"'Lockon Stratos' is the best name that has been in the Gundam Franchise." OH WHAT SIGHTS I HAVE FOR YOU TO SEEEEEEEEE.

Even if he's a joke, Patrick _the man._ He might be my favorite comic relief character ever. I just love the running gag that he _literally_ won't die even if you kill him, to the point where even the other character see his suit explode and are like: "Eh, I'm sure he's fine."

I love how they REPEATEDLY call each other by their full names.

Setsuna going "I am Gundam" is one of my favorite unintentionally(?) funny lines of anything ever

I love Trans-Am because it's not a get-out-of-jail-free card it's a desperation high-risk high-reward thing

My favorite Gundam series. I love that it feels like it is not that far removed from our time now, especially with how basic the Human Reform League mobile suits were in the beginning. The FLAGs look like something Lockheed Martin would build if mechs were a real thing. It starts so grounded. It evolves into more Gundam norms later but they make the progression believable.

Patrick "try killing this one, Tomino!" Colasour

Man Saji is the best character in the show. Such a tragic tale, his whole life is just the unintended consequences of Setsuna and the gangs actions

After all is said and done, 00 is hands down my favorite Gundam series. I love its message, theme, music, mecha... every last bit. And I love how it's somewhat possible to see this as a possible reality. 00 Gundam is the only PG I've bought, no regrets. As well, the only series I own the full box set for. I wish I could watch this show again for the first time.

Not only the best Gundam series but honestly one of the best pieces of sci-fi ever. It tackles the same problems as previous Gundam shows but also combines them with larger societal and existential questions you usually only see in older sci-fi like the works of Asimov, Clarke, etc. The characters are also fully fleshed out and feel like real people with past, motivations, dreams, actual personalities they follow. Which is a contrast especially to Gundam Seed, where characters are just thrown around by the plot. It also does the whole _audience surrogate_ right, in a way where the character never feels invasive or stuck, he is actually part of the story and allowed to literally grow with it. The whole setting also feels very realistic, as transition to renewable energy is already happening and there's a big chance it'll turn the tables on countries that have historically relied on oil for their economies, risking whole regions like the middle east to spiral into countless civil wars. . . . Lastly (and this is a bit of a spoiler for those who haven't watched the movie, which is the always intented end of this story. So if you haven't, you should, Gundam 00 was building towards that movie from the very beginning), it has one of the best depiction of silicon-based life to ever appear in any work, be that a movie, book, animation, you name it. It's very rare for aliens to truly feel _alien_ like that. It also pairs well with the whole newtype thing because crystalline life forms would need a different way of communication. At the end of the day, Gundam 00 is not only Gundam at its finest but if you switch the mechs for tanks, spaceships, missiles, etc, it's not different from any sci-fi classic or revered war movie. And always remember: Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Gundam 00 was the show that got me started on the entire series and model building in general. Can't wait for the s2 review, also there are side story manga for 00 where they explain what happens in-between episodes and also fill in on some scenes from the anime and goes into the backstory for Celestial Being

Remember this line from Aeolia Schenberg's speech in episode 1: "The Dialogues to Come" and the "ship from Jupiter" that the Union professor found out coz those two factoids will come up again all the way to the movie. Also don't skip the Lockon's/Neil's cemetery scene coz it established that Neil has a twin brother (😏). All those setups really shows that the writers of Gundam 00 really had a great overarching plan for their saga from beginning to end. Also, it's kinda creepy how Gundam 00 with the KPSA terrorist organization that Setsuna once a member of have pockets around the world and managed to do some big attacks on Europe (killing Lockon/Neil's family in one of them) kinda predicted the rise of ISIS/ISIL, a terrorist organization that was worse than Al Qaeda and was able to have pockets around the world through their "remote teachings" and managed to do sporadic attacks around the world too, not unlike the ones that killed Lockon's family. Gundam 00 can be too real sometimes 😮

Gundam 00 is so special man. I remember tuning into Spike TV late at night to catch episodes as a kid. 00 is genuinely a top 3 Gundam series, both seasons and the movie are phenomenal, now we have 3rd season scheduled for 2024, absolutely psyched.

I'm not sure why this entry is so disliked. I enjoyed it greatly when I watched it in . . . 2019? It's been a while and I'm getting old. I may rewatch it someday just to catch up, but it's a solid series and deserves more love. Since you mentioned Tieria, one thing I DO recall is how uppity he was. The dude only talked about four things: Aeolia Schenberg, Veda, Innovators, Innovades. He's the "this one time at band camp" guy but instead of band camp he's saying, "remember when veda and i . . ."

