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In Zeta Gundam, we see the future world of the Universal Century through a dark mirror. Having defeated the Zeon menace, the Earth Federation has itself become cruel and oppressive. A new generation of Gundam mobile suits is created not to fight for peace, but to punish the enemies of the state, and yesterdays villains must become todays
heroes in order to balance the scales of justice. And when a young civilian named Kamille Bidan is caught up in the rebellion, he little suspects the price he will pay in the fight for freedom.Amazon.com
The initial run of Mobile Suit Gundam flopped in 1979, but the success of the three Gundam features (1981-82) created an audience for Yoshiyuki Tomino’s sprawli… More >>
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Complete Collection I
Let me start by saying that I’m a huge gundam fan who got into the meta series during the time of Gundam Wing. I was so excited about Gundam that I started looking into every gundam series. After I finished watching Gundam SEED, I saw great reviews about this series so I had to give it a shot. To be honest, I can’t see why so many fan regards Zeta Gundam as being the best in the series. I couldn’t even finish watching it. I found it to be a complete waste of money. I’ve heard of many fans putting down other series and praising this one. I’m very disappointed in this series. I found it boring as well as too unbelieveable. Yeah I know it’s fiction and all, but still, at least there was more of a scientific basis in SEED. Not someone getting a kick to the forehead and all of a sudden is an almighty newtype. Maybe back in the days this was hot. But I think it either needs modernization or just plainly isn’t my cup of tea. I hope Unicorm Gundam is good. Anyway, my opinion is rent the series before you buy it. Rating: 2 / 5
Ahhh, Kidou Senshi Zeta gundam. Direct and very strange sequel to the original mobile suit gundam.
Overall, the series is pretty good. A few ‘meh’ things are present but overall pretty stable.
The good news is what gundam fans typically want is here, IN SPADES. Lots of new designs for mobile suits, gandams, mobile armors and everything else. It’s frankly a huge amount of new stuff for the gundam universe. Solid mech design, check.
The characters are not exactly easy to sympathize with, but that said, they are realistically flawed and interesting to see work, if awkwardly portrayed sometimes. The intercharacter relationships are also, fascinating to see played out but again, a little awkward when put to the motions. ((On side note, just about he whole crew of the white base makes a cameo at some point.))
Even if the series does take itself too seriously sometimes, you, the viewer can just sit back relax and remember ‘OMG, did the kid with the girl’s name just suckerpunch a dude with and ’80’s haircut?!’
Oh, a did I mention this was the gundam series that began exploring the human-advanced human relationships that would be the conerstone of Seed and S. Destiny?
The bad: Three words ‘nineteen eighties fashion’ Sometimes the hair and clothes made me want to slam my head into a computer a laugh, but hey, I probably shouldn’t knock the ’80s, I didn’t have to survive it.
Like I might have mentioned earlier, sometimes it’s hard to really get behind the characters motivation, that sometimes drags things down.
The final word: With more plot twists over it’s 50 episodes than an M. Night movie, more deep human themes than the original and lots, and I mean lot’s more giant fighting robots, Zeta gundam does the good work of any mecha series.
Over all, it feels like a first tentative step after the original gundam into somthing bigger. Something more profound, something… perhaps…. more human than teenagers piloting big metal men.
Regardless of how you slice it, the Zeta complete collection one is the first half a a good, no great, series. And you can tell Shinn Asuka where he got his angsty disposition from.
And, oh yeah, one final note. Those who haven’t seen the original gundam should at least take a crash course in the events of the one year war. Zeta is a direct sequel to mobile suit Gundam, so be prepared to hear ‘Newtype’ and other such terms thrown at you with no explanation.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a collection of the first half of Zeta Gundam, trust me this is worth it the animation is mid-80s but still holds up even on my 50 inch plasma. You will notice that the voice acting is top notch which can be hard to come by, well then again i did own the HKBL(Hong Kong Bootleg) version before hand.
In this half follow Kamille Bidan age 15 through space and around the Earth meeting Amuro Ray and Char Aznable.
and the tragedies of war like knowing the people whom you fight and haveing to pull the trigger anyways. Rating: 5 / 5
I am an avid Gundam fan and just started watiching this series.
From what I’ve seen so far, the series sort of just starts in the middle of something so it was a bit hard to understand what is going on until an hour or two into the series.
As far as comparrison, I ‘ve only seen the Gundam Wing and the newer series such as Gundam Seed. The sound and picture quality is not as good as the newer series, but not bad either given that it was made 20 yers ago.
So far so good.
Rating: 5 / 5
this series, like most, doesn’t engage you immediately. overall i’d give the series a 4.5/5. by the second box set (which isn’t out yet) it gets amazing. i saw seed destiny before zeta and it’s so clear now how gsd is an adaptation of this. just this is way better than gsd, because first of all, the story is about kamille, not amuro ray. unlike gsd where kira comes back and nobody gives a crap about shinn. kamille is selfish at first, but there’s actually good character development with him throughout the story, and his actions make sense. also people aren’t god mode throughout this series. it’s old, but the animation is still great and the plot is well worth the watch. Rating: 4 / 5