NEWTYPE: The Gundam And The Pilot

Gundam is a Japanese Science fiction franchise known for its political drama and anti-war themes. It features multiple timelines, spanning across anime, manga, OVAs, books, games and movies. The plastic model kits, known as Gunpla, take up a large portion of the model kit market. As a series, it is largely credited as defining the "real robot" mecha genre, which is concerned with some level of scientific accuracy and having a realistic feeling. If you've watched or read something that had big robots being piloted by humans, it was probably inspired by the Gundam franchise.

So Why Make This Shrine?

To me, Gundam became a series I latched onto as a story about war, and how negatively it will impact children especially. From 0079 forward, the series has made it clear again and again how children will easily be taken advantage of in times of war, naive optimism making the most vulnerable members of a society its dogs of war, and how this is especially because children do not have the tools or the means to question what is happening.

The big robots are cool, too. And Char Aznable is there, I guess.

This is, for all intents and purposes, meant to be a shrine dedicated to all my thoughts on Gundam and it's related media, both negative and positive. I'm no expert, just someone with a lot of autism and too many opinions. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, the best way to formulate an opinion is interating with it yourself. I'm just here to have fun talking about something I love.