Gundamania

2009-07-22T11:37:00.000-07:00

I do have plans to work on some art, but I'm in a bit of a Gundam high right now. I blame most of it on an insane addiction to Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 (I'm trying to get Char to like that loser Shinn so I can unlock Lunamaria), collecting Japanese SD gashapon figures of them, working on models (trying to decide which to get next), and watching 08th MS Team on DVD.

I do have ideas in the works. For the comic I have a few more strips to do for the Bamboo and Pocus arc (Contest is still open...winner gets a year's dA Subscription!...if I get a winner...), plus I've had some ideas for some really cute Pinklet stories. Next task, though, is going to be a remix piece of Gaara from Naruto. I've come up with some ideas to make him kind of scary, and mind you these are ninja without the super-powers, which makes it interesting.

LEGO x Gundam Mania

2009-03-22T18:31:00.000-07:00

Though not officially LEGO sanctioned, you can now quench that urge to build your own Gundam mobile suit by buying one of these new model kits from the Rinkya online store. Each one is a about a foot tall and can be made out of 700 individual pieces. For 8,925 yen, you can choose between RX-78-2 Gundam, MS-06S Zaku II, or MS-06F Zaku II. Check out more pics here.

and also manga

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2008-12-15T19:37:00.000-08:00

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GN-003 Gundam Kyrios

2008-10-20T00:15:00.000-07:00

GN-003 Gundam Kyrios

Unit type: transformable mobile suit
Overall height: 18.9 meters
Overall weight: 54.8 metric tons
Equipment: GN Drive, optional tail unit, Trans-Am system, tail booster
Armament: GN beam submachine gun x 1, GN shield x 1, GN beam saber x 2
Pilot: Allelujah Haptism
Mechanical designer: Takayuki Yanase

Flight mode

Flight mode, equipped with tail unit

GN beam submachine gun

Tail unit

GN-002 Gundam Dynames

2008-10-19T23:03:00.000-07:00

GN-002 Gundam Dynames

Unit type: long-range sniper mobile suit
Overall height: 18.2 meters
Overall weight: 59.2 metric tons
Equipment: GN Drive, Haro, Trans-Am system
Armament: GN sniper rifle x 1, GN beam pistol x 2, GN shield x 1, GN full shield x 1, super substratospheric altitude gun x 1, GN beam saber x 2, GN missile x 24
Pilot: Lockon Stratos (aka Neil Dylandy)

Mechanical designer: Takayuki Yanase

Equipped with GN full shield

GN sniper rifle

GN-001 Gundam Exia

2008-10-19T22:31:00.000-07:00

GN-001 Gundam Exia

Unit type: general purpose close combat mobile suit
Overall height: 18.3 meters
Overall weight: 57.2 metric tons
Equipment: GN Drive, Trans-Am system
Armament: GN sword/rifle x 1, GN long blade x 1, GN short blade x 1, GN beam saber x 2, GN beam dagger x 2, GN vulcan gun x 2, GN shield x 1
Pilot: Setsuna F. Seiei (aka Soran Ibrahim)
Mechanical designer: Kanetake Ebikawa

Original rollout colors

0 gundam

2008-10-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

GN-000 0 Gundam

Unit type: prototype mobile suit
Equipment: GN Drive
Armament: beam rifle x 1, beam saber x 1, shield x 1
Mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

Distinctive characteristics

2008-10-18T17:33:00.000-07:00

Gundam is the name or nickname of several mobile suits or mobile fighters, although in some of the related series, such as G-Saviour do not use the term Gundam in the show and presume viewers can tell the difference of Gundam type mobile suits from its general characteristics. The OVA series Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO mainly based upon other famous icons from the first series like the Zaku to relate the show with other Gundam series.

The term Gundam is more of an idea instead of a clear image. Each series can show very different design and colouring for the Gundams. Most of the Gundam in various shows normally have a head following the design of the first Gundam, from the design of Kunio Okawara. Some are different from others, like Zeta Gundam using an angular white mouth-piece instead of a squared red one. One of the notable incidents in early history of Gundammania design was when Katoki Hajime presented his line art design of S Gundam to the Sunrise officials, they felt that it did not look like a Gundam and rejected the design, yet when Katoki added in the major colouring, red, blue and yellow, to the same design and added a few more pictures displaying the suit from different angles at the next meeting, the same officials found it to look quite like a Gundam. The producer, Masahiko Asano noted in his notes that everyone had their own idea of Gundam, and in the meeting, they were trying to find the asymptotic view for everyone in the meeting.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

2008-10-18T17:20:00.000-07:00

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu. was an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline. It is the second alternate universe in the Gundam media franchise, following Mobile Fighter G Gundam. The plot centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space; however in contrast to the Universal Century continuity, the Gundams in Wing are more closely allied to each other than they are to any particular side in the conflict unfolding around them.

