Zeong Development History 

With the upcoming RG Zeong, I felt that it was only fitting to make a Development History on this iconic machine. ➥Use the code Kakarot15 to get 15% off of your LootCrate purchase: loot.cr/3hXPuGp Valid on all loot crate purchases (except Limited Edition crates, Destiny and Loot Launchers) Kakarot's notes: Please keep in mind that this video only deals with mainline UC-lore and excludes the Origin and Thunderbolt as those are set in their own version of UC. (with their own story-specific history)

Before the pandemic: Hey, Gundam’s cool, maybe I’ll look into it if I have some time. Post-Pandemic: I HAVE A BURNING NEED TO KNOW WHY THE LOGISTICS BEHIND THE PERFECT ZEONG DIDNT WORK OUT

Here's what Zeon needed to do to win. 1. No mobile armors 2. Get rid of prototypes and initiate Bishop Plan. 3. Give Ral his freaking Doms

MSN-03 Zeong: You took everything from me. MSN-03 Jagd Doga: I don't even know who you are.

Once the Tequila Gundam enters mass production we will finally defeat the Mushroom Kingdom.

Zeon Engineers: "How many thrusters do you want?" Zeong High Mobility Type: "Yes."

I love how Thunderbolt gives us explanation for at least one of those other Zeong units, it's now being polited by Io apparently!

I know Char’s Deleted Affair story is considered to be an alternate universe story but I love that Char at the end of it piloted a perfect Zeong and the difference in its ability was instantly noticed by him. It was faster and more maneuverable. The federation soldiers that encountered it that day would never live to tell the tale.

The Neo Zeong was a goddamn monster, its one of the most overkill machines in the UC I mean how many mega particle cannons you could possibly need

1:21 Funnel development history

...you know, this leaves me with one fairly scary mental image: a Perfect Zeong Hi-Mobility Type, with both legs AND thruster wings.

To this day I still wonder why the "Perfect Zeong" is still missing armor on one bicep and one thigh.

In Gundam Thunderbolt, a number of Zeong's were captured by a Federation assault team.

Three things worth noting. 1. The Zeong has second cockpit in torso, and supposely still operatable by two oldtype pilots working together (not as good as one newtype, of course). 2. At least one model kit manual claim that Zeong is always suppose to be legless in space and the missing 20% are the missing armor around its upper arms. But this might get retconed as newer kits claim both the legs and upper arms' armor contribute to that 20% 3. Technically the Psycho Gundam is yet another of Zeong' successor. It's huge, it has cockpit in head, and the weapons are very similar (head beam, finger beams, and abdoment beams) but use the psycommu system for controlling the MA itself instead.

7:12 I just love the story of the Zeong, in that its factory was under attack when it was being constructed, but being 80% complete, they launched it into combat anyways with enlarged rockets. Kinda reminds me of those stories of Stalingrad, where the Soviets were literally rolling out T-34 tanks out of the factories, straight into combat.

Char: it has no legs Engineer : Those high ranked officers know shit about machinery

Interesting bit of old-timey lore: one of the same sources that mentioned the Zeong supposing to split apart also mentions that it was supposed to be equipped with spare cables in case it was disarmed. The implication as to the anticipated difficulty in getting the limbs to rendezvous w/ the MS during combat implies the Zeong's arms *might* have been able to be wirelessly controlled w/i an extremely limited range in the meantime.

I’m pretty sure that Perfect Zeong’s “Gundam head Ball” story is not only not canon, but actually a comedy comic

from game Gato: so this is Zeong, where's the legs? Char: technicians said the legs are just decoration.... Gato: lol future Gato: *piloting legless MA*

Zeon engineer: "legs are just for show!" also Char is famous for his Red Comet Kick attack, lol.

Even though nobody calls it a spiritual successor, I think Neo Zeon's Alpha Azieru should count as one for the Zeong. Has the same overall concept, cockpit in head, similar weapons, and even has the Sturn Thrusters the Neo Zeong had. Not it's fault Quess was the pilot, lol.

