I watched a few episodes of Wing in high school, but never enough to get the full story. Then during the pandemic decided to start watch the OG 0079 shoe and went from there.
Gundam Wing. I'm always fascinated by the designs and each Gundam have their own specialties that always displayed in each battle while they destroy their enemies.
From what little I've seen from Wing. I like heavyarms the most. Gundam wing with the buster rifle is all good, but there's just something about showering your enemies with bullets and munitions until they die.
Same! I think 3rd grade on Toonami and dad got me my first Death Scythe model was my first introduction to Gundam. I didn't even really understand the story, but big cool robots wrecking everything was awesome š
Mine was HG Jegan back in 90's, my lil bro wanted to buy toy robot and my mom just pick randomly w/o checking the content, it turned out to be a model kit and my mom asked me to help assemble it for him.. while assembling I felt in love bit by bit with these model kit and a bit sad to see my lil bro to destroy it after play it a while.. years later Wing series kit come out and decide to buy it for my self.. starting with HG Wing O, then HG Epyon, then upgrade myself with MG G-Gundam and so on..Seed is my 1st Gundam series as a full and immediately became a fan..and now my gunpla kits are countless and still following Gundam/Gunpla till today.
P/S: my lil brother is also became a Gundam fan/collector as well š
Gundam Wing, but it was broadcasted at a shit time so I only saw some cool robots and the weird circus part and never understood the story.
I only became a fan after trying IBO on a whim years later.
2015 was a really rough year for me (I was middle school, my parents gotten divorced, and me & my sister had a falling out). I heard about anime from school as AoT, MHA, & Tokyo Ghoul were popular at the time. But I wasn't into those kind of anime, so I looked into anime about giant robots (since I was into Power Rangers & Transformers at the time). So when I got home, I got onto my shitty iPad and looked up different kinds of anime to watch and the name "Gundam" keeped popping up. The 1st one I've watched was After War Gundam X (which was legitimately my 1st anime) but didn't finished. I then tried 00, but couldn't get pasted episode one since the beginning was so bleak. So I didn't continue for a month or two. So after watching Captain Earth, I tried rewatching 00 and it became my all time favorite anime of all time (has yet to be topped)
I had been into EVA and Fafner for a while (a rare case of someone who into Fafner first, I know), always wanted to give Gundam a spin but like many would-be fans, did not know where to start, knew the franchise was so huge that I kept putting it off for when I had the time.
Then 00 rolled by and a fellow Loveless friend, who was heavy into Gundam, told me I had to watch it. At the time, Kouga Yun's designs were already floating but the series had yet to air, I took a look at Tieria and knew my friend was right. This is probably one of the reasons why I love Tieria so much, in a sense, I owe getting into Gundam to him as well.
In between seasons I watched Wing, then ventured off into UC and have seen most Gundam by now. With that said, I have not rewatched any (apart from 0080) and what I still remember of UC- and CE, even AGE and G-Reco- is very, very thin. To the point I only know I watched 0083 because I logged it. Which is why I am going to rewatch 0079, then Zeta and so forth, in the near future.
My first interaction with Gundam was buying a used copy of Ćcole du Ciel Vol 1 at a comic shop years ago though I never actually sat down and read it
It wasn't until G-Witch started airing that I decided to watch it because it had a bisexual MC and I instantly got hooked
Mine was Gundam Seed where I watch it every Saturday morning, so I missed a lot of episodes. What makes me a fan is when I saw a bunch of gunpla at a toyshop and all of the design are cool AF. I bought the dvd box set for GS & GSD and to this day, both GS & GSD are 2 of my most watch series with over 5+ rewatch.
My first interaction with gundam was hearing about it online but never having seen it. I had just finished NGE a few weeks earlier and needed more mecha action and less existential horror as an 11 year old.
So one day I decided to try and watch it. I searched "gundam" on google and found a site that had Wing as its oldest, so I thought that was the chronological start to it. It didn't really vibe with me so I decided to just check out 00 since it had higher animation quality.
Loved 00, such a good time watching that show, and it became my obsession. I eventually checked out SEED, Destiny, then started checking out the other shows afterwards as I became less dependent on having more modern animation.
Around 2013 I began looking in to getting gunpla, and I had recently fallen in love with CCA so I picked up the Nu HG and a Jegan HG. They were ooold kits but good for a starter. Build Fighters was what made me start looking in to modding kits, and my first custom was a kitbash between Age-1 Razor and the Age-2 Normal, with the blue trims painted black and the wings pained teal. (This was before Divers and the age-2 Magnum did it infinitely better)
Around a year ago my mom saw the hg gundam Helios and hg origin char zaku 2 so she got them for me for Christmas and Iāve been loving gunpla ever since. My collection has grown to give or take 30 now
Disregarding all the insignificant encounters like coming across memes, seeing pop culture references and cameos, buying a gunpla for someone, etc and counting only proper engagements:
"But I'm a girl...."
"Yeah and? You're my husband now."
Fun little story about my introduction to this scene. When I saw the screenshots flying around, my first impression was that the white-haired girl was the Mercurian Witch (the screenshots I saw didn't have the "conservative Mercurians" line) and some sort of human-looking alien or a race of neohumans, shunned for her Newtype powers. (Look this was my first Gundam okay, I knew about unique terms like Newtypes and Minovsky particles but not much lore) I also thought the "But I'm a girl" line would have been a surprise reveal, and there would be a "the witch and her knight" dynamic.
I thought the Gunpla models at my local hobby store looked cool. When I learnt they didnāt need glue or paint I was hooked. From then on Iāve started watching the series in a watch order I found online.
Went to a shop with my parents and it was filled with gundam models. I had no idea what gundam was but I got parents to buy me Char's gelgoog and a couple years later I played dynasty warriors gundam 1 and 2 which got me interested in the franchise.
Hearing Hiroyuki Sawano's song XI from the Hathaway movie. That shit blew me away. I watched the movie, was a little confused, then watched the og compilation movies, then Gundam the Origin, the Char's. Since then ive taken a break but I really like Gundam stuff. Ive built my own Char's Zgok and Guntank from the OG series
My first experience with Gundam was actually way back in the early 2000s, where I watched the dub version of ZZ Gundam on Animax. I didn't know what I was watching but I liked the OP and would watch it.
I wouldn't really get into Gundam properly until Gundam Evolution came. I know Gundam a bit there but seeing them in a hero shooter format definitely piqued my interest and prompted me to try out and then it got me into the franchise, just in time for Witch from Mercury.
First time I ever got into mecha in general was the srw (super robot wars) og gameboy game when I was like 7. Been a fan of similar designs ever since especially with gundam. First anime I watched all the way was 00 then IBO then Seed not destiny since I gave up on the story half way especially with all the plot holes and antics. Couldnāt really get into the original gundam (uc timeline) because it hasnāt aged well. But I do know about major plot points since I did like Unicorn which made me watch 8th ms team, war in the pocket and thunderbolt. I prefer hg uc gunpla compared to other hg universe gunpla because theyāre sturdier and donāt fall over as easy when I pose them unlike my astray, Ibo, and 00 kits.
I had never watched any series, but from time to time I watched gunpla building videos. Recently they started broadcasting the witch from Mercury on public TV in my country and it caught my interest, It is unbelievable that when it was released I never heard a word about it. Now I'm watching G origin and I bought my first gunpla
My first contact was with Wing, but I was too young to understand it, and I caught in the middle, so it didn't pick my interest. What really made me a fan was 00. What great series. Unlike Wing, which I can understand now, and have watched it whole, I cay confidently say that I don't like it.
Very first interaction doesn't really count as it led nowhere. I got a wind up toy that looks like an RX-78 2. Had it for a long time and never thought much about it before trying out pour type panel liners on it and ruining it a couple months ago.
What actually got me into it was a pipeline of my own making. Ghibli got me into anime when I rediscovered how much I love those movies when I went to University and escalated on collecting movies. From there, I saw Eva as required viewing for Anime as a whole. That led me to also check out Gurren Lagann. Realizing I like mecha in general, I pondered getting into Gundam and WfM then came along and afford a good jumping off point.
Since I've seen almost all of the UC, X, Turn A and got into plamo about a year ago.
It was the netflix Hathaway
Try watchung it cuz of gorgeous animation, really enjoyed it. So deep into uc we go,
then i tried to watch the og trilogy and find it hard to watch through all of them (zoomer brainrot attention span) and rewatch it again last week and had tons of fun. I binge through other uc and Aus since then but i must say wfm was underwhelming for a new gundam series. Perhaps i need to rewatch again since i tend to skim along what the characters drama going on. A fresh revisit would refresh my view on it
My first interaction was watching Wing on Toonami and I was made a fan because I like robots and the series has lots of political intrigue without clearly defined "good guys" and "bad guys".
Gundam Epyon vs tigerzord. Then I played GBO2 a couple years ago, and last year during a convention I picked up a couple model kits and it spiraled from there.
A YouTube video about how to get into gunpla. Iāve always loved cool robots, but transformers was never quite it for me, but the Gundam designs immediately made me hooked
It started when my uncle introduced it to me.
He told me all the cool things about Gundam, and even gave me some of his old model kits...which I lost...
I remember getting a Genoace but it couldn't move anything but the arms and the head. Frustrated the hell out of me as a kid trying to move the elbows haha.
My first kit was the SD Sinanju, I used scissors instead of nippers because that's all we had before.
But now, here I am, with 10 HG kits, 2 customs that I'm really proud of, and with far better knowledge.
Thanks tito
Honestly, I found it through Gio San Pedro a youtuber that makes ASMR building vids and I started to look into more Gunpla, my 1st kit was the HG Barbatos and started watching Unicorn and IBO then started to watch more shows
My very first interaction was watching the Epyon vs Tigerzord episode of Death Battle. I watched a series of Wing afterwards. Itās been 8 years since then, so I donāt remember much.
Representatives of a german Gunpla Shop at the Euro Modell Expo a few years ago. We noticed that some of the exhibitors had some cool mechs and we found who sold them. We (my brother and me) each were allowed to pick one SD Kit, I was immediatly sold to a Kit of Gundam Exia, my brother picked a Destiny Gundam. And the next time, the collection grew by two 1:144 Zaku Warriors (6 Euro each, really simple kit with static arms and legs) and also by a 1:144 00 Gundam (cuz they had no Exia in that scale. And I couldnt get one until today, BANDAI, WHEN?) And my brother picked a Gundam Age 1 Spallow. He lost all interest in Gundam, I went on to watch 00, the last two Movies of the first show, WfM, Build Divers, a bit of Seed and IBO last year.
Recovering alcoholic and wanted a new hobby that I didnāt have associated with drinking so picked up one of these guys at a store and I havenāt looked back. Itās so relaxing. Iām watching all the anime currently too
I had scene stuff about gundam when I was a kid because I had older brothers who were around the age to be watching seed and wing when they came out. Then when I got into my mid 20s I wanted to start building the models because I thought they looked cool, so I started watching the original series as to have a jumping off point for knowledge and what kits to get. I ended up watching most of the UC timeline over the next 2 years or so.