The series aired across Japan on the terrestrial TV Asahi network and the anime satellite television network, Animax. The series ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. Masashi Ikeda was the overall director of the series. Katsuyuki Sumizawa (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) wrote the scenario for the series and was one of three official script-writers, along with Akemi Omode and Katsuhiko Chiba. Ikeda wrote one script himself and one with Omode and one with Sumizawa. Toshifumi Kawase also wrote three scripts in the latter part of the first half of the series. Kō Ōtani composed the music. The series was loosely based on the original 1979 Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate. Also, Gundam Wing was the first anime in the Gundam franchise to be dubbed and released in tagalog, airing on GMA 7 in the Philippines during the late 1999 to 2000 period. It then aired on Cartoon Network in the United States and is credited with single-handedly popularizing the Gundam metaseries among the Western audiences. Since then, the series has also been dubbed into French, German, Arabic, Spanish, Malay and Portuguese.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

2008-10-18T17:06:00.000-07:00

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Kidō Senshi Gandamu SEED [Shīdo]?), often shortened to Gundam SEED, is an anime television series animated by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. It is a part of the Gundam franchise that started in 1979, but takes place in an alternate universe called the Cosmic Era. The series spans fifty episodes, which broadcasted in Japan from October 5, 2002 to September 27, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. on the JNN TV stations TBS and MBS. The series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 2002. It was adapted into a manga published by Kodansha on February 17, 2003. Gundam SEED's story continues in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

2008-10-18T16:57:00.000-07:00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 , Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburu Ō?) is the latest television anime of Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise.
It is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Yun Kōga. The series was first officially announced by Sunrise during a 15-second trailer on June 2, 2007. Gundam 00 will consist of two seasons, with the first one containing 25 episodes. The second season began airing on October 5, 2008 and had its first trailer released on July 13, 2008. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in high-definition as well as the first to be set in the non-fictional Anno Domini era.,

The series is set in a futuristic Earth and centered around Celestial Being, a private paramilitary force and their efforts to rid the world of war and conflict with a series of unique and highly effective mobile suits known as "Gundams".

Licensing for a North American release of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 was announced by Bandai Entertainment at New York Comic Con 2008 on April 18, 2008. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 will be the first Gundam series to air on national television in the United States since Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and will air on SCI FI in November 2008.

First season

The series is set in the year 2307 of Anno Domini. As a result of the depletion of fossil fuels, humanity had to search for a new source of power. The power was found in the form of massive arrays of solar power collectors orbiting the Earth, and supported by three orbital elevators, each one serving one of the three "power blocs" on the planet.

GN-001 Gundam Exia piloted by Setsuna F Seiei

With this nearly inexhaustible source of energy benefiting only the major powers and their allies, constant warfare erupts around the globe among minor countries for fuels and energy. Countries that once economically relied on fossil fuels have plunged into poverty. Some even believe that solar energy threatened the "promised land of God". This chaos led to the formation of a private military organization, called Celestial Being , Soresutaru Biiingu?), dedicated to eradicating war and uniting humanity through the use of four humanoid machines called Gundams.[4][6] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 follows four mobile suit pilots termed Gundam Meisters , Gandamu Maisutā?), sided with Celestial Being. The main protagonist is 16-year old Setsuna F Seiei エイ, Setsuna F Seiei?), a quiet, taciturn young man who grew up in the war-torn Kurdish Republic. He pilots the GN-001 Gundam Exia, a high mobility mobile suit effective in melee combat. Confronting the armed resistance of the three world superpowers, the Gundam Meisters were forced to fight several opposing aces, such as Ali Al-Saachez, a mercenary who was responsible for the death of Setsuna's and Lockon's family.

Unable to counter Celestial Being's superior technology, the three major powers eventually unite into the United Nations Army in order to counter Celestial Being's armed interventions. In order to fight the Gundams, the United Nations Army employed the help of Laguna Harvey. Harvey, a Celestial Being intelligence agent turned traitor, provides them with 30 GN-X, mobile suits equipped with pseudo-GN Drives that are on-par with the Gundams. As the United Nations resist Celestial Being's interventions, a second team of Gundams, known as Team Trinity, appears and assists in the Meisters' eradication of war, albeit in a much more cruel and cold-blooded fashion, in contrast with the original Meisters' less-aggressive nature of armed intervention.

