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[Mister Sinister]

Good bump. LOL at you only seeing Akira for the first time in 2005.

I tried to get into Gundam 00 when they show AniMondays on SyFy, but the plots are always so deep, so political, that if you wait a few weeks between episodes, you get kind of lost.

Still haven't seen any Eva. What did you like about the new movies? I remember hearing how that show was a weaker Gundam.

Victory is a good Gundam series to start with. I used to suggest 0079 (First Gundam) as a starter, but then I remembered, Oh, wait, 0079 came out in the 70's and has parts where it's ing ridiculous. Victory is in the same timeline, but it's 80 some-odd years after 0079, so there's no way to get tied up in backstory. Good standalone, very dark, very Tomino.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I've seen Gundam Wing back in the cartoon network days, I liked it. Gundam00 was cool, just had to keep on trying to remember all the political storylines and back stories.

[Death In June]

I like a few movies, all the Myazaki stuff. Other than that, Cowboy Bebop was really good. There's just too much garbage to look through to find anything worthwhile, which has been my biggest barrier to entry.

[Mister Sinister]

I've seen Gundam Wing back in the cartoon network days, I liked it. Gundam00 was cool, just had to keep on trying to remember all the political storylines and back stories.

I can never decide how I feel about 00. The UC old in me is like, "No space colonies?! Bishounen everywhere?! this crap!" but the rest of me is like, "Interesting concept, and yeah, those designs."