The Greatest Machine Ever Made - The Rise and Fall of the Zaku

A video of the rise and fall of the Zaku during the One Year War. Video made in a World War 2 documentary style featuring clips of the Zaku in vintage format.

[yui.]

As a massive Zaku fan you u have no idea how fast i clicked when i saw the noti of this video LMFAO.

[taliawtf]

I say this as a total Zeon fan girl, the war would have turned out the same way even if the feddies had not developed their own MS. The war was lost for Zeon the moment they allowed Revil to escape and when they pushed to prolong the war. Their resources simply did not make a long war possible as they only had 1/32 of the resources the Earth federation had on tap. If they had just forced the feddies to sign a treaty they could have bought time to get the new colonies in order to add to the resource pool and polish the zaku while denying the feddies ample test data for their own MS keeping an edge. It's horrible all around as the original swell of Zeon support was for colonial freedom and self governance but was co op'd by a corrupt family who couldn't see past their own delusions damning the dream of freedom for their people forever. Why I love Gundam it's so tragically realistic in it's politics and portrayal of how conflict is just horrible on the whole for all sides of it.

[kindlingking]

The issue with Zaku is that Fed-Zeon war only laster a year. In reality it would've been at least 3-5 years with barely 1/10th of the amount of mobile suits developed. Hell, it's likely that Zaku upgrades like Goufs or Gelgoogs would've been slightly upgraded and used up until Char's Neo Zeon at least. Instead we have a new superduper prototype or variant literally every other week of the war, there's just no way anything will get enough time to really solidify itself as good weapon.

[PikaPower]

dude the saddest thing about Gundam for me is that the Zaku was a flop. It’s my favourite thing from the series! I wish we had more Zaku action

[skymabile]

The One year War is basically WW2 in Space following mostly the Pacific Theatre route to Zeon's Axis Powers. And the Zaku and it's successor Mobile Suits are analogous to the tanks and Aircraft of the Axis. The Zaku in particular=German Panzer 1 and 2 and the Japanese Mitsubishi fighter.

Overall I can rest at ease knowing my fave mass-production Mobile Suit, the Zaku II wasn't a fundamentally crappy Mech next to the Federation's GM, just handicapped by Zeon's resource shortage.

[TokyoFilthy]

man i love mono eye/zeon suits, the best type truly

[gipsyghoul]

This was so sick the way it was presented like a real doc. Gave me PoPo Medic vibes like that channel. Very well done.

[lostShadowLord]

The Battle at Luam while a victory for Zeon ultimately lead to Zeon defeat in the one year war in part due to the material loses and lost of veteran pilots.

[kerosoldier]

Hey, your sound quality drops a minute in.

[frankjaeger]

01:12 are you mixing Origin (anime) canon with standard UC canon? That scene occoured in Origin, it has nothing to do with the original series

[Anytyme]

How tf was Earth Federation at a disadvantage against Zeon?! How could they let this happen?

[appletherapy]

I'm sad Zaku 1 made Amuro made them shit