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Shinjobi posted:I'm gonna go ahead and say it: I can't stand the worship for the Black Tri-Stars. For whatever reason the fan base has made them out to be more than just villains of the week, and I don't get it. It doesn't help (for me, anyway) that the dub had them played as rednecks.
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What exactly was the point of Twilight Axis, besides selling more models and making a mediocre attempt at linking Unicorn to F91? Nothing I've read really seems to explain the plot that well, and I can't find it to watch properly anywhere.
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EthanSteele posted:To be fair Kira's entire deal is pretty much not killing unless he has to. I'm not sure the show ever bothered to explain why he "had to" cut two warships in half in the first series' last episode. Among the multitude of reasons the CE series have soured on me, lazyass writing like that is a huge reason. (What powers all these warships without reactors being another dumb but major reason)
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May 9, 2018 22:25
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A pair of random observations while rewatching CCA: -Older Gundam in general seems to have a really hard time remembering how zero gravity works onboard ships. -Why the hell are there giant tires lashed to the sides of the Ra Cailum?
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May 16, 2018 02:37
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Taintrunner posted:Texas in Origin is like a Wild West theme too iirc It's depicted that way in MSG as well, looking pretty much like Texas.
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May 16, 2018 14:07
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Reading through background material on the OYW, I'm left with a question- is it ever explained why Zeon would gas a bunch of other colonies? Operation British I get, that at least seems like it was directly aimed at attacking the Federation military.
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Jun 20, 2018 04:18
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DamnGlitch posted:The manga clarifies pretty much all of this and is basically an apology for the jankiness of the ova. The recent one that includes a G-Fighter for some inexplicable reason?
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drrockso20 posted:The G-Fighter is canon, it's just whether or not the White Base had one of those or a Core Booster that is up for debate I know it's considered canon, it's just that it's next to the Zakrello on my list of "stupid super robot leftovers that are best forgotten." (That and the weird rainbow colors. Why that didn't stop once Zeta came around I'll never grasp.)
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Jun 29, 2018 04:13
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Having never watched (much) of 0079 subbed, were the Black Tri-Stars voiced as "rednecks" or something similar in Japanese, or was that just a weird directing decision someone at Ocean made when they dubbed it? Still kind of a shame that they couldn't get Michael Kopsa to reprise the role of Char, though, I have a bit of a hard time hearing him as anyone else in English.
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Jul 6, 2018 02:53
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A new dub can never replicate the glorious insanity of Mark Oliver's Rau. https://youtu.be/0Awfq95GSSo
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Jul 7, 2018 21:35
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Arcsquad12 posted:I wanna get the chance. 'Cause I'm never gonna stop streak my dream.
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Jul 12, 2018 23:58
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Mimir posted:I think Unicorn used the Main Unicorn Theme one or two too many times without enough variation. Repeating variations on the same tune seems to be a thing that Hiroyuki Sawano just does a lot. It's happened in Kabaneri and Seraph of the End, that I've noticed.
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ManSedan posted:I can’t believe they called him Pang Hercury. Because Hank Hercules was better?
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chiasaur11 posted:Considering how some of the Titans went forward with their lives, that actually looks good. By joining Neo Zeon, according to the most recent Advance of Zeta story. How that makes any sense is beyond me, but then most of Advance of Zeta is weird unexplainable nonsense.
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The BBC posted:Charles Aznavour, French singing star, dies at 94 https://bbc.in/2Ne80Ku
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Midjack posted:The manga tells a somewhat abridged version of the story. The video game has the full plot. The "new" manga they started recently or the original one?
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RillAkBea posted:The new one is the full plot in excruciating detail. They're up to chapter 30 something and Efreet and BD-1 are still in play. But with bonus unnecessary new GM variants, because the OYW wasn't ludicrous enough already.
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AtheistMantis posted:I really started to think differently about Acguys after reading that manga about these two Zeon pilots stranded after the failed Jaburo attack. They had to walk across 2250 miles of North America, and did crazy things like break dancing, bowling, and whack-a-mole. Which manga is this 
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Gripweed posted:There's also the issue of where do they expand? Their partnership with Rightstuf is working at a pretty good clip towards getting all Gundam series on bluray in America. And there's a ton of Gundam available on the Gundamofficial Youtube channel. It seems like most comic shops sell Gundam models, and Barnes and Noble carries Gundam models at most of their locations. I'd certainly like to see Barnes and Noble carry a wider range of Gundam models, but I assume that mainly up to Barnes and Noble, not Bandai. Bandai itself actually released most, if not all of the 00 related manga (and novels, even) until they went under, so it wasn't just Tokyopop.
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"Oh by the way there was a second Sinanju they also stole" was dumb enough, but really, "oh and also we built a second Neo Zeong?" I was able to stomach most of Unicorn's weird plot ideas, but this is stretching things a bit further.
