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Blackchamber posted:To be fair the tournament finals are still 2 days away (on break? giving Sei time to make repairs) so its understandable that Sei and his dad wouldn't expect the store to close that early for her to come cheer. Random Hobo teaches you how to build Gunpla, and your first test battle is interrupted by the Gunpla Mafia? Yeah, that is a Tuesday in the world of build fighters. I especially love the mafia guy because there was absolutely nothing at stake, he just wanted to beat up Reiji. Also, this episode kind of confirms my earlier guess that Alia was probably homeless before she was taken in to gunpla battle, what with the whole sleeping on a bench thing.
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I almost feel the whole "Aila was a street urchin" angle feels too... obvious. Sure it fits the usual Cyber-Newtype motif, but I can't help but think/hope they'll do something different with it and this is just a red herring. Also, I guess this is the last(?) we'll see of Mr. Clamp, I wonder who the next old friend of Ral's to show up will be. Maybe Hamon? 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I almost feel the whole "Aila was a street urchin" angle feels too... obvious. Sure it fits the usual Cyber-Newtype motif, but I can't help but think/hope they'll do something different with it and this is just a red herring. Only if it's As his wife wondering what the hell he's be doing in his time off.
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Was Sei's mom singing INVOKE while she was packing? Also: Sei's Dad masquerading as a magical Gunpla hobo was hilarious.
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Jan 27, 2014 19:08
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Kurieg posted:Was Sei's mom singing INVOKE while she was packing? It totally was, even better considering she's voiced by Murrue!
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Jan 27, 2014 19:20
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One thing I have to say about this show is that its... refreshing to see how positive it is. In another show Reiji and Alia would have 5-10 minutes of screentime together in one episode, then spend the rest of the series attempting to murder one another. While I don't doubt there is going to be conflict its nice to see people being happy in a Gundam show.
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boom boom boom posted:The reporter in Sei's mom's fantasy was Fran Doll Was the reporter who interrupted her the corespondent from the end of the 00 movie or someone else? VanishXZone fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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Caros posted:One thing I have to say about this show is that its... refreshing to see how positive it is. In another show Reiji and Alia would have 5-10 minutes of screentime together in one episode, then spend the rest of the series attempting to murder one another. While I don't doubt there is going to be conflict its nice to see people being happy in a Gundam show. Rest of the series? She'd be dead by like the end of the episode and banished to the Newtype Ghost dimension.
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Pimpmust posted:Rest of the series? She'd be dead by like the end of the episode and banished to the Newtype Ghost dimension. This is true, any other series would do the whole awkward tsundere thing for 3, maybe 4 episodes then she'd get killed off by some random guy to piss off Reiji, probably Gunpla Mafia man
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TARDISman posted:This is true, any other series would do the whole awkward tsundere thing for 3, maybe 4 episodes then she'd get killed off by some random guy to piss off Reiji, probably Gunpla Mafia man No no no, Sei would trip and accidentally gut her with a hobby knife. 
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Pimpmust posted:Rest of the series? She'd be dead by like the end of the episode and banished to the Newtype Ghost dimension. Well it depends on the series, Flay had a pretty decent run before her murder, as have some of the unicorn girls. If this was Victory she'd be dead, along with two other vaugely related female pilots. quote:Was Sei's mom singing INVOKE while she was packing? It's this poo poo that ups Build Fighters from a great Gundam show to my new favorite. I have to watch the episode 2-3 times to catch poo poo like this, but its just such a love letter to the franchise as a whole that it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.  quote:This is true, any other series would do the whole awkward tsundere thing for 3, maybe 4 episodes then she'd get killed off by some random guy to piss off Reiji, probably Gunpla Mafia man It is nice that aside from the episode 4 Kirara weirdness, which the show seems to have played off as a good thing, this series has a very positive view of women in general. The girls aren't victims there to be beaten up to show how manly the protagonists are, hell, this episode had the show's co-lead getting saved by an extremely competent female pilot. Caros fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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Jan 27, 2014 20:39
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Caros posted:Well it depends on the series, Flay had a pretty decent run before her murder, as have some of the unicorn girls. If this was Victory she'd be dead, along with two other vaugely related female pilots. We should hope she doesn't take after Flay, then she'd be sleeping with Reiji and trying to manipulate him into murdering the chairman and everyone else who's ever slighted her.
