Gundam 00 Episode 01

[Munsu]

Conclave-Mendoi:
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[Harima Kenji]

Any idea how the quality is?

[Yukimura]

Gundam 00 - 01 FIXED - [GundamsNet] (http://www.gundams.net/torrents/%5BGundamSnet%5DGundam00_Episode1_1280x720.avi.tor rent)

EDIT: It reminded me a lot of Wing but with some of the philosophy of SEED sprinkled in.

[Carnage]

^^Same here.

But I was not disappointed. My only problem so far is that the main character seems depressed, which will be annoying. But other than that, good stuff.

I have some high hopes for this series.

[Board of Command]

H264 in AVI container? Ugh...wtf??

Oh well. Will download anyway.

[AlbinoFury]

Good start of the series.

Only thing I was like wtf about was the tranny gundam pilot with the purple hair and glasses, I was like look, a chick, and then it spoke, he even has a purse in the ED too geez.

[rockmanj]

Yea, i swore that was a woman until he spoke...thats just creepy. Otherwise, i have high hopes for the show. LOL at virtue using that big-ass cannon on just one suit. I was thinking the same thing the other pilot was: "Overkill" >.<

[Curium]

Everytime I click on the torrent link it just gives me a website with a bunch of random characters I can't understand. Is anyone else having this problem, or at least know how to fix it so I can get the episode? Thanks.

[Psyke]

Everytime I click on the torrent link it just gives me a website with a bunch of random characters I can't understand. Is anyone else having this problem, or at least know how to fix it so I can get the episode? Thanks.

Change the extension of the file from .avi to .torrent. :)

[Kraco]

My first Gundam series ever, but still it seemed thoroughly familiar. The mecha genre is surely consistent through and through.

It seemed easily good enough to keep watching. However, although it could be a Gundam tradition, the Gundams seemed pretty overpowering. How are they going to build up any thrill in this? Or is there always some other organization in Gundams that can answer with equal force, and that just wasn't yet shown in the first ep?

[Psyke]

Definately a Gundam tradition, Kraco. And don't be too surprised if some of the Gundams seem to be invincible later on in the series. It's pretty much normal. :p

[dspR]

Well, Lockon (Hmm, an obvious coincidence with his sniper rifle?) is badass. I like him so far.

And about Tieria. Everytime I look at him, I just can't believe that it's not a girl. Such a let down. ;x

The opening is GOOD. The ending is meh.

[animus]

Wonder if there'll be any romance. It always used to be a pretty consistent theme throughout Gundam.

[Yukimura]

More Versions
Gundam 00 - 01 (1280x720 H.264 MP4) - Anonymous (http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=4031)

Gundam 00 - 01 (H.264 mkv) - [Nyoro~n] (http://a.scarywater.net/nyoron/Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam%2000%20-%2001.mkv.torrent)

The anonymous one looks the best of the versions I've seen but I have no talent for judging translation quality.

[animus]

The translation by GundamsNET wasn't very good.

[Board of Command]

The translation by GundamsNET wasn't very good.
Yeah, editing was non-existent in that one.

[Ryllharu]

The Anonymous version was good, though the spelling on the names may still need correction.

Gundam is generally not something I'm into (seeing the only other series I watched from start to finish was G) but this one shows a lot of promise. I like that everyone sees the contradiction of using force to stop war right from the very start. Nice shiny graphics, and most of the characters are interesting. They seemed to show nearly everyone in this episode alone, and I'm already wondering how the school-age boy and girl as well as the Chinese girl who was one the station and knew all about the Gundams already fit into all this.

[darkshadow]

cool stuff.
I watched all 3 btw and Anonymous was def the best picture and translation wise ( though they made 1 or 2 translation goofs, far less then gundamsnet though, even nyoro was better).
I just didnt like their font too much, it's so big and intrusive..

[Shadowflame]

Man, there are some fine chicks in this anime...wait, what did you say?

Seriously. Until someone provides proof that the person in glasses isn't using a voice modulator, I'm gonna go ahead and just treat it as a girl for now. Good thing that other girl-dude is hotter than him-her.

Androgyny jokes aside, this is a nice opening. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to seeing more of it.

[Aeon]

Just watched the first ep and darn this show has a lot of characters. The captain having a drink when the mission started was funny, she's already a favorite of mine.

[masamuneehs]

The Anonymous version was good

I like that everyone sees the contradiction of using force to stop war right from the very start.

Yeah, the anon fansub was the best. GundamS was garbage...

Also, those few comments, especially some coming from people in Celestial Being itself, really let me breath easier after the whole 'we're going to end war' announcement. Realism in my Gundam?

