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I still love the lack of beam weapons (due to the type of armor they had beams were useless), the clanking of metal, how they constantly go for the cockpit, or the person out of the suit.
Something to note about the nanolaminate armor. It was developed to be dirt cheap and is painted onto every mobile suit. One of the defining features of IBO is the lack of beam weapons, and that's because of this paint.
I kind of love that. My favorite gundam is MR BEAM SPAM ITS SELF The Strike Freedom so IBO is a nice and refreshing change of pace. And the barbatos is my favorite beside the SF.
My friends and I were doing nerd things and death battling our favorite Gunpla kits. My brother was Barbotos and my friend was Wing Zero Custom. Neither had seen IBO, so when arguing about the beam rifles of WZC, I mentioned the lanolaminate armor and shared a clip of the mobile armor battle. The awestruck silence afterward was priceless.
Well let me tell you guys watch just about any Gundam series outside seed (not counting stargazer that shit is a banger) and build divers and you'll have a new game
I love mikazuki, he may not seem like a major factor outside of combat, but he's the perfect embodiment of what human debris are and the very symbol of power for tekkadan. We see how much he keeps pushing tekkadan to move forward, and how much of a beast he becomes.
This is a hard one to get through but it's well worth For me I finished this series at a very rough time in life one friend had just passed away in another was on his deathbed So the feelings of grief and loss that this show was tapping into I was experiencing in real time This one will always have a special place in my heart because of that
Ok the 72 Gundam frames, maybe its just me,but i really like this small fact that the number is believable, y'know? What i mean is usually in these cases,where you have a limited number of a special object or thing,the number is either overblown,like a 100 or 200 to the point where you think "If you can make THAT many they can't be that special" or if the number is too small like 10 or 7 you'd question how Tekkaden can manage to get their hands on 1,let alone 3 by the end, but 72 seems big enough to be believable when they get their hands on one and small enough to not diminish their special status Though i also know the number is in reference to The Key of Soloman so the number still makes sense
It's not a reference though, at least in the strict sense of the word. For example; at the very beginning of One Piece, Luffy emerges from a barrel in a manner similar to one scene from Vicke the Viking, an old multinational anime that Oda used to watch as a kid. And a lot of the characters are named after real historical pirates and nautical terms too. That be how references do; no direct bearing on the narrative, but making a call back to some other account, fiction or non-fiction, that bear the specific influence of such. In the case of IBO, the Lesser Key of Solomon is an actual thing that exists in the setting's history and largely resembles its real world counterpart, almost as if it's a distant future offshoot from ours like how Gundam 00 is supposedly set in our Anno Domini timeline. The gundams are named after them becuase like their namesake demons, you incrementally/wholesale sell your soul in order to gain the power of the machine. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
The cool thing too about the 72 Gundam Frames are, each one of them is unique. Some attributes may overlap on the design, but technically they are 1:1. The parts the 72 have in common are the Frame and the dual Ahab reactors that the units are equipped with. But the armaments and specialty of each Gundam varies. Example: Gundam Flauros (appeared on S2 of the show sorry for the spoiler) - the unit was basically made as an artillery platform capable of shooting Dainsleif (Mentioned at the start of the vid, but basically a rail gun.). Gundam Dantalion (appeard on a side story) - this unit was meant to be a 1 man army unit. Armed with additional armor that could transform to arms and legs. (There's a vid here on youtube on what it looks like, footage was from SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays.) If I got some info wrong just correct me.
IBO is such a great series, I've never understood why people say the second season gets worse when it's just the logical conclusion of the horrible conditions and decisions that got them to that point. The way the second season develops from the ending of the first one is excellent.
IBO lives by "No crime goes unpunished." Mika and Orga committed their crimes during their coup of the CGS, it just took a long time for the costs to be paid.
Yeah they flew WAY to close to the sun. Accepting any job with their head held high. Being well aware tekkadan are the "villians" during season 2 does not make me love the group any less. All they wanted was to end their days of fighting in any way they can. Even mikazuki said they they already found their place of peace. Atleast he left happy.
