Gundam and the Ideology of The Earth Federation

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Pyramid Inu

Pyramid Inu

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Works covered include Gundam 0079, Gundam Hathaway, Gundam Thunderbolt, and Gundam UC.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:28 Tomino's Federation
06:14 Fukui's Federation
11:06 Ohtagaki's Federation
13:29 Conclusion

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@michaelmartin7425
@michaelmartin7425 Жыл бұрын
Interesting video, well researched and argued. Two things I'd just like to bring up are how the federation is a stand in for the US in 0080 for a really interesting cold war commentary with zeon as a stand in for the USSR and side six for Japan being caught in the middle of it all. The other thing, in 0079 we see both the US and USSR occupied by Zeon. The most notable part of this being how we see upper class men in the Americas sucking up to their occupiers in one scene.
@yemmohater2796
@yemmohater2796 Жыл бұрын
The EF's adoption of fascism parallels the US's after the defeat of the nazis
@Zudah_Pilot
@Zudah_Pilot Жыл бұрын
What
@dggross
@dggross Жыл бұрын
@@Zudah_Pilot soon after WW2 the US quickly shifted to purging socialists and crushing organized labor internally and pursuing regime change abroad. By the 1960s US intelligence agencies are even overthrowing their own presidents.
@Mike-xh2vm
@Mike-xh2vm Жыл бұрын
@@yemmohater2796 Wrong, it parallels, fascism in Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. USA is nothing like that at least not yet, that would only happen if democrats get all the power forever. Because right now there is no fascism in USA, anyone is free to speak their mind.
@ihonshou6988
@ihonshou6988 Жыл бұрын
​@@Mike-xh2vm 😏😏😏 right ?
@loganswalk8621
@loganswalk8621 Жыл бұрын
The theming I get from Tomino's federation at the very least is a "democracy is flawed" discussion that while elements of it are corrupt it's still a better alternative than the dictatorship that is Zeon and our heroes are still a part of it working to defend it and root out the corrupt parts.
@battlesheep2552
@battlesheep2552 Жыл бұрын
Maybe so, but Neo Zeon wouldn't rear it's ugly head so often if it wasn't for the policies of the Earth Federation. Even if they didn't cause the atrocities directly, they still bear some of the responsibility
@MrAsh1100
@MrAsh1100 Жыл бұрын
@@battlesheep2552 And thus, the view that Tomino had. Democracy is flawed but so is any other government. There's always flaws which will lead to a bigger consequences from those who are in power that can't wield it with just.
@renoultrenoulli2322
@renoultrenoulli2322 Жыл бұрын
Tomino original Earth Federation (meaning before Tomino make them basically a dead government by the time of F91) is probably the embodiment of Winston Churchill's quote that told as following "“democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried.” basically yes it's bad but whatever alternative they have especially as earthling and spacenoid still not consider themselves as one species will be worse until they can peacefully somehow come together and become one kind called humankind again
@milferdjones2573
@milferdjones2573 Жыл бұрын
Interesting the Arabs who are genetically white even to the Nazi get called not white by many in the anti west groups. Plus of course them having been a colonial power that invaded a large part of the world in various forms of government. Like the peoples in the south mostly the men trend to permanent tans while many of better off women very white skin. Of course any Japanese who attempted to be part of the anti western colonial group while actually being part of a truly hideous Empire themselves seam to rest of Asia as bad as guys as the US. And China the dominant Empire in Asia for all but a few hundred years not a native victim either. All forms of the propaganda that runs around. It the human tribalism instinct that drives us to split into groups that hate each other and only DNA modification will permanently solve it.
@francoiscamy5066
@francoiscamy5066 Жыл бұрын
Democracies have several flaws, and corruption isn't even the worst. Yet, compared to everything else, I would never want to change it. We choose the least bad option and we try to improve it as we can. Global democracies ranking are lower since a decade ; but like in the 30' , we will survive this tide.
@Brian-rx9sp
@Brian-rx9sp Жыл бұрын
It is my opinion that the manner in which the Earth Federation is portrayed in the early Tomino works has had undeniable ramifications on how both the Gundam fandom and other Gundam creators perceive the narrative of the Universal Century. It becomes difficult to blame people for rallying behind Zeon when their alternative is basically a memetic vacuum that has no overt values or ideology and represents nothing but the worst stereotypes of a neoliberal market economy that one could make. Corrupt, incompetent, self interested, greedy etc. That and any and all of the "good" Federation characters are usually portrayed as good in spite of, not because of, the Federation, with no character be it Bright, Judau or Amuro being capable of reforming its deficiencies.
@massacolonel5950
@massacolonel5950 5 ай бұрын
More Good Feddies who stood out were also Lieutenants Matilda Ajan, Woody, Sleggar Law, Ryu Jose and Admiral Revil. As if Tomino was showing us that the best men and women among them died during the One Year War. I'll bet they would have all become AEUG or would have prevented assholes like Jamitov and Bask Om from taking over.
@KennethLyVideography
@KennethLyVideography 3 ай бұрын
All that I can say is that the people of Side 3 deserved better than Zeon.
@arx3516
@arx3516 2 ай бұрын
True, but the other side, Zeon and Zanscare, are tyrannical, genocidal monarchies. So tye Federation is still the best alternative. The only decent akternative to the Federation was the AEUG, wich had the same underlying problems of the Federation, as ut was financed and controlled by big corporations.
@Brian-rx9sp
@Brian-rx9sp 2 ай бұрын
@arx3516 The problem here is threefold. 1) The Federation has repeatedly shown that it lacks the means or even the interest to combat or deter these tyrannical genocidal regimes. Delaz Fleet steals our secret nuke equipped Gundam? Don't send anything other than a single Pegasus-class after them and continue our naval review despite the security risk. Axis trying to vie for control after the power vacuum left by the Titans' demise? Leave AEUG and Karaba to deal with and not only do nothing but even cave into their demands. Char literally opens his insurrection by dropping Fifth Luna on Lhasa? Sell him an even bigger asteroid to allow him to do more damage and leave Londo Bell to mop up. They straight up did nothing during the Cosmo Babylonia uprising because they just saw it as a "drunken bar brawl." Having the power to stop tyranny yet doing nothing makes you just as bad as the tyrant. 2) Zeon's (and their derivatives) repeated atrocities literally mean nothing within the public consciousness of the Universal Century. Them killing half of the human population didn't mean anything in Zeta and ZZ. The Titans were unanimously considered the worse threat, and Axis was able to return with little resistance or outcry. Char attempting to nuke earth didn't stop him from being considered a celebrity by UC 105, as well as Mafty rallying by his ideals to public approval. Anti-Zeon and Anti-spacenoid sentiment seems to be localised entirely within the military or the upper echelons of the government in the UC, and is completely absent from the general populace, essentially giving these regimes the blank cheque they need to commit further atrocities, since this populace is unwilling to push or lobby to prevent these atrocities. 3) The only reason to root for the Earth Federation instead is because of very tenuous self-preservation. They don't have superior values or ideology to Zeon. They're just better because they'll leave you alone. Provided you're not a space immigrant, in which they'll deport you into forced labour. Or you're an anti-Federation protestor, in which case they'll nerve gas you. And provided you're not unfortunate enough to be used as a human shield or bait or leverage during a battle. And if you happen to be on the receiving end of an imminent colony drop, well, GG. To them, you're one less mouth to feed, and they won't even give you a warning so you can evacuate by your own means that they won't provide for you.
@KaBawm1
@KaBawm1 8 ай бұрын
The Victory Gundam depiction of the Federation is honestly my favourite, a bunch of old men past their prime trying to maintain peace for the younger generation with whatever power they had left.
@Kira22558
@Kira22558 4 ай бұрын
Me too.
@huntermad5668
@huntermad5668 3 ай бұрын
When fed finally fell, things became... Really really bad....😢 By that time, Fed lost a lot of its influences and many Sides just did what they want but at least they kept them honest and restrained the worst of their actions. Once Fed gone, many of those rulers just released the beasts inside...
