Gundam

"Fellow Earth Federation citizens! I appeal to you all. Zeon is exhausted! It is low on troops! Low on ships, weapons, and even ammunition! Why then should we surrender? Dear fellow citizens, our true enemy is no longer Zeon but our own weak leaders. Hiding behind some notion of "absolute democracy", they are reduced to absolute indecision. Why should we the survivors of this horrible war, entrust them with the power to make decisions for us!?"

"Many of your fathers and brothers have perished valiantly in the face of a contemptible enemy. We must never forget what the Federation has done to our people! These brave men have shown us these virtues through their own valiant sacrifice. By focusing our anger and sorrow, we are finally in a position where victory is within our grasp, and once again, our most cherished nation will flourish. Victory is the greatest tribute we can pay those who sacrifice their lives for us! Rise, our people, Rise! Take your sorrow, and turn it into anger! Zeon thirsts for the strength of its people! SIEG ZEON!"

"There is no other way for mankind to last forever, except by living under the direct control of "we", "the chosen, superior race of Zeon". If this war drags on, it will pose a serious threat to all of mankind. We must teach those slow-witted people of the Earth Federation a lesson they will always remember. Now is the time for mankind to stand up for the future! HAIL ZEON!"

"When making Gundam Reconguista in G, I interacted with fans for the first time in a long while, and I realised that without a doubt, there is such a thing as “present fans,” and that different people look at it in a different way. Did you know that most of the early fans of Mobile Suit Gundam, the very first in the series, were girls?"

"Those who grew up in the 1960s have at least a minimal understanding of the memories retained by Japanese people about the war that happened 20 years ago. Besides that, I was able to observe what could be called military history. Those were my basic resources."

"Mobile Suit Gundam"

"Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team"

"Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket"

"Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory"

"Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam"

"Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ"

"Mobile Suit Gundam F91"

"Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack"

"Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn"

"Mobile Suit Victory Gundam"

"Gundam Wing"

"Endless Waltz"

"Turn-A Gundam (∀ Gundam)"

"Mobile Fighter G Gundam"

"Gundam Seed"

"Gundam Seed Astray"

"Gundam Seed Destiny"

"Mobile Suit SD Gundam"

"SD Gundam Force"

"SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors"

"Last words in Gundam media"

"Did you know that most of the early fans of Mobile Suit Gundam, the very first in the series, were girls? ―That’s very surprising for a franchise such as Gundam, where you would expect most fans to be male."

"To create cinema you have to rely on the structure of each scene. Normally within each shot you tend to need two points (allies and enemies) to focus on to make it work. Such as you and I for example. However, if you are going to make a story based around a war in space, how can you frame a scene like that? As the setting itself is so vast in terms of the distances involved. So you have things like radar, which can detect an enemy's position, but that means you won't be able to get these objects into the scene. This means if things don't get closer to one another, they won't be able to fit into one shot and it would be impossible to depict the drama. To solve this problem, my team and I came up with the idea of the Minovsky particle. When this was distributed across large areas, you couldn't rely on radar or detect where the enemy might be. This meant the forces had to come closer to one another in order to fight. By inventing this particular setup, we were able to create something equivalent to the depiction of a cinematic (and theatrical) drama within this space war scenario. That meant within the next 30 minutes of the story, due to the Minovsky particles the forces had to fight in close proximity to one another. This wasn't done because I necessarily wanted to make a story based around a space war itself but was invented purely for cinematic purposes. Although this was a space war, it was possible to communicate over large distances. In terms of cinematic technique, it was possible. However, the depiction would have been too ideological or too difficult to have theatrical empathy. This meant unless the distances between the characters were closer together, it would have been difficult to express human relationships. If I hadn't been conscious of theatrical expression, then Mobile Suit Gundam would have been the same as any other type of story about war. The Minovsky particle then forced the characters to meet one another, either in joy or vengeance. It created a sense of tension, and established a dramatic atmosphere."

