My anime and manga club at my local community college is doing Mecha day tomorrow. Which Gundam show would for the best for people that never saw Gundam? We have people that never seen anything Gundam releated and most of our members grew up with G Gundam and Wing. Our members are pretty fine with older anime before the 2000's.

Gundam 00 has a pretty action packed and exciting first episode if you just want to show that. Or just show the 1st 0079 movie.

Gundam 00, Iron blooded orphans, or something else entirely Gundam Build Fighters Season One.

Yeah, dude, I get it, but that still doesn't excuse this. It's not just chopped up, it's rewritten and fucked with order-of-events wise. You can just keep repeating yourself but you seem to be completely ignoring the issue.

But at least mediocrity isn't as bad as basically ruining the plot twist.

See Zeta A New Translation it isn't the first time that's happened.

I fail to see an issue personally it's just another cobbled together re-edit of a previous show/OVA they've done it since the 80s sometimes a show benefits from it *Seed* most of the time though it's pointless and utter shit.

Bandai probably assumes everyone already knows about it either from the novel or OVA and also most likely just don't care since they have no incentive to put effort into this no new toys to sell and IBO is the current flagship series it's just a way to fill in a timeslot.


0079,8th MS Team or 00 if you want to properly introduce them to Gundam as a war drama otherwise Build Fighters.

Wow, so the Unicorn TV version is as bad as the Zeta movies? That IS bad. Like really bad. Like you might as well just drop a colony on my face bad.

Zeta Gundam. It's the best for a reason.

I didn't recommend Zeta as a first series because it's a sequel.

0080.

We end up doing Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans for my anime and manga club at my local community college. A lot of people like it that even the people that never watch Gundam wanted to check out more. We did the first two episodes because we like to save time for other shows (We also watch non-Gundam mecha anime like Shin Mazinger Z Impact, IGPX, Voltron, Martian Successor Nadesico and Big O). I thought the first two episodes of Iron-Blooded Orphans was pretty good. I do want to check out the rest later. I haven't seen a full Gundam show from start to finish since Seed on Toonami.

Yeah, but you will still be in the dark as to exactly what is going on at first with any of the other series regardless, so you might as well go with the best.

Anyway, we just watched 9-16 of Turn A. The show is still enjoyable, but there are a lot of things that are getting confusing. It seems like there are things happening between episodes that we are supposed to just know happened. For example, Kihel and Soliel switch identities. In the next episode, you see one of them back at Soliel's ship and the other is at the Heim home. What you don't know is that they never switched back until the following episode, so Kihel is actually running the Moonrace while Soliel is traveling around with Loran. Also, Soliel doesn't even seem to be shocked that Loran is the Gundam's pilot even though she was told it was a girl named Laura. Then she runs into some dude who looks like someone she used to love, but it turns out he is the grandson. How is that even possible? Do they age slowly when living on the moon? It's never explained or anything.

Anyway, the confusion aside and the fact that episode 16 was a friggin clip show, it has been enjoyable. It isn't anywhere near being the greatest Gundam series, but so far, it is definitely a great one. Way better than Wing G, and 0083.