https://v.animethemes.moe/GundamGquuuuuuxOP1. Video includes audio. Be sure to unmute Gundam is a series that has a long history. I watched it as a child and it has continued on. Its been around a long time. However the generation of fans has really been extended. We now have many young generations who have never even watched the first Gundam. I think the first Gundam is extremely interesting so I really want the young people to watch it because I know they will find it interesting as well. Thankfully we have subscriptions where you can watch it anywhere anytime. In the past if a show was no longer on television you could no longer watch it. I hope that the new generation could also watch the old Gundam as well. If that is materialized I would be really happy. Tsurumaki Kazuyahttps://anilist.co/staff/101076/TsurumakiKazuya asked about what he hopes Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuXs legacy would be within the franchise excerpted from an interview with Isaiah Colberthttps://gizmodo.com/gundamgquuuuuuxkazuyatsurumakiinterview2000593812 29 April 2025. Tsurumakis remark is as insightful as it is lowkey hilarious. If we imagine GQuuuuuuX as a kind of giant trolling to get people to watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam either in its originalhttps://anilist.co/anime/80/KidouSenshiGundam/ TV format or the truncated trilogyhttps://anilist.co/anime/1090/KidouSenshiGundamI/ films thathttps://anilist.co/anime/1091/KidouSenshiGundamIIAiSenshihen/ arguably savedhttps://anilist.co/anime/1092/KidouSenshiGundamIIIMeguriaiSorahen/ the franchise then calling this a failure is a lot harder to sell. I cannot speak on behalf of everyone but I did happen to notice an uptick in the number of times someone catalogued the original series in some form or another. I found myself talking about lore or characters in this franchise with people who had never expressed an interest in it beforehand and found my own intrigue in it delightfully rekindled. To possibly an even greater extent than Sunrise / Bandai Namcos own attempt to do so with The Witch from Mercuryhttps://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/20250327/witchfrommercurytopsfirstgundamyouwatchedpollin2025/.222898 interest in Gundam was earnestly considering the historical object that it is a thing that existed back in the late 1970s and has endured throughout all its subuniverses and timelines directors and Tomino Yoshiyuki depression. Lord knows that two others and I pestered someone in our groupwatch to get on with watching the trilogy films before our GQuuuuuuX sessions beganand he did though it took a while 550https://i.ur.com/C5QWh4h.png Challia Bull asks this question in reference to who is piloting the Red Gundam. In the context of Tsurumakis remarks its an invitation to find out for yourself what Challia means by going back to the source And through all of it people like Tsurumaki latched onto Gundam as a thing to love. Earlier in the article he mentions some of the conflicting images of Gundam that have cropped up using his own production staff as a test sample. Everyone knew of and loved Gundam but not for necessarily the same reasons. As for what those reasons are? Only they know and we can only guess. Yet it is precisely because of Gundams long lifespan that it even has the privilege to be viewed with this kind of plurality. The underlying themes of war children violence and space as planes of existence for mankinds uncertain future will always exist within the franchise but theyve likewise always been packaged in bizarre forms. Sometimes those forms have been compellinghttps://anilist.co/anime/82/KidouSenshiGundam0080PocketnoNakanoSensou/. Sometimes theyve really suckedhttps://anilist.co/anime/98504/KidouSenshiGundamTwilightAXIS/. Sometimes theyve been quirky https://anilist.co/anime/21458/KidouSenshiGundamThunderbolt/. Point being all of these are indicative of an attempt to make sense of what Gundam does and means. This was even true at the start considering it was marketing and toyselling that kept the franchise and any ideas within it from fading into obscurity. So what exactly did Tsurumaki and his fellow creatives do? GQuuuuuuX is true Gundam in the sense of its holding fast to emotional cores and throwing its characters into the deeper ends of the outer space swimming pool where fighting against something seems to be the only way they know how to live or form connection of any sort. Caught within the quagmire of trying to survive economically or spiritually Amate Yuzuriha and Nyaan find themselves thrust into underground battles in a postOne Year War time where Zeon won and life continued along that trajectory. Crashing through the manufactured skies of Side 6https://i.ur.com/CneA7MR.png a fabled Red Gundam intrudes itself into the lives of everyone involved chased by the titular GQuuuuuuX. And Shuji a zombie of a soul seems to pathologically bond with the Gundam and inserts himself like the songs do during battle into the dynamic between Amate and Nyaan. A found family in the oddest sense theyre people who recognize that they are attracted to one another but cannot necessarily articulate why. The piloting of the Red Gundam and the GQuuuuuuX is itself the articulation impulsive bombastic and perhaps stupid. Home is the cockpit because even if the chance is the tiniest bit remote they at least have some kind of respite from the outer forces they cannot control. But with one another or through one another? Maybe salvation is possible. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/0523ce618e9de3be2207c5be58612ece.mp4 Credit to Hisashi Mori. The insert songs are rather overcranked and do more than a little to take away from the battling sense that the series is engaging in. Granted thats not to say that it does not have problems even taking that into consideration. If GQuuuuuuX was to be analyzed like it were plain text on paper and divorced from just about everything else which is a habit we must break it would indeed appear that things kind of happen seemingly out of nowhere. How could the characterization appear to be so vague? Why even bother proposing some kind of multiverse / alttimeline if you wont give it more time? How could it rely so heavily on nostalgia keyjingling for its audience as hype as those moments could be? How could it do this? For those who may long for the days of 50episode Gundam sagas and the sototallystraightamiritehttps://i.ur.com/srf6jwa.png interpretation of its characters or actions GQuuuuuuX seems to run and not just in the OP afoul with reckless abandon. Maybe it would be nice if every single moment along the way had a clean explanation that could be found by pointing at a screenshot. But what would that actually achieve? Not much I dont think. Reason being the series is not trying to hit upon something that neatly maps onto a conventional narrative structure. With any franchise that has a long lifespan there reaches a point of acceptance as a fan when you long to see things get a little weirder or get a little crazier coherence to the narrative be damned. Dragon Ball DAIMA may not have done the idea of worldbuilding in its universe or the lore many favors but it had a grasp on the inherent silliness of its setting and followed through barely giving any concern to canonicity. Tsurumaki and his team have created something that exists in pure enthusiasm something born from underlying love and affection and thats not easily mappable onto a story that we did not ourselves take part in creating in regards to writing or developing. But tonally? Its there in every swooping camera shot Amate or Nyaan getting mad Shuji being the aloof dork wunderkind or Kycilia wearing her mask and executing the people who hate her while she sits right there watching it all unfold. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/2f76b47a5968ad0168e029d64c7d1b54.mp4 Unknown credit. Amate and Nyaan find themselves consistently thrown into situations where they either must make rash decisions or clash with whatever impedes them from realizing what they want. Its a flurry of emotionality that conveys its frustration vividly even if at the cost of pacing or traditional narrative coherence GQuuuuuuX as a piece of media is not to be analyzed in the typical way that we do with caring so deeply about plots characters or any of the other ways we exercise as media consumers / interpreters of media. This series pointedly does not exist in a vacuum it exists entirely because of the originals existence and the profound influence it had on Tsurumaki and everyone else who ever thought about its universe dressed like Char for an anime convention and hopefully didnt think his drop a meteor on ithttps://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/6/61/FifthLuna01.png/revision/latest/scaletowidthdown/1000?cb=20211124145700 philosophy was a good idea or saw Fa running in the EDhttps://v.animethemes.moe/ZetaGundamED1. of their dreams. Is the series nostalgic? Unapologetically. Is it a mess? Unapologetically. Was it made with love? Unapologetically. And I suspect Tomino would be okay with this. 550https://i.ur.com/uhTTsyV.png Tominos days are dwindling and though he himself will die one day Gundam will endure as long as unapologetic love for the material exists however it manifests When Tomino created Gundam it was a declarationhttps://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/20091023/yoshiyukitomino that all kinds of ideas about what Gundam was up to that point were accepted with his blessing. In keeping with that optimistic spirit that shows very existence was also a way of saying that in a way Gundam no longer belonged to him. In drawing upon the language of universal quantification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalquantification for the shows title he was likewise giving a blessing to those who sought to see what Gundam could do from then on. Tomino is in his 80s at the time of this writing he has more years behind him than ahead of him. He cannot keep making Gundam forever so it must be left in the hands of those who love the material so much that they would want to do something anything with it beyond token marketing. That is ultimately what Tsurumaki and his team have done. Even if they have never themselves experienced war like those of the pasthttps://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/20250619/gundamyoshiyukitominowantsnextworktoreflectcurrentwarssuchasukraineisrael/.225803 they love Gundam and what it means and given the chance to take the keys from Sunrise / Bandai Namco they allowed their juices to flow with a kind of freedom that many creatives wish they could be afforded. They knew this process and the product that would result would be an alienating one but its a risk they took on with full knowledge of that. Gundam at its best has always taken risks be they narrative or metatextual. And here now I find myself more enthused than ever for what lies ahead. Like its many models or debates over whether the Rick Dom or GM were stronger according to Tsurumakis interview Gundam will continue into whatever bizarro version of itself it has in store. Tominos Gundam is not coming back in the strictest sense. It was forged during a time when increasinglydyingout people were old enough to rememberor live in the aftershock ofJapans most horrifying traumatic event. I highly doubt anyone would say that such an event needs to be experienced again just so another installment can be made that has actual meaning for my fellow Newtypes. War is always a stones throw away and as such war fiction will forever be in vogue but there are other battles to be fought as time and its protagonists sprint forward. GQuuuuuuX is not like old Gundam and thats how it should be. Because now in the year 2025 it makes the claim that even in the midst of circumstances you cannot make heads or tails of humanitys ability to cling to SOMETHING or even perhaps anything is the first step in taking your own future by the reins even if that something is acknowledging your own malaise or frustration. Tsurumaki wanted to make people watch Gundam. He had that something and he did something with it. https://i.ur.com/fdIj5gU.mp4 And if you ask me thats pretty dope.