Also, what follows has literally no information in it about where to get started watching Gundam, it is all about why I like Gundam…and Jane Austen. “Okay, so, like, they’re both about tensions between duty, social position, and personal desires.”I love Gundam for all the same reasons that I love Jane Austen. Gundam, especially the Universal Century timeline stuff, is filled with characters torn between personal relationships and their positions within military and political hierarchies. Her family’s panic is institutional logic demanding she comply. plan, and the arranged marriage she’s been pushed into is institutional logic and corporate alliance dressed up as personal connection.