"While I was working on Mobile Suit Gundam over the course of 10 years I began to think about how human beings might improve and evolve. Unfortunately, I was unable to properly get this idea into the original Mobile Suit Gundam. In that, I was unable to present an adequate form of a more evolved human. Speaking in modern terms, the first cognitive revolution occurred when Homo sapiens crossed the ocean, and I wanted to depict the second cognitive revolution by going into space. In terms of describing this idea in subsequent Gundam series, I wasn’t able to do that either. In terms of the later Gundam stories I worked on, trying to show how a human might evolve into something better, it would be usually described as something like a god but that's not something I intended. Newtypes are just evolved beings and not gods. I don't think that the later Gundam series were able to adequately show what that might be. That said, about 25 years ago I tried to get at the core of this Newtype idea and it resulted in a type of human that could comprehend someone else without any misunderstanding. However, I couldn't really make a compelling story out of it. In short, it didn't become a story."

"In 1979, giant robots had a specific connotation in Japanese entertainment. The likes of Mazinger Z and the then-recent début of the first ever Super Sentai show, Battle Fever J with their own giant mech, gave the "Super Robot" genre a very specific connotation. Such mecha were fanciful, confined to children's shows and comic books fighting aliens and monsters, and as the name of the genre implied, were seen as evolutions of super powers rather than realistically designed robots to be used in military environments. Mobile Suit Gundam would change that, but not without opposition. Its depiction of not just warfare between two different factions of spacefaring humans, but its use of mechanized exosuits, the Gundams itself, as realistic tools of military warfare was completely unheard of at the time. In fact, despite critical approval, Mobile Suit Gundam was actually seen as wildly unpopular when it first aired, as audiences expected another super robot anime only to be confronted with a shockingly different approach to giant robots. It was almost canceled after 39 episodes, but after renegotiating with their sponsors, including toy manufacturer Clover, the series was extended to a run of 43 episodes and ended unceremoniously. Little did people realize, however, that Mobile Suit Gundam would spark the creation of what is now known as the "Real Robot" genre, one that dominates the portrayal of mecha in Japan even today. But before that, it had to be saved from cancellation and falling into obscurity after it ended. Surprisingly enough, it was saved by toys."

"Gundam's firm entrenchment in popular culture across the world and particularly in Japan has also been capitalized on to promote interest in engineering and future robotics technology. Not only has the term Gundam become synonymous with mecha the world over, the series has been used to inspire research and development in creating exosuits for military purpose. in 2007, the Japanese Self-Defense Force unveiled Codename: Gundam, its own plans for a mechanized power suit that would grant protection from gunfire and increased strength and mobility for individual soldiers, and last year the Japanese ministry for defense allocated $7.5 million of its 2015 budget into the research and development of Mobile Suit technology for the SDF, once again drawing comparisons between the real world and the anime franchise."

"Setsuna F Seiei's letter to Marina Ismail"

"I AM GUNDAM!"

"I...WE ARE GUNDAM!"

"I thought nothing good could come of conflict until I joined Celestial Being."

"There is no god in this world."

"While we are talking of peace, people are dying."

"Don't you know this is our GUNDAM!"

"I will end the war."

"Exia, located the targets. Have concluded that the Gundam Thrones are guilty of promoting warfare. Now beginning armed intervention. Exia will eliminate the targets."

"It's time to end this!!!"

"What am I doing?"

"Father, Mother, Amy..."