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Kurieg posted:We should hope she doesn't take after Flay, then she'd be sleeping with Reiji and trying to manipulate him into murdering the chairman and everyone else who's ever slighted her. Nah, I trust this show way more than to see this.
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I can't believe I've made all those rookie mistakes on every single Master Grade I've built. They could have turned out so much better. I've built about a dozen. 
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Bloody Pom posted:I can't believe I've made all those rookie mistakes on every single Master Grade I've built. They could have turned out so much better. Only this show could make a three minute Gunpla tutorial both hardcore and pretty damned interesting. I'm going to be honest, I want a 52 episode series. I want Zeta Gundam Build Fighters once that is done.
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Honestly a lot of the tips mentioned won't really change that much. Even if you cut the sprue twice, you're still going to end up with a nub you have to sand. Cotton swabs reduce the amount of skin oil/dead skin that comes in contact with the foil sticker, but that just makes them easier to remove, not necessarily better looking. You totally have to make sure you don't forget the polycap though.
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Caros posted:Only this show could make a three minute Gunpla tutorial both hardcore and pretty damned interesting. I'm going to be honest, I want a 52 episode series. I want Zeta Gundam Build Fighters once that is done. I know nubs are unavoidable. It's the damaged parts from using sub-optimal cutters (Citadel sprue cutters) and cutting too close that bug me. My 00 Qan has one cheek shorter than the other because of that. 
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BlitzBlast posted:Honestly a lot of the tips mentioned won't really change that much. Even if you cut the sprue twice, you're still going to end up with a nub you have to sand. Cotton swabs reduce the amount of skin oil/dead skin that comes in contact with the foil sticker, but that just makes them easier to remove, not necessarily better looking. I totally didn't just do this last night with one of the tallgeese's verniers. I don't know what you are talking about.
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Caros posted:Only this show could make a three minute Gunpla tutorial both hardcore and pretty damned interesting. I'm going to be honest, I want a 52 episode series. I want Zeta Gundam Build Fighters once that is done. I really hope they decide to keep this show running. They create more affordable plavsky podiums so that more people have them at home, enabling them to have more people playing at once... for fleet combat. The first episode this season Sei dreams hes launching from a ship which was cool, we've already seen someone in a Gau during the battle royale ferrying other players. Game modes where you have to defend a colony or destroy one. Escort missions gone horribly wrong. Capture the drat flag. Gunpla gangs trying to gank well known players. Sei, Reiji and Aila, Fellini and a few choice all stars form a team, have wacky adventures on the side. Anyways... I want to pick the soundtrack up when it comes out. This show rocks.
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No joke, I would play the poo poo out of World of Gunpla. Too bad it would be a Japan-only release, like every other good Gundam game. 
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TaurusOxford posted:No no no, Sei would trip and accidentally gut her with a hobby knife. Aila was 15! She loved Japanese food!
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A friend of mine absolutely refuses to watch this show, citing that he can't stand how it's nothing more than a gigantic billboard screaming "BUY GUNPLA." He fails to see that in the show being so upfront and honest about its aims from the get go, it has more time to actually put together a fun show. He's missing out, I'm having a blast, this show is awesome. Dadbeard. 
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Bloody Pom posted:No joke, I would play the poo poo out of World of Gunpla. I was thinking more along the lines of EVE in my suggestion.
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Caros posted:Also, this episode kind of confirms my earlier guess that Alia was probably homeless before she was taken in to gunpla battle, what with the whole sleeping on a bench thing. The fact that she recalled it after seeing a mom buying something for their kid makes me think maybe her mom abandoned her or died while she was in a public train station or wherever that was in her flashback. Sounds a little dark for this show though. Then again, whatever it was is going to be somewhat dark regardless.