You got me to check out the SRW OST, and Jesus, the instrumental versions of the openings are amazing.

BOTH 00 seasons are still my favourite gundam shows (including the movie). Yes, sagi is sometimes annoying in season 2, but aside from that, pretty good.

Graham going toe to toe against Throne Eins with a Union Flag and actually winning is truly one of the highlights of the first season. When he says "I don't care how much better your machine is. Today I'm beyond that!" while charging at the gundam, always sends shivers down my spine.

God I loved Gundam 00, the Finale of the 1st season really hits hard and sets up the 2nd Season So well! And It makes me Appreciate how Much went into the Strengths of these characters and the Movie puts a Capstone unto the series by doing something not a Lot of Gundam series did! HAVE A GOOD ENDING THAT BRINGS WORLD PEACE! Not sense Endless Waltz have I felt such a strong attachment towards this Anime :)

I really really enjoyed everything about 00. It was the brief outline of the story and the mech design in one of the Super Robot Wars series that led me to finally watch all the Gundam series and this was one of my favourites.

HELL YES 00 TIME My still favourite to date gundam series for being so insanely good. The politics, the pacing, the outcome, the set up of the s2 plot, saji and lousie, Graham aker, lockon dying, and best of all plot armor done right PATRICK "THE IMMORTAL AND INCREDIBLY LUCKY" COLLOSAUR. Immortal, plot armor god, has a dumb and endearing character you grow to love and enjoy. Especially the wedding. Can't forget ballgown tierea. Also Smirnov and his daughter Soma, and Andrei "death to my father" Smirnov, RIBBONS ALMARK, Sachez the Psychopath, Hallelujah's torture... Can't wait for your s2 video.

This is by far my favorite Gundam series. It is nearly perfect. The story, the characters, the mechs, the music (holy hell the music!). I still occasionally pop in some favorite episodes. I always tear up for Lockon's death. "Lockon...Lockon....Lockon." Just hits me every time. I haven't really caught the movie, but I do know of the plot and such. Hopefully you'll cover that after S2. And hopefully you're eagerly awaiting this wknd for G-Witch's return.

Gundam 00 is absolutely one of my favorite gundam series and my favorite of the alternative universe to this day, I love both seasons and really liked the movie and think that it holds up beautifully over 10 years later and is the one I highly recommend for newcomers.

Gawd damn 00 became unto a religion to me. Loved the Gundam team, loved the themes covered.

This is my favorite Gundam series!

I've really enjoyed seeing your thoughts on some of the Gundam series after going through them myself for the first time, and now you're finally at the show that started my addiction six months ago and I can't wait to dig in. Thanks for making my experience with this crazy franchise that little bit more enjoyable!

Graham is one of the best gundam characters period! Also makes sense he shares a voice actor with Io who is also someone that loves going to the edge of what a mobile suit can do and doesn’t care if it’s a prototype or not: they’ll drive them to the ground to win!

Msg 00 will be my by far favorite from gundam franchise i marathon the series in 1 and a half day lmao

Gundam 00 is still my favorite anime

00 is my go to for a 50 episode, and a movie, excursion into Gundam.

As a Mexican fan, this is the anime that borught me back to the franchise after Gundam Wing.

The best gundam franchise to ever exist until now. It resonates with me on how they take up the issues of real world politics. The main character is middle eastern which is different from other gundam franchise, Setsuna's flashbacks was really on point. I love this series. Im not from the middle east btw

Interested to hear your thoughts on where 00 goes next, personally I think the show just gets better as it goes on. Easily my favorite of the franchise.

This is one of my favourite non UC timeline shows... and some of my favourite designs as well

something I do love is how Gram kept jumping Setsuna when ever he thought the job was done man did it three times and by the end was fighting on par from pure skill alone, what a legend! also I do love how you talked positivly about the framing of the Saji seagments I felt it helped so much with the story of the world

This series is A1 Peak Gundam to me, if I didnt grow up with Gundam Wing, this would be my favorite Gundam series ever. So good. Its SciFi heaven. It even premiered the English Dub in the Sci Fi channel on mondays

there was a joke about Alejandro's death. When he punched the screen, he accidentally activated the self destruct button that is behind the screen or something

Your ears must have been ringing, because I was just thinking about when this would come out! Looking forward to listening to this while doing taxes. Thank you, and keep up the great work!

Dude, I love that you use classic JRPG music as the bg for your videos. Also, imo this show is Wing done much more competently. Very similar themes, much better execurion.

