Gundam 00, Part 1 [DVD]

Gundam 00 is a political anime. (which is a good thing in this case)However it's an action packed and HIGHLY suspenseful anime. It's set a few century's in the future where the world has become greatly advanced in medicine, and science, and no longer uses fossil fuels. With that being the case the Middle East had become impoverished. Meanwhile the world's major lands (U.S, Europe, and Asia) receive an unlimited source of energy from a solar tower that spans to outer space. Because of the infinite energy the tower gives off, the world's economy is thriving. Sadly there are countries that do not have access to the towers energy, these lands  are at war with the top countries. Therefore terrorism, and civil wars still exist in the lesser lands.  The solution to the world's largest remaining problem is to end war.  So an organization calling themselves Celestial Being, made up of mysterious people that posses the technology of Gundams (advanced mobile suits) threaten all of the world's governments, organizations, and other military groups, that if there's is any more war being waged than they will intervene unbiased and destroy them. And their main goal is simply to end all wars. Doubt is immediatley casted over Celestial Beings intentions, and their effectiveness especially since they propose such a grand gesture. However with their superior mobile suits and the element of surprise they have a clear advantage. Character development is well done. It's paced well throughout the entire 1st season as to who each of the main gundam pilots(AKA GUNDAM MEISTERS) are and what happened in their backgrounds. The action is awesome, along with the crisp and sharp animation. The emotions are not over the top and overly dramatic like certain animes. However this is a serious anime, so there is simply no humor. But this isn't a bad thing. The suspense of the show is what makes it so addicting. The 1st episode is well done but to some it may seem overly political up until the final parts of the episode where everything is made a bit more clear. (Basically what I already explained earlier) The fun part about the show is seeing  the mystery of Celestial Being unfold, and watching as they attempt to accomplish their agenda to end war. Especially seeing the reaction of the world's governments. There are very cool suprises in this show and some will catch you off guard in the most subtle ways. One of the best animes I've ever seen and  THE best mech anime I've ever seen. It is very rewarding. This is an anime that will stay on your mind long after you watch it.

Since everyone already wrote such well thought out detailed reviews I'm gonna keep short, light and simple. Great series. I already saw all of it online. Just buying it because I am and will probably always be a fan of gundam. Just one important thing. Make sure you sit and watch it from beginning to end. The copy I bought has numerous defects and problems. I had one disk which was labeled as part 1 but was actually part 2. So I had two of the same disk with different labels. I actually had bought all three season 1 sets as well as the first set of season 2. I had to contact customer care at bandai for replacement of the first 3 disk. I hope Bandai can cut this nonsense of releasing messed up disk so often. Seems to have happened with previous series as well. Aside for that minor problem, the series is great. Any gundam fan should love it. Everyone should try it out.

I first saw gundam 00 on the Sci-Fi channel when they still did the anime night shows I've been watching through out. My familiarity with the gundam shows had me caught on with this one. The show takes place in the 2307 A.D. where fossil fuel had run and humanity now relies on solar power, the mysterious organization 'Celestial Being' posses the mobile suits known as Gundam and use them to commence armed intervention on a mission 'to eliminate war'. This DVD contains two discs of the first seasons, from Celestial Beings introduction to the Human Reform League's attempt to capture a Gundam.

As a whole the first part of this gundam trinity was worth the purchase, however this one in particular arrived with a broken dislodged disk from it's holder unlike the other two forcing me to track down another copy from a nearby video story to replace it as it did not work, overall I thank the seller for his services but i had to take points of this one as it was obvious the disk was dislodged when i took it out of the package cause i hear one of the dvd's inside moving.

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I just had all of 00 imported from Japan and it has to have a rock soild foundation to ever gundam show to follow after this one. From a story point of view this would be the first one, and it pretty much answers ever question that I ever had from any other gundam show. First it showed were the so called "Newtypes" gentatlicy enahcned humans came from and why the earth hated them so much, all thou gundam seed attempted the same thing gundam 00 did a better job at it. Second there is a constent theam in all gundam shows that war is terrible and should be done away with forever, and the gundams seem to always take on this role. Well in gundam 00 it shows why the gundams always take on this mission and where it came from. Third is shows where the Federation came from and why they are always fighting the genaticly enchanced humans. Fourth it shows how humanity ended up living in space colnies, and why.Thou gundam 00 had a really great opening it flamed out really fast. The same story got repeated over and over again, it was the same battle reapeated. The cast was to big and I spent most the show trying to figure out who was who, and then they all changed. I must admit I had to rewatch the last 2 eps becsause I fell asleep.Gundam 00 is a good show and has a good foundation and sets the stage for all gundams but it gets old and the excitment of the show flames out fast.

Item had hair scraches and a few tears that were excluded from. The description. Still.. Love the show and the first disc " might" work.