ThatChairMan
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Tentatively excited, but already disappointed that no future Gundam ED will ever be as good as G-Reco's.
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Tentatively excited, but already disappointed that no future Gundam ED will ever be as good as G-Reco's.
Not really feeling it I'll wait for impressions before jumping in.
vas_a_morir
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Should have been the theme song.
In fact, as far as I'm concerned, it is. Even though it wasn't the OP.
Megalosaro
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Well I disagree there. When I first got into gundam, I didn't care about the robots. I liked it for the characters and stories
JadedWriter
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I would like to think most of the older ones have a mix of good character and shit characters. I would think Turn A is the high point on that front with 00 being the low point...and Destiny. Granted Zeta has more than enough characters that were borderline dumb but even Katz was useful at points even if Hayato should've slapped the shit out of him more. Nothing can save Reccoa though, just nothing, just fell too hard for that Pimptimus swag.
Hey I know some people feel this way and more power to you and them.
There has not been a single well written Gundam show in my mind and while I've gotten some pleasure from certain series (Unicorn, ZZ, Wing, and 08 Team) I find most of them boring with awful garbage for characters.
I can name 5 characters across all the universes. So at this point I dropped the shows to focus on what I like, the designs.
I got plenty of Robo Anime I like the storey of that I'm okay with having a franchise or two that are just my eye candy.
JadedWriter
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Are the characters you remember the ones you hate the most by any chance?
Nope......okay one of them is
But nope the characters who stuck with me are.
Treize (love)
Dorothy (hate to love)
Judau (love)
Athrun
Raine (awesome name, wrong choice)
JadedWriter
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I swear Dorothy exists to make Relena look sane. Dem eyebrows though
Am I the only one that finds her attractive? Did they really try to pair her up with Quatre? She'd fucking steam roll his ass in a relationship.
Oh I love Dorothy's design, her voice was perfect and she is fucking crazy.I swear Dorothy exists to make Relena look sane. Dem eyebrows though
Am I the only one that finds her attractive? Did they really try to pair her up with Quatre? She'd fucking steam roll his ass in a relationship.
I've always said they should have gone the full way and had her be a lesbian who was attracted to Relena just to add to her demented nature of undermining Relena.
Her being into Qautra was boring and I just didn't care, similar to how Relena and Heero have the chemistry of two wet paper bags.
JadedWriter
Member
I didn't realize I wanted a Dorothy X Relena ship until now...is there fan art of this? There's fan art for everything. For all we know when she had that sword fight with Heero she was fighting over Relena...I really like the narrative possibilities of that. You know now that I think about it she probably was closeted, I don't think she really liked any guy on the show, defensive towards Zechs yes, but I think they're childhood friends, her and Trieze as well...oh god the lesbian pairings on this show, I can't stop thinking about them...but most of the women have canon ships except for Sally. I was thinking of Noin x Lady Une, but that would never work in canon and they actually legit hated each other till later in the series. Getting out of lesyay mode I actually liked Hilde, pissed me off that they didn't use her much in the show.
beat
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He also designed the Dendrobium (Orchis, definitely, and maybe Stamen?) and maybe a few others for 0083. The Dendrobium is an obvious evolution for the "Deep Striker" design he did before that.
I was going to say the 0080 designs (Izubuchi, not Katoki) were pretty intricate too but I guess that was also an OVA.
JadedWriter
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Well shit I love the 0083 designs, Neu Ziel is my favorite Mobile Armor hands down.
Oh there's fan art to it.
It's a very interesting pairing that plays with a humans destructive behaviour ando how we are attracted to people who are different then them only for those tendencies to effect another person.
For as terrible as Wing'so writing is bad (and jests it is) but Dorothy and her constant provoking and undermining Relena has classic trappings of a hurting closeted person.
Combine that with Relena and how she almost eggs Dorothy on leads to done very interesting things.
The Sum of Zero
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Oh yes. The one I have in mind is actually pretty old, a classic even.
Not posting though because NSFW
JadedWriter
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With the way I'm reading this now it's leading me to think that Heero is pretty much just Relena's beard.
