Gundam Wing, for sure.
Looking back on it now, I realize that the show makes no fucking sense.
>>13508952
>Gateway Gundam
Gundam Seed
I never could finish though, so I moved onto other Gundams and those were a lot better than SEED.
Feels old, man.
Wing is the first one I watched, but I hated it.
G is the first one I watched all the way through.
>>13508956
Makes perfect sense.
>>13508952
Technically Wing, but the way they kept changing Toonami schedules here was insane ,so I missed half of it while it aired. The first Gundam series I watched back to back without interruptions was SEED.
Iron Blooded Orphans
>>13508957
>Gundam Seed
Are you like 15 years old?
00 got me into the franchise proper, though the first Gundam I ever watched was G back on Toonami.
But if I'm being totally honest, the first episode of Unicorn was really what started it. Shit blew me away because I didn't know any better.
>>13508987
That would probably make him like twenty-two to twenty-four. SEED aired in 2004 in the US, less than four years after Wing started.
Mobile Suit Gundam, Turn A Gundam, and Gundam AGE while it was airing
>>13509034
SEED had an incredibly short run in the states, it didn't finish it got to around episode 8 or 9 before it was pulled.
>>13508952
it was 14 years ago
Gundam 00. I think it's pretty good. Wonder why people hate season 2 though.
>>13509054
it went longer, it was om CN around midnight
The Mobile Suit Gundam movies. They were a really good deal back in the day.
>>13509064
Still it didn't finish a run, and DESTINY didn't even air in the US. 0083, and 08th reruns forever not surprising so many US fans are stuck in the OYW, I'm hoping they pickup another Gundam series on AS if it is just to end the edgy shit that is Akame Ga Kill
>>13509063
I don't. It was more "gundamy" than season 1 but I still liked it, liked the movie too. /m/ exaggerates things, especially if they're popular.
>>13509054
>>13509064
>>13509086
Didn't matter, this was back when torrents took days to get a single episode of something from some dodgy malware-infested backwater, Newgrounds flash animations were the most amazing things you'd ever seen, and FYE was selling five-episode DVDs for twenty bucks and it seemed like a steal over the previous three-episode VHS tapes. If you had an anime club at your high school, the only two mecha-related things they would ever air would be SEED and Eva.
SEED was the first one I watched all the way through but Wing EW was probably my first exposure to the franchise.
I wanted to try UC was it was near impossible to obtain at the time (short of buying bootlegs with crappy HK subs).
OP's pic is my gateway (along with G and X in that order), with 0079 airing somewhere around 2 months later after those (thanks to cable) on a Japanese channel which showed softcore porn on the weekends.
The Origin. Watched it this summer and thought, fuck it, I might as well watch 0079 to see if the franchise is something I'll like.
Working through 2 episodes a day, midway through Zeta now. Gundam is awesome and I wish I'd started sooner.
>>13509065
I lucked out and got access to the trilogy movies as a kid as well. Shit was pretty cash.
>>13508952
Read the original Tomino novels in elementary school. Though I didn't really get into it until I watched 00 during middle school.
>>13508952
G Gundam. I knew it was shit, but I just kept watching til the end.
>>13509063
people in the west seem to like season 2 more. while japan loves 1.
i loved both, it was the first "love conquers all" show that didn't make me mad. Then the movie happened.
G-Savior on a VHS tape
Code Geass
I was going to start with Seed since that was the one I'd heard the most about but decided that the faces "looked really gay" so I watched 00 instead. Somehow I didn't realize there was a Season 2 to 00 for the longest time and came back to it after Seed and Destiny.
>>13508952
0079, baby. Loved that shit when I was a kid.
>>13508952
Wing, if only for this Toonami spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7clqqbHZI
Still gives me goosebumps
00, just as season 2 was airing
0079 movie trilogythis summer
Well I wanted to watch the original but instead downloaded Wing by mistake which I really didn't like
a year later I watched the actual 0079 and that was great, so maybe that was my real gateway Gundam
>>13508952
Wing.