@primusvsunicron1
@primusvsunicron1 15 күн бұрын
@@huntermad5668CONSENT and Settlement Freedom League
@Endmonaut
@Endmonaut Жыл бұрын
I felt that in 0079 the WWII parallels were pretty strong. In a similar vein to how you put it, the earliest depictions of the Earth Federation are that of a stumbling and borderline incompetent governing force. Eventually, over the course of the original series, the Federation gets themselves together and reclaims the upper hand over Zeon. In my eye this is hugely indicative of the allies during the early war period of WWII, also known as the phony war. The French government displayed vast incompetence despite the extremely high troop morale and willingness to fight, and Britain spent far too long dragging its feet on political notions that Germany could still be reasoned with even after the invasion of Poland. Arguably the allies first true attempt to halt Germany was the defense of France ended in that retreating battle to the port city of Dunkerque with abject failure. Some easy comparisons can be drawn here with the Battle of Loum. The Earth Federation vastly underestimated the capability and tenacity of the Zeon forces, leading to a total defeat. It would take the allies a little over 2 years to make any willful attempt at an offensive. Similarly, things would get worse for the Earth Federation before they got better, with the destabilizing and dropping of Side 2 and the invasion of Earth. 0080: War in the Pocket carries some pretty obvious Cold War vibes with all the secrecy and neutrality. As does 0083: Stardust Memory, which while Zeon doesn't necessarily play a role resembling the USSR, the Earth Federation certainly plays a role similar to the mid Cold War United States.
@strelok230
@strelok230 Жыл бұрын
It seems that the Federation will always be a stand-in for the bad (and some good) of our modern western world. I forget where I saw the quote, but the Federation was said to have been founded by "a Rich Man's club of countries". The original even had the Federation flag be a strange mix of NATO, the UN, and for some reason Brazil. The uniforms worn by Federation soldiers are also reminiscent of American uniforms from the Cold War mixed slightly with Imperial Japanese uniforms, and with the EF helmet looking very similar to the UN's own "blue helmets".
@Mike-xh2vm
@Mike-xh2vm Жыл бұрын
You mean a stand in for the good and some of the bad.
@Sorain1
@Sorain1 Жыл бұрын
@@Mike-xh2vm I kind of have to agree with the OP here. We see much more of the bad than the good. We are following, for the most part the FEW good people involved, and virtually all of them are low rankers on the sharp end of the stick.
@SeruraRenge11
@SeruraRenge11 10 ай бұрын
You say "for some reason Brazil" but that's because I think most people have forgotten that back in the day, Brazil was THIS close to becoming the US of South America, a genuine powerhouse of the region that dictated policy for many of its neighbors simply due to its influence and commanding the respect of European powers. Then their last emperor died, and a bunch of generals decided to destroy everything the man created by fighting amongst themselves over the government for the next 30 years and Brazil has still been trying to recover from that event. It's a wierd parallel to Alexander the Great's empire in that way.
@joshjonson2368
@joshjonson2368 10 ай бұрын
​@@SeruraRenge11 it's not well poised to compete with America because too much of it comprised of lush jungle, unlike the US which has the geography to set up industrialised cities more easily, it'd take them far longer and cost far more to become as industrialised as the US
@SeruraRenge11
@SeruraRenge11 10 ай бұрын
That was less of a concern to them back then as conservationism was barely a thing in the 1800s so they were logging the everliving hell out of the Amazon. Nowadays most countries operate on the principle of "you have to grow a new tree for every one you cut down, for nature's future", but npt back then.@@joshjonson2368
@james_chatman
@james_chatman Жыл бұрын
Kai: I knew that rat must be one of the elites. Mirai: Living on on earth doesn't make you one of the elites! Note: Mirai is a Earthnoid heir to a corporate plutocrat.
@citrusjuicebox
@citrusjuicebox 10 ай бұрын
I loved little gems like these from 0079
@jalpat2272
@jalpat2272 10 ай бұрын
well at the end she kinda disinherited and she end up with an eternal captain whose career get held back from promotion for decades and son that end up in gallows,
@Celtic1020
@Celtic1020 2 ай бұрын
Okay but I feel like you, and the franchise at this point have forgotten that there are still tons of poor people on earth because it's difficult and expensive to move to the colonies. Mirai would've known this to be true despite being born in a wealthy family.
@RayOfTruth
@RayOfTruth Жыл бұрын
I thought how After War Gundam X handled their equivalents was neat. It was interesting seeing how both factions lost much of their political power after the war and mass colony drops. Both lost most of their power and are barely holding on. While Gundam X is an AU, it's feels like the closest one to commenting on the Universal Century.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Gundam X is the only AU I've still not seen, but I'm really curious about it. As you point out, it seems to be one that's most explicitly a meta-commentary on UC.
@RayOfTruth
@RayOfTruth Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 it's one of my favorite Gundam anime, highly recommend it.
@EliWSeiei
@EliWSeiei Жыл бұрын
The setting of s is actually the bad ending of Universal century, where oyw ended badly and badly damaged the earth. It’s an AU, but it was based on uc in the first place (compare to other original AU)
@dalenlewin
@dalenlewin Жыл бұрын
My God, the Gundam timeline is so confusing. Where do wing and seed fit into this? My brain hurts.
@RayOfTruth
@RayOfTruth Жыл бұрын
@@dalenlewin G, Wing, SEED, 00, Age, IBO, and Witch From Mercury all take place in new universes and weren't made to fit on past timelines. They were made to be standalone stories that are accessible to people who have never seen a Gundam anime before.
@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740
@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740 Жыл бұрын
In the same "Zeon is exhausted" speech by General Revill, he acknowledges that the Federation government has flaws such as corruption and poor leadership. Spacenoid have legitimate grievances and the right to be emancipated from a government they don't feel represents them. But replacing that with a dictatorial monarchical regime like the one proposed by Zeon is just making a 180° shift. I would not depose the Federation to be taken over by a monarchical version of the Federation that wants to impose itself even against the interests of other colonies like Side 6.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, since making this video I re-read the novels, and caught both that, and the paragraph about a right-wing, anti-spacenoid party taking power in the Federation in the lead up to the war. Zeon is undoubtedly, unreservedly worse than the Federation. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just into the mobile suits I guess.
@SudrianTales
@SudrianTales 10 ай бұрын
Tomino wasn't a fan of the real world but he disliked the Japanese empire era more. An era during which it's own militias that they set up in occupied territories turned on them. If Zeon was anything like Imperial Japan, I see why all the colonies that stayed with the Earth Federation, stayed.
@arx3516
@arx3516 2 ай бұрын
​@@pyramidinu9449 on the surface it would seem that the AEUG is only good alternative, however, the AEUG itself has the same underlying flaws of the EF. The AEUG if financed and controlled by space based corporations,, who resent the fact that they don't have the same level of influence over the EF as their earth based competition has.
@Gunsight-One
@Gunsight-One Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite aspects of the Gundam franchise, especially the Universal Century Timeline, is how blurred the lines are to who the "good guys" and the "bad guys" really are. I mean look at Zeta Gundam, the AEUG are the main protagonists but from any other perspective they would be considered an anti government armed guerrilla organization. The United Earth Federation is definitely portrayed in many varying lights throughout the U.C. timeline, many of which are far from flattering portrayals. That's what I love about the nuance of the Gundam franchise.
@huntermad5668
@huntermad5668 3 ай бұрын
AEUG is not that through. Its ties to Fed is too much to make them that. That is why Gryps war is considered a civil war. An anti Gov forces wouldn't have the chance to resupply and repair within Military base at the same time of their opposing faction with both sides knew exactly what were happeing...😂
@nalskipper7447
@nalskipper7447 Жыл бұрын
I read the Unicorn light novel 10-ish years ago and I never knew that the author leans toward the right. At that time, I really appreciated how the light novel fleshed out the beginnings of the Federation and how it was a version of our world if only men continued to go to space after the space race. There’s a part of me that wants to believe that the Federation is mostly to blame for the uprising of the spacenoid. Pretty much like how the US colonies rebelled against the British empire. But I can't ignore what the Zeon/Zabi did to billions of people. If anything, the recent Gundam animes have made the Universal Century more rough and gray.
