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 It's Gundam's 35th anniversary this year, and series creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino is back for his first major production since Turn A Gundam in 1999! Set after the Universal Century (Original Gundam, Zeta, Char's Counterattack, and more recently, Unicorn) and in the new Reguild Century, specifically RC 1014, it follows the story of Bellri Zenam, a member of the Capital Guard, a military group in charge of protecting the orbital elevator, Capital Tower. Since it's Gundam, a troupe of space pirates attack the tower, and Zenam finds himself taking control of a highly advanced mobile suit called the G-Self.  Zenam, along with the G-Self embark on a journey with the space pirates to discover the truths of the Reguild Century... CHARACTERS  Bellri Zenam Pilot of the G-Self and pilot prodigy from the Capital Guard.  Aida Rayhunton Original pilot of the G-Self, space pirate, and female lead. Probably the love interest of Bellri, hopefully it'll go better than most other Gundam romances. Why should I bother? It's a Gundam series directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the last series he had this much involvement in was Turn A, which is regarded by much of the fanbase as the best series. That alone has built up a great deal of excitement in the fanbase.  Also this is a thing that happens in it. Am I going to need to watch Universal Century Gundam to enjoy this? From the looks of things, no. While it is set after Universal Century, this is at least 2000 years later, so it should be able to stand on its own. That being said, you should still watch Universal Century Gundam productions. In fact, Tomino, being the wacky guy that he is, has outright said that this series is not meant for fans of UC Gundam, but for the children of fans of UC to enjoy. When is this airing? It begins on October 4th, and will run for 25-26 episodes. Preview Videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_kQZLb64E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zJu_Sx6lGg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ByoabdSRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN3KN5Xlo8U Gundam megathread if you have any questions regarding other series Gunpla thread if you have questions about the wave of models this series will bring about. Here's the thread for Build Fighters Try. For the first time, two Gundam series will be airing at the same time, this alongside Gundam Build Fighters Try, the sequel to last year's surprisingly fun series. Most likely, it's Bandai hedging their bets, so even if Reconguista fails, Build Fighters Try will get them a good amount of cash as Build Fighters did last year. EDIT: Hey, guess what? As of 2/26/15, or about 22 episodes into the series, Gundaminfo's finally uploading episodes on YouTube for everyone to see! Check out the playlist here, and if you haven't had a chance to get into this series, do it, it's turning out to be one of the better series. TARDISman fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Broken Loose posted:No, it stops punching, pulls its arm back, and then starts randomly twitching. That's when she says it's the wrong response. As we all know, the Gundam's most sensitive nerve endings are in the V fin, in this case, the bunny ears. Word of advice, don't touch the Turn-A's mustache, it's what sets off the Moonlight Butterfly.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:30
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Overlord K posted:I enjoyed the first two episodes.  Frankly I really enjoyed it and the selective lack of exposition left me really curious. One of my favorite things to do is speculate on what's going to happen in any given form of media, so this has been really interesting to me. That and I have some level of blind faith that every character will have some form of fulfilling arc, so I'm just looking forward to next week. And to all these kits coming out so I can buy them all. 
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Oct 3, 2014 23:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It really just sounds like people are hoping for a return of Kill'em-All Tomino to me. All you really need is a mention of the Turn-A as a prototype somewhere in the latter half the series to know the ending's not going to be happy, no matter what. Frankly the very existence of the Turn A guarantees that there's no happy ending in any of the Gundam series, even ones that end on an incredibly optimistic note like X, Wing, and 00. At some point, maybe 10 years down the line, maybe 2000, someone finds the Turn A and Turn X and poo poo goes south. Srice posted:And heck, even during that phase he still had plenty of upbeat stuff. It's just easier to note the ones that do end with everyone dying! It's just one of those things he'll never live down, the first half of his career was dominated by high body counts, so that's what people expect of him. It's both funny and sad at the same time.
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Oct 5, 2014 08:05
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Wark Say posted:Do not fall for her sweet-talking! I have it on good word that she's a pirate. Of the space sort! Yeah, he felt all the popular voice actors out there sounded too alike.
