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Mobile Suit Gundam - Movie II (Soldiers of Sorrow) [VHS]

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This is the second installment to the first Gundam trilogy. The movie is edited version of a TV show that is 20 years old, but the depth of the story and the characters far exceeds some of anime or even sci-fi movies today. This is the anime that changed the history of anime. This is the must see not only for anime fans, but those who thinks anime is for kids.

I've always loved the original Gundam series. And I think they're better then all the other gundams like gundam wing, 0080, f-91, etc.

This is a must see video for all of you who want to relive the past and bring back some old gundam memories. Or for those who don't know what a gundam is or for those who want to know how they first originated.

This is the second installment to the first Gundam trilogy. The movie is edited version of a TV show that is 20 years old, but the depth of the story and the characters far exceeds some of anime or even sci-fi movies today. This is the anime that changed the history of anime. This is the must see not only for anime fans, but those who shunted anime as kid stuff.

In the 02 release the sound has been re-recorded or "mastered" or something like that. Also the credit roll track has been changed in the second movie; replaced with AISENSHI from the climactic fight scene. The result was for me an unpleasant surprise. It had been a long time since I had seen the originals and I was feeling nostalgic so I rented them. I am glad i did not jut buy them straight away. It all seems out of place and just wrong. Great covers though. If you can I strongly suggest you look for an older release.

When I saw Gundam one, frankly I was a bit disapointed. Though I love Gundma and the "manga" was great, the old animation was...just hard to catch up on, and believe me I used to watch those things when I was a little kid living in Japan. But still, now that Im older you do still want some more quality then animation like this.

Turns out Im wrong, becuase Volume 2, is just great. The animation though still low quality is genrally "convincing" and the humans and interactions are realer than ever. Its not so easy to make someone impressed by poor animation, in fact the people were so convincing that I almost forgot about it being animated.

Think of it this way, Star Wars is great. But would it have done so good if it was ANIMATED? Gundam did good even though it was animated and cheap. (sorry I put it in bad context) but the point is that any GUNDAM FAN would appreciate this. Anime fans used to "Ghost in the SHell" and high quality stuff might find this a bit hard to get used to, but believe me, if youre watching Anime for something more than it being "animated" then you wont regret buying VOLUME TWO OF MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM.