Zeta Gundam is probably my favorite piece of entertainment, like ever. No show, no movie, no game has ever really been able to compete for me. The setting, style, characters, sounds, themes, every part of this show is absolutely peak to me.

Zeta Gundam is still my favourite mecha show all these years later, what a timeless classic

The four episode was my favorite. When she walks past the spot where she was just with kamille was a very relatable moment for me personally.

In ZZ I realized that the tone of the series followed the tone of the characters. Without the spacenoid teenagers it was deadly serious as Zeta had been. In the scenes with them, it was a comedy as they didn't take it seriously and hadn't really faced the horrors of war. I think Zeta did the same thing, as the amount of context for episodes we get increases as Kamille pays more attention and cares more about the greater picture.

I finished Zeta months ago and I still can't get it out of my head, it's not only my favorite Gundam but one of my favorite mecha in general

Zeta has a special place in my heart. I got back into Gundam when my mom was battling and then passed away from Stage 4 cancer. It gave me an escape and easy to identify with the characters especially Kamile. Loved Emma Sheen too as the perfect sidekick for the AEUG. This was an amazing review and after Zeta I watched ZZ and CCA and will re watch the UC series again. I have the New Translation but I disliked how they left out a lot especially Char's speech which is key in UC history. However, Zeta is my all time fave which helped me fall in love again with Gundam after being teased and bullied for liking Wing as an adolescent. I also now build gunpla since August and I am building an MG Ver KA Zeta. I also loved After War X which is often forgotten in the gundam universe. great work you have a new subscriber in me.

How did I miss this when it came out?? I'm literally watching Zeta for the first time right now, and you're one of my favourite anime/mecha channels...Triple playlisting this one so I make sure I don't forget to watch it when I get home tonight.

Great vid, zeta is still my fav gundam series. I watched the original a few years ago and found some parts slow there but zeta fully caught my attention alot more and that ending was so tragic. I honestly didn't expect Katz to die. I thought the kids were safe lol

A few minutes in and I have a couple corrections. The One Year War dindn't devastate the galxy, just Earth's main orbital area. The A.E.U.G. stands for Anti Earth Union Group, not Anti Earth Union Government, and it is pronounced phonetically as Ayoog in stead of being spelled out like most acronyms.

I used to always see comments about people hating zeta Gundam. That really confused me a few years ago when I first saw it because I thought zeta was absolutely amazing. I'm almost done with my second watch and you're right it is so much better on the second viewing. Zeta sends chills down my spine

Great video, Zeta is such a dense show so I'm glad you really tore into it! I'm just sad about that ten-episode stretch as well, the battles in those episodes feel very obligatory. The only other thing that really stank to me was Rosamia, who I didn't like at all on my first watch. "Ahh, another cyber newtype who grows close to Kamille and probably dies?!?!" I thought. She goes deeper than that, but I still have a shred of that initial revulsion, lol. To go on a tangent, 79 to Zeta is a miracle of worldbuilding and concepts being a mix of stuff from real life and high creativity. When I watched 79, the Zeon obsession with ridiculously specialized weapons reminded me of the concept of "Wunderwaffe" from WW2, where the Germans invested massive sums of money into prototypes that never really helped that much. Add how Zeon's uniforms and general aesthetics resemble the Nazis, and it's an interesting bit of verisimilitude on the part of the creators. Zeta stepped it up a notch with the Titans, who scream of Operation Paperclip holdovers (taking Nazi tech = reorganizing Zakus into Hizacks, cyber newtypes imitating Kycilia's Newtype Corps, etc.), and Cold War paranoia. Their designs are simple: a freakishly sci-fi gestapo, with ugly characters to match them. It's such a fascinating blend of history and art, though I'm sure some of it is unintentional. And yeah, you are super on-point with the characters. Kamille is such a great one... given how terrible the world of Zeta is, an antisocial protagonist made a ton of sense and seeing him not accept the bullshit around him made the show a thrill to watch. The other characters are interesting too, I feel like the whole cast is fighting a battle of ideology vs. ethics/personal feelings. Everyone makes their decision by the end, be it Reccoa or Kamille or Quattro Bajeena (who weirdly looks like Char!). Such an awesome follow-up to 79. TL;DR: ZETA IS COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

I'm so happy you finally got to do vids about gundam and zeta! And long-form too! Listening to it right now as i travel back home from vacation, i love it man. I'm sending it to my other gundam friends as well

listening to this like a podcast while i draw kamille ty

"confusing in the start" *Looks at Victory Gundam* About that.

