Making Gundam: The Inside Story (Documentary)

Mobile Suit Gundam Documentary from NHK World Japan.

There's another vid of this on YouTube but the audio is extremely out of sync and annoying, so I fixed it and reuploaded it.

May get taken down, I dunno. Enjoy while you can.

[wolfzwizdom]

Wow it's so interesting to see how much Tomino and crew relied on the fans for support just look at where Gundam is today.

[Menaceblue]

It's the early 2000's, the weekday, and you just got out of school....
You rush back home to catch the afternoon time slot of Toonami on cartoon network. Dragon Ball Z, Mobile Suit Gundam, Sailor Moon, and Card Captor Sakura....
Those were the days!

[johnnydestreaux]

My 4 year old son and I built our first gunpla today! I've been a fan since I was a little older than he is now, but my parents would never fork out the dough for any weird plastic robots! Now I'm the dad and get to decide what constitutes as a wise purchase :)

[em]

My first exposure to Gundam was the foto novel a classmate brought from japan. This was mid 80s and I was in middle school. Needless to say it blew me away. Here I was watching American cartoons where no matter what no one really died. The seeing Char Bazooka a chick through her face.

[DuwangKaizer]

I remember discovering Gundam through the original 1979 series when I was 11 on YouTube, back when they had anime and TV Shows to watch under the TV Shows Section.

[g_y.rtz]

25:20 "WHY DOESN'T THE GUNDAM HAVE A ROCKET PUNCH LIKE MAZINGER Z?!??!?" made me cry inside

[virochanaasura]

"The toys didn't sell." How much do all those original toys sell for now compared to the original cost?

[brodymarko]

Thank you Tomino-San and everyone involved in making Gundam. The anime’s and Gunpla brought me and my friends together. Sieg zeon

[thefirstguyjaek]

I am “new” to the Gundam fandom. But I have to say that it is some of the greatest piece of media ever created in our lifetime. I used to think it was lame because I honestly didn’t understand it. Especially 0079 because the animation was so old looking (I was 10 at the time). But now at 28 and the world the way it is, the stories resonate now more than ever and has captivated me like no other

[eatsleepplayrepeat]

A shame this documentary has to be reposted like this. Without reposters things like this would be lost to time.

[v-trigger]

31:14 "In the old days, animators used to drop dead all the time" wtf Lol

[lynncai]

Imagine what happen to every people in fans club of gundam in 1979 and 1980 now.. they must be in their 50s or 60s of age and without them we would'nt have gunpla today..

[bluescat]

Gundam has came a long way, and personally we're all happy because despite the initial reception, it's actually culminated into a prime pop culture phenomenon!
Tomonio, Sunrise and Bandai have done exceptionally well in creating the giant robot franchise of awesomeness of another beat of the symphony that is anime

[g_y.rtz]

Yo the last time i commented here i said i havent seen a single UC show, that was 6 months ago, now ive seen EVERYTHING, FUCKING EVERYTHING. Wow

[g_y.rtz]

Ive never seen the original UC shows yet but still that miharu scene also made me shed a tear im excited

[thelonelypigeon]

My cousins showed Gundam to me early 2000s I'm now a proud owner of a Perfect Grade Zaku II Char Custom.

[sushimandaddi]

This is an awesome doc, thank you for posting!

[Cheseabluesdrogba]

That's crazy that back then they didn't think they could make toys of the "bad guys" so they had more creative freedom for Zeon.

[andrewmccall]

Thank you to everyone involved in the show's development because when I saw Mobile Suit Gundam it literally changed my life for the better

[joevanreyb.bacuyag]

I was a zoids fan before I become a solid Gundam fans I abandoned zoids for disappointment that the series stop making new series after that I watch Gundam and I said it's not bad so I watch it till I get addicted to it even when zoids return I don't have any interest in it anymore because Gundam was already in my heart.