let down by New Translation's lost potential as a fully updated, streamlined retelling of the series (rather than the weird hodge podge of new animation with old clips and this disjointed attempt to condense the TV series' narrative.). It's a sobering story about how many of the dynamics of the power structure in the Universal Century still went unresolved by the end of the original series, as happy an ending as it was. Also Zeta itself is just an awesome design. I definitely think, if possible, you should cover Double Zeta as well. It might be one of the most divisive Gundam series' of all time (though to be fair, Zeta isn't everyone's cup of tea as well.) but I think it was really important in its own way. It might not have pleased die hard fans at the time, but its appeal to younger viewers (at least initially) did open up Gundam to a whole new age group of Japanese kids who cut their teeth on ZZ, and went in to see the rest from there. I'd say ZZ laid the ground work for Gundams' potentially broader appeal, which for better or for worse is an important milestone. Plus these days, I kind of appreciate the brief tonal whip lash as a break from Zeta's bleak af end. To me, it's seeing things from the new perspective of Judau and the other kids, who in time catch on to the dire stakes of the whole situation as the tone corrects itself back to something more in line with Zeta over time. It's still got plenty of problems and things I wish had gone differently (I strongly feel Amuro should have had a larger role, if ANY role in this series, to show how he got over his fear of space. It feels like there was a whole story related to Amuro's growth from that lost young man he was in Zeta to the grounded leader he is by CCA that we missed out on. I do still also wish Kamille's recovery was a larger plot point and that maybe he returned...but at the same time him exiting stage right makes sense. Also the whole Dublin incident is just a mess imo.) It's funny too that as we see in Unicorn, ZZ has potentially some of the most messed up background plot elements hidden within its mostly lighter tone.

A bit of Zeta Gundam triva: The Final Mystery of Z--according to the background materials, the Titans had a huge base in New Guinea. The Aldomura (w/Kamille on board) originally intended to attack the base, but for some reason, was diverted to Hong Kong. So, what was going on in New Guinea during the bulk of the War? Had to have been something important or AEUG/Karaba wouldn't have considered raiding it. The other Mystery takes place during Ep.#36 of the TV Series; the attack on Killimanjaro. There is a close-up of a computer screen near the end of the ep.; on the screen is a scrolling list of all the Cyber-Newtypes controlled by the Titans. The last to appear is Kim Kerin "No.3", who operated out of the Titans' facility at Pyongyang, Korea. Kim does not appear anywhere in the show (I have no idea if she appears in any of the spinoff manga.), and I always wondered what happened to her. Such is the stuff of fanfiction, I suppose...

I hope that you also do a ZZ, CCA, F91 and Victory Gundam analysis soon

Cool video, you earned my sub

Amazing Absha, really Idk about this serie of GUNDAM, recently I noticed the first serie in Crunchy but was unsure to watch due the other sequels or spin-offs. But now this proto-bizarre Jojo GUNDAM gave me the sense of beginning this serie and later enjoy the first. Ufff too minutes but worth it ;v

Excellent video!

My favorite Gundam season. Didn't pull punches and instead loved to twist the knife. Kamille is still my favorite pilot and Char is such a Bro in this season.

Fantastic video!

the colony laser is basically just a death star withdifferent shape

6:40 Anaheim Electronics give out suits to anyone lol.

Kamille? That sounds like a girls name!

Just finished watching the entire Zeta Gundam series recently.

I wanna have a pure time, everyone's a noble mind.

It makes it more fun knowing Paptimu's ms was named "The O"

The scene where Bright Noah gets beat up is insane

Bro do Victory gundam next, top quality content from you bro respect

So because i'm such a Gundam n00b, I went ahead and watched 'A New Translation' instead of the show. But I did watch some of the actual episodes and this video for more context. Before watching Zeta, I watched the original 0079 trilogy movies. I can safely say I'm up to speed with the whole gundam saga now leading up to Char's Counterattack. I also had no issues understanding the latest UC movie Hathaway.

