Breaking the Mold: Why I Learned to Like G Gundam

Yes, that Allenby is a real troublemaker. Picking a fight with the chef...oh dear. It's like, "Excelsior! You have prepared us this delicious feast. But first I challenge you TO A FIGHT!!!"

And of course, Rain is the mature one.




*noRAB* Indeed. It's the good kind of lightness, campy but not durab either. Once you realize it's all in good super robot fun, you can relax and enjoy the odd fusion of two worlRAB that is going on. What really gets me is that it's really not supposed to work, it sounRAB absurd on paper. And yet it did work.

Also, as fighting leaRAB go, Domon is pretty manly and awesome.

"Undefeated of the east...stay where you are and don't get up."

As for Sorabrero Gundam, etc...see, things like that I don't remeraber, that's why I gotta go back to this.
 
I don't recall Sai being a chain smoking woman in her late 30s.

A generally weak cast who don't seem to care, factual errors and renames (especially Dark Gundam) are my criticisms with the dub. After enjoying the original, watching the dub is like having all the charm milked out of G Gundam.

Oh, and another complaint- changing the song from Chibodee's childhood into an American anthem and robbing him of that bit of depth the original gave him.
 
Yes because "No Machine Gun for Him" is the best dub out there. Yes I made that joke already, SO WHAT! (Thought G Gundam was best dub before 00 came out)

(Sniff) Saddest....moment...shining gundam I miss you (This was more emotional in the original though)

Thought ASIAFACEPWNED! was an awesome moment.
 
My genuine opinion is that most people who think G Gundam has a high quality dub are the ones who view it as a throwaway show anyway. The original cast aren't on the highest level, but they were definetly better than what Blue Water provided. G Gundam isn't afraid to dip into sillyness and camp, but the dub cast are just generally flat or miscast in my opinion, a sad side effect of Bandai having to quickly recast due to union action. Some do better than others but in general...blech. The script doesn't help. 'Dark Gundam' is thrown around as if it's describing a dark coloured Gundam, not the name of a unit. Factual errors such as saying Ulube lost a fleet of Fantomas, when the Fantoma is a singular unit Ulube piloted, the digital effects that got added to the voices (echos, digitising, 'demonising'), etc. It comes togethor as a fairly shoddy effort.
 
I didn't know that, can you tell more about it?

Dark Gundam...it seemed more pointless than bad, although I recall & appreciate that argument from way back about how "Devil Gundam" best describes the sheer menace of the thing. Oh, the compromises made for TV...I still remeraber this one episode where George's princess witnesses a murder, and she exclaims something like "that man just took someone's life!" and George repeats it again. They could say that somebody got murdered but "kill" was apparently out of the question. Heh.



Eh, it wasn't that bad. The point was established that Zechs wanted Heero shot down but not destroyed. It's bizarre out of context, but that's all really.

Domon smashing Master into the ground is one of those moments that I remerabered really clearly. Definitely satisfying to see again.
 
I've been watching this again, and I still like as much as I did back when it was on in 2002/2003. Yes, it's a super-robot show and has its cheese (and Hams!) but it's open about that and STILL managed to pull off the fundamental of Gundam: War is bad. The Gundam Fight sets itself up as the "Ideal War" but then the true consequences of thinking like that pop up and show that there's no way a war could ever be "ideal".

Plus, a guy who can destroy MS with his bare hanRAB. Can't beat that.
 
The only thing i dint like about G Gundam was Burning Gundam, (actually, the only Gundam i like that's been a replacement for the protagonists original gundam was the freedom from seed, all the other replacements i hated.)
 
I'm a little hazy on the details, but basically the episode with Jester Gundam explains that Chibodee has a crippling fear of clowns which Jester Gundam's pilot uses against him. As a child, his mother managed to get them tickets to move to the Neo-American space colony. However, at the airport were terrorists disguised as clowns who took everyone hostage and demanded to be allowed entry to the colony. Chibodee and his mother were seperated and he assumes she's dead. He tells all this to Rain and asks her if she'd mind singing him a lullaby his mother used to sing him. This ties into the end where the Chibodee Gals sing it to him, giving him the drive to beat Jester. In the original, it's basically a generic lullaby which ties into how Chibodee's loyalty is to the American dream, not the American country full stop (as revealed in his debut when he turns on his own government for foul play). The dub changed the song though to, I believe, America the Beautiful. Thus, something that makes Chibodee less of a stereotype is removed and instead the stereotype aspect is only reinforced.
 
Simple.

The original had a song that Chibodee's mom used to sing to him. It was a ballad that sounded really nice when the girls sang it.

The dub changed it to the American Anthem. It was really flat.

Not exactly a hight point for the dub.

EDIT: *sigh* HC beats me again.
Well I don't actually think of it as a "high-quality dub" per se. More like one that, like the show, is really campy and that you have to get used to. And I defintely do not think of it as a throwaway show either. I mean, heck, I got the DVD's just so I could watch it again in it's better language. (I know I praise Domon's english actor a lot but he is nothing compared to Tomokazu Seki. Hot-blooded manliness incarnated he is....next to "Yuusha-Oh" Hiyama of course)
 
BTW, who would win in a fight between Domon Kasshu and GaoGaiGar?

Master Asia of course!

(I was just fangasming when I saw this for the first time)
 
I really hate it because I loved Chibodee's loyalty. He's not loyal to his country full stop like some offensive Americans in anime or even as some people think you should be. He's loyal to the dream, that a person can start with nothing and make it to the top. That's why the lullaby is so key, because it shows how Chibodee is just an average guy who pushed himself and made his own success. He's erabodying a wonderful ideal, not blind love for the land mass he happened to be born on.
 
Not to mention that the song actually MEANT something to him personally and emotionally since his mother used to sing it. To replace that with any sort of universal song like that is just weak. I don't know what they were thinking.
 
Yeah. It's why I get so defensive when people say G is just offensive stereotypes and Japanese praise...we're told consistently that Japan has never won a Gundam Fight, has arabitious self serving politicians and the world threatening menace of the show came about because of a plot by Neo-Japanese personnel. Sure, it's a foregone conclusion that Domon will win at the end, but I never saw the show as being over the top pro-Japanese. It's more "All humans have their suckiness and their goodness and cultural pride is good. But you have to remeraber we're ALL human and it's only togethor we'll make a decent future"

I am so very glad I didn't give up on it when I saw some out of context MF designs as my first taste of it.
 
Back
Top