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Recommend Gundam
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If we're talking strictly about the original Gundam setting, "Universal Century", I'd recommend these:
The original trilogy ("but there's four that's not what the term trilogy means
" shut the frick up) of Gundam. The bare essentials. Some say you can skip ZZ and go straight to CCA, but those people are r-slurred and should be ignored.
A short standalone six episodes series set during the original series. Can be watched independently, but spoils the ending of the original series. Probably the single most recommended series.
A shorter series that takes place between the original series and Zeta, but made years later and intended to be watched after Zeta. Anyone who tells you to watch Gundam chronologically is r-slurred and should be ignored. Don't watch before Zeta.
Char's counterattack is generally seen as the finale of the original Gundam storyline with Rey and Amuro, and Unicorn is a fanservicey extra. Takes place a few decades later, ties up some additional loose ends, and is basically meant the be proper end.
The Origin is the prequel to the original series that shows the backstories of many of the original characters, their childhoods, how they got to where they are, what happened for the events of the original series to happen, etc. It's a fanservice series for people who really like the setting and the characters. No point in watching if you haven't seen at least the original series.
Things are a lot more complex than this when you start including "late UC" setting like F91 and Victory (my personal favorite), but I tried to keep it simple. then there's a billion alternate universe Gundam series (almost all of which are bad), which basically only share one thing in common with these is that they have giant robots named Gundams but nothing else, and then there's also Turn A Gundam (my second favorite series) which is simultaneously a sequel to every single Gundam series, and Gundam Reconguista in G, which is either a sequel or a prequel to Turn A Gundam (conflicting information).
If you want to watch alternative universe Gundams, the best ones (and by best ones I mean my personal favorites) are Mobile Fighter G Gundam (martial arts tournament where people fight using Gundams) and After War Gundam X (a "what if" story where there was a war similar to the original Gundam series but no one won it, the world was basically destroyed and it's a post-apocalyptic setting).
There's also a few shows that take place during the original series like MS-IGLOO, 8th MS Team, but most of these are pretty bad and not really worth watching unless you're really desperate for more Gundam content. Only one of these I really liked is Thunderbolt. All of them are better than modern AU slop like Iron Blooded Orphans, at least.
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I appreciate the recommendations all but I was saying Gundam should be recommended to people asking for anime.
I've already watched all this lol
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its the fault of other people giving you gundam recs
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08th MS Team
0080 War in the Pocket
0083 Stardust Memories
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