This is an interesting move. My takeaway from Freedom was that it was the most Seed thing ever (for good or ill), and a nice send off for CE. I’m not sure how they can top it with a prequel, but I’m willing to give it a shot. Metaverse aside, Gundam has been on a freaking roll.

Same and same. They came out swinging and I was 100% there for it.

It’s not the whole fandom. But WfM (generally) highlighted the split between folks who were fans of the overall themes of Gundam (anti-war, character focused, fast and loose with sci-fi despite the real robot designation, etc) and people who just want “gritty” war anime (stupid space magic, why are there strong female characters in my cartoon, MUH WAR CRIMES, etc). It was a whole big thing on the old site and Twitter.

This show got a lot of hate at launch (as well as attempts at gatekeeping from the chuds bemoaning the influx of normies and “woke”), while I said screw that and enjoyed the excellent world building and storytelling. The pacing did fall apart in the second cour (to the point where I was convinced there was going to be another full season) but I still enjoyed it overall. Hard to believe it’s been two years already.

Loving all of the Odd Taxi mentions.

• Planetes (sofa king good)
• Hellsing
• Area 88
• Genshiken (adults but college setting)
• Read or Die
• Gundam 08th MS Team
• Excel Saga (the main cast are all adults, but it’s a comedy and just about everyone is an idiot, so they won’t necessarily act like adults)
• Gintama (main character is an adult, his sidekicks are not, but the majority of the cast is adult. Again, comedy, so maybe not “adult” enough lol)
• Cowboy Bebop
• Way of the Househusband
• Gundam Thunderbolt

From my spouse:

• Servant x Service

Not sure if it’s considered true anime, but Castlevania on Netflix was excellent.

Same. The original movie didn’t really grab me. SAC was entertaining enough. Just kind of fell of my radar after awhile.

I’d say Gintama has a shot at taking over as my longest-running watched series though.

That’s where I’m at right now. My spouse and I started watching on a whim and it wasn’t long before we were hooked. Blazed through the first two(?) seasons and then somewhere after episode 100 things just started dragging. I forget exactly where we’re at right now because we only watch an episode every so often lately. Could be just us getting burned out, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Man, I don’t think I’ve seen Frontier since it aired. That was a good one.

Adding the original Macross to the recommend list as well.

I tried but couldn’t get into that one. Dunno what it was. My coworker felt the same way.

Niiiiice 👊

My vote still goes to the OG arc, but that’s an excellent base and viable action plan. Enjoy!

Two thumbs up for Gurren Lagan and Code Geass. Seconding the suggestions for Rahxephon and Escaflowne. Surprised nobody has mentioned Evangelion (unless I’m blind, in which case disregard). Full Metal Panic is another favorite of mine. I haven’t watched Gasaraki in forever but I remember it keeping me on the edge of my seat.

Without knowing what other Gundam you’ve seen aside from WfM, I’m going to make my default recommendation: start at the beginning and watch in production order. The core Universal Century arc of 1st Gundam, Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char’s Counterattack laid the foundation for everything that came after. From there, you can continue on with UC if that caught your attention with a bunch of excellent OVAs and a full series that’s far future enough that it’s only barely connected. (Crossbone animation when Sunrise???) Again, I recommend keeping production order.

Or you can jump into any alternate universe that catches your eye. G is a big tonal change but stands well on its own. Wing was my entry point, and I do have the feels for it, but objectively I don’t think it’s holds up very well. X has some dedicated fans but I’ve always found it kind of middling. Turn A is absolutely beautiful. Seed is extensive and polarizing. OO was pretty good. IBO is like a gut punch but worth it. And then there’s the Build universe, which has some awesome entries and some that weren’t so good.

tl;dr Want more Gundam? Watch more Gundam. 😁

Seconded.

Fucking brilliant.

…holy crap there are more 🤣

…twenty-seven.

🤯