‘Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX’ – The Hype is in Fact Porportional to the Number of Us in GQuuuuuuX

It had all the makings of a great Gundam series between epic fights…

Political commentary…

And opening and ending themes that’d make you cry every time and also tear your hair out at the implications of the imagery.

It was also hella and unapologetically gay in the best way possible. It was very much baked into the text from the pilot, and it was one of the many ways that distinguished Witch from Mercury from its predecessors.

Suletta & Miorine

Now, my first exposure to the Gundam franchise was actually the least Gundam of all: Mobile Fighter G Gundam that bares more resemblances to a stock shonen anime than the complex spatial political drama that it takes its iconic mecha design from, but I still in fact loved it.

And up until February 26th, I only ever had passing knowledge of the Universal Century timeline outside of enjoying the Hathaway movie on Netflix. I knew some things like the difference between Zakus and Gundams, Minovsky particles, the concept of Newtypes and the ubiquity of the character archetype that originated with Char.

Char Aznable

I bring all of this up because what the trailer for Gundam GQuuuuuuX neglected to mention a very key bit of information: it takes place in an alternate timeline. When I went to the special early IMAX showing of GQuuuuuuX (pronounced …