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Red Bones posted:Re: dumb build fighters plot speculation, I remember when AGE started airing and there was a theory that the mysterious enemy mobile suits were time travellers from the future that had gone back to prepare humanity for a future alien invasion and imo that is more interesting than the plot AGE went with. It's not difficult to be more interesting than "they're just people".
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Droyer posted:It's not difficult to be more interesting than "they're just people". People dying from space cancer that could be entirely prevented by moving their movable home base.
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I liked the mystery the show started with where the vegans were a total mystery and it wasn't even clear if the suits had pilots or anything. And then they blew that mystery like three or four episodes in 
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I watched S1 (currently watching S2) of IBO and decided to start UC stuff, so I ended up watching the 0079 movies. I must say: it started fairly mediocre but by the end of movie 3, I was really enjoying it.
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Beelerzebub posted:I watched S1 (currently watching S2) of IBO and decided to start UC stuff, so I ended up watching the 0079 movies. I must say: it started fairly mediocre but by the end of movie 3, I was really enjoying it. If you intend to continue with UC, don't watch the Zeta movies. They are not a replacement for the TV series.
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Red Bones posted:Re: dumb build fighters plot speculation, I remember when AGE started airing and there was a theory that the mysterious enemy mobile suits were time travellers from the future that had gone back to prepare humanity for a future alien invasion and imo that is more interesting than the plot AGE went with. In a vacuum any idea can be interesting, it's the execution that matters Heck, for a similar twist in the same vein as what we got Nadesico is an easy example
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I kind of want to get into Gundam but I prefer manga over anime, is there a good place to start there?
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TWIST FIST posted:I kind of want to get into Gundam but I prefer manga over anime, is there a good place to start there? The Origin
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TWIST FIST posted:I kind of want to get into Gundam but I prefer manga over anime, is there a good place to start there? The Origin for sure. Complete English translation, great on its own merits.
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TWIST FIST posted:I kind of want to get into Gundam but I prefer manga over anime, is there a good place to start there? Gundam: the origin is the obvious answer. Apart from that though, gundam has always been an anime first property. most manga are sidestories to one of the animated works, so if you really want to get into it you kinda have to go anime at some point.
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Gonna third The Origin. Edit: Fourth, I mean.
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heres the first 30 something chapters for free http://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_CW01000002020000_68/
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The first volume of Gundam Thunderbolt comes out in English next week too.
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Hey all, I've been working on some Gundam translations over the past year I thought might be of some interest here: Char & Amuro Official Translations (a collection of official quotes, including a choice few from Tomino himself, on Char and Amuro's relationship... some are rather, err, suggestive!) Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Interview from the Girl's Gundam Book (discusses early female Gundam fandom and has some interesting design tidbits, like Zeon being Space Prussians) Turn A Gundam: Cocoon on the Moon, Fruit on the Earth Translation (translation of the infamous Fukui novel adaption; in progress) Turn A Gundam: Wind of the Moon Manga Translation (scanlation of a Turn A prequel manga drawn by character designer Akiman; complete)
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Rewatching 0080 again. I'd forgotten how rough even the credits roll can be on this show, with the wartime photo montages. On a completely opposite note, Richie Kotzen's Gundam covers are loving incredible and better than Andrew W.K on a pure rock level. W.K still gets points for going whole hog into his album no matter how silly it sounds, and I can respect that. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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dazat posted:Hey all,
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dazat posted:Hey all, I read this one earlier from a link on Twitter. It's really interesting! I liked the background on the character designs, and how excited he was to see cosplayers. Thanks for translating these.
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i hadn't ever particularly considered that amuro and char are gay for each other, but hoo boy is that quite of a bit of tomino saying "man amuro and char are maybe probably gay for each other" i find this very amusing, thanks for sharing
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Thanks for those translations, they are super interesting.
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dazat posted:Hey all, This is good. You are good.
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ninjewtsu posted:i hadn't ever particularly considered that amuro and char are gay for each other, but hoo boy is that quite of a bit of tomino saying "man amuro and char are maybe probably gay for each other" Maybe I'm just bad at picking it up, because I completely missed Guin being gay until it was directly revealed in the last the last episode of that show.
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Raxivace posted:I found those comments interesting because I've never really seen any kind of sexual tension in their relationship either. Ever seen Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence? I think it might be more of that perhaps?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Ever seen Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence? I think it might be more of that perhaps?
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Raxivace posted:I have not, though I've heard very good things about Nagisa Oshima as a director. It's on my list of stuff to get to eventually. Worth it, the soundtrack is fantastic too.
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I just found about the Zogojuash. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Zogojuash That's totally a vagina, isn't it.
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Azran posted:I just found about the Zogojuash. You, uh, have some unusual ideals about lady biology.
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Azran posted:I just found about the Zogojuash.  is this? 
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Azran posted:I just found about the Zogojuash. Yes. That's what a vagina is.
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I mean, the legs are what makes it go from weird looking cephalopod thing to, uh, that.
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Watched CCA. Not sure how I feel about it. It's basically a Gundam series condensed into a film, I guess? It often felt like the characters were just going through the standard motions after Zeta and ZZ. They don't really get enough time to develop everyone. It is difficult to feel the emotional impact of characters' deaths when you barely know them. While I understand that Char's manipulation of Quess was tragic, I didn't feel it nearly as deeply as Reccoa and Scirocco. The ending felt rushed and kind of dumb. That said, I was really enjoying CCA until the last quarter or so. They did a good job of contrasting the Earth bigwigs to normal citizens by tying that into Bright's family. The battles were well animated and interesting. The character relationships made sense and drove the plot.
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ninjewtsu posted:Which ones do War in the Pocket, G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam
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Guy Goodbody posted:War in the Pocket, G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam That's probably it for me. EDIT: Maybe 00 Season 1 too.
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Basically what they said. I'd have added 08th MS Team if they hadn't added that pointless twelfth episode. Zeta ending on a cliffhanger weeks before ZZ started strips its ending down, and I haven't finished ZZ yet, so I can't comment on that. 0083 ends in a total clusterfuck Unicorn ends on another cliffhanger and a message that gets undercut by the existence of everything in the late UC. It might be the end of the Zeon/Federation conflicts (except for the Oldsmobile Army and other NZ uprisings), but the Earth Sphere is still hosed, robbing the Unicorn ending of its value. I'm of the opposite mind for the Thunderbolt film ending. I think that I like the series ending better, just heading ominously towards A Baoa Qu. December Sky's rendition of A Baoa Qu doesn't really do it for me as an ending, since it plays more like a trailer for when they inevitably adapt the next part of Thunderbolt, and it doesn't work with the self contained atmosphere of the series plot. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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Build Fighters season 1. edit: Gundam Wing, both the TV series and the movie. As much as SEED was mediocre, it wrapped up strongly if you ignore Destiny. Tae fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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