Alejandro Corner, a former Celestial Being observer who plans to make use of the chaos and destruction created by Celestial Being to rule a reconstructed world, subsequently takes over Veda, Celestial Being's supercomputer which is located on the moon. Without the organization's artificial intelligence, Celestial Being is easily overwhelmed and overpowered by the equally powerful GN-X units and their superiority in quantity.

The United Nations Army initiates Operation Fallen Angels to destroy the Gundams, having discovered the location of the Meisters' mothership, Ptolemaios. During the operation, Ali Al-Saachez, kills Lockon Stratos after a climatic battle. Alejandro Corner, in his unique custom mobile armor Alvatore, attacks Gundam Exia as the GN-X units proceed to destroy the Ptolemaios and the remaining Gundams. Exia struggles with the monstrous Alvatore, but in the end succeeds in killing Alejandro. Graham Aker, an ace pilot of the United Nations Army, then challenges Setsuna to a fight, seeking revenge for his fallen comrades and questioning the purpose of Gundams' existence. The fight results in the destruction of both suits, with the fates of the pilots unknown.

Second season

Four years have passed since the final battle between Celestial Being and the UN Forces. Humanity, having established the Earth Sphere Federation, forms an independent security preservation force, A-Laws, separate from the formal Federation army. Given un-fettered discretion, A-Laws is charged with the duty to further unify nations and enforce the will of mankind. Unknown to the general public, however, is A-Laws' misuse of power and inhumane tactics to oppress freedoms, doctrines, and ideologies in the name of 'unity'.

Saji Crossroad has followed the path to becoming a space engineer, to keep his promise to Louise Halevy. Louise herself is compelled to become involved in Federation government reform and joined A-Laws as a mobile suit pilot during the four-year gap.

Meanwhile, Setsuna, having survived the battle with Graham Aker four years ago, has witnessed a change in the world due to the actions of Celestial Being. With the defeat of Alejandro Corner, he dreamed of a peaceful world without conflict; but before his own eyes was the reality of the continuing strain on peace, caused by the oppression of A-Laws. He decides once more to fight with Gundam, the power with the potential to change the world.

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 characters

He is the primary protagonist of the show and was discovered by Celestial Being at the age of 14 for having special potential as a pilot. He is currently a Gundam Meister for their organization, piloting the Gundam Exia, and later the 00 Gundam. Setsuna's real name is Soran Ibrahim; Setsuna being his Gundam Meister codename. He was a child soldier in the war-torn Kurdish Republic.[15] He murdered his own parents under Ali Al-Saachez's influence in order to prove his devotion to God,[16] and hence bears a deep hatred towards Saachez. Due to his previous religious brainwashing (and awakening from it), Setsuna no longer believes that God exists within the world. Setsuna believes that war can only be stopped through direct confrontation, and therefore has little tolerance for diplomats and politicians, believing that their "peace talks" only lengthen the conflict and cause more casualties.

Disappeared since the end of the first season, Setsuna reappears four years later and rejoins Celestial Being, piloting the GN-0000 00 Gundam.

Lockon Stratos Rokkuon Sutoratosu?)

Lockon decided to join Celestial Being after losing his parents and little sister to terrorists in Ireland; because of this, he loathes terrorists. As the eldest pilot, he is considered the team leader of the Gundam Meisters, and sports a more easygoing, flamboyant personality as compared to the other Gundam Meisters. He owns an orange Haro to control Gundam Dynames when sniping and just like Setsuna, he has a personal feud with Ali Al-Saachez, who was directly involved in the terrorist bombing that caused the death of his family.[17]

Lockon, who died at the end of the first season, is replaced by his younger twin brother who assumed the same codename and became the pilot of the GN-006 Cherudim Gundam.

Allelujah Haptism ( Areruya Haputizumu?)

Allelujah spent his childhood as an orphan in the Human Reform League as a Super Soldier experimental subject. While generally gentle and rational compared to the other Gundam Meisters, he has another harsher, unstable, and outright sadistic alter ego, named Hallelujah inside him, which was the result of the Super Soldier experiments. For this reason, Allelujah/Hallelujah appears to harbor a grudge against the Human Reform League. [18] He is the pilot of GN-003 Gundam Kyrios.

Allelujah is imprisoned during the four year timeskip between both seasons, but eventually rejoins Celestial Being piloting the GN-007 Arios Gundam.