I was getting pretty dismayed. After the bloody and action-packed opening, the Excia comes down and takes great pain to just disable his opponent. Alarm bells went ringing like crazy in my head. I HATE the "we can't kill people" philosophy... But i noticed that at least one of the guy's Lockon sniped exploded rather conclusively, and the Gundam Virtue pilot had no qualms with obliterating that one enemy.

So far I like Lockon and the blond haired 'ace pilot' who was at the AEU Enact demonstration. The captain was funny, and so was the hot chinese chick. I have no problem with the crossdresser, and I'm absolutely in love with his Gundam. The Virtue is big, but that cannon is wicked.

Naturally, I'm reminded of Gundam Wing, especially with the main character. He seems to be Heero Yuy's personality with a jihad child-soldier backstory. At least in Wing the premise started with understandable revolution against the oppressive military government (and revenge)...

I'm hoping for some twists. I'd like to go out on a limb right now and say that Sumeragi, the guy who made the Celstial Being announcement, is going to turn out to be a villain. You can't look that evil and be a good guy, at least not with the angelic intentions he spouted... More like "once we've destroyed all your military power and the system that supports it, I'm taking over"...

I'll keep watching, but it's going to have to shape up quickly...

Also, that Hallelujah guy is already getting on my nerves. As if it wasn't bad enough that your first name is a Christian declaration of faith, you have to go and use it unenthusiasticly in unfitting situations... Go get raped...

[Darknodin]

good start... I liked how the overpowered gundams were worked into the story. i also like how AEN sounds like Aeon (and even looks like:D)

[animus]

AEN? Do you mean AEU? When they say it, it sounds more like Eiyuu, or hero.

[Ryllharu]

good start... I liked how the overpowered gundams were worked into the story.
It is nice to have them be ridiculously overpowered because they are new secret technological advancements backed by private money, rather than just absurdly overpowered surrounded (and invincible from dumb luck) by other mobile suits that were supposed to be a dominant weapon.

All the other mobile suits we've seen so far are pretty average, mass-production units, like any tank or airplane.

[TheBladeChild]

Dam a good start to this series, hope it keeps up. Though I admit it feels way too much like GundamWing. Im also like the char designs, even the cross dresser doesnt bug me that much. Is it me or is there more *ahem* breast meat in this show then the last few gundams? O.o

[LaZie]

I couldn't stop thinking of SEED when watching this episode. But nonetheless, it has a great opening but not so great ending. I'll be keeping up with this series and finally have something to watch. :p

[animus]

Am I the only one that has a feeling that when the Gundams get those "angel wings" if that ever does happen, it'll be this series version of Seed's Seed mode?

[Harima Kenji]

I'm thinking more of a Hyper mode from G-Gundam..

But the minovski wings of the V Gundam sound plausable too. (They were minovsky wing, right? I don't remember it too clearly)

[Ryllharu]

I didn't watch Seed or Wing, so I at least don't have painful flashbacks from those.

I thought the "wings" in this series was the output of their stealth generators or whatever they are. Anytime they turn those on, it scrambles all the electronics in a pretty large area. It's likely to be some sort of chaff.

I suppose most Mobile Suits have shielding for that, since only their communications are affected. The Gundams obviously use some other method of communication while they use those.

[masamuneehs]

on the other hand, the "wings/light" on the Excia was clearly the propulsion systems, as even the enemy engineer remarked. What the "wings" on the Gundam that descended on the battlefield when Setsuna was still a boy... well, I'm not even sure that's a Gundam we've seen since.

regardless, I'm not a big fan of wings on an MS... The Wing Zero Custom wasn't bad looking with them, but it's just a bit too heavy handed with symbolism for my taste... indeed though, I fear that those wings might signal some kind of "power-up" for the Gundam... And, Harima, I was thinking about the Minovsky (M) Particles too... but from what I remember, they were primarily used for jamming...

They did mention scrambled the enemy defenses, radar and communications before the Excia came in though, so it's likely it has some kind of decent jammer as well (that or the flagship could be doing it, which is quite an achievement for disrupting ground communications from up in orbit)...

Also, the enemy MS were communicating at the same time that Setsuna and Lockon were, so I'm tempted to say they stopped jamming at that point... and if not, it really begs the question of how exactly the jamming works, and how it's overcame.

edit - looked up the Minovsky Particle thing again, and, you're right Harima, it was utilized for propulsion in Victory Gundam... Actually, I was reminded just how much of the Gundam universe is based off of 'Minovsky'... Just about every beam weapon from the UC series!

Here's a link to the very awesome Wiki article on Minovsky Technology in the Universal Century timeline. There are some spoilers here, though mostly about particular components of different mobile suit technology and Gundams. It's a really good read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Century_Technology#Minovsky_Physics

Which is based off of the real life Minkowski Space (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space) which is essentially the classical Euclidean space, plus a dimension for time. This space is the "setting" in relativity comes into play

[Knives122]

Finally got around to watching this episode, pretty good for a first ep. Got to see every gundam do at least one thing and we even got a nod to the orig. gundam(or at least it looked like it) in the beginning.