They're stupid kids making stupid kid decisions and it comes back to bite them. Is that bleak and harsh? Yes, but that's they tone they were going for.
Same. It's just so satisfying to see someone so arrogant and classist get what she deserves. She ask for "fair fight" right now after what she does? Hell no. Mikazuki is enough, or rather too overpowered and unfair to her. But she saw that coming after what she did.
0:33 Kids die the anime........that's accurate. If you want 'Kids Die the Movie' watch the Space Runaway Ideon movie, made by one of the creators of gundam. (in all honesty Space Runaway Ideon is in its entirety a eldritch horror disguised as a super robot show). No joke a kid, 'literally like a 5 year old' gets decapitated by a flying piece of debris and that just HAPPENS in the background.
IBO was the main series that got me into Gundam. It’s easily my favorite series, and every time I watch a different series, I can’t help but compare it. My coworker was kinda into Gundam but hadn’t watched anything. I recommended it, and now he’s fully obsessed with the model kits as well
Same, it's what made me return to Gundam after my childhood. Loved the grit, style, and themes of it, probably why Barabtos remains my favorite Gundam despite the memes
I didn't know about the Gundams being named after the 72 demons. That's sick AF. Can't wait for part two, IBO was truly one of my favorite Gundam series!
Most other gundams from other franchice are portrayed like a Deus Ex Machina or a Mechanical Angel on the Battle Field as if they where there to bring salvation. IBO's Gundam Frames make good of their demonic namesake, fighting more in a Savage and Visceral manner like a True Demon. This Gundams aint no Devine Gods and Angels and shiz. They bring no Salvation, only Blood and Carnage.
The tragic thing about this show is that they ACCOMPLISHED their goal by the end of the FIRST season. Orga could've lifted them all out of that environment. Could've been a cool paramilitary group that stayed out the way. But then he wanted to play Mars Kingpin with the adults and his family got massacred lol
Dude, right? They didn't know any different, to the point, that they didn't even seriously think that was an option. They thought they'd made it in the second season. The whole thing is just kids that never knew better.
Finally someone gets half of the message. IBO is a precautionary tale. Die early as a Hero, or live long enough to see your self be the Villain. I also do agree that they did swayed with their original goal and they paid it with blood. It being tragic has made the message of the show leave a more permanent mark.
but they still had to fight, season 2's ending most of them quit fighting by the end of the cast dying and most importantly, life didnt actually get better for the world until season 2 ended, with the end of Tekkadan, human debre was finally abolished and no more child soldiers
Dude season 2 literally started with them being attacked by a group tied to gallahorn. No mater what they did gallahorn would have continually tried to destroy them.
You definitely need to remember to talk about one of Season 1's best side characters that you missed here (I know, there's a lot), Akihiro aka Space Guts.
People who said IBO S2 is bad & the ending sucked probably have no taste for mafia/yakuza movies like *Goodfellas, Scarface, The Godfather or The Untouchables* which are great. It was obvious that the show went for that kinds of story since the beginning.
This probably rings true to what my Literature College professor said in one of our class:"Good Anti-War Stories can't have anything but a tragic ending." Having an anti-war story with a good ending romanticise war instead of denouncing it. A Good, Fairytail like Ending defeats the point.
It's been some years since I've watched IBO, but I remember getting really mad in the second season because Gjallahorn members had a stupid amount of plot armor, which then made Tekkadan deaths seem cheap. It's completely fine to kill off most of the main characters, but some people in Gjallahorn had no business surviving again and again
I'm still angry about Shino's death... I mena I totally guess that it is realistic that if you go against a whole army you die and don't acomplish your goal but come on, hi missed because of milimeters and thanks to a nik on the projectile just as hi fired. That was plot armor. Those Gjallahorn comanders on the ship should've been dead. Instead his died in vain...
