MSM-03C Hygogg - Amphibious Analysis 

Zeon aquatic suits are like pugs, stubby, goofy, and full of character. I especially love the Hygogg because it also looks badass.

As a minor note; The thunderbolt Acguys also had ejectable casings on some of their weapons.

Hygogg is the best amphibious MS, this is a fact. All hail Hygogg.

Pretty cool to see at 13:05 you can see the Hygogg surrounded by the wreck of a destroyed ZnO. Hygogg really showed it's impression who's boss.

I see Hygoggs as an intercept/ambush marine units with extra capability of surprise attacks. Its non humanoid/creature like build is a perfect psychological warfare element.

Honey wake up another amphibious analysis episode is here.

another banger, mr sloth. the hygogg has some of the most bonkers proportions of any OYW suit. something about it looks truly menacing and intense

Hygogg was definitely in my top 3 favorite Zeon mechs. Sort of how they made the Gelgoog a more advanced version of the Zakus, I kind of wish they had taken the MSM-03 Cbis in the same direction, making it the successor to Hygogg and upgrading it visually and aesthetically, maybe a coat of red paint and a commander fin horn adorned above the eyes.

bis means twice in Latin and is commonly used in Russian fighter planes to denote a variant that had enough upgrades to deserve a new name but not enough to get a new number. so a late production mig 21 would be called mig 21 bis so one would quickly know that it is a late version with upgrades. on another note, I really hope you do a video on the zee zulu some day, as it's one of my favourite mobile suits ever! oh and merry christmas!

By far my favorite amphibious mobile suit. Your space version sounds cool, BTW.

You actually struck the nail on the head: in its earliest incarnation the Hygogg was supposed to the the MSM-05/B, apparently named “Gock” or something like that, which would make it a machine unrelated to the Gogg… or the AMX-109 Capule. I mention the later because apparently one of the reasons the Hygogg became a relative of the Gogg was to serve as the missing link between it and the Capule… which doesn’t make as much sense one you put the claim to the test. Case in point, the Capule is often criticized due to forgetting the most important lesson that OYW amphibious MS learned: put weapons on the arms, not just on the torso! The Gogg’s main problem, that can be quite evident in games that tried to take a more realistic approach, is that in order to aim its weapons, you have to rotate the entire MS, which is already a high demand for such a… chubby MS. The Acguy, Z’gok, Hygogg and even the Gogg derived Jurick did correct this issue. Probably the most glaring exception is the Zock, but that already is in a weird pseudo MA classification, and perhaps the idea was that its hovering system combined with its symmetrical weapon placement would allow to easily overcome such problem. Anyway, the Capule ignored the above and went back to torso & head mounted weapons (the later which the Gogg also had in the form of two phonon masers). Granted, the Capule is a much more agile design than the Gogg, both on Earth and water (the later is put to question on background information, but in practice the Capule from ZZ proved to be quite mobile), so it can deal with this limitation a bit better. Ultimately though, even the more “primitive” people from Turn A Gundam that adopt the MS as its mainstay unit quickly realized this shortcoming and corrected it, adding guns to its claws. Shame on you Axis/Neo Zeon for not realizing & correcting such an evident problem! Anyway, I’m actually a bit confused on when the Hygogg was introduced, given that some works such as Blue Destiny make it look like it was around in larger numbers and at a much earlier date than what War in the Pocket would suggest. Looking at the Z’gok’s development line, supposedly Zeon first deployed the vanilla MSM-07 Z’gok, then replaced with with the MSM-07S Z’gok, which by some accounts had beam guns on both claws unlike the base model (and optional 4 claws hands according to some gunplas) and finally was supposed to replace the later with the even better Z’gok E. Personally I would be fine if the Hygogg was meant to be introduced around the same time as the S-Type Z’gok, leaving just the Z’gok E as the one amphibious design that was introduced “too little too late”. The backstory of the UMP already considers that some units introduced by the middle of the war, such as the Zaku F2, were labeled as UMP-complaint, meaning that even though they didn’t fully embraced the idea concept of the UMP, they began implementing some aspects of it. That’s a topic worth of its own separate conversation. Lastly, some sources, the Journey to Jaburo game from PS2 and some editions of the Gundam Encyclopedia IIRC, actually say that the Gogg & other amphibious MS, as well as the later Gelgoog, already switched to Titanium Ceramic composite. Unfortunately games tend to be considered gray canon and the encyclopedia has made many changes to the official info, sometimes back and forth, with their different releases. I do will say that on Zeta and ZZ, the RMS-117 Galbaldy Beta and the MS-14J Regelg both use regular titanium alloy, so my take is that the original idea was for both the EF and Zeon to switch to this material late in the OYW, and both kept using it until the EF replaced it by the time it introduced the GM II & Hizack, while Axis went straight to gundarium gamma. In other words, titanium ceramic composite being available earlier would be a retcon introduced with War in the Pocket.

