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Well I'm starting destiny. The major thing that kills me about this show was how they had a new cast (and main character) and managed to just throw them away (or turn them into bad guys?) by the end of it all.
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Kingtheninja posted:Well I'm starting destiny. The major thing that kills me about this show was how they had a new cast (and main character) and managed to just throw them away (or turn them into bad guys?) by the end of it all. To be honest I don't think that's inherently a flaw so much as badly executed. "Here is a Gundam kid, thanks to immense tragedy in his past stemming from a previous war he ends up going down the path of evil and believes he is doing the right thing, here is his tragic story" could be very interesting, since normally the traumatized child soldiers in Gundam universally end up as the protagonist or on their side. It is just that Destiny fumbled it hard.
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Nov 28, 2016 16:14
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MonsieurChoc posted:G-Reco is great and was a breath of fresh air in modern mecha anime. As said I didn't care for it. But I love the G Self mecha. One if the coolest looking Gundams. Up there with the Turn A, Zeta, and the Xi. (Iirc the Xi is piloted by Hathaway and is thus damaged by association. It's gonna make SRW V trying on me. Maybe I can give it to Shinji from Eva or something. )
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My favorite tidbit about G-Reco is that the G-Arcane never transformed, because Tomino completely forgot that it was a thing it could do.
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So do people like Wing now or is it just that AGE and Destiny are considered so much worse? I dunno, I just think that if a "Worst Gundam Ever" conversation was started a while ago, Wing might have come up. Maybe not here though.
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Who doesn't like Wing?
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NikkolasKing posted:So do people like Wing now or is it just that AGE and Destiny are considered so much worse? Wing is genuinely incredibly bad but in a really charming way in that it's so loving insane that it's kind of hard to hate it. AGE is bad in a way that is not just awful but rarely enjoyable and frequently actively offensive. If say G Gundam is an A and then Age is an F and Wing is the kid who failed the test because he turned it into a glitter-covered origami sculpture of a pony. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 22:39
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Wing also has a nostalgia factor for a lot of people of a certain age.
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Wing is basically the good bad b movie of Gundam. Also it has some pretty good music and the villians are some of the most fun.
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Nov 28, 2016 22:45
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It is had for a series to be all bad when the villain is voiced by Koyasu.
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I never could make it through a full episode of Wing.
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Nov 28, 2016 23:08
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Guy Goodbody posted:Who doesn't like Wing? Back in 04 wing was the adtrw gundam whipping boy. It was always fabulous though.
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ImpAtom posted:It is had for a series to be all bad when the villain is voiced by Koyasu. And one of the villains in the English dub is voiced by (Beast Wars) Megatron.
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Nov 28, 2016 23:25
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I'm not going to say Wing was a good show But I'm not going to say I didn't like it
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I would rather watch Wing than a lot of the oft-recited "best" gundam shows. Wing, IBO, and 0079 I could pretty safely say I can watch forever.
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G Reco as a story about energy distribution and militarization is a bad show. G Reco as a show about ideological lenses and the dangers of needing meaning is pretty good. It depends on if you think Tomino is a genius or a hack. Either way the art is spectacular. I like Wing for it's completely played straight but utterly insane melodrama and cool soundtrack. I can't forgive it for the 5 colored robots who are individually bad but never work together trend though.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Wing is basically the good bad b movie of Gundam. The best dressed villains.
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SeanBeansShako posted:The best dressed villains. wrong 
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Guy Goodbody posted:Who doesn't like Wing? People who are guilty of wrongthink.
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SeanBeansShako posted:The best dressed villains. Dear Shako, Please review more gundam uniforms. Love, Some guy who likes to read about fictional fashion.
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I've never heard much fashion discussion outside of universal praise for OZ'S officer uniforms. I mean, there was an entire awesome post about why Treize is the classiest motherfucker in the franchise.
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NikkolasKing posted:I've never heard much fashion discussion outside of universal praise for OZ'S officer uniforms. Perfect post/avatar combo.
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Nov 29, 2016 04:24
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Apparently the results of a design a Gundam to appear in Build Fighters contest
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Guy Goodbody posted:Apparently the results of a design a Gundam to appear in Build Fighters contest 
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Gunpla... is freedom.
