Quite literally nobody expected we would be getting these unique and beautifully animated shorts from a pretty obscure Gundam game (compared to other Gundam games). Really love that we got these animations
“Don’t know if we were crazy or stupid, only know how to moving forward” Originally written by the Japanese soldiers who involved within “226 incident” but I think it fits Gato very well
also hilariously explained in Crossbone Gundam Skull Heart the reason Gato did not encounter Amuro during the OYW is due to a confusion brought by Umon Samon's B-Gundam which Zeon witnesses mistook it for the remains of Amuro's destroyed RX-78-2 and Gato leaving his post to try examine it while the actual Amuro and RX-78-2 manages to slip by Solomon's defenses due to the absence of Gato in the area, lol.
Not quite - what happened was that Umon's guerrilla tactics meant the Zeon pilots he was fighting often only saw glimpses of the B-Gundam, usually while it was partially obscured. Because of this, many of them thought it was actually the Gundam itself, and that it was an absolutely titanic machine - some sources claiming that that mistaken belief impacted the development of the Zeong, leading to it's own great size.
@@cormacoregan471 I read through skull heart, it's both. The false destruction report happens first, which reaches Gato, causing him to leave. 2 pages later Zeon intel sees B-Gundam hiding behind a rock and then also reports the real RX-78 as a second Gundam.
@@haihuynh8772 Doesn't sound stupid at all, Gato was in a Gundam and Kou gets his arse handed to him and even tries fighting in space with the improper equipment and almost dies and loses a Gundam. Then Gato pilots a mobile armour, something he didn't specialise in and still didn't lose to Kou but to a bullet and was killed by kamikazing his MA.
@@ZiggysRevenge That's true, it's pretty clear that Uraki never actually beat Gato. In fact, Gato spared him. Still doesn't mean Kou isn't an ace pilot. He is.
@@remigal9937 He got lucky because he had a beam bazooka, and what was he before? How many ship did he take down before? He was not at the Battle of Loum, so until Solomon he was just a bit late in the MS fighting.
In a "what-if" scenario in Encounters in Space, Gato engages Amuro Ray during the Battle of Solomon. Although the battle between the two ends in a stalemate, Amuro comments that Gato could have finished him off if their battle had gone on longer.
I just noticed that in the UC Engage part the Salamis, Magellan and GMs are the Origin version while the Dom is the original MSG version. so many different styles together. For a long time the Salamis and Magellan designs from MS IGLOO had become the standard when animating small videos like this guess they finally got replaced
@@dogeren0096 Gato made me want Operation Stardust to succeed. Char couldn't do the same with his plan to drop Axis, i wanted Amuro to win the whole movie.
The new animations for Gato really show him off in a Glorious way. I'm a Reddy boy through and through, but gotta give mad respect to the nightmare of Solomon
Anaval Gato's body count must be in the thousand's. He seems like the type of guy who would use use his melee weapon on someone floating in a normal suit. Maybe even sink a few lifeboats
Officially his MS count is 100-200 approximately, as the chaotic battle went on he couldn’t even remember how many he shot down (according to some sources that I don’t remember, lol)
It could go either way really. Gato's character come off as an old style honor bound soldier/samurai type. Soldier would probably let defenseless opponent go while samurai will likely conduct honorable/mercy killing of the defeated enemies.
@@dogeren0096 200 ms , that’s total BS, on gato’s record since fed GM ‘s didn’t appear in large numbers until late November and then by the time of the battle os Solomon they outnumbered the Zeon by at least 2 to 1.
if some miracle they one day fully adapt 0083: rebellion into an anime they better add this scene in to further tell gato's reputation. if ppl dont know: rebellion similar t ogundam the origin is a updated retelling of 0083: stardust memory. majority of it is mainly the same but the biggest thing is the story continues further after the final battle and gato survives. story after focus on the titans roll in U.C and what they do with eventually building up into zeta gundam with right now they are developing the gundam mk-2 units. side thing: also agent millar from 8th ms team: millars report appears sometime in the rebellion story.
