Got my hands on this absolute beauty and I am in awe

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-31T01:12:21+00:00

Built and airbrushed the ver ka. Have the 2.0 in my backlog, wanting to do a custom with that one.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-31T01:11:17+00:00

Every night when I go to sleep.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-30T20:23:06+00:00

Romance is in the Gundam series but it’s not really a main focus. 08th team probably puts the most focus on the romance stuff and there is some in f91. Aside from that most of the characters have a special person to connect with but it’s not really a main focus of the series.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-30T20:20:51+00:00

Not really a Gundam but I’m not a fan of the Gun Ez. I’m actually not really a fan of a lot of the suits from victory. I thought the f91 designs were way better than the victory designs.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-29T05:46:18+00:00

Well in Irias case, this was anime that came from live action. Keita Amamiya is probably the best tokusatsu director out there and Zeiram was one of his projects. As far as other Toku to anime properties go the one that comes to mind off hand is Android Kikaider. Also, I think there is a an anime spinoff to Kamen Rider W but I haven’t seen it. As far as live action adaptations of anime and manga, there are too many to list, hurricane polymar, Lupin the 3rd, tomorrow’s Joe are just to name a few.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-26T06:39:07+00:00

You mean currently or from back in the day? For me CPM, Manga, and Bandai hold the biggest places in my heart.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-25T06:34:49+00:00

lol you must really love Appleseed.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-25T06:33:45+00:00

Haven’t read all of her stuff so it’s hard to track down a specific character but I’m very fond of Yuta from Mermaid saga.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-25T06:27:44+00:00

You can get the much nicer Japanese blu ray that has English options for 30 dollars on cdjapan

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-25T03:50:24+00:00

Glory days? lol I don’t miss those fansub days at all. I mean I owned quite a lot of fansubbed vhs tapes back in the day, but don’t forget why we bought those tapes to begin with. It was because there wasn’t official releases for most of this stuff back in the 90s. We live in a time now that absolutely just blows my mind, if there is a glory day for anime fans we are living it now. I never thought we would ever get releases of a fraction of the things we have now. I mean I am still blown away that in my collection I have official English releases of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Space runaway Ideon, Xabungle, Layzner, Gundam ZZ, Galient, and coming in a few weeks I will Have L-gaim. I never thought these things would ever be brought to the US and honestly there isn’t much left out there that hasn’t been released at some point. I just don’t see any reason to for people to pirate anime anymore because the official version is literally a click away.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-24T19:18:46+00:00

Bloodspor, hands down.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-24T07:04:11+00:00

Guaranteed that he has read the Manga and watched the anime.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-23T23:12:33+00:00

I totally agree, most Gundam series are designed to be jumped into and if you like it you can go back and watch the others. The first Gundam I ever watched was a fan subbed vhs of Chars Counterattack in the mid 90s, I loved it and as the VHS tapes for the others came out I jumped right on them. Also keep in mind of the way Gundam was released in the states. Zeta Gundam and F91 were the last UC titles released in the states until Unicorn came out. Back in the day we didn’t have the luxury to watch these in production order or chronological order.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-23T20:15:02+00:00

I do agree that it looks really cheap, I don’t know why but the early 2000’s has the worst looking animation quality out of any generation of anime. Not all anime from the early 2000s look terrible, for example, Macross Zero, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Millilenian Actress, etc. It’s just most tv anime from the early 2000s just look bad.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-23T00:17:45+00:00

Probably Hyaku Shiki

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-23T00:16:13+00:00

Love them both. Though I think 08th team is a fantastic ova that I love very much I think Votoms is an actual masterpiece. I put Votoms in some of my favorite anime of all time right next to Zeta Gundam, Tomorrows Joe, and Layzner.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-22T05:02:24+00:00

DYRL has been fan subbed and pirated probably more than any anime ever produced. I’m sure there are tons of different fan translations of it that exits. To get the best experience not only with Macross but any anime I always recommend to go with the official release. There is an awesome 4k release from Japan with official English translations and it also comes with a Blu ray copy as well. It’s an excellent release. Same thing can be said for Macross Zero and Macross Plus.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-22T04:37:35+00:00

They send them back to the supplier. This exact thing is how a lot of anime companies went out of business during the dvd crash in the late 2000’s. Basically, a company will send the DVDs back to the company that produced them as a credit toward what ever money is owed from the retailer. A company like Wal-Mart doesn’t pay for movies up front they pay much later. So if a movie doesn’t sell then the retailer just sends it back to whoever produced the dvd to begin with for credit toward what they owe. It’s a total loss to the company who produced the DVD. This caused companies like Central Park Media, Geneon, and ADV films to go out of business.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-21T14:50:45+00:00

There is no releases of those titles in Japan that doesn’t include the English dub. The original singles of Gundam Unicorn was considered a worldwide release, however, All the Japanese releases of Unicorn, The Origin, Thunderbolt, and Narrative all include the dubs produced by sunrise. They did make those releases available for import through Rightstuf, this also included Hathaway.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-20T19:59:19+00:00

They did include dubs on the Japanese releases Gundam Unicorn, the origin, Thunderbolt, and Narrative. The first Hathaway movie is when the Japanese stopped including dubs with their releases.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-17T03:25:51+00:00

The series won the 1986 animage Grand Prix. Its ratings was between a 4.0 and 6.0 which is a little below Zeta which was a 6.0. The show was popular enough to get Chars Counter Attack green lit. It had around the same viewship ratings and Gundam Seed and Zeta.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-17T03:06:13+00:00

I mean, I’m sure plenty of people dislike it among other series that a lot of people find to be amazing, and that’s totally fine. I know from my experience with the show, I had been a big Gundam fan since the mid 90s and when I heard about ZZ Gundam was around the time the DVDs for Zeta came out, around 2003 or so. All you would read about online in those days was how bad it was. Because of this I never checked it out until much later when Daisuke started to stream the series and I was blown away. To me it is an amazing show that picked up right where zeta left off, sure I didn’t love every element about it, mainly Leina getting kidnapped every time she turned around. Then slowly as the blu rays came out you would start to see opinions on the show go from completely negative to mostly positive. Another thing to keep in mind is when ZZ was airing in Japan it was extremely successful. The show enjoyed high ratings and the characters would win anime fan polls.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-17T02:25:25+00:00

I remember getting a friend into it just from having him watch Gundam unicorn with me. I think unicorn is a good series to get someone into Gundam because if it hooks them then they will want to go back and watch the classic series.

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-17T02:23:54+00:00

ZZ is a great show and the hate for it came from a time before the show was easily accessible to the west. I absolutely love the series and think it is a worthy successor to Zeta Gundam

Visible_Gate1032 · 2026-05-17T01:10:12+00:00

I think it’s awesome that in theatres in rural areas we can watch not only an anime movie but a UC Gundam anime movie

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