@barrybend7189
@barrybend7189 Жыл бұрын
Well in the original trilogy to Crossbone and Victory the EF has changes in personality because time passes. It's almost ironic that In Gundam the spacenoid factions that are antagonists are culturally stagnant and are threatened by earth. The common Zeon saying their souls are weighted down by gravity is emblematic of it. Unicorn is the odd one as the writer is a Zeon apologist. Look into Gundam Gaia Gear for the proper return of Char in that case. Gaia Gear is a novel Tomino wrote as part of the Char's Counter Attack novel timeline which is CCA Beltorchika's Children, Hathaway's Flash( original novel) and Gaia Gear. Neither is good nor bad but present different problems.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Do you know of any translations of Gaia Gear? I desperately want to read it.
@barrybend7189
@barrybend7189 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 there is a Subtitle added version of the audio drama but the books I have not found a translation of yet.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
@@barrybend7189 I really hope it happens one day, some of the stuff I've heard about it is wild.
@snuffles5897
@snuffles5897 Жыл бұрын
I still honestly don’t know if I’d go as far as to call Fukui a Japanese nationalist but people are right on the money about him being Japanese Tom Clancy from everything I’ve heard. In terms of his Federation I’m fine with him portraying it as a paranoid conspiratorial regime (even if Tomino already did that during Zeta) but him trying to retroactively moralize Zeon is extremely annoying considering they’ve historically been the absolutely worst between the two in every show
@nicholas.e5158
@nicholas.e5158 Жыл бұрын
How is that worst and they never was depicted has such. Have you really watched the uc series? Ms igloo has shown the real issues of zeon from the grunt point of view. Zeon was run by Zabis who were the real Enemy. Im tired of seeing this comment. This theme has been going on since ms gundam 8th ma team! We see the federation sending squads into a mine based knowing those squads were going to DIE. Its bs on both sides of the war! The earth federation has never been altered! This is nonsense from People taking there lore from unicorn! Go back the the war in the pocket, 8ths team, ms igloo. Ms igloo clearly states that no one new the colonies were going to be gassed but top braas zeon officials. The lore is there gundam was never a balck and white good vs bad theme.
@brianwalsh1339
@brianwalsh1339 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know how anyone can moralize zeon considering that their action during the one year war was operation British :/
@TacComControl
@TacComControl Жыл бұрын
I dunno if I'd say Absolute worst... Deikum was very much on the side of "Let the people decide their own fate, that's all we want, is to be able to rule ourselves", Zeon themselves weren't the problem, it was the Zabis. Sasro was a manipulative fascist, Kycilia was a capricious idiot and a despotic secret-police lunatic, Garma was corrupt and self-serving, Dozle was a "Gentle Giant" who was also like "hey, let's drop a five kilometer diameter metal tube on earth to make a point", Degwin may or may not have been involved in assassinating Deikum in a power grab, only to get power-grab deaded himself, and Gihren was literally Hitler. I think the only Zabi that wasn't awful was Mineva, and even that's a bit debatable, like, she was awful throughout the Neo Zeon war, but also somehow did a full 180 for Unicorn. Pretty sure that's my core issue with Fukui, the whole "Mineva goes from being a personality-less puppet to being a whatever-the-cost manipulator who has to learn the value of friendship from a guy who got absolutely obsessed with her after meeting her once and thinking that meant they would be together forever, or whatever. Seriously, I like Banana and his plotline, but that whole part of it was Super gross and weird.
@GonnaDieNever
@GonnaDieNever Жыл бұрын
@@TacComControl Deikum was a moron who built a society so badly that the Zabis could take it over.
@SeruraRenge11
@SeruraRenge11 10 ай бұрын
I made a big post about how Fukui is like...the opposite of a Japanese nationalist but as for the Tom Clancy thing, ONE of the books he wrote, Aegis, fits that bill and even then its themes are the exact fucking opposite: Instead of America banzai it’s “Japan is fucked up” and instead of “fuck Russian terrorists” it’s “that North Korean terrorist might have had the right idea”. (They’re anti-establishment terrorists from North Korea who want to TAKE IT DOWN) It literally ends with the protagonist disenfranchised with Japan but somehow people claim this is nationalist? That would never happen in a Clancy novel, inevitably self-insert Jack Ryan would take down all of the corrupt elements in the American government and reinvigorated in his belief that America once again holds the values it's meant to.
@StateOfTheMind11225
@StateOfTheMind11225 Жыл бұрын
This is a great analysis, usually these types of talks were always been discussed in spacebattles forums or smaller or dedicated sci fi forums back in the day. Nowadays after the advent of social media being mainstream its nice to see some discussion of this still goes around.
@snimon5824
@snimon5824 Жыл бұрын
Always loved those Forum talks, usually more civil than the average youtube or reddit comment section.
@Clara-anise
@Clara-anise Жыл бұрын
Another cool video. I have one completely irrelevant nitpick, which is that the star trek federation is not consistent at all in what it represents from series to series (and sometimes within series!). Post war American idealism sometimes, but also occasionally Soviet idealism, then a much more cynical but still sympathetic view of the liberal state by the time of DS9, and then war on terror America in Enterprise, and then new trek seems to want to go hard on portraying them as repressive and on the verge of total crisis but can't quite ever commit on that
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
These are great points, and basically make me realise that I need to watch more Star Trek. Also thinking about it, I guess the JJ Abrams movies could be seen as parallel to Fukui's Gundam work, like, with all the post-9/11 imagery and stuff. I haven't seen much at all of NuTrek so it's interesting to hear that it's also going towards presenting the Federation as dysfunctional.
@Clara-anise
@Clara-anise Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 yeah, though nutrek is a weird animal. In Picard season 1 the federation is utterly callous at the mass death of romulans and essentially slavery and genocide of androids, but then at the end it turns out to be like, romulan false flags and infiltration? And then they just get over it? Strange stuff, but even in that case where I think it was an outright fumble, it's interesting to think about what approaches to media and fandom might be potentially at play there, and also the contrasts in the kind of imaginaries that influence the different series
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
@@Clara-anise I've not actually watched much Star Trek beyond the original series, but my sense from the Trek podcasts I've listened to is that some fans really fetishise the whole Sci-fi utopianism angle (even tho DS9 seems to be almost unanimously agreed to be the best, and the series that provides the most nuanced version of its factions). Anyways, I wonder if it's a case of writers wanting to do that sort of DS9 type exploration, while also being wary of fan backlash. I would honestly love to watch a video essay comparing Gundam and ST's respective factions (though I'm not the one to do it).
@Clara-anise
@Clara-anise Жыл бұрын
@Pyramid Inu Yeah some people definitely seem to pine for a particular vision of the federation in line with rodenberrys 'original vision', even though its most purely represented form is season 1 of TNG which is ROUGH. But at the same time, positing some kind of ability to create positive institutions is something that makes star trek stand out in a highly pessimistic era, so I think DS9 is praised so much because it does take the utopian ideals seriously while still trying to put them through scrutiny, making it feel more grounded and complicated but still rooted in at least some kind of idealism. I personally get the sense that because you have such a mix of people who like that stuff, people who want the federation to just be the good guys who do the right thing, and people who only kinda know the series or have some nostalgia for the characters but no particular expectations besides "modern scifi TV show" when they watch a new series - whoever's in charge of the decision making on newer series seems to want to appeal to all of these groups at once and what you end up with is quite muddled. And I strongly agree, a thorough comparison of trek and Gundam would be super fascinating. If it were extended beyond the political factions to their social critiques, views on technology, roles in culture as multimedia and merchandising phenomena, and legacies within their own sci-fi spheres, someone could probably easily work a whole dissertation out of it
@adanfuenets3148
@adanfuenets3148 Жыл бұрын
It doesn't need to though, considering each series takes place decades if not century's apart from each other. Or in the case of TNG DS9 and Voyager simple involve themselves within different contexts of the Federation as a whole. So ideals changing are expected, yet they all at least take on a very socialist view throughout them all save the some outlayers.