@@Galloglaoch There are two things that I hate in season two. First Gaelio somehow surviving, his upper chest was literally piece through a mecha sword, even if he didn't die instantly he should have died due to blood loss. Second was McGillas whole hare-brain scheme, like he placed a lot of chips on having the other families having his backs because he became the pilot of Bael. His forces where what a third's of Russel's? Even if Tekkaden was quality over quantity having numbers is still important. He should have waited until he had at least two other families on his side if not then assassinate them simultaneously while pinning the blame on Russel.
I'm assuming IBO suppose to have one season only and it was so popular, they greenlit a second season before season 1 ended. That why some of the character "look" liked to be killed by the Ein MS survived at the end!
@@Renkencen You are correct but the authors could have make a new antagonist for McGillas to fight or choose to keep Russel to his main enemy. Which could a lot more interesting seeing how McGillas and Russel were two sides of the same coin. With the only difference between the two was that Russel had people he could trust while McGillas could only used people. After season 1 McGillas became an idiot that could only used blunt power instead oof cunning in his plans.
@@Renkencen More like they didn't want to put all eggs in one basket with a full 50-episode show. This is not the 80s or 90s anymore, the usual now are one-cour shows (12-13 episodes), maybe two-cour. So, like many other shows, they make a first season to test the waters while having plans for both of them, something that Sunrise had been using since Gundam 00/Code Geass. This means they MUST have a "stopping point" between seasons that acts as a sequel hook as well, which can (and tends to) cause plot issues, as you need to create a mid-show climax. But, anyway, IBO had many issues that ended in wasted potential. The show was too obvious with its death flags (if someone seemed they could get out of harm's way and live happily, you knew they were dead meat) and tended to kill people just for shock value, the antagonists became too few and needed plot armor... The writing team, while good at creating backgrounds and opening a plot, were definitely not as good at developing and closing said plot. We could say that "the questions they asked became so big that they themselves weren't able to answer them".
I'm trying to get up to date with all Gundam series, currently on OO and I promised a friend that I would watch seed destiny after but now I may not longer keep that promise and move to iron blooded orphans. Didn't expect it to be this dark even for a Gundam series.
Its the one i recommend to anyone that dosnt want to get in to any complicated timeline and wants to watch somthing relativly modern. Its my favorite mecha anime and the barbatos (and its upgrades) is my favorite gundam only slightly beating the strike freedom.
I've been a Gundam admirer for years but enver really invsted untill I watched IBO. After that I watched all of the original series, Char's counter attack, Hathaway, Thunderbolt and Unicorn and I've been in love. Will eventually watch more from the series too (so far trying to stick to original timeline with few exceptions since IBO started it for me so there will be spin-offs xD). But yeah I love that anime. It's great! I can't remember when was the last time I ha dso much fun despite all my favourite characters slowly but surely dying. It's incredible! And the story is top notch. Add that most of the deaths I don't think are BS but come from consequences and believable paths leading to them. Hell I even felt sory for Carta, she ultimately didn't really deserve it, she was pretty much an innocent child that had no idea what seh was doing ...a nepo baby. Anyway can't wait for the second part. I utterly love season 2. Never have things going worng been so fair and interesting in anime. I'm still angry for my boy Shino (you better mention Shino for the second part. He's not that important I guess but still, he operates a Gundam he deserves a shoutout, especially for the infuriating way he died). Despite the less beleivable ways some of the Gjallahorn named characters end up surviving things they shouldn't the second season was still pretty awesome I think. I love the whole show, what can I say.
29:00 aw, come on. She was basically a homeless orphan and Mika vouched for the local goods merchant to take her in as a helper/daughter. Boiling her intro down to 'simp' when he essentially saved her from a worse off fate is just disrespect.
IBO is my favorite, since its the first series since any of the true Universal Century Gundams written by Kill em all Tamino that actually goes into the real costs of war, the people affected by it, and shows just how brutal it is. Plus, Child Soldiers being deconstructed as a trope and how it utterlly messes up not only the kids themselves, but the societies of soldiers and how armies fight? This is done right. Also, may hate him, but McGillis? Absolutely right, but an ABSOLUTE shitheel.