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Shinjobi posted:A friend of mine absolutely refuses to watch this show, citing that he can't stand how it's nothing more than a gigantic billboard screaming "BUY GUNPLA." I just had this discussion with a friend of mine, his response was "It's like kiddy Megaman Battle Network crossed with Gundam and not in the good way" Even the Fenice vs Build Strike fight was not enough to convince him. Some people hate fun I guess v  v
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VanishXZone posted:Was the reporter who interrupted her the corespondent from the end of the 00 movie or someone else? As for the episode, that was a great filler/breather episode. Takeshi is clearly where Sei gets his goofy Gunpla side from. The cameos and references were hilarious, from Side 6 to Axis (I think) to the whole Gunpla building. God, this show is amazing. Sunrise, do not let this show's staff go after GBF ends. That is all.
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tsob posted:The fact that she recalled it after seeing a mom buying something for their kid makes me think maybe her mom abandoned her or died while she was in a public train station or wherever that was in her flashback. Sounds a little dark for this show though. Then again, whatever it was is going to be somewhat dark regardless. 'Homeless orphan picked up by shady corporation' seems to cover it. Might also cast a slightly disturbing light on her fondness for food - remember Kyoko Sakura from Madoka?
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AradoBalanga posted:Sunrise, do not let this show's staff go after GBF ends. That is all. The series staff are all Sunrise & Gundam regulars, they aren't going anywhere unless they want to. They are bringing in some not-actually-Sunrise-but-work-on-a-ton-of-mecha-shows guys to do mecha animation direction & KA but that always happens on shows like Gundam, although possibly not on this scale.
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Shinjobi posted:A friend of mine absolutely refuses to watch this show, citing that he can't stand how it's nothing more than a gigantic billboard screaming "BUY GUNPLA." Have you showed him the Zaku Amazing fight?
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aers posted:The series staff are all Sunrise & Gundam regulars, they aren't going anywhere unless they want to. They are bringing in some not-actually-Sunrise-but-work-on-a-ton-of-mecha-shows guys to do mecha animation direction & KA but that always happens on shows like Gundam, although possibly not on this scale. GBF is basically what happens when you let these guys off the leash instead of forcing them to stick to a rigidly defined executive script and it is wonderful.
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Maybe it just shows off Mao's building skill? It wouldn't be the first time we've seen him sitting around random Gunpla model's he (presumably) has built as training.
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It was just an S Gundam, and I think it was the same as the one from the display in Sei's family's shop.
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Wasn't the S one of the models Mao was looking at way back when? Maybe Sei will recall Mao's words to him and reflect on how far he's grown before the big battle or something.
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It's just a cocktease for people who want to see the S in animation, but it'll never happen so long as Bandai doesn't own the characters in Sentinel. They could give us some Crossbone Gundams at least.
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muike posted:It's just a cocktease for people who want to see the S in animation, but it'll never happen so long as Bandai doesn't own the characters in Sentinel. They could give us some Crossbone Gundams at least. They can probably animate the mech itself; the Ex-S is in the video game Extreme VS Full Boost, but it doesn't have a pilot that goes with it. Crossbones and pilots are also in the game.
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muike posted:It's just a cocktease for people who want to see the S in animation, but it'll never happen so long as Bandai doesn't own the characters in Sentinel. They could give us some Crossbone Gundams at least. Man, if we got a goddamn G-Saviour cameo, we can get ANYTHING.
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Seems HG Turn A won't be coming out till May. We still might get a cameo, but it's not guaranteed like all of the other HGs of the month.  Speaking of the kit, preorders for the HG and its Moonlight Butterfly effect parts are up. muike posted:They could give us some Crossbone Gundams at least. HG Crossbone X1 has already been confirmed, so we probably will. EDIT: Wow I totally just forgot April existed for a second there. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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I totally geeked out from the references. As mentioned, Fran Doll appears in a scene, and Sei meets his dad on Side 6 where Amuro met his dad. At the end, the Gundam head in the stars is the painting from the 0079 movie poster\VHS box. The scenes with Reji and Alia are so  This show is so much better than it should be.
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