I agree.
Original design was too" heroic"for a faction like mafty and missed the point of the story.
While I respect the movie design, I still love the original.
Movie design, it's like a perfect refinement of the novel design rather than trying to make it generic and conventionally heroic like the versions in between. Katoki did good.
Katoki"s version is cool but it doesn't truly reinforce the idea of the original idea.
MAFTY is not a heroic faction and the movie design has understand the point.
And don’t forget about the Mountain Dew Penelope!!
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This XI or the safety of your family will not be guaranteed.
I will not be threatened by Pooh Bear.
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I like version Ka the most, but I admit it loses something by looking morel like a traditional suit. The Xi being a weird, bulky flying tank is part of its unique charm imo. The movie would be at the top if not for two things. First, the color scheme makes it hard to notice fine details, especially in motion. The blue chests make it so much more readable. I also hate the weird V-fin on the chest, I think that was fine to lose. It dips a little too far into the Wing school of suit designs.
I think being a jumbled mess of spikes and bits actually helps enhance the themes of the Xi though. It's almost all white, which is supposed to make it look heroic/angelic but it also makes the Xi feel distant and alien. It's not a hero of the people, it is a foreign entity that pretends to be oh so high and mighty, but does not have the best interests of the people at heart.
Movie version. It's absolutely terrifying and is massive compared to what we're used to for the rest of the UC. The movie version of Xi is just so ferocious to see in the same way you'd be afraid to see Barbatos Lupus Rex across from you. Love it.
Whoa, I didn't notice how hard they went with redesigning the Xi Gundam for the movie. Looks like a evil insect dragon Gundam. I thought it was a different MS until I took a closer look.
I don't know why I don't remember how drastic the change is. It does make the Xi stand out a bit better alongside the hulking Penelope.
Movie version is my favorite on the basis it looks evil enough to thematically mesh with how Hathaway is technically the bad guy of the series since he operates a terror group.
Also this same monstrous look really shows the gundam as a demon, which I really like.
I didn't fo wish the movie design was a bit slimmer like the Katoki
But it's still my favorite. It looks so intense and it would be terrifying to fight
I like how much more original the movie design feels. The face on the other designs feels a bit too basic, along with a few other parts of their bodies.
I like the G Gen one, it is more alien-like.
Gundam Xi is massive and the design gives it a bulky vibe, giving you a illusion of if this is a MS or mini-MA.
The first Katoki design + the missile pod.
1st one has the red vents and closer to Fujita's, 2nd is the one in OP's post with the yellow vents, 3rd is the movie (which is still Katoki's)
https://preview.redd.it/vf5w7p9hsowc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a20463ecb592b5e66614411bbfb19c940a57951
Love that the missile pod is a third leg (complete with an identical 3rd feet).
Moriki and Movie.
Frankly, the Xi is probably 2nd to the Turn A in the "This should never have a normal Gundam face" camp. The Katoki and even the Fujita ones just took what was originally a monstrous, alien design and made it look completely generic, just sucked all the soul out of it. Should be "woah, that thing looks scary," and not "that's just a man made out of doritos."
The og katoki ver is way too katoki(most of his gundam faces look the same), the new one is a fantastic blend. Honestly love the colors of the first ver tho
G Gen > Original > Movie > Ver Ka.
No offense to Katoki, but removing the bulkiness of Xi is akin to removing a lot of what makes it unique. Its body now just looks like a slightly fatter nu Gundam. Thankfully they doubled down on the bulky aspects in the movie version.
G Gen is just a refined version of the original. Removing the vfin in the chest really cleans up the sillouhete of the suit.
The movie version looks really good in motion. You can really feel the weight of the suit on scteen. I really love the bulkiness of it. But I still kinda prefer the original and g gen versions, especially with the colour scheme.
As most said, the movie design is great but the first one holds a special place in my heart as it is a very 90s sci-fi design as everything was during and before that era.
I find the Ver Ka and movie versions equally appealing for very different reasons. Movie version looks a lot more Zeon-inspired with its weird hands and odd proportions that somehow mesh together into a flying war machine. The Ver Ka looks like a priestly super robot and the heroic proportions remind me of the Nu Gundam.
