#Gundam 00 The Movie A Wakening of the Trailblazer

[gundamfight]

[scarletlotus182]

Finished the 00 Trailblazer movie!!! It was amazing tbh, I was kinda iffy on it during the first half but once it became clear that the movie isn't really meant to be a big follow up for the whole cast and more specifically to bring an end to Setsuna's character arc (a la Char's Counterattack) I was fully on board.

It was genuinely really touching and sweet to watch Setsuna leave his past behind and grow into a fully developed person. And I found the second half of the movie to be very reminiscent of Gundam Unicorn and the ending to have a lot of cool parallels with CCA.

I'm honestly just emotional about it right now, but that was a great watch.

[kdinjenzen]

Okay, as someone who's only interaction with Gundam has been SD world and Great Battle, is there a good point to start with the "main" series? (Is there even a main series?)

Yes there is a main series… multiple technically.

The main core series is the “Universal Century” stuff, and here’s the chronological order for that (but legit you can KINDA start anywhere):

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Trilogy

Advent Of The Red Comet

The 08th MS Team

MS IGLOO

0080: War In The Pocket

Thunderbolt

0083: Stardust Memory

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative

Gundam Hathaway

Mobile Suit Gundam: F91

Victory Gundam

Then there’s “Mars Century”:

Gundam Wing

Operation Meteor

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Cosmic Era:

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER

Anno Domini:

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie -A wakening of the Trailblazer

And Advanced Generation:

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden

All of these are more “main series”, and are put into chronological order under their banner names.

For funsies, here’s the release order of the more “mainline” style titles… and also G Gundam because I love it.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 – 1980)

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985 – 1986)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986 – 1987)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)

Victory Gundam (1993)

Mobile Suit V Gundam (1993 – 1994)

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994 – 1995)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995 – 1996)

After War Gundam X (1996)

Turn A Gundam (1999)

Gundam SEED (2002 – 2003)

Gundam SEED Destiny (2004 – 2005)

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007 – 2009)

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010)

Gundam Reconguista in G (2014 – 2015)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015 – 2018)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015 – 2017)

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015 – 2017)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2022 – Ongoing)

Annnnnd the SD Gundam series:

Mobile Suit SD Gundam

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk IV

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V

Superior Defender Gundam Force

Annnnnnd the Build series:

Gundam Build Fighters

Gundam Build Fighters Try

Gundam Build Divers

Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE

That should get you started! :D

[wordsandrobots]

Come to think of it, how many Gundam shows *do* climax with a battle to defeat a World Ending Doohickey (WED)?

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979, series) - Yes.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985, series) - Sort of. Mostly a battle to control a WED.

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986, series) - No. Glemy does try to chuck a big rock at his problems though.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988, movie) - Yes, as Char follows Glemy’s example (mistakes were made).

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989, miniseries) - No.

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991, movie) - No;  I don’t think the Rafflesia counts and the stakes are more one-on-one.

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991, miniseries) - Yes; a rare WED vs WED situation with a very poor outcome.

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993, series) - Yes.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994, series) - Yes - VIA THE POWER OF LOVE.

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995, series) - Yes, as Zechs also tries to chuck a(n artificial) rock at his problems, then has regrets.

After War Gundam X (1996, series) - Yes, kinda? It would be unfair to say the Satellite Cannon isn’t a WED, but nobody actually goes into that final fight aiming to destroy it, that’s mostly just a lucky consequence.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996, miniseries) - Yes, but only on technicalities. It doesn’t actually end with one and the Apsaras III isn’t really in the WED weight-class. Narratively, however, the plot does climax with our heroes blowing up a terrifying weapon.

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998, miniseries/movie) - Doesn’t climax on one, though a WED is definitely involved. Thematically, no.

Turn A Gundam (1999, series) - Yes.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002, series) - Yes.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004, series) - Yes, again, with knobs on.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER (2006, miniseries) - No.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007, series) - Technically no, though it’s not like Ribbons could be trusted with that thing.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie - A Wakening of the Trailblazer- (2010, movie) - Yes, with ‘doohickey’ in this case meaning ‘out of context alien swarm from Jupiter’.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010, miniseries) - More ‘defending against a WED’ than defeating it, since actually taking it out is off the table.

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011, series) - Oddly enough, no. The WED of the week proves to be self-destructive and everyone pitches in to dismantle it.

Gundam Reconguista in G (2014, series) - No. Reconguista is blessedly WED-free.

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015, miniseries) - No.

Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS (2016, series) - No.

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018, movie) - Yes, remarkably. At least one gets the impression Turn A’s Moonlight Butterfly was supposed to do that.

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021, movie) - No.

Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury (2022, series) - It would appear so, yes. World-transforming, at any rate.

So, discounting a few bits and pieces I decided were too short to count, of the 27 pieces of media listed above, that’s 12 solid ‘yes’s, 11 solid ‘no’s, 2 qualified ‘yes's, and 2 slightly more complex situations (numbers subject to change if G-Witch swerves wildly at the last minute).

That’s honestly a more even balance than I expected. I have no real conclusion to draw here beyond ‘this is definitely a thing that generally does happen in anime, yes’. But I was curious about how it broke down. Seems there’s a trend towards the miniseries generally avoiding WEDs and the main series embracing them far more often as an endgame-climax, which does make sense. Oddly the movies are a more even mix, which I find vaguely interesting.

[sparrowsabre7]

The Gundam 00 Special Edition movies 2 and 3 are pretty good. As someone who enjoyed s1 more than s2, SE does a great job of truncating s2 into two 100 minute films, cutting a lot of the filler and excessive number of Innovators and makes the whole thing overall a bit more cohesive.

Sadly SE1, though great for watching some action scenes, cuts a lot of the smaller character moments , particularly Saji and Louise and their families' stories, as it's trying to fit 25 episodes into a single movie instead of two.

We don't get to see any of Kinue's investigations, nor spend time with Louise's mother, both of which add to the tragedy which comes later. While that moment remains in the film, it loses a lot of pact from having barely spent time with these people.

I loved their storyline because it reflected the lives of two people essentially so far removed from the central conflict and yet through tragic happenstance became embroiled in it nonetheless. You need that romcom dynamic of theirs to start with, otherwise there's no contrast.

Similarly, some of the big deaths don't get time to breathe, and I think especially that one big death towards the end loses something by not going almost immediately into the ED song Friends by Stephanie.

So for me, the ideal watch order is Season 1 in full, Special Edition films 2 and 3, and then A Wakening of The Trailblazer.

[lingrenyu]

GN-010 Gundam Zabanya, commentary of mobile suit GUNDAM 00 The Movie -A wakening of the Trailblazer.

[emiliosandozsequence]

for myself to edit as i finish them

this was originally organized and compiled by my best friend lacie <3

UNIVERSAL CENTURY/UC SERIES: MAIN TIMELINE

UC 68, 71, 78: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 13, 6 OVAs

Released: 2019, 2015-2018 (OVAs)

Prequel to original series 

UC 0079: Mobile Suit Gundam -> WATCHING

Episodes: 43

Released: 1979-1980

UC 079: Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War

Episodes: 3 OVAs

Released: 2004

UC 079: Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079

Episodes: 3 OVAs

Released: 2006  

UC 079: Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity Front

Episodes: 3 OVAs

Released: 2009

UC 0079: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Episodes: 12 OVAs

Released: 1996-1999

UC 0079: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

Episodes: 8 OVAs

Released: 2015-2017

UC 0080: Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Episodes: 6 OVAs

Released: 1989

UC 0083: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Episodes: 13 OVAs

Released: 1991-1992

UC 0087: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Episodes: 50

Released: 1985-1986

UC 0088: Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Episodes: 47

Released 1986-1987

Sequel to Zeta

UC 0093: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 1 Movie

Released: 1988

UC 0096: Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 22, 7 OVAs 

Released: 2016, 2010-2014 (OVAs)

UC 0096: Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS

Episodes: 6 ONAs 

Released: 2017

UC 0097: Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 1 Movie

Released: 2018

Sequel to Unicorn

UC 0105: Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 1 Movie

Released: 2021

UC 0123: Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Episodes: 1 Movie

Released: 1991

UC 0153: Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Episodes: 51 

Released: 1993-1994

UC 0223: G-Saviour

Episodes: 1 Movie (Live Action)

Released: 2000

FUTURE CENTURY: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

FC 60: Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Episodes: 49

Released: 1994-1995

AFTER COLONY: ALTERNATE TIMELINE

AC 195: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Episodes: 49

Released: 1995-1996

AC 196: Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Episodes: 3 OVAs

Released: 1997

Sequel to Wing

AFTER WAR: ALTERNATE TIMELINE

AW 15: After War Gundam X

Episodes: 39 

Released: 1996

COSMIC ERA: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

CE 71: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

Episodes: 50 (original), 48 (remaster)