I have to say IBO is probably my most recent fave mecha series. Some people didn't like how it ended but I did appreciate that ultimately while Tekkadan were the focus, they weren't the 'heroes' of their own story. They don't get to just 'win' or 'be right' because they are the focus, which not a lot of shonen shows do.
I've watched IBO a dozen times but still appreciate your summary of the story. Thanks for spot lighting IBO, more people need to see it and appreciate it. Great video. Thanks for all the effort you put into it.
Even though 00 was my first Gundam series, from the very first episode of IBO, I knew this show was my favorite series of all time. Everything is just... incredible. From the writing all the way to the music, all of it absolutely slaps.
IBO is the definition of F around and find out in anime. The first Gundam that was new after I had caught up to the franchise during Build Fighters and dropping G-Reco. The week to week experience with this show was insane. Absolutely the shining gem of the modern Gundam Age (pun intended)
Been watching your videos for years, and you guys have got me into gundam back with your how to get into gundam video and I’ve seen so much shit now it’s appreciated guys
I can only theorize. Some hard headed UC elitist are vocal of their hate towards it as they wanted for so long a UC timeline series like this made with all the modern bells and wistles and are upset that this was instead an AU. I actually talked with some more positive abaout the show and said that it do felt like classic UC and appreciate the more grounded approach of the series, as well as the more emphasis on the anti war message of it. My theory about the AU fans who hate it is probably because of the ending. Most AU Gundam fans are more used to a more romanticised story telling of gundam, wich more AU falls into. Some of them wanted Gundam to be more of a power fantacy type of story, where their idealised protag gets to pilot the best robot of the verse and win the war or some shiz. Getting a more grounded and a more anti-war focused return to form gundam series probably felt like a Bucket of Ice Water splashed on their head for them, especially with how the series ended. That said, many AU fans do have a positive opinion of IBO and do apreciate the "game of thrones" kind of story telling approach the series chose to implement.
There also people who claim Barbatos is the strongest MS and things just escalated as people actually made up story of creator of original gundam said that GM is stronger than Barbatos and people just believe it and now people just make fun of IBO so much that it's annoying at this point.
Honestly I love gundam, I love their designs and concepts but the only reason I couldn’t get into the animes are because kids often pilot gundams ehich just doesn’t make sense and I find the “only children can do it so well” parts are really lame. Wish every other gundam was with adults exclusively. Thats right, every other gundam because IBO is the only one that does it right. As far as I remember only child slaves are used as soldiers which is extremely fucked up but makes actual sense. Because its a genuine necessity for some and not an option for others it makes it grittier sure but now I can buy the idea that kids are piloting these things in militaries. And the whole story line is logical. Making a gundam school for children, or getting to pilot one because my daddy happens to be an engineer that makes them is stupid as fuck. Also I like how ibo does action better, mostly grounded unless in space, and not every gundam blows up when destroyed in a ball of fire…. Also kinetic weapons are cooler than lasers…
Man, love IBO but it's a hard watch. Entertaining but gut-wrenching. but I do have to say the vibe of the show was like Metal Gear meets American Crime Drama like Goodfellas, Casino, American Gangster, etc. Great video, my guy. 😎💪😎
IBO was show I watched after watching through G Reco. I hated that entire show, and IBO was such a 180 from really bad to incredible. Yeah, It's a brutal meatgrinder of a Gundam show but story is so well-written, my only complaint is that 2nd season is too adamant to show Tekkadan's enemies as bad guys (mostly due to Iok - fuck Iok) ending felt almost too unexpected
Was wild seeing a battle in a future version of the City I used to live in! Like I literally used to walk past the 'Monkey Mart' to go to and from the underground LRT Station in Edmonton (its a Money Mart IRL).
As a current Edmontonian, I feel you. Sure the government buildings look nothing like the show, same with the bridges, and just lol at the idea that the North Saskatchewan could ever be shallow enough to cross on foot, but the layout of downtown, the look of the streetlights and buildings are pretty accurate.
20:12 So Barbatos is pronounce the french way in english ?! Thta's cool. EDIT : IBO was my very fisrt gundam series. And yes You did a great job at resuming season 1 :) So yes +1 subscribe
I would like you to do double 0 eventually. I think you’ll like it. Especially season 1. Two is questionably good. And they have one movie that takes place after.