As someone who followed a similar path to you and watched all of the Gundam series in airing order Gundam 00 was pretty easily my favorite. Like you said, it had just great mix of everything from action to politics to character development and having a good mix of quality and quantity of characters and the relatability to our modern society

While I prefer other seasons for purely personal reasons, Gundam 00 is quite possibly the peak of the series for me. It has been seventeen years and the only more impactful show for me was Gundam Build Fighters which directly impacted my life by inspiring me to start building and customizing my own gunpla.

Season 1: "Definitely a nice change of pace from the beam spam that Gundam can sometimes devolve into." Season 2: 👀

Good video! Definitely agree this is one of the best Gundam series for overall ease of getting into the content. Hope you also do the movie as that really takes it in a fun direction

I've come to comment I'm excited to see this drop. Now I'll have something to look forward to when I get off work

This is still the high mark to beat when it comes to spinoff Gundam continuities IMO.

can't wait to see your view on the 2° season and movie, thank you for the video and keep up the good work

very underrated channel. Thank you.

This is my favorite series in the franchise and it probably won't change. I just think they timed this perfect and everything just works for me, even considering the few things I don't like

26:20 Drei is pronounced kinda like dry. It's the German word for three.

I've been looking forward to this one! 00 is one of my favorite gundam series!

I've waited 4000 no 5000 years for this! Commenting before I watch because this is possibly my favorite Gundam next to G Gundam. I'm always happy to see people talk about Gundam 00.

Best Gundam series ever.

I always felt that Gundam 00 is pretty much what Gundam SEED/DESTINY should have been if it had just done its own thing and had a straight narrative direction.

if it isn't obvious, you can tell 00 is my favorite anime, cuz I based my whole internet personality on it

I wasn't aware of you releasing this video up until now... It premiered on my 21st birthday exactly, thanks for making retrospective on first season of my favorite Gundam series!

Graham Akeer is easily one of the best MS pilots, full stop. Toe to toe with a Gundam in a stock pre-Gundam grunt is something even Char can't claim.

Soon as i heard that shadow hearts music i knew u were a man of culture. Also gundam 00 is my fav gundam series. 00Raiser is my all time fav gundam till this day. TRANS AM RAISEEEEEER!

i slept on gundam 00 for so long, but when i watched it, i truly fell in love with the series as a whole

So glad you've enjoyed 00 so far. It's the series I recommend over SEED, or IBO to new gundam fans everytime.

Been waiting for this one. Thanks buddy ❤

Ah yes, Gundam 00…such a good series and the best entry in the franchise to play a drinking game with. Take a shot anytime someone says, Gundam, Gundam Meister or Celestial Being…just be careful with the first episode. Also, LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL PATRICK COLASOUR xD

dude, Patrick Colasour's plot armor is no joke. It's as much of a meme as "I am Gundam", if not more.

Nuanced story telling, topical commentary, all accompanied by giant robot action. 00 was so good.

Gundam 00 is one of my favorite side universes and shows in all of Gundam and it’s what I recommend whenever anyone says they want to get into gundam but don’t know where to start

really digging your choice of background music 👍

Top tier Gundam series

My gamer tag since 07 has been Exias unit code Thank you for making this video

Sick man! I know what I’m watching tonight.

Gundam Battle Assault Menu theme music!? Bro you know all the banger tracks lol Been loving all your Gundam analysis videos btw, great job!

Absolutely love this show

I love how what gundam a plant the seeds of in one series bloomin another I've heard this described as a more fleshed-out version of Gundam Wing and I can certainly see that and what this series had to say about child soldiers would ultimately be expanded upon in iron blooded orphans Gundam Wing is a distant relative of oo and oo and iron blooded orphans are blood relatives

Awesome, I actually just finished watching season 1 last weekend.

I need to rewatch this again. Nice vid.

Love the video!! Cant wait for part 2 AND i look forward to your thoughts on Iron Blooded Orphans!

All I can say about 00 is I'm Gundam

Ooh, I've been waiting for this.

Another great video

I've been enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work! Might as well put in my 2 cents and request Ergo Proxy.

One of my favorite (if not my favorite) Gundam series. I do think it's a great first Gundam series!

