UnemployedVillain
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The Adult Swim promo made it so fucking hype, especially with the music
https://youtu.be/m1UwqzAUwSs
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The Gundam |OT2| Another 5 years of Gunpla, Origins, and GUNDAMUUUU!
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The Adult Swim promo made it so fucking hype, especially with the music
https://youtu.be/m1UwqzAUwSs
JadedWriter
Member
Since you already stated you didn't watch Victory you probably can't state that it's good or bad. You're probably basing your opinions on Corvosol's rants on it.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Victory is fantastic, buthe production on G started before V even aired. After all the first episode of G aired one week after the last of V. G was designed by a committee to sell model kits and toys and then the story was back filled. It was literally designed to capitalize on the popularity of DBZ and Street Fighter 2 in 1992-3 when Gs preproduction started.
JadedWriter
Member
Thank you, I love that I'm not alone in this train of thought. G Gundam is the least Gundam of Gundam shows, but it's still very entertaining. Now that you put it that way Domon traveling to every country to fight the representative of that country is very Street Fighter 2, I never put it together for some reason.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
No. G was in response to the fact that F91 and V didn't have many Gundams in them and Gundam model kits and toys always sold better than non Gundam MS. It's Genesis was as a series that would be all Gundams to maximize sales. And in development it became a shonen tournament series since that was what was hottest atm. It was basically "what will get 10 year old boys to beg their parents for the most money"
It is why pretty much every subsequent Gundam series until Unicorn had been just Gundams hand over fist.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Yes, and unfortunately as amazing as Turn A was the shitty model sales kept Tomino's sequel Turn A Space series from ever getting greenlit. Which led to fucking dumpster fire goofy pointy ass shitty giant backpack gundamfest SEED
JadedWriter
Member
Oddly enough I like Katoki's remakes of the Wing suits more than the stuff in Seed. The suits in Seed seemed a little too busy or similar design wise.
JadedWriter
Member
Real question is did she "survive" it.
lol! I plan to pick up the blu-rays one day
JadedWriter
Member
If you ever watch it watch it with an open mind. I watched it years before I joined gaf and found out how hated Victory was, even after finding out how hated it is I'll still say it's my second favorite and I've seen a lot of Gundam shows.
You are talking to someone who loves g reco. So I am pretty open minded lol
JadedWriter
Member
I still need to see that and GBFT. If it's better than at least Age, I might not have that much of a problem with it since I couldn't even get through 2 full eps of Age. I think I was Gundamed out when I tried to watch Try and only finished the first five eps.
JadedWriter
Member
Wait. It's actually adored? I spend too much time on gaf then. I guess that and hearing about Tomino issuing apology letters regarding Victory have skewed my opinion on how it's received then cause I love Victory. It's dark as fuck, but so is Zeta so I guess I just like "fuck this shit and fuck this entire fucking cast 'killemall Tomino'"
Megalosaro
Banned
Really? It seems most places I go, it's pretty divisive. But that pretty much amounts to here, /m/ and /r/gundam.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
I go to places that are pretty much Gundam centric, as I said. So there may be a difference between general Otaku and Gunotas.
Valdfellgar
Banned
Most communities I've gone seem to not like Victory, then again maybe I haven't been traveling in the right circles.
JadedWriter
Member
It's Gundam for Shonen Jump. I like G more than I used to, but it's not what I watch when I'm in the mood for an actual Gundam show. I really don't even hate it, it's just the Gundam show I find myself in the rarest mood to watch. I like it enough to buy it at some point if that makes any kind of sense to you.
G Gundam does hit a lot of the traditional Gundam themes such as economic disparity between Earth and the colonies, environmentalism, and how war is a bad thing. But it doesn't have the usual Gundam "road trip" formula and its over-the-top tone makes it feel quite different from most of the other series in the franchise.
I quite like it overall, myself.
Valdfellgar
Banned
I enjoy G Gundam quite a bit, and it's the only Gundam my wife really likes, but I think it gets away with a lot because of that over the top tone. I'd have a hard time agreeing that it's better written than quite a few of the others. I would agree it is one of the most enjoyable though.
JadedWriter
Member
It's a fun show, probably a bit too formulaic than it needed to be for some of the intro eps, but once it broke that formula it became legit good at least. I think it hit its stride when Master Asia shows up.
Megalosaro
Banned
I give G points for doung, something new instead of being UC rehash.
Char Aznable
Member
Why are so expensive sazabi ver. ka ?
That shipping rate is killing me :C
That shipping rate is killing me :C
The kit is like 80-90 bucks by itself.
donkey show
Member
Exactly this. I still remember thinking the show was going to be a slogfest with the first couple of episodes, but once they hit Shinjuku(?) with Master Asia, it became great as you started to see more of Domon's characterization.
JadedWriter
Member
How much of "Cuz of dis gai" *shoves Kyoji's picture in some random dudes mug* does one need to watch?
The photo trails off in importance after around episode 10. Once the introductions are done, it moves on to the Shinjuku arc which shifts several motivations around.
Shipping can be a deal breaker for some. It'd cos me something like $40 to have this shipped to me, which is pretty much my only option for buying kits.
JadedWriter
Member
Told you it was good.
ThatChairMan
Member
The last few episodes are amazing. In particular, Episode 50 probably has one of my top favorite moments in any Gundam series, with the
last stand of the old men and the Reinforce Junior
They killed
Edit: Done. That's the main line UC stuff all over and done with. Victory was good overall, and I'd say the final arc was even great. It just dragged a bit midway.
Odelo
Edit: Done. That's the main line UC stuff all over and done with. Victory was good overall, and I'd say the final arc was even great. It just dragged a bit midway.
The Reinforce Jnr's sacrifice was great. Loved the insert song here too.
Odelo's death hit me the most, after everything he survived I thought he was safe.
Katejina is batshit insane.
Cronicle's death was over so quickly, the cut to the mid show Haro card made it hard to even process what happened.
That knife to the back from Katejina was low even for her.
But she gets her just desserts and ends up a blind, brain damaged, homeless beggar.
Nice that they included that little epilogue scene.
Odelo's death hit me the most, after everything he survived I thought he was safe.
Katejina is batshit insane.
Cronicle's death was over so quickly, the cut to the mid show Haro card made it hard to even process what happened.
That knife to the back from Katejina was low even for her.
But she gets her just desserts and ends up a blind, brain damaged, homeless beggar.
Nice that they included that little epilogue scene.
Char Aznable
Member
I can go around paying 70 bucks for the kit ....now paying 100 for the shipping well...
guess i'll just buy some HG gouf custom since i've been dying to have one
davidwhangchoi
Member
yeah whether you're getting hg or MG kits, if you're in the US, it's probably better to buy kits that's been released for a while on Amazon as it'll come out the same cost. plus you get it shipped faster and have a good return policy in case it's damaged during shipping without worry about returning overseas. but for new releases i;d go with HLJ, amiami ,etc.
hlj you can group your shipments to lower shipping on multiple items and store them up to 60 days to combine them in private warehouse.
it's still 99 on amazon.... pretty damn high...
JadedWriter
Member
I think Katejina ranks right up there with Haman as best Gundam villain. And it's nice to see that even you, a person that was a Gundam noob last month was able to appreciate Victory. You're like #7 in the Victory Gundam fan club around here. If I remember right it was stated that Katejina didn't even deserve a fate as simple as death, Tomino made her suffer in the end. Not only is she blind and brain damaged she's utterly alone. Cronicle is gone and they loved each other and I don't even think Uso recognizes her in the end. She's just alone and defenseless.They killedOdelo
Edit: Done. That's the main line UC stuff all over and done with. Victory was good overall, and I'd say the final arc was even great. It just dragged a bit midway.
The Reinforce Jnr's sacrifice was great. Loved the insert song here too.
Odelo's death hit me the most, after everything he survived I thought he was safe.
Katejina is batshit insane.
Cronicle's death was over so quickly, the cut to the mid show Haro card made it hard to even process what happened.
That knife to the back from Katejina was low even for her.
But she gets her just desserts and ends up a blind, brain damaged, homeless beggar.
Nice that they included that little epilogue scene.
Char Aznable
Member
thing is i'm in south america :C
Valdfellgar
Banned
Finished Stardust memory. Don't have much to say aside from I really liked it. Next stop is Turn A.
That's my favorite. I think I saw it before any other Gundam. Video store had the first two tapes back when I was a pre-teen (I think that's how old I was?) Didn't entirely understand the full context, but loved the heck out of the animation, the story, and Uraki's struggles.
davidwhangchoi
Member
Finished Stardust memory. Don't have much to say aside from I really liked it. Next stop is Turn A.
simply the best!
Started on Wing yesterday. I'm liking it so far but holy crap are these Gundams/pilots OP. In UC even taking down 15 guys in their career was a big deal but here they're taking out entire facilities on their own.
Not to mention Heero jumping out of a building and surviving without his parachute haha.
Not to mention Heero jumping out of a building and surviving without his parachute haha.
Yea The show writes Heero as if he is the ultimate cyborg instead of a human teenager
Megalosaro
Banned
Don't expect any pairity within the franchise from this moment forward
AU is all about tons of Gundams to sell tons of gunpla. Thanks, Bandai! Usually they can be pretty OP. Maybe X can be excluded. It has multiple Gundams, but not everyone is really strong neither are their Gundams.
JadedWriter
Member
AU is the universe where practically every pilot in a non Gundam is fucking canon fodder. If you want skills you better have a name written somewhere in the script. I think there are about three moments in the show where Heero should've died, but he just tanks that shit.
I honestly think the top 3 pilots on the boy band side are Heero, Wufei and Duo in that order.
ThatChairMan
Member
So I started reading Ecole du Ciel, and I'm wondering if this is actually the first time a mobile suit pilot academy is actually a setting in a Gundam spinoff. Seems like it would be a more popular/generic concept, but I don't recall it ever being used in any other spinoff or series.
And the headless GMs look pretty weird.
And the headless GMs look pretty weird.