Ebay or bootlegs for now. Unfortunately Bandai is dumb so Gundam fans have to suffer. I am glad I got mine when I did.
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Ebay or bootlegs for now. Unfortunately Bandai is dumb so Gundam fans have to suffer. I am glad I got mine when I did.
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For those interested, Ranma Season 1 Bluray will be released tomorrow:
http://www.amazon.com/Ranma-Set-Blu.../ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.amazon.com/Ranma-Set-Blu.../ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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If you haven't already, give Porco Rosso and Laputa a shot.
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Looks like there's a DVD version available too. I've never seen it, and the description sounds weird, but I know it's a classic, so I'm intrigued.
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Also, I watched F-91 last month. It was decent, but wasn't what I expected for the "final" piece in the UC timeline. Sadly, that marks the end of my Gundam viewing. I'm not interested in any non-UC stuff or anything from the 2000s onward.
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Despite the teen angsty shit, Gundam SEED and Destiny were really good, I thought. I've heard there are other good ones, like Turn X maybe, but if they're never officially subbed, I'll never watch them.
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I can't imagine getting into SEED or Destiny. I'd love to watch Double Zeta, Turn A, and Victory Gundam, but they never got translated and I'm not sure if I want to subject myself to fan subs.
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Right, Turn A 
I'd love to watch all three series you mention. Not going to happen unless they come out officially though.
I'd love to watch all three series you mention. Not going to happen unless they come out officially though.
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Bandai is completely gone in the US.
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Victory has very good fansubs and is one of the best Gundam tv shows of the franchise. I'd rank only Zeta and the Original as objectively being better than it. So I'd recommend going ahead and tracking that down.
And on a side note, F91 is NOT the final UC timeline installment. Victory takes place another 30 or so years after F91 and is part of the same continuity.
Turn-A is also one of the better series, but unfortunately the only subs out there at the moment are horrific. Still worth watching, though. It's probably the most unusual Gundam series and the last one so far done by original creator Tomino (with Victory being his second-to-last-so-far Gundam series).
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The first half of the Space Adventure Cobra TV series was released recently and the second half is coming out in May. Crazy how with the decline of DVD and waning BD sales there seems to be a huge surge of cult/old school anime getting released. I can't complain.
Patlabor, Dirty Pair, Cutey Honey, Lupin, Ranma etc.
Patlabor, Dirty Pair, Cutey Honey, Lupin, Ranma etc.
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Is the publisher doing Cobra the same one that was doing Galaxy Express 999? Because they had a dvd boxset of the second half of that series in the works as well, but it got cancelled due to low sales of the first boxset.
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The last half of F91 looked stunning but I agree, the story was a little soft.
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There's also Unicorn. With a story that is confusing as heck and has its seventh and last volume coming out in a few months.
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The problem with F91 is that it was meant to be an entire series. When those plans fell through, they tried to condense an entire series worth of plot and character arcs into a single movie.
The story works a little better if you imagine time passing in between certain scenes. Meaning, instead of each event following immediately after the last, you allow for the months that would have gone by during the course of a full series. That would make a lot of the character choices and actions feel more natural and be based on something. Like Cecily gradually becoming acclimated to the Crossbone society, Seabook slowly growing into a pilot and whatnot, rather than everything happening at once.
But yeah, as the movie stands on its own, it's got beautiful animation (the blu ray looks stunning if you ever get a chance to see it) but the story is a bit soft.
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But although produced last, Unicorn takes place before F91 and Victory. Unicorn is kind of a continuity implant by a different writer. I've been enjoying it, but imo, it's to Tomino's UC Gundam series & movies what the EU is to Star Wars.
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Ah right - I was thinking F-91 was the furthest in the timeline because it was the furthest that I was planning to watch. I really don't think I'd like anything made in the late 90's / 2000s. But I'd consider the Victory fan-subs. How do I know if I find the good version?
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How is the TV series? I liked the movie, but it was a little weird.
What new Dirty Pair came out? I have the two TV series box sets (parts 1 and 2) as well as the movie and OVA DVDs.
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I don't know of more than one version out there... If you look for one and find something, that's probably it.
As for Cobra, the tv series follows the comic more closely. The movie gets pretty surreal. Although I like that about it.
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Ok thanks. I'll take a look.
I didn't mind that cobra was surreal. I actually really liked that. I think the story itself was kind of out there and flimsy.