>>13509544
Love that shit as a grown up.
>>13509676
>downloaded Wing by mistake
How does that even happen?
>>13509750
Don't know how you can mistake a series, but i did once download Digimon adventure with the English dub thinking it's sub... I wanted to shove screwdrivers in my earsnot even a dub hater, but that dub is utter shit
Original Series on toonami with the UC OVAs they were running around the same time.
I actually hated Gundam Wing when it first aired and was really turned off by the boy band look of the main cast and didn't like the gaudy look of the Gundams and how hopelessly outclassed everything that wasn't a gundam was compared to them. (Gundams are still my least favorite thing about Gundam, but Wing Gundams exacerbate the things I typically don't like about them)
The UC stuff appealed more to me as a more down to earth war drama.
>>13509750
I've got a story in the same vein. I got high-speed internet and discovered what a torrent was relatively late in the game. One of the first things I decided to download was "the new Gundam," having not seen one since G on Toonami. At the time Destiny was the new Gundam. I was not aware it was a sequel, so I saw Destiny first, then Seed.
It got a little confusing at times. I figured the flashbacks were just the first time the concepts were being introduced.
>>13508952
0079
It depends on how you look at it.
The first encounter I ever had with Gundam (minus apparently seeing Wing on TV when I was a young child, though I have no recollection of it) was with Federation vs Zeon. I had a "Tips & Tricks" issue way back when the 6th gen was just starting, and there was a guide for Federation vs Zeon. I liked the designs, and I thought it looked cool, so about a decade later, I downloaded it for Dreamcast, and thought it was tits. That was when I decided to try to learn more about Gundam.
I tried watching 0079 twice, after that. The first time, I got three episodes in before I dropped it. The second time, I got to The Trap of M'Quve before I dropped it. That's the first Gundam show I ever really watched.
I got Gundam Battle Universe off of some shitty ISO site a few years after that, and it would end up sparking genuine interest in me. So that was what got me truly interested and invested in Gundam.
08th MS Team was the first one I watched to completion. It was short, sweet, and recommended to me as "one of the best Gundam OVAs".
>>13509791
But did you like it?
I tried watching 0079 before but couldn't get into it because of the dated animation.
>>13509916
10/10
>>13508952
Gundam Front in Tokyo. Went with a friend and the movies they showed in the dome as well as the 1/1 Gundam made me want to see more of the franchise.
>>13508952
Wing was my first. But I didn't start watching anime in earnest until at least a decade after it aired on CN.
I'd say 00 got me interested, and Origin got me hooked. The manga, not the OVA.
>>13508952
Wing
X got me initially interested but I was too young back then for things to go beyond that.
It was when SEED aired that took me to where I am today.
>>13508952
0080
I'd always thought Gundam was a scream-what-you're-doing super robot show until I came to /m/. I told the /m/en what I liked and didn't like and asked what, if any, Gundam might alleviate the disappointment I had for the newer Macross sequels. I was directed to 0080: War In The Pocket and was instantly hooked. I've seen them all since then, with the sole exception of the last five episodes of Reco because I just stopped giving a shit. Tekketsu is shaping up nicely so far, so I'm hopeful.
>>13510025 again
Come to think of it, technically it would have been Gundam Assault Survive on psp.
I'd been playing the hell out of Macross Ultimate Frontier and Macross Triangle Frontier when I heard that the Gundam Battle games used the same game engine so I downloaded the iso for GAS. That was what made me look into the series, but 0080 was still the first one I actually watched.
>>13508952
Gundam X. Subtitled on a language i can't read.
I still love the show even now.
>>13508952
Early subbed versions of Zeta I got off Kazaa
>>13510127
Wow, anon. That's extreme.
>Walking into Suncoast
>Seeing all the anime VHS
>Looking for Gundam Wing and seeing all the other UC anime
>Mind explodes with the realization of just how much Gundam there is
What a time to have been alive /m/.