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SEED strikes me now as something that was trying way too hard to be "deep and interesting" and it failed miserably at it. Where before we might see decent people on each side, instead we get a few sane people and hordes of crazed people nursing insane murderboners for each other. Which completely undoes any message about discrimination they might have had. Evidence 01 could have been used as a springboard for something interesting, but instead it's a random background detail that never gets mentioned again, except to make the random, pointless claim that after we found an alien skeleton, religion suddenly stopped being important. Also how exactly do the PLANTs have any gravity at all? Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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The weirdest part of Astray (well, one of them) I that it's used as a vehicle to explain an event in SEED that the show itself never bothers to actually elaborate on namely how Kira survived having the Aegis blow up in his face. Which, I mean, you have to have some draw for your manga, but this is Halo novels level of not explaining things except in the ancillary material, and the writers for SEED weren't nearly good enough for that to work well. Once the later sequels started going into the really absurd stuff I rapidly lost interest. (I'm looking at you, Frame Astrays) Astray R is ugly, but it's not in the same universe of gently caress-ugly as the main SEED and Destiny manga by Iwase. Those have some of the worst art I have ever seen, bar none. Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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taichara posted:If Frame Astrays was the dealbreaker for you, you missed a bullet and you are a lucky soul. VS Astray is some bullshit and this is coming from someone who thinks Gundam Wing Frozen Teardrop is a grand romp. Got my wacky sidestories mixed up, VS Astray is the one I meant. "Let's move parts around," what brilliant design work.
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Warmachine posted:Have there really been bad dubs of Gundam though? Except for the dubs of the 0079 movie trilogy holy poo poo. Gundam "came of age" in the United States just as anime was hitting the mainstream, so I can't really remember anything that had obnoxiously bad English dubbing. This might all be nostalgia though. Some of them have janky moments that were probably mandated by need to fit flaps, but I can't recall any that were unwatchable or anything. Even the bad moments are balanced out by the amazing ones. Plus, you know, Mark Oliver as Rau Le Creuset: https://youtu.be/0Awfq95GSSo I never get tired of that performance, even after I decided I didn't like SEED anymore.
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Caros posted:Also, reading through that LP has introduced me to my new favorite thing: Almost as dumb as Kondo's love of putting zimmerit on everything Zeon he can draw.
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jackhunter64 posted:See also Ippei Gyoubu's unfortunate habit of putting sieg runes on a bunch of his mecha designs. Uh...do you have examples of this? I'd never noticed it before. Also, Kondo's obsession with comically oversized skirt armor.
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Kanos posted:Devil's advocate here. Or Endless Waltz' ending, which says mobile suits are no more forever, and then Frozen Teardrop happens.
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Monaghan posted:that was such a bizarre addition. Wing was decently popular, so I'm really surprised the writer included the " no more sequels ever, gently caress you" at the end of the ova/movie. I mean, when the guiding philosophy of one of the main characters is "total pacifism" then there's only so many ways you can go with it. And that's another reason I don't like Wing in retrospect, even as someone who sometimes thinks of myself as a pacifist, Relena's philosophy was dumb as hell.
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tsob posted:Christ, I hope not; Kondo and Kobayashi's proportions are pretty fugly. Kind of out there for adoption by a mainstream project too. I'm assuming you mean more the inclusion of zimmerit and other such details that increase the verisimilitude of the designs, but even those look out of place on a lot of the designs and take away from the more fantastical element of giant robots as war machines in my opinion. That and I just think it tends to look like rear end. Izubuchi is cool though, so I'd be more than happy to see them take design cues from him. Zimmerit in no way increases verisimilitude, if anything it does the exact opposite. Some of Kondo's stuff is solid, at least the art for the 0079 manga he did was. It's when he starts doing weird things with giant-rear end skirts, or giving the Sazabi a straight up MG42 that it goes off the rails.
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Kingtheninja posted:Yeah there's that episode where rain pilots the shining gundam and she's getting crippled by the suit being applied. Ftfy. I just assume it's horny animators by default with this stuff.
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Tythas posted:I always thought the idea of the Core fighter was dumb, if you are in a situation where you need to use the corefighters cockpit and not the Gundam's actual cockpit the Gundam is likely to be so hosed up it's not worth the time to try and use it They're the same cockpit. E:beaten.
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The learning computer comes up at least once in dialogue in the show, as best I can recall.
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HitTheTargets posted:I know this is fake because there’s no way they’d make something starring a girl in 2019. If Ecole du Ciel is still going, no one at Sunrise knows about it. I had to check this and gently caress me, it's still going. They must have gone up through the first Neo Zeon war at that rate.
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NikkolasKing posted:Is the Glory of Losers manga worth looking into? What does it change from the Wing anime? It uses the Katoki redesigns.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I also now want to see AGE. I need to know if it's as bad as you all say it is and at heart I am a completist. Good luck. I bailed after one episode. Having seen the terrible, terrible character designs was enough.
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Gihren's speech is more memorable both because it was actually animated, and, for me at least, the dub actor pretty much nailed it.
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Wark Say posted:I don't know if you're referring to the OG Japanese or to Doug Stone, but the crazy thing? Funnily enough, the guy who voiced Gihren in the Ocean dub is actually a Japanese guy who does English voiceover, Hiro Kanagawa. As with Michael Kopsa's Char, it's really a shame we couldn't get them in more than just 0079 and CCA for the latter, as they're both excellent.
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Omnicrom posted:The arrows around the base suggest they might finally have decided what the Snow White is supposed to look like. The Snow White's Buster Rifle is called "The Seven Dwarves" and has an array of 7 magic arrows that fire different elements, so the numbers check out at least. So on the basis of this insanity I checked the Gundam Wiki entry for FT. It is as though they looked at the parts of Wing that made very little sense and decided to see if they could top that. It doesn't even sound particularly entertaining, just completely batfuck.
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Another casualty of the "what if they used mobile suits for fuckin' everything" fallacy.
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ImpAtom posted:It is a mobile field hospital. It doesn't carry people inside while moving. It is a MS because it can use the MS as a power source. Which would make sense if the Zaku in this case wasn't battery powered. Given the timeline it would still make more sense to use a GINN for that, you don't use the new frontline stuff in rear-echelon roles, particularly in wartime.
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