He always has had a great imagination and the ability to summon up visions of the future that are futuristic, not just 20th/21st century West with spaceships. We are talking about the guy who made an anime that was "WWII, except in space and with giant robots" once (MSG), then told basica...

Not sure I'm buying the idea that the regular Federation Forces were wiped out during the Gryps Conflict. As far as I can tell, they made it through that period by basically sitting back and letting the AEUG and Titans slug it out; the Titans did manage to annex some chunks of the regular Federatio...

What does and doesn't count as a Gundam has always been entirely arbitrary. Even when they try to set specific standards, they don't really stick to them consistently. (eg, Wing has gundarium-armored mobile suits that aren't Gundams, Seed has Kira's modified GUNDAM operation system adopted by OMNI's...

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but as of UC 0088, the EFSF was effectively dead. During the Gryps Conflict, most of it defected to either the Titans or the AEUG, which then proceeded to kill each other off. There were probably a handful of units sitting on the sidelines somewhere, but not...

You pretty much answered your own question. It's a trade off between protecting the pilot and running the risk that they might be blinded by battle damage, or making sure that the pilot can always see what they're doing but running the risk that they might be more easily killed by enemy fire. Either...

He's talking about causing the vulcan ammunition to explode by setting it on fire. This is a thing that can and does happen. Yes, it's true that you can't generally detonate plastic explosives by heating them (IIRC, you can actually set C4 on fire and it will burn without exploding), but the same is...

Flamethrowers are "short-ranged" only relative to actual guns. People fall into the trap of thinking of "civilian" flamethrowers (which tend to use gaseous fuels, like propane) used for things like setting controlled burns for wilderness management or clearing fields for agricult...

A mobile suit sized flamethrower would be of rather limited utility, I'd think. Flamethrowers are basically anti-fortification weapons. They're capable of spraying burning fuel inside bunkers and pillboxes (even through relatively narrow openings that be hard to shoot or throw grenades through) and ...

I didn't say the magnetic grappling wire of the MS-07B3 was more suitable for long range combat: I said that it wasn't as good for melee combat as the MS-07B's heat rod, which can be used for slashing/whipping attacks. It's more of a sidegrade than anything. While the grapple thing can't be used to...

It's not all that uncommon for a machine's combat role to evolve from its original designed purpose after it's deployed and its true capabilities in the field become clear. (For a real-life example, the F-15 was originally designed as a pure air superiority fighter, to the point where the design man...

Since Hulu picked up Recongista in G and Iron-Blooded Orphans is available streaming in a bunch of places, it's probably worth updating that info in the first post. Gundam Anime Streams (Hulu) Reconguista in G (English Subtitles, subscription required) Iron-Blooded Orphans (English subtitles, subscr...

Yes, you can have a monocoque frame, its just that the outer shell is the frame itself. Movable frame and monocoque can actually be integrated, again, its just that the armour itself has to be the fram That's literally not what those words mean. A "monocoque" design means that the other s...

"Terminal velocity" refers to the top speed something will reach when falling "naturally", ie not accelerating. It's basically the point where the forces of gravity and drag cancel out. You can, in fact, fall faster than terminal velocity -- by accelerating toward the ground unde...

Hm, that's interesting that the official explanation has shifted to Zeon having an internal frame and the Federation being monocoque. The smooth, rounded, seamless design of Zeon mobile suits seems more suited to monocoque construction than the Federation's blockier design with more obvious places w...

On the monocoque architectures early in the OYW, you have the armor mounted on top of the suit structural frame. On the movable frame designs produced starting in the Gryps conflict, the frame is part of the armor. That's precisely backwards. A "monocoque" design is one where the outer hu...

0083 makes clear Keith has really bad maneuvering skills and is merely on the acceptable side of accuracy; using him as a performance benchmark for any Mobile Suit strikes me as ludicrous; he's worse than some unnamed generic pilots in the show. (He is, mind you, an awesome character from a narrati...

Kyuzo Aoi wrote:I also think that they should ditch the anti-war themes for a while.

That's sort of one of the defining features of the franchise, mean. You might as well get rid of the giant robots while you're at it.

The business model for the Gundam franchise is pretty clear: they release new shows in new AUs to keep a steady flow of new fans interested in the series, while releasing new UC content to monetize the existing fans who tend to be suspicious of new AUs but will buy anything that says UC on it withou...

Since they accepted Zeon remnants as well, they might have some Zeon units as well. Other than Char, have we actually seen any former Zeon personnel in the AEUG? (Apolly and Roberto are ex-Zeon tagging along with Char according to Char's Deleted Affair, I believe, but I've never really bought that ...

The dialogue for the bridge operator mentions range fairly frequently. They usually don't use units, but they're presumably using either meters or kilometers depending on context.