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The movies are the inferior way to watch 0079 but whatever you can get to work is worth trying.
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ninjewtsu posted:i think "character driven" is just a synonym for "show i like" because i'm not sure anyone ever has any examples of good non-character driven stories Have you never read Dune
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Smirking_Serpent posted:How’s Gundam Origin? Do you like Char? Are you already emotionally attached the OYW characters? Is the thing that you like about Char that he does cool stuff, not anything about who he is? If you answered Yes to all of those, Great news, Origin is the show for you! If you answered no to any of those, are you happy watching a show with cool mech fights even if the plot does nothing to make you invested in any of the cast and turns a complicated character into a super-powered sociopath? Great news! Origin is still the show for you!
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ninjewtsu posted:i think "character driven" is just a synonym for "show i like" because i'm not sure anyone ever has any examples of good non-character driven stories Independence Day? Plenty of "event" type stories that rely more on spectacle than dynamic characters are entertaining and well made. I seriously doubt anyone is going to watch The Mummy movies because Brendan Fraser brings immense character driven depth to Rick O'Connell but they still kick rear end. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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ninjewtsu posted:i think "character driven" is just a synonym for "show i like" because i'm not sure anyone ever has any examples of good non-character driven stories Shin Godzilla
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It’s literally a distinction you can make it’s plot vs character driven
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a lot of people recommending G haven't watched that show recently. that is a great 13-episode show stretched out to a nauseating 50. the gundam horse is great, the shining finger speech is great, chibodee crocket & master asia are great, but that show is like 80% packing peanuts by volume. weak poo poo even by the standards of tournament shonen. you're better off just watching Imagawa's Giant Robo, which hits all of G's highs but with an OVA's budget & brevity. 0079 isn't going to stop being good scifi because it's old. find a good transfer of it and enjoy the ways it looks completely unlike modern shows -- you can see the brushstrokes and the sketchy linework and the fingerprints on the animation cels. watch the movies if 43 episodes is too big a time commitment -- they're an adequate replacement. whatever you watch next, save Turn A for last. if you get bored midway through Zeta or something and you feel exhausted with the whole exercise, jump straight to Turn A. i recommend this because it's a show that rewards (but never expects) familiarity with gundam's themes, because it's so different from the rest of the franchise in setting & tone, and because it is actually very good, and therefore a hard act to follow. after that you should check out SDF Macross. that show rules
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Well, better to watch G before you've seen enough Imagawa to take the wind out of its sails. I don't think it has notable overlap with GWitch to be a strong recommendation though, even ignoring how I'd agree about quite a bit of the tournament stuff being weak.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:If you’re gonna watch 08th MS team just don’t forget that the second or third episode I think has the nude 14 year old girl in it that the main character lurks on if you happened to sell your gf who has only seen g witch on watching another gundam series with you I had completely forgotten about that part, woof. Zodar posted:a lot of people recommending G haven't watched that show recently. that is a great 13-episode show stretched out to a nauseating 50. the gundam horse is great, the shining finger speech is great, chibodee crocket & master asia are great, but that show is like 80% packing peanuts by volume. weak poo poo even by the standards of tournament shonen. you're better off just watching Imagawa's Giant Robo, which hits all of G's highs but with an OVA's budget & brevity. I watched it for the first time last year and loved it. The fight of the week format rules, the ridiculous mech designs rock, and each battle forces Domon to fight in a different way (even if most of them end in a Shining Finger or Erupting Hod Finger/Heat End). I never felt like the show had a slump or dipped into filler territory.
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Zodar posted:a lot of people recommending G haven't watched that show recently. that is a great 13-episode show stretched out to a nauseating 50. the gundam horse is great, the shining finger speech is great, chibodee crocket & master asia are great, but that show is like 80% packing peanuts by volume. weak poo poo even by the standards of tournament shonen. you're better off just watching Imagawa's Giant Robo, which hits all of G's highs but with an OVA's budget & brevity. Giant Robo is kinda bad as far as characters, I've never seen a show that actively wants to get away from the title character as much as the OVA did
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And now for something actually relevant to G Witch itself: https://twitter.com/shinjishazaki/status/1694194801003114682?t=x-MMZ4aalGv5bAswdYb3zw&s=19 Scans of the staff artbook.
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Tae posted:Giant Robo is kinda bad as far as characters, I've never seen a show that actively wants to get away from the title character as much as the OVA did neither of them are shows with very good character writing, but that's not their draw. Imagawa makes shows where he bangs his favorite action figures together while they make grandiose speeches about their emotions. they're about bombast and spectacle. i think GR is better at doing that than G, but neither of them have much to do with G-Witch other than "big robots fight," so it's all academic. if somebody liked G-Witch as a story about kids in robots being let down or exploited by the adults & institutions around them, i'd point them at 0079, Z, ZZ, Victory or IBO. if they wanted a more optimistic take on that premise, i'd recommend X. and if they came out of G-Witch wanting more shows that start out extremely promising, only to spin out and forget what their stakes or themes were in the final act? shows like Wing or 08th MS Team are great ways to relive those highs and lows.