Aside from the Rosami Arc, and some Katz, the show is nearly perfect.

Leaving another comment to say bravo sir. I watched this after watching your ZZ Gundam commentary. Such a well thought out and orchestrated piece in both cases. I only wish I could describe these series’ that I love with as much accuracy and depth as you did.

I love Zeta. In my heart it is a 10/10 but despite that I think I have to give it a 9/10. It has problems but I adore it. It's definitely not for everyone. It's a show that assaults you with dialogue and information without really explaining any of it.

Kamille is my favorite autistic character. He destroyed the Titans with just a ''girly name lmao.''

YEAAHH BABY I’ve been waiting for this one since your poll a couple months back! Awesome stuff, are you planning to continue making longer videos?

I would say Quatro doesn’t become Char again after the speech as much as he tries to become Casval. He tries to bring his father’s ideals into reality humanely, which leads directly into his decision in CCA to return to the Zabi-Zeon persona of Char.

Ayo the gym shark shirt 😳 (Great vid btw)

honestly because this anime pulls no punches when it comes to "main characters" dying pointless deaths it feels like the most real gundam of them all

For me z is the Best series i've ever seen, not only within gundam, bot only within anime, not only within animation, it is one of the best stories ever told

Brilliant video. Excellent work.

I still can't square Char's apparent flip of character from Zeta to CCA.

this video really encapsulate how i feel about Zeta. its my favorite Gundam series to date, followed by War in the Pocket (which i hope you made a video of in the future wink wink edit : i just realized you've made it lol, so i hope you made all of the OVA gundam or even Char's Counterattack). Also, you should check out the short of where Char is after Zeta (i think it's from Gihren's Greed game, i'm not sure), but it explained Char's motivation moving forward and the effect of Kamille "death" for him. it's on youtube.

Zeta is one of my favorites in the Gundam series and one of my favorite mecha shows overall.

1st off I hope you had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year dude and secondly I'm happy that you talked about Zeta gundam. I did watch a little bit of it several years ago but never fully finished it but considering that I finished up with iron blooded orphans, did not like how season 2 was nor did I like how that ended and currently watching witch from Mercury and still in shock that it took them 11 episodes to finally give me something in terms of a plot instead of just dragging its feet over and over and a certain female character I'm being very annoyed with, I think I need something a bit more fulfilling and not is dragging as Witch lol. This did take me back from what people have been telling about Zeta for years like how Kamille is a very good protagonist despite the fact that he starts off as being a d*** but he ends up developing and growing later on, Char is at his best at this point in the series, this series hates women and people, Four was a good love interest until she died and finally that ending STILL gives me chills. I probably am just gonna go and watch the entirety of Zeta gundam again because I need to finish it and while Gundam seed Destiny TRIED to copy Zeta, it definitely didn't do at good as Zeta. Great job in talking about this legendary show although man I still think they dropped the ball with Double Zeta lol. Haman is still great and the second half is amazing but that god damn first half. Anyway, soild work!

Currently in my X rewatch of Zeta Gundam.... Yeah I lost count, but I sometimes still come across small particular details and interpret details differently...

Outstanding analysis. Re: the discussion of Reccoa's reveal of sexual assault, I actually rewatched the scene via the dub after watching it subbed first, and I noticed in the dub script she instead says that men only know how to "take advantage of" women. To "take advantage of" someone obviously has various meanings which would be applicable to Scirocco's treatment of her, but in the context of men taking advantage of women, it's obviously commonly used as a euphemism for sexual assault, and that was where my mind immediately went when she said that. So ironically, this was an instance where the dub script got the meaning across better for English-speaking audiences than the more literal sub script, while still maintaining the original nuance. This is why localization is a good thing!

The rb 79 ball gets rolling

Jerid was like Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3. One of the best femshep lines was "I don't care who he is. The next time we meet, he dies"

So I've been kinda looking around for how to get into gundam and it seems just go in order is the way to go, but as a trekkie, the impression I have is the 79 series is like tng and Zeta is its DS9

My biggest issue with zeta is the editing. Sometimes, a scene ends abruptly, and transitions to another one with a jarring change of tone. Like, you can have two characters talking calmly about their feelings and then you only have half a second between the end of their conversation and the new scene where two spaceships are fighting and there's action music. That detracts a lot from my enjoyment of the show, and it isn't something new because the movie trilogy based on 0079 does that too (like in Lalah's death scene where the scene literally ends before the end of the background song)

Great perspective.