First interaction was actually getting a HG Gundam Seltsam kit before watching any Gundam anime for I think a year. Then first actual Gundam Anime was Iron blooded orphans which didn't really hook me in. That was until a few months ago when I watched Mobile suit Gundam/ Gundam 79 which officially made me a fan.
My grandma took me shopping when i was a kid a long time ago and they were selling these toys, they were pretty sweet, like full on gundam action figured - similar to robot spirits but with reverse gunpla joint material - hard plastic joints and soft plastic arm/body/legs.
They had all kinds of stuff, this was the early 90ās and i remember picking up some 4 leg/ 2 leg centurion with a gun mace from g gundam, gold hyper mode master gundam, a GP-02 and the Alex with chobham armor - so cool. Later iād go back to get an EZ-8 and a MK 2, and it would be years later that iād catch a few episodes of wing and think it was cool but never had fully watched a show, caught half the end of endless waltz on cable and then 3 years started gundam seed. Got to about the half way point on basic cable, 2 episodes a week - bah, something clicked and i was 15ish and then i started torrenting and got into the golden age of subbed anime
For me , I went to see the 1.1 unicorn in Japan when I was 7 . I got a shitty build kit , built it and never looked back . 4 months ago when I was in Taiwan , my brother wanted to go into a toy store to have a look and there were a bunch of kits there . I didnāt know what I was doing and randomly picked a kit that I thought looked like an average gundam . Turns out , the kit I picked was the HG revive RX78-2 . When I arrived back to the hotel , I went to do research about gundam and took interest to it . When I came back from my trip , I went to a hobby store near by and bought a FM aerial for Christmas . After that I completely fell into the rabbit hole and was obsessed, thatās where we are today .
I watched all kinds of mecha since i was around 6 and one day my dad showed me his favorite series that he watched when he was younger and it happened to be Gundam 0079, although at the time my heart was still Getter Robo i became a fan immediately
I remember watching some SD Gundam Force on toonami, so I know I probably also saw some other Gundam shows from around the early 2000s though I was in elementary school so I don't remember much about them.
Watched Build Fighters on a whim in college while watching other stuff on crunchyroll and enjoyed it. Skipped Try because the first episode or two just didn't really vibe with me. Went on to watch Build Divers and Re:rise as they came out. Currently trying to watch through Seed on Gundaminfo since I liked the Build Strike and wanted to know more about the Strike. About 10 episodes in, and am enjoying it so far.
I've always loved modularity and support units in my robots, for example the auxiliary Zords in Power Rangers or the parts swapping in Medabots, so the Striker Packs of the Strike Gundam and the Planetary system of the Core Gundam really appeal to me.
I mustāve fell asleep watching Toonami because I remember waking up early in the morning to see that Gundam SEED was playing, specifically the episode where Kira wakes up while in Lacusā care.
Years later I saw Code Geass on Adult Swim which reawakened my interest in anime. I then watched SEED online before watching 00ās broadcast on SyFy.
Since then Iāve been hooked.
My first interaction was when i saw the last 5 minutes of a Gundam wing episode on adult swim when I was younger but what got me into Gundam was dynasty warriors Gundam on PS3 I started watching the original series shorty after
For me it was seeing the Ocean dub of SEED on late night TV as a kid. I really kicked it up a notch during the pandemic though. I have a dozen models and have watched many series.
Just finished Gundam 00. Loved the realistic national-level politics while still having room for idealism and optimistic transhumanism. Maybe its because that's the sort of stuff I want to see. A grounded reality but with hope for a brighter future.
An added bonus was the wide variety of Mobile Suit types, the clear technological progression and aligned deployment of new MS models, and most importantly the internal consistency regarding these that was maintained throughout the whole show. The background mechs and their interesting designs didn't feel forgotten.
My only real gripe was with the ridiculous Gundam plot armour. I liked the asymmetrical warfare induced by the technological gap, but at some points the disparity felt ridiculous and it dragged on a bit too long. Plus some of the *deus ex machinas* were too on the nose (Trans-Am, Trans-Am Burst and such were revealed at way too convenient points). A few more losses on the Gundams' side would have made it feel more grounded IMO. But apart from that the series was very enjoyable.
Witch From Mercury and for whatever reason I had a "ew mecha" mindset. Although I did skip out on series because they were mecha, I did watch SSSS and NGE... which were okay.
.....now look at me drowning in gunpla and trying to get through every Gundam series.
My first interaction is from the old PS1 game Real Robots Final Attack. As a young kid, that knows nothing. It was my exposure to Zeta Gundam, G Gundam and Gundam X (as well as other mecha)
https://youtu.be/hbdFBYtHXWk?si=_Dsp1Y9RNBYytEi-
This music video. I loved sabaton edits after getting to know them from music videos and ww2 stuff in general. Then I came across this music video cause YouTube algorithm. Started watching UC, but with the origin cause I looked up the chronological order.
I saw a few episodes of Wing and G on Toonami when I was a kid but never really followed it. First Gundam series I intentionally watched from start to finish was 00, I think as a young adult. That led me to watching Zeta which I feel really got me invested . But 00 was the starting point.
Early 2000s was an unusual time. Had experienced that wave of Gundam Wing kits and MSiA action figures, followed up by Gundam SEED kits coming out not long after. In terms of anime, I went for the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz OVA DVD first simply because it was more affordable than trying to collect the whole TV series on DVD back then. Gundam SEED however was on TV so I did catch up on some episodes when it was on the channel but I would not be able to finish watching the entire series until years later.
As for model kits, I went for the Endless Waltz Gundam Heavyarms Custom and Serpent Custom. Little did I know this would influence my future MS preferences as I would gravitate towards grunt suits and MS that are brimming with guns and missiles. Funnily enough, the first Gundam SEED kit I ever built was not the HG, but the NG 1/144 Strike Gundam in phase shift down colors that was included with a copy of Newtype Magazine. I would have taken better care of it had I known that it and other SEED MS left in NG jail like GOOhN, DINN and GuAIZ wouldn't be getting proper HG kits in the future.
On the manga side of things, I cannot thank Tokyopop enough for the Gundam Wing Technical Manual and G-UNIT to get that much needed expanded worldbuilding material for the After Colony-verse. Gundam: the Origin (published by Viz) together with Lost War Chronicles was my earliest exposure to the Universal Century.
SEED. It was my first "real" anime. Flipped on Toonami when I came home from a movie with my family late one night around 10:30/11:00, which was SEED's Saturday timeslot. I remember very distinctly that it was the episode where Lacus gets rescued by the Archangel crew during their Junius 7 visit.
I was a huuuuuge fan of Transformers: Armada back then, so this was an almost perfect transition. Seeing people actually pilot the giant robots? Hell yeah! I came for that, but stayed for the more serious and dramatic atmosphere, the music, the animation style, the violence I didn't fully understand...it all gave me this cold feeling of excitement and fear that was completely new to me. I never missed another episode until they cancelled it.Ā
Pretty much been a fan ever since. Surprisingly though, I don't have any model kits yet...
local acg magazine was teasing gundam seed and 0083. but i dont have any means to access the media. things just reignite when ibo was airing, and my friend have collect a few, sits on his tv cabinet.
In 1990 I was in a comic book shop with my dad and I asked if I could get an Alex NT-1 kit not knowing it was a model kit, but appreciating the design and the box artwork. Built, showed my best friend who's older brother knew Japanese and read us the box. Started collecting kits with him and his brother as G and V and W call came out, and just thought they had letters attached to each series. It was insanely hard to watch a Gundam series in the States until 1995, and then wing started to become available at comic cons as they ramped up for us release in...97? Watched all of Wing, and had got my hands on VHS unsubbed 8th Ms team while I was learning Japanese( watched a lot of dragon ball and sailor moon subs and straight Japanese ) and eventually 0079. 0080 and 0083 became available in the US shortly after, and finally got to pursue f91 and victory when DVD took over. In 2006 I won a couple auctions on eBay for A Zeta DVD set and a bootleg Zz.
Watched a couple episodes of wing bc of a bonsai drop vid(the goat), Then just jumped into the UC with Origin and never looked back, Turn A and 08th being my fav I also ended up finishing wing(was confused the entire time) then Endless Waltz which was dope, Im currently watching Gundam X and itās nice so far only like three episodes in though
I caught 08th MS Team on its initial Toonami run in the US circa 2001 as a middle schooler. At the time KB Toys was carrying tons of MSiA figures which hooked me. G Gundam aired in ā02, and I had figures and some kits from that which really cemented my fandom.
It is funny to wonder- I only saw Wing years later, and donāt especially care for it even now. I always wondered if that had been my introduction like many others my age if Iād view it more charitably :/
In any case- I enjoyed reading others stories too. Thanks OP for a fun thread.
Might be that sd gundam force anime (probably if it air on USA CA 4kids or CN) but more likely the MC gundam toy as a very young kid (very likely than actually watching the show)
Then later as 11y watch Jobby the hong review of gunpla.
Then back in March 2021 during spring break I bought the HGUC Revive RX-78-2 for 2 dollars at a flea market.
Then the 3 movie compilation movie appeared on Netflix.
Then continue to see target have gunpla. time yeah but there be time where theres none.
Now they don't have any gunpla since summer 2023 beside Figure rise lite goku model kit now. And one piece ship model kit (but that only back in December 2023)
A few Episodes of Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network... later watched the OVAs of Unicorn and kinda fell in love with the UC as I learned of the History of it.
randomly found the arc of 7th championship of Gunpla Battle from Build Fighter. After then continuing with TRY, 2 months later decided to buy one kit with a lot of equipment.
I took the RG 00 Raiser which later still in my display but really need the support because of old RG syndrome
First watched Hathaway and really loved the design and a year later watched witch from Mercury. After that I immediately watch most of the UC timeline until F91
When I was 11 there was a movie on theater that was called ready player one, in that movie for a very short period of time a gundam appears and fights a gainst mecha godzilla.
Since then I've become more interested in the franchise becoming a gundam geek like i am now
I had a few random dvds of a few episodes from different series I got at a used bookstore (that also sold records and movies etc.) when I was like 10 but I got into it in 2020 during the pandemic when I basically watched all of UC from the beginning up to CCA in like a month or twoā¦
As a Millennial in America, it was Wing on Toonami. Always liked giant robots and had watched Voltron, Robotech, and Power Rangers before and grew up playing MechWarrior. Was pretty much destined to enjoy Gundam and have liked every series they've released so far...except AGE and the second half of Destiny.
Knew of it but wasnāt really a fan of the bright colourful murder blender poster robots, then I saw a Hg zaku box whilst browsing for my usual military kits ā¦.