@yokogoph
@yokogoph Жыл бұрын
Considering they did have their post 9/11 justification after Stardust, it does makes sense to see where the leadership of the Federation ended up at, and of course eventually where it will be in the next century.
@GonnaDieNever
@GonnaDieNever Жыл бұрын
Honestly speaking it's remarkable that the Zeon core colonies weren't literally just blown up following the events of the one year war. The sheer scale of the colony drop exceeds everything in human history.
@Adam-nc6qg
@Adam-nc6qg 8 ай бұрын
​@@GonnaDieNeverThey probably didn't want to (openly) antagonize spacenoids, as it is far harder to police space then individual states on Earth
@sergioeduardol.carneiro8198
@sergioeduardol.carneiro8198 4 ай бұрын
@@Adam-nc6qg also side 3 after the war was one of the few places left that coul produce goods for example. it was a valuable asset
@flamestoyershadowkill6400
@flamestoyershadowkill6400 Жыл бұрын
I would like to see a gundam alternate universe that explores how the tools of warfare affect what kind of values for society are able to survive. Maybe have 5+ major factions rather than the usually 2-3.
@davidfinkel7379
@davidfinkel7379 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't that be mechwarrior/battletech
@austinreed7343
@austinreed7343 Жыл бұрын
@@davidfinkel7379 Yeah but less gritty. “Baby’s First Battletech” more or less.
@dark7element
@dark7element Жыл бұрын
I kind of feel like total war scenarios with ~5 factions are unrealistic, because they'll just immediately coalesce into blocs, at which point you're right back to a war with two factions.
@bubbasbigblast8563
@bubbasbigblast8563 Жыл бұрын
In many ways, the original Gundam stories were about the dangers of autocracy: the idea that, even if there are blatant abuses in society, giving someone limitless power to fight those problems will always just make things worse, no matter how well intentioned. The Zabis are the obvious example, but you can see it even in something like Turn-A, where Diana trying to rush back to Earth starts most of the problems in the plot. As such, it's always felt like Gundam is worse off when it forgets that "wreck everyone until they all agree with me" is actually a bad thing. Maybe that's why something as weird as Gundam Thunderbolt feels more "right," since it's more sympathetic to the individualists than the people blindly drifting along with the war.
@Sorain1
@Sorain1 Жыл бұрын
That "wreck everyone until they all agree with me" attitude is exactly what went wrong with Gundam Seed Destiny writing wise. (Okay it's one of a laundry list of issues.) Oddly enough, Gundam 00 had the best counter take on that situation, starting with literally doing that and ending on the fundamental lesson (literally spelled out for anyone who didn't get it yet) that peace can not be maintained through force, only through understanding. UC Federation ends up constantly trying to maintain peace through force and it just means Zeon style movements keep showing up, until the remnants of the Federation are so weak that they don't matter anymore by (IIRC) Crossbone Gundam or so.
@0mildoo
@0mildoo Жыл бұрын
I’ve unavoidably read my own opinions of western liberal democracies into the EF from the various parts of the Gundam universe I’ve seen. A top heavy bureaucratic and oligarchical state with authoritarian characteristics, some adopted from its adversaries. You could see the EF borrowing Zeon tech as its own operation paper clip, the Titans as the burgeoning peace time national security state, etc. The EF seems to be a democratic republic and as a result it is wholly unresponsive to and unrepresentative of its citizenry. We never really see any working class characters in Gundam celebrating the EF or feeling as though they’ve effectively participated in it, at most they’ve simply felt more threatened by an external force. It’s also pretty explicitly a colonial force. In some ways classically colonial though space colonies don’t hold the same connotations of conquest they do share the abstraction of power and extraction of labor. And also “neo-colonial” using economic and political force to erode and subvert the autonomy of regions both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. I think most of these traits tend to be found fairly consistently throughout the franchise.
@red3994
@red3994 Жыл бұрын
I found the federation to be most interesting in my opinion in 0083 since it shows a transition from how where the federation was nearing a fight for the elite but ultimately becoming to arrogant and careless as corrupted leaders like Bask Om took the helm by the end of the series with him sacrificing his own men to give out a message about how dangerous Zeon still is with the creation of the titans at the end of the series. It’s a perfect example of a military organization letting the wrong people slip through the cracks and then rising to power only to make something of what the original ideals weren’t into a nightmare.
@RocketChickArt1
@RocketChickArt1 Жыл бұрын
Another nice video someone who's been watching Gundam since the late '90s it's nice to see videos that are more about the actual world and factions than just straight multiple suits which I don't have a problem with love that
@stuckboiss3187
@stuckboiss3187 Жыл бұрын
Thunderbolt is one of my fav series
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Same.
@lordofd7111
@lordofd7111 Жыл бұрын
An excellent analysis. I've always been a fan of the more fluid social and political dynamics that can be found in a fiction's seemingly steadfast organizations depending on the author and era, in stark contrast to today's fandom obsession with canon this and consistency that, so it was a definite treat to see you take on the broad depiction of the Earth Federation in this way. Star Wars has for long time had a problem with people stanning and apologizing for the Empire, some going as far as to rehabilitate it as a "necessary" evil. Most in jest I'm sure, but many others seem dug in in the interest of providing essential contrast in perspective. Something I've noticed with entries such as Rogue One, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor recently, is Lucasfilm's determination to firm up the Empire as iredeemably evil, using the banality of evil as an effective narrative force - creating a spectrum ranging from absolute to mundane, ending up with a broad shade of grey. Another thing I've liked from Star Wars is how while the Republic was ultimately a good thing, the failings that brought about its demise were generally engineered and taken advantage of by means of bloat to make the idea of a centralized, "efficient", all-encompassing Empire more appealing.
@Mike-xh2vm
@Mike-xh2vm Жыл бұрын
Basically how communism/socialism rise in power, promising something better when in truth is worst.
@Supermrepical
@Supermrepical Жыл бұрын
Good video man really well put together I loved watching it and had to share my appreciation. Thanks for the good content!!
@leonwolf4
@leonwolf4 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the background detailing on the various author takes on the Federation. I recently watched Zeta and ZZ series recently and one thing that frustrate me is, why don't characters actually do something about the rot of the federation?! Besides just "Let's Genocide the Earth" Zeons?! Surely there has to be a middle ground between doing nothing vs wiping out all Earthlings. It's a frustrating habit in various media now-a-days to use social ills as motivation for villain's but never have the hero's actually deal with the issue themselves.
@mikexhotmail
@mikexhotmail Жыл бұрын
Hero's actually deal with the issue themselves. = AOT?
@DSan-kl2yc
@DSan-kl2yc Жыл бұрын
I agree to a small extent. But there's two things to consider. Change in society happens over time(a lot different than a military conflict). And it requires different heroes than military heroes. Gundam is still an action show. So, this type of hero is trying to put out the fire so society has time to fix itself. One single person is usually too small to be able to fix such massive problems. In real life sometimes they can help organize a movement though. Push a cause. Become a politician ect. I'd like to think that a lot of them are doing good stuff quietly in the back. As members of society.
@MrMatchstick
@MrMatchstick Жыл бұрын
That was AUEG and Karaba. But by the end of the Neo Zeon war most of the more ideistic memebers were dead and the ones left didnt have enough power to compleate their major goals.
@virgilio6349
@virgilio6349 Жыл бұрын
Because heroes have lives of their own. When the OYW ended, Amuro went PTSD ex child soldier mode because that was literally what he was. Char, on the other hand, kept pushing until becoming a politician. Hathaway is doing what you said via terrorism.
@jbark678
@jbark678 Жыл бұрын
​@@mikexhotmailHeroes don't deal with the issues in AoT. It's a genocide fest.
@spookyghostofcommunism
@spookyghostofcommunism Жыл бұрын
I need to watch more Gundam
@_weiweiweiwei_
@_weiweiweiwei_ Ай бұрын
Hathaway vs the can driver scene is definitely one of my favorites.
@Agent789_0
@Agent789_0 10 ай бұрын
The amount of depth there is to the UC Gundam is really staggering. Regardless of whose writing for it the amount of interesting stories that have come out of it are absolutely amazing.
