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Did we ever find out if Noredo was related to the Space Pope since they share the same name actually?
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Ep. 9 down, Aida really needs to get her poo poo together. But at least she's aware of it. This piecemealing of why Capital's been indoctrinated into ignoring the threat from space (whatever it is) is a fun game
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Dec 5, 2015 04:16
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What's the difference between a mobile suit and mobile armor?
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Dec 5, 2015 04:42
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Erg posted:What's the difference between a mobile suit and mobile armor? a mobile armor is non-humanoid, basically
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Dec 5, 2015 04:43
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muike posted:a mobile armor is non-humanoid, basically or very big. Both the zeta gundam and the psyco gundam have humanoid and non-humanoid forms, but zeta is a mobile suit and psyco is a mobile armor simply because it's way bigger
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Dec 5, 2015 04:46
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I am only mostly joking when I say this but it's a Mobile Armor because it has a tragic Newtype girl in it
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Dec 5, 2015 04:57
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muike posted:I am only mostly joking when I say this but it's a Mobile Armor because it has a tragic Newtype girl in it This is mostly true, but you're forgetting the Big Zam. Only the manliest of men pilots one of those bad boys.
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Dec 5, 2015 05:30
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Mobile Armors are monsters of the week.
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The Missing Link posted:This is mostly true, but you're forgetting the Big Zam. Only the manliest of men pilots one of those bad boys. That's the reason why it wasn't mass produced. Not enough manly men to pilot them.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Mobile Armors are monsters of the week. no they're boss monsters or minibosses if nobody important's driving them
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Dec 5, 2015 06:35
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Only true men can appreciate the Bigro.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:24
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When the Big Zam started to crumble, loving Dozle got out and started firing a tommy gun at the Gundam out of sheer spite.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:29
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Never forget the Big Rang, which is a Bigro strapped to an ammunition factory for battlefield restocking.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:54
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The Missing Link posted:This is mostly true, but you're forgetting the Big Zam. Only the manliest of men pilots one of those bad boys. Also 0083.
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Erg posted:What's the difference between a mobile suit and mobile armor? muike posted:a mobile armor is non-humanoid, basically It's more like if Mobile Suits are giant soldiers, then Mobile Armour are relatively-scaled tanks and artillery pieces. T.G. Xarbala posted:Mobile Armors are monsters of the week. Also, yes. tsob posted:G-Reco implies that the major powers weren't fighting for something like a thousand years though. And that coming out of a major crisis that created a lot of resource problems. Which seems like the kind of thing that'd create conflict. I am not, by the way saying that the show is bad for using this scenario because the show justifies it which is all that's important - just that any scenario where the whole world is at peace for something like a millenia is more unrealistic than 20 meter tall robots, psychic space conversations and so on to me. Up until now, everyone's been kept in check by Capital Tower giving every nation equitable distribution of Photon Batteries. Every nation's kept the peace for nearly a millenia, because otherwise Daddy Gets Mad and their people starve in blackouts. Even the current war took some real nudging to kick off from outside factions, along with passing out the Rose of Hermes blueprints like candy.
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Ep. 13 finally puts some faces to the threat from space, which is nice. Aida might be bad at the whole fighting thing, but I do like that she just went "fuckit let's go to the moon" Also evil commander's little scurry out when the negotiators arrived was pretty funny. I'm guessing he's a deserter from the moon or something? 
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Frozen Teardrop's final chapter was published in this past Gundam Ace. I'm pretty surprised seeing as most of the last few chapters have been flashback material and the Mars plot only finally seemed to be going anywhere. I'm assuming there's some behind the scenes stuff going on that caused the ending to be so rushed. Summary below in spoiler tags for those who care: -There's a bunch of battles, culminating in a massive one at the end where it's all the good guys vs. Holo-Zechs in Epyon and 500 Virgos. The battle's finished when Heero uses the gold arrow, which is some sort of anti-nanomachine nonsense that stops all the bad dudes. Snow White's cloak was torn so maybe we'll actually get artwork for it. -There's a plan to stop the PPP by using a massive EMP weapon, but Trowa/Quatre/Catherine manage to get the password for the system from Holo-Zechs. -Relena gets the death penalty and is killed by Heero (jk it was a hologram) -Lady Une comes to Mars with Alpha, who apparently was working with her in the background the entire time. It's revealed that there's a bunch of clones in the Earth Sphere and that Marimeia is actually a clone of Leia Barton, not Leia's and Treize's daughter. -Duo becomes the President of Mars with Alpha as his aide. Hilde hasn't signed the divorce papers so they're still married. -Wufei and Vignt are going to rebuild OZ. -Zech's is going to stay on Mars with his family and become a farmer. -The final scene is Heero proposing to Relena by letter There's also supposed to be an epilogue in the art book that's coming out at the end of the month.
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Erg posted:Ep. 13 finally puts some faces to the threat from space, which is nice. Aida might be bad at the whole fighting thing, but I do like that she just went "fuckit let's go to the moon" Holy poo poo, I never noticed that before. "I... forgot... a thing... BYE!"
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So how much continuity is there between the various late UC series? Does any of the late UC status quo get mentioned in G-Reco? I'm inexplicably curious even though most of my Gundam exposure is through this thread.
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General Battuta posted:So how much continuity is there between the various late UC series? Does any of the late UC status quo get mentioned in G-Reco? I'm inexplicably curious even though most of my Gundam exposure is through this thread. G-reco doesn't make any direct references to any late UC series. You can watch both F91 and Victory independently of one another, but Crossbone is a sequel to F91 and eventually becomes a sidestory to Victory.
