Anime Gundam

[Guest salena ankoku]

Hey everybody! im new here and i was wandering if any of you guys could tell me anything about the series. I use to watch it when it was out on t.v. and now fpr some strange reason im getting completely obsessed wit it for some reason :animesigh

so please if you can remember anything about the series please tell me. ONEGAI!!!! :bawl:

[Solo Tremaine]

[COLOR=#503F86]You may need to be more specific about what it is about the series (and which series in particular) it is that you're having problems with, otherwise there's so much unnecessarry information that could be thrown at you. Is it the storylines you want to know about? New series/sequels/movies? 'Anything' means, well... anything, heh ^_^;[/COLOR]

[Qukey]

It maybe helpful to let us know which Gundams are you talking about?

Some brief history of Gundam in general:
Mobile Suit Gundam(1979) is the first anime uses robots in war. Before MSG, all robot shows involved robots fighting against some bad guys in black and white settings. MSG revolutionized robot animes but putting robot in a realistic background of war between different idealogies. The show failed on the first run but became highly successful on reruns.

Due to overpopulation and pollution, people migated into the Space and lived in man-made land known as Space colonies. Years after, the people in some space colonies demanded independent from the Earth Federation Government, who ruled both Space and Earth. After the assissination of the famous Space leader Zeon Zum Deikun, the people in Space colonies became aggressive with their military force. In the years UC0079, 79 years after the first migration, full scale war broke out and killed over half of human in the world in the first week of the war, known as the One Week War. The war lasted for one year and the story of MSG was about the crew of Whitebase during the war, also known as the One Year War. With the advanced mobile suit Gundam, Guntank and GunCannon on board, the Whitebase became the center of the battlefield for suvival. The above is only a very brief introduction of Mobile Suit Gundam, the beginning of Gundam.

After the success of Mobile Suit Gundam, sequels and other stories are made for the franchise with hundreds of video games, manga, model lines, novels.....

Order of major Gundam stories of Univeral Century(UC) timeline:
UC 0079 Mobile Suit Gundam (1979, 43 episodes or 3 movies)
UC 0079 Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team (1996, 12 eps OVA)
UC 0080 Mobile Suit Gundam: War in the pocket (1989, 6 eps OVA)
UC 0083 Mobile Suit Gundam: Stardust Memories (1992, 13 eps OVA)
UC 0087 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985, 50 eps)
UC 0088 Mobile Suit Gundam Double Zeta (1986, 47 eps)
UC 0093 Mobile Suit Char's Counter Attack (1988, movie)
UC 0105 Mobile Suit Gundam Hassaway's Flash (novel)
UC 0123 Mobile Suit Gundam Formula 91 (1991, movie)
UC 0133 Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (manga, 6 vols)
UC 0153 Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993, 51 eps)

Other than the UC timeline, there are alternative universes timeline which have nothing to do with UC timeline or each other:
(Future Century) FC 60 Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994, 49 eps)
(After Colony) AC 195 New Mobile Chronicle Gundam Wing (1995, 49 eps)
(After Colony) AC 196 New Mobile Chronicle Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998, 3 eps OVA or 1 movie)
(After War) AW 0015 Mobile New Era Gundam X (1996, 39 eps)
(Correct Century) CC 2345 Turn A Gundam (1999, 51 eps)
(Cosmic Era) CE 71 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002, 51 eps)
(Cosmic Era) CE 721 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (2004,ongoing)

Only these Gundams are avaliable in the US on TV:
Mobile Suit Gundam
0080
0083
08th MS Team
Char's Counterattack
G Gundam
Gundam Wing & Endless Waltz
Gundam Seed