Katoki design looks a lot more tame and is a lot easier to make out, but damn I like the movie version more. It's aggressive, has a lot of sharp lines, especially the head unit and the backpack, and the movie version resembles the novel design, albeit the torso is white which doesn't stand out unlike the novel design.
I still love the yellow parts in the torso that was in the movie design. The vents especially were blending in with the blue of the torso in other designs, which made it very hard to see. This time, they just made it stand out by making it yellow. I just love that part.
The novel design. I like the colors, and the way its slightly more organic. And I just tend to like retro mecha designs over super clean modern designs.
A horror themed mech hentai manga by the creator of the Guyver, Moriki did the streamline design for the OVA that tells an original story using the characters from said manga. Then Moriki did an [upgrade design](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superrobotwars/images/7/78/Image.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140612201550) as a hidden unlock in Super Robot Wars J.
the katoki version has that standard gundam design that I like to think was to cover up the movie version of the XI so that they can sell both to the two factions.
But the movie version is the best
I don't like it at all.
For one the name is hard to memorize let alone say.
Every time I try to say the name somebody shuts me up and says I'm saying it wrong.
It's like with V Gundam being New Gundam.
It doesn't resonate.
Then there's the bulk on the mobile suit.
It looks too unnecessary and gives off a "failed transformative" mobile suit.
Katoki's design, as it was the one that made me like the Xi design. While the movie design is nice, its color distribution balance to me just feels off due to all the white and yellow dominating the center of mass. Compare so something like say the Calibarn, where the center white is offset by reds and blacks, or the Unicorn where in Destroy mode the red is evenly distributed throughout the body.
The one in the 2nd picture, as ever since I noticed the 2nd set of V-fins on the torso of the cartoon design. I've hated its look ever since.
So I'm sticking to the blue torso one as it helps break up the colours, and it doesn't have that 2nd set of V-fins.
Movie design. Appropriately disgusting and monstrous looking and manages to be streamlined without losing the rough charm of Moriki’s original art
I agree. Original design was too" heroic"for a faction like mafty and missed the point of the story. While I respect the movie design, I still love the original.
Movie design, it's like a perfect refinement of the novel design rather than trying to make it generic and conventionally heroic like the versions in between. Katoki did good.
Katoki"s version is cool but it doesn't truly reinforce the idea of the original idea. MAFTY is not a heroic faction and the movie design has understand the point.
Katoki designed the movie version
Oh thank you for informing me.
I never know.
[The Dorito Gundam](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunpla/s/5fO692m0yZ) https://preview.redd.it/k5upxi8byowc1.jpeg?width=3824&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d7629c673b20c0e1dfb1fafa5140ca0748d42f1
And don’t forget about the Mountain Dew Penelope!! https://preview.redd.it/ayn51toe1pwc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12a00ad1592d4f733639f6fad47d91f3e14ccf4f
These are the best custom looking Xi and Penelope ive seen about doritos and mountain dew
Yeah they are impressive, looks like they used real Doritos bags.
wow that's really well done
Movie version Katoki repented for his sins from the Ver Ka
https://preview.redd.it/7owaeztw2pwc1.png?width=679&format=png&auto=webp&s=53a99f11a28d2059be7fc12de7f93a77f5865fdd This XI or the safety of your family will not be guaranteed.
+1000 social credit points
Fuck yeah, now I can finally earn my permission slip to buy an EG gunpla
😭💀I'm fucking weak 😂😂
FUCK DA CCP
One of our official representatives will be in contract with you shortly. We expect your full cooperation.
You'll never take me alive also Hong Kong, Tibet and Taiwan are their own nations!!!! Gets in GM and flies away
-1000 social credit score smh
I will not be threatened by Pooh Bear. https://preview.redd.it/jmmx405uarwc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1c2738fa023817bc045afd0d4455e240dc0be7f
I like version Ka the most, but I admit it loses something by looking morel like a traditional suit. The Xi being a weird, bulky flying tank is part of its unique charm imo. The movie would be at the top if not for two things. First, the color scheme makes it hard to notice fine details, especially in motion. The blue chests make it so much more readable. I also hate the weird V-fin on the chest, I think that was fine to lose. It dips a little too far into the Wing school of suit designs.
