A great Anime for those who can sit through it. (Possible Spoilers)

Yerkman

G Gundam is a very unique version of the whole Gundam series.  Instead of sitting cockpits like in most of the other gundam tv series, the cockpit is based for martial arts style fighting.

Alright, basicly earths people now live up in colonies, and they have a gundam fight tournament to choose who will rule for a while.  It sounds like a simple little plot but it gets better.

The main characters are Domone Kashuu, a fighter from Japan, and his crew member and friend, Rain Mikamura.  They go around beating up other gundams from other countries,with their own, the Shining Gundam. And everyone is just dandy.

The characters are good, and develope pretty well once you see the end. The Story altogether is like a mystery.  Most of it isn't revealed until the middle.  The Gundam designs are clever, and the villian (or who I concider the villian) is the best one I've ever seen.

The main villian is a Gundam named "Devil Gundam" (Or how the American cencors call it "Dark Gundam") It's basicly a gundam that thinks and acts on its own, using the 'pilot' as a power source instead of as a master.  The Gundam can self regenerate, and self evolve (each evolution being more disturbing and freaky then the last. In the last few episodes, the Devil Gundam brings the great dramatic effect by taking Domone's partner.

I can honestly say this is one of my anime favorites, because it has mystery from episode 1, to the last fight on 49.  Go see for yourself.

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Yerkman 8 August 2003

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