I love Zeta, it was my first Gundam!

i've not watched the video yet and will not until i've finished zeta, but it came up on my home yt page so wanted to come to ask - i'm on ep 20 and i'm not enjoying it. does it get better or is the fact i'm not enjoying it indicate i won't enjoy the whole of it? TIA (ftr i absolutely loved MSG, the only gundam i've seen other than these first 20 eps of zeta). i look forward to watching the vid after i've finished it in a month or so

In my opinion Kamille's growth was extremely forced, in the first episode he was basically a psycopath, and then just a few episodes later, after being beaten up a few times, he becomes calm, serious and dependable.

Lol, things changed a lot in 5yrs. Especially pop cultural tropes. - By '83 we bid a find farewell to the '70's and Disco; as we became aware that despite the nuclear noose over our heads, called "The Cold War" - a much closer nemesis called " the body corporate" was getting outta hand. By '88 we destroyed their power knowing very well they're not just gonna give up. That is what Zeta Gundam was really about. Aclnowledging Gen X's war on corporations revolting behavior. The "Titans", are a direct reflection on this. - The english localization of Zeta injects some fairly hard core fraternal hatred, amid a potential divorce . When in actual fact, Kamille is sincerely disgusted that both his parents are employed by this this corporation, that had arisen by becoming political, and then militant. - We're not talking about public service corporations, but the consortium of interlocking directorships revolving around PMC's. If Zeta had released in the '70s it would have gotten very little press, maybe a niche audience at most; and then come the mid 80s, it would be picked up, and held high as a prophetic piece. The UC era of Gundam has quite a bit of divination throughout, its almost uncanny. So, I wouldn't say it was better than the original Gundam by any measure that isn't subjective. More to the point is its tropes are still relevant to today (on many levels), whereas the 70s are so far away from you its difficult to envision. - Like all of the UC era Gundam, Zeta is less a sequel, than it is a continuity. Thats why Unicorn and Origins did so well. They know the entire narrative of the series, its just a matter of deciding what to focus on; and tell a particular story. Thats how we end up with really good stories like 'War in the Pocket'. ZZ final act, and finale to that whole 'Zeta' era was absolutely sensational. That was what changed everything about Gundam. - but Zeta, as good as it is, was also an updated version of the Original series, to serve the youth of the 80's, and also, to evolve the continuity. It was cleverly done.

I think you're supposed to be confused early on because they want you to empathize with Kamille's own confusion.

Zeta gundam has cause me to go into deep depression after rewatching it again

The only problem I had with Zeta was the ending. I didn't like the usage of essentially magic to allow Kamille to defeat Scirocco.

well lets see: -we arent used to the federation being good, in fact we see throughout the entire original show how abusive and power hungry and easily blinded by power they are, so the immediate defection to aeug doesnt feel weird imo -bright gets jumped by titans multiple times and by the last time when he's piloting a civic vehicle in space, he's already had enough of the dudes, so he also switches, not against the federation but specifically against the titans, again not too confusing -the last one is a hizack, not a zaku, the name is not a replacement or a misnomer: after the one year war we are told at the start of UC that federation starts trying to co opt zeon tech into their own, which is where the hizack is born, and becomes emblematic of; you can see a mark of this on the hizack's chest, as it has a GM-like torso, and not a zaku one

Honestly I agree with all the negative points brought up. But ill leave a comment anyway cause this video deserves more attention

some people told me he got the happy ending he deserves in ZZ but I can't get myself to finish it tho.

It has its flaws but still a masterpiece especially that ending 😢

For you next video could you do one on zoids. A deep dive into a versus. Between the evolution of the geno breaker to the gairyuki from fuzors. Or Raven vs Blake from fuzors. Been wondering if the Gairyuki is really the best of the fury line.

And then there is the sequel that did it even better, ZZ, peak gundam

Zeta Gundam is one of the anime series of all time.

Zeta Gundam is the goat (the series and the Gundam itself). That’s the comment. Also… we all agree that Jerid is a newtype .. right?

Finally, someone who gets it.

