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Mobile Fighter G Gundam: How do you breath new life into a franchise known for it's long narrative and creating the Real Robot genre.
Why of course, you turn it into a Super Robot show about a martial arts tournament where the ultimate prize is earth itself.
Yeah.
Trippy show.

G Gundam was the first alternate universe show after years of experiencing the Universal Century, and it distanced itself from the norm due to it's crazy premise, in the future mankind has migrated into space, and to avoid all-out war between the different colonies they agreed to hold the Gundam Fight, every 4 years all countires send a Gundam of their own to earth, and the last country standing controls the world till the next tournament.

The premise keeps the Gundams away from the usual war, exchanging it for one on one matches of epic proportions, the action holds up and is fun and over the top.

The Gundams themselves are one of the most known aspects of the show, their desings are... stereotypical on some cases, and downright insane on others, but surprisingly enough the show doesn't really call attention on their sillyness, and the actual pilots are well defined characters, they do share some of their stereoptypes, but their stories and personalities are liekable and believable, even the one-shot characters are fairly good, people like Chico and Hans have solid arcs in their respective episodes and become rather memorable.

G might not tackle the usual Gundam themes upfront, but all of them are there in the background and subtext, and ultimately the show is if anything fun, if you are willing to get into the world and tone of G Gundam, you are in for a show that never lets go.