#Ms igloo

[temmye-temmye]

HGUC MS-14 GELGOOG for Herbert Von Kuspen

[kazsartcorner]

EMS-10 ZUDAH

I managed to get my hands on a HG Zudah kit, a delight to build with complex and robust arms and legs, I did decide to omit the front bar on the face because I prefer the more open look.

[dangus-doo]

I draw a pen doodle every day until I forget

Day 289: GM Camouf (MS Igloo 603)

I was telling my friends about GMs today, and we got to talking about the GMs that Zeon used. The GM camouf is my favorite! A Zeon machine (that reminds me a little too much of the Zudah) that is designed to look like a Federation GM. It worked so well that it got blown up by Zaku’s upon returning from it’s mission. And it got to keep it’s sick monoeye! Good GM, this one!

[kocurek1921]

I firmly believe we need more shows representing "low level personel having to deal with ailing, progressively more disconnected from reality management" subgenre of fiction.

Feel free to suggest examples if you have any.

[youreaclownnow]

just a quick doodle of one of my fave zeon creations, BIG RANG

[kerbrobro]

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[holmslice69art]

[laurarolla]

Sure, why not.  Some of my general thoughts on some Gundam works I like (part 1 of Ɐ basically)

Something I often find annoying in some modern Gundam stories is the concerted effort to either absolve one side or another of their various atrocities, or to pile on with war crime after war crime to make it clear either who the real bad guys are, or to balance the scales for the audience.  Anyone with some pretty basic media literacy can figure out that the Federation and Zeon are both pretty awful, but perhaps the idea that even the elderly man who wanted his society to be better choosing to exploit children as weapons didn’t make it clear how deep the rot really was.  You don’t need to add really overt uses of child soldiers in Thunderbolt to accentuate how garbage the Federation is, especially not if it comes at the cost of trying to humanize the ruthless sociopath that is Io Fleming.

Anyway, this post is about something of an exception to my general attitude in the case of MS Igloo, a 6 episode OVA using poorly aged CGI that was made specifically for IMAX screens. As a small note, the 3 episode sequel will not be showing up in future posts about things I like.

MS Igloo tells the story of the 603rd Technical Division through the eyes of Oliver May, an engineer who believes his work holds the key to Zeon’s victory of the oppressive Federation forces.  The story, framed entirely from Oliver’s perspective and attitudes, shows Zeon struggling to find something that could have the chance of turning the tide.  The first episode features the 603rd getting an already abandoned weapon dumped on them, and that will end up being the case for the entire first half of the series.  From the big useless space gun to the horrifically flawed Zudah mobile suit, the team is used by their superiors for propaganda at best and as a dumping ground for wasted resources at worst, leading up to the eventual introduction of Zeon’s ultimate desperation weapon: the Oggo, an armed space construction machine intended to be piloted by children. In spite of seeing his superiors send him doomed projects and war crimes for him to legitimize through his “research,” Oliver ends the series still completely enthralled by the illusion of Zeon that he was fed from before the day he even joined the military.  This results in MS Igloo having a vibe not unlike “Triumph of the Will,” where while watching it, you can feel the mechanisms that would convince those of the era to support the atrocities of the Third Reich while the knowledge of history creates a sickening twist inside you.  We watch someone so completely indoctrinated that even his superiors telling him TO HIS FACE that the Zabi Regime is full of shit does nothing to change his attitude.  The exploitation of children and the death of his comrade’s younger brother under his command do nothing to make him step back.  When it’s all said and done, Oliver is too far gone.  MS Igloo is a tragedy wrapped in the coat of a triumph.

The most unfortunate thing about MS Igloo to me, however, is that I can’t tell if that was on purpose.  MS Igloo has an aesthetic that feels reminiscent of 0083, a series that felt at times a bit too... reverential of its WWII inspirations.  Most of the 603rd’s projects have Germanic names, and the outfits go pretty Hugo Boss if you catch my meaning.  This makes sense due to them having the same director, Takashi Imanishi.  I’m left conflicted on the works he’s created in the Universal Century due to the aesthetic choices that keep showing up, but I am drawn to a few of the projects he has worked on over the years.  I am therefore left wondering if my internal conflicted feelings are perhaps the point after all.

[die-nasty-warriors]

when u ask a man what kind of underwear he wears

[sarkos]

I still think Narrative naming their knockoff of Monique Cadillac as "Erika Yugo" is hilarious, and it's a crime they're trying to stick to Hugo as the romanization

[iftadwascool]

its called Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO because Igloo a military term for a ammunition depot. which, i guess, you can extrapolate into them being a depot of experimental weapons or something.

either way, the logo looks cool

[scanline-angel]

There’s no peaceful end for those of us who belong to a long gone age. I’ve just finished Gundam MS Igloo 1 (The Hidden One Year War & Apocalypse 0079), it was an excellent series displaying the Zeon side of the One Year War. Anime News Network described the cast of the series as the last of the cowboys, and it’s an apt title for this small, unimportant crew. They won me over and had me praying for their individual success even though they were Zeon soldiers at the end of the day.

[sulettaofficial]

My ~ partner ~ and I are in the middle of watching MS IGLOO and we are just...suffering. When I say "in the middle of watching", I mean we've finished disc 1 and we're not moving on to The Origin until we finish. But we haven't watched more of IGLOO in at least a month.

I thought it would be really neat to see "The One Year War from the perspective of Zeon soldiers." But the first three episodes have just been "New Experimental weapon gets tested and destroyed." And there's just something about it that's...it just doesn't draw me in. I really really hope the next two discs are more interesting for me ;___;

[dangus-doo]

I draw a pen doodle every day until I forget

Day 226: EMs-10 Zudah (Mobile Suit Gundam Igloo)

I had never heard of MS Igloo before, but I found a video essay explaining it on YouTube. I love the Zudah! It’s such a cool looking mobile suit, and I feel bad that it can’t help but explode upon overuse. Poor thing deserves better! I’m gonna see if I can get my hands on a Gunpla of it!

[emonychan]

MS IGLOO may be boring, but at least it's got cuties.

[youreaclownnow]

finally drew my lesser known fave boy, Oliver May from MS Igloo