Zeta is great and I love it. It's right up there with 0079 as S-rank Gundam. One thing, however, that I noticed is that it didn't seem particularly well planned out. I feel like this is a problem with a lot of 80s anime, especially from Sunrise. There's a lot of things that should have been explained better. There's a lot of side characters who don't contribute much to the story. There's a lot of subplots that go nowhere or character arcs that abruptly end. Take Jerrid for example. I really expected him to be the Char to Camille's Amuro, but Jerrid never came off as a threat, let alone a rival to Camille. He was constantly incompetent, yet still was treated like he was an ace by the Titans. He didn't even rise to the occasion at the end, dying pretty unceremoniously. The first OP really made it seem like the original side characters from 0079 would play a big part in the show. But they pretty much made glorified cameos then disappeared. If Sunrise and Tomino knew those characters wouldn't be used, why even feature them in the opening? And, like I said, I feel that in a lot of Sunrise anime from the 80s. I really enjoyed Dragonar, but I question why they even bothered creating 3 main pilots when 2 of them could have been written out without having much of an effect on the story. Or how the love interest (the surrogate Sayla) doesn't really do much apart from be the love interest to the hero and sister of the surrogate Char. I assume Sunrise was pretty chaotic at the time, based on the ridiculous amount of anime they produced in the 80s. So maybe the writing was more of a seat of the pants situations and the shows were not well planned before they started pencil to paper.

Good stuff

"The ANTI-EARTH Union Group is definitely not a terrorist group, I swear. We would never drop a colony or asteroid on Earth." Maybe they should have picked a different name. Perhaps something related to Olympus or the Greek gods if they are a specifically Anti-Titan group.

Great video! I am curious how your Gundam ZZ video will go, as I absolutely despise it with the passion of a thousand suns. I will never stop seething about Gundam ZZ, for the rest of my life.

Gundam content in 2021! Zeta is my personal favorite too.

The 'Tee-tahns' pronunciation is only used once ever in CCA

What is that PS2 game you referred to at the end?

This is what I am watching now, about 30 episodes in I think. The early episodes really are an unfocused chore and Kamille is utterly insufferable. Worse, I have no idea why the characters are doing things, why they are going places and what they're plans are. It is just too much a fight of the week. Out of nowhere we visit a gassed colony where Lieutenant Emma realízes the real brutality of the titans. Then we're back to random fights, then the trap at the old Federation headquarters, then more random fights, then two separate female cyber newtypes for Kamille to face and lose. Thus far the writing of Zeta Gundam Define is far superior. More info on the mobile suit designs, actual intrigue, plotting, schemes, and strategy. Everything has a purpose. Although I hear the final third of the anime is really good so looking forward to it.

can i get the linkfor the pic or the artist for 27:37?

Ahhh yes, the old Quattro Vajeena. Great analysis of the series!

alternate headcanon for you, Absa. they made the zeta trilogy films as a means to retcon ZZ out of existence. with Camille keeping his mind intact, there's no way for Judau to inherit the Zeta and the mission... whereas the rest of the conflict will now be handled through Camille's help instead of Judau.

Sequels define a franchise and Zeta Gundam created the Gundam Franchise

I think Teetahnz is pronounced like that because it's supposed to be french. The "z" or "zu" sound at the end doesn't quite correspond but french is the one that sounds the closest to the way it's spoken in the show. Kamille Bidan I think is also supposed to be a french name so I think that's what they were going for.

he movies are more of an AU what if.. Kamille's survival (both physical and mental ) completely disrupts ZZ and Char's Counter Attack

may u see the....tears of time

They prononce Kamille and Titans, the french way.

Theres a fix figuration katoki signature zeta releasing but its not a kit, well never get a ver ka :(

There's also a 3 ending in ZGundam in novel form and out of all 3 the one in the novel is the darkest

1:06 Actually, his name sounding like a girl's name translates to English very well. In America, Kamille is traditionally a girl's name.

I honestly think AEUG is a lot better than you give them credit for--how could they not be, when their opponents are Space Nazis/NKVD?!?--really, their shadiest actions are how tied they are to Anahiem Electronics. AE is really the "unsung villain" of the UC period--they are pre-WW1 Krupp Arms. They'll build MS for _anybody,_ and War is simply the fastest way to make maximum profit. _Stardust Memories_ drives this home when AE built the series of Gundams for the Federation...and when the Feds didn't want all of them, AE rebuilt the last one and turned around and sold it to the *Delaz Fleet!* That's some serious Balls, business-wise!