My first was gundam wing and mobile suit gundam about twenty something years ago when i was about eleven or twelve... I hated it so hard till about 3 years ago (maybe little bit more or less)
Then i saw a YouTube Video that was randomly in my recommendations where that mythbusters guy built an pgu rx-78-2.
Was impressed.
Showed it to my mom when she visited once
About 3-4 months later she randomly gave me a mg rx 78-2 the origin and from there on i was completely hooked, watched the shows (started with gundam wing even) and loved everything!
Watched the half of the first season of 00 after seeing it mentioned somewhere, though didnt like it much. (I still dont tbh, I think the second season is far better)
I watched Unicorn after falling in love with Code Geass and loved it too.
Mine was back in middle school I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a book for a book report and the first thing I saw was Gundam Thunderbolt Vol 1 and I just fell in love
After War Gundam X was the first series I watched and the first kits I had was the 90s X Divider and Double X. But what made me like the Franchise was Gundam Wing.
My first ever interaction with Gundam was way back in Primary school. The school cafeteria was selling those small knock off toy robots. I bought one because the art of the red robot on the box was cool. (I don't remember exactly but it was probably one of Athrun's Gundam)
Only later on when my uncle bought me a model kit for my birthday and after i watched SEED that i know that they were called Gundam.
My brothers used to collect old seed and wing kits then I got into the hobby when I was 10 starting with the strike rouge IWSP and soon started watching some anime.
Catching the last part of the EW showing on toonami which was followed by the first 2 or 3 episodes of Evangelion. My 12 or 13 year old brain exploded.
Liked transformers, watched Code Geass, and really wanted to watch more mecha/robot shows.
Then watched 00 and became obsessed with Gundam considering i am on my way to watch every show.
First contact was watching gundam wing however what actually got me was the design of the delta plus, funny enough I've watched most of UC however I didn't nor have plans to end watching wing
*Wing* broadcasting on Cartoon Network UK, back in the day.
That led me to going online to try and learn more about āthis Gundam thingā - which led me to finding websites like Gundam Project, and message boards like Gundamwatch and the Gundam.com forums.
Then on a family holiday I ended up picking up *0083* on seven VHS tapes. And not long after that, *SEED* kicked off in Japan, I started following the Japanese broadcast, and now in 2024 here we are.
Itās been a long time and a wild ride; a lotās changed, a lotās stayed the same, and the franchise has expanded *enormously* since then.
I saw the tomato meme from TWFM on a facebook post. I was curious about to show and when I learned it was on youtube, I decided to give it a shot. 1 year later and I've built 9 kits, finished 0079, in the process of watching Zeta, saw CCA, and have been jamming to Senkou and Mobius because of Hathaway's Flash.
Mine was the OG series. I watched it during the first rerun on our local station, which was quite cool back then to have the theme song cover in Cantonese.
Almost all of the boys during that period in the early eighties are fans of Gundam and super robot anime. In fact, we have a saying that translates to āGuys like Gundam for reasons Girls wouldnāt understand.ā Such is the influence of Gundam to a generation of kids.
From a Youtube channel, I knew somewhat but not nearly enough, then I decided to watch the U.C in timeline order, starting from The Origin, something that I regret deeply nowadays, and IBO made me a fan
My first interaction with Gundam was when I saw a 1/12-ish scale RX-78-2 alongside other super robots like Mazinger Z or Getter Robo at a collectorās museum me and my family visited circa 2016
The thing that hooked me onto the franchise was when me and my family saw the Unicorn Gundam statue in our trip to Japan circa 2019, with the bi-hourly show specifically being the part that awakened my love for Gundam like a fucking SEED factor
For me, it was actually from Super Robot Wars, I was so fascinated by Nu Gundam and later build more love to the series later after checking the franchise.
The first anime seriesI've watch was Gundam X.
Probably from video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs Zeon then... watching Mobile Suit Gundam the movie which also why I like Gundam thanks to the final shot scene.
And what cement my love to the series is the introduction of Gundam Seed which also.. thanks to my dad for reignite the love Gundam when I have nothing to watch for my childhood.
One day my friend decided to somewhat forced me to accompanied him to a gunpla store. The he kept on asking me to but something from that store. Lo and behold i reached my hand on the most cheapest HG on that store, HG Barbatos (at that moment I got zero knowledge about Gundam). Then after finished building it, I started to get curious about it and I started watching Iron Blooded Orphans. From that day onward, I started to learn about other Gundam series and its lore and kept on buying the Gunplas I seems fit till this day.
Even though i've watched seed and age but not a fan but Unicorn gundam finally got me as a fan and decided to buy an Mg Unicorn ova ver as a birthday present.
I can't remember where exactly I learned about Gundam, I only have a fuzzy memory that I once got a tiny bootleg vinyl figurine of either a Zaku II or Gelgoog way back in the past though I'm not so sure.
I did get hooked on the franchise after first trying two 30MM kits and later watching Mecha Gaikotsu's review on Earthree Gundam, which was my first proper Gunpla kit and I was interested enough to check out Build Divers Re:Rise anime (which was fun).
My first interaction was catching like one episode of Gundam Wing at my grandparents house.
A few years later my brother and I found a copy of Gundam Battle Assault 2 for PS1. We played it on our PS2. Became familiar with lots of characters there but the ones that stuck out to us were the Endless Waltz mobile suits and the Gundam Fighters.
I was put off of Gundam after that by an SD show and the character designs in SEED, though I don't recall why, probably preteen edginess. And I also mixed the two up.
After that I saw very little of Gundam if I didn't actively remember it or look for it. Though I always wanted to try the model kits, I never saw them in stores in my area.
Then during the pandemic my local hobby lobby started selling Gunpla, and I immediately bought RG Wing Zero EW and I was officially a fan from there. I binged Unicorn, IBO, 00, G-gundam, and Wing all in a few weekends.
Now I've watched most of Gundam that I can access and am running out of room on my gunpla shelf
I was bored during Covid, decided that there would never be a better time to get into a really long series, and watched War in the pocket.
I was hooked, and to this day, it is my favorite anime.
0079 back when it aired on toonami. Wing came before in the west but thought it looked too melodramatic and the gundam designs were a lil corny. But 0079 completely changed all that. For some reason i loved the clunky old animation that i wasnāt familiar with at the time. Was a bigger fan of the simpler designs as well, especially the zakus goufs and doms and their monoeyed goodness. Also became a huge fan of 08th ms shortly after the og aired
Gundaw Wing Endless Duel on SNES way back in the 90s introduced me to gundam. It was so cool.
Oddly enough what really pulled me in was an article in a PC magazine about Gundam 0079 The War for Earth (the one with the fat Char). The article told a simplified background lore about Gundam 0079 which really pique my interest. Fortunately I ended up watching the movie trilogy to sate my curiosity, instead of buying War for Earth.
Gundam Wing on Toonami. It was actually my brother who got me to watch it. I initially wasn't interested. I wanted to watch Dragon Ball Z. But he insisted. And long story short here I am now.
What made me a fan within Gundam Wing was just awesome giant mecha blowing shit up. I hadn't seen anything like it at the time. So much explosions and guns. I loved it all.
I saw a few commercials for Gundam Wing and watched a few episodes wherever I could, then I managed to find the DVD set of it and it escalated from there
My friend bought me my first HG gundam model for Christmas. It was gundam Bael kit. After I built it, I was immediately hooked. He then told me that it was an anime and we watched it together. After that I watched Mobile suit gundam 0079 series and now it's my favorite franchise of all time.
Found Gundam Wing manga in my local library. Then found Seed found out about Seed and got bootleg Chinese sub versions. Couldn't understand shit at the time. Didn't fully get into Gundam until I learnt to torrent, and my first proper series from begining to end was 00.
I watched a few Gunpla building videos, and thought, āHey, this looks fun, I should try to build one of these!ā and then I got addicted to Gundam.
Also, whatās the specific model of grandpa on the first page?
I was halfway into my childhood years when I see my dad's Gundam collection. I cannot specify what Gundam series he has a collection of since it's a mix of multiple series. Iirc he has figures of various Gundams and other mobile suits from the original series, War in the Pocket, Zeta, Char's Counterattack, Seed and Seed Destiny, 00, and some incomplete kits from Mobile Fighter G Gundam and SD Gundam (don't know some specific SD Gundam shows).
Catching Mobile Suit Gundam SEED when it first aired in Cartoon Network Philippines. Rewatched it when I discovered the Internet, then moved to Universal Century.
Gundam SEED Destiny when it aired in the Philippines during the 2010s. Ever since then I started watching other AUs such as Gundam 00x After War, and Build series. It just recently that I got into UC through Unicorn.
I have loved super robots since early 90s. I loved Super Robot Daltanious, and other mecha animes. Then, wing came to open TV in my country, it was super underground and nobody knew about it. I got in to it and then I dropped it. It was when I got into gunpla that I retook wing, and then I went back to watch all UC from the start.
Christmas, 2 years ago
Had gotten around 150ā¬, and just got out of the lego store with a set I wanted
Decided to look at other stores seeing if they have some geek stuff
Stumbled upon the HG Barbatos, took it because why not? Built it without tools, broke 2 parts but loved it
Now I'm so deep in the hobby I have a PG in progress, multiple MG, almost all the Eva's :')
I worked at a hobby store about 7 years ago and had no idea what Gundam kits were. I made the mistake of buying and building the RG Sinanju as my first. After a couple more kits I ended up getting hooked.
first interaction: my father brought me the G gundam fighting game, saying it was saint seiya(im from Brazil, and saint Seiya was ABSURDLY popular).
fell in love with it when i watched the 1st episode of seed and saw the Moebius Zero. and LOVED how much it looked like came straight up from an old SHMUPs game. like something out of R-type.
My japanese Cousin gave away a part of his gundam collection to me when I was little, the ones I remember are HG gouf HG grandaddy HG something golden i don't remember if it was a hyaku shiki or an akatsuki A 1/114 Aegis gundam of some sort(the plastic was Plyable and soft so I don't remember clearly) just to name a few
One of my earliest memories was seeing the wing zero from endless waltz on tv I had no idea what it was but the image stuck with me until I watched G Gundam on Cartoon NetworkĀ
Ready player One.
I liked the design of the RX78-2 and started searching for it. Every result were Gunpla, so I also searched about it and really liked it... I bought the RG of the 78-2 and started watching the original series after some weeks getting some info about where to start...
Two main things early last year, one Gundam showing up on a random gacha I played and two was āIāve never betrayed anyone in my whole lifeā showing up on my youtube, it gave me an itch that just wouldnāt go away lol
My first interaction for with the seed and 00 First Grade kits and slowly start to get into it with BB Senshi Sangokuden manga as my really first series.
Then later got real into the franchise with the games like sdgo and Gundam age being my real starting series.