"Taking advantage of us without our express permissions is not allowed! - Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 4"

"You people are you satisfied with this kind of world? I'm not. - Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 23"

"Setsuna you will change in place of me - Mobile suit Gundam 00 Season 2, episode 15"

"The only thing you can change about the past is how you feel about it in the present. - Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2"

"Lockon Stratos, targeting and firing! - His catchphrase"

""Your brain waves and reflexes may be similar enough... but thinking at the speed you do, you'll never be able to catch up! Your movements are truly just like a lowly animal's! That's why I can read your movements. Reflexes combined with intelligence, that's what makes the ideal Super Soldier!" - Hallelujah Haptism, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 25"

""Your Kindness is just hypocrisy!" - Hallelujah Haptism, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 11"

"[To Hiling Care] "You're all so dependent on V.E.D.A.! You don't have what is takes to beat us anymore!"Hallelujah Haptism, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 50"

""You deserve ten thousand deaths" - Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 19"

""He'll come, if he's alive, then there's no doubt." - Tieria Erde, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2, episode 1"

""Is this what it means to be human?" - Tieria Erde, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 19"

""I see he is...Humanity surely is twisted." - Tieria Erde, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, episode 11"

"Celestial Being's address to the World"

""I finally came to understand it. You single-handedly stole my heart away. This feeling is, without a doubt, love! But if it transcends love, it becomes obsession!" - (Episode 25)"

""I want to embrace you Gundam!" - (Episode 15)"

""Another chance to fight the Gundam, that, Mr President was well played!" -(Episode 4)"

""Of course! You polluted my skies and stole away my brethren and my honored teacher! The ones who crushed my pride as a Flag Fighter were none other than you and Gundam! Even so, it has already passed loved and transcended hatred...It has become destiny!"- Season 2 Susanowo vs 00 Raiser"

""Why does your heart falter?! You should be saying that you're fighting for the sake of living! To continue that existence filled with contradictions, that's what it means to live!" -(A Wakening of the Trailblazer)"

""Go forth, young man! You'll live and blaze a trail to the future!" -(A Wakening of the Trailblazer)"

"[Final Words to Setsuna] "Young man! I, Graham Aker, shall guarantee that you pilot into the future! This isn't dying, this is living for the survival and future of mankind!" -(A Wakening of the Trailblazer)"

""I like that about you" Season 1, Episode 17"

""How dare you just go off and have fun like that while we're working to change the world! ... How about if you just... DIE?" Season 1, Episode 18"

"[last words, to Louise] DAMN YOU, YOU BITCH!, Season 2, episode 21"

""It's all my fault" - Saji Crossroad, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 season 2, Episode 5"

"" Tiera Erde, you are an Innovator! I don't believe that you will kill your own kind!" - Bring Stabity, in his first and final battle with Tieria Erde."

""Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - onscreen line, A Wakening of the Trailblazer"

""YOU DIE!" - Darryl Dodge, Episode 14, Season 1"

""SUCKER!" - Ali Al-Saachez's final word"

"I can still see with the backup camera; I'll rendezvous with slender now."

"You'll pay for what you did to Gene!"

"Commander, what is that weapon? I've never seen a gun like that in my life!"

"It's impossible! How can a Mobile Suit be this strong?!"

"I know... They're basically... complete novices. But as your commandant, I urge you to give them all the support they'll need to win this battle. I'll take responsibility..."

"No please... Commander Char...! Come in, come in, come in, Commander Char. Come in please, Commander Char; My Zaku is not responding!"

"Yes, Commander! No problem! I can't use my Zaku's right arm, I'll be able to use my left arm to run the Heat Hawk."

"COMMANDER CHAR! I can't seem to slow my Zaku down! COMMANDER CHAR, PLEASE BRING THE SHIP AND RESCUE ME!"

"GLORY TO THE NATION OF ZEOOOOOOOOOOON!"

"It's my arm! I can't steer, miss! (Icelina: Then I'll do it!) Miss Icelina...!"

"I take revenge for my love's honor...!"

"I'm out of ammo! No, can't be! I must- OH NO!"

"I'm sure it's storng enough to hold against a lousy gun! (Opens the airlock to fly back to his comrades.) Good, they're here."

"Let's move in!"

