New Gundam series next October!… Apparently.
Fresh from the rumour mill. According to Moon Phase Zakki sources, a new Gundam series will start airing October next year. Many valorous spies paid the ultimate sacrifice to bring us this information.
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ガンダム新シリーズ、来年10月放送にむけて始動！…らしい。
「天保異聞 妖奇士」の後番、来年の土6は新ガンダム。監督は水島精二氏とのこと。一応、内部リークですが、実際この通り順調に企画が進むかどうかは不明。
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New Gundam series, starts airing October next year!… Apparently.
Taking over the time slot of Ayakashi Ayashi, a new Gundam series will air during the Saturday 6pm slot next year. The director will be Seiji Mizushima. Although this is, technically, an internal leak, it is not confirmed whether the project is really proceeding as stated.
You can just feel the journalistic confidence oozing out of this little article… On another note, Seiji Mizushima is most well-known as the director of Full Metal Alchemist.
Unlike most people, I still have hopes for the SEED franchise, especially if a new director is being brought in to continue the series. While it is not certain if the new Gundam series will continue the C.E. timeline, or indeed whether it even exists at this moment, I have this to say: BRING STELLAR BACK!!!
P.S. Moon Phase has also confirmed, with information from Comiket 70, that the third Nanoha series will be a full-fledged TV series and not OVAs. I don’t care for Nanoha, but it’s on the same page as this news so might as well….
August 12th, 2006 at 10:12 am
You guys think too much.
SEED is better because of Lacus and Stellar. :O
August 12th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Draco 00 - when Freedom or Strike Freedom with a METEOR pack can start cutting ships up by itself, that’s pretty ’super’ in my books, especially since pretty much the only other Gundam that could in theory stop it would’ve been Infinite Justice; Legend and the others were simply outclassed. Just like Freedom and Justice could overpower any other Gundams in use by either the EA or any ZAFT Mobile Suit - they’re philosophical descendants of Wing Zero, albeit minus the ‘kill everything in one shot’ power; the METEOR units only allowed them to kill about as many people as they could in one salvo, which was like a dozen suits at once, not counting the missiles or the fins on Strike Freedom, which in turn added another 8-10 guns on top of the missile loadout. But, from what I recall, the Sword pack for Strike allowed it to carry a ship-cutting beam saber, and Buster’s guns were capable (when joined together) of taking on a ship directly as well.
Incidentally, the cannons on Calamity were ship-level, IIRC… but the point about SEED and SEED Destiny effectively picking up where Wing left off stands; everything that people hate about those shows started in Wing, and was carried over (a team of pretty-boy pilots on the ZAFT side in and a team of pretty-boy pilots - the Druggies - on EA’s side in SEED, and then the squad Stellar was in in Destiny).
DarkMirage - Stellar’s no real loss, at least not when she’s in her retarded child mode. She’s kinda like an older Satoko from Higurashi when someone whispers ‘Death’ in her ear, really - she goes nucking futz.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
well you have to look at the size of the meteors………..well the main problem with gs and gsd is fukuda
August 12th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
@kuromitsu
And are not shower scenes blatant fanservice? :-)
At least the other guys’ explanations make sense. However, when going to the argument of realism, the concept of gigantic robots battling it out is already unrealistic. Perhaps we all should keep that in mind.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
you have to keep in mind that they might have giant robots in the future
August 13th, 2006 at 5:39 am
>techie
I haven’t once mentioned realism - only that GW was overall very silly and pretentious with its superficial “pacifism 4 evar yay” message. (Contrast Wing with 0080 - the latter doesn’t need characters waffling about “peace” and “war is BAD” to have a very strong and effective anti-war message.) Sure, Seed is also very silly in the same way as Wing, but as Haesslich said, it was Wing that started this trend.
As for fanservice, I wasn’t clear on that (shouldn’t have posted when I was half-asleep). The primary aim of Wing is to attract girls to the franchise, and it shows. It’s full of fanservice (which is not just about shower scenes and panty shots…) aimed at girls, and some of the official art could may as well be doujinshi covers. Hell, even the characters are standard bishounen stereotypes and they practically scream “pair us up!” and “make doujinshi about us!” I think it tells a lot about a Gundam series that many people watch it, or at least start watching it, for the pretty boys…
August 13th, 2006 at 8:39 am
kuromitsu - Kira x Athrun fanfiction makes baby Tomino cry. So does Athrun x Nicol, Yzak x Dearka, or Shinn x anyone else material. Wing had Heero and Duo… but they REALLY pile on the possible yaoi pairings with SEED and SEED Destiny. At least Mr. Impossible’s a womanizer… :P
Draco - the Meteors are, IIRC, about as big as Wing Zero Custom with the wings deployed. They’re still pretty freaking ’super’, as far as overpowered mecha go. The tradition in SEED dates back to Wing, for better or worse… including all the screaming, crying, and attempts at self-destructing that Athrun engages in throughout the course of the first series.
August 13th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Meteors? Super? Overpowered? Please don’t call them that when they have the capability to cleave planets or destroy solar systems or take a ground impact after re-entering the atmosphere.
August 13th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Bridge Bunny - I hope that was sarcasm. You do realize we were talking about the METEOR systems, yes? They’ll take apart ships easily, as witnessed by the last few eps of SEED, or whenever they show up in SEED Destiny. Heck, Strike Freedom took on a whole ZAFT task force by itself and took it apart in five minutes.
