Not just as a Gundam series, or as an animation either. No matter how many times I see that ending I always end up teary eyed along with anyone who happens to be watching with me. No game, movie, telvision series, nothing else has ever done that to me. This just ranks number 1 on my list. Above any other anime and movie or any show.
shareI agree. This is one of the most emotional Gundam series there is, and they were able to make you care for the characters, see them form close bonds, and see it all destroyed in just 6 episodes. I especially love the scene at the end with Al crying, and his friends thinking that he's crying because the war is over. If they only knew..
shareYah the ending was amazing.
Last movie seen.
The mummy 3-5.5/10
The Dark Knight-9.5/10
Perseoplis-8.5/10
Briliant show, I'd like to see it again. Found it online, but the audio's off. A good show to watch, it shows what war can do to people.
Spector: "Fireteam, fire at will. BRAVO TEAM, THAT MEANS PULL THE GOD DAMN TRIGGER!"
i got depress over the ending cause its like the opening song was playing and the fact that Al lost both his friend Bernard who was like an older brother to him he also lost his other friend Christina at the end when she was re locating and the fact that Al could not tell Christina about what happen to Bernard and it just made me really depress cause its like when you hear that song you get that feeling you are going to lose someone in the end.
share I don't tear up when I watch this series, but I do marvel at its continuing influence on the other series that have followed it. I am, however, a little concerned at the reception of the series, especially nowadays, some 30 years after this groundbreaking, though heavily derivative story debuted.
The series clearly owes a tremendous debt to Wolfgang Peterson's 'Das Boot' (1981) and similar films depicting a conflict from 'the other side', and yet we are not shown a group of 'ordinary, everyday guys' fighting a war to which they might feel conflicted, yet still feel committed; we are shown instead a unit of ill-tempered, maladjusted commandoes who, for the most part, comport themselves as undisciplined sociopathic killers, with little regard or compassion for supposedly neutral civilians; one member has little problem with killing children and policemen if it protects his mission, while another decides to instigate a (possibly) alcohol-fuelled rampage rather than a mere diversion (what he was ordered to do), which escalates into a fracas claiming hundreds of civilian lives. Is the Earth Federation solely to be blamed for this carnage? The commandoes seem to have been immunized, since they clearly specialize in 'shock and awe' tactics that have no place in a heavy civilian population, and thus their infiltration operation on Side 6 seems ill-conceived and doomed from the start. The only truly bad person in the Zeon forces appears to be the Commander, who is simply a 2-dimensional cartoon villain lifted from the original series, and a too-easy object of hatred. This man murders his own commanding officer so he can launch a nuclear strike on a supposedly neutral space colony. Detractors of the series often call it 'fascist' and 'sadistic', but I feel the ideas watchers should be most careful with are those echoing the conflicted views many Japanese hold to this day, over their country's role in the Second World War.