Very good start.

[Munsu]

Conclave-Mendoi version:
http://bt.radicand.org/torrents/%5BConclave-Mendoi%5D_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00_-_01_%5B1280x720_H.264_AAC%5D%5B5F915323%5D.mkv.tor rent

[Yukimura]

Lol, took too long to post the above, anyway better late than never.

[Mae]

Not a bad start. No messing around with character introduction, just blow something up, lol.

The animation is nice, and I wasn't too surprised at the character designs as I heard they were designed by Yun Kōga (she did them for Loveless, a series with gay catboys. Seriously). So, they're just going strait for the female demographic outright now? Well, I have no complaints. As long as they don't stint on the action. I'll follow this for at least the first few eps for sure.

[ChaosK]

Definately a Gundam tradition, Kraco. And don't be too surprised if some of the Gundams seem to be invincible later on in the series. It's pretty much normal. :p

They're only overpowering in the beginning where everybody else has crappy generic units, but when they start building "enhanced" units to match the gundams, then suddenly the gundams are overwhelmed and they get an upgrade to some gundam that's ridiculous and may have around 10 cannons...

[LaZie]

They're only overpowering in the beginning where everybody else has crappy generic units, but when they start building "enhanced" units to match the gundams, then suddenly the gundams are overwhelmed and they get an upgrade to some gundam that's ridiculous and may have around 10 cannons...

And thats when the plot and action get really good (This is only based on SEED). :p

[masamuneehs]

checked out the Conclave-Mendoi joint, and I do prefer their translation...

something struck me when watching. First, how the hell did the hot Chinese chick know the Gundams' names? She even knew which unit was stationed outside of the HRL party... Second, the Union didn't get attacked at all, did they?

Third, and biggest, how the FUCK did this 'Sumeragi' guy (same one who delivered the speech, right?) 'predict' that terrorists were going to attack the HRL party? How did he know where and when the AEU was going to demonstrate the Enact? Now, one thing that's never made alot of sense in Gundam is the issue of intelligence. People generally take forever to figure out shit that the viewer could read episodes ago, and sometimes they're just like "oh yeah, i found the enemy's battle formation on Google!".

But how he knew there'd be a terrorist attack on the HRL party... unless he had to do with staging it...

So, yeah, essentially, monocle guy = villian

[Shadowflame]

They're only overpowering in the beginning where everybody else has crappy generic units, but when they start building "enhanced" units to match the gundams, then suddenly the gundams are overwhelmed and they get an upgrade to some gundam that's ridiculous and may have around 10 cannons...
Per limb...

And yeah, the weird shady guy is definitely the villain. No one just comes out and says "I'm the savior of the world" during the beginning unless they actually have nefarious intentions.

[Ryllharu]

Also, what better way than find passionate pilots (and support crew) willing to do anything. Tell them they're doing it ultimately to "stop" war. I have no doubt most of them have some war-torn past.

[Kraco]

So, would that mean we would see at some point Gundams fighting Gundams when some of the group figure out the geezer is in fact a villain yet some refuse to believe it and consider the rebellious ones traitors?

[masamuneehs]

So, would that mean we would see at some point Gundams fighting Gundams when some of the group figure out the geezer is in fact a villain yet some refuse to believe it and consider the rebellious ones traitors?

I doubt it. Even the stupid Hallelujah guy seems good enough that he'd immediately switch to however 'the good guys' are. It would make for an interesting plot twist... Still, I have my doubts. It looks like these four are going to be a package deal... Just the feeling I get

[Yukimura]

It seemed like Enact was being demonstrated publicly, the blonde guy and his friend were both from Union and no one seemed particularly mad that they were there. As to the terrorist attack, them knowing about it does seem a little shady, but who can know what the limit of Celestial Beings resources and intelligence gathering capabilities are. I mean they have GN particles, Gundams, and a space ship, why not a spy or twenty within terrorist organizations.

That being said, the old guy is extremely shady, but come on, he's old...how dangerous can an old guy really be top the world?

[Munsu]

I liked the first episode, except for the purpled haired dude... he gives off a tranny vibe.

[masamuneehs]

I liked the first episode, except for the purpled haired dude... he gives off a tranny vibe.

true, but at least he's got a voice that doesn't have you fall too far into the 'trap'...

and he didn't seem to have a problem killing that one enemy, which this show seems to foreshadow being a rare thing, and in my eyes a virtue. (unintentional bad pun).

if i had to pick a Gundam pilot I hate, it's that Hallelujah guy. I just realized that his whole 'god / religious motif' and him apparently talking to his Gundam is yet another connection to Gundam Wing. It's like they took Duo, sucked out everything good about him, and put him in as this depressing guy.