Gundam 00!

[Aeon]

Pics Of the Gundams And Pilots



All the pilots are males ! Or maybe four-eyes is a female in disguise.

Damn, all the Gundams are looking great

I was happy when I thought he was a she .

[animus]

Why are all the main characters always so angsty? It might prove better to have something like from MS 08th Team, where it's not some emo war struggle, but a battle for survival, friendships, and etc.

[Harima Kenji]

My rant of criticism:

Is it me, or do those pics of the MS models look....wrong?
To me they look like very weird designs.. I was surprised that the last one wasn't called Obese Gundam or something.
A nice thing is that the designs deviate from the standard designs. It looks refreshing, although they look a bit weird ATM..

And the fact that Setsuna is a male...damn..NOT cool. Strange though.. I thought that Setsuna was a name for a female. And that the last one is also a male...just wrong. I really hope that they're both women in disguise.
*Me want a female lead character*

Some of the names are idiotic.. I mean; Lockon?? What sadistic parent names his kid Lock-on? And what about (H)Allelujah? Was his father the pope with a speaking disability or something? What is his weapon, a holy hand grenade? Really.. try harder with the names people, this is disturbing.
I can't think of a gundam character with a name so stupid that it comes close to the above ones..or have I forgotten one?

What are your opinions about the points in my rant?

[masamuneehs]

Lockon sounds like a stupid name you'd hear in a shounen anime. Wait...

Hallelujah (can be spelt with or without the H) is, however, simply too much. I cannot wait to hear the Japanese VAs pronouncing that name, especially the inevitable mecha yell of concern from his allies (the fem guy in particular) going "Halleluja~~~h!" after his mech gets hit by a bombardment. Of course, since it's a Gundam, he'll be unscathed (tho much grimacing will occur) and his allies will then heave a sigh of relief, perhaps even proclaiming, "Hallelujah!" -_-

Seriously though, that is a retarded name.

I don't care if the characters are male or female, but it does bring up the question of: what happened to the female MS pilot? The original 0079 was dominated by male pilots, true enough, but Zeta had lots of females (Haman notably, perhaps the best female Gundam pilot ever?) and even more recent series had continued that. Hell, even the bishounen laden Gundam Wing had Noin (not a Gundam pilot, but still an important character) and SEED Destiny had Lunamaria. I can't imagine that, even though these four are guys, that this new one won't have female MS pilots.

Can anyone recall the last series that revolved around a female pilot as a central character? I can only recall 8th MS Team, and that almost doesn't count, since it was so short and the lady pilots in question were either minor characters or separated from the main character for a good part of the show. I don't really consider Lunamaria to be central to anything in SEED Destiny...

[Harima Kenji]

Hmz.. Marvet in Victory Gundam had a reasonably important role.. and Catejina too..but I don't know if you see that as a main character. The women in Zeta are more side characters in my eyes.

The reason why I'd like to see a female lead character is because it might change the whole feel of a gundam series. Mostly it's that the lead female is standing in the sidelines cheering on the main dude. When the story revolves around a female fighter I doubt it'll be like that. It might be really refreshing.

It's not that 00 is bad in my eyes because it has no female pilots, but I kinda got my hopes up after watching the promo. If the pilots are male, at least clearly make them look like that.

Besides the names and gender, there is really not much I can say about 00.. we'll have to see it first.

but damn.. Allelujah.. what were they smoking... If/when he dies, I want to hear that sound they have in 'Worms'

[Chris_Xion]

The Japanese worship the West. Not surprised they keep coming up with retarded names like those.

The last time there's a central female character in a Gundam series would be Cagalli in Seed before she went all emo in Destiny.

[Harima Kenji]

That's not what I see as lead character..
more like an Amuro, Kira, Uso, Domon etc.

00 will be broadcasted on saturdays, right?

[vejita613]

Some of the names are idiotic.. I mean; Lockon?? What sadistic parent names his kid Lock-on? And what about (H)Allelujah? Was his father the pope with a speaking disability or something?

lol @ the lockon part, but not understanding the part with Halleujah.

[masamuneehs]

you're not joking... you don't actually know what that word means...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah

Hence it's an absolutely ludicrous thing to name a character.

[vejita613]

you're not joking... you don't actually know what that word means...

Hence it's an absolutely ludicrous thing to name a character.

Of course I know what the word means and I understand your position as to why its not a good name for a character (whereas I could care less either way), I just wanted clarification on the "pope with a disability" part of the statement.

[Board of Command]

A Japanese dude trying to pronounce "Hallelujah" is like a white dude trying to pronounce "Nippon."

[Board of Command]

I was happy when I thought he was a she .

Same here. I can't believe it.