Zeta.
ZZ made me lose interest.
>>13508987
Seed was mine and I started it when I was about 12. Though I vaguely recall having a VHS for either G or Wing when I was much younger.
Unicorn
Thought it was great when I watched it but looking back now it was weak in a lot of places, especially characters apart from Marida.0079=Zeta>CCA>ZZ=Unicorn
>>13510408
>Suncoast
>that late 90's feel
>>13508952
fansub VHS of 0083 movie in 1998.
>>13508952
G
I've seen a few episodes of Wing when I was a kid, but I didn't like it.
>>13509904
I didn't dislike it.
wing, I watched all the toonami/AS aired gundams until seed. I never saw any part of seed on CTN, and from whenever that would have been until whenever 00 started I forgot all about gundam. being honest 00 put me off of it again for a while until I re-watched the old UC shows. Cue discovering I had forgotten much and or never seen them in order in their entirety, and also seeing zeta for the first time. after picking up unicorn when it was still only one or two episodes, I was pretty much officially on a quest to see all of it. the funny thing is I was going to watch all of gundam much earlier when I first found a torrent of most of them, around 2006. I accidentally started ZZ thinking it was zeta, and gave up on gundam for a while...
fansub of CCA
IBO
>>13511105
Oh my god, fuck off and die
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
>>13511113
Were you able to make any sense of it without seeing the TV series?
>>13508952
You posted it
>>13509916
You're not the first. But I eventually was able to get into it.
>>13509054
>>13509086
>Still it didn't finish a run
But your wrong. because it did finish its run. It was just moved from Toonami to the midnight death slot. Hell it showed because they either didn't finish, or cut the budget for censoring several scenes in the last 2 episodes. (left in guns, blood and deaths.) It remained in that death slot and actually managed to get through half a second run before finally being pulled.
Regardless, Wing when it aired on Toonami.
>>13509916
>was scared not being able to get into 0079 because dated animation
>check first episode on youtube
>intro sequence is 10/10 directing
>fastest marathon in years
Only faggots whine about 0079 dated animation.
Wing as the show but I had a Japanese friend at school.
He would go to Japan and bring me back Gundam gashapon which I would research, also showed me Super Robot Wars for the GBA when he was playing it in Japanese.
I saw Wing first but did not understand it when I was a kid.Then I watched G and became a fan of the franchise.I recently watched Wing again and was able to understand the story.In my opinion Wing had good concepts but terrible execution and Wufei,Heero and Relena are terrible characters.
>>13508952
I guess it would be Wing because it's what made me know what Gundam was but I didn't actually get into the franchise until a few years ago with 079.
>>13508952
Destiny, hated it.
Would then play SRW and fall in love with Kamille and the Mk2 and watched Zeta and have been into Gundam since.
>>13508952
Gundam Seed, it was nowhere near as bad as people say. I really liked Cagalli.
Ofcourse I always watch subs- maybe the dub was terrible?
>>13508987
Maybe he is European?
In most of the world there are no TV channels that air anime. Anime is niche for a reason.
>>13511296
Watching a sequel first?
>>13509065
this
>>13508952
My memory is extremely hazy when it comes to my youth so I'm not sure if my first introduction to Gundam was seeing my Uncle's mini gunpla collection or watching Gundam Wing. It doesn't really matter though which of those are my real firsts though, for only one memory stands out.
A very long time ago when I was around 10 and irrationally mad about gunpla, I was in Hong Kong and convinced someone in my family to get me a gunpla magazine. I didn't even know how to read canton, but that didn't matter. I just wanted to see the pictures.
It had fucking everything I could ask for besides actual gunpla, there was even a scratch built Big Zam! (Which I didn't know what it was at the time, for me it was just really cool)
But what I remember the most, what truly made me fall in love with gundam, was on the last page.
It was the most elegant thing I had ever witnessed in my life up until that point.
