#Universal Century

[amalgamasreal]

Gundam's Universal Century be like

#gundam #mobile suit gundam #mobile suit gundam universal century #gundam universal century #universal century #gundam zeon #uc gundam #gundam crossbones #neo zeon #gundam memes #gundam meme

[amuwo]

Love songs for the genuinely cunning

#I rly like quess even if i didnt fully understand what they were doing in cca #quess paraya #cca #char's counterattack #gundam #uc gundam #universal century #doodle #doodles #mspaint #ms paint #fanart #my art #also NO my artstyle is not consistent. cry about it

[pixelferret327]

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #gundam meme #mobile suit gundam meme #gundam 0079 #universal century #gundam memes #TikTok #gundam 1979

[alphamecha-mkii]

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Vol 8 Cover Art by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

#Manga #Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin #Gundam #Zeon #Zaku II #Char's Zaku II #Covers #Cover Art #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Universal Century #One Year War #Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

[winonaparadise]

more gundam ladies for the march madness polls! still have to see turn a but lalah will always have my heart <3

#gundam #mobile suit gundam #universal century #lalah sune #dianna soreil #turn a gundam

[lordsmaf]

WHAT IS IT WITH GUNDAM PROTAGONISTS AND GETTING SPOOKED BY GOATS???

#in Amuro's defense that goat does look horrifying and is far less cute than Giko #cucuruz doan's island #gundam #suletta mercury #gwitch #amuro ray #g-witch #g witch #screencap #giko #mobile suit gundam #uc gundam #gundam uc #universal century #wfm #twfm #Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury #witch from mercury #the witch from mercury #gundam the witch from mercury #gundam witch from mercury

[patrickbuffman]

Gay people: I’m Gay

Society: ok

Epic Char burger car edit:

#char aznable #universal century #mobile suit gundam #0079 #char #I’m actually really proud of this edit ngl #CapCut messiah #zesty

[mikkachu3d]

#gundam #zaku #mech #mecha anime #anime #animation #gundam 08th ms team #gouf #retro #gunpla #universal century

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

Reccomending Gundam is like: "oh, i want to reccomend Gundam Unicorn, but that wont make any sesne if you haven't watched Char's Counterattack. but. hu. that doesn't really work well unless you've seen the original series, or at least the compilation movies. And tbh Gundam Unicorn works best if you've watched Zeta and Double Zeta, but the frst half of Double Zeta kinda sucks? Also 08th MS team is soo sooo sooooo good but its only 12 episodes and not related to anything else. still watch it though. And then i want to reccomend NON UC gundam, but there's so much? Like, watch IBO and Witch From Mercury for sure. but you should also try older stuff. SEED is really good but everyone hated SEED destiny, but theres a new SEED movie in 2023? also watch Turn A gundam and Gundam Wing totally, but i haven't seen them yet they're just in everyone elses recommend lists. Also some AUs feel like they'e connected to the UC canon but aren't at all, like 00 gundam. so like, watch them before or after UC? who knows. also theres late UC which happens, like, 50 or so years after the main series (0079). And that has an entire new enemy and new mobile suits and such, that are really barely connected to the original UC events, but there's apparently some good stuff there, like F91 and Victory (i didnt really like ep1 of victory so i never gave it a go). So do I reccommend that? do i tell people to start with late UC given you dont need early UC to understand it? Oh god oh fuck what about gundam build fighters!??! How do you even explain that" Anyway, if you liked Gundam Witch From Mercury, I think a good place to start is with 08th MS Team for a taster of UC, or Iron Blooded Orphans for a darker Gundam show with similar formatting, characters, and themes to G-Witch, but better pacing.

#gundam #mobile suit gundam #mobile suit gundam iron blooded orphans #mobile suit zeta gundam #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #mobile suit gundam wing #mobile suit gundam SEED #gundam wing #gundam SEED #g witch #the witch from mercury #IBO #iron blooded orphans #08th MS team #Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn #unicorn gundam #gundam unicorn #turn a gundam #after war gundam #universal century #UC #UC gundam #main timeline gundam #00 gundam #chars counterattack #god almighty help me with these tags #too much gundam content #DONT even get me STARTED on the Gundam build series #actually you're the one with the hyperfixation #im normal about gundam

[athena-gunpla]

Mobile Suit Gundam: Chronological Watch Order for the Universal Century Timeline

UC 0001

Laplace incident – the Universal Century is declared, and Laplace, the Prime Minister’s residence, is destroyed by terrorists (First few minutes of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) Episode 1: Day of the Unicorn)

UC 0068

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 1

UC 0071

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 2

UC 0074

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 3 first half

UC 0076

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 3 second half

UC 0077

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 4 first half

UC 0078

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 4 third quarter

UC 0079 (the One Year War):

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 4 ending, Episode 5 (January 3rd up until January 15th 0079 UC).

