Gundam 00: Why I love this Gundam Series

Gundam 00 is the an addition to the successful long running franchise of Sunrise's Gundam franchise. The series has two seasons and each season features the different exploits of a group called Celestial Being and their campaign to "completely eradicate war and conflict" in the face of the earth. Well, I am going not to give you a synopsis of the series but review the series and somehow explain to the newbies the series itself.


To begin with, I would like to start of with the things that I liked about the series:


1.) The GN drives. Why? I have not seen a gundam series that the gundams had built its core to its engines. Gundam Wing's gundams was based on the gundamium alloy that was used as the mobile suit's armor. 00's gundam's are built in the engines that powers them, the GN Drives. The GN Drive is a semi-perpetual power generator that produces the GN Particles used by mobile suits with their weapons and armor. The whole explanation about the GN Drives can be googled online, but the phrase, " semi-perpetual power generator" sounds like wow. Have you see Iron Man movie 1 and 2? Yep. The GN Drive is somehow similar to the arc reactor that Tony Spark uses as an engine to this Iron Man Suit. The good points: think about having the sun as the core/center of your Engine and as your fuel, an immortal power generator that doesn't need an outside fuel. Just like the Sun. Hence, that's why the GN Drive is also known as Solar Furnace. The bad point: this is an anime series and somewhat this technology is still far from being realized or just plain impossible. But the thought of having a power generator like this one makes you think, forget fossil fuel, think green, choose GN Drives. :D

GN Drives: The power source of Gundams..


2.) Solar power generation. The gundam 00 series starts off with the depletion of fossil fuel and about the earth looking for a new power source. This time the world turns to new fuel power, the fuel is the Sun's light itself. Officially known as the Orbital Elevation system, the structure was designed as a renewable alternative to the dwindling fossil fuel supplies. (wikipedia.org) Its like having GIGANTIC solar panels out in the space, collecting energy then being sent back to earth via a very very long tube attached to it. good points: it points out fossil fuel can be depleted any time soon and we need to have a new fuel source to keep us up. Its kinda doable. The series kinda pushes for a renewable, safe energy source rather than depend on fossil fuels.

Solar Panels.


3.) The Plot. As they say, plots from anime series' are just fictional but Gundam 00's plot is different from other robot-themed anime series. The series takes place in 2307 A.D., where man has been able to reach space and made colonies to live in. Mobile Suits (if you're not a fan of mecha animes, Mobile Suits are Giant Human like robots and a human pilots it just like a fighter plane) have now replaced conventional fighter planes and most tanks. But, still earth is still plagued with war. Then, a private armed organization called, Celestial Being stepped in performed their armed intervention between battles and wars armed with their super-advanced Gundam Mobile suits. Their objective is simple:  to rid human kind of the scourge of war. Wow, sounds interesting. The plot is easy to understand and is realistic because its like the world today, still plagued with war, some nation makes with the other to conquer, some for justice, some for religion and other stuff. This plot makes the viewers look at the world at hand and realize the importance of understanding if we truly want peace to reign.

Aeolia Schenberg - Founder, Celestial Being; Inventor- GN Drives.

So, there you have it. The top 3 reasons why I love Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series. Hope you can watch it! :D