Here we are, Gundam OO, currently my favorite Gundam series. The mobile suits are top tier with the non Celestial Being Mobile suits looking cool yet anachronistic in their own ways compared to the Gundams which look and perform like they came from the future and just crushed them at nearly every encounter. At least until Corner sold the Pseudo Solar Drives to the three major powers where the new GNX's clapped Celestial Being's cheeks. Of the Season 1 Gundams I think I love the Virtue since BIG GUN!!! The Characters are compelling in their own ways with Setsuna, well definitely having the most legit reason to be edgy of any Gundam Protagonist, I mean, jeez. At first I was like "why are we here?" whenever we cut to Saji and Louise doing their schtick. But then Louise's family was killed by that psychopath Nina FOR LITERALLY NO REASON OTHER THAN SHE WAS LIKE "oh those assholes are looking too happy I don't like that one bit!" And afterwords Saji and Louise, season 1 had them shoved feet first into a meat grinder to say nothing of what they, especially Louise get put through in season 2. Back to Nina, she was so petty and demonic it made Dio Brando blush. Hell Team Trinity was a gang of rabid animals and seeing Johann and Michael get gunned down like thugs was so sweet. But speaking of, Ali Al-Saachez stole the show for me as my current favorite villain in Gundam. Not only is he like Yazan from Zeta on crack but the dude is just such a piece of garbage you can't help but be transfixed on him wondering how far he's gonna go. Besides, he's played in English by Scott McNeil, you can't go wrong with Scott McNeil. So yeah Season 1 was crazy and now to see Season 2 and the consequences of Celestial Being's armed interventions.

Thanks for doing this I love the series. Even the weird ass movie

Gundam 00 caught me by surprise. I was expecting it to be pretty good but it absolutely blew me away. The scene with Allelujah attacking that building and the first time Setsuna activates Trans-Am are both such great scenes for different reasons

Man I love the overflags it's my fav Ms of all time and Graham is such a great char just like MU for me in seed ALSO HOW DARE YOU SKIP THE BADASS MOMENT WHERE GRAHAM CHASES THE THRONES OF WITH THE FLAG SOOO GOOOD k rants over

Great analysis, loved the vid! Super minor, music could come down like 10-15%. I was finding it a little hard to focus when i wasn't reading your lips or while working on something else.

I just recently re-watched this series forgetting you would be reviewing it. And it is still an amazing series. I say it is an easy series to get into Gundam with, honestly a lot better than IBO, at least easier.

Please please do season 2 lol. It’s a great change of pace from season 1.

I loved Scott McNeil as Ali Al-saachez another great video can't waIt for season 2s turn

Can't wait for you to go over season 2 and then the movie!

Not gonna lie this series is my favourite The Universal Century Is Still Awesome Char Aznable is still my favourite character. But 00 was my first gundam so it holds a special place in my heart

I am convinced that 00 used the original plotline for SEED Destiny as Shinn was supposed to take the lead (like how Setsuna is on here).

I didn't have you pegged for a Thunderforce fan. Nice use of metal squad =D

Oh hell yes you finally got to it. 😎

Gundam 00 is perhaps the greatest non-UC Gundam series ever made and my personal top favorite Gundam series alongside Turn A and Zeta. There are numerous stand-out aspects of the show, including but not limited to Setsuna being the "best Gundam" (well, aside from Gundam NT's Rita Bernal, that is), GN-001 Gundam Exia being the "best girl", Sumeragi being one of the best female captains in the series, the Immortal Colasour existing to make fun of Kira's plot-armor moments, interesting cast of characters, cool mobile suit designs, kickass musics, etc. I'd say Gundam 00 is the best starting point for newcomers who are interested on getting into Gundam series but found the entire UC series to be a bit too long for their taste (from 0079/The Origin all the way to Victory or G-Reco). Although I'd recommend Gundam X as well because of its bigger similarities to UC.

Love the Gundam content

This was my first anime 15+ years ago and its still one of my favorites! 🙂

thank you for the correct pronunciation of double "O"!

00 was first gundam anime that pulled me in, I have Master Grade Dynames, Kyrios and Virtue standing proud on my shelf

Lockon's death hit so hard, specially because of the Haro's reaction :c

Graham is essentially the resident and obligatory Char clone, complete with the classical "three times faster than the normal specs" line, except without the usual mask or red paint-job. ^^ "Drei" is German for three and is pronounced quite similar to the English dry. To me 00 feels like a refinement of many concepts that have been done more clumsily (by comparison) on earlier Gundam series. Setsuna makes so much more sense as the "secret agent" emotionless, pretty-much-suicidal kid than Hero Yui for a very obvious example. If you wonder about the name of the series, it will make sense come season 2. I have a soft spot for the HRE's blocky suits clearly built solely for functionality and screw esthetics. ^^

Best series in gundam, it's gorgeous, enthralling, has something to say but isn't preachy, and has a style to it that sticks with you.

I love this Gundam as much as I do Wing. I will say they kind of Fast and Furious the story from this point forward. Everything stays tied together but, they deviated quite a distance from just street racing and boosting gear. However the action, animation, and Fandom for the characters keeps you invested. The mecha from the 00 series/movie are some of my favorites in the series including tge grunt suits. I could barely keep my eyes open with seed.