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Okay so I've been out of touch with Gundam since basically SEED Destiny ended and 00 lost my interest around the second season. But IBO is really drat good and I want to catch up on what I've missed, which if I count correctly is Unicorn, Build Fighters/TRY and G-Recon. AGE I've already seen a whole bunch of posts about so I'm gonna skip.Droyer posted:This isn't really the place for it but if you ask in the general gundam thread i'll be happy to explain what makes build fighters good 
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Pierson posted:Okay so I've been out of touch with Gundam since basically SEED Destiny ended and 00 lost my interest around the second season. But IBO is really drat good and I want to catch up on what I've missed, which if I count correctly is Unicorn, Build Fighters/TRY and G-Recon. AGE I've already seen a whole bunch of posts about so I'm gonna skip. You are right in that build fighters is pretty shamelessly a toy commercial, so if that is a dealbreaker you might not enjoy it. What makes build fighters good is partially that many of the fights are amazing, and that the characters are fun and bounce off each other well. Instead of thinking of it as a gundam show, think of it as a sports anime where the sport is robot fighting. TRY however is not very good, with an overall weaker and poorly used cast, and less fun fights.
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Build Fighters is essentially about competitive video game players that play a Gundam fighting game. Except instead of a video game they fight with Gundam toys that are able to move with some magical particle bullshit. A lot of people really like the goofy characters and the light-hearted plot, though personally I think the whole thing isn't written very well. Still, it's got solid action and a genuinely good OST. The sequel series, Build Fighters Try, is the same thing but worse in all aspects. E;fb.
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The amount of love and care that went into Build Fighters's fight choreography trumps the vast majority of robot shows out there; the show has like half a dozen fights that would put the big finales of many shows to shame. The cast is great and fun, the story is silly and entertaining, and it's simply a fantastic product all around. It's not deep serious war drama like most Gundam is(or is supposed to be), but it's not at all trying to be that way and it goes its own way.
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I can't agree with that. When I watched it with a friend we referred to it as 'Budget Fighters' because of how little budget obviously went into the first half of the series, and too many fights in the second half devolved into 'throw away your weapons and just get into a punching fight with the enemy'.
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I really liked Build Fighters as an intro to the series. And G. Reco is cool and extremely pretty. Like woah
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Erg posted:And G. Reco is cool and extremely pretty. Like woah I really like how G-reco looks. The vibrant colors are really cool
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Son Ryo posted:I can't agree with that. When I watched it with a friend we referred to it as 'Budget Fighters' because of how little budget obviously went into the first half of the series, and too many fights in the second half devolved into 'throw away your weapons and just get into a punching fight with the enemy'. uhhhhh it looked like a lot of budget went into it to me
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Son Ryo posted:I can't agree with that. When I watched it with a friend we referred to it as 'Budget Fighters' because of how little budget obviously went into the first half of the series, and too many fights in the second half devolved into 'throw away your weapons and just get into a punching fight with the enemy'. I am legitimately curious what Gundam TV series you're comparing it to at that point.
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Budget doesn't quite translate to battle quality though. Look at Victory: terrible budget, amazing fights.
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Good storyboarding can really go a long way too, but Build Fighters was for the most part consistently nice and even the worst parts of it were not so weak as to be embarrassing, which is more than what can be said of plenty of Gundam TV shows prior to that.
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GBF's first season also included that rarest of things in Gundam - fun, cute romance.
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Srice posted:Good storyboarding can really go a long way too, but Build Fighters was for the most part consistently nice and even the worst parts of it were not so weak as to be embarrassing, which is more than what can be said of plenty of Gundam TV shows prior to that. Yeah, BF had a couple of legitimately crap fights (SBS vs GXMaoh being a great example here) but they were by far the exception. It's also worth remembering that out recent television output has been Gundam "Stock Footage" SEED, Gundam "we don't need to animate things moving" 00, and Gundam "Hahahaha" AGE. G-Reco is probably the best television show in terms of combat since then and even then its more due to strong storyboarding with dynamic scenes rather than high-budget animation. IBO has been reasonably good (but a little on the Gundam 00 side) but has also had like 3.5 fights in 10 episodes. Which is not a bad thing but still. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 23:56
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I wish I could find that one clip of the laughable fight in 00 S2 which contained a lot of extreme camera spinning to hide the fact that nothing was moving
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Srice posted:I wish I could find that one clip of the laughable fight in 00 S2 which contained a lot of extreme camera spinning to hide the fact that nothing was moving It's not from S2 but... 
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Dec 7, 2015 00:09
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Gundam shows still usually have pretty good fights. G Gundam used over-the-top moves and characters to carry the show, Gundam Wing had bad fights but amazing still frames (very stylized), I can't remember a single fight in Gundam X but the fun characters was basically the only reasons to watch the show (not enough Mad Max in this post-apoc anime) and the problems with most post-2000 shows have already been mentioned. The rest are usually good.
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The best in-joke was Destiny literally flipping the Freedom's beam spin upside down, and then that became a separate attack in SRW.
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I still hold the original Gundam's fights pretty high. Nonexistent budget but it's the only show that has a Zaku kick a ball into a GM, or the goddamn amazing RX-78 vs 8 Rick Doms and 3 Musais fight.
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Or Kai Shinden kicking down that Zaku.
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I've been rewatching plenty of AGE. On paper it must have been the nerdiest, greatest thing: starship troopers meets ender's game meets a jrpg. I wish someone would just rewrite the whole story. The grunt kits are some of the best in HG form.
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