So this news is about a month old, but what are everyone's thoughts? It's not clear if this project is an Anime or Video Game (hopefully it's an Anime, those are more likely to get exported). This seems to focus on different characters, so maybe it's supposed to be a side story or something. Anyway ...

Is it true that Sunrise didn't have permission to adapt the book? Is that why it was never licensed internationally?

It wouldn't be the first time a long running series (Mech or otherwise) switched out a key production member. Gundam has done this several times with writers, directors, mech and character designers. If you look at all the UC Gundam Anime's you can see a major difference across series (look at 0080 ...

Maybe the reason for the attached backpack is to avoid issues with the Strike Packs. Mainly that you don't need to send out a different pack, because the attached weapons are enough. That being said the added weight of the armaments of the Aile unit may be why it is much harder to get airborne than ...

IMO the second season looks better than the first. The stakes seem to be higher and we seem to see actual combat on the Earth itself. A big problem I had with the first season was the fact that the story took too long to actually move forward despite it's interesting premise. The second seasons move...

The whole Animated Canon thing can get kind of vague (i.e., is Astray canon because it has animated commercial shorts?), and sometimes it seems like some of the weapons/locations don't exist outside of side materials (has the California Base actually been mentioned in any of the Anime?). Considering...

It does seem like the Biosensor works, albeit maybe in a limited capacity. Kamille and Scirocco were amongst the most powerful Newtypes at the time, so it seems as though the system was just too powerful for use on many other pilots. The profile of the Delta Plus even states that it had a hard time ...

True, really the only thing that would work coming out of nowhere would be Space Aliens, But that would make it a copy of the Gundam 00 Movie. So they will need some kind of plausible antagonistic force. However Manga aside, Mars has been developed in the Anime canon, and their still is that whole S...

True, which is a shame really because I though Astray handled storylines better than Seed Destiny did. Still maybe we'll get a few cameo's. As for the antagonists, it varies. 00 managed quite well without it coming from left field. As for the Cosmic Era , there are a few options. There are factions ...

Astray seems to be rather popular, but the movie will probably focus on an original storyline, rather than an Astray follow up.

True, often there is a gap between what the creative team came up with originally, and what the sequels focus on. Aside from the previously mentioned advanced MS tech seen in interquels ; we also have things like the whole cloning technology disappearing after the First Neo Zeon war along with all t...

I agree the similarities are rather strong between Moon Crisis and Unicorn (Granted the plot lines were set with Mineva in the end of ZZ, what actually happened to her clone anyway?), so I can see why the author noted this. The MSZ-006PL1 Z Plutonius is a rather unique design and the whole stories m...

Also a longer time skip will at least give the opportunity for the Cosmic Era to see changes, as new factions emerge. Seed Destiny did kind of have a Remember the New Guy thing going on with Chairman Durandel and Lord Djribil being major players with deep connections to previous factions and charact...

There really doesn't seem to be any other than those. The reasons are probably twofold: As powerful as Newtype's are it would be hard to find a weapon to oppose the, and the Federation wants Newtype's put tp their own use.

I've heard in a few places that the Gundam was originally to be all black or all white, but Clover wanted brighter colors for merchandise. So apparently the bright colors are "Parade Colors" that they never ended up changing, as for the rest of the Mobile Suits who knows? Painting Military...

Thanks, I think I'll avoid buying this, as I can't handle the excessive strobes. I did hear that after the Pokémon Shock incident, they lessened the lighting, however that would be very late in the shows run. I've also heard that apparently the Blu Ray release was unable to remove the lighting, but ...

Quite a few creator's have worked in Eroge or H-Manga or Doujin. In fact several Sci-Fi creators often worked in Sci-Fi related Adult media (Critical Point is a post apocalyptic Lunar mystery, Muv-Luv deals with robots fighting an alien invasion, Zeorymer and Iczer One are both Super Robot themed an...

Also sometimes the animation itself is rather vague. For Instance the Argama has the Zeta Gundam, Gundam MK II, Hyaku Shiki, and Methuss as part of it's regular units. However it also seems to have a random amount of Nemo's and Rick Dias's for the additional Red Shirt pilots as well as any main char...

So is there any word yet on when they will release Macross internationally? Big West seemed to indicate that several of the titles will be released or re-released this year.

So it's stated in several places that GaoGaiGar utilizes bright flashing lights in various parts of it's action scenes(apparently this was one of the last shows to do this before the "Pokemon Shock" incident), and apparently the second half of the show reduces it. So for anyone who has wat...