Finally, someone who actually did his research and isn't talking out of his ass with "show suck cause gundam lost to grunt, bad show!" Man, thank you for hardwork 🙏 For also actually understanding what the story is trying to tell
IBO is what got me into Gundam and tbh, it is better than most of the others i have tried, though i will try them again. it was brutal, gritty and painful. war shown at its worst, politics in full motion,. My only gripe is the incompetence of the enemy, but that kinda gets rectified in the sequel
Only gundam series I like as much as the original series and G Gundam. Yea its easy to shit on Orga but people seem to ignore he is a 20 year old with maybe a 5th grade education. They were child slave labor turned child soilders, yeah they are gonna make dumb decisions.
Ive never been able to get into gundam, mainly because of timeline confusion. My extent of gundam has always been g gundam but this got me wanting to fw the series more. Thanks brody
hell yea that good good bpop deep dive on violent psychologically scarring anime, kid dying has long been a sign of quality entertainment, maybe we can get 00 gundam season 1 at some point for some more child soldier story time this time in terrorist flavor!
Even though I grew up with a lot of the other and more typical series, IBO is hands down my favorite. Even over the ones i used to love as a kid. I think a lot of it has just aged and IBO kinda feels like the series aged up for a more mature take.
There was a happy ending at season 2 technically accept mikazuki and akihero died the rest of tekkaden lived and galihorn was reformed it still confused on if barbatos has some sentiance though the saddest deaths was biscuit and Aston and shino especially shino he was going to end galihorn but his shot was redirected and the turbans dying and orga the leader but at least Mikazuki had a son maybe can continue his life in an actual sequel i also like that tekkaden took tools and weapons from their enemies and fights to upgrade barbatos and Gundam gusion barbatos became the wolf king thanks to hashmal
i kinda miss the red stripes on jacket but those guys are the ones who survive by the end of s2. carta maybe annoying but i like her antics. seeing biscuit die made my eye wet and orga's command of surviving
Wasn’t expecting a IBO video especially a 50min+ video nonetheless! Thank you so much because IBO was one of my first array in giant robots fighting about politics. I absolutely love the story beginning to end.
The final battle of the show involved in destroying the gundams with the damn rods of God. Because they were too terrified to fight them with use several wmds first.
I love this show, but good lord it breaks me every time. I cried in season 1 for Biscuit (I will never get over that) and Shino in season 2 (I just felt that last desperate scream of frustration as he charged in at the end)
Not a bad analogy of the show to be honest. I also believe IBO is the real return to form of the franchise, with it's anti-war message as its focus. Personally, even with its flaws, i believe that this is the Ultraman's Nexus equivalent for the Gundam AU. This is the Narative Peak of AU and probably the reason we don't get shorter interval main line series anymore. You may polish the story, but there's hardly any way to top this up.
I feel like you really misunderstood Mcgillis. He was groomed in the official Gjallarhorn underaged bussy farm, and "adopted" by his "father" to have that shota bussy on hand at all times. He loved his friends but he also hated them, what with them going home to live good lives while after they left he would get torn up by his "daddy". Anything bad he did to Gjallarhorn was completely justified by what he knew them to actually be, but he was too damaged to understand that Gjallarhorn doesn't follow rules, only make them for others.
EXACTLY!!! This is why McGillis Never considered his Adopted Guardian to be Family. So his Marriage to Gaelio Underaged Sister happens to be out of Spite, and Sadly can Never be Justified as he embraced it to Meet an End goal! He never want that Relationship to be a Thing. Yet, it shows him as abit of a Hypocrite when he recognizes that the Sister does want to embrace being his wife. Him dying in space was Logical in his fight because he didn’t want to subject her to the same dynamic that he went through, even though Gaelio robs him of his chance to kill Rustal! Still the Two having that Heart to Heart in that Hallway before dies really paints how Naive Gaelio really was about the feelings of his former friend. And that’s honestly what makes him grow up.