August 13th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
No, I wasn’t being sarcastic. I was speaking the truth. And I know what METEORs are.
Shin (True) Getter - Created an getter energy tomahawk and cleaved Jupiter into half.
Shin (New) Getter - Took on four Gods and beat the living shit out of them.
Ideon - Ideon gun wiped out solar systems within a few light years
Mazinkaiser - Re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and impacted on the Earth’s surface. Proceeded to tear apart an army worth
But those are super robots. If you want to compare Gundams,
Turn A and Turn X - Both have the capability to turn technology into dust
V2 Gundam - Wings of light that stretch up to 10 kilometres in length can slice a colony lengthwise.
Hi Nu - It’s Hyper Mega bazooka was connected to the Ra Kairum’s reactor and used it to take down Axis.
So compared to the examples, I have given, do the Meteors look so omnipotent now?
August 13th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Hahaha. Oh well. Tt move of cuttin ships with METEOR… isnt that ripped off the Dendrobium? Oh well, that whole unit IS ripped off the holy Gundam Gp03 Dendrobium.
Strike Freedom takes out everything like peanuts to make it so ‘powerful’ people run to toy department to buy it. The action Kira is givin is no way near 10% that of Shiro Amada from 08MST.
Guess we gotta rethink about that ‘nuclear’ crap gundam.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Hi Nu’s bazooka destroyed part of Axis base - but it had to be connected to a capital ship’s reactor; at that point, we ARE talking what is effectively a capital ship weapon, more in line with the positron blasters of SEED and SEED Destiny than the cannons on Calamity. Without that power source, I don’t recall if it would’ve worked, or have been any more powerful than the ‘normal’ hyper mega bazooka that the Nu already carried. Also, this was from a novel, IIRC, and never really used in the anime series. The Nu Gundam never even got to destroy Axis - it merely shoved it aside because the psychocommu overloaded with everyone’s intentions, IIRC.
Victory 2 Gundam - the “Wings of Light” that the Minovsky drive produced were overpowering, and likely the inspiration for the same wings used by Destiny and Legend Gundams in SEED Destiny. From what I recall, I-Field generators already made beam weapons useless, and I can’t recall the Wings’ exact width, although I should point out that the current METEOR system’s beam sabers go out a considerable ways already (cutting cleanly through Laurasia class ships which appeared to be about a hundred or more meters in height), and we’re not sure what the ultimate power requirements for a longer beam are - given the power outputs displayed by full-sized facilities like those used to fire the Neo Genesis and Genesis weapons.. well, I suspect the only limits to beam saber length in the CE are mostly based on the power output available to the beam saber, given the way the inverse-square law works in relation to energy. Of course, that’s bringing physics into Gundam…
Turn-A: It used nanomachines to do its work, through some unknown process - handwavium at its best.
At the same time, though, I do not recall Victory Gundam or Turn-A having pilots who could kill whole fleets by themselves; the Turn-A comes closest, but that’s because of the nanomachines rather than the pilot’s skills, which are near superhuman in both Wing and SEED/SEED Destiny.
They’re still pretty fragging powerful, especially compared to their peers; you have to remember that the Victory 2 Gundam at least had several Victory Gundams which almost matched it in power, albeit lacking the Wings of Light and advanced Minovsky drive of the V2 - and Turn A and Turn X were the only two models of their kind, given their apparent out-of-system origins. In the two series being nailed above, Freedom and Justice were far more overpowering compared to other suits, and Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice more so than even ZAFT’s ‘top’ models: Legend and Destiny. It’s the combination of ‘munchkin-level weapons’, ’superhuman pilots’ and ‘pretty-boy bishounen with implied relationships’ which put the two series into a league of their own.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
>Haesslich
“Wing had Heero and Duo…” - Well, them, and Trowa and Quatre (which is pretty much canon), the guy with the stupid eyebrows whose name I always forget, and that annoying pilot with the ponytail, etc. But maybe it bothers me more in Wing because from Wing I didn’t actually expect this when I sat down watching it.
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:29 pm
You know what? The problem with specifically SEED Destiny isn’t because the machines used by the protagonists are overpowered. As mentioned, you already have machines like the Victory 2, the Turn A, the Turn X, or the God Gundams doing the overpowered thing, yet hardly anyone ever bashes these machines for being ‘godly’. Heck, even the infinitely godly Ideon is never (as far as I can tell) bashed for being arguably the undisputed king of giant robots, let alone machines like the Gunbuster, Jehuty, Anubis, Cybaster, Zeorymer, RahXephon, Eva Unit 1, and the list goes on and on and on. So many machines have the ability to do far more damage in one go than the ‘piddly’ damage that the SEED era Gundams could ever do.
So, what’s the issue? The problem with SEED Destiny (and certainly to an extent, Wing) is that when the Freedom or Strike Freedom descends from the skies to lay a whoopin’, you don’t get the sense that it’s going to lose. Even the original SEED at least had moments where Kira and Athrun were faced with opponents that would give them a run for their money, be it the druggies, be it the Providence, or whatever. Here, however, no one is able to touch Kira at all, with the exception of Shinn. And what happened afterwards? Shinn ditched his piloting skills and ended up getting soundly beaten by Kira or Athrun. THAT is why people are complaining about the machines being ‘too powerful’. You know the 3 Ships Alliance will triumph, just because you don’t expect them to lose. And the best part of it? Their idealoigical view is correct. Everyone else is wrong.
September 24th, 2006 at 6:52 am
I hope it will be an UC series rather than this CE crap.