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War (2004) Episode 1: Vanishing Serpent of Loum, runs from 4th to 17th January 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-2018) Episode 6 (The Battle of Loum, January 15th-16th 0079; later events in the epilogue scattered throughout the first half of the year).

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front Episodes (2008) Episode 1: Take Out That Angel of Death!, runs from 26th to 27th April 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War (2004) Episode 2: Howls Stained in Dusk, runs from 29th April to 11th May 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front Episodes (2008) Episode 2: Kings of the Jungle, Roll Out!, runs from 21st to 26th July 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Episodes 1-15, starts September 18th 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island (a movie adaptation of Episode 15), around about late October 0079UC. This is set in the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin timeline, and thus the White Base has already visited Jaburo and all members are officially part of the Earth Federation Forces. The Guntank is replaced by a second Guncannon, Sleggar is present, and Cucuruz Doan's Island is relocated to the Canary Islands rather than Japan, although the event still precedes Operation Odessa.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Episodes 16-25 (up to early November 0079UC)

Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team Episodes 1-11 (October 6th 0079UC up to around 15th November 0079. Starts after 0079 Episode 10 (Garma's death), and finishes sometime after the battle of Odessa during the Zeon Asian Ground Forces retreat)

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front Episodes (2008) Episode 3: Odessa, Storm of Steel!, runs from 8th to 9th November 0079UC, concurrently with Operation Odessa in Episode 25 of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979). The upcoming series Requiem for Vengeance will also occur during the European front and Operation Odessa, I'll update this timeline when it releases.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War (2004) Episode 3: Dance of the Orbital Ghosts, runs from 24th October to 11th November 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Episodes 25-35 occur from around November of 0079UC up until the start of December, although there aren't many exact dates for when exactly in the year each episode takes place, although The Battle of Solomon in Episode 35 takes place on 24th December 0079 UC).

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 (2006) Episode 1: In the Skies of Jaburo I Saw the Sea, happens from 3rd to 7th December 0079UC, sometime after 0079 Episode 30.

Gundam 0080 War in The Pocket (1989) runs from around December 9th 0079UC up until around 12th to 25th December 0079UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 (2006) Episode 2: Cross the Path of Light, happens from 28th to 30th December 0079UC.

Final few episodes (around 36/37 until 43) of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) definitively happen on December 30th and 31st 0079UC, as this is when the Battle of A Bao Qu occurs in canon.

Peace treaty with Zeon signed on 1st January 0080UC.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 (2006) Episode 3: Spirits Returning to the Cries of Thunder, happens from 31st December 0079UC until 1st January 0080UC.

UC 0080

Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team Episode 12 (unspecified number of months after the end of the One Year War)

UC 0083

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991-1992)

UC 0087

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985-1986)

The Gryps Conflict/Gryps War

UC 0088

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986-1987)

The First Neo-Zeon war

UC 0093

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)

The Second Neo-Zeon war

UC 0096

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010-2014)

Laplace incident - occurs from around April 7th 0096UC til May 4th 0096UC

UC 0097

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)

UC 0100

The Principality of Zeon is officially dissolved and reabsorbed back into the Earth Federation

UC 0105

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2020)

UC 120

Mobile Suit Gundam F90 (1990)

UC 0123

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)

UC 149

Zanscare Empire Declared, Zanscare War Commences

UC 0153

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993-1994)

End of the Zanscare War and all key members of the imperial core

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #mobile suit zeta gundam #mobile suit zz gundam #mobile suit gundam: the origin #08th MS team #mobile suit gundam the 08th ms team #universal century #watch order

[garfunclegaming]

Some Gundam fans be like: "Amuro and Char aren't homoerotic, you're just projecting...anyway, so Char's clone/surgically altered successor, FULL FRONTAL..."

#gundam #char #amuro ray #universal century

[amalgamasreal]

On G-Witch and the "Giant Space Laser"

Seeing a bunch of new fans who's first experience with Gundam has been Witch from Mercury be either confused or even angry at the big laser:

So I thought I'd take some time to explain the history of Space Lasers and Gundam and how every long time fan has basically had it on our bingo card since the show started. Note: I'm not including Victory's Keilas Guilie or G-Gundam's Statue of Liberty Cannon.

The first one was called the Solar Ray and it appeared in the original Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979, it was a converted colony from Side 3, and used by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War:

The second one appeared in 1985's Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam as the Colony Laser and it was called Gryps 2, it was created out of the husk of the colony of Side 7 and used by the Titan's during the Gryps War:

The next time we'd see one was in 1996's After War Gundam X, an AU timeline which was almost a "What If?" universe of the original Universal Century timeline that asked the question "What if Char had succeeded during the counter attack?". The colony laser in question was created out of one the abandoned colonies left over during the 7th Space War. It also had one of the coolest destruction scenes in a show IMHO:

2002's Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has not one, not two, but three different stand-in's for the old Colony Laser in the form of the the "Cyclops System", which was a powerful targeted array of microwave satellite weapons that vaporized all water it was pointed at, this included inside of human bodies. The effects in the show were graphic.

