Any other Mecha Series

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The thing I like about wing is there is not as many cheesy looking stuff in the universe or history to look back into. But its somewhere between a fighting anime, and mecha anime. Each gundam is almost like a character in a fighting anime with its own personality and style of destroying stuff. But one thing it's missng is how the old gundam shows had the epic space feel to it with ships fighting other ships and underdogs trying to escape from the Empire.. oops I mean zeon.

When I first saw it, it just seemed less star warsy "epic" to me and more like a dragonball z ish feel, with emphasis on cocky kids with a bad attitude and not on the usual "wussy kid crying and finding a purpose to fighting after seeing his friend/mother/father/pet dog/village brutally killed/destroyed by X organisation"

But I think Seed adressed that which I think was missing from wing. You have a crew in a ship, inexperienced but skilled, and taking into account the environment of the combat (space,ground, air, hilly, desert, inside confined places etc) with people sometimes getting beaten once in while, (brings some drama) and running from something just like star wars/MSG and some ofthe characters actually die. So I would say Seed is even better than Wing now, as a "first-time" gundam show to see because it has all the missing ingredients from the old shows, but just with new characters to make it easy. (without the cocky "fighting anime" character feel you get with Wing where people can withstand impossible amounts of punishment)

I would say watch Seed (its new but more faithful to older gundam) and then wing. (easy to get into like seed, but less believable/realistic battles and tactics)

If you're really crazy and prefer less realism you might want to try G gundam. Yeah, I found it goofy (not a fan of the mecha) but it was surprisingly watchable for the story. Master Asia kicks ass!

Edited November 7, 2006 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker