r/Anime's beginner recommendations

If we're talking strictly about the original Gundam setting, "Universal Century", I'd recommend these:

The original Gundam series from 1979.

Gundam Zeta

Gundam ZZ

Char's Counterattack (movie)

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.

War in the Pocket

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.

Stardust Memory

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.

Gundam Unicorn

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.

Gundam: The Origin

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).

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