{"id":8,"date":"1999-08-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-08-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/1999\/08\/24\/ask-john-can-you-explain-gundam-to-me\/"},"modified":"1999-08-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-08-24T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-can-you-explain-gundam-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-can-you-explain-gundam-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Can You Explain Gundam To Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlright. Can you PLEASE explain Gundam to me (not necessarily story line, which I pretty much get). What order should one view this series? How many series are there in Japan? What are they in order? I understand the three movies are condensed versions of a first season? Is that correct? Gundam 79, 80, 83, W, Destiny, which is what and in what order??!?!?!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nWell, this is really a gigantic question considering that Gundam itself is virtually a genre unto itself. To begin with, the Gundam anime appeared in roughly this order: Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, first three movies (which re-cap the first TV series), MS Zeta Gundam, MS ZZ Gundam, fourth movie &#8211; Char&#8217;s Counterattack, 0080 OAV series, 0083 OAV series, Gundam F91 movie, V Gundam TV series, G Gundam TV series, Gundam Wing TV series, MS 08th Team OAV series, Gundam Wing OAV series, Turn A Gundam TV series. The main Universal Century continuity proceeds roughly in the following continuity order: Gundam TV series or movies 1-3, OO80 OAV series, MS 08 OAV series, 0083 OAV series, Zeta Gundam then ZZ Gundam TV series, Char&#8217;s Counterattack, Gundam F91, then V Gundam. All of the other Gundam TV series are non-continuity, self-contained series. There are also condensed movie version of 0083, Gundam Wing OAVs and MS 08 Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Alright. Can you PLEASE explain Gundam to me (not necessarily story line, which I pretty much get). What order should one view this series? How many series are there in Japan? What are they in order? I understand the three movies are condensed versions of a first season? Is that correct? Gundam 79, 80, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}