Anime is a Mistake

Jojo can be pretty funny.

Hm... favorite MSG... that's tough..................

I think Stardust Memory was pretty solid... not even sure if I watched the whole thing, been awhile ish. 

I've been watching New Game! for Hifumi.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Baccano are still second to none for me.

+1 to Baccano its my second favorite anime after Spice and Wolf.

Cheers. I know about the one year war, as I've seen the 08th MS Team and I was always curious about what led to that point. I've also seen those recent OVAs MSG the Origin, but its a little hard to follow.

Well to sum it up succinctly. The Federation/Zeon War goes back to a desire for independence. The Federation has utter control over all the space colonies.

This extends from direct political controls to economic measures. For example in order to feed the people of Earth the Federation has measures in place to take food surpluses without payment.

Forgoing the fact that more than half the human race lives within space there is no input from the Sides in their rule. This is something that Zeon Sum Deikun detested. But beyond that this philosopher also put to pen something revolutionary.

The Newtype theory. This contolism thesis spoke of the next stage of human evolution being birthed in space. To explain it swiftly suffice to say that it spoke of moving all humans to space and having them respect the planet as a holy site.

These ideals would later be taken under the sway of the Zabi regime in support of the "right of the fittest." The superior race of Zeon ethos was born in the writings of Deikun.

When Deikun died and Side Three openly rebelled against the Federation in 0068 the entire Side went dark in the aftermath. The Federation placed embargoes on the remote colonies and declared it a illegal state.

The next decade saw rampant militarization on both sides.

The Federation knew that Zeon would declare war one day. And on 0079 it happened. Zeon returned from the darkness of space with a military capable of combatting the largest armed forces organization in human history.

To put it even more bluntly. This is a battle between a fascist dictatorship and a collection of self interested oligarchs to decide the fate of the human race.

There is no "good" or "bad" side to be found here. Just politics and people. Societies and cultures clashing.

The ideals of the Zabi dictatorship pitted against the greed of the 1%.

Huh, I see this thread still lives. Very good.

I'm thinking of watching Gundam Origin when I return home from the job I'm currently at. Also watched an English Dub episode of RE UC,

Iron Blooded Orphans season 2 is coming. Thoughts in spoiler.

With all this money I dunno what I'm gonna buy, but I want to snag an RG Exia and maybe an RG Zaku II.

On a somewhat related note, I used to lead a clan on Halo 5 called the Principality of Zeon. Now I might bring it back as the Zeonic Front or Neo Zeon.

Well there are a few Zeon centric works out there.

0080, the first two seasons of Igloo, more than that you have numerous manga such as the Plot to assassinate Gihren Zabi, Char's deleted affair, Thunderbolt is a recent entry that places emphasis on the Zeon perspective.

I myself am currently writing a primarily Zeon centric fanfiction set in the early One Year War period of January 0079.

While not canon at all I do include plenty of callbacks, references and lore tidbits in the narrative.

I'd be interested in reading it at some point.

Origin changed a great deal of the early UC lore but I will say this. The basis of the story remains the same.

Deikun dies under mysterious circumstance, the then Republic devolves into infighting and civil war. Much of the old Deikun camp are killed in the following days paving the way towards the Zabi dictatorship, the Principality is formed in the name of solidifying their nation and in efforts to restore order. If you listen to Degwin Zabi anyway, but a lot of the Deikun supporters were killed under his order by Gihren.

The most critical changed element however is the Federation, its presence remains in Side Three far longer in Origin then outside of it. In their timeline the Principality of Zeon isn't formed until around 74, in the standard UC timeline its formed around 69. This was done so they could feature in the Dawn Rebellion, a little military insurrection led by Char, Char is the creator's golden boy and a lot of material is added solely just to be fan wank material to him.

Thinking of Bakemonogatari, this always comes to mind.

Tell me, is it worth watching and is there anything I need to know?