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GimmickMan posted:Dear Shako, One day I will get around to SEED. One day. I need more booze to finish G Gundam first. MORE BOOZE. Guy Goodbody posted:wrong Well, best dressed villains of the alternate series then. But ZZ fashion is a category in itself. Just like fashion in the Jojo franchise.
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I could only find one picture of any of the other designs, and it seems a lot better than the winner 
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Tae posted:Anew died and that kinda sucked My favorite thing about Anew dying is that in S1, Lasse shoots the beam saber about to kill Tieria, and in S2 Tieria shoots the lance about to kill Setsuna, but for Anew? Setsuna just blows her away with no remorse.
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I just sort of picked up the first 2 paid DLC for Gundam Breaker 3 on a whim. Sort of due to how difficult it was to get funds onto the Singapore PS Store when I thought I could just use PayPal. I've not finished #2 yet, but it's not grabbed me, it uses the existing levels, in fact Misa even says "Oh, it's just the same old levels.." or something. I think It came with the Barbatos 6th Form, Scramble Gundam and Phenex, Part 3 is kind of fun, so I finished it in the one sitting, you fight with Misa's dad and the other shopping center guys, so a nice change from constantly pulling Misa's rear end out of the fire, and it uses a bunch of new maps, I gather from GB1, although the aesthetic looks totally different. In many ways they seem nicer than a lot of the GB3 content. It also comes with AGE-FX, Gusion (the Brewers version,), Asteroth (asymmetric pre-recondition version) and ReBawoo. So overall much stronger than the previous one I think. The new builder parts seem pretty cool, there's a crest antenna like the Sazabi or ReBawoo, and the skirt thrusters from Asteroth and Barbatos #6, stuff that really let you change the suit's look. I'll wait and see on the rest, but I enjoyed an evening with it and would like to figure out a nice new design with the parts.
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Toonami just announced they're airing Unicorn:re whatever after Iron Blooded Orphans. So I guess it's time for UC to kill mainstream Gundam in the west again.
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StalkofWheat posted:Toonami just announced they're airing Unicorn:re whatever after Iron Blooded Orphans. So I guess it's time for UC to kill mainstream Gundam in the west again. Something tell me a beautifully animated series with tons of cool robots doing spinny sword slashes is gonna do better than a show that was terribly animated for 1979 and has such action packed moments as a robot being pushed off a cliff.
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StalkofWheat posted:Toonami just announced they're airing Unicorn:re whatever after Iron Blooded Orphans. So I guess it's time for UC to kill mainstream Gundam in the west again. Unicorn is not particularly likely to kill Gundam considering it was one of the best-received Gundams in recent memory and is insanely well animated.
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Of all the recent Gundam things that they could run on Toonami, Unicorn is literally the safest bet.
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I'm just saying it requires a lot of UC knowledge that the average toonami viewer isn't gonna have. Should have started with The Origin Movie nights.
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StalkofWheat posted:I'm just saying it requires a lot of UC knowledge that the average toonami viewer isn't gonna have. Should have started with The Origin Movie nights. I will point out that literally the most popular anime of all time is Dragonball Z, a series which began for most people familiar with it about halfway through the story. Edit: Also it isn't like Unicorn without UC knowledge is less coherent than Gundam Wing
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StalkofWheat posted:I'm just saying it requires a lot of UC knowledge that the average toonami viewer isn't gonna have. Should have started with The Origin Movie nights. Some of the background stuff sure, but the story as a whole? Not really.
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I think people forget that the primary criticism of Unicorn, it just retreads old UC stuff without adding much new, is only a problem if you have already seen MSG, Zeta, and ZZ. And we can get so wrapped up in how great the story and characters in MSG were, we forget that it looked like this 
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I'd rather they use the OVA than the RE:UC 0096 TV series. It has more recaps than Dragonball. The plot was stretched so thin over seven, hour long episodes, and trying to turn that into a full season is ridiculous to me.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'd rather they use the OVA than the RE:UC 0096 TV series. It has more recaps than Dragonball. The plot was stretched so thin over seven, hour long episodes, and trying to turn that into a full season is ridiculous to me. I'm hoping that toonami edits those out or something. But yeah unicorn is kinda hard to follow when they start talking about the "axis shock" but on the other hand it's beautifully animated, has a great soundtrack and some great mech designs. So it may go either way.
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No reason to edit the OVA to fit a tv timeslot when there's already a version that did the job for them. That last OVA episode would especially be real tough for Toonami to cut up into coherent chunks.
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