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Gundam — How Japanese Fans React

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What Japanese fans actually said about Gundam — new PVs, the latest episodes, and iconic scenes, pulled from Japanese YouTube comment sections and translated into English. Every quote is a real comment with its original like count, linked back to the source video.

4 reaction roundups · Updated Jul 1, 2026

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“I've never once cared about a Gundam protagonist before, but I love Suletta.”

ガンダムで主人公好きになること全然無かったけどスレッタは好き

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20 comments pulled from the comment sections of 4 roundups of this title. The selection changes every day.

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“I guess as time went on, you didn't need to be Amuro Ray to deal with them anymore.”

時代が進むにつれてアムロじゃなくても対応できるようになっていったってことなんだろうな

— @MamiamiTjadoru · 40 likesMobile Suit Gundam: Are Funnels Overpowered, or Did They Just Get Countered?

  • I guess as time went on, you didn't need to be Amuro Ray to deal with them anymore.

    時代が進むにつれてアムロじゃなくても対応できるようになっていったってことなんだろうな

  • The advance theatrical cut was probably the peak, but no question this is the most exciting, heart-pounding Gundam in years.

    先行の劇場版がピークではあったと思うが 近年 最もワクワクと心躍ったガンダムであることは間違いない

  • For 'cheap but high-quality,' I think it's the HG Genoace. The AGE Federation suits in general are loaded with kits that are cheap, move well, and have great molded-in color separation.

    安くて完成度が高いのはHGジェノアスだと思う AGE連邦系は安くてよく動いて色分け良好なキットが多い

  • The protagonist had way more mental fortitude than I expected. I figured the masked mother was going to be a worse-than-Franklin garbage parent, but she actually had real love in there. I braced for a hopeless story, and instead everyone — side characters included — pulled their own minds back together and it landed on a reasonably happy ending. And Chuchu, despite how she looks, turned out to be a real stand-up gal.

    思ってたより主人公が強メンタルだった 母親がマスクとか、フランクリン超えのクソ親かと思いきや、割と愛情あった 救いのない話になるかと思いきや、脇役含めて皆自力でメンタル立て直してそれなりにハッピーエンドになった チュチュパイセンが見た目に反して割と男前だった

  • By Char's Counterattack they were already treated as just a support weapon. It's only that perm-head and slicked-back hair were insane enough to be brawling in their MS AND dogfighting each other with Funnels at the same time — the tech was already on its way out.

    逆シャアの時点で補助武装的な扱いだったもんな 自分らもMSでバチバチにやり合いながら互いのファンネルでドッグファイトやってる天パとオールバックがおかしいだけで、もう廃れかけてたんだ

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  • At first the mobile suit designs made me lose my mind, but the finale made it click.

    最初はモビルスーツのデザインに発狂したが、最終回見て納得した

  • The HG Gundam Aerial. The protagonist's mobile suit always gets the most effort poured into it, and you can feel it — it's superb. For older stuff, I'd say the HG Genoace and the MG Nemo, for sheer buildability and how cleanly everything fits.

    HGエアリアル やはり主役機の気合の入り方は素晴らしかったですねえ 古いのだとジェノアスとMGネモ 作りやすさと収まりの良さ的に

  • The ending did feel like Miorine sort of forced it to wrap up. Even so — yuri label aside — I love Suletta and Miorine so much, just as two people who are partners, that I could watch them forever (*´ω`*)

    最後はミオリネが無理矢理終わらせた感がある それでも、スレッタとミオリネの2人は百合だからとか関係無く人間のパートナーとして永遠に見ていられるくらい好き(*´ω`*)

  • As time went on mobile suits just got faster and Funnels couldn't keep up → Funnel Missiles → after that the psycommu itself got specialized for controlling a high-mobility machine, and all-range attacks died out. In F91 the tech as an autonomous guided weapon, decoupled from psycommu control, got carried over into the Bugs. The Rafflesia's Tentacle Rods evolved that same Bug tech into semi-autonomous operation plus enhanced-human brainwave control, so it can move an absurd number of them at once. Seabook taking those on and downing them in a single MS is honestly nuts…

    時代が進んだら普通にモビルスーツの速度が上がってファンネルじゃ追いつかなくなった→ファンネルミサイル→その後サイコミュそのものが高速で機動する機体のコントロールに特化してオールレンジ攻撃が廃れていった F91でサイコミュ操作と切り離した自律誘導兵器としての技術がバグに受け継がれた感じかな ラフレシアのテンタクラーロッドはバグと同じ技術で半自律稼働&強化人間の脳波コントロールでものすごい数を同時に動かせる方向で進化してる あれをMS1機で捌いて落とすシーブックが大概おかしい…

  • "Fun to watch week to week, but I'll pass on a second run." That's genuinely the right take.