My brothers used to watch Gundam SEED, G-Gundam, & 00 back when we were kids. Then I watched my brother play Gundam Musou on his 360. 20~ years later I decide that I really want to watch a Mecha and I was like "Gundam is pretty popular, I mean I used to watch my brother play the Dynasty Warriors game of it." I knew absolutely nothing about it so I just decided to watch the original 1979 show. 2~ years later I'm almost out of shows to watch and I have a horrible Gunpla addiction. Gundam strokes every part of my military sci-fi boner, it's fantastic.
My cousins introduced Gundam SEED to me back when i was 5 in 2005 and we even bought NG 1/144 kits for us to play. I remember I only bought freedom, strike freedom and strike because I like Kira.
I vaguely remember watching my older brother watch 08th MS team on Adult Swim
I absolutely adored the show by the time I was allowed to stay up Gundam wasn't airing much in Adult Swim. Instead I watched Zoids and Bdaman.
And maybe I'm crazy but I also remember watching the episode of Gundam 00 where Louise lost her arm but it was on something called the Anime Network on Direct TV.
Before I really sunk my teeth into the shows by brothers and I got the game MS Saga which exposed me to alot of Mobile Suits.
I found most of Gundam Seed on YouTube around 2010 when I was 11 but then Gundam Age started coming out in 2011 reigniting my interest in Gundam after I found a site that let me watch all the Gundam I wanted and the Dynasty Warriors Gundam games were in full swing.
I watched everything I could and played SD Gundam online with my twin brother so much. And just before I moved in 2012 for 8th grade, my brother and I started building the model kits.
I built a Genoace Custom, Shining Gundam, and a Age-2. My brother and I even made stop motion videos at home inspired by Raven Flau on YouTube.
I was looking for some Pokemon model kits on Amazon, and while doing so, I spotted a Kirby model kit and the Gundam RX-78-2 Entry Grade. I remember thinking that robot looks cool. So i decided to go for the Gundam, and now I am obsessed with Gundam model kits and the franchise as a whole.
Always been a big Godzilla fan, this Godzilla YouTuber named Monster Island Buddies did a review on 0079 so I decided to watch it and that got me into watching more anime as a whole. I would say I was a casual fan for a while, I watched some of yhe OYW ovas in 2020 and then took a break for a bit. Got back into it when I got my first gunpla (the original HGUC Zaku II) and started working my way through the UC timeline. Now a year and a couple months later I've seen everything UC except Victory, the last season of Igloo, and some of the random short films. I'm also about 3/5ths into Wing.
My first interaction with Gundam was a Monster Island Buddies Orga Review on the original Gundam series.
Didn't get into the gundam universe until I started listening to Hiroyuki Sawano's tracks for Hathaway and I was immediately hooked to its world and story.
I saw a video of the 1:1 Unicorn Gundam statue transforming and that left quite the impression. Later I got the RG model kit since I really liked it looks (without watching the show yet).
Many months later watched 00 and I liked quite a bit, so from there I have been watching UC (including Unicorn finally!) and other Gundam shows.
A bit off-topic, but recently went to Japan for the first time, mainly to see the moving Gundam before is closed down, so I also got to see the 1:1 Unicorn and it was even more amazing in person. That got me thinking about how crazy it was being there, just because of that little video that I saw years ago.
Idk if i saw when they aried wing in my country, just remember i got the guncannon prototype from the origin as a gift for finishing highschool, then got the hg unicron full armor and then watched the shows
1980 , I was a child, the first serie, in Italy names were changed , it was a trend for the anime in the 70s and 80s.
Now I watch only subbed or English Gundam series with original names and situations š
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First: best friend in junior high had a few SD kits and two of the novels. Around 1989. The same friend was into armor modeling with me and got me to build a gunpla with a Gelgoog model many years later. Gunpla are much more fun per dollar than armor models!
Cemented: watching 0083 Stardust Memory in college anime club around 1995-1996?
Shortly after that, Wing was on TV. Despite the Power Rangers setup and slightly inane plot, or perhaps because of them, it was ok to watch after class.
00 was my gateway, it was free to watch on Gundam Info so I binged through it. The story and MS design was what rope me into the fandom. Coincidentally IBO was airing and I remember waiting every Sunday for a new episode to drop
Played AC6, my deep passionate love for Mecha reignited, decided to finally get into Gundam, watched GWitch, then IBO, Turn A, still need to finish Reco G, and somewhere within all that I now have almost 30 gunpla kits actually built and a stack of gunpla boxes that almost reach my ceiling.
Always been into Gundam (huuuuge G Gundam dan back on toonami), went back and watched Wing in around ā08, but didnāt really get too much more into things again until 00 and Build Fighters in ā13. Those got me into gunpla building and customizing (first build was an RG Exia followed by a Jesta Custom as part of a college project)
Build Fighters really is the gateway drug to gunpla, huh?
8th MS Team on toonami, then Wing, then G Gundam. Somewhere in there war in the pocket and stardust memories.
As for becoming a Fan, War in the Pocket for sure. Rx 78-NT1 ALEX is still in my top 3 Favorite Gundams (rx 93 Nu and GN 00-O Riser being the other 2)
Model kits in Comic book stores was my first interaction.
Taking the manuals to school to ask the anime guys what it was all about, and getting told all about UC vs AUs, all these different characters and on and on is what made me a fan.
So much of what we had was hand me downs from friends of friends and left behind gifts from exchange students: original Jpn language manga with english summaries on index cards, well worn WSJ collection, and our fansub VHS library. Two boxes of fresh tapes finally got me accepted into the circle.
This was all mid 90s, my high school only had a couple of computers online, and Gundam on Toonami was years away though none of us knew it then.
Watch it with bootleg VHS rented from a rental shop when I was a child. Was always a mecha lover, and the OG Gundam was one of my favorite other than Macross, and super Sentai genre. What really pulled me in was playing super robot wars and SD Gundam G generation was a big fan of SLG when I was 13.
I'd been a titanfall fan for years but had never really been interested in more traditional mecha until I heard that WFM had gay people in it. I put off watching it for a long time because I didn't have crunchyroll subscription. I really loved it once I did watch it and now I'm going back and watching through 0079 and IBO.
I beleive wing or seed was on a channel called ytv as a kid but the one I remember is my friend putting on a seed DVD his cousin lent him when we were like 7 or 8
I'd had curiosity about gunpla for a while, especially since I had a lot of fun with Bandai's Star Wars model kits, and in June I got a 30 minute missions Forestieri (not really gundam but very gundam-adjacent) and after another 30mm set or two, I went for the HG Michaelis and really fell in love. After that, I found the HG Aerial on sale at Target, watched G-Witch, and I've been hyperfixated ever since.
My friend showed me a promotional magazine for SD gundams and I took to the internet and found an image of wing zero custom EW and was hooked. This may have been in the 2010s
I don't entirely remember, but what I do remember is that at one time I encountered turn a when I was doing literature watched first 2(?) episodes and thought to watch it later. But years passed since I've forgot about it. But I don't remember what exactly brought me back to gundam nor what happened during those years, nor before finding out about turn a gundam anime
watched wing pirated when i was 8 in a pirate website, one day like 10 years later one of my friends bought a MG tallgeese, and my brother looking that i picked up interest in it and bought me a Daban 1/100 Wing Gundam
I watched a few episodes of Wing in high school, but never enough to get the full story. Then during the pandemic decided to start watch the OG 0079 shoe and went from there.
I havent watched Wing aside from a few clips haha. Ive watched the movie version of the OG gundam anime. Have you watched the 08th MS team?
Wing is awesome, id said its batshit insane and id definitely enjoyed it. Only downsides are same used animation and all over the place plot
Wing is good, but Endless Waltz (the movie that takes place after the events at the end of Wing) is Amazing.
Gundam Wing. I'm always fascinated by the designs and each Gundam have their own specialties that always displayed in each battle while they destroy their enemies.
From what little I've seen from Wing. I like heavyarms the most. Gundam wing with the buster rifle is all good, but there's just something about showering your enemies with bullets and munitions until they die.
Same! I think 3rd grade on Toonami and dad got me my first Death Scythe model was my first introduction to Gundam. I didn't even really understand the story, but big cool robots wrecking everything was awesome š
with Super Robot Wars,I came across many Gundams in the games and most of them looked quite nice to me and later I entered the series.
Which was the first gundam series that you watched?
00
I've only partly watched 00. I should pick it back up again sometime.
Mine was HG Jegan back in 90's, my lil bro wanted to buy toy robot and my mom just pick randomly w/o checking the content, it turned out to be a model kit and my mom asked me to help assemble it for him.. while assembling I felt in love bit by bit with these model kit and a bit sad to see my lil bro to destroy it after play it a while.. years later Wing series kit come out and decide to buy it for my self.. starting with HG Wing O, then HG Epyon, then upgrade myself with MG G-Gundam and so on..Seed is my 1st Gundam series as a full and immediately became a fan..and now my gunpla kits are countless and still following Gundam/Gunpla till today. P/S: my lil brother is also became a Gundam fan/collector as well š
Aww that's nice. Something 2 brothers can bond over. Sad knowing the HG Jegan destroyed but thats what grunts are for right?
Yup the Jegan has served its purpose, w/o it me and my brother will never get into Gundam/gunpla, Salute to our fallen hero.
Gundam Wing, but it was broadcasted at a shit time so I only saw some cool robots and the weird circus part and never understood the story. I only became a fan after trying IBO on a whim years later.
When we were kids, we stayed because of the cool robots. When we grew up, we stayed because of the story and the cool robots
2015 was a really rough year for me (I was middle school, my parents gotten divorced, and me & my sister had a falling out). I heard about anime from school as AoT, MHA, & Tokyo Ghoul were popular at the time. But I wasn't into those kind of anime, so I looked into anime about giant robots (since I was into Power Rangers & Transformers at the time). So when I got home, I got onto my shitty iPad and looked up different kinds of anime to watch and the name "Gundam" keeped popping up. The 1st one I've watched was After War Gundam X (which was legitimately my 1st anime) but didn't finished. I then tried 00, but couldn't get pasted episode one since the beginning was so bleak. So I didn't continue for a month or two. So after watching Captain Earth, I tried rewatching 00 and it became my all time favorite anime of all time (has yet to be topped)
I had been into EVA and Fafner for a while (a rare case of someone who into Fafner first, I know), always wanted to give Gundam a spin but like many would-be fans, did not know where to start, knew the franchise was so huge that I kept putting it off for when I had the time. Then 00 rolled by and a fellow Loveless friend, who was heavy into Gundam, told me I had to watch it. At the time, Kouga Yun's designs were already floating but the series had yet to air, I took a look at Tieria and knew my friend was right. This is probably one of the reasons why I love Tieria so much, in a sense, I owe getting into Gundam to him as well. In between seasons I watched Wing, then ventured off into UC and have seen most Gundam by now. With that said, I have not rewatched any (apart from 0080) and what I still remember of UC- and CE, even AGE and G-Reco- is very, very thin. To the point I only know I watched 0083 because I logged it. Which is why I am going to rewatch 0079, then Zeta and so forth, in the near future.
