RX-178 Gundam Mk. II in the Z-Gundam series
"Amuro, ikimasu!"
the sound of such would undoubtedly bring back familiar scenes of Gundam with Amuro Ray, seated inside Mobile Suit Gundam, code named RX-78, prepared to be sent into battle in the epic war between the Earth Federation and the Zeon Repulic.
after more than 25 years, when you step inside a hobby shops today, you will see some of the most popular merchandise are still, yes, Gundam! or designs from its sequels, side stories, spin offs...etc
personally, i like the story as well as the mecha design very much, though i still fail to understand why these mobile suits need to have 5 fingers on each hand? what i found worth exploring also is how can a series developed almost over 3 decades ago can still conjure up such magic? and why is there no replacement all these years? we saw the Patlabor, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Macross, and each were good in their respect, but never quite reach the same status as the Gundam fever...
what would Bandai do without Gundam?
MSZ-006 Z-Gundam, 1st fully transformable Gundam first appeared in the Z-Gundam series.
2 comments:
It's like saying what would Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明) be without Dragonball?
I remember I read Dragonball as much as my text books, even started to draw the character. The merchandise, however, didn't quite get the popularity here. Anyway we pretty much grew up with all those Japanese comic and animation...strange but true. Now, the attacks of Korean Drama...
We always thought generation now miss something we had experienced, same perception they had on us. It is never good or bad, just time and culture move faster than we think it should be? :)
another interesting fact is that in our other blog, which talks more on movie and stuff, once i posted something about Gundam, the hit rate suddenly jumped by quite a few folds! just felt that the Gundam fever will simply last for more decades to come, and give Bandai yet another reason for not thinking up toys, merchandise which are original.
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