Bis is used in Soviet and Russian planes to say a "second" type, like improved type so I assume the C-bis here is the same. Also the C deosn't stand for anything it is more a progressive improvment like in the Zaku II in that the first production run would be the MS-06, then the next with improvments would be the MS-06 B etc.

YAAAAS I've always wanted this guy as a model!

Ugh I'm gonna coooom, i LOVE the Hygogg!

The Hygogg appeared in Gundam Battle Assault 1 & 2 as a playable robot and appeared as an enemy in the first stage of Last Resort from SNK (at least they took lots of inspiration from it). Great design, never understood why you would build a robot in shape of a human.

"bis" can be interpetred as "Again" or "Doble" or maybe more apropiated for this ocation "Alternative" So you can take it as a pararel desing of the Hygogg!

bis is a Russian thing for improved. like on the MiG-15bis. also the blue destiny manga has a gogg with new shoulder armor and a commander fin.

One of my girlfriend's favorite animals is a frog And she said this reminded her of it And I said we could possibly paint it up Like your favorite type of frog And she got super excited So I'm planning on getting one And painting it up In a specific way for her birthday I even showed her this video and she got even more excited For the unit Plus she kind of looks like Christina McKenzie From war in the pocket anyway With her hair That she dyed red. So it works even more for her

You should see Final Fantasy XIV's take on Emerald and the other weapons. And while Endless Waltz is my preferred mecha anime tradition for Yule nothing like a little War in the Pocket. Sure I might be in the Kampfer camp but the Hygogg is a classic too.

What is funny about Zeon, is that if you have some stupid crazy MS design, they likely already built it. As for the Hygogg itself, is that its just what many amphibious MS try to be.

i love these videos

I GOT THE ZOCK!

Thank you for doing a video on my lovely water boy

Merry Christmas

I was actually just thinking about 0080 and the hygogg

Thanks for a great video. I'm an outsider to Gundam as a whole, but I'd seen the Hygogg a couple times and thought it looked pretty cool. So I'm happy to get some easy to digest information on it. Just a couple of my thoughts: I think the Hygogg's arms are weird because it has the beam cannons in its "wrists." You can't exactly bend those cannons, so it instead has the long bendy arms. That's probably why it has the long arms as well, so that it can aim the cannons without interference. I don't think your design is a worse version of Xeon or a worse.... whatever xaku. I think it's design would be much cooler that either of those. Especially if you keep the ferrings that it uses when carrying the hand missiles. I picture the S-Hygogg (which can stand for Space or Sloth, whichever you choose) having been developed to easily go between space and a planet's surface with ease (making them essentially keep their roll as amphibious units). The hand missiles would be replaced by booster rockets for more speed until it entered combat. Then the boosters could open up and deploy as satellites to boost communications and provide support while leaving the S-Hygogg's hands free for combat. But that's just my ramblings. Still a good video.

I love this thing, it's super cool

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The hg hy-gogg has a line on its forehead for a commander antenna.

Terror of the deep.

another mech that resembles it is the Kasel and the Quibing from FrontMission3, with the Quibing actually being amphibious and with a commander fin

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great video, and i can confirm the ver anime hygogg is amazing. And the idea of zeon continuing making ms for the united maintenance plan would be so sick, if i could i wish we could of seen an efreet, juaggu, or acguy under the UNP

Lets gooooo the hy gogg

HY-GOGG!

The bis in MSM-03Cbis Hygogg might be a real world reference to the soviet unions use of the term bis to denote a "B" model, like Mig-15 and Mig-15bis

I always kind of wondered why Zeon invested so much into specialized amphibious mobile suits

The BIS subtitle might be a reference to the MIG-21 bis. I think it also means "upgrade" in Russian

"bis" essentially means "improved second version" in russian, ive seen it tagged to later generations of the MiG-21 kinda like the British MKII

11:00 I could help you. A "bis" is a thing in russian engeneering slang and it means "Second, emproved version of something".

I feel sad for the GM command code district type like in every each almost photo it’s on the ground dead like give it a break. But for real merry Christmas.

zeongogg

You know, i am currently making a custom model kit of the hygogg with the extended shoulders smoothed out abit more and lengthened so i can turn it into a penguin. The barrel/container for its missle on the hand is now labeled fish and chips with it being now a transporting of gear. Just need to scratchbuilt the portion of the penguin latch into the hygoggs tubes on the top, as well as making a rotating head joint(never done such a joint before) so this will be interesting. That and painting it in black/white for the tux motif.

It is i got one for 16euros money very well spent i love my blue dude he is a very fun build

This is when the designs got weird😂. It's a cool design and probably the most OP Suit in GBO2 at 350.

Bis means same as Kai in Japanese

I'm still salty this never got the Master Grade treatment, the HG is nice but could be better.

I did it

Bro why you pretending to be American?