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I always enjoy when IBO is suggested and the second episode throws people and they're like "War is bad? I just wanted cool robot!"
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Zodar posted:
That sounds like me. Thanks everyone for the recommendations. I think I'll start with IBO since it's modern and doesn't have the pressure of being attached to a massive timeline like UC.
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the secret is only two UC things are very good anyway
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Zodar posted:and if they came out of G-Witch wanting more shows that start out extremely promising, only to spin out and forget what their stakes or themes were in the final act? shows like Wing or 08th MS Team are great ways to relive those highs and lows. You can't leave Stardust Memory out of that lineup. AFancyQuestionMark posted:That sounds like me. Thanks everyone for the recommendations. I think I'll start with IBO since it's modern and doesn't have the pressure of being attached to a massive timeline like UC. Honestly from that list I only see two 'start points,' which are IBO and 0079. I've said it before, I won't recommend Victory to anyone who hasn't already stewed in Tomino Gundam for a bit since it has a lot of baggage related to the creator and the tug of war between the creative team and the publisher. Given that 0079 is the start of the UC franchise, it cannot have baggage by definition. If you bounce off one, try the other, though if rough old animation is the sticking point, IBO is the clear winner. 0079 is a lot like watching old films, where the technology to do the kinds of modern spectacle blockbusters doesn't exist so they either have to stand on other merits (writing, themes, etc) or stand as historical artifacts. I will say that IBO does (very) broadly have the plot of a Shakespearian tragedy, which might be extra points for folks coming off G-Witch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdr8eJ-6xc Suletta sings ED1
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Zodar posted:a lot of people recommending G haven't watched that show recently. that is a great 13-episode show stretched out to a nauseating 50. the gundam horse is great, the shining finger speech is great, chibodee crocket & master asia are great, but that show is like 80% packing peanuts by volume. weak poo poo even by the standards of tournament shonen. you're better off just watching Imagawa's Giant Robo, which hits all of G's highs but with an OVA's budget & brevity. G gundam rules actually.
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As someone who watched G last year for the first time, G rules
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yeah monster of the week is actually kinda rad format. G Gundam starts slowly but then you slowly start understanding the greater context of what is happening and why. then there's the Master Asia speech
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i think g is great but like most gundams, 50 episodes is too long
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Probably could have dropped 10-ish episodes from G. I think 39 episodes is the ideal length for a Gundam show.
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39 episodes lets you do a good story without skimping on detours for salt or driveby Zakrello attack.
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Agree. I also think 39-40 would have been perfect for eureka seven!
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if you want something along the lines of GWitch try Birdie Wing.
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Cosigned. Birdie Wing has golf Newtypes, Amuro and Char, and Gunpla.
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I am going to try Birdie Wing. But before that, I started IBO and while the first few episodes were good, the space yakuza and not-Shaddiq felt kind of silly and mismatched tonally. Episodes 8 and 9 kind of just feel off to me.
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Yeah the middle of season 1 is definitely a low point of the show. Thankfully it follows up that but with the best part of the show.
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Yeah that's definitely an Ippei Gyobu design
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Zodar posted:, only to spin out and forget what their stakes or themes were in the final act? shows like Wing or 08th MS Team are great ways to relive those highs and lows. I can see if you just plain don’t like those shows because each has its problems, but I don’t get this particular critique. Wing was always pure chaos from the first episode and 180’d its status quo every few episodes, so the finale was no more out of place than the preceding 50 episodes. And the 08th had a pretty standard arc of: MC wants to blow up zeon MA and get laid in Nam’>MC blows up zeon MA and gets laid in Nam’.
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I know this is the eternal debate, but since no one else has let me just chime in and say if you like long character development, interaction, exploration of war's effects on multiple different subgroups, and shades of gray, the movies are not an adequate stand in for the original series.
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https://twitter.com/680mm/status/1696192337263927718 Permet up your cores
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I'm trying to build a Prodoros but far as I can tell there's no glaive kind of weapon in the game. We was robbed of that beauty getting more fights in the show so I need to blow up corpos and It's a really good game, you should all play it especially if you like the Peil House mobile suit designs.
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Mobile Sweet Gundam
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm trying to build a Prodoros but far as I can tell there's no glaive kind of weapon in the game. We was robbed of that beauty getting more fights in the show so I need to blow up corpos and There's for sure some sort of laser naginata
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Iirc the closest thing is the laser lance, which is less a “lance” and more a beam spike with a shitload of rockets on the back to launch you forward when fired
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Iirc the closest thing is the laser lance, which is less a “lance” and more a beam spike with a shitload of rockets on the back to launch you forward when fired That's what I've been using primarily when I don't use the pilebunker. It's more of a Falcon Punch, though.
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 Got my permet score up
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