"That boy in the Gundam is in my way again. To think that my opponents were all children less than half my age, seems ironic. (Bright and company open the door to the second bridge) You have fought splendidly, but now you will see the ultimate fate that awaits true warriors. Now I want you to watch closely."

"Right! I'm on top of it!"

"Stop being an idiot; You have to be more resourceful when your back's against the wall, or you'll never survive in this war! Job, I need the Core Fighter, now move! (Hayato detaches the upper half of Guntank to give Jose launching space. Hayato: Ryu, but aren't you too sick to fly?) Hayato, we need everything we've got!"

"Nice kid. I really have to admit, I liked you. (blasts through the Gundam's shield and more protection.) Now this is it...!"

"Nina, I know you can... You have to please get unit 3..."

"Sieg Zeon."

"Do you understand? Even if only one man breaks through, head for the Axis fleet. So all generations will know the truth of the battle that we have fought."

"Really? I think you're more concerned about what that mistress of yours is doing."

"Who cares about the Mark II?! I'm thinking about the next one. It's guaranteed to be the best one, IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT!"

"It's just as I said to Jamaican. Don't take him lightly, Jerid, he's not a normal child at all."

"Now I see. I just said that this kid wasn't normal. This kind of judgement automatically results in hostility within my mind. I guess it's typical of us Oldtypes. We just can't help it."

"Amelia...!"

"No, my Asshimar!!!"

"Argh! You're in my way!"

"Where is he?! Huh!"

"Become leader of the A.E.U.G., Char Aznable..."

"Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up with that! (Emma removes her vernier to hand to Adol) What?"

"All of this because you had your pointless battle. [Titan Officer: Enemy Mobile Suits detected sir!] All guns prepare for anti-air!"

"I said I'd be by your side, Jerid."

"RUN, FAAAAAA!"

"Scirocco! Then this...!"

"Katz! Quick, get away! I-I can't hold it!"

"Brother, I've found you!"

"Lieutenant Gates is acting strangely. Something must've happened to Rosamia."

"Dead ahead! That's one of Scirocco's Mobile Suits!"

"Sarah? We'll be together again, won't we?"

"Lieutenant Emma!"

"Listen to me, Kamille! If it weren't for you...!"

"We're all with you, so don't feel lonely..."

"I... I won't die alone... I'm gonna take your soul with me when I go... Kamille Bidan!"

"LONG LIVE LADY HAMAN!"

"Why? It was only a kid!"

"Beloved, Roux Louka... I'll accept this from you!"

"Just like I told you, I AM CHARA SOON!"

"Reality... is so harsh... Go away! Leave me! Hurry, go! (Uso runs away from Gira's grenade) Honestly..."

"In any case, you guys are finished. The Dark Gundam's desire to eliminate humanity is still alive!"

"Hey, old friend. As you lie there sleeping in that cryogenic state, What do you think of me? Are you laughing at me for being such a fool or...? As it turns out, I couldn't win against you, from the start to the very end..."

"It's useless; Rain will never return to you..."

"Now young man. Don't be foolish...!"

"We will not yield to the Colonies! We must fight them to the bitter end! (Lady Une: Very nicely done, General Septum. We won't be needing you any further.) WHAT?!"

"Long live... KING ZECHS!"

"You act way to calm for your own good!"

"Milliardo, I will be waiting on the other side..."

"Just watch me, I am going to live right till the bitter end. I will live the hard life of a warrior! Till we meet again, Heero..."

"I am invincible!"

"ATHRUN, GET DOWN! Athrun Run..? Mother My Piano...?"

"This is it. YOU'RE FINISHED, PUNK!"

"See? Didn't I tell you I could make the impossible...POSSIBLE!"

"Now, Murrue Ramius! FIRE!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm gonna... I'm gonna ah ha ha ha ha ha!"

"Fire GENESIS... We... must... make... the... world... ours...!"

"You even helped bring this about, boy!"

"Attacking all of us! What the hell makes you so special?!"

