Penguin Truth's Somewhat Incomplete Gundam Tier Chart Part 1: Do Not Want

MY SOMEWHAT INCOMPLETE GUNDAM TIERS CHART. Tier Review: God Tier - High Tier - Mid Tier - Low Tier - Shit Tier Now, the concept of ranking anime programs via tiers is a pasttime of the people on 4chan. Well, actually, they do it with various types of media, and even people and music. Usually tiers lead to a lot of shitstorms, though, and generally tier threads are (and should be treated as) troll threads. Tier threads are absolutely awful, mostly because the rankings go unexplained and they lack the nuance of a more ordered numbering system. Still, those tier charts are tempting to attempt. So, with Gundam anime, I've decided to compromise, and try my hand at one of these things, but also provide reason for my decisions as to where to rank each entry. Now, as I have yet to finish watching some of these, or haven't watched one or two for a long while, the list remains "open" to a degree. There's some possibility for mobility, as well as reconsideration for most of what's on here. So keep that in mind when you're reading this. Tier charts are usually divided into a few different tiers. Here I've divided it into the popular ranks of "God Tier", "High Tier", "Mid Tier", "Low Tier", and "Shit Tier". "God Tier" being the tier in which, in my opinion, the best Gundam anime are in, whereas "Shit Tier" has the worst Gundam has to offer. Since I enjoy ending on a high note, let's begin with the worst of the worst, the Shit Tier. SHIT TIER Shit Tier is where the most terrible garbage I've witnessed from the Gundam franchise is. Now, I don't bother ranking something like Superior Defender, as that's a show for very young children, and I lack any and all sensibility to rank such a show. Instead, you first find (reading from left to right) the program Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. This is a show so abominable, they had to try really hard to do worse (but hey, they succeeded!). Aside from the unispired character and mechanical designs, I found myself scratching my head at why any viewer would sympathize with the plight of the dull main protagonists or by extension the "Coordinators", bred to be superior to natural humans ("Naturals") in nearly every way by the wealthy elite. I think I'd be pretty pissed off at the existence of Coordinators if I were a Natural in that world, too. The only saving grace is that the Coordinators are too dense to realize how better they are, because they're too busy listening to an obnoxious pop idol. That's like if we had scientists who had the cure to AIDS on hand but never publicized it because they were too busy attending Miley Cyrus concerts. Coordinators are pretty dumb for a superior breed of humans. Death to them all, I say. Add to this the watering down of ever-present Universal Century tropes, the creepy gleam of every surface available in that world, even dirt, pink explosions, and beam spam, and you have a real stinker of a Gundam series. But oh, it gets worse. I guess (hack) director Mitsuo Fukuda decided that one travesty wasn't enough, he and wife (and lead writer of this crap) Chiaka Morosawa decided a sequel was in order. The result was Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, which accomplishes new levels of awfulness never seen before in animation. It has all the flaws of the original- bad character designs, bad writing, dull characters, uneven action, clip episodes, ADD pandering, and the failure to keep dead characters dead- but managed to turn the suck volume up way high with it's new cast of even less charismatic characters. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your disposition, they were eventually ignored in favor for the continuing adventures of the cast from the original show. Well, let's be honest. The first "main cast" of this show was never really the main cast. The first fourteen or so episodes focused on Athrun Zala and the rest on Kira Yamato. Still, I can't help believing it would be even worse had the intended (?) main character Shinn Asuka actually been so, because as bad as Kira is, Shinn is just so much less tolerable. It made me chuckle at his misfortunes, no matter how grave they were. I only managed to get through this program by gritting my teeth and dreaming of the day I would express these very sentiments for you, the reader of this. Why? Why? Why was G-Saviour made? Are these video game cut scenes? Is this a sentai program? What is the purpose of this movie, aside from showing just what a bad idea a live-action adaption of Gundam is? It seems like the whole thing was made for some kind of sit down amusement park ride. Robot Jox looked better than this. TO BE CONTINUED - Penguin Truth

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