Released: 2002-2003

CE 73-74: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny

Episodes: 50

Released: 2004-2005

Sequel to Seed

CE 73: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed CE 73: Stargazer

Episodes: 3 ONA

Released: 2006

Sequel/Side Story to Destiny

ANNO DOMINI: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

AD 2307-2308, 2312: Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Episodes: 50 Episodes, 3 OVAs 

Released: 2007-2008, 2009 (OVAs)

AD 2314: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

Episodes: 1 Movie

Released: 2010

Sequel to 00

ADVANCED GENERATION: ALTERNATE TIMELINE

AG 115-164: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Episodes: 49

Released: 2011-2012

Ag 141-164: Mobile Suit Gundam Age Memory of Eden

Episodes: 2 OVAS

Released: 2013

CORRECT CENTURY: ALTERNATE TIMELINE

CC 2343-2345: Turn A Gundam

Episodes: 50

Released: 1999-2000

REGILD CENTURY: ALTERNATE TIMELINE

RC 1014: Mobile Suit Gundam Reconguista in G

Episodes: 26

Released: 2014-2015

POST DISASTER: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

PD 323, 325: Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans

Episodes: 50

Released: 2015-2017

OUR CENTURY: BUILD ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

OC 2013: Gundam Build Fighters

Episodes: 25 Episodes 

Released: 2013-2014

OC 2014: Gundam Build Fighters Try

Episodes: 25

Released: 2014-2015

Sequel to Fighters

OC 2018: Gundam Build Divers

Episodes: 25

Released: 2018

OC 2019: Gundam Build Divers Rerise

Episodes: 26 

Released: 2019

Sequel to Build Divers

AD STELLA: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

AS 122: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury -> COMPLETED

Episodes: 24

Released: 2022-2023

[puppetmaster55]

movie liveblog options, just from the “I own this, so here’s what my options are” pile

BNHA movie 2

World Heroes Mission (AKA, BNHA movie 3)

Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

The LEGO Movie 2

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[scarletlotus182]

Okay I said I was gonna post my new Gundam Rankings and since finishing a bunch of stuff I felt like a numbered list wouldn't do the series justice so instead here's a tierlist:

S Tier -Zeta Gundam -Turn A Gundam -Gundam 00 -Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailbrazer

A Tier -Gundam Unicorn -Witch from Mercury -Char's Counterattack -Gundam Thunderbolt

B+ Tier -ZZ Gundam

B Tier -Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 -08th MS Team

C Tier -Narrative Gundam

D Tier -Stardust Memory

I was thinking of writing explanations for each placement here but the more I thought about it the more I realized the explanations would get longer the lower I got because it'd just be me complaining about stuff.

So if anyone wants a more detailed explanation then send an ask and I'll go off. Instead, I'd like to say one thing I enjoyed about each series be it a scene, MS Design, song, or whatever. So here goes:

Zeta Gundam- This one just has a lot of favorites for me. Favorite mobile suit, favorite protagonist, favorite unhinged white women

Turn A- This series has, imo, the best episode in the entire franchise with Midnight Sun.

Gundam 00- This might be a hot take? But easily my favorite mobile suit designs on average for the whole series.

A Wakening of the Trailblazer- Two for One babyyy, Setsuna fucking rules so much and not only is he another favorite character of mine now but he might be one of the Gundam Protagonists to resonate with me the most

Unicorn- I've said it before on another post but that scene where Banagher uses the NT-D system to hold the tether on cargo ship and help it escape Earth's atmosphere is one my favorite scenes ever. I think that scene really represents everything that UC Gundam stands for with placing their hope on the next generation.

Witch from Mercury- This series got me into Gundam!!! It's far from perfect but I feel like it's had a very profound effect on my life in the past year. It's also responsible for just making me insane about this series and gunpla in general

Char's Counterattack- The ending to this movie felt like the perfect ending to the original Tomino Trilogy. The Axis Shock was the perfect way to end Amuro and Char's story and I wouldn't have it any other way

Gundam Thunderbolt- Literally some of the most insane visuals and soundtrack I think I've seen in an anime. Also, uh, Bianca Carlyle

ZZ Gundam- We got so many iconic and cunty looks from Haman in this one. Also, Haman, literally the best character in the series.

Mobile Suit Gundam '79- The place where it all start babyyyyy, it's so fucking iconic and influential. Don't let me placing in this B Tier confuse you or give the impression I think it's bad. Original Gundam is amazing and anyone who's seriously getting into the franchise should come around to watch this one, be it the series or the compilation movies.

08th MS Team- I think this one has one of my favorite endings for a gundam tv series. Both the Ep 11 ending and the entirety of Ep 12 as an epilogue. It was fitting, uplifting, and had the right amount of mystique and weird newtype shit going on for a UC series.