"No, stop! Stop it please! No!"

"You like that? I bet you thought that was your own personal trick! [Sees Dynames Gundam's gun pointed at him] No!"

"Good heavens! Could I be their real target?"

"Captain, I'm proud... of the flags..."

"Father... Sa... Saji..."

"All they could send for reinforcements was one machine?"

"This can't be happening, we were meant to do this. We were born to be Gundam Meisters. This is what we...lived for."

"You who possess the GN Drives... I have way of knowing whether or not you have inherited my ideals. Nevertheless, I have decided to place my faith in you, and I'm entrusting you with my last and greatest hope: The full abilities of the GN Drive. I pray that you will continue fighting in order to attain true peace and eradicate the scourge of war form our planet. Not for the sake of Celestial Being, but of your own will, together with your Gundams."

"I am proud to be A UNION FLAG FIGHTER!"

"You, people down there, are you satisfied with the way the world is? As for me, I hate it."

"Yeah, you were..."

"You have to live out Lockon's share too. I... beg you... change... this world. Please."

"You traitor! This is the Corner family's dream! (Ribbons: That obsession is precisely what makes you such a small man.) RIBBONS!"

"What the...?!"

"You're destroying your own kind!"

"Unbelievable... What happened here was just, this is something that can never be taken back."

"Holly... Forgive me..."

"I was created for this, and forced to fight. I refuse to die like this. This isn't how I want to die! [Louise Halevy: I know, I'm sure you don't want to die. But my mom and dad weren't even given the chance to say that before you killed them!] AHHHHHH! Auuugh. Damn you, you bitch!"

"You are my hope. It's all up to you now, Banagher."

"Good night, Artesia. My sweet sweet baby girl. Good night. Good night."

"Get rid of that soft heart of yours, it doesn't become you. Listen, the political tension has put us on the verge of a bloodbath! You'll never survive if you-!"

"You filth! The Zabis sent you to do their dirty work, didn't they!"

"I have to find them! My life is riding on it!"

"Stop it! DON'T DO THIS, CASVAAAAAAAAAAAL!"

"No way! I, I'm sorry, I get it now! I'll pay you whatever you want, okay?!"

"You won't be able to dodge this! No one can!"

"That may be, but I can't take your word. I must confirm it myself."

"Forgive me, Mrs. Catherine..."

"The base! Stop it, my friends are still inside!"

"Don't tell me, are you the one in charge here?"

"HOLD ON! NO!"

"You bastards!"

"Forgive me, but I'm afraid I need your help. (Mikazuki looks curiously at the injured Crank) You see, son. I can't bring myself to end my own life. (Mikazuki ponders then aims his pistol at Crank) Thank you so..."

"It can't be! I know that Graze!"

"You've got this all wrong, Akihiro. You think we're human? Ha ha. You're a fool. It's time for you to find out first-hand, what death for human debris is really like! So are you ready?"

"I can't hear you, Orga... I have to keep going... Not here... Not now... I can't die... When this is all over...I'll go back to Mars... To Cookie, and Cracker, and put them through school... Then... we can all be... together again... So it can't happen now... I don't wanna die... I have to... keep my promise... to him... (Orga: Biscuit...) Orga...? I know tha... that we can make Tekkadan..."

"Really? Thank you... Mc...Gillis..."

"Lieutenant Crank! Specialist Major Bauduin! I will be victorious, FOR MY GOAL IS RIGHT!"

"SHIIIIT! DAMN IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! (more Gjallahorn fire hits his Mobile Suit) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Even... if it involved all of this bloodshed.? When I was in the presence of the general, I was able to dream... You see I became a member of Gjallahorn, and I went on to prove myself, but I'm still from the colonies... without the assistance of a patron... It was a subservient dream of tomorrow, such as the world we now find ourselves living in... Someone like you... a man born under the name of Bauduin... could never understand... I am the... general's..."