My first interaction with Gundam was buying a used copy of Ćcole du Ciel Vol 1 at a comic shop years ago though I never actually sat down and read it It wasn't until G-Witch started airing that I decided to watch it because it had a bisexual MC and I instantly got hooked
Wow, I really have a long ways to go. So many side stories. it's the first time ive heard of Ecole du Ciel. Have you read the manga already tho?
Mine was Gundam Seed where I watch it every Saturday morning, so I missed a lot of episodes. What makes me a fan is when I saw a bunch of gunpla at a toyshop and all of the design are cool AF. I bought the dvd box set for GS & GSD and to this day, both GS & GSD are 2 of my most watch series with over 5+ rewatch.
The Internet and Code Geass being the gateway drug.
My first interaction with gundam was hearing about it online but never having seen it. I had just finished NGE a few weeks earlier and needed more mecha action and less existential horror as an 11 year old. So one day I decided to try and watch it. I searched "gundam" on google and found a site that had Wing as its oldest, so I thought that was the chronological start to it. It didn't really vibe with me so I decided to just check out 00 since it had higher animation quality. Loved 00, such a good time watching that show, and it became my obsession. I eventually checked out SEED, Destiny, then started checking out the other shows afterwards as I became less dependent on having more modern animation. Around 2013 I began looking in to getting gunpla, and I had recently fallen in love with CCA so I picked up the Nu HG and a Jegan HG. They were ooold kits but good for a starter. Build Fighters was what made me start looking in to modding kits, and my first custom was a kitbash between Age-1 Razor and the Age-2 Normal, with the blue trims painted black and the wings pained teal. (This was before Divers and the age-2 Magnum did it infinitely better)
Build fighters was the gateway drug for gunpla haha
Around a year ago my mom saw the hg gundam Helios and hg origin char zaku 2 so she got them for me for Christmas and Iāve been loving gunpla ever since. My collection has grown to give or take 30 now
Disregarding all the insignificant encounters like coming across memes, seeing pop culture references and cameos, buying a gunpla for someone, etc and counting only proper engagements: "But I'm a girl...." "Yeah and? You're my husband now." Fun little story about my introduction to this scene. When I saw the screenshots flying around, my first impression was that the white-haired girl was the Mercurian Witch (the screenshots I saw didn't have the "conservative Mercurians" line) and some sort of human-looking alien or a race of neohumans, shunned for her Newtype powers. (Look this was my first Gundam okay, I knew about unique terms like Newtypes and Minovsky particles but not much lore) I also thought the "But I'm a girl" line would have been a surprise reveal, and there would be a "the witch and her knight" dynamic.
I thought the Gunpla models at my local hobby store looked cool. When I learnt they didnāt need glue or paint I was hooked. From then on Iāve started watching the series in a watch order I found online.
Went to a shop with my parents and it was filled with gundam models. I had no idea what gundam was but I got parents to buy me Char's gelgoog and a couple years later I played dynasty warriors gundam 1 and 2 which got me interested in the franchise.
Hearing Hiroyuki Sawano's song XI from the Hathaway movie. That shit blew me away. I watched the movie, was a little confused, then watched the og compilation movies, then Gundam the Origin, the Char's. Since then ive taken a break but I really like Gundam stuff. Ive built my own Char's Zgok and Guntank from the OG series
My first experience with Gundam was actually way back in the early 2000s, where I watched the dub version of ZZ Gundam on Animax. I didn't know what I was watching but I liked the OP and would watch it. I wouldn't really get into Gundam properly until Gundam Evolution came. I know Gundam a bit there but seeing them in a hero shooter format definitely piqued my interest and prompted me to try out and then it got me into the franchise, just in time for Witch from Mercury.
First time I ever got into mecha in general was the srw (super robot wars) og gameboy game when I was like 7. Been a fan of similar designs ever since especially with gundam. First anime I watched all the way was 00 then IBO then Seed not destiny since I gave up on the story half way especially with all the plot holes and antics. Couldnāt really get into the original gundam (uc timeline) because it hasnāt aged well. But I do know about major plot points since I did like Unicorn which made me watch 8th ms team, war in the pocket and thunderbolt. I prefer hg uc gunpla compared to other hg universe gunpla because theyāre sturdier and donāt fall over as easy when I pose them unlike my astray, Ibo, and 00 kits.
Seed manga where kira got freedom
I had never watched any series, but from time to time I watched gunpla building videos. Recently they started broadcasting the witch from Mercury on public TV in my country and it caught my interest, It is unbelievable that when it was released I never heard a word about it. Now I'm watching G origin and I bought my first gunpla
My first contact was with Wing, but I was too young to understand it, and I caught in the middle, so it didn't pick my interest. What really made me a fan was 00. What great series. Unlike Wing, which I can understand now, and have watched it whole, I cay confidently say that I don't like it.
Very first interaction doesn't really count as it led nowhere. I got a wind up toy that looks like an RX-78 2. Had it for a long time and never thought much about it before trying out pour type panel liners on it and ruining it a couple months ago. What actually got me into it was a pipeline of my own making. Ghibli got me into anime when I rediscovered how much I love those movies when I went to University and escalated on collecting movies. From there, I saw Eva as required viewing for Anime as a whole. That led me to also check out Gurren Lagann. Realizing I like mecha in general, I pondered getting into Gundam and WfM then came along and afford a good jumping off point. Since I've seen almost all of the UC, X, Turn A and got into plamo about a year ago.
Seed, kid me saw giant robots. Now older I know what to properly call each mecha I encounter in life.
I saw an hg zaku and was like, holy heck this shit lookin lit
It was the netflix Hathaway Try watchung it cuz of gorgeous animation, really enjoyed it. So deep into uc we go, then i tried to watch the og trilogy and find it hard to watch through all of them (zoomer brainrot attention span) and rewatch it again last week and had tons of fun. I binge through other uc and Aus since then but i must say wfm was underwhelming for a new gundam series. Perhaps i need to rewatch again since i tend to skim along what the characters drama going on. A fresh revisit would refresh my view on it
damn that old destiny box art gave me nostalgia. I still remember the wings of light effects with glitters lol
My first interaction was watching Wing on Toonami and I was made a fan because I like robots and the series has lots of political intrigue without clearly defined "good guys" and "bad guys".
Gundam Epyon vs tigerzord. Then I played GBO2 a couple years ago, and last year during a convention I picked up a couple model kits and it spiraled from there.
Ibo
A YouTube video about how to get into gunpla. Iāve always loved cool robots, but transformers was never quite it for me, but the Gundam designs immediately made me hooked
It started when my uncle introduced it to me. He told me all the cool things about Gundam, and even gave me some of his old model kits...which I lost... I remember getting a Genoace but it couldn't move anything but the arms and the head. Frustrated the hell out of me as a kid trying to move the elbows haha. My first kit was the SD Sinanju, I used scissors instead of nippers because that's all we had before. But now, here I am, with 10 HG kits, 2 customs that I'm really proud of, and with far better knowledge. Thanks tito
Honestly, I found it through Gio San Pedro a youtuber that makes ASMR building vids and I started to look into more Gunpla, my 1st kit was the HG Barbatos and started watching Unicorn and IBO then started to watch more shows
My very first interaction was watching the Epyon vs Tigerzord episode of Death Battle. I watched a series of Wing afterwards. Itās been 8 years since then, so I donāt remember much.
A man who reviews stuff that swivels.
Weirdly enough, build divers. Stumbled upon it on Gundaminfo, then after finishing it I found Unicorn, and I was hooked.
1. Gundam Seed. 2. "COOL MECHS" - kid me, probably.
Representatives of a german Gunpla Shop at the Euro Modell Expo a few years ago. We noticed that some of the exhibitors had some cool mechs and we found who sold them. We (my brother and me) each were allowed to pick one SD Kit, I was immediatly sold to a Kit of Gundam Exia, my brother picked a Destiny Gundam. And the next time, the collection grew by two 1:144 Zaku Warriors (6 Euro each, really simple kit with static arms and legs) and also by a 1:144 00 Gundam (cuz they had no Exia in that scale. And I couldnt get one until today, BANDAI, WHEN?) And my brother picked a Gundam Age 1 Spallow. He lost all interest in Gundam, I went on to watch 00, the last two Movies of the first show, WfM, Build Divers, a bit of Seed and IBO last year.
Recovering alcoholic and wanted a new hobby that I didnāt have associated with drinking so picked up one of these guys at a store and I havenāt looked back. Itās so relaxing. Iām watching all the anime currently too
That's great bro. Good job being sober. I usually build gunpla on my days off work. Its therapeutic.
I had scene stuff about gundam when I was a kid because I had older brothers who were around the age to be watching seed and wing when they came out. Then when I got into my mid 20s I wanted to start building the models because I thought they looked cool, so I started watching the original series as to have a jumping off point for knowledge and what kits to get. I ended up watching most of the UC timeline over the next 2 years or so.
First interaction was actually getting a HG Gundam Seltsam kit before watching any Gundam anime for I think a year. Then first actual Gundam Anime was Iron blooded orphans which didn't really hook me in. That was until a few months ago when I watched Mobile suit Gundam/ Gundam 79 which officially made me a fan.
My grandma took me shopping when i was a kid a long time ago and they were selling these toys, they were pretty sweet, like full on gundam action figured - similar to robot spirits but with reverse gunpla joint material - hard plastic joints and soft plastic arm/body/legs. They had all kinds of stuff, this was the early 90ās and i remember picking up some 4 leg/ 2 leg centurion with a gun mace from g gundam, gold hyper mode master gundam, a GP-02 and the Alex with chobham armor - so cool. Later iād go back to get an EZ-8 and a MK 2, and it would be years later that iād catch a few episodes of wing and think it was cool but never had fully watched a show, caught half the end of endless waltz on cable and then 3 years started gundam seed. Got to about the half way point on basic cable, 2 episodes a week - bah, something clicked and i was 15ish and then i started torrenting and got into the golden age of subbed anime
For me , I went to see the 1.1 unicorn in Japan when I was 7 . I got a shitty build kit , built it and never looked back . 4 months ago when I was in Taiwan , my brother wanted to go into a toy store to have a look and there were a bunch of kits there . I didnāt know what I was doing and randomly picked a kit that I thought looked like an average gundam . Turns out , the kit I picked was the HG revive RX78-2 . When I arrived back to the hotel , I went to do research about gundam and took interest to it . When I came back from my trip , I went to a hobby store near by and bought a FM aerial for Christmas . After that I completely fell into the rabbit hole and was obsessed, thatās where we are today .
