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SarcasticPirate
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Quoted from the wikipedia article on Universal Century (grain of salt, etc.)
Basically, it depends on which director you ask, but since Tomino is the creator of Gundam I will stick with 1988. |
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Dunpeal83
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Since the Moday, January 14th 0080 is the only date actually shown it is probably most reasonable to go by that one as does Gundam High Frontier. Btw wikipedia is known to be not a very reliable source for Gundam-related information. |
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Nagisa
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Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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1969 according to Gundam Unicorn, which is the only official source (read: not faked official garbage based on fan speculation and scraps of preproduction notes...preproduction is never final, people) to ever give a consistent, concrete date. |
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Dunpeal83
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Are sure about that? Cause according to gundamofficial UC 0001 marks the year the first colonies were being built and if that were to happen in '69... |
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SarcasticPirate
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Like I said, take the information with a grain of salt. Unfortunately, the dates vary throughout a span of about 80-90 years and most of those dates are from preproduction materials as well. |
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Obsessive Touga Fan
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Uh, right. It's inaccessible as long as you willfully ignore the fact that all the most crucial parts of the chronology are available in R1 for great prices. The OMG HORROR of having to buy them online instead of at Best Buy doesn't somehow make them "inaccessible". Any fan who actually cares enough to watch anime made 30 years ago doesn't have to go to any particular effort to be able to do so in this case. I mean, seriously, where do you get stuff like this:
Total nonsense |
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Anime_Freak
Posts: 420 Location: Oklahoma |
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0079 is available on DVD, click here to see for yourself. I, personally, prefer UC over AU.
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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The fanboys don't like that release because it's dub only....while the movie trilogy is subbed only. |
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scrapps
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While not a fan"boy" plenty of us don't like the original series because it's really hard to sit through. Looking for salt anyone? The MSG movies on the other hand are quite good in my opinion and not that hard to get a hold of; most people seem to have a netflix account nowadays. I would recommend the MSG movies over the tv series any day to someone who was interested in getting into UC Gundam. And just because you watched a show first doesn't mean you can't think it's horrible in comparison to something you watched later. I watched Wing first and watched Seed and Destiny years later. I like Seed for the most part, but Destiny really ruined Seed for me and made me uninterested in watching Gundam after that. If it wasn't for Turn-A, I probably wouldn't have gotten into Gundam ever. Last edited by scrapps on Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:16 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ai no Kareshi
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I personally loved Gundam SEED. Destiny, however, kind of spoiled the experience for me, so I tend to ignore it to an extent.
The character designs do not bother me, though. Anime has the power of making some very gorgeous characters, and I find it exceedingly hard to watch a series with anything less. As such, I embrace the idea of a new Gundam series that both takes place in a brand new era and still has good looking characters. |
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Nagisa
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You do realize Gundam is a work of fantasy, right? It is not a true-to-life chronicle of real-world events, so if they want to throw space colonies up in 1969, it's really not our place to say they can't. It'd be like us saying Tolkien's works are rubbish purely because Elves and Orcs aren't real in our own world. |
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La-Le-Lu-Le-Lo
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Though I would always, if given a choice, watch the subbed version of a show or feature film, regardless whether it be anime or French noir, I have to give the R1 Gundam dub props. It's a decent adaptation. |
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Iritscen
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I think I (and many of us) just assumed that Tomino was presenting a future that could happen, and that it wouldn't make sense for him to rewrite the last ten years of history before the first Gundam started in '79 because it would immediately become unbelievable as a possible future when the first part of the timeline had already not happened when the show debuted. Anyway, screw Wikipedia. My Technical Manual has the timeline that starts with Sputnik's launch. Since it has colony construction starting in 2045, and it's been stated (very logically) that the Universal Century began with the construction of the colonies, that would mean 2045 = UC0001. For me, it's as simple as that. I sure as hell am not going to go by some shot of a newspaper. It's ridiculous to even mention something some dude matte-painted in five minutes that probably wasn't even vetted by the director. |
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La-Le-Lu-Le-Lo
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Gunota just posted new info!
There is also mention of a Sotsu Agency press release:
Sort of sounds like The New Adventures of Kira Yamato, to me. Anyway, the press release also says that the show will air in HD. I'm looking forward to it.. |
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Iritscen
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Hmm, Yosuke Kuroda. I've come to have a love-hate relationship with him.
And it looks like they are calling the group Celestial Being now, as some here thought they meant to from the beginning. |
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