An enigmatic character, his history, nationality and origins all a mystery. Within his gentle tone, he can give a sense of cold intentions. He values the mission above all other issues, including life, and does not show any 'concern' for his teammates. As the Gundam Meister of GN-005 Gundam Virtue, Tieria seems extremely loyal to Veda, and will go to any length to ensure the secrecy of Celestial Being's technology and operations, even if he has to kill other Gundam Meisters himself to achieve this end. Compared to the rest of the Gundam Meisters, Tieria is the most enigmatic, with none of his past explained. Throughout the first season he gives hints that he might actually be a robot which explains why he still looks the same after four years. The only ones that might have noticed or knew was Feldt and the original Lockon Stratos. [19]

Contrary of the other meisters who were either K.I.A. or M.I.A. in the end of the first season, Tieria continued to work for Celestial Being during the 4 year timeskip and became the pilot of the GN-008 Seravee Gundam.

Development

According to Hiroomi Iketani, one of the Gundam 00 producers, planning for Gundam 00 started in 2005, under the temporary name "Next" Iketani approached Seiji Mizushima, the director who was initially reluctant about accepting the job due to his lack of knowledge regarding the Gundam series, for the first time at the end of 2005.

The staff, consisting of over 300 people, spent roughly 2 years planning the series. Compared to other anime shows, Gundam 00 has more main staff members, partly due to the detailed mobile suit designs.

The series premiered on October 6, 2007, replacing Toward the Terra on the terrestrial MBS and TBS networks, occupying the networks' noted Saturday 6:00 p.m. timeslot. The first season ended its run on March 29, 2008. Season one of the series will be re-broadcasted across Japan on various television networks such as TBS, Kids Station, MBS and BS-i from April onwards. Season two is being broadcast in the MBS and TBS Sunday 5:00 p.m. slot since October 5, 2008.

Currently, seven DVD collections have been released.[23][24] The DVDs performed well in sales, with the first collection selling approximately 42,847 copies on the first week, ranking third on the Oricon's overall weekly DVD chart.[25] The Blu-ray disc collections have been confirmed, with the first and second volume slated for an August 22, 2008 release.

The final DVD of season one contains a whimsical trailer for the second season. Featuring voice work by the four Meisters, the trailer lampoons many early ideas for the show, fan theories and anime clichés before leading into a special message from Mizushima and a preview of the 00 Gundam.

PF-78-1 Perfect Gundam

2008-10-18T16:53:00.000-07:00

First appeared in manga Plamo Kyo-shiro, the first non-UC Gundam, in other media. It does have special armor plamo-kit build by Shiro Kyoda. Most it does appear in SD Gundam G Generation, as special unit, include the kit builder, Shiro Kyoda, as the pilot. It also appear in A.C.E. 3. The unit itself would later-rolled back to UC with a UC mecha setting due to its popularity. Basically it is similar to Full-Armor Gundam as having similar appearance, only with original colors. Since it is a Gundam Model, built for battle-simulation machines, it armaments departs from the other Gundam, which including a water-spray gun, an air-gun bullet Vulcan, and smoke grenades. Perfect Gundam's Armour can be detached in the battle and become a normal Gundam.

Super Robot

2008-10-18T16:44:00.000-07:00

Super Robot is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons, are extremely resistant to damage unless the plot calls for it, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and/or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes, and often shrouded by mystical or legendary origins. This is distinct from a Real Robot, which is a mecha portrayed as a relatively common item, used by military organizations in the same manner as tanks or aircraft.

Kunio Okawara

2008-10-18T16:40:00.000-07:00

Kunio Okawara is a mechanical designer in the Japanese anime industry. A mechanical designer is similar to a character designer, but the design is for robots, ships, and other mechanical items found in a particular show. Okawara was the first in the industry to be specifically credited as a mechanical designer. He designed mecha for the Gundam and Brave Series franchises, as well as those of numerous Super Robot and Real Robot shows. (The characters used for his family name are usually spoken as "Ōgawara," though he signs his works as "K.Okawara" in Romaji.)

He was born and currently lives in Inagi, Tokyo, where he works out of a studio in his home

Mobile Suit Gundam

2008-10-18T16:33:00.000-07:00

Mobile Suit Gundam , Kidō Senshi Gandamu?, lit. Mobile Soldier Gundam) is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network between April 7, 1979 and January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the very first Gundam series, which has subsequently been adapted into numerous sequels and spin-offs.

The series was later re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies in 1981. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko did the character designs and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the titular giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam. When the first movie is released in 22 February 1981, it is regraded as the new age of Anime and an event called Declaration of new age of Anime in Shinjuku and director Tomino made a speech questioning the then social concept which stereotype Anime being bad and poorly made to the gathered 15 thousand youngsters.

