The book that inspired me to try reviewing I thought should be the first one I feature, Gundam Weapons: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition II End of World. This 00 based Gundam Weapons mostly focuses on the first half of the second season. Like other Gundam Weapons some of the builds are from various issues of old Hobby Japan’s but from what I gather many are new.

The Book starts with a 2 page poster one side being of the 1/100 NG 4 main 2nd season suits the other being of the PG 00 Raiser.

The first 6 builds are of the Gundam 00 Raiser, starting with the PG 00 Raiser and the PG 00 Raiser clear version, both are unmodified out of box builds. Then we have both a 1/144 HG 00 Gundam and a 0 Raiser, with the 00 having mostly gaps filled. Finally there are the 1/100 NG versions, with extensive detail and proportion modifications.

The next 2 builds are of a 1/144 HG and a 1/100 NG Cherudim Gundam, with the 1/144 unfortunately having no visible mods while the 1/100 having quite a lot. We also have for some reason a Lancia 037 Rally car model designed after Lockon’s.

The next 3 are the 1/144 HG Arios Gundam, GN Archer, and 1/100 NG Arios Gundam, and surprisingly while there is plenty of mods for the 1/144’s the 1/100 is minimal in comparison.

For the last of the main 4 we have the 1/144 HG and the 1/100 NG versions of the Seravee and Seraphim Gundam, there is only slight mods for each.

Moving away from the main 4 Gundams the book now focuses on 5 1/144 builds of other Gundams. First we have a FG 0 Gundam modded to a HG level, a Gundam Nadleeh with articulated wire hair, a Gundam Throne Drei with extra detail, a OOB GN Arms Type-D with a Dynames, and a Gundam Exia Repair made from a normal Exia.

From here on out the builds are basically all composed of antagonist suits. First we start with a mostly OOB 1/100 NG Over Flag and a 1/100 conversion Union Flag Custom 2. Afterwards we have 4 AEU Enact’s, a Demonstration type, a Katharon version, a Custom Moraria type, and a Custom Agrissa type with an actual Agrissa.

After a quick 1/200 scratch built Shuichai we get 4 Tieren kits. A 1/144 slightly modded Space Commander Type, a far more modded High Mobility Commander Type B, a 1/100 NG Ground Type, and a OOB 1/144 Sergei’s Tieren Taozi.

Next we have a in-depth look at a 1/220 scale scratch built Alvatore, followed by 3 GN-X’s and 3 Ahead 1/144 builds that are mostly OOB. Listing them off we have a GN-X, a GN-X 3 ESF Type, a GN-X 3, a Ahead, a Ahead Smultron, and a Mr. Bushido’s Ahead.

Finally the last 4 builds of the book are a OOB 1/144 Masurao, a 1/144 scratch build Arche Gundam, a OOB 1/144 Arche Gundam, and for the last one a in-depth look at a 1/100 scratch built Arche Gundam.

The last few pages are of tips on how to paint and detail a 1/144 00 Raiser as well as a ton of 00 2nd season line art.

To sum up the book if you want a comprehensive look at all the early suits in the 2nd season of 00 you should be satisfied, for me though I was disappointed. Personally I was looking for more of an emphasis on the main 4 suits with even more in depth solutions for clean OOB builds and maybe a few customized versions of them or at least the GN Heavy Weapons variants. What I got was a lot of simplified OOB’s and half of the book dedicated to suits I didn’t care for.

I bought this book for future Cherudim and Seravee builds and frankly I don’t think it helped much.