toysdream wrote

If he had a track record like Cima's, they could easily have used that against him, just as they did with Cima.

-- Mark

Was that how Asakura sweet-talked the Axis brass into denying Cima and her buddies refuge?

Technically, even Western-style canon can be contradictory. After all, the term originally comes from religion, and religious scriptures aren't always in perfect agreement - there are four canonical Gospels, and they don't all say the exact same thing. I think what a lot of fans are asking for when...

One question about officiality, does "animated works are only official" apply to other Sunrise IPs too, like say, Armored Trooper VOTOMS?

The OVA are official. As are Hyperion and Dreadnaught's existence (per Gundam Evolve). The rest are same, they aren't official. But that's what confuses me, is it the equipment that are official, or do the stories in itself that get officialized. Because aren't these what Mark say about Advance of ...

Look, Mark's an awesome guy and a veritable font of Gundam information, but he's not gonna tell you anything that the rest of us haven't. There's no "ancient Japanese secret" when it comes to Gundam's whole officialness; it all boils down to "If it's not animated it didn't happen.&qu...

Can anyone translate what is said here?

Not trying to speak for Arbiter, but I get the feeling his response will probably be "Everything".

You know, all this debating about whether or not After Colony expanded media is official is making me wish Mark were here.

Which is good because Frozen Teardrop is a piece of crap.

What do you got against Frozen Teardrop?

Whether events depicted in them actually happened is another matter.

What makes you say that?

Can anyone answer these questions (also, be wary of spoilers, because I do not know how to spoiler something without putting a colon before it): Where exactly did 08th MS Team episode 12 happen? Because let's recap: Shiro and Aina turned out to have survived the explosions that took out both the Ez8...

As usual, only animate works are official.

They aren't official?

Continuing from Mark's discussion about what's official in Gundam, are bits like say, for example, Episode Zero and Frozen Teardrop official?