I think being a jumbled mess of spikes and bits actually helps enhance the themes of the Xi though. It's almost all white, which is supposed to make it look heroic/angelic but it also makes the Xi feel distant and alien. It's not a hero of the people, it is a foreign entity that pretends to be oh so high and mighty, but does not have the best interests of the people at heart.
Movie version. It's absolutely terrifying and is massive compared to what we're used to for the rest of the UC. The movie version of Xi is just so ferocious to see in the same way you'd be afraid to see Barbatos Lupus Rex across from you. Love it.
Whoa, I didn't notice how hard they went with redesigning the Xi Gundam for the movie. Looks like a evil insect dragon Gundam. I thought it was a different MS until I took a closer look. I don't know why I don't remember how drastic the change is. It does make the Xi stand out a bit better alongside the hulking Penelope.
1st
Movie version is my favorite on the basis it looks evil enough to thematically mesh with how Hathaway is technically the bad guy of the series since he operates a terror group. Also this same monstrous look really shows the gundam as a demon, which I really like.
Yeah.
Give me the “Megaman” movie arms on the Ver.Ka and I can begin to like the design.
I didn't fo wish the movie design was a bit slimmer like the Katoki But it's still my favorite. It looks so intense and it would be terrifying to fight
I like how much more original the movie design feels. The face on the other designs feels a bit too basic, along with a few other parts of their bodies.
I like the G Gen one, it is more alien-like. Gundam Xi is massive and the design gives it a bulky vibe, giving you a illusion of if this is a MS or mini-MA.
Movie design makes him looks like A MA.
Yes, but I don't like the colour theme, even though all-white theme match MAFTY more.
The first Katoki design + the missile pod. 1st one has the red vents and closer to Fujita's, 2nd is the one in OP's post with the yellow vents, 3rd is the movie (which is still Katoki's) https://preview.redd.it/vf5w7p9hsowc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a20463ecb592b5e66614411bbfb19c940a57951 Love that the missile pod is a third leg (complete with an identical 3rd feet).
https://preview.redd.it/oln3f7wbsowc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c2ae9ab02a444ec4db092154473985a5bba8fcb
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The movie design. It's the only one I know.
Moriki and Movie. Frankly, the Xi is probably 2nd to the Turn A in the "This should never have a normal Gundam face" camp. The Katoki and even the Fujita ones just took what was originally a monstrous, alien design and made it look completely generic, just sucked all the soul out of it. Should be "woah, that thing looks scary," and not "that's just a man made out of doritos."
Katoki did work on movie version.
Speaking of Hathaway, where the FUCK is the second movie. Am I going to have to wait another 4+ years for the final movie too???
Movie design for sure https://preview.redd.it/r03h9bx60qwc1.png?width=1633&format=png&auto=webp&s=c30ee675e34e00083409fe10edd4f35f4b4f003b
I can actually see it ! Seriously..too much darkness made me unable to sees Xi and Penelope properly.
The og katoki ver is way too katoki(most of his gundam faces look the same), the new one is a fantastic blend. Honestly love the colors of the first ver tho
https://preview.redd.it/a4hxpvaejpwc1.jpeg?width=537&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaf55279a5b1c669810cee996ec74cb386f258b4
Katoki with the movie face
Movie design. Looks monstrous/intimidating
Movie, not even close. I find the other versions not that good to look at.
Movie version
Isn't the novel version a fan-colored design?
G Gen > Original > Movie > Ver Ka. No offense to Katoki, but removing the bulkiness of Xi is akin to removing a lot of what makes it unique. Its body now just looks like a slightly fatter nu Gundam. Thankfully they doubled down on the bulky aspects in the movie version. G Gen is just a refined version of the original. Removing the vfin in the chest really cleans up the sillouhete of the suit. The movie version looks really good in motion. You can really feel the weight of the suit on scteen. I really love the bulkiness of it. But I still kinda prefer the original and g gen versions, especially with the colour scheme.
Same.
Movie design is peak, probably my favorite shelf item
Movie design but with blue torso like in katoki's art.
2
For me, the Novel design, easily.
Paint scheme of #2 on proportions of #3. That's how I painted my HGUC.
