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Kanos posted:Tomino doesn't make allowances for his audience's easy comprehension in terms of narrative. His style is very much based around giving the viewer a window into events that are happening in his world instead of specifically narrating a story, so there won't be big scrawls of "IN THE REGUILD CENTURY, MANKIND WAS NOW AT WAR...." or anything. Some people get very confused and put out because the show spoonfeeds you basically nothing and a lot of major plot details you need to pick up simply from character dialogue. I found that most of Tomino's Gundam shows are pretty comprehensible intros from a newbies POV. MSG has the luxury of an intro that straight-up tells you "there is a war in space where evil space dudes with giant robots are killing people and chucking giant space stations at Earth", Zeta makes it drat clear who the bad guys are off the bat because there are dudes with black uniforms that grin like gangsters and establishes Kamille as a "troubled youth" because of his little temper tantrum rampage on Jerid and the Titans MPs, ZZ intro is easy to understand because of how simple it is, and F91's colony attack makes it super simple to figure out that the dudes piloting the gas-mask robots are evil and that the Federation is incompetent. Tomino's shows don't have some dude popping up and saying "Hello, I am from the Titans/Axis Zeon/Crossbone Vanguard and here is exactly what we are trying to do" in the first few episodes, but it's easy to figure out the basics of the story just by watching. I think Tomino does stumble with revealing motivations at times, like how the only talk we get about Jamitov's true intentions is some speculating Paptimus does at his Pimp Pad with Sarah about Jamitov wanting to bankrupt the Federation (which turns out to be true in the novels), exactly why Glemy wants to overthrow Haman, and why Agrippa took over while Dianna went off on her boondoggle quest to resettle Earth (or was that because of the poo poo subs I had?).
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I want a crossover event where the Gundam characters with the most ridiculous names fight the most useless Gundam characters to be deemed the number 1 Gundam misfit. 0079 Hayato and Wufei team up to create an alliance that includes stars like S2 Alleujah, Argo Gulskii, Destiny-era Cagalli, Dorel Ronah, Kou, and Reccoa to fight Bask Om, South Burning, Cronicle Asher, Kid Salsamille, Bork Cry, Zeon Zum Deikun, Bright Noa, Mouar Pharaoh, and the other Gundam characters with ridiculous name closeted republican fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:I have little doubt that they will eventually do more Origin stuff. It makes money selling toys, so they'll do it. Fun fact: Origin model kits use a different "brand" label compared to the rest of the 0079-derived products. Products from 0079 (the RX-78-2 head):  Products from Origin (Origin logo):  Bandai seems like they're ready to support Origin long-term if they're willing to give it a seperate brand label.
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Midjack posted:That or it's an excuse to sell you a Zaku or Gundam for the 10th time because this one is so different. If they wanted to sell you another Zaku or Gundam that's slightly different from existing molds, they could make it, give the box the 0079 brand logo on the box, and nobody would care. They've done it before.  They could easily put the 0079 brand logo on the Origin kits, but if they're using a new one just for Origin's products, then that tells me they have big plans for the Origin line. 
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MonsieurChoc posted:I just felt like listening to Star Children. Gundam should embrace it's 70s roots more. I unironically love the cheesy 70s music in 0079, like Espionage in Enemy Territory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZtyB0kOH8 It sounds like it came from Scooby-Doo and I love it.
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Happy Christmas Eve everyone!
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Not Dave posted:There was recently a shirt made that just has "Say it ain't so Bernie!" printed on and I would have bought it if I wouldn't have to explain its not a political thing. If anyone asked, you could tell 'em that it's a saying from local burger joint at somewhere you used to live.
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Prepare my Zack for combat so I can destroy Noah Bright for the glory of John.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Oh my god I need to watch those FMV's again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiTosK80Wfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzb16ug6Kyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwWxxY0IILE
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SeanBeansShako posted:It kind of bugs me weirdly, also don't forget Federation female officers wear the same gear as male ones. It was the late 70s.
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Jan 5, 2016 05:10
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ImpAtom posted:Degwin absolutely started the war (well, him and Zeon together set the things in motion but still. Zeon intended for either war or freedom) The colony drop was actually his son's idea and he went along with it only with the assurance that it would end the war quickly. (This is still gross and power-hungry but still.) 0079's setting notes pins Zeon's buildup towards war solely on Degwin. Seems to me the intention was that Degwin was a real son of a bitch dictator, but began having buyer's remorse once Gihren took control.
