How GUNDAMS have Changed Japan

Gundam didn't just change Japan, Gundam changed me

I am Gundam

if gundams were to be engineered strictly for construction purposes, like a bulldozer, (or for fire protection like that RX with the arm hose thingy) Tomino would be partially cured of his liver sickness. Sadly, We understand that Japan has awful neighbors with ambitious military campaigns of their own.

This channel should do more videos on Gundam.

Funny thing is, I think Gundam, in a way, got away from Tomino. The message in Gundam has always been 'war is bad' but everyone watching the show just loves the cool robots battling. This is apparently touched upon in the Gundam OVA series "War in the Pocket". Where children obsess over how 'cool' war is, when it's happening far away and then have to reconcile that when the war comes to them.

gundam is beautiful.

IDK man, A huge robot like suit could be good for building things on Space

The military complex is already planning

Gundam gunpla from bandai made it more popular. I collect and assemble gundam first prior discovering the anime itself.

Wait, it only case seven hundred twenty five million dollars to make a Gundam? So...dirt cheap by American standards.

Since we'd just need powerful hydraulics to absorb shock (not provide movement) and powerful servos (to provide movement), both of which are quite cheap and very easily to build in large numbers very quickly, it is very possible to mass-produce mobile suits in the modern day. The problem, however, is that our energy production for the scale of the suit is too low for it to be worth a damn in combat. I'm not sure if the materials we use to transfer electricity would be able to transfer enough to the servos to matter anyway or if the servos would survive the amount of energy required to move sufficiently for combat. We can build the materials needed in incredibly tiny amounts, but they only last a fraction of a second before the molecular bonds fall apart again.

Mobile suits even make sense. You get all the capabilities of an infantryman wearing powered armor, his ability to maneuver in the air or under water or in space without wasting fuel just as astronauts are trained to do (and can enhance it with bursts from strategically placed engines), you are large and armored enough that anything short of very large weapons are harmless to you and those weapons track very slowly and so are easily to dodge or in the case of missiles you can shoot them down or jam them, and for anything else you carry a large, thick shield. Mobile suits also carry a ton of anti-infantry weapons in the skirt and ankles though these are almost never part of the series because it's about giant robots butchering each other, but it's there and no less devastating and useful for tactical flexibility.

It's a pretty darn good weapon system and with its jumpjets you can lock down a city with just a few of them provided you don't care about enemy civilian casualties. Which you shouldn't because otherwise your enemies will just keep using them as meatshields to kill your men from behind. The sheer amount of enemy armor, artillery, etc. it can kill relative to its own expense as well as its advanced sensors and CIWS renders basically other military combat machine obsolete. That is to say, those that aren't used for transportation or logistics.

And if that wasn't enough, hydraulics to absorb weight and force are pretty cheap. It's just some tubes filled with something. The servos are also dirt cheap as they're basically just magnetic discs that use electrical fields to move. The whole mech is extremely cost-effective and very easy to put together and maintain. Really, the only expensive part is the controls which seem to watch your brain activity to understand the details on the general commands the physical controls are used for.

And for those who think an MS would sink into the ground under its weight, no. The ground is not made of water. Dirt, sand, etc., have extremely low maximum compression levels so your mech will be totally fine. Unless there's an empty aquafer or pocket under your feet, then it's poof sinkhole sucks to be you.

Cutting off mazinger's PILDER ON is a crime

BTW, If there are any Gundam fans here, please check out my pal, Adam Blue's channel: Gundam Explained. He's trying to get to 400 subs...!

Please make more gundam videos 🤙🏾

Everyone talking about Gundam tech but we forgot about the important thing, Space Colony, Mobile Suit originaly is Made to help human to build space Colony n they call it mobile worker, n space Colony is not some distant dream, some people cough Elon musk....already think to build space Colony coz is more cheaper n more saver than finding new planet for human...n if they really want to build space Colony then they need a robot to do construction job in space

that is cool

And now japan has a moving Gundam

“What you want me to do Orca”
I see Tekkadan and Gjallarhorn conflict a reality in future with lot of human debris

Optimus Prime is Japanese

humanity first? are you a idiot fuck the humanity

They had clear ideas on how the anime should work then. The new gundams are weird. We need the miracle minovsky particles. eg in IBO. They suck at killing people for blood thirsty mercenaries

Too many people forget that Mobile Suits from the Gundam Franchise were intended to be space craft. And AMBAC (Active Mass Balance Auto-Control) is based in real physics. It is akin to how a human performs flips and spins. Think high divers, dancers, extreme sports flips and tricks, even astronauts in space, or people enjoying a Zero-G simulation flight.

This movement style allows them to use electricity for rotation and such in space for inertial flight. It also combines with thruster in combat to provide reduced propellant consumption.

Now while drones and the like might take over combat. Mobile Suit style craft are likely to be made for construction, mining, and the like. Especially when we inevitably move into space.

Only $725 mil? Hell, the US military has jet fighters that cost more.

Japan just built a life sized moving Gundam

Love all the 00 references.

Admit it you build a gundam even once

if mobile suit is real
word war 3= yes yes yes

Gundam wing was not the first gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam was the first gundam series by Tomino

Titty miniguns!

Dont tell Elon Musk about this

The 'Mobile Suit Gundam' manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is really very good, with great complex story and beautiful art, like 'The Expanse', but with giant robots.

how about Sydney build the model of fallen colony wreckage to get more tourists?

Opa Gundams style

Super lame the way you state he made no contribution to making the world a better place for building a Gundam. I consider that a monumental achievement and a great example to us all. Achieving your dreams and sharing can be a massive contribution to the world. Inspiring. While your point about drones is totally valid I believe once we become competent with Mobile Suits, Gundams will always be superior and only overpowered by particle weapons.

They are making a real life moving Gundam RX-78 2

They are building a working rx78 gundam as we speak

what disney wishes their star wars would be

Good, tell Bandai to come out with a good single player action game like Lost War Chronicles, or Gundam Unicorn (Ps3), not those crappy Dynasty warriors type, or the boring Gundam Vs

Actuall that tank resembles more a Magella Top than a Guntank. Just putting it out there.

I think will have to leave earth's gravity first.

Yooo, what was that first scene from?! Please, I need to know