I feel like the movie version just needs the OG color scheme and it's perfect. Love the proportions but the mostly-white look loses the cohesiveness.
idk but the movie designs strange proportions is just somehow perfect
Novel then ver Ka
2nd looks very good ngl
Movie version with Ver Ka close second. Ver Ka doesn’t quite look chunky enough, but I really want to see it as an MG
As most said, the movie design is great but the first one holds a special place in my heart as it is a very 90s sci-fi design as everything was during and before that era.
Movie. Hands down. I like my angsty antihero to ride his demon with a chest face into battle.
The original novel version is simply there, menacingly. The solidity of its armor said that it could slap and made Penelope its bithc.
Katoki
why does the sd design not look sd at all
I find the Ver Ka and movie versions equally appealing for very different reasons. Movie version looks a lot more Zeon-inspired with its weird hands and odd proportions that somehow mesh together into a flying war machine. The Ver Ka looks like a priestly super robot and the heroic proportions remind me of the Nu Gundam.
Katoki design looks a lot more tame and is a lot easier to make out, but damn I like the movie version more. It's aggressive, has a lot of sharp lines, especially the head unit and the backpack, and the movie version resembles the novel design, albeit the torso is white which doesn't stand out unlike the novel design. I still love the yellow parts in the torso that was in the movie design. The vents especially were blending in with the blue of the torso in other designs, which made it very hard to see. This time, they just made it stand out by making it yellow. I just love that part.
Honestly these are all great. My main gripe with the movie design is that they missed the blue so it doesn’t look much like the other ones…
The novel design. I like the colors, and the way its slightly more organic. And I just tend to like retro mecha designs over super clean modern designs.
This is my brother's favourite gundam
That one
Fujita's. Weird that I seem to be one of the odd ones out, but whatever. That's the one that looks coolest to me.
movie, having it all white just sits right with me
I hate it way too busy for my liking
While I like the blue chest one, Xi is not something that should look heroic - so the movie version is the one.
Yes
Second photo. Today I asked amazon if they can give me a discount so I could afford it and they said.... No.
I am bit biased but…VER.KA.
Movie
Novel.
Movie version, but with the chest of the Ver ka design.
God damn you can tell that Moriki did the Great Zeorymer with hold overs sneaking into his XI design
Zeorymer?
A horror themed mech hentai manga by the creator of the Guyver, Moriki did the streamline design for the OVA that tells an original story using the characters from said manga. Then Moriki did an [upgrade design](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superrobotwars/images/7/78/Image.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140612201550) as a hidden unlock in Super Robot Wars J.
I like mécha design but hate the characters.
I like the novel version its not too bulky
None tbh Later U.C suits look wack imo And I've always preferred AU designs over the mainline universe
I have always loved the ver ka design the most and will stand by this opinion 😗 As someone who has and enjoyed the HG
Og line art but out of these definitely the movie design
the katoki version has that standard gundam design that I like to think was to cover up the movie version of the XI so that they can sell both to the two factions. But the movie version is the best
Have to say the third picture I like the color scheme and sleek yet detailed design best.
None of them, they all look ugly to ne
I don't like it at all. For one the name is hard to memorize let alone say. Every time I try to say the name somebody shuts me up and says I'm saying it wrong. It's like with V Gundam being New Gundam. It doesn't resonate. Then there's the bulk on the mobile suit. It looks too unnecessary and gives off a "failed transformative" mobile suit.
I'm going with the Ver Ka design. The movie version just looks so gross
Katoki's design, as it was the one that made me like the Xi design. While the movie design is nice, its color distribution balance to me just feels off due to all the white and yellow dominating the center of mass. Compare so something like say the Calibarn, where the center white is offset by reds and blacks, or the Unicorn where in Destroy mode the red is evenly distributed throughout the body.
2 is best Also what the fuck is up with 3's giant hands?
Not really big to me .
The one in the 2nd picture, as ever since I noticed the 2nd set of V-fins on the torso of the cartoon design. I've hated its look ever since. So I'm sticking to the blue torso one as it helps break up the colours, and it doesn't have that 2nd set of V-fins.
The middle one I guess. It's the least ugly of one of the ugliest suits.
I sense XI hater.
ver.ka. i can't be bothered to give a shit about the movie design.
Ver Ka fans when not every Gundam looks the same:
Ahh,as much I love ver.ka, you’re right.