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G-Reco dropped a colony on my hometown.
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Jan 15, 2016 22:40
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When I was a child, my house suddenly set on fire and we lost almost everything. I saw Bellri staring at my burning house at a nearby house with his grin, watching my life burn down before me. I knew it was him that set the fire.
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Jan 15, 2016 22:54
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Pissing in the wind is more effective than most of the G-Fighter's abilities are.
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Jan 18, 2016 20:14
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ImpAtom posted:The G-Fighter is effectively as well-armed as the Gundam and scores more on-screen kills than the Guncannon or Guntank does. Like it's stupid and toyetic but both its on-paper stats and in-series effectiveness are really high. Its beam cannon is the strongest weapon available to the White Base combat crew that isn't attached to the White Base. It's a great aicraft fighter when Salya gets her skillz up to par and Sleggar gets one, but it's main selling point, the combinations, are utterly useless.
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Jan 18, 2016 23:43
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The real question is: What does Kuntala meat taste like?
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I thought SEED suddenly turning the token Federation stand-in evil was really stupid and contrived. They weren't too keen on Coordinators at the start, but it's like someone hit a switch and every last person in the EA except for the Archangel crew turned extremely evil with no redeeming qualities as soon as the Archangel reached JOSH-A. It was really hokey. I don't mind evil Federations (like the one in X), but SEED did a poo poo job with it.
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Jan 23, 2016 13:54
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dogsicle posted:they're literally talking about decals and model grades...i don't think his complaint is unwarranted Who cares? Droyer is sounding whiny.
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Jan 24, 2016 20:18
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Srice posted:I like Glemy even though his development gets weird in the second half due to the nature of the show's production. If they made middle-to-end Glemy the Glemy from the start he'd be one of the most interesting Gundam villains.
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Jan 29, 2016 01:11
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Please, please do a review of one of the Frost Bros regular outfits sometime down the line. You should do Shagia's outfit, but Olba would be fine too.
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Azrael's behavior and mannerisms are so over-the-top and silly that he's one of the few Gundam villains I would say is "fun", in spite of him being a genocidal..racist? Geneist? Whatever. He oftentimes steals the scene when he's on, and he appears often enough that the viewer can get a good grasp of who he is and how crazy he is.
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GulagDolls posted:weekend at bernie's
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Feb 13, 2016 11:28
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I like a lot of SEED's uniforms. The Earth Alliance uniforms are a great modernization of the EFF uniforms (the 0079-style blue and pink uniforms actually look passable instead of poo poo), while ZAFT's are really nice.
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Eej posted:My problem with IGLOO is that it's just extended fanservice to Zeon fanboys devoid of anything remotely critical about literal space Nazis in order to animate heroic last stands of crazy wonder weapons and doesn't really do anything interesting. IGLOO gave us the Zudah, and that redeems it in my mind.
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dogsicle posted:will we ever be free of weirdos who cheer the death of Quess, a kid manipulated into a deadly conflict, because she was 'annoying?' You can still fell pity for her circumstances and still find her annoying. 
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Ka0 posted:I don't know, but I wouldn't mind a #manga about the #adventures of #RanGarrod and #ParaSys Me too.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Completed 08th MS Team. Again. Still should have ended at Episode 11, and it looks like it was originally supposed to considering the episode had a giant END sign at the conclusion. Episode 12 is unassuming and not terrible, but it's tacked on and would have worked better as a side story or a standalone piece. I have never watched Episode 12. I think I've made the right choice.
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Darth Walrus posted:One thing I will say about Gundam X's ending is that Ennil and Toniya just deciding to elope together was hilarious. Those two were so gay for each other as soon as they met.
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Raxivace posted:The Glemmy route is very offensive and shouldn't have been in the game. The Glemy route is the reason why the game was eventually banned in Japan.
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I'd go X-style so I can make generic 90s anime outfits REALITY.
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Monaghan posted:Wow Yazan's design does not mesh well with whats-her-name. they look like they came from two different shows. If you think that's bad, read the Plot to Assassinate Gihren manga. It has modern anime characters rolling with late 70s cartoon villains (the Zabis) and Gihren's secretary with her late 70s-early 80s as gently caress hair, which is about as jarring as you'd expect.
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