The GP04G Gebera, a scratch build of course.
I hadn't know true love until I turned those pages. The paint, the articulation, the shiny metal bits placed all about. Everything was perfect about it to my younger self. The photographer did a great job emphasizing the detail work.
And the Stürm Boosters? I didn't even know what they fucking were or what they were for but it was cool as fuck!
Best part was, the magazine even came packaged with an MG GP01 shield!
Sure it ain't much, but as a kid it was like Christmas morning in a vacuum sealed plastic bag.
While I lost the magazine ages ago, and the shield going MIA thanks to some housekeeping, I still remember that GP04G fondly.Though to be honest I can't remember what the build actually looked like anymore, nor who made it.
Sorry for the blogpost, this thread just really brought back memories.
>>13511321
I didn't know it was a sequel at the time and it was something that used to come on On Demand when I was younger so that's how I found out about it.
Now me watching Zeta before the original was probably just as dumb but I ending up happy that I watched Zeta first, because I loved 0079 so much that I felt like I wouldn't have appreciated Zeta as much if I had watched it after.
>>13511321
In that guys defense, MSG was my first introduction to the concept of a franchise.
Not to mention my first franchise in which series could be totally unrelated to each other.
>>13511121
Year was early 2001 and we weren't reach even VHS Rips of Gundam TV shows. In addition, many people in our sub-culture in our country so it did not actually interested in the mecha shows. (except Evangelion, but nobody wanted consider NGE as a /m/ show) When I watch first half of ZZ, I wasn't finded Zeta yet. Because our only source was Animesuki and when a university student downloaded a batch torrent via 512 Kbit/1 Mbit internet connection, we did contact them and then we made trade via forum rings .
00
Saw Wing on toonami as a kid but it was boring and I only saw like 2 episodes before I started skipping it everytime. I think I watched an episode of 08th MS team but i never saw it all until much later.
My friend also bought the first dynasty warriors gundam game and told me about SEED (his fav), I was put off by hirai faces.
Got into 00 while season 2 was airing. Marathonned all of season 1 and enjoyed the fuck out of the whole show. Exia is still the sexiest main gundam design. It wouldn't be until 2013 that I'd marathon the whole series starting from the 0079 movies.
>>13508952
Aldnoah Zeroif that counts
>>13508952
Victory, watched them raw on bootleg vhs tapes back when they were airing.
This is the first and only Gundam I've seen. These are cute but most of the other ones are just too big for me to get behind
>>13509057
>tfw I just found this at a used bookstore
I've had the Japanese poster for this game, my bf gave me, for a while now, not knowing that it ever had an NA release.
Pretty fun game.
Also G and Wing initially got me into Gundam, but it wasn't until years later that I really started watching anything else.
0083 still needing my RG physalis
Remember watching Gundam wing and G gundam as a kid. Always thought the way the MC called for his MS in G was cool back then.
I recalled catching a bit of seed when it aired on Sci-fi late anime slot but didn't keep up with for long. Got back into it when I finally got a labtop to watch Gundam 00 back in 2010. Been hooked on it since then and is now watching 0079 after finishing the second episode of Origin which made me want to look at the UC universe more.
Wing. It wasn't my first /m/ show, but it was babbies first transforming robot.
>tfw you're not ancient enough to remember robotech
>>13514349
>it was babbies first transforming robot
>mfw i forgot about transformers because there's nothing unique about transformers transforming
>>13512852
You're cute, anon.
>>13508952
Gundam Seed; thought it was amazing.
Then I watched UC series and realized how much of a piece of shit Seed is.
Wing
>>13508952
obsessed with everything Gundam ever since
>>13514349
>>TFW I am.
>>13508952
08th
Started with 00 just as the second season finished in Japan
Even before I knew about the rest of gundam I was disappointed in the second season.
It would actually be four or five years before I'd watch my next Gundam series, 0079. That's when I really started to seek out Gundam series.