The series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1979 and the first half of 1980. By the end of 2007, each episode of the original TV series averaged a sales figure of 80928 copies, including all medias it was published in (VHS, LD, DVD, etc.). The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from 21 December, 2007 to 21 January, 2008.
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Gundam story in skies

2008-10-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

The story of Gundam Wing is that the colonies from space sent 5 Mobile suit pilots to earth to take revenge on OZ, a millitaTORY

The story of Gundam Wing is that the colonies from space sent 5 Mobile suit pilots to earth to take
revenge on OZ, a millitary power.The gundam pilots fly and complete all sorts of missions. Then when they
decide to go to space the colonies that they once called home have turned on them and now declare them enemies.
The pilots are confused and troubled on wht to do next.

Mobile Suit Gundam was principally developed by renowned animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, along with a changing group of Sunrise creators who went under the collective pseudonym of "Hajime Yatate".

During its conceptual phase the series was titled Freedom Fighter Gunboy, or simply Gunboy, because the title included a robot armed with a gun, and the primarily target demographic were shōnen (boys). In the early production stages there were numerous references to the word "freedom": the White Base was originally "Freedom's Fortress", the Core Fighter was the "Freedom Wing", and the Gunperry was the "Freedom Cruiser". The Yatate team combined the English word "gun" with the last syllable of the word "freedom", "dom", to form the name Gundom. Tomino then changed it to the current title, suggesting that Gundam signified a powerful unit wielding a gun powerful enough to hold back enemies, like a hydroelectric dam holding back floods.

Most Gundams are large, bipedal vehicles controlled from cockpits by a human pilot. The majority of these "mobile suits" - the description of these vehicles, including the Gundam, in the various series - have a cockpit in the "torso" of the machine, with a camera built into the "head" to transmit images to the cockpit. Rarely, cockpits are mounted elsewhere on the chassis, as in Psyco Gundam, where the cockpit is located in the unit's head.

While most Gundams are non-sentient there are some exceptions; in the side-story Gundam Sentinel, an artificial intelligence called A.L.I.C.E. develops its own emotions, wanting to become human at the very end of the story. In The Blue Destiny, another side-story, four mobile suits (one of them not a Gundam), built with the EXAM System, share a Newtype human soul which allows them to act independently These are the only canonical and specified plot-related Gundams that contains self-sentience.

gundamania

2008-10-18T15:29:00.000-07:00

Gundamania - *blows dust off everything* i haven't done anything at all with this site lately, but now that i'm off on winter break and bored to hell, i think i will. still working on the episode summaries, i think if i get bored enough i'm gonna do shrines for all the charachters, and also, i'm gonna find the episode scripts somewhere, and putting in all the audience comentary (think mystery science theatre, but better) i'll do somefin' wif' it.

Now Gundamaina Is now up and running FULLY! We have now had everytin up and ... Gundamania, Soon to be the greatest Gundam Wing. site on the Internet. STORY

Gundamania ... Gundamania's Web Ring. A Web ring centered on the Gundamania site, with almost two hundred members

11.03.00- Updated again. I now have the funky fanfic page up. check it out. and um, that's about all i did as of yet, but i have lots of time on my hands this weekend, so i'll be messing with things. enjoy

10.27.00- I'm just updating stuff for the hell of it because i'm grounded (again) and can't do anything else. ANyway, on to more important stuff, I actually got to give out one of my awards! wow, actual PEOPLE are visiting this site. KEWL!!! anyway, i put the little link on the awards page, so check it out.

10.21.00- Yes, i know i haven't updated in ages. Sorry! But it's last week of the term and i had to work my little butt off. Plus, i'm working on episode summaries. I swear i'll get 'em done!

10.13.00- i'm baaaaack. From what i can tell, ChibiNoin didn't destroy my site. ^_^ releived. obi wan has taught her well.

10.08.00-finally updated the funny page ( couldn't do it earlier because i was grounded :P ) and I'm also gonna be out of town next week for a school trip, so (against my better judgement), I'm leaving ChibiNoin in charge. Something's telling me I'm gonna have to do some major damage control when I get back...

9.30.00-did some more updates, primarily on the funny page, the charachter profiles, and some other stuff, since it's friday night and i've got some time on my hands

9.20.00- won an award from Hilde's Realm!!!! (check it out, it's a kewl site)*note* i moved the award to my awards page ^_^

9.11.00- Worked out (most of) the bugs.

9.10.00- COMMENCE OPERATIONS!!!

9.4.00- the first day I actually got anything done on this