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I actually liked the episode a lot. I really liked Junya and his obsession with power. I really dug his artwork and facial animations too *shrug.

I love both seasons. Episodes can be downright ridiculous sometimes but man, the show has a lot of heart and passion. The fights are overly dramatic and I love every second of them. The soundtrack is superb and filled with color. I love the animation and how downright crazy some scenes can be.


Easily one of my favorite animes and I only watched Seed, 8th team and endless waltz(in regards to gundam)
 
I feel like Junya had a lot of potential that was completely wasted. He could've won if he didn't toy around with Seikai.

That Full Cloth hype though. He has to push Gunpla Academy's shit in and be the final boss of the season, right?
 
Hero said:
I feel like Junya had a lot of potential that was completely wasted. He could've won if he didn't toy around with Seikai.

That Full Cloth hype though. He has to push Gunpla Academy's shit in and be the final boss of the season, right?
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No way Gunpla Academy isn't the final boss. Too much buildup/rival feature in the OP
 
On that note, I really hope Yuuma gets to show off the Lightning and its full capabilities against Tryon 3. All we've seen is just general Gundam stuff from it but it has to have some trick to it.
 
The only thing I could think of watching that episode is how many different Clear Burning Build Gunpla they're going to sell lol Almost as if they canonized the limited edition clear gunpla variants they sell. So weirdly meta.
 
enzo_gt said:
The only thing I could think of watching that episode is how many different Clear Burning Build Gunpla they're going to sell lol Almost as if they canonized the limited edition clear gunpla variants they sell. So weirdly meta.
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You are a horrible person for giving them such ideas if they didn't have it in the first place already.
 
Hazaro said:
:( Episode

Technique itself was cool. XBones looks boss as fuck.
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This is my opinion on the episode as well.

Lucas has been hyped up decently for being the ultimate monster in the series. Too bad he'll most likely lose to the team spririt™ of Gunpla Academy trio.

I really would like it if the expected match-up would be subverted and Lucas ended up in the finals.
 
Baalzebup said:
This is my opinion on the episode as well.

Lucas has been hyped up decently for being the ultimate monster in the series. Too bad he'll most likely lose to the team spririt™ of Gunpla Academy trio.

I really would like it if the expected match-up would be subverted and Lucas ended up in the finals.
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Ideally Lucas beats up everyone and then Aila walks out for the final match against him.
 
Even in the Gunpla Battle future, old people can't understand nor do they care about #esports.

The struggle is eternal.
 
How does Gunpla Academy not lose to the new guy? They've already been established as a generally honorable bunch that the Try team has been looking forward to fighting for a long time. There's not much dramatic potential in that fight, so surely it makes more sense to have them knocked out. That makes the new wildcard fighter look even stronger for the big match.
 
I think the fact that the tournament is built 3v3 is just really messing with characters imo. They're just not building up people properly because it is a team and Lucas, who could've been the baddest mofo in the entire series, is hyped up only to most likely lose against the Gunplay Academy. Bullshit.
 
Divvy said:
And Fumina's parents were euthanized after contracting a virus that left them super-deformed
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Pretty sure we saw Fumina's mom :p

kayos90 said:
I think the fact that the tournament is built 3v3 is just really messing with characters imo. They're just not building up people properly because it is a team and Lucas, who could've been the baddest mofo in the entire series, is hyped up only to most likely lose against the Gunplay Academy. Bullshit.
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Yeah. And like I said before it will be because of the power of teamwork. His teammates are nobodies and during the last episode they said his Crossbone was the single most powerful gunpla, which emphasizes how alone it will be during the next match in comparison to the three gunpla academy members who have worked together and established a strong bond of friendship.
 
kayos90 said:
I think the fact that the tournament is built 3v3 is just really messing with characters imo. They're just not building up people properly because it is a team and Lucas, who could've been the baddest mofo in the entire series, is hyped up only to most likely lose against the Gunplay Academy. Bullshit.
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No way Lucas is going to lose, with the way the episode ended he is definitely going to be the final boss.
 
I've been re-watching that moment the Crossbone is revealed in the field..

It really is a pretty much perfectly set up scene. The music is ominous and doesn't slip to anything ridiculous or overbearing, the skull parts are brought to the fore with good angles and whatnot and naturally it just shrugs off the attacks from team Jobber Wolf like a weak fart.

Also, I just realized that Lucas' necklace has the same flower that Aila had in her hat. Can't believe I missed that 'till now.
 
I should probably stop watching this. I mean I root for the "bad guys" almost every single time now. And in a show like this were its pretty much telegraphed out loud who's gonna win, with the power of friendship no less, its gonna cause me disappointment each and every time.
 
Hm, I had fun with the episode though Denial Gundam is wasted doing nothing this episode. It was cool to hear some season 1 music again, especially when the S1 theme started playing with Yuuma bringing up Iori, but yeah it definitely felt like a weak episode. Hopefully next episode has a good fight.

Also the OST has had none of these new music they've been playing. :<
 
RangerBAD said:
Closest thing we'll get to a Crossbone adaptation. ; ;
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BF does Crossbone proud, granted Crossbone Maoh's bone swords were kinda dumb. Regardless, Crossbone Vanguard for life! It's also interesting that the upcoming Full Cloth kit is a HGBF and not HGUC as it looks relatively stock. New gimmicks pls.