@applescats
@applescats Жыл бұрын
This is such a great video! A really good overview on the topic that I think is overlooked quite a bit, especially in comparison to Zeon. I'm still more of a fan of how classic gundam portrays the federation, especially when you get to stuff like hathaway's flash. Hope you make more gundam content in the future!
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think Tomino's and Yas' interpretation are the most interesting by quite a bit. And thanks for the kind words! :D
@hairman943
@hairman943 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for doing this video. I did an analysis on what parallels we could draw for the future of space colonization. And the structure of the Earth Federation always alluded me when doing research. Its so good to hear all of its iterations explained in comprehensive video.
@renoultrenoulli2322
@renoultrenoulli2322 7 ай бұрын
I always find it hilarious that while the federation always shown to be corrupt in the end of the day people rather siding with them rather than whatever opposition force was against from Zabi's Zeon to Zanscare Empire
@theliato3809
@theliato3809 Жыл бұрын
To me it kinda just seems to exist as some large polity creates Zeon and by extention the wars between them so the characters can duke it out with some decent motivations behind the. So this adds some light to it.
@wuthichaiauomsin6237
@wuthichaiauomsin6237 Жыл бұрын
10:30 fukui also a famous blockbuster writer as his novel adaption into lived-action film such as boukoku no aegis which about japanese right winger conspire with north korean terrorist using american chemical weapon to threaten japanese government. so new york times was right to call him japanese tom clancy.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Funny you say this, I was working on a video essay on that specific movie (and also Lorelei). But then I found it was kinda bumming me out cause I honestly find Fukui's politics depressing on multiple levels. Maybe I'll still do it idk. One of the volumes of the Gundam UC LN is basically a complete retread of Aegis so there's some content there.
@tehmediasource
@tehmediasource Жыл бұрын
This is literally the best gundam content!!!
@kolinmartz
@kolinmartz 6 ай бұрын
That convo with Hathaway and the cab driver is so real tho. Very relatable in the context of climate change and the working class.
@_Tizoc_
@_Tizoc_ Жыл бұрын
Corrupt bureaucrats Vs terrorists, the epic showdown continues
@ThatAsianSamurai
@ThatAsianSamurai Жыл бұрын
Love the video, Nice kotor background music!
@PrimusProductions
@PrimusProductions 11 ай бұрын
Glad I found your channel! Bandit Flower is an underrated movie, I personally like that Ohtagaki worked fanatical religious extremism into this world of sci-fi, it gave me the similar vibes to the Terraist Church plotline in LotGH adding another player to a war between two powers.
@fernandozavaletabustos205
@fernandozavaletabustos205 Жыл бұрын
Great video, you have gained a new subscriber!
@peterglade1803
@peterglade1803 10 ай бұрын
I think Gundam Unicorn's post 9/11 themes actually makes a lot of sense when you take into account char's counterattack as the universal century's version of 9/11.
@adrian_veidt
@adrian_veidt 8 ай бұрын
I've always viewed them as outdated. They feared newtypes as if they were some sort of mutants. Meanwhile the Zeeks just saw them as living weapons. The feds reminded me how in a post crisis DC comic, the kryptonian council feared the potential of their species under the yellow sun. Which is why they banned space travel and lived as recluse. Like how the feds held amuro in a house arrest and refused to give him any privileges despite his contributions. The feds in unicorn were similar to the zeeks somehow. A relic of the past but desperately trying to cling on the status quo on the colonies.
@xsdesignworks1143
@xsdesignworks1143 Жыл бұрын
A pretty alright video, but two main things: 1. Text needs to be onscreen for more than the one to two seconds you did here, which made it really difficult to actually read 2. If you're going to put music in your video essays, you NEED to improve your audio leveling, pick low key music, and keep the music volume low. I've got really good audio drivers that allow me to improve dialogue clarity, and during the Thunderbolt segment, there were moments I could barely make out what you were saying because the music was overpowering your voice.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Oh forgot to respond to this, but yeah my audio is absolutely dire here. Recently got a Blue Yeti, and have a better grasp on audio mixing now, so hopefully my next ones will be better in that regard ^^;
@2ndbleak
@2ndbleak Жыл бұрын
Really good video, dude. Though now you gotta do one on Zeon as well
@citrusjuicebox
@citrusjuicebox 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this! I always felt some discomfort with the premises and framings of things in Gundam media, and this really helped contextualize some of that. Instantly subscribed!
@fishback655
@fishback655 Жыл бұрын
well EF was quite anti spacenoid but at least 'democratic' federation until UC0079~UC0092 but after UC0093(CCA) when main threat(zeon) became weak, they no more care about spacenoids.
@liamjay6844
@liamjay6844 10 ай бұрын
Love the video, nearly leapt out of my chair when I heard music from KOTOR 2
@CosmoShidan
@CosmoShidan 9 ай бұрын
In my view, the Earth Federation in the original 0079 series represents the worst manifestation of liberal capitalism. That being said, their goals are implied near the end of the television series, as to retake side 3 because they want to monopolize mineral trade with the Jupiter Fleet. I interpret this from episode 38, or 39 (depending on the translation), The Newtype Chalia Bull, where the Jupiter Fleet is introduced selling weapons and minerals to Zeon and possibly the Federation. Hence, this makes the Federation out to be more of a petty despot. Plus, with the Federation being a liberal capitalist state, it's prone to falling into fascism when liberal politicians fail to govern and grant free reign to fascists to retain power. We can see this with how the Federation allows the Titans to rise to power in Stardust Memory and Z Gundam. Plus, I can't help but notice that it's almost like Tomino and the staff of Gundam are saying both capitalism and fascism are two sides of the same coin.
@MidianPOfficialytch
@MidianPOfficialytch Жыл бұрын
You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain. basically EFF after the One Year War or way before.
@austinreed7343
@austinreed7343 Жыл бұрын
EFF become totally evil by the time of F91.
@Hy93Ri0n
@Hy93Ri0n Жыл бұрын
I’m not the kind of person who tends to dislike ambiguity and stuff in my media, but I gotta say, I’m really fucking upset that Zeon had been so whitewashed to the point where now it’s generally seen as Zeon always being right, when this is just factually untrue. I don’t give a damn how corrupt or unequal the federation were, Zeon as a movement has caused so, so much worse, for their own people as much as those on Earth, and Hack authors like Fukui and the fanbase in general have gone out of their way to paint Zeon as completely correct.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Currently working on a video on Fukui's live action movies that touches on this.
@Jagecage
@Jagecage Жыл бұрын
Funny enough the dialogue in one of unicorns episodes highlights the contradiction of all of fukuis idealism. When Marida was speaking of zeon, how it was this shining beacon in the darkness of godless space, it’s the watering down of factual history and creating some rose tinted view of the past. Much like how it seems he believes in the whole imperial japan was just and did right back in the day, when the reality was no the Japanese empire did horrible atrocities. The same goes for zeon they did horrible things in the name of independence. Don’t get me wrong though I do love zeon, I’m a fanboy. Maybe that is the charm of them being the underdogs per se, they’re relatable with their drive to independence, cool suits too. But I see it as original gundam showcases how something good at the heart can be so corrupted and evil thanks to fascism. Let’s not get it twisted the zeon are the bad guys, memes be damned. For the feds it’s oddly enough similar just a slow burn. you can see a progression of decay. In 0079, origin, through to 0080 you see the federation as a democracy sure but bloated and ineffective and militaristic; means well but has its issues. But like all democracies if it’s not nurtured and taken care of it will decay and that’s exactly what you see by gundam Hathaway. The federation is more concerned with its own elite power and damn the rest of the world and civilians alike. they were the better choice than zeon, but for how long should they have stayed because life isn’t really much better after over 100 years under their rule. I always love this stuff because that’s dynamic world building. Reality is never EF good guys always, space people bad guys.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
@@Jagecage Re: that Marida conversation, I think that’s actually pretty typical of Fukui’s writing. I’ve been watching the major adaptations of his work for a potential video, and also properly reading the Gundam Unicorn light novels, and I’m finding my motivation to actually do it flagging just because of how unpleasant I think his politics are. But, he’s actually very good at making it unclear exactly what he believes. Most of his stories will have nationalist right-wingers as the villains, but they’ll be presented as the only ones with a genuine ideology. So he’s presenting them as the villains, but also presenting them as the only alternative to an ineffective, neoliberal consensus. Which I think is kinda sneaky. Anyway, I’ll go more into that if I ever make that video. I definitely think Zeon are irrefutably terrible. Where I disagree with some fans, I guess, is that I don’t think the Federation being corrupt exists in opposition to that, in fact I think those two things feed each other. As you say, its also just good world building. The Federation being this shambling bureaucracy in which inequity is built into the system is part of what gives Zeon any ideological ammunition to start with.
