Originally Posted by 66Sexy

I don't watch nearly as much anime as I used to either and I'm very highly tired of a lot of anime tropes, but the first Mobile Suit Gundam was one of the shows that made me think that I still had gas in the tank to watch more a few years ago. It has a lot of the teenage protagonist schtick you're probably used to but it's also one of the series if not the absolute core series that popularized that schtick, but because of this it's also not beholden to the rules. It's not a shonen anime genre show, it's a trend setter and there's a very good reason why it set trends. Because the teen warrior fighting a war was engaging and original enough to wow people into ruining the idea.