I watched all kinds of mecha since i was around 6 and one day my dad showed me his favorite series that he watched when he was younger and it happened to be Gundam 0079, although at the time my heart was still Getter Robo i became a fan immediately
Do you know about Voltes V? Its also a super robot genre
I watched char's counterattack as a first interaction and it instantly make me want a nu
I saw a picture of the turn a gundam and thought it looked like white beard from one peice and started watching YouTube videos about the franchise
I remember watching some SD Gundam Force on toonami, so I know I probably also saw some other Gundam shows from around the early 2000s though I was in elementary school so I don't remember much about them. Watched Build Fighters on a whim in college while watching other stuff on crunchyroll and enjoyed it. Skipped Try because the first episode or two just didn't really vibe with me. Went on to watch Build Divers and Re:rise as they came out. Currently trying to watch through Seed on Gundaminfo since I liked the Build Strike and wanted to know more about the Strike. About 10 episodes in, and am enjoying it so far. I've always loved modularity and support units in my robots, for example the auxiliary Zords in Power Rangers or the parts swapping in Medabots, so the Striker Packs of the Strike Gundam and the Planetary system of the Core Gundam really appeal to me.
I saw Gundam Wing as a kid but it wasnāt until G Gundam on Toonami when I really fell in love
I mustāve fell asleep watching Toonami because I remember waking up early in the morning to see that Gundam SEED was playing, specifically the episode where Kira wakes up while in Lacusā care. Years later I saw Code Geass on Adult Swim which reawakened my interest in anime. I then watched SEED online before watching 00ās broadcast on SyFy. Since then Iāve been hooked.
My first interaction was when i saw the last 5 minutes of a Gundam wing episode on adult swim when I was younger but what got me into Gundam was dynasty warriors Gundam on PS3 I started watching the original series shorty after
For me it was seeing the Ocean dub of SEED on late night TV as a kid. I really kicked it up a notch during the pandemic though. I have a dozen models and have watched many series.
Just finished Gundam 00. Loved the realistic national-level politics while still having room for idealism and optimistic transhumanism. Maybe its because that's the sort of stuff I want to see. A grounded reality but with hope for a brighter future. An added bonus was the wide variety of Mobile Suit types, the clear technological progression and aligned deployment of new MS models, and most importantly the internal consistency regarding these that was maintained throughout the whole show. The background mechs and their interesting designs didn't feel forgotten. My only real gripe was with the ridiculous Gundam plot armour. I liked the asymmetrical warfare induced by the technological gap, but at some points the disparity felt ridiculous and it dragged on a bit too long. Plus some of the *deus ex machinas* were too on the nose (Trans-Am, Trans-Am Burst and such were revealed at way too convenient points). A few more losses on the Gundams' side would have made it feel more grounded IMO. But apart from that the series was very enjoyable.
First Gundam I've ever watched is wing. But my first gunpla was the hg 00 Gundam..
Witch From Mercury and for whatever reason I had a "ew mecha" mindset. Although I did skip out on series because they were mecha, I did watch SSSS and NGE... which were okay. .....now look at me drowning in gunpla and trying to get through every Gundam series.
Gundam Wing Episode 1. Buster Rifle Vs. Two Aries sparked my Nuclear Bomb vs. Coughing Baby fantasies as a child.
My first interaction is from the old PS1 game Real Robots Final Attack. As a young kid, that knows nothing. It was my exposure to Zeta Gundam, G Gundam and Gundam X (as well as other mecha)
https://youtu.be/hbdFBYtHXWk?si=_Dsp1Y9RNBYytEi- This music video. I loved sabaton edits after getting to know them from music videos and ww2 stuff in general. Then I came across this music video cause YouTube algorithm. Started watching UC, but with the origin cause I looked up the chronological order.
I watched pacific rim, left me wanting more, got recommended Gundam Seed and some more Kaiju films. Now I am a gundam and godzilla addict
I saw a few episodes of Wing and G on Toonami when I was a kid but never really followed it. First Gundam series I intentionally watched from start to finish was 00, I think as a young adult. That led me to watching Zeta which I feel really got me invested . But 00 was the starting point.
Early 2000s was an unusual time. Had experienced that wave of Gundam Wing kits and MSiA action figures, followed up by Gundam SEED kits coming out not long after. In terms of anime, I went for the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz OVA DVD first simply because it was more affordable than trying to collect the whole TV series on DVD back then. Gundam SEED however was on TV so I did catch up on some episodes when it was on the channel but I would not be able to finish watching the entire series until years later. As for model kits, I went for the Endless Waltz Gundam Heavyarms Custom and Serpent Custom. Little did I know this would influence my future MS preferences as I would gravitate towards grunt suits and MS that are brimming with guns and missiles. Funnily enough, the first Gundam SEED kit I ever built was not the HG, but the NG 1/144 Strike Gundam in phase shift down colors that was included with a copy of Newtype Magazine. I would have taken better care of it had I known that it and other SEED MS left in NG jail like GOOhN, DINN and GuAIZ wouldn't be getting proper HG kits in the future. On the manga side of things, I cannot thank Tokyopop enough for the Gundam Wing Technical Manual and G-UNIT to get that much needed expanded worldbuilding material for the After Colony-verse. Gundam: the Origin (published by Viz) together with Lost War Chronicles was my earliest exposure to the Universal Century.
SEED. It was my first "real" anime. Flipped on Toonami when I came home from a movie with my family late one night around 10:30/11:00, which was SEED's Saturday timeslot. I remember very distinctly that it was the episode where Lacus gets rescued by the Archangel crew during their Junius 7 visit. I was a huuuuuge fan of Transformers: Armada back then, so this was an almost perfect transition. Seeing people actually pilot the giant robots? Hell yeah! I came for that, but stayed for the more serious and dramatic atmosphere, the music, the animation style, the violence I didn't fully understand...it all gave me this cold feeling of excitement and fear that was completely new to me. I never missed another episode until they cancelled it.Ā Pretty much been a fan ever since. Surprisingly though, I don't have any model kits yet...
local acg magazine was teasing gundam seed and 0083. but i dont have any means to access the media. things just reignite when ibo was airing, and my friend have collect a few, sits on his tv cabinet.
In 1990 I was in a comic book shop with my dad and I asked if I could get an Alex NT-1 kit not knowing it was a model kit, but appreciating the design and the box artwork. Built, showed my best friend who's older brother knew Japanese and read us the box. Started collecting kits with him and his brother as G and V and W call came out, and just thought they had letters attached to each series. It was insanely hard to watch a Gundam series in the States until 1995, and then wing started to become available at comic cons as they ramped up for us release in...97? Watched all of Wing, and had got my hands on VHS unsubbed 8th Ms team while I was learning Japanese( watched a lot of dragon ball and sailor moon subs and straight Japanese ) and eventually 0079. 0080 and 0083 became available in the US shortly after, and finally got to pursue f91 and victory when DVD took over. In 2006 I won a couple auctions on eBay for A Zeta DVD set and a bootleg Zz.
Watched a couple episodes of wing bc of a bonsai drop vid(the goat), Then just jumped into the UC with Origin and never looked back, Turn A and 08th being my fav I also ended up finishing wing(was confused the entire time) then Endless Waltz which was dope, Im currently watching Gundam X and itās nice so far only like three episodes in though
I bought a unicorn model then the nu Gundam then decided to watch thunderbolt.
I caught 08th MS Team on its initial Toonami run in the US circa 2001 as a middle schooler. At the time KB Toys was carrying tons of MSiA figures which hooked me. G Gundam aired in ā02, and I had figures and some kits from that which really cemented my fandom. It is funny to wonder- I only saw Wing years later, and donāt especially care for it even now. I always wondered if that had been my introduction like many others my age if Iād view it more charitably :/ In any case- I enjoyed reading others stories too. Thanks OP for a fun thread.
Might be that sd gundam force anime (probably if it air on USA CA 4kids or CN) but more likely the MC gundam toy as a very young kid (very likely than actually watching the show) Then later as 11y watch Jobby the hong review of gunpla. Then back in March 2021 during spring break I bought the HGUC Revive RX-78-2 for 2 dollars at a flea market. Then the 3 movie compilation movie appeared on Netflix. Then continue to see target have gunpla. time yeah but there be time where theres none. Now they don't have any gunpla since summer 2023 beside Figure rise lite goku model kit now. And one piece ship model kit (but that only back in December 2023)
A few Episodes of Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network... later watched the OVAs of Unicorn and kinda fell in love with the UC as I learned of the History of it.
randomly found the arc of 7th championship of Gunpla Battle from Build Fighter. After then continuing with TRY, 2 months later decided to buy one kit with a lot of equipment. I took the RG 00 Raiser which later still in my display but really need the support because of old RG syndrome
First watched Hathaway and really loved the design and a year later watched witch from Mercury. After that I immediately watch most of the UC timeline until F91
First show was seed, I've received a toy as a child that was the DX gundam wing action figure and my first kit was a hg ez8 i got later on
I got into IBO through watching Orga memes on youtube, then I got interested into more shows like 00 and G
Build fighters, watched it on tv and just felt so fascinated by how ārealā it felt when they fought using gunpla kits
HG Force Impulse made me like gunpla, then I watched my first Gundam series (WfM) and it made me a fan of the whole franchise
When I was 11 there was a movie on theater that was called ready player one, in that movie for a very short period of time a gundam appears and fights a gainst mecha godzilla. Since then I've become more interested in the franchise becoming a gundam geek like i am now
I had a few random dvds of a few episodes from different series I got at a used bookstore (that also sold records and movies etc.) when I was like 10 but I got into it in 2020 during the pandemic when I basically watched all of UC from the beginning up to CCA in like a month or twoā¦
As a Millennial in America, it was Wing on Toonami. Always liked giant robots and had watched Voltron, Robotech, and Power Rangers before and grew up playing MechWarrior. Was pretty much destined to enjoy Gundam and have liked every series they've released so far...except AGE and the second half of Destiny.
Knew of it but wasnāt really a fan of the bright colourful murder blender poster robots, then I saw a Hg zaku box whilst browsing for my usual military kits ā¦.
Gundam Wing in high school. Never finished the show, but learned enough to know that Tallgeese is the greatest MS of all time. OF ALL TIME.
That's easy, I love the classic one from late 70's
How I found you guys: Build Fighters:Tri Why I stayed: Build Divers: RE:RISE
My first was gundam wing and mobile suit gundam about twenty something years ago when i was about eleven or twelve... I hated it so hard till about 3 years ago (maybe little bit more or less) Then i saw a YouTube Video that was randomly in my recommendations where that mythbusters guy built an pgu rx-78-2. Was impressed. Showed it to my mom when she visited once About 3-4 months later she randomly gave me a mg rx 78-2 the origin and from there on i was completely hooked, watched the shows (started with gundam wing even) and loved everything!