@Jagecage
@Jagecage Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 ima still sieg zeon though lol
@Jose-yt3qz
@Jose-yt3qz Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 "Where I disagree with some fans, I guess, is that I don’t think the Federation being corrupt exists in opposition to that, in fact I think those two things feed each other. " Hence why I would always say, the EF is where the stinky flowers of Zeon bloom. One feeds the other. Zeon will exist as long as EF does, even when it takes its alternate forms like Cosmo Babylonia or Zanscare.
@Alte.Kameraden
@Alte.Kameraden 9 ай бұрын
Outside of Zeon there really isn't any ideology in Gundam, even the Zeon are vague. They're more like representations. Federation being the Status Quo. Zeon representation Revolutionary Action and seem to borrow from Fascism, Nazism and Marxism whenever the franchise's plot deems fit. For example Zeon Zun Deikun is basically Gundam's Karl Marx. And the Newtype Theory has a lot in common with the Soviet New Man theory by Trotsky. The Zeon's Oppressed vs Oppressor also comes from the Marxist Class Theory of History which has morphed within Feminism to be Men vs Women or CRT Black vs White. In the Context of Gundam, Earth vs Space. However the Zeon are also given a Fascist/Nazi veneer on top of it all. Interesting enough the Gundam franchise takes a huge dump on Zeon beliefs constantly. With most Famous Newtypes coming from Earthly origins, and Earthnoids also being quite poor while showing a lot of wealthy and well off Spacenoids. Showing Zeon Deikun's theories to be built on a bad perception of the world.
@Fuchimy18
@Fuchimy18 Жыл бұрын
Do you have any other favorite Gundam factions? Also great vid!
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind comment! ^^ I'm really fascinated by basically every faction in Turn A (which I'm planning on doing something on eventually). I'm also very into the way G Gundam plays with a lot of this stuff.
@jonathanmulondo9206
@jonathanmulondo9206 Жыл бұрын
I always seen the universal Century as a conflict between American style democracy and European style hereditary royalty
@Chaosic
@Chaosic Жыл бұрын
Good video dude and I must say your voice is similar to Aaron Dismuke who played Al in Fma 03 but your voice is like his voice has he got older.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Bahaha this is great
@Chaosic
@Chaosic Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 good videos man keep it up and thanks for your reply
@animationcycles7109
@animationcycles7109 Жыл бұрын
Wait...Gaia Gear is finally animated? I had known about Gaia Gears since the 1990s, but I didn't know it was part of the Gundam universe until a few years ago. ( I knew it was a novel, or maybe at best a manga, but there was so little info on it in the states (pre-internet) that there was little to go by.
@DrForrester87
@DrForrester87 Жыл бұрын
No it's not.
@alexanderthemagnifcent2573
@alexanderthemagnifcent2573 Жыл бұрын
Loving the use of KOTOR 2 music.
@centurychum
@centurychum 4 ай бұрын
Nice Peragus music playing in the background :P
@JeanLucCaptain
@JeanLucCaptain Жыл бұрын
And Hathaway is very much just the latest version oF ALL HUMANS NEED TO MIGARATE TO SPACE TO SAVE THE PLANET!!!! REEEEEE Taxi Driver: Dude we just want to live our lives without being extorted, we have enough fish and other stuff you say is disappearing. Hatahway: BUT all humans must move to space to SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT! Taxi Driver: Did you now hear what i just said? In short: Hathaway is a Wok ECO Terroist who lives in a bubble where saving the earth means ignoring that people like the taxi driver clearly state that the only real problem they have is the EFF being pricks and extorting them. Hathaway really was a nieve person who has happy to use terrorism to stop terrorism without thinking about all the normal people he just assumed don't mind to have MS battles smashing their their neighbourhoods or being forced into space by his own "save the planet" wokism. That conversation with the Taxi driver makes it clear most people could care less about the the EFF or Zion or Newtype idealism and just want to be left to lead their normal lives. Sure they don't mind if the Evil Manhunter Cops that make their lives a misery get a black eye but they also don't want to live in a warzone forever stuck between two extremist factions.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I think Hathaway, like Char, is lying to himself about his real motivations, which is one of the reasons his goals are written to be so contradictory. Or at least, I assume that's what going on there.
@JeanLucCaptain
@JeanLucCaptain Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 he needs a bright noa slap to bring him back to reality.
@joshjonson2368
@joshjonson2368 10 ай бұрын
What did you expect from a chud? Anime is literally full of chudjaks who will slaughter billions for some supposed unseen grand goal 😂
@user-cd4bx6uq1y
@user-cd4bx6uq1y 10 ай бұрын
This was interesting and refreshing even as a person who knows nothing about anime
@lesliesonja4543
@lesliesonja4543 Жыл бұрын
Jollibee , Milo etc... hahahah i love the easter eggs in this video.
@joshkelso123
@joshkelso123 Жыл бұрын
U gonna do a video on Zeon?
@TheIntratec9
@TheIntratec9 Жыл бұрын
@Pyramid Inu Any chance of covering the SEED equivalents and how they compare to the Universal Century?
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I'm not sure, I'm thinking of doing something where I give my hot takes on every Gundam series, so I might go into some of that stuff if that happens.
@xcharlesbronsonx
@xcharlesbronsonx Жыл бұрын
Awed was awful. I'm sorry. I showed it as the first gundam to my gf. And I apologized at the end. I ruined gundam forever for her because of seed
@eight-cloudspurple5871
@eight-cloudspurple5871 Жыл бұрын
Seed's conflict is generally less about ideology and more about, well, transhumanism. Be it the biological aspect, social aspect, ethical aspect or what have u. Thats the whole schtick with Rau's story, Kira's whacko-genius biological dad, coordinators, Blue Cosmos, the Destiny Plan, George Glenn etc. The most clearly defined faction "ideology" in the universe is Orb's, which in a way is what the creator wants Japan(in 2002) to be; stronger and more capable military but ONLY use it for self defense(no military adventurism), more independent of foreign powers snd neutral(which also ties into the military aspect), welcoming of ppl across the world and do not discriminate them etc. PLANT's ideology is... well, just as u might expect from a young nation finding its footing in a hostile world. Self-preservation comes first before any ideological purity. And those like Patrick zala who do have some ideological fixation tends to be rather poor leaders. PLANT under much of its existence was lead by moderate ppl(be it genuinely so or just on the surface); they will make deals and play nice with naturals, even helping out South America in their own war, but they also are pragmatic enough to do things like pardon war criminals(like Yzak, even if he didnt mean it) or developing secret superweapons. Alliance member states unfortunately suffers from either being coopted by turbo-racists that purged all the half-decent folks, being super-duper capitalist and run by the MIC, or have very little presence onscreen in side material. For what its worth, CE!China seems to be the least racist toward coordinators of the 3 Alliance founding states so there is that.
@Manny082
@Manny082 2 ай бұрын
The movie version of MSG will always be more canon than the TV show. There are officers who were definitely jealous of white base and given that Bright Noa gets sidelined to transport captain shows that they were successful in politically removing him from any responsibility when he should of made full captain after the OYW. The earth federation has no good people in the higher echelons of command after General Revil, only leaving those who were resentful of zeon after the war to continue holding power. I felt like after Zeta, the only think that changed was by that time, most of those people had died either during the 0083 nuclear attack or had joined the titans and died during the conflict. Just having people die doesnt mean a change in policy.