The second from SEED was GENEIS or Gamma Emission by Nuclear Explosion Stimulate Inducing System, which was essentially a huge gamma ray cannon that used nuclear explosions as the fuel to generate the gamma ray bullets. Just like before the results of it firing are VERY GRAPHIC.

Moving on to the third from SEED we have Requiem, which was a large cannon installed on the dark side of the Moon and used reflecting relay stations positioned around the Earth to hit targets with pin-point accuracy:

Leaving SEED behind finally we move on to 2007's Gundam 00 and their Memento Mori system, which in a departure from previous superweapons in Gundam was mounted to the Earth's orbital ring and used by the Earth Sphere Federation organization A-Laws to destroy basically the entire Middle East. Silly fact: because it was mounted to a ring the first one had a conical field of fire which gave it a blind spot that they could sneak up on.

Circling back to the Universal Century we have 2010's Gundam Unicorn trotting out Gryps 2 again, and in a scene that Witch From Mercury directly pays tribute to: a character face tanking the blast to save their friends and family:

And now we're at today and Witch From Mercury has used the reference wonderfully.

I hope this explains a little bit of the history of these things and how they fit into the Gundam Franchise and how they don't come as a shock or surprise to the long time fans. Rather if anything it's like seeing an old friend back in the mix.

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #g-witch #gwitch #g witch #gundam the witch from mercury #gundam witch from mercury #universal century #after war gundam x #mobile suit gundam seed #mobile suit gundam 00 #mobile suit gundam unicorn #long post #gundam history #Youtube

[wiz-kaleb]

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET

#retro anime #80s anime #anime laserdisk #war in the pocket #universal century #mobile suit gundam #mecha

[cypress-punk]

The thing i like about Char Aznable is that he got what he wanted. He killed the Zabis, or at least, 2 out of the 5 but they all died. Only Mineva, a literal infant, survived the One Year War and for all intents and purposes the Zabis that killed his father and robbed him of his birthright are gone. The man won in every way that mattered.

Except.

Now he's got nothing. Char has always been motivated by revenge. He got his revenge. What's left? His dabbling in his father's political ideology and his focus on Newtypes were really only ever dabbles. Had Lalah Sune survived then maybe he would have redoubled his focus on her after the war, but she didn't. So he's left with politics. With Contollism and its focus on independence for Spacenoids and he isn't...really into it. Like yeah he joins AEUG but he does it under a new alias. He calls himself Quattro Bagheena for tax avoidanc purposes instead of Char Aznable or Casval rem Daikun, two names much more famous that would have almost certainly attracted more people to cause. He doesn't tale a leadership role in the organization and instead lets psychos like Wong run it who are business men larping as military commanders. Why? Cause he's looking for a way out. He doesn't want to do this anymore.

And yet he can't help himself. He still has convictions about the rights of Spacenoids. He can't bring himself to do nothing in the face of the Titans, so he acts but not in the capacity that actually retakes that birthright he murdered the Zabis for stealing. Cause he doesn't want it. Doesnt think he deserves it. Part of this is regret at Lalah's death part of it is his own loss of direction after achieving his previous life goal.

In Char's Counterattack we see Char taking up the role of leadership at last but he hasn't done this to become an enlightened newtype leader who will lead humanity into the future as his father dreamed of doing. No its all an elaborate suicide attempt. He is still trying to find a way out. His melancholy over Lalah has only grown. He has become obsessed with Amuro and the idea of the two of them killing one another. He wants absolution and he is, crucially, not in his right mind any longer. Hes lost in the call of Lalah's voice echoing through space. He moves to execute the axis shock because he knows that Amuro will kill him for trying it. Whether it works or not is irrelevant. And he gets what he wants ultimately. He and Amuro kill each other. The Axis Shock is stopped, Neo Zeon collapses again, leaderless, but that wasn't relevant. Char found his way out.

And thats kinda what Char is to me. A vengeful man who got vengeance and realized he didn't know how to live without that mission. Instead of growing beyond it he lets that lack of purpose and his regret at the loss of what he saw as his one shot a future consume him. Its a lovely tragedy he lives through.

#gundam #universal century #uc gundam #mobile suit gundam #mobile suit zeta gundam #chars counterattack #char aznable

[alphamecha-mkii]

Sazabi by Paperblue

#Anime #Mecha #Sci-Fi #Mobile Suit #Mobile Suit Gundam #Char's Counterattack #Sazabi #Neo-Zeon #Universal Century #Paperblue

[winonaparadise]

Haman Karn and Loran Cehack for the Gundam March Madness character polls <3

#haman karn #loren cehack #mobile suit gundam #turn a gundam #universal century #gundam #still haven't seen turn a oops