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Oct 6, 2014 02:53
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Broken Loose posted:I think still this show is quite poo poo in many ways, but I don't really care at this point now that Good Gundam has started airing and I can just rewatch episode 1 of that each time I consider arguing with you guys. The criticisms levied at AGE were rampant misogyny, since there was a grand total of 2 moderately important female characters that didn't make a baby and disappear and even then it was the third gen's captain and one of Asemu's buddies in his gen. They also had horribly boring fights pretty much the entire time, plot devices that were flat out abandoned for no real reason (Sorry, AGE Device, you were a cool gimmick), and mech designs that looked like they were lifted from Zoids. On top of which the entire story (Also poo poo) was penned by a JRPG director who tried to write it like a JRPG, right down to random encounters and a final boss, compared to Tomino, who's the creator of the franchise. The hype is a little understandable all things considered. Not saying it's justified, but I can understand it. Frankly I'm just excited because I like Bellri, Aida and Bellri's cheerleader buddy who's name escapes me are both growing on me, and the overall mech design really blows me away since it's really out there and crazy, and right now, that's what I'm in the mood for. TARDISman fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 06:46
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Pureauthor posted:Don't you be hating on the Dragon mechs man. They were cool. Oh no, I wasn't saying I disliked them, I just said they looked like they were taken from Zoids. Dragon Zakus are both cool and good in my book.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:52
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StrifeHira posted:Please can we not have this argument again... I'm ok with dropping it. And I agree with you on the ending song, they're both legitimately great songs, and I can't wait to hear the full versions of both of them.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:21
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My big question is whether beam weaponry is a thing, since the Grimoire, Recten and Cait Sith all seem to not use typical beam weapons, but at the same time they don't use shell based ammo. Only the G-Self seems to have beam weapons, at least as far as I can recall and my memory isn't the best on this subject.
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Oct 10, 2014 18:11
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Sharkopath posted:The Grimoire's smg looking thing with the whipbayonet uses shells, it was a cool shot when they showed it off. So yeah, I think they're restricting energy so people don't fully develop beam weapons and gain a full offensive edge on the Capital.
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Oct 10, 2014 18:22
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Caros posted:The Montero seems to be heavily beam weapon equipped. The Javelin, rifle and vulcans are all beam weapons if I recall correctly. For all we know about the Montero it could be something that Ameria blew most of its energy ration on and we have no idea what the G-Self's origin is.
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Oct 10, 2014 18:37
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Srice posted:I watched a little over half of Brain Powerd and to me a lot of it felt like it was being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. It was a weird show and the sort of weird that I didn't find very interesting, outside of the occasional bits of incredibly bizarre dialogue. Yeah, one of my friends was watching me play SRWJ and they asked me what the powers of all the mechs that he didn't recognize were. Combattler V: Fights with yoyos Zeorymer: Basically a robot god that teleports and nukes the planet then regenerates all the damage that got through the god shield. Brain Powerd: Best theme song.
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Oct 12, 2014 04:07
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Sharkopath posted:Oh no, I agree with that, my friend didn't see it though. Honestly, it's what I like too, and I'm really curious as to where Bellri's going to go from here as a character. I mean, right now he's actually being pretty calm considering he just killed a man. A very small part of me hopes he goes semi pacifist almost in the same vein as Kira but not quite as holier-than-thou, but I'd be totally fine if he decides that he can't help it if people die.
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Oct 13, 2014 05:52
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Jegan Ace posted:Can we get to discussing how dumb the D-Pad mechs look in G-Reco? They look just the right amount of outlandish, considering they're largely unimportant worker mechs.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:12
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Sharkopath posted:this is just 4 u: My friend and I were joking about eyecatches and the number one thing we want is a walky thing (Shank I think, not sure) dancing.
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Oct 17, 2014 05:32
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I just want to see a straight man funny man bit between Klim Nick and Harry Ord.
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Oct 18, 2014 04:31
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I think the Reflector pack is in the end of the OP, and I know the other suit is there.
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Oct 23, 2014 03:56
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Srice posted:For all of the flaws SEED had, I never had a problem with them making the Bright equivalent a woman. Ramius was one of the best characters in SEED, and after Bright, she's probably my favorite captain. I mean sure she had a meltdown because Mu died but before then she had some really good interactions with Kira. Then again she got the older sibling characteristics of Bright and Natarle got the "gently caress you up for not following military code" characteristics, so who knows.
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Oct 26, 2014 05:00
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BlitzBlast posted:I'm sure that by the end, a lot of people were watching out of morbid fascination too. It's why I kept watching to the end. That and the beepy noises the enemy suits made.
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Oct 26, 2014 06:06
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Level Slide posted:When Bellri finds out that he offed Dellensen, I hope he collapses into a crying wreck in the same room as Aida so they end up crying together. Then Noredo starts crying because Bellri is crying. Then Happa or Klim Nick or the Megafauna captain is all like Nah, Klim Nick would probably be the stoic "This is what warfare is all about..." guy.
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Oct 28, 2014 02:31
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BizarroAzrael posted:Maybe I've not been paying close enough attention, but what is "the taboo"? Bellri mentioned the "cheap tricks" of the Elf Bull changing forms, is it to do with transforming mobile suits? Or was he just crazy with grief and paranoia there? In any case, he didn't seem to think the Elf Bull should be as it is, why? Is it just too powerful? We don't know the full coverage of the taboo yet, but we know it has something to do with the development of mobile suit technology and that the Capital Army is breaking it with suits like the Elf Bull.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:44
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Level Slide posted:Perhaps all of Gundam can be likened to humanity trying to leave their poop-filled sphere of water. The poop is a metaphor for nuclear war, obviously.
