From: tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Z Gundam LD Box set - When is it comming out??
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:59:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <cNk6PB3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> vlad@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Vlad G. Pohnert) writes:
>
>Hmmm.. Bandi must be nuts if they don't thing a Z Gundam LD box set would 
>not sell!!! I'd sell my grandmother to get a box set!! (ok, maybe not 
>that drastic of measures). 

Well, Z Gundam was NOT a mega-hit in Japan. It received a mixed
reaction from Gundam fans in Japan and some extreme fans like Aikawa
Shou (writer for Miyu, Wandering Kids, Hakkenden, etc. But he was
just another otaku when Z came out) even labeled it as a total
failure (Don't ask me why since I don't share his opinion).

Bandai probably wants to sell 10,000 sets or more if they're to
release it but maybe they're not seeing such demands. *SIGH*

>I know that Gundam ZZ was a joke, but I still want to see it all! I have 
>only seen 2/3 of it and am missing critical episodes (AAAGG)..

Collect even ZZ for the heck of it? :)

>As to the original Gundan series, as I mentioned, I have only the movies 
>and have not seen the original series yet (But one day.....)

Although I've seen original episodes, 12 years have past since I
last saw them.:( Time to beg people with good copies of them... :-)

>getting back to Gundam ZZ, I thought the first 15 episodes kind of sucked 
>(just too much slap stick comedy and sillyness). But the latter episodes 
>did seen to be more interesting. It's the oly series that had 3 Gundams 
>fighting (MK II, Z & ZZ). although I think the suit of ZZ was slightyl 
>overdone, The core fighter and the other peices that made up the ZZ was a 
>cool idea! The bad guys would always sweat when they saw the ZZ assemble 
>(who wouldn't after seeing what the ZZ's mega particle cannon can do!) 

If you thought Gundam 0083 has continuity problems, think again.
Mecha specs in ZZ doesn't make ANY sense at all (they're more
powerful than mechas in CCA by a LARGE margin). Also actions of
characters in ZZ make little sense. Well, there isn't much we can 
expect from a series that Tomino created in order to end the Gundam
Universe, for once and all. Although I argee that it got somewhat
better later in the series, ZZ was a very unstable series as a
whole.

IMO, ZZ represents EVERYTHING that the original Gundam denied. It might
be enjoyable in some ways but still I wouldn't accept it as a part
of Gundam Universe. 

>> First thought that >
>> Gato has after     >
>> seeing the GPO3:   >
>> "Gundam in a       >
>>breadbox!!" 

Hmm... I always thought that Dendrobium looks like a bento. :)


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