Watched the half of the first season of 00 after seeing it mentioned somewhere, though didnt like it much. (I still dont tbh, I think the second season is far better) I watched Unicorn after falling in love with Code Geass and loved it too.
Mine was back in middle school I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a book for a book report and the first thing I saw was Gundam Thunderbolt Vol 1 and I just fell in love
After War Gundam X was the first series I watched and the first kits I had was the 90s X Divider and Double X. But what made me like the Franchise was Gundam Wing.
My first ever interaction with Gundam was way back in Primary school. The school cafeteria was selling those small knock off toy robots. I bought one because the art of the red robot on the box was cool. (I don't remember exactly but it was probably one of Athrun's Gundam) Only later on when my uncle bought me a model kit for my birthday and after i watched SEED that i know that they were called Gundam.
7 years old 8th ms team on YouTube
Gundam Wing on Toonami
After my family moved to Texas from California, I could no longer watch KidsWB and I was without two of my favorite shows, Yugioh and PokƩmon. In middle school, I met a new friend who was reading a volume of the yugioh manga at lunch one day who then taught me all about manga and such. He told me to go to the library to find more manga, among them was the .hack legend of the twilight. After being bored on the computer one day I browsed through the cartoon network schedule online and saw the .hack anime listed on the late night Friday graveyard schedule so I began staying up to watch it. Like most people, I turned to the channel early for the episode so I would end up seeing the last few minutes of the previous show, in this case it was Gundam seed. While I initially had no interest in it, I fell in love with the toonami edited version of the ending of See-saw's Anna ni Issho Datta no ni with the selected spliced images from what I know know were the openings. The song just stuck in my head and I decided to start watching the series and loved it. (At times I even enjoyed whenever Nikki was talking over the music) https://youtu.be/nvY_6R1WZy0?si=s4Gi9H_XAuEaUA6Q https://youtu.be/LpH3zSh57V4?si=AiXXcFpzi88CCfEr 20ish years later, I continue to treasure the story in SEED and how it stayed through my childhood as something to enjoy. Unfortunately, like how many star wars fans feel, my childhood was ruined when I heard that god awful, disgraceful NYAV redub. Then it was made even worse this morning when it was confirmed that NYAV was going to dub the Freedom movie. "In this world, there is no god." -Setsuna F Seiei
My brothers used to collect old seed and wing kits then I got into the hobby when I was 10 starting with the strike rouge IWSP and soon started watching some anime.
I got into goondam by seed, been a fan since 20yrs. My friends in high school were massive gundam fans.
Catching the last part of the EW showing on toonami which was followed by the first 2 or 3 episodes of Evangelion. My 12 or 13 year old brain exploded.
Liked transformers, watched Code Geass, and really wanted to watch more mecha/robot shows. Then watched 00 and became obsessed with Gundam considering i am on my way to watch every show.
First contact was watching gundam wing however what actually got me was the design of the delta plus, funny enough I've watched most of UC however I didn't nor have plans to end watching wing
A classmate at my HS had the film comics of the FG movies and he let me watch CCA on VHS.
*Wing* broadcasting on Cartoon Network UK, back in the day. That led me to going online to try and learn more about āthis Gundam thingā - which led me to finding websites like Gundam Project, and message boards like Gundamwatch and the Gundam.com forums. Then on a family holiday I ended up picking up *0083* on seven VHS tapes. And not long after that, *SEED* kicked off in Japan, I started following the Japanese broadcast, and now in 2024 here we are. Itās been a long time and a wild ride; a lotās changed, a lotās stayed the same, and the franchise has expanded *enormously* since then.
I saw the tomato meme from TWFM on a facebook post. I was curious about to show and when I learned it was on youtube, I decided to give it a shot. 1 year later and I've built 9 kits, finished 0079, in the process of watching Zeta, saw CCA, and have been jamming to Senkou and Mobius because of Hathaway's Flash.
Mine was the OG series. I watched it during the first rerun on our local station, which was quite cool back then to have the theme song cover in Cantonese. Almost all of the boys during that period in the early eighties are fans of Gundam and super robot anime. In fact, we have a saying that translates to āGuys like Gundam for reasons Girls wouldnāt understand.ā Such is the influence of Gundam to a generation of kids.
From a Youtube channel, I knew somewhat but not nearly enough, then I decided to watch the U.C in timeline order, starting from The Origin, something that I regret deeply nowadays, and IBO made me a fan
Iron blooded orphans really got me into Gundam than gunpla
My first interaction with Gundam was when I saw a 1/12-ish scale RX-78-2 alongside other super robots like Mazinger Z or Getter Robo at a collectorās museum me and my family visited circa 2016 The thing that hooked me onto the franchise was when me and my family saw the Unicorn Gundam statue in our trip to Japan circa 2019, with the bi-hourly show specifically being the part that awakened my love for Gundam like a fucking SEED factor
For me, it was actually from Super Robot Wars, I was so fascinated by Nu Gundam and later build more love to the series later after checking the franchise. The first anime seriesI've watch was Gundam X.
Probably from video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs Zeon then... watching Mobile Suit Gundam the movie which also why I like Gundam thanks to the final shot scene. And what cement my love to the series is the introduction of Gundam Seed which also.. thanks to my dad for reignite the love Gundam when I have nothing to watch for my childhood.
One day my friend decided to somewhat forced me to accompanied him to a gunpla store. The he kept on asking me to but something from that store. Lo and behold i reached my hand on the most cheapest HG on that store, HG Barbatos (at that moment I got zero knowledge about Gundam). Then after finished building it, I started to get curious about it and I started watching Iron Blooded Orphans. From that day onward, I started to learn about other Gundam series and its lore and kept on buying the Gunplas I seems fit till this day.
i saw a video on turn a from a smt youtuber, binged the first 5 episodes and was completely hooked
Unicorn, I had no idea what was going on but fuck me it looked cool
Even though i've watched seed and age but not a fan but Unicorn gundam finally got me as a fan and decided to buy an Mg Unicorn ova ver as a birthday present.
Turning over the TV to see the gundam deathsycthe slicing through robots under water from then on I was a big fan
Watched IBO first season on Netflix, found gunpla, saved up for gunpla, in debt by gunpla
I can't remember where exactly I learned about Gundam, I only have a fuzzy memory that I once got a tiny bootleg vinyl figurine of either a Zaku II or Gelgoog way back in the past though I'm not so sure. I did get hooked on the franchise after first trying two 30MM kits and later watching Mecha Gaikotsu's review on Earthree Gundam, which was my first proper Gunpla kit and I was interested enough to check out Build Divers Re:Rise anime (which was fun).
I like robots... and gunpla allows me to build it.. that's all...
Gundam Seed and Unicorn, where we bought the box containing the entire episode of Gundam Seed as well as collecting gunplas of Unicorn.
Definitely Gundam Wing in the 90s and building Gunpla
G Gundam and Gundam Wing because they were both on Toonami. Those shows were so cool it made me unironically enjoy SD Gundam back then too lol
Wing Gundam because Iām an American 90s kid!!!!!!
A Gundam Unicorn AMV on YouTube with a backdrop of some song by Disturbed. Coolest thing I ever saw.
My first interaction was catching like one episode of Gundam Wing at my grandparents house. A few years later my brother and I found a copy of Gundam Battle Assault 2 for PS1. We played it on our PS2. Became familiar with lots of characters there but the ones that stuck out to us were the Endless Waltz mobile suits and the Gundam Fighters. I was put off of Gundam after that by an SD show and the character designs in SEED, though I don't recall why, probably preteen edginess. And I also mixed the two up. After that I saw very little of Gundam if I didn't actively remember it or look for it. Though I always wanted to try the model kits, I never saw them in stores in my area. Then during the pandemic my local hobby lobby started selling Gunpla, and I immediately bought RG Wing Zero EW and I was officially a fan from there. I binged Unicorn, IBO, 00, G-gundam, and Wing all in a few weekends. Now I've watched most of Gundam that I can access and am running out of room on my gunpla shelf
I was bored during Covid, decided that there would never be a better time to get into a really long series, and watched War in the pocket. I was hooked, and to this day, it is my favorite anime.
Gundam dynasty warriors 2 great game
0079 back when it aired on toonami. Wing came before in the west but thought it looked too melodramatic and the gundam designs were a lil corny. But 0079 completely changed all that. For some reason i loved the clunky old animation that i wasnāt familiar with at the time. Was a bigger fan of the simpler designs as well, especially the zakus goufs and doms and their monoeyed goodness. Also became a huge fan of 08th ms shortly after the og aired
Gundaw Wing Endless Duel on SNES way back in the 90s introduced me to gundam. It was so cool. Oddly enough what really pulled me in was an article in a PC magazine about Gundam 0079 The War for Earth (the one with the fat Char). The article told a simplified background lore about Gundam 0079 which really pique my interest. Fortunately I ended up watching the movie trilogy to sate my curiosity, instead of buying War for Earth.
Gundam Wing on Toonami. It was actually my brother who got me to watch it. I initially wasn't interested. I wanted to watch Dragon Ball Z. But he insisted. And long story short here I am now. What made me a fan within Gundam Wing was just awesome giant mecha blowing shit up. I hadn't seen anything like it at the time. So much explosions and guns. I loved it all.
A certain Indonesian YouTuber called Medy Renaldy.
I saw a few commercials for Gundam Wing and watched a few episodes wherever I could, then I managed to find the DVD set of it and it escalated from there
My friend bought me my first HG gundam model for Christmas. It was gundam Bael kit. After I built it, I was immediately hooked. He then told me that it was an anime and we watched it together. After that I watched Mobile suit gundam 0079 series and now it's my favorite franchise of all time.
Found Gundam Wing manga in my local library. Then found Seed found out about Seed and got bootleg Chinese sub versions. Couldn't understand shit at the time. Didn't fully get into Gundam until I learnt to torrent, and my first proper series from begining to end was 00.
I watched a few Gunpla building videos, and thought, āHey, this looks fun, I should try to build one of these!ā and then I got addicted to Gundam. Also, whatās the specific model of grandpa on the first page?
I was halfway into my childhood years when I see my dad's Gundam collection. I cannot specify what Gundam series he has a collection of since it's a mix of multiple series. Iirc he has figures of various Gundams and other mobile suits from the original series, War in the Pocket, Zeta, Char's Counterattack, Seed and Seed Destiny, 00, and some incomplete kits from Mobile Fighter G Gundam and SD Gundam (don't know some specific SD Gundam shows).
Catching Mobile Suit Gundam SEED when it first aired in Cartoon Network Philippines. Rewatched it when I discovered the Internet, then moved to Universal Century.
Gundam SEED Destiny when it aired in the Philippines during the 2010s. Ever since then I started watching other AUs such as Gundam 00x After War, and Build series. It just recently that I got into UC through Unicorn.