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Nov 1, 2014 21:44
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Sharkopath posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvtko347pek It fits the bill for being a badass Mega Man stage theme like most Gundam themes translated to 8 bit. Honestly I can't wait for the G-Arcane's sword mode to pop up since it's one of the main reasons I love the poo poo out of it. Also it's orange and I like orange. Ethiser posted:I'm pretty sure they already announced a Hecate model. I believe they did, probably releasing in either January or February.
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Nov 7, 2014 06:00
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Sharkopath posted:The closest analogue to the Kuntala is obviously the Burakumin, but if you can't see the also present analogues between the mask team and historical segregated units I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, when I saw the Kuntala unit the first two things that came to mind were Robert Gould Shaw's all African American unit from the Civil War, and the 442nd Infantry Regiment from WW2.
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Nov 8, 2014 07:22
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Sharkopath posted:Kareem Abdul Jabbar cowrote a really really good and cool book about the 761st tank battallion, and if you have any interest in minority perspectives of that time period or the operations of armor in general its a nice read, although very depressing because of the inherent subject matter. I am pretty interested in history, especially since my grandfather was lieutenant in a tank battalion in WW2. Thanks!
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Nov 8, 2014 07:30
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Great episode, really feel like the show is going places, and it's reached that point where I'm actively terrified of the next episode. Klim may be eating it soon (  ), and hopefully that'll motivate Bell to finally stay with the pirates.
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Nov 14, 2014 06:20
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Caros posted:That was implied by the whole 'not getting shot down' thing. Frankly it was nice to see a woman do something, I just wish they'd actually 'show' her doing something instead of merely existing to buy time for Fully armed and functional mobile suit that she's still not entirely used to controlling. They outright say this during the episode.
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Nov 14, 2014 08:29
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Caros posted:So stand in the back and take pot shots? Mask was a little distracted not getting his poo poo wrecked by the mobile armor and Klim double teaming most of his squad.
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Nov 14, 2014 08:58
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BlitzBlast posted:It's that time of the year again. Here's a look at some upcoming suits. Goddammit Bandai, stop making me want every High Grade you're cranking out. 
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Nov 20, 2014 16:34
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Sue posted:Don't worry, it will most likely never show up again. I wish it did, but on the other hand Bell wasn't a huge fan of it. I just want to know if we'll see the Reflector pack again, that's tied for my second favorite with the Assault Pack.
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Nov 21, 2014 00:25
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Well Tomino got one over on me, I genuinely was terrified for Klim to eat it this episode.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:52
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Level Slide posted:BANANA Goddamn, Mask is such a close second behind Klim for best character. 
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Nov 22, 2014 08:46
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Sharkopath posted:
 May choirs of angels sing you to your rest.
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Nov 22, 2014 18:43
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Dessel posted:I would like to say that the Space Garanden is so sexy It's got that perfect combination of Rewloola and Imperial Star Destroyer. You're not alone.
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Dec 1, 2014 01:39
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Dj Meow Mix posted:Steer owns. My other favorite crew member is the blond guy with aviators, hawaiian shirt, shorts and high socks. He looks like Quattro if Quattro had just given up after joining the AEUG or something. My favorite is Adam Smith because he has a custom helmet to fit his sweet as hell hair style.
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Dec 1, 2014 21:04
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MonsieurChoc posted:I prefer when the thread is cool than when it's pointless arguing. Agreed. Did you chuckle when Mick yelled "That's our genius" when Klim did some crazy melee combat stuff? I know I did.
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Dec 5, 2014 06:31
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For all intents and purposes it's like welding a grenade launcher to a forklift.
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Dec 5, 2014 06:36
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Caros posted:Other lines from the first episode include: They're a bunch of high schoolers/college students getting amped the gently caress up about going out in space. Frankly I'd do something similar. Probably not yell fight in pseudo Japanese but definitely something along those lines. edit: Pfffft wow I got beat on this one.
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Dec 5, 2014 06:48
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Neddy Seagoon posted:People want "Kill'em-All" Tomino back, and what says "kill them all" like wiping out the entire cast and untold billions with a nice big apocalypse? I don't know why, I love wacky disgruntled anime grandpa who hates what kids are up to these days then he has mobile suit toilets and dancing eyecatches.
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Dec 5, 2014 16:16
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I honestly thought the Black History was eventually they find the Turn A, then a timeline gets knocked back to the stone age, so it's all sequential. By this logic, UC took place, then Reguild Century, then Correct Century. Everything else happened before then. I still haven't watched Turn A, so I'm just talking out of my rear end here.
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Dec 5, 2014 18:56
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