    毎週見る分には楽しかったけど、2週目はいいかな。が本当に良い評価だと思う

  • The one that recently blew me away is the HGUC Gustav Karl (the version from Gundam 00). Using clever gimmicks to deliver good proportions AND a wide range of motion at the same time — that's just brilliant engineering.

    最近組んで感動したのはhgucグスタフカール00 ギミックを用いてプロポーションと可動域を両立してるのが素晴らしい

  • At the time, the wave of "Lycoris Recoil refugees" crashing in and actually growing the new-viewer base was hilarious — and then YOASOBI's "Shukufuku" going stupidly viral and pulling in even MORE people was even funnier.

    当時リコリコ難民が押し寄せてきて結果的に新規層増えたの草だったしその後YOASOBIの祝福がクソバズって更に増えたのも更に草

  • I mean, a Jegan with just a few extra parts can close the distance into melee against them. (Granted, pulling that off still takes serious skill.)

    ちょっと装備増やしただけのジェガンに接近戦まで入られる程度の性能だしね。 (なお入る側も技量はだいぶ必要)

  • Never thought the Gyan could be made that beautiful.

    ギャンがあんなに美しくなるなんて

  • If I'm forced to list flaws: the inside of the shield is hard to paint (a brush gets you there), the shield-to-arm joint has a risk of breaking (shave the peg down a touch so it pops off easily instead), and the hollow molding on the soles (just fill it with putty). That's about all I can come up with.

    欠点を強いてあげるなら ・シールド内部が塗装しにくい(筆ならいける) ・シールドと腕の接続部の破損する危険性あり(軸を少し削り、逆に外れやすくすればいい) ・足裏の肉抜き穴(パテで埋めりゃええ) ぐらいしかない

  • It's like Revolutionary Girl Utena simmered in a Gundam-flavored broth with a dash of Valvrave spice. And the awkward part is, the scenes doing their own original thing are more fun than the ones paying homage to the old Gundam shows.

    少女革命ウテナにガンダム味のスープ入れてヴァルブレイヴのスパイス入れて煮た様な作品。 困ったことにガンダムシリーズ旧作のオマージュ入れるより、独自路線のシーンの方が面白いのですよね。

  • "Just mount them on a warship and put the Newtype up on the bridge" — I've thought that the whole time.

    「戦艦に乗せてニュータイプは艦橋におけばいいのに」はずっと思ってる

  • A three-legged Dom, a GM that's basically a Gelgoog, a Psyco Gundam as a living God Warrior weapon. The way it smashed established concepts was wild.

    三本足ドムとかジムなゲルググとか生体兵器な巨神兵サイコガンダムとか既存の概念破壊が凄まじかった。

  • The MG Narrative Gundam Ver.Ka is sooo good — everything about it is just too perfect.

    MG verKaナラティブガンダムはいいゾォ全てが完璧すぎる

  • The way Guel's popularity climbed up from rock bottom is just hilarious lol

    グエル人気が底から上がっていったのホント草

Editor's note

This is the multi-generation hub: veterans relitigating whether funnels were overpowered (they got hard-countered, actually), GQuuuuuuX viewers calling it the most fun they've had with Gundam in years, and gunpla builders being gloriously rude to each other about the best kit ever made.

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Where do the Japanese reactions to Gundam come from?
From the comment sections of official Japanese YouTube channels. We pull top comments, quote real posts only, and show the actual like counts at the time of collection.
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Each article keeps the original Japanese alongside the English translation. We adapt slang so it reads naturally, but we never change the meaning or invent quotes.
How often are new Gundam reactions added?
The site updates daily. Whenever Gundam has a new trailer, episode, or piece of news, a fresh roundup lands on this page — 4 so far.