"The legs are just decorations, the top brasses won't understand that." - A Zeon MS engineer.

The box art on that Perfect Zeong is f*ckin' cool.

7:55 I thought my monitor was glitching when the Zeon symbol started moving.

Oh Zeon Deikun. If only you knew. Thank god they never finished that thing or Amuro would've failed.

3:20 Is that only 1 of the sub pieces next to the Gundam? Yeah. HG Mechanics for this guy.

You know the Zeons we're in a hurry when they didn't have time to paint the unit red.

That Great Zeong looks like perfect one year war version of the Queen Mansa and the Kshatriya.

6:14 because legs are for chumps 9:36 Ha!!

I loved the psycom Zakus. Even though they have a limited operation time I see those guys a great escort ms. Magnetically fix them to the ship, run a power pipe to them, and you get one hell of a gunner that only needs to leave if the enemy gets to close.

I remember seeing the Zeong on the show. I remember Char manage to piloted it. It was the suit that destroyed Amuro's Gundam. If they more of these during the One Year War and these suits were given to Ace Pilots, they would have destroy Gundams.

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I like the Braw Bro. They have never made a good scale model or even a MSIA toy. And that is a bummer.

Whenever I see the zeong for some reason I always remember that gundam-san episode where Amuro looks under the Dom's skirt Oh and when will there be a hazel development history? I want to see you talk about all of them. ALL OF THEM Wait why is the psycommu early test type called a zaku when it looks like an effect?

That Great Zeong looks reminiscent of the Kshatriya from Unicorn and those giant Neo Zeongs remind me of the Alpha Azeiru from Char's Counterattack! And I thought I was bad having the same two character names in all my NaNoWriMo projects even though they don't share universes! Mostly! (Two are Pokémon, two are Gundam Mars Colony Era (mine), one Borderlands and I'm scrapping and starting over with the pirates one in favour of a space adventure!) Speaking of, how about development history for Qubeley/Quin Mantha/Kshatriya?

I feel like the Zeong is often underappreciated by Japan and Sunrise. I always see Chars Red Zaku II get a lot of merchandise and attention when it was basically unable to even harm the Gundam. The Zeong flat out defeats it and I never see anything made for it besides Gunpla and maybe Gatcha toys. I feel like that implies most people don't watch past the first episode.

I absolutely love the What If units from the G Generation games. Though I completely forgot the Great Zeong was even a thing!

That Zeon pilot was spittin though. It didn't really need legs, if anything it might even be better off without for less weight. Like the Guntank right. Imagine you're going off to a big battle and this caterpillar tank legged suit just cruises through space

Love it when you do these videos.

This video disappoints me, it's such a shame that the Zeong's best feature was neglected by most of its successors. One of my favorite parts of the original Gundam was the "It doesn't have legs." "It doesn't need legs!" exchange. Especially because once you see it in action you realize that they're right; it really DOESN'T need legs.

i was waiting for this for a long time thank you

I love these videos. Perfect to glance at and admire the many unique mobile suits while tinkering with my computers!

I just want to say thank you for the nods to the Crossbone Gundam mangas. They’re my favorite Gundam content and it’s really nice to see anything from them get shown the spotlight. And the use of Misato’s theme from Evangelion during that segment: priceless.

You're really knowledgeable when it comes to mobile suits and their history I really like it thank you for the info and the history lesson

Love this video so thanks!!! Wasn’t much of a fan in the early days of this MS but now I absolutely LOVE IT!!! I bought a HG kit for nostalgia but now I absolutely want to buy a RG kit of this!!! The RG kit is most EPIIIIIC!!!

Legless Development History

FINALLY. CHAR'S ULTIMATE MOBILE SUIT

I just realized, when the zeong is posed like in the thumbnail it kinda looks like a head

As always, another great video.

I’m so happy you referenced the B Gundam’s supposed influence on the Perfect Zeong’s development with the same music too!

Hearing sci fi talk about how brainwave controlled things are very responsive just makes me laughs in retrospect now that we know more about just how slow neural signals actually are compared to any other forms of communications and electronic processing systems.

Kakarot197, keep up the awesome videos man! Would love to see some stuff on the Testament Gundam, out-frame, and Lord Astray Omega/ and golf frames.

I love when we get stuff like the YMS-06Z, stuff that was clearly designed not to actually fit into the aesthetic of the era but for a completely different timeline of toys. Love the design itself but the Psycommu Zaku looks like it belongs in Unicorn, not the original series. The all-range attack... [TURN-X INTENSIFIES]

Yeees another development vid!

Looking forward to your review video of the RG Zeong!

I am of the opinion that it is a great thing that Kakarot's been doing like our own GUNDAM HISTORY channel. A purely objective view of the technical advances that are borne from conflict. Well done, Cheers.

With Mobile Armors and Giant MS it makes you wonder why they have Battleships anymore. I mean, they are just targets. Unless a Battleship can do half of what a Mobile armor can do they may as well retire them and just have refueling ships that hang back from the fighting.

As a SoCal former surfer, I lol'd at an MA named Brah-Bro

I imagine Okawara was splitting hairs when making these designs. All the logic that had to fit in the designs. No wonder he was happy designing stuff for X and wing :D

I never thought that the Zeong had such an interesting story great video btw !

I wonder how you feel about the Thunderbolt developments. I do think they change some of the canon with the decisions they've made but love how they've given attention and revitalized some older designs.

I was wondering if in your next QnA video you can answer how designation numbers on mobile suits work

This is my favorite one year war MS Thank You!

A mobile suit splitting it limbs and head to which each part can move and attack by remote control? The only one I know that can do that perfectly would be the Turn X Gundam. Also, I thought the name Zeong was supposed to be a play on "Zeon G-undam" as to that this was the Zeons version of the popular mobile suit.

Dang, I'm really digging those white Psychommu Zakus. Imagine at least an MG of it.

Another fantastic video; I swear the design aesthetic of Zeon's mobile suits is like a drug. Do you have any plans for covering the MS-09 Dom and Rik Dom development histories?

Huh. So this is there the Turn X's ability to split into different parts comes from.

Nice video! But you missed a few small things. There was actually a second Braw Bro unit made. At the Battle of A Baou Que in the anime, if you look carefully at the background, there was actually a 2nd Braw Bro unit that was deployed as part of the Zeon fleet. Secondly, in Char's Deleted Affair manga, the Perfect Zeong was deployed. Char did comment it was much more mobile. And the original technician who said the Zeong didn't need legs took back his words, and said that legs actually made a big difference in mobility. Thanks for the video, and take care!

I never liked the Zeong line. I don't know what it is about it, but it feels more super roboty and gimmicky. Still, cool video dude! I love how you frame these lore videos almost like in-universe documentaries. I actually get a kick out of imagining that kind of thing. Like in the old Star Wars books (pre-Disney) imagining an in-universe biography of Luke Skywalker decades after the war. Or in Gundam, 100 years post OYW, studying about the OYW in school, the way we learn about WW2 and such. Maybe I'm just weird, but I find that kind of thing really cool. As for Loot Crate, I had a subscription for about 2 years and I ended it about 2-3 years ago. They send some cool stuff. But it's all very very cheaply made. I liked a lot of the T-shirts they sent, but they were such poor quality that after wearing them maybe 6-8 times, they were faded, stretched out and basically little more than rags. Compare that to T-shirts I bought at Hot Topic a *decade* ago that I still have and wear regularly, after hundreds of washes. I'd much rather use my money for a smaller number of higher quality shirts and collectibles of my choosing, than get a bunch of random stuff that - while cool - is very poor quality.

its not just bit weapons that allow newtypes to be weaponized. They make excellent pilots simply by having a sense that tells them if someone is getting ready to shoot at them or not.

Was hoping for info on the thunderbolt vareiant but this was still informative

Hi Kakarot197; I love your work and have been a fan of your channel for a few years now. I really enjoy your Gundam Development History playlist; have you ever thought of doing a video on any After Colony mobile suits? Like the Tallgeese to the Leo?

Oooh perfect

Gundam encounters in space ost oooooooooh mai gaaawd, ps2 were truly the golden days

Qubeley development history might be interesting... seeing as how it goes from a psycommu Dom test to the Kshatriya.

My favorite MS... Almost every chance I get with any game, I love piloting the Zeong and Generations of it.

The perfect way to make wireless comms for weapons that can’t be jammed by minovski particles or hijacked by a stronger new type with psycchoframe tech, and can also be used by old type would be to just use quantum entertainment.

Anyone notice that the first test Zaku looks more like an Efreet than a Zaku due to the head? I think I remember 5, possibly more, or so Efreets were made and so far only 4 have been seen. Regular one piloted by Henry Boone, Doug Schneid Custom, Efreet Custom [EXAM], and the Efreet Nacht. Maybe the head came from a dismantled Efreet

Seeing the 2nd psychomu Zaku in Thunderbolt was pretty sweet

And in Wing G Unit a Gundam uses a similar concept.

Can't wait for you to review RG Zeong

Can't say I was expecting this!

Hopefully when you get the time since seeing thunderbolt gundam I would like to learn more about the psycho-zaku. Seems pretty neat how it could make a pilot without limbs more than a match for a gundam.

the "splitting into multiple sections" gimmick did make it's comeback though... in the Turn X

The Zeong, Big Zam and the Nuev Ziel are my fav weapons from the Universal Century.

"All 3 Units were then destroyed" Thunderbolt: haha.... no Edit: so based on the comments below, Thunderbolt is just as cannon as missing link

ive been working on my own custom zeong for one of the gundam breaker games, mixing it with some gundam parts, mostly the Virgsos arms, and the Strike Freedoms Dragoons,, i made it to be an ultimate all ranger attacker, and i named it Sieg Zeong, as a play on words of its well, insperations developers

Here’s an idea if possible, mass production battle royale. Fight between the different mass production mobile suits and to keep it balanced sticking with first generation mass mobile suits I.E. Zaku 2, GM, Ginn, strike dagger, Leo, and any of the mass production suits before the gn tau drives.

Yes more videos about Zeon's expensive money drains

7:34 Wonderful thanks to that Mobile Suit B Gundam, that idea was to make Psycho Gundam and Destroy Gundam born into Gundam franchise

Question: kakarot197 what are your top 10 mobile armors from the Gundam franchise??

Great Zeong (somehow I have mandela effect calling it Grand Zeong) it was a homage to all iconic Zeon's MA head -> Elmeth (also Zeong) chest-shoulder -> Apsalus III lower torso -> Byg Zam arms -> Zeong feets -> Bigro

I used the Bishop a decent amount in Battle Operation 2 and i like it. The High Mobility Type (Named Psycommu Zaku in-game) is also playable. And of course the Zeong is in the game too though he didn't appear until over a year into the game's lifecycle. The game is currently adding Zeta, ZZ & Sentinel stuff.

I'm getting some of my friends into Gundam and I'm gonna use the first minute of this video to explain what Newtypes and Minovsky particles are, thanks

Some time ago I did the Kikeroga in Zeong colors and it was pretty cool. But still, I need to start working on Great Zeong someday...

when are we getting RGM development history

just wish got model kits of these mobile suits, especially the test type with the efreet head

That's a nice Zeong you got there, it would be ashame if it wasn't painted red.

had they finished producing all of the zeongs in time AND if the zabi family did not pull the PR stunt of giving most of their gelgoogs to young recruits then they may very well have won the war.

I know it was only in Battle Assault but I'm a little sad I didn't see the "Beam Kick" the front thrusters could do in that game.