Narrative Gundam- The chase scene between Jona and the Phenex is one of the sickest action scenes ever. It's so fucking intense and you can feel Jona's body and MS being crushed under the g forces trying to keep up with the Phenex.

Stardust Memory- As much as I bitch about '83, I do think the animation is *very* good. Something about 90s animation really just hits different.

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[therosecrest]

[wordsandrobots]

This is not in response to anybody in particular but I’m going to be grumpy and pedantic for a moment (I’m in a mood this week, sorry).

Throughout the Gundam franchise, far more major stories end on ‘hopeful’ terms than do not. This is entirely reasonable because hopeful endings are oftentimes more broadly appealing and therefore more saleable. Working shown below, but my point is that liking the qualities in a particular ending is distinct from categorising it. Whether something executes a ‘hopeful ending’ with technical competence or to your liking are important questions, but the truth is, few Gundam shows are totally bleak. A lot of them would probably hit harder if they were, but that isn’t the kind of product they are. I don’t even say that as a value judgement; it’s simply a consequence of what they are and the many, occasionally competing influences upon them.

I suspect this is one of those places where the franchise’s reputation is clashing with the reality, which is why I felt it necessary to write this out. Similar to earlier comments regarding the body-counts in various series, from what I can gather, the . . . let’s say, utter grim and bloodiness is largely restricted to particular iterations (Zeta, Pocket etc.). Again, that’s not me saying ‘that’s bad’ (or even ‘that’s good’). It’s simply a facet of the general tone of the thing.

This isn’t Blake’s 7 or, I dunno, some more culturally up-to-date reference to something that ends horribly my brain is too frazzled to produce. Gundam is more often ‘hope emerging from adversity’ than it is not.

SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT. AS IN, END-OF-THE-SHOW SPOILERS.

I’ve cludged a couple of the movies together with the series where I think it’s funnier to give the filmic endings, but the endings of those particular series don’t go against the trend. Some of the ones I don’t list are more ‘neutral good’ endings than actively hopeful, too, so it’s not like everything not here is automatically hopeless. (Gosh, it’s handy having all these typed up in list form already; usual caveat that I haven’t watched Victory.)

(Also, the IBO part features me going off on one because of course it does. Again, sorry.)

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979): the crew of the White Base reunites as the war finally comes to a close; it is both a happy ending and one that points towards their capacity to be/become newtypes.

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986): Judau and co head into new lives with (some) maturity and responsibilities. Even prior to that, it takes the route of a triumphant recapitulation of Zeta’s explicitly harsh ending.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988): Char’s cynicism is disproved, the rock is moved, the sky literally lights up with the power of the human heart.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994): the power of love defeats the Devil. In space!

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing/Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1995/1997): peace is restored, the weapons are discarded, Heero finally gets to rest.

After War Gundam X (1996): the entire philosophical underpinning of the UC timeline is ejected in favour of working together to restore the Earth.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996): star-crossed lovers ditch the war entirely to live together off the grid.

Turn A Gundam (1999): a new understanding between the Moon and Earth is made possible; Loren and Diana settle down into queerplatonic domesticity.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002): The war is ended, the mega weapons are busted, Kira and Athrun part on speaking terms.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Destiny (2004): Ditto.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00/Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2007/2010): Setsuna (the world’s least people person) becomes a vector for understanding between species; humanity journeys to the stars.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Unicorn (2010): A broadly positive resolution despite the losses; Amuro, Lallah and Char fly off into eternity together because . . . sure.

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011): The Earth and Mars make peace and work towards recovery, the family is reunited, and Flit is remembered as a unifier.

Gundam Reconguista in G (2014): Bellri ditches his responsibilities for a world tour, also everything else finally calms down a bit.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015): For goodness sake, this series ends hopefully. You can problematise the heck out of some of the things we’re shown but if you don’t see the survivors of Tekkadan getting to grow up and (by and large) live peaceful lives as a hopeful ending, I genuinely question your understanding of the term. Hope gained at cost is still hope, hope tinted with bittersweetness is still hope, hope alongside tragedy is still hope.

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018): Most everyone dies but even so. There are still things to live for and both living and dead find peace.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021): Mafty gets away with it by the skin of their teeth; yes I am aware where the rest of the story goes but this film ends unquestionably upbeat.

Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury (2022): Not actually an outlier on this particular score.

[lingrenyu]

About GN-011 Gundam Harute, anime commentary of mobile suit GUNDAM 00 Movie -A wakening of the Trailblazer-.