And if anyone is interested in getting into Crossbone (BEST) Gundam in general, here's the obligatory primer:

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Shouta said:
On that note, I really hope Yuuma gets to show off the Lightning and its full capabilities against Tryon 3. All we've seen is just general Gundam stuff from it but it has to have some trick to it.
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Considering how utterly boring Yuuma is I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Sekai and Fumina's Gundams do original, weird shit, but Yuuma boring as bricks. The last time he did anything noteworthy was when he chose to build a Zeta Gundam that wasn't a Zeta Gundam.

Can't believe he has all the remaining interesting rivals. Sakai and Saga should be Sekai's opponents, not boring dull Yuuma.

My major problem with this show is that it feels like nothing was planned out ahead of time. Junya should've been a major foe like Kyoji. He should've had a shit ton of build up. Lucas should've been pitted against the team, not Gunpla Academy. Wilfrid's sister is somehow Fumina's rival but they've interacted like, once.

Compare this to last season, where we had the dramatic irony of Reiji and Aila's budding romance and their inevitable battle, where we had the constant build up to the fight against Meijin. Where Felinni and Maoh were introduced as rivals early on and then their losses to Sei and Reiji were major events and not just relegations to the sidelines early on in the show.

Try has no sense of pace, no grasp of properly building up. It has plenty of great ideas: Star Winning Real Mode's reveal could've been spectacular. Try Burning's Super Robot finishers are all amazing. The entire fight with Junya was top-notch. Tryon 3 is an incredible mech and Sakai's transition from a lonely douche-bag to making friends with his team both deserve more than the thirty second montage.

But there are other flaws, too. The show's theme seems to be some running Gunpla School Elitism that's touched on but isn't ever explained. And I mean, last season they could get away with stuff like the Gunpla mafia because it was ridiculous and silly, but this season there doesn't seem to be even humor propping this up.

And then there are the sort of flat characters, like those f-tier triplets who were bottom of the bargain bin Renatto Brothers from S1 or all of the Kijimas. I know it was wrong to expect S2 to be as good as S1 since this is Sunrise, but it's all the more frustrating to see so many good ideas imprisoned by such slapdash writing.
 
I'm surprised that even at this season, there's no "stubborn old man who doesn't see the point of gunpla and doesn't want his child to play in it" ep yet.
 
Episode 20

This should have been the best episode in the series with that awesome super attack, yet the entire Junya plotline falls flat because we weren't even introduced to him before last episode. That makes it really hard to care, and it particularly sucks the air out of the entire post-fight sequence. A vocal insert song can't make Junya's development feel profound or moving. It has to feel earned, and that requires knowing the character better. Good to see we're starting that cycle all over again with Lucas Nemesis, another incredibly powerful single character that's had about 30 seconds of screentime total before this episode. If you contrast his storyline so far with his obvious counterpart Aila, a character with constant presence during the entire tournament arc of her show, it should be incredibly clear how he falls short.

Lucas can't win, because Sakai and Gunpla Academy are the only rivals that we've even met before this tournament started, and the only ones important enough to get Talking Head Reaction Shot status. At least they have some kind of running relationship with the characters.

This is such a step down from the last season.
 
sonicmj1 said:
Episode 20

This should have been the best episode in the series with that awesome super attack, yet the entire Junya plotline falls flat because we weren't even introduced to him before last episode. That makes it really hard to care, and it particularly sucks the air out of the entire post-fight sequence. A vocal insert song can't make Junya's development feel profound or moving. It has to feel earned, and that requires knowing the character better. Good to see we're starting that cycle all over again with Lucas Nemesis, another incredibly powerful single character that's had about 30 seconds of screentime total before this episode. If you contrast his storyline so far with his obvious counterpart Aila, a character with constant presence during the entire tournament arc of her show, it should be incredibly clear how he falls short.

Lucas can't win, because Sakai and Gunpla Academy are the only rivals that we've even met before this tournament started, and the only ones important enough to get Talking Head Reaction Shot status. At least they have some kind of running relationship with the characters.

This is such a step down from the last season.
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Technically I think we met Junya before the Nationals began. He crept up on Slegger Law and dude was all creeped out by him. You're still on point, though. Nobody's been built up properly at all.

Lucas also isn't going to win because he doesn't have a customized Gunpla. Like, I don't think anybody has even called it anything other than the Full Cloth Crossbone. Which made the statement "the most important/dangerous gunpla in the tournament" that much dumber. How do we go from crazy awesome custom mecha like the Denial and the Tryon to "Oh fancily made but still basically standardized Gunpla" being the most dangerous? Especially when the show was making fun of Shimon way back at the start for doing basically the same thing?

Also fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck team Academy for just spamming the shit out of Exia mods. Lesser sons of greater sires with that one.
 
I agree the rivalries this series were shitty. Like I said the first time the so-called rivals were introduced, they were all jobbers we wouldn't care about aside from Gunpla Academy. They should have all been introduced early on with Sakai and that would have left space for them to be developed better.
 
I love how in season one, they subverted the whole "gundam naked space time" thing on its head and the whole conflict was resolved with Reiji simply inviting Aila to stay over at Sei's.

Season one was so great
 
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