Why they are small i don't understand

[Goldoni]

Is it supposed to be cute?

[TouyaShiro]

SD stands for "super-deformed". And as for the origin of the style itself, it kinda was always intended to be that way. Though I don't know if a person like you will care about all the details, it's been around for a long time - probably before many of us were even born.

At this point, I should stop questioning how often this kind of post comes up, even though I'm probably taking the bait by posting anyway.

With that being said, it seems that recent news articles and the synopsis of the plot itself seem to hint that this title in particular is actually connected to the SD Gundam G Generation series in some way, which would explain a lot about why Gundam Latreia looks and acts much like a new entry in the Phoenix Gundam lineage...

[Goldoni]

Originally posted by TouyaShiro:

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Not actual bait I was curious why they have such a weird art style, thanks for the response

[Sayla Massochist]

Originally posted by Goldoni:

Originally posted by TouyaShiro:

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Not actual bait I was curious why they have such a weird art style, thanks for the response

The series started in the 1980s on the SNES. Back then Bandai charged a premium price to license full sized depictions of MS. A company named Banpresto had the loophole idea of getting around this by redrawing the various MS into a "Chibi" (or as it came to be known Super Deformed) art style. Since then Bandai stopped the premium charge to depict full scale units but the SD Gundam franchise was popular enough that it and the art style stuck around.

[texhnolyze]

Have you been living under the rocks?

Same answer as why are there chibi artstyle of anything

[Reu]

SD's haven't really looked cute in a while, they're just smaller these days and that's it.

[AiYunXue]

SD gundam is mostly created to make the gundam it self alive as if no one pilot it there is a short anime before char counter attack called SD gundam MK I to V and at first they were suppose to be cute but as time goes SD gundam became like new standard for some people like it small but it don have pupil in their eye anymore like musha gundam. and it intend to introduce new gundam and gunpla fan to gunpla kit on easy build style and scale.

[无情杀手]

刚买， 谁愿意和小弟一起玩

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by texhnolyze:

Have you been living under the rocks?

Same answer as why are there chibi artstyle of anything

No need to be rude, OP could be new to gundam and all the stuff it implies

[Gryphman]

Originally posted by Sayla Massochist:

Originally posted by Goldoni:

Not actual bait I was curious why they have such a weird art style, thanks for the response

The series started in the 1980s on the SNES. Back then Bandai charged a premium price to license full sized depictions of MS. A company named Banpresto had the loophole idea of getting around this by redrawing the various MS into a "Chibi" (or as it came to be known Super Deformed) art style. Since then Bandai stopped the premium charge to depict full scale units but the SD Gundam franchise was popular enough that it and the art style stuck around.

I'm not sure where you got that from, but that isn't correct at all. The wikipedia entry says this.

SD Gundam originated from a contributed illustration of a junior student from Nagoya by the name of Koji Yokoi to the "Model News" magazine that Bandai was issuing in the 1980s. The illustration is of a Gundam but with an unusual proportion where the overall height of the Gundam is equal to twice that of its head. This illustration interested the chief editor and led to Koji Yokoi serializing SD Gundam in 4 frame comics in "Model News".