@SemiLobster
@SemiLobster Жыл бұрын
Ah the original movie dub, IMO it had it's problems but I think its still the best.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty fond of British Bright and Brooklyn Kai.
@Amatsaru29
@Amatsaru29 Жыл бұрын
I like the inversion of the rich living in space for a change. If you consider being absurdly wealthy, who wouldn't purchase space real estate?
@battlesheep2552
@battlesheep2552 Жыл бұрын
It made sense in the Expanse with the poor living conditions and people suffering the effects of living their lives under a fraction of a g, but in MSG most spacenoids live in O'Neil Cylinder colonies that simulate a full G, always have perfect weather, and consist of hundreds of square kilometers of clean urban areas interspersed with parks and wilderness preserves. It's hard to believe the people who inhabit such a paradise are the ones being oppressed.
@xerxes931
@xerxes931 Жыл бұрын
I had your video "Gundam and the Ideology of Newtypes" pinned to watch next, but I see it got taken down by Bandai a few days ago... any chance to bring it back up or reupload to another website? I really would like to hear what you have to say on that topic...
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Currently disputing the copyright claim, but I can upload it on Vimeo or something if it doesn't work :)
@zakhaevshub4735
@zakhaevshub4735 Жыл бұрын
Interesting I haven't seen somone do the Philosophy of one of the famous Gundam Faction
@manat31790
@manat31790 Жыл бұрын
The problem with the Earth Federation is that it's conditioned as the protagonist's fraction, meaning that even if the main characters are fighting for their own purposes, they're still supporting EFF's flawed bureaucracy against post-humans that only get more and more corrupted as time pass by. Worse off, Characters like Bright Noa, who's capable of fixing the feds from within, retires by self-loathing because of Hathaway's strings of stupidity. Regardless, the feds are still considered better ideology than Neo Zeon's or Zanscare's forms of dictatorship, which only care of subjugating others through iron fists, manipulating and using Newtypes as if they're super weapons, and scapegoating anybody not cooperating with them as enemies. EFF ends up as the lesser of the two evils. People can take the third route and form their own fraction like in Gundam SEED, but even then they're aren't immune to developing senses of self-righteous moral grandeur as seen in SEED Destiny. No ideology is perfect.
@SSJKamui
@SSJKamui 10 ай бұрын
In a certain way I think one of the main point of uc gundam is "every government is dangerous and can become a totalitarian state ran by warmongers"
@wouldntyouliketoknow9455
@wouldntyouliketoknow9455 Жыл бұрын
The video analysis was alright but damn, you have a very pleasant voice.
@jayzee9164
@jayzee9164 Жыл бұрын
This is why UC is better than others alternate universe of Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. Nice content. Looking forward to late UC timeline
@HSE331
@HSE331 2 ай бұрын
This is why I prefer something like Votoms where its much more clear cut.
@dominickd92
@dominickd92 19 күн бұрын
Totally off topic but does anyone else get reminded of the bgm sound track of peragus station from kotor 2 around the 9 minute marks mood music?
@juanig4198
@juanig4198 Жыл бұрын
Would you make a video on the thunderbolt earth arc?
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Maybe when the manga is done
@elliotyourarobot
@elliotyourarobot 11 ай бұрын
What's the song used for Vietnam?
@joeblogs8049
@joeblogs8049 7 ай бұрын
Glory to the Federation!
@sightfield1132
@sightfield1132 6 ай бұрын
Just by seeing other comments, i think gundam fans are either hardcore nerds or just smart in politics and economics
@sixela2268
@sixela2268 Жыл бұрын
I always prefered the federation over zeon in terms of aesthetic but also in ideas, its a sort of: the lesser evil of the two
@Red9san
@Red9san Жыл бұрын
Do you have any opinion on the factions of G-Reconguista? The final compilation movie was recently released though I'm unsure of the home release. Since all the different factions and their individual nuances play such a big role in the story. It's also interesting in that it shows Tomino's most recent world views and is completely bereft of a Federation or Zeon counterpart.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I think Reconguista has one of the most interesting settings in all of Gundam. I might do a video on it one day. What I love about it is, it shows a system that has just about worked for a while, but is inherently flawed, and can really only break. The idea that the horrors of the UC led to elite forming a religion that would teach earthnoids that even looking at the stars is a taboo - damn - that's a spicy world building. I don't actually love the show itself - I think it's just too compressed, and there's so much comedy (I have troubles with Tomino's comedy). But I would love to do a video on it one day. I feel like I need to finish the compilation movies before I figure out my full thoughts on it though.
@austinreed7343
@austinreed7343 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 IMO, Reconigusta in G is probably the best setting for proper aliens to appear in the franchise.
@tomhuynh3867
@tomhuynh3867 Жыл бұрын
The federation are based on the Allie powers from World War 2. Every side story of the OYW be based on other powers such as the Soviets and UK such as using penal troops, spies, and in fighting. Post OYW we have most stories based around American imperialism and western neoliberal colonialism. The federation could also be a stand in for the League of Nations and UN since they are all western liberal democracy and oligarchy projects to settle conflict amongst western colonizers over land and resources, but failing to do so spawned the 2 world wars and a bunch of proxy conflict of the Cold War followed by regional conflict for power in the war on terror era. Yas when writing Gundam the origin invoke that WW 2 imagery and the Federation as that corrupt democracy run by a rich man’s club thru the pollution of the planet ,thus creating a refugee crisis that led to more people sent to space. The federation is heavily dependent on their space colonies for resources which was indicated during events leading up to Zeon’s Dawns Rebellion. Even unicorn’s writer invoke this idea of resource dependency by colonizers in the Side Co-prosperity Sphere presented by full frontal, which is based on Imperial Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere that failed miserably. As a person of Vietnamese descent and having family members who were war survivors, Thunderbolt setting with the South Sea Alliance was interesting with the Vietnam war era imagery. South Vietnam during the war was backed up by the Americans and ran by a pro-western Catholic minority. This religious minority was in charge of a country that was about 80 % Buddhist and were the privileged favorited group by French colonizers. After the French failed to take back their colony, their business partner that is the American gave it a shot and divided the country in 2 with a puppet government ruling the very resource rich areas of the South. The South Vietnamese government was extremely corrupt and mistreated the Buddhist majority to the point of mass protest of self immolation of monks and bad global public relations gotten the Americans to do regime change by executing one anti-Buddhist Catholic and putting in charge another. The South Sea Alliance Buddhist nation seems to be what happened if the Buddhist were in charge and the Federation being a stand in of the U.S. not liking that. Plus the New-type idea could be a metaphor for a genuine progressive communist and socialist in this context.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Completely agree.
@tomhuynh3867
@tomhuynh3867 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 As an American citizen I really wished Unicorn’s writer brought in the concept of race and religious conflict from the manga to the anime adaptation. America beneath all it facade struggle to come to term with such conflicts coming from identities and isms. To be far in the future and never confronting such century old issues and sweeping underneath the rug under a racial colorblind mentality and secularism with no real political awareness of religious dominance of Christianity to see why co-existence is difficult .
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
@@tomhuynh3867 Interesting note on this: according to Mark Simmons' summary of Gaia Gear, there's a scene early on in which a white Earth Federation politician goes on a racist tirade. I wanted to go into this in the video because I think it's the most explicit example of the Federation embodying a post war neoliberal hegemony, but I can't really analyse it in depth until full translations are available.
@tomhuynh3867
@tomhuynh3867 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 interesting. As I think about this more, the “souls weigh down by gravity” line makes more sense now. With ZZ ,the unicorn manga, and Thunderbolt be showing that the old school race, ethnic, and religious conflict we experience in real life be existing on Earth, while in outer space the conflict is more based on where people were born and raised to a simple Earth vs the Space colonies. Gihren Zabi fascist perversion of Zeon’s ideals of Newtypes birth spacenoid supremacy to “save” mankind from the corrupt rich earth elites . Gundam 0083 and Zeta Gundam be showing Earthnoid Supremacy by the federation and titans showing disdain for those in space such as the Fed officer that did not like taking defiance from Nina Purpleton and called her a lunaria or Monsha of the immortal 4th calling the Zeon remnant moon men or space aliens. The titans that form New Desides in Gundam sentinel all place high values on the Earth and even Bask Om in 0083 used how sacred the Earth is to call for formation of the Titans. In Gundam origins, M’queve talked about how out of touch the spacenoids are from the culture and history on Earth, which is the motherland of the human race. The spacenoid are looked down upon, while forced to live in the harshness of space and build a civilization out of near nothing. Yas be invoking pre-Soviet Russia in his depiction of Pre-oyw side 3. The Russians were looked down upon due to their harsh environment and the poverty that comes living under the czar.
