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Anime Legends Mobile Suit Gundam 079 Part 1 review
This release is great. They have both Japanese and English audio. The episodes on this disc are uncut and restored. Still Episode 15 is not in this collection although I have seen the episode and it doesn't really advance the story its a self contained episode. The audio for both appear to be great although there are some sync issues with the English audio. Overall a great box with nice artwork. I hope they release part 2 soon.
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September 15, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Studio: Super D Release Date: 09/13/2011 Run time: 525 minutes Top to learn more
Although it launched a continuity that has lasted more than three decades, Yoshiyuki Tomino's landmark
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) was curtailed due to poor ratings on its initial airing. Tomino's vision of mobile suits--anthropomorphic robots that are part space suit, part one-person spaceship, and part samurai armor--revolutionized the
mecha genre. Set in the year 0079 of the Universal Century, these first episodes establish the parameters of the
Gundam universe and introduce the principal characters. When the human population topped 11 billion, most of the inhabitants of Earth left the planet for the Space Colonies, 20-mile-long cylindrical space stations in stable orbits. But the corrupt misrule of the oligarchic world government has sparked a rebellion that pits the Principality of Zeon against the Earth Federation. During a Zeon raid on his home satellite, teenager Amuro Ray stumbles into the cockpit of the Federation's top-secret weapon, the Gundam Mobile Suit RX-78. He successfully pilots the giant robot and initiates a rivalry with the unscrupulous but dashing Zeon warrior Char Aznable, a.k.a. the Red Comet. Unlike the dedicated pilots of later
mecha adventures, Amuro becomes a hero in spite of himself. He wrestles with his new identity as a soldier and the fact that he is a Newtype, a human with psi abilities that may represent an evolutionary leap. An ill-starred romance further complicates his life. The character designs look very American and very dated, with crumbly Xerox lines. The slow pacing, limited animation, hand-drawn special effects, and rather tame battle scenes are closer in tone to
Robotech (1985) than to the more spectacular recent
Gundam adventures. The English dub sounds rather stilted, with the narrator ominously asking at the end of each episode, "Who will survive?" But this reissue includes the original Japanese dialogue for the first time--a lack
otaku had bemoaned for years. Despite its flaws,
Gundam fans will want the program that launched Tomino's vision--and one of the longest-running franchises in animation history. (Rated 13 and older, but suitable for viewers three to four years younger: brief nudity, violence largely restricted to robot vs. robot)
--Charles Solomon (1. Gundam Rising, 2. Destroy Gundam! 3. Vote to Attack, 4. Escape from Luna II, 5. Re-entry to Earth, 6. Garma Strikes, 7. The Core Fighter's Escape, 8. Winds of War, 9. Fly, Gundam! 10. Garma's Fate, 11. Icelina--Love's Remains, 12. The Threat of Zeon, 13. Coming Home, 14. Time, Be Still, 15. Sayta's Agony, 16. Amuro Deserts, 17. Zeon's Secret Mine, 18. Ramba Rat's Attack, 19. Hand-to-Hand Combat, 20. Sorrow and Hatred, 21. The Trap of M'Quve) Top to learn more
The original series that started it all!
Ten years after it's initial release in America, the original Mobile Suit Gundam finally gets a re-release on DVD. So how does this new set hold up? Pretty well actually.For those who aren't familiar with the series, the story follows the war between the Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon. During a particular attack on Side 7, a civilian named Amuro Ray quickly becomes the pilot of the new Federation mobile suit, the Gundam. What makes this series hold up so well over the years is the cast; characters like Amuro and Char Aznable, Zeon's ace pilot, have become engrained in anime culture and it's understandable. This set contains the first 21 episodes which follows Amuro and the White Base crew through numerous enemies and obstacles which leaves the viewer hungry for more by the time they reach the end of this set.The video is based on the 2007 Japanese R2 DVD's and the result is fantastic, this is the best the show has ever looked here in America. While...
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September 2, 2011
(FL) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 4
English (dub) stereo audio issues and other DVD boxset details
*Audio*First, the audio options are Japanese mono and English stereo. I was hoping for Japanese stereo myself, but I can understand that because the series is so old, they could not mix the mono into stereo or chose not to do so. Also, I did not have a chance to watch all of the episodes with both audio options, but I scanned through the episodes with the English stereo audio after reading some of the reviews here. After going through 3 DVD sets, I've come to the same conclusion. Bandai Entertainment messed up the first 4 episodes with English mono, but then fixed the other episodes with English stereo. What other reviewers said about the English audio not being consistent (in other words, audio plays in the other speakers, then breaks up, then returns, or the audio is low in parts of the episodes and high in others) may be true, but I didn't really look into that. I noticed some evidence of this, but I didn't look into it specifically. When I brought this up to Bandai...
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February 12, 2012
| Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4
Great seller, poor maker.