Tschumi
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I haven't watched as much anime as, well, anyone ever I'm sure. I watched Adam Savage build a Perfect Grade Gundam model on youtube last week though and my interest in getting such a model for myself has fueled an interest in this show.
Full disclosure I tried to get into this very series a year or two ago, but failed to do so as I couldn't handle the old school exposition and was very distracted at the time. I'm more receptive now. I'll be trying to watch a few episodes a day to bolster my usual Japanese learning.
My impressions...
- Did this dude sing all the OPs? "Gundamu Gundamu" theme song must be famous among all fans, well I'd like you to know - though surely u already do - that he also did the OP for 999: Galaxy Express... If he didn't then his voice-twin did. Very oldschool. I like it, it'll grow on me, but I very much prefer the 999 OPs and EDs. Compared to the theme tune to my favourite recent anime series it feels like a pretty risible folly. I'm not one to take much pleasure in hindsight though. I'm glad this dude didn't do the DBZ OPs.
- There's an interesting flavour to proceedings here that I didn't pick on last time. There's a cool, collaborative, fish-out-of-water martial aspect that kind of reminds me of Luke joining up with Han in A New Hope or, if I may draw a strained comparison, Starship Troopers. It's a trope that's been done many times since (and before?) but I'm enjoying it. This time around I'm seeing why people liked it, enough new stuff happens in the mix to make it unique - the bedridden captain, the 18 year old stand-in... All that.
- I've yet to get a comprehensive handle on Amuro's chops as a Gundam pilot but I think the idea is he's a bit of a savant and I can get behind that.
- Character design is pretty rough, but after watching 999 I find it easy to understand and forgive this. They did some cool slight-of-hand tricks to spice up what was still, seemingly, a pretty simplistic animation process that I appreciate. The space craft crashing into a city in the intro sequence is particularly cool.
- I didn't like Evangelion because of the way the jettisoned all romance/human interest threads during the final few episodes - it has shades of MGS5 fading away in the final act - I have a feeling I'll somewhat prefer Gundam.
- I hear that the next series - ZETA - is considered the 'best', and someone recommended Char's Counter-Attack to me a month or two ago, so I'm looking forward to getting through those at least. There's also one from the 00s (I think?) set amongst ground forces, I think it was called 08th MS Team? Sounds like some crew who went up the amazon looking for ideas for Windows Vista 2... I like the look of that, too.
- I'll be honest, I'm rather gritting my teeth through this series, trying to learn some Japanese, track the plot, hoping for the visuals to sharpen up in Zeta or beyond. I've got a bit of a bad taste in the back of my mouth that the more modern series - with more slick visuals - are apparently less good (thinking of Seed, for example)
I'll try to develop more comprehensive opinions as I go along, thanks for ur time
EDIT: It's 0079 not 0078, sorry! Mods, could you help me out?
Full disclosure I tried to get into this very series a year or two ago, but failed to do so as I couldn't handle the old school exposition and was very distracted at the time. I'm more receptive now. I'll be trying to watch a few episodes a day to bolster my usual Japanese learning.
My impressions...
- Did this dude sing all the OPs? "Gundamu Gundamu" theme song must be famous among all fans, well I'd like you to know - though surely u already do - that he also did the OP for 999: Galaxy Express... If he didn't then his voice-twin did. Very oldschool. I like it, it'll grow on me, but I very much prefer the 999 OPs and EDs. Compared to the theme tune to my favourite recent anime series it feels like a pretty risible folly. I'm not one to take much pleasure in hindsight though. I'm glad this dude didn't do the DBZ OPs.
- There's an interesting flavour to proceedings here that I didn't pick on last time. There's a cool, collaborative, fish-out-of-water martial aspect that kind of reminds me of Luke joining up with Han in A New Hope or, if I may draw a strained comparison, Starship Troopers. It's a trope that's been done many times since (and before?) but I'm enjoying it. This time around I'm seeing why people liked it, enough new stuff happens in the mix to make it unique - the bedridden captain, the 18 year old stand-in... All that.
- I've yet to get a comprehensive handle on Amuro's chops as a Gundam pilot but I think the idea is he's a bit of a savant and I can get behind that.
- Character design is pretty rough, but after watching 999 I find it easy to understand and forgive this. They did some cool slight-of-hand tricks to spice up what was still, seemingly, a pretty simplistic animation process that I appreciate. The space craft crashing into a city in the intro sequence is particularly cool.
- I didn't like Evangelion because of the way the jettisoned all romance/human interest threads during the final few episodes - it has shades of MGS5 fading away in the final act - I have a feeling I'll somewhat prefer Gundam.
- I hear that the next series - ZETA - is considered the 'best', and someone recommended Char's Counter-Attack to me a month or two ago, so I'm looking forward to getting through those at least. There's also one from the 00s (I think?) set amongst ground forces, I think it was called 08th MS Team? Sounds like some crew who went up the amazon looking for ideas for Windows Vista 2... I like the look of that, too.
- I'll be honest, I'm rather gritting my teeth through this series, trying to learn some Japanese, track the plot, hoping for the visuals to sharpen up in Zeta or beyond. I've got a bit of a bad taste in the back of my mouth that the more modern series - with more slick visuals - are apparently less good (thinking of Seed, for example)
I'll try to develop more comprehensive opinions as I go along, thanks for ur time
EDIT: It's 0079 not 0078, sorry! Mods, could you help me out?
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