Warning this review may contain spoilers.

First impression, so being a fan of the grandma franchise in general I decided to check the Gundam that started it all and to see what some of the old school fans where talking about.

Story, 7/10
Far into the descent future,
Mankind as developed the technology that can allows people to live in space colony's Known as sides,
As one of these colony's desire independence from the earth federation
And so comes the birth of the principality of Zeon who decides to launch a brutal war of independence ageist the earth federation,
With the help of there humanoid robots known as mobile suits,
Nine months pass and the earth federation has developed there own mobile suit called a gundam, when the zeon forces launch an attck on the colony where the gundam is held, are Main character amuro Ray a young youth is forced into action as he becomes the pilot for the gundam which throws him into a conflict that's takes him all across space and earth with the crew of the battle ship (white base),
While gaining an arch rival from the zeon forces called char aznable.

Now you're probably thinking that's sounds kind of boring,
What's the big deal about this exactly,

Well I am glad you asked,
Because when gundam first come out it pretty much revolutionized the mechca
Genre and pretty much set the ground work for many of the tropes and cliches that have been a staple in quite a few mechca titles and there are a lot of shows today's that can draw a lot of parallels that started with gundam,
It also introduces politics and other elements that where that weren't used that much when it first came out,
Because a lot of mechca shows around that time where mostly doing this episodic super robot vs monster of the week formla,
While gundam decided let's have plot continuity, let's have human vs humans conflicts, let's add politics and while we are at it let's add people who can gain psychic like powers called new types.

But in retrospect when you strip away its historical importance,

gundam (0076) is pretty much this simple and smooth decent war drama that is talking about little bears and bones of what happens when soliders fight or die,
It's pretty much a critic on war.

I like it for its simplicity and the fact it never try's to over complicate everything,
But the problem is that's it's to broad to have a really overall focus,
And it's has quite a few things that really hold it back,
Like it gets a little to much at times with its human Drama element,

But it's kind of justified that these people are involved in war and that can be very stressful, but I do believe at times they really did overblow it,

Another thing I found that the story can be very dry and boring at times,
But on the plus side it's takes itself seriously enough especially with the subject matter it's topic at hand,
And has some pretty good pacing.

Characters, 7/10

The Main character amuro Ray,
He is this very chill kind of guy that's kind of good with technology,
He kind of like someone who grew up in the boomies or something along those lines,
As he starts getting more involved in this war and loose more of his frends,
He starts to go through some development,
Because he starts to develop some psychological issues and after some soul searching he starts to mature and realizes that's he may not what to do this but has to in order to protect what important to him.

We also have a very wide supporting cast of characters for both sides of the conflict,
Like for example bright Noa or char aznable,
Which make it a lot more interesting and morality Gray.

So it's not always about fighting cartoony evil bad guys just because
most of the characters for the most are quite two dimensional,
They all have a good reason for doing what there doing,
Some of them go though some development and fleshing out,

But the negative is that quite a lot of them i can't really remember who they are or what there propose was,
And also the fact that most of these characters are done in a very dry way,

But over all the characters where likable and I didn't find any of them bad per say.

Art,5/10

The animation is very dated and hasn't really aged that,
Which isn't that shocking when the show is about 30 years old,
But I guess should be expected since Japan didn't have much money around that time,
The backgrounds are very gritty,
The artwork has this old school 50 scientist fiction style to it which was quite nice,

The characters designs where quite fresh for me especially because I am used to the more modern style of character designs,
But probably when they came they were probably the norm,

I also really like the mechca designs as well,
They kind of remind me of the old 80s cartoon with that had robots or something along those lines I used to watch as a child.

Sound, 5/10

The opening and ending song was pretty much a product of its time,
And that doesn't make it bad,
but sadly I am not really into the old school 70s op per day,
But I found both of them nice to hear,
It's just not my thing.

The ost was on point most of the time,
It's just I didn't really like any of what that where playing.

Enjoyment, 6/10

I found gundam a very interesting and honest show that covers all the basics of what war can do do to a person or people,

So in that regard I really did enjoy it,

But sadly what really held back my enjoyment is the fact everything is so fucking dry,
It's like sand paper dry.

Overall, 7/10

If your looking for a good war drama or a mecha title that's takes itself very seriously then gundam is for you,

But if your into shows that look nicer or shows that aren't dry then probably look for something else,
Because gundam by today's standards looks pretty ugly and the whole show just comes of dry.