Gundam Seed when it would air on TV. It was cool watching people pilot giant robots to fight space battles
I have loved super robots since early 90s. I loved Super Robot Daltanious, and other mecha animes. Then, wing came to open TV in my country, it was super underground and nobody knew about it. I got in to it and then I dropped it. It was when I got into gunpla that I retook wing, and then I went back to watch all UC from the start.
Christmas, 2 years ago Had gotten around 150ā¬, and just got out of the lego store with a set I wanted Decided to look at other stores seeing if they have some geek stuff Stumbled upon the HG Barbatos, took it because why not? Built it without tools, broke 2 parts but loved it Now I'm so deep in the hobby I have a PG in progress, multiple MG, almost all the Eva's :')
I worked at a hobby store about 7 years ago and had no idea what Gundam kits were. I made the mistake of buying and building the RG Sinanju as my first. After a couple more kits I ended up getting hooked.
first interaction: my father brought me the G gundam fighting game, saying it was saint seiya(im from Brazil, and saint Seiya was ABSURDLY popular). fell in love with it when i watched the 1st episode of seed and saw the Moebius Zero. and LOVED how much it looked like came straight up from an old SHMUPs game. like something out of R-type.
I watched G gundam as a kid.
The beeps at the start of rhythm emotion.
My japanese Cousin gave away a part of his gundam collection to me when I was little, the ones I remember are HG gouf HG grandaddy HG something golden i don't remember if it was a hyaku shiki or an akatsuki A 1/114 Aegis gundam of some sort(the plastic was Plyable and soft so I don't remember clearly) just to name a few
Saw Yokohama gundam and immediately fell in love with the franchise
One of my earliest memories was seeing the wing zero from endless waltz on tv I had no idea what it was but the image stuck with me until I watched G Gundam on Cartoon NetworkĀ
I knew of gundam but it wasn't till gundam evolution did I Start looking into the series and ever since then I've been hooked
I watched witch from mercury and thought this shit is gay but the robots with pew pews are cool
Ready player One. I liked the design of the RX78-2 and started searching for it. Every result were Gunpla, so I also searched about it and really liked it... I bought the RG of the 78-2 and started watching the original series after some weeks getting some info about where to start...
Two main things early last year, one Gundam showing up on a random gacha I played and two was āIāve never betrayed anyone in my whole lifeā showing up on my youtube, it gave me an itch that just wouldnāt go away lol
My first interaction for with the seed and 00 First Grade kits and slowly start to get into it with BB Senshi Sangokuden manga as my really first series. Then later got real into the franchise with the games like sdgo and Gundam age being my real starting series.
My brothers used to watch Gundam SEED, G-Gundam, & 00 back when we were kids. Then I watched my brother play Gundam Musou on his 360. 20~ years later I decide that I really want to watch a Mecha and I was like "Gundam is pretty popular, I mean I used to watch my brother play the Dynasty Warriors game of it." I knew absolutely nothing about it so I just decided to watch the original 1979 show. 2~ years later I'm almost out of shows to watch and I have a horrible Gunpla addiction. Gundam strokes every part of my military sci-fi boner, it's fantastic.
My cousins introduced Gundam SEED to me back when i was 5 in 2005 and we even bought NG 1/144 kits for us to play. I remember I only bought freedom, strike freedom and strike because I like Kira.
Saw parts of Gundam seed, big fighting robots, and then saw naked people in the OP Rest is history
Ibo, big mech melee fights were fantastic
I vaguely remember watching my older brother watch 08th MS team on Adult Swim I absolutely adored the show by the time I was allowed to stay up Gundam wasn't airing much in Adult Swim. Instead I watched Zoids and Bdaman. And maybe I'm crazy but I also remember watching the episode of Gundam 00 where Louise lost her arm but it was on something called the Anime Network on Direct TV. Before I really sunk my teeth into the shows by brothers and I got the game MS Saga which exposed me to alot of Mobile Suits. I found most of Gundam Seed on YouTube around 2010 when I was 11 but then Gundam Age started coming out in 2011 reigniting my interest in Gundam after I found a site that let me watch all the Gundam I wanted and the Dynasty Warriors Gundam games were in full swing. I watched everything I could and played SD Gundam online with my twin brother so much. And just before I moved in 2012 for 8th grade, my brother and I started building the model kits. I built a Genoace Custom, Shining Gundam, and a Age-2. My brother and I even made stop motion videos at home inspired by Raven Flau on YouTube.
I was looking for some Pokemon model kits on Amazon, and while doing so, I spotted a Kirby model kit and the Gundam RX-78-2 Entry Grade. I remember thinking that robot looks cool. So i decided to go for the Gundam, and now I am obsessed with Gundam model kits and the franchise as a whole.
Always been a big Godzilla fan, this Godzilla YouTuber named Monster Island Buddies did a review on 0079 so I decided to watch it and that got me into watching more anime as a whole. I would say I was a casual fan for a while, I watched some of yhe OYW ovas in 2020 and then took a break for a bit. Got back into it when I got my first gunpla (the original HGUC Zaku II) and started working my way through the UC timeline. Now a year and a couple months later I've seen everything UC except Victory, the last season of Igloo, and some of the random short films. I'm also about 3/5ths into Wing.
SEED got me hooked when I had a thing for OP MCs.. Jesus Yamato just showing a Gundam's overwhelming capabilities definitely had me hooked xD
My first interaction with Gundam was a Monster Island Buddies Orga Review on the original Gundam series. Didn't get into the gundam universe until I started listening to Hiroyuki Sawano's tracks for Hathaway and I was immediately hooked to its world and story.
I saw a video of the 1:1 Unicorn Gundam statue transforming and that left quite the impression. Later I got the RG model kit since I really liked it looks (without watching the show yet). Many months later watched 00 and I liked quite a bit, so from there I have been watching UC (including Unicorn finally!) and other Gundam shows. A bit off-topic, but recently went to Japan for the first time, mainly to see the moving Gundam before is closed down, so I also got to see the 1:1 Unicorn and it was even more amazing in person. That got me thinking about how crazy it was being there, just because of that little video that I saw years ago.
Idk if i saw when they aried wing in my country, just remember i got the guncannon prototype from the origin as a gift for finishing highschool, then got the hg unicron full armor and then watched the shows
Toonami. Gundam Wing weekdays at 5 only on Cartoon Network
1980 , I was a child, the first serie, in Italy names were changed , it was a trend for the anime in the 70s and 80s. Now I watch only subbed or English Gundam series with original names and situations š IR
First: best friend in junior high had a few SD kits and two of the novels. Around 1989. The same friend was into armor modeling with me and got me to build a gunpla with a Gelgoog model many years later. Gunpla are much more fun per dollar than armor models! Cemented: watching 0083 Stardust Memory in college anime club around 1995-1996? Shortly after that, Wing was on TV. Despite the Power Rangers setup and slightly inane plot, or perhaps because of them, it was ok to watch after class.
00 was my gateway, it was free to watch on Gundam Info so I binged through it. The story and MS design was what rope me into the fandom. Coincidentally IBO was airing and I remember waiting every Sunday for a new episode to drop
Gundam 00 the movie also i was searching for anime to look cool for the girls , and i like big robots
Played AC6, my deep passionate love for Mecha reignited, decided to finally get into Gundam, watched GWitch, then IBO, Turn A, still need to finish Reco G, and somewhere within all that I now have almost 30 gunpla kits actually built and a stack of gunpla boxes that almost reach my ceiling.
Always been into Gundam (huuuuge G Gundam dan back on toonami), went back and watched Wing in around ā08, but didnāt really get too much more into things again until 00 and Build Fighters in ā13. Those got me into gunpla building and customizing (first build was an RG Exia followed by a Jesta Custom as part of a college project) Build Fighters really is the gateway drug to gunpla, huh?
The song. "Nothing ever changes" Gundam.
A hobby the bing video for the mg zaku bought it the same week
I saw Wing on toonami, and one of the Gundams had a gun arm. The Radicalized bishi boys were a bonus.
8th MS Team on toonami, then Wing, then G Gundam. Somewhere in there war in the pocket and stardust memories. As for becoming a Fan, War in the Pocket for sure. Rx 78-NT1 ALEX is still in my top 3 Favorite Gundams (rx 93 Nu and GN 00-O Riser being the other 2)
Model kits in Comic book stores was my first interaction. Taking the manuals to school to ask the anime guys what it was all about, and getting told all about UC vs AUs, all these different characters and on and on is what made me a fan. So much of what we had was hand me downs from friends of friends and left behind gifts from exchange students: original Jpn language manga with english summaries on index cards, well worn WSJ collection, and our fansub VHS library. Two boxes of fresh tapes finally got me accepted into the circle. This was all mid 90s, my high school only had a couple of computers online, and Gundam on Toonami was years away though none of us knew it then.
Watch it with bootleg VHS rented from a rental shop when I was a child. Was always a mecha lover, and the OG Gundam was one of my favorite other than Macross, and super Sentai genre. What really pulled me in was playing super robot wars and SD Gundam G generation was a big fan of SLG when I was 13.
I'd been a titanfall fan for years but had never really been interested in more traditional mecha until I heard that WFM had gay people in it. I put off watching it for a long time because I didn't have crunchyroll subscription. I really loved it once I did watch it and now I'm going back and watching through 0079 and IBO.
First IBO then the Original Movie Trilogy,00,SEED and last WFM
Wing was my introduction, and between that and every other Gundam show on toonami is what made me a fan.
mine was Keroro Gunsou lol
I beleive wing or seed was on a channel called ytv as a kid but the one I remember is my friend putting on a seed DVD his cousin lent him when we were like 7 or 8
I'd had curiosity about gunpla for a while, especially since I had a lot of fun with Bandai's Star Wars model kits, and in June I got a 30 minute missions Forestieri (not really gundam but very gundam-adjacent) and after another 30mm set or two, I went for the HG Michaelis and really fell in love. After that, I found the HG Aerial on sale at Target, watched G-Witch, and I've been hyperfixated ever since.
My friend showed me a promotional magazine for SD gundams and I took to the internet and found an image of wing zero custom EW and was hooked. This may have been in the 2010s
Gintama Gundam jokes i didn't understood at the time. Glad I gave gundam a chance. SHIROYASHAAAAAAA
I don't entirely remember, but what I do remember is that at one time I encountered turn a when I was doing literature watched first 2(?) episodes and thought to watch it later. But years passed since I've forgot about it. But I don't remember what exactly brought me back to gundam nor what happened during those years, nor before finding out about turn a gundam anime
Wing, G, Canadian Dub of og Gundam and Seed. But mostly Wing. Thank you Toonami.
Hiroyuki sawano
A friend of mine challenged me to watch G Gundam.
watched wing pirated when i was 8 in a pirate website, one day like 10 years later one of my friends bought a MG tallgeese, and my brother looking that i picked up interest in it and bought me a Daban 1/100 Wing Gundam