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Anonymous10/05/25, 02:05No.23562504
How will the Ukraine war influence the next gundam show/movie?
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Anon10/05/25, 02:11No.23562513
there will be a gundam pilot that becomes a hero until the people find out he doesn't exist and then they just shrug
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Anon10/05/25, 02:28No.23562535
Both sides will be using the same MS just in different colors. Rebels will disable a not-Zaku via FPV drone with a mortar round taped to it. Also, cope cages for the head units. And the soundtrack will entirely be dadrock because for some reason that's the music of choice for Ukrainian drone kill montages. Although being serious, I'd actually really like to see not just Gundam but more military fiction in general get more into the defense logisitics side of things. That's by far the thing I've found most interesting from the limited following of the conflict that I do. I missed a trick not studying that kind of shit in college, just didn't know that nothing satisfies my 'tism like a well functioning, international munitions supply line.
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Anon10/05/25, 04:33No.23562815
A third party sick of both goes to war with both fractions
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Anon10/05/25, 06:02No.23562898
Drones(even more then wing),ERA, and mad max add-on armor
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Anon10/05/25, 06:32No.23562935
There are a few main technological/political themes that should be covered, in the same way that IBO had major themes of rebel groups/PMCs that were common in conflicts of the 2010s like the Syrian Civil War and Donbass War.First, the breakdown of international order needs to be a major emphasis in the show. Space-Ukraine being failed by the feckless Space West would echo some of the Federation's incompetence from 0079, and also mirror the apprehensiveness and outright hostility of the Biden and Trump governments toward Ukraine respectively. This can be contrasted with Space Russia having transactional but loyal allies who provide it with essential supplies (Space Iran and China) and hordes of disposable troops (Space North Korea).Second, the democratization of mobile suit technology needs to be a major focus of the show. Drones in Ukraine are constantly being updated by frontline units and dozens of startups who pump them out by the thousands every month. This can be emphasized by devoting time towards the development of countermeasures by the main cast and villains throughout the show at a rapid pace. In addition, re-purposing donated gear for new tactics (like the Patriot battery ambushes Ukraine pulled off), could be used to have old gundam concepts like funnels pulled off in a new way.Third, would be the importance of adapting to changing battlefield conditions with new ways of motivating soldiers and propaganda. For example, Ukraine recently implemented a system where regiments gain "points" for high value kills with drones that can then be exchanged for high tech gear and new drones. The usage of mercenaries and penal legions by Space-Russia could be shown to contrast with how IBO depicted mercenaries.
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Anon10/05/25, 09:53No.23563072
Already did
>cope cages
>tank track armor
>wooden logs armor
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Anon10/05/25, 10:09No.23563080
The protagonist will be a tranny
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Anon10/05/25, 10:23No.23563100
They fight only on Earth, duh.
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Anon10/05/25, 11:44No.23563185
I remember reading somewhere that military analysts were surprised at the performance Ukrainian personnel considering their average age is 45.
Looking it up the average Russian soldier has also gotten a lot older rising to 38 after burning through a lot of younger troops early on in the war.Gundam likes to have teenagers as pilots so maybe an aged up cast next time.
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Anon10/05/25, 20:13No.23563742
funnels. funnels everywherei think if they really wanted to do it, they'd have to have it be a war where gundams have to contend with becoming obsolete in a battlefield that is more and more dominated by cheap remote controlled beam weapons.
it'd be like how in the one year war mobile suits fundamentally changed warfare.
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Anon10/06/25, 01:14No.23564105
People keep posting about how drones would change everything like super heavily armored vehicles that can't be penetrated by regular anti-tank weapons, and can operate entirely independently with fully sealed cockpits+surround cameras and manipulators aren't the direct counter to them. Many mecha settings already have crazy good ams systems for taking out massed expendable weapons. You're putting up today's problem against tomorrows solution.Besides, farewell to weapons already had drones vs mechs and it was excellent, and a lot more fun as a back and forth combat than any masturbatory "what if da gundam trip over and die and soldiers say heh what hubris, drones are the future!".
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Anon10/06/25, 03:32No.23564296
Hopefully they wont because it would be terrible because ukraine is terrible. I'm sick of these thinly disguised /pol/ bait threads too on every board lately. What is up with that?
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Anon10/06/25, 19:16No.23565132
I don't think we will see a Russia-Ukraine inspired /m/ show in this timeline. The conflict is too much of a Jungian shadow for the developed world unlike wars in middle eastern or southeast asian slums.
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Anon10/07/25, 19:06No.23566339
>M'QUVE! WHERE THE FUCK ARE DOMS?
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Anon10/07/25, 22:06No.23566477
I suspect the mobile suit part will be largely the same as usual and it'll be mostly politics that are influenced. Something like both sides persisting with a hopeless war because it's good for economy and industry, funnels money and power away from common people, and gives those in power carte blanche to do whatever they want with their population under the guise of "we live in difficult times".
The most interesting thing they can do for mecha stuff is add a little roundabout about mobile suits not carrying any anti-personnel equipment and generally ignoring most infantry and "conventional" warfare unless ordered to destroy it specifically because these haven't been able to put a dent in them in a long while; followed by some breakthrough letting small portable (probably more tank-portable than man-portable considering gundams are the tanks) single-shot weapons penetrate their armor, and then a war of attrition of one side sending expendable anti-MS tanks and another sending scout teams of old surplus mobile suits that are unfit for anti-MS combat but more than enough to overwhelm tanks, and even if one gets shot it's not worth much anyway, and either its deathsquad mates or the big Gundam following behind them will clean the place up. By the end both sides kind of return to status quo- tanks become completely ineffective against scout MS, and without tanks there is no need for scout teams again.
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Anon10/08/25, 08:57No.23567025
Victory Gundam already showed us.
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Anon10/10/25, 21:38No.23570898
A third party backing the victims of the initial aggression is too paralysed by beauracracy, lack of political will and cowardice among its elite creating no end of trouble for our protagonists.Calling it now, NATOs pussyfooting is perfect Tomino material.
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Anon10/14/25, 12:42No.23575699
it would be cool if the story revolved around an ace who never existed and they kept replacing and repainting a MS to impersonate the original pilot/machine. The entire war revolves around not using nukes.
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Anon10/14/25, 12:51No.23575706
You can have the reverse of the usual gundam formula, in stead of mobile suits advancing as the war goes on, there would be regression as the modern stuff starts to run out and older stuff gets rolled out of the warehouses
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Anon10/14/25, 17:11No.23575948
Mobile Suits become outdated and some new tech becomes the king on the battlefield
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Anon10/16/25, 22:03No.23579087
>Orphee nuking Moscow as a middle finger to Putin in Gundam Seed Freedom and Eurasian Federation is in shambles right now. While the rest of the freee world is enveloped in growing calls for despotic and authoritarian solutions