The trailer for an upcoming Gundam series, GundamAGE, is ticking off long-time Gundam fans (it seriously has almost three times as many dislikes on this posting of it than likes, which is crazy disproportionate). Actual negative comment I've seen on this trailer: "AGE Gundam [no, silly, GundamAGE!]? More like UNDERAGE Gundam!"
Ironically, some have said that this will finally be the Gundam series that the original sponsors of the first Gundam series wanted-a lone heroic super robot going up against an army of villains. (In effect, yet another of the typical super robot series of its era of origin. The Gundam series itself created what is known as the "real robot" genre [or the "mecha" genre in English-speaking countries], which generally includes larger-scale warfare, mass production mecha, and intrigue and politics usually inspired by real world history. Incidentally, the original Gundam series was very unsuccessful, but was vindicated by history in similar fashion to Star Trek in the states, popular in reruns and with many sequels.)
Gundam as such has gotten... kind of repetitive, though, which means that a summary like this can tell you almost everything you need to know.
Dude failed to mention that almost every Gundam series (and many other mecha-type series made by Sunrise, Gundam's studio) has the protagonist in a white robot and the masked antagonist/rival in a red robot. Even Escaflowne, whose red robot pilot has no visible mask (I won't say more because, well, SPOILERS!!1!).
In fact, the series Gurren Lagann, which I've recently mentioned, seems to parody or at least give a nod to this tendency, because the protagonists wear sunglasses and goggles and pilot a red robot, while their primary rival/antagonist type pilots a white robot. (Of course, Gurren Lagann is both a mecha/real robot series and a super robot series, and more, but... Well, it's hard to pin down in a single blog post what Gurren Lagann is. Other than awesome, I mean.)
Also, while G Gundam ("Shining Finger!") is admittedly silly, at least it isn't a clone of every other Gundam series like... every other Gundam series.
-Signing off.
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