While Rebellion is probably not canon it is very cool and I wouldn't mind seeing an animated version of it. Particularly moments like Gato wiping out those 6 Gm Nightseekers that showed up when he was leaving Torrington.
Oh thank God I didn't know about this. I felt like the second half of the anime flopped so hard because director change but if they remade it and it goes way further that's great news
0083 rebellion is like the original (well theres two 0083 movie and chopped ova) but on so much steroids and my favorite page was when Gato arrives at the moon with the gp02 packing so much heat just to recover the one armed ma pilot.
@@DamplyDoo just as often as a grunt Dom's bazookas do anything to ships. Gato's Beam Bazooka was high power prototype weapon so it makes sense it can one shot ships. Now should a whole ship explode when only the bridge is hit, no it shouldn't but neither should a GM or Zaku explode when they lose their heads or get looked at funny by a named character. Chalk it up to not enough animation budget to show damaged ships.
@@DamplyDoo Ships tend to get blown up completely when bridge killed because it's cheaper than having to animate the wreck drifting away, it happens in everything.
Direct shot at the bridge. Engine blows. The whole ship blows. Thats one powerful beam bazooka. Beam magnum might not even compete. Or maybe gato is actually a newtype that can bend a part of the beam to hit the engine.
Salamis class ships are pretty much the GMs of ships in Gundam, theyre pretty damn weak where basically a single grunt MS can handle a salamis if it didnt have any escorts. Despite that though, they are the backbone of the Fed fleet and is prolly the longest-serving ship family in UC. Also, its a common thing in any Gundam timeline that if you destroy the bridge, the rest of the ship explodes.
The Salamis class are what you get when you don't sink trillions of dollars into your military/MIC a-la the US of A: an inferior war machine that becomes obsolete five days into the war.
one thing i never got about gundam shows. They fly around in big ass ships armed to the teeth but a simple Mech will toast them with a single shot out of his standard weapon.
This is standard WWII navy logic. Even the most fiercest battleship would pretty much be dead in the water if the bridge was hit. That’s the logic ship battles in Gundam operate under.
God I love the idea that Gato and Amuro fought! I would kill or perform sexual favors if someone would remake the UC timeline into a single coherent work, integrating the various stories and MSV all into one.
Anyone else other than me thinks UC Engage actually did a "POOR job" depicting 0079 mobile suits? The animation is very fluid and beautiful, but I am talking about how the battle is portrayed. The way Gato flips and spins feel like he is using a post 0093 era suit (i.e. Unicorn) with Minovsky-drive or non-UC world Gundams. His Dom feels mass-less (mass still matters in space) and uses booster way longer than he should.
has there been any explanation as to why warships go down with one beam cannon shot thats connected to a ms compact battery but the shielding is able to withstand a couple from a warship's mega particle cannon
Also easy out is you can say it’s due to the range, in uc lore it’s clearly stated beams lose power at great distances and often times the warships fought past the eyes visible range, but mobile suits often fire from meters away
Ships don't have shields but if tou mean the armor being hit or miss there's not much excuse. They also don't want to have to keep animating the decapitated bridgeless shipsm
Bad writing? Stormtrooper effect. Plot armor. Putting the focus on the MS's instead of the warships because people watch Gundam for the Gundams, and not the ships. That's basically it. If you're looking for a logical answer, you're not going to find one. It's the same reason why they never mass produce the stuff that is actually good at warfare, but they mass produce all the stuff that's good at blowing up. They need to put the emphasis on specific heroes and villains for plot reasons.
Gato got lucky because he was carrying the beam bazooka, would he have been able to inflict the same thing with a regular bazooka? Hardly, and he still wouldn’t stand a chance against Gundam. If Char couldn’t, what makes you think that he could??
That’s the lingering question. Gato had a higher kill count, but gets dismissed because for the later part of the one year war char was focused on his rivalry with Amuro. It’d be really interesting to see a short where the two have a showdown in common Zaku’s or Rick Dom’s just to make the field even.