Mwah... Amuro also 'loaned' his Gundam

I liked that they showed Zeon remnets since i watcted this before Stardust but then they ruined it in double zeta by revealing that the Mineva that Hamman had, wasen't the real Mineva... That really pissed me off

I didn't find Char's character arc satisfying in this series and I was sure he would be developed more and have more exposition later, but now I put on Char's Counter Attack and he seems like a completely different character and the whole deal with Haman and Mineva was handled in ZZ without him. Super dissapointed.

This my 2nd best gundam series beside 00 plus you can't go wrong with a name "Quattro Vagina"

ok I will not watch this vid until I've seen zeta. I just binged thunderbolt btw.

The A.E.U.G. being beholden to "investors" make you question the intentions of Anaheim Electronics and whoever else is supporting the protagonists.

fun fact: as an spanish speaker, I always wrote the name "Z Gundam" because we pronounce the "Z" as "zeta" anyways.

2:40 song?

My favorite Gundam entry.. Favorite main Gundam. First transformable mobile suit. Top 3 main characters. Strongest newtype in terms of raw power. I wanna have a good time. Everyones a noble mind.

UHHHH…. when Quattro Bajeena was said the subtitles read vagina…

Zeta is great proven that Seed Destiny trying to copy some aspects of Zera but failed miserably. How about UC side stories? For weird reason I really enjoyed them. Especially 08 MS Team because it reminds me of my hometown,

The Greeks pronounced Titans “teeh-tans”. The English pronunciation is the weird one actually.

The "Kill 'em All" Tomino moniker WAS NOT earned by _Zeta Gundam._ Tomino had done a cast wipeout at the end of _Aura Battler Dunbine_ a couple years before. Though the real roots of the nickname came from his tenure on the infamous _Space Runaway IDEON_ (1980-81), which had the most savage ending episodes in all mecha anime. WOMEN & CHILDREN of the cast were regularly targeted by the bad guys...and while some fought, most were *slaughtered*, literally onscreen, in graphic death scenes that never been seen in a mecha show to that date. The bad guys bought it equally hard by the end, in what turned out to be a galaxy-wide mutual annihilation.

I consider this the Empire Strikes Back of Universal Century Gundam. Not only did it established some of the tropes present in later entries, but in terms of its own story, nobody really ever wins in Zeta Gundam, and that is something few entries down the line could ever replicate.

Zeta. I cry because damn the nostalgia. Everything was great and not boring, the politics, the factions, the villains and heroes. Edit: But yes I lawl how the main character a child just assisted a terrorist labeled group to steal an expensive war equipment.

Zeta Gundam is an absolute master piece

Truly a phenomenal show! Although, it's not as perfect as you make out to be. Let's be real, if the show was reduced to 30 or 26 episodes, it would improve the overall experience, by cutting down the" filler" (fights that happen for no reason and end in a draw, the entire plotline with the girl with purple hair - that was just Four Murasame, but worse And for the third time! - and the one with Jerid's second fridged girlfriend, etc.) And letting the story focus on the important parts.

The name probably needs to be pronounced "Camill-ah", that might of been the reasoning behind it but I'm sure there is an obscure paper somewhere in Japan that gives all the details. I first watched it in the English Dub and I figured Camilla is the closest sounding female name that would match Kamille.

Saw the movies and omg... I saw them twice and I was lost. And I'm not dumb it just very fast paced and I got the gift of it but the fine details were lost on me

lol bright noa incorruptable? 👀

ZZ is not an anime, well, according to the song 😂

The problem with Zeta Gundam is Chars Attack which completely hardcore ignores/contradicts Zeta Gundam and everything kind of goes off Chars counterattack (except ZZ) which practically takes Z out of canon

I hated Zeta, too much drama and information. it's a little bit hard to understand, but nice vídeo, your narration is very good

Zambot 3, Ideon, and Dunbine are all even more kill em all than Zeta.