@DIEGhostfish
@DIEGhostfish Жыл бұрын
@@tomhuynh3867 Yas went hard on the "Degwin as Space Stalin(Father of Space Hitler)" by further making Daikun and Jimba far more extreme to fit the Lenin and Trotsky molds a bit better. I am shocked he had the subtlety to kill Jimba with something other than an Icepick.
@DariusVladimirAuditore
@DariusVladimirAuditore 11 ай бұрын
Sad that Witch from Mercury did pretty much nothing with it's setting.
@CosmoShidan
@CosmoShidan 9 ай бұрын
Actually, it did do something: it's the first gundam series to have a queer couple, and returns gundam back to its anti-capitalist roots.
@TheTb2364
@TheTb2364 Жыл бұрын
Only thing I hate more than Unicorn is how big of an impact it has
@LuisLopez-zh9kh
@LuisLopez-zh9kh Жыл бұрын
Infinately more fascinating than Zeon.
@ninjammer726
@ninjammer726 Жыл бұрын
what happens when a democratic gov't becomes complacent and loses an enemy to fight
@codyraugh6599
@codyraugh6599 Жыл бұрын
Honestly my only complaint is that everyone bands behind Zeon like they somehow aren't super genocidal, and infected with a philosophy that basically calls for the forced relocation if not outright extermination of everyone living on earth. Hell even the Titans in secret with their core leadership and the AEUG openly profess that second ideology. And that right there you can bitch and moan about the Federation all you want...but I'll stick with the guys who don't want to genocide me just because of where I was born and live all over not politics, but because they have a ideolized vision of a planet they refuse to even step foot on.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
idk if I should have made it clearer, because I get a lot of comments like this, but yeah zeon is obviously worse. I just thought that went without saying. they are an evil group who want to kill most of humanity with big robots that look like demons. nothing in this video was meant to be read as 'and that's why zeon is better'.
@solaireofastora5999
@solaireofastora5999 4 ай бұрын
It is somewhat depressing how those that could bring change are often killed off. Which is often true with how those who are truly good are too good for this world.
@Kira22558
@Kira22558 4 ай бұрын
Literally 0083.
@ender8759
@ender8759 Жыл бұрын
Earth Federation 🇧🇷
@abnerdoon4902
@abnerdoon4902 Жыл бұрын
The Earth Federation symbolizes different things depending on where you're from. As someone from a colonized country, I hate the Federation because they represent the old colonial powers. How they have betrayed and exploited my people. Yes Zeon has been brutal and authoritarian, but how does it compare to a century of neglect, abuse and exploitation by the Federation. My people has and will suffer the worst from climate change while the people who profit off it are safe and secure from it's consequences. No wonder Zeon is very popular in my country despite suffering much in WW2 from the Japanese occupation. Because on a deep level, the Federation reminds them of the betrayal and the exploitation by the Americans and the Spaniards before them.
@ihonshou6988
@ihonshou6988 Жыл бұрын
Sounds personal to me, l like that to but... I want a change for now. For greater good
@autobotfan11
@autobotfan11 11 ай бұрын
You Filipino
@coryfice1881
@coryfice1881 8 ай бұрын
Ah yes Zeon the gas the earthlings race war now faction that is led by a literal simp for adolf hitler.
@sparten17708
@sparten17708 Жыл бұрын
What happened to your newtype video?
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
Taken down by Bandai! :(
@kolinmartz
@kolinmartz Жыл бұрын
0:45 And that’s what I love about the federation. I is BOTH that. It’s both and the existence of one doesn’t mean the other isn’t true. Which is an accurate representation of modern liberal democratic states.
@networknomad5600
@networknomad5600 Жыл бұрын
There is literally nothing to like about the Federation. Well, outside of some mobile suit designs.
@androyus
@androyus Жыл бұрын
@@networknomad5600 And the girls 😏
@rinzler9171
@rinzler9171 Жыл бұрын
Humanity is corrupt. No matter what platform you have, hierarchical power games will be played till a handful controls all of it.
@CosmoShidan
@CosmoShidan 9 ай бұрын
Humanity isn't corrupt, it's the wealthy that are. Otherwise that is collective punishment toward the poor.
@ThadDePadua9928
@ThadDePadua9928 10 ай бұрын
Yeah; that sounds about just right. ;-;
@DIEGhostfish
@DIEGhostfish Жыл бұрын
Power hoarding Malthusians but ones unwilling to be first in line for any of their social engineering projects. (Basically all the factions in Gundam are Malthusian misanthropes though. Some are just willing to be part of their own proposed solutions rather than forcing them on others.
@ctrouble2309
@ctrouble2309 6 ай бұрын
We were about to have a problem when I thought you were calling southland tales cringe and not amazing. It definitely is both. Best movie ever made
@alex.9398
@alex.9398 Жыл бұрын
What happened to the ideology of Zeon video?
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
The new type one? Got claimed by Bandai. I've disputed it, which should work out since it's clearly fair use. Otherwise I might have to make some alterations idk.
@alex.9398
@alex.9398 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramidinu9449 Shame it was a great one. Forgot it was called newtype ideology. Good luck with getting it back.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
@@alex.9398 Thank you! :)
@diegosilang4823
@diegosilang4823 6 ай бұрын
Gundam reminds me of Fallout games, every Gundam series is like "War Never Changes".
@bladekaz8413
@bladekaz8413 Жыл бұрын
Honestly I like to think the UC Federation cracked after the OYW and never recovered. UC Gundam never really delves into the sheer destruction the OYW caused, specifically the one week war and the colony drop, probably because it would make Zeon look horrible and we can't have that in modern Gundam. Instead we need games with cute female Zeon soldiers, but I digress. I can't imagine the economic strain that was put on the Federation post OYW and that it was never really allowed to recover after that due to the constant conflicts.
@DIEGhostfish
@DIEGhostfish Жыл бұрын
Eh, it was always shit. There is however a cedtain irony that if the colony drop had gone as planned amd hit Jaburo in one piece Zeon would have ended the war having killed more fellow spacenoids than Earthnoids. (And they still may have overall)
@NebDaBrush
@NebDaBrush Жыл бұрын
@@DIEGhostfish But when you think about it, it would have hit the AMAZON RAIN FOREST which would cause a shit ton more disasters, but then later the Titans in their infinite fucking wisdom decided to use a NUKE.
@themrfives
@themrfives Жыл бұрын
0:53 *COUGH TITANS COUGH*
@lpsoldin3162
@lpsoldin3162 Жыл бұрын
Yup. But I'm sure that's just more "Revisionist Gundam" according to this guy. Tomino wrote Zeta and it did not portray the Federation as being morally good or the protagonist (One of the first things they did was lie to get Kamille's Mother murdered as a hostage). This undermines every point made in this video about what they consider "Revisionist".
@AndrewDasilvaPLT
@AndrewDasilvaPLT Жыл бұрын
I refuse to believe Thunderbolt is the same universe as what we know of Universal Century.
@pyramidinu9449
@pyramidinu9449 Жыл бұрын
It's a different take on the timeline, yeah.
@ihonshou6988
@ihonshou6988 Жыл бұрын
​@@pyramidinu9449 *Universe
@JAKphoenixify
@JAKphoenixify 11 ай бұрын
Nice argment fedboi, however, I have a colony and will crash it into Jaburo regardless.
@SoilentBeef
@SoilentBeef 10 ай бұрын
I came for the critical analysis, stayed for the KotOR music.
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