Does everyone forgotten Bright threaten to spank Emma for not following his order? 😂

You better put some RESPEK on Jerid's name, is a BEAST pilot bruh whatchu talkin' bout ? He pilots almost every available mech and he is relentless. By the time he pilots the Byarlant, he comes into his own and he becomes a powerful newtype. Haman Karn could feel it. It took Kamille at peak newtype power to put an end to Jerid, he was no chump. But people constantly dump on Jerid saying the same thing over and over. I argue that Jerid was actually a great and WORTHY antagonist to Kamille.

I honestly don't agree with the series needing to be shorter. Heck you contradict yourself in saying there's a painful 10 episode stretch while saying all of the cool and exciting things that happened in that stretch. I got through that stretch in one sitting, Just because you can sit through a pretentious 7 hour god of war review but not those 10 episodes speaks more of your taste (or lack of it) than any actual condemnation of the show.

Zeta was 80+ edisopes of a beautiful tragedy.

Seed Destiny: Can I copy your homework? Zeta: Sure, just don't make it shitty Seed destiny: Okie dokie 💩💩💩💩

"Kamille is a girl's name, *proceeds to steal a completely unsecured gundam and go on a rampage*", yes so compelling and thought provoking lmao

Can you make a series that breaks down the technology used to create the Zoids and Gundam? Nobody is explaining about the technology on how it could possibly work in the real world. I've heard Nanoparticles and Nuclear fusion yada yada... But I'm interested in someone with ADHD+ to break down a whole realistic working build. Estimated Price. Software. Hardware. Metals. The whole entirety of the Robot.

All my favorite mobile suits transform :(

The Transforming gimmick was popularize by Macross.... ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?!

Wonder if a new translation takes over the canon of the og zeta ending

Shame you didn't mention anything about Yazan and how the series would suffer without an implacable enemy like him around.

I’ll make a bold statement. Camille is the strongest new type outside of Char, but Amuro is the best pilot out of any new type.

The real reason why Katz is a failed Gundam pilot is simply that there wasn't another Gundam for him to pilot! This show suffers from what i call "mono-protagonist syndrome", where you can only have 1 main protagonist and the one from the previous series must be put in the background to let the new guy shine. IMO they should have let Amuro join the Argama and pilot the Mk 2.

Zeta is cool but story, plot, characters, settings, everything is just so much better in the original Mobile Suit Gundam

ZZ time

5:10 A confusing explanation I give to myself in real life is if i try to differentiate between the term right wing group and left wing group in the real world during times of war since politics differ in every nation. It's like the police putting a wanted poster in Gotham labeling Batman as the number one wanted man a man who is orphaned ( long story) already in too deep and a threat to some powers that may be on the streets of Gotham.

I genuinely hated Katz because he was just so stupid.

23:20 bruh did you seriously pardon requa because she got rejected. like thats the norm for most men and we dont get the benefit of the doubt.

2:12 Gundam isn't really _galactic_ in scale, especially not during Zeta

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You must hate wing gundam, zero, and epyon ehhh

More zoids vids love em

Okay funny sounding small moustache man, I'll watch

I wished the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam compilation movie 1-3 was in Dubbed(English) so I don't have to go through the 50 episodes series. Is there any other way or I just have to painfully sit through this long episodes. Or maybe I can skip this series and just go straight to Char Counterattack movie😂 lol... I heard the watch order for the UC universe Mobile Suit Gundam --------------------------------- ◇The Orgin: Advent of the Red Comet ◇MSG Movie 1-3 ◇Cucuruz Doan's Island ◇The 08th MS Team ◇ War in the Pocket ◇Thunderbolt ◇Stardust Memory ◇Zeta Gundam ◇ Char's Counterattack ◇Unicorn RE: 0096 ◇Gundam Narrative ◇Hathaway ◇F91

Some of the pronunciation in this video genuinely hurts

May you rest in peace Emma, best written women in zeta. Shes awesome. Fa is blah and annoying and Reccoa is a problematic mess of sexism that again forefront ideologies of emotional women who just need a man to sort her out 😅

Fast and furious 1 is better thsn the 2nd one

what is zeta Gundam is show

New Translation ruined zeta

Loved the original gundam series can't say the same about zeta I do remember kamile the main character with a girls name he was a real piece of shit😂😂

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Wait 2 fast 2 furious... that was crap!

Clearly unpopular opinion but I kinda hate Zeta. 5/10 for me.