For those with fan art links PM me.
With the way I'm reading this now it's leading me to think that Heero is pretty much just Relena's beard.
For those with fan art links PM me.
I can't as I'm at work currently but it looks Zero has you.
That said a lot of Fan Art and Fan Fiction (what little there is) often has Dorothy being incredibly dark, to the point she wants to currupt Relena like in the show, but then it's ReLena who gets it and has to come out to Heero that she has found someone.
It's very interesting and people have done fun stuff with it over the years.
JadedWriter
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I should read these. If I could read Korra x Kuvira fanfic then I should easily be able to read that.
If you want Jaded I'll send you one. It's beautiful just how they play with the tropes and come out with something good.
JadedWriter
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Much obliged thank you. For some odd reason I like good fem slash fanfic.
I sent it, but I did so on my phone. If it doesn't show up just let me know and I'll send it via pc after my work out
The Sum of Zero
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Suit designs look great. Character designs look really bad to me.
Still, I'm more than willing to give it a shot. It's nice that it doesn't sounds like a rehash of first gundam as usual
JadedWriter
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This is what happens when you remember Gundam shows have attractive women and attractive mecha. Wings female designs are actually probably under rated or either forgotten after the likes of Sumeragi and Murue Ramius.
Valkerionseven
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Only because those two are the best... after Sei's mom. Actually yeah I'm doing this, best female's in Gundam:
1. Cima Garahau
2. Sei's Mom
3. Murue Ramius
4. Marida Cruz
Also special mention to Nanai for being best female stuck between a bunch of crazy ass people.
JadedWriter
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I actually liked Natarle Badgerwhatever and Kati Manniquine even though she took that L for marrying Patrick Bulbasaur.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Is Tryon kit out yet? Is it web only?
Valkerionseven
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Yeah I liked Natarle too, short black hair + that awesome white uniform... honestly all of Seed's female captains looked awesome, mostly because of the uniform haha its "my thing" in anime/irl honestly (it's the hat)
rrvv
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JadedWriter
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Bruh, why is your list missing Emma Sheen and Four? But I love Marida and Cima bae. Where's Donkey Show's "Nanai don't get between two men" jpeg?
SoundPulse
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Still the best in my heart.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
hmm wonder why no local shops have it stocked
JadedWriter
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Or Rosamia or Fa...still don't know what people don't like about her. Fa in that red cowgirl outfit
Looks like we've got two more MS announcements for Iron Blooded Orphans. They're from scans, so check the usual places.
Anyone here already planning to do the OT to that? I was thinking I'd throw that together for next week again, but if someone's already working on it I'll throw it to them.
Anyone here already planning to do the OT to that? I was thinking I'd throw that together for next week again, but if someone's already working on it I'll throw it to them.
ThatChairMan
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Designs seem to be a continuation of G-Reco's non-conventional Gundam-types. Which I'm completely fine with, these are pretty unique.
Valkerionseven
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Pft Gundam gaf confirming their love of chicks with abusive relationship issues/men issues in general once again. None of my chicks have crazy outbursts, moments that gundam politely describes as "because I'm a woman", no "onii-san" moments, and what not. I mean Cima is kinda a bitch (but thats why I like her) but they are all pretty normal, live-withable ladies compared to the other chicks in Gundam. Mirida had that whole Banshee moment but she came out of it perfectly normal... in fact gundam usually kills the lady off when that happens, she got out great imo.
Haman is a cool 6th place at least on my list though. She was top 3 until she was newtype dick whipped by Char and Judau respectively.
JadedWriter
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But Emma and Fa don't really fall into that category. She's got to be feisty to put up with Kamille's bullshit. Now Reccoa on the other hand just wanted to be with a man that won't hesitate to smack her ass up so she got thirsty for Paptimus-sama. I'm not really sure Haman was dick whipped by Char, Judau? yes definitely. Four was just a victim of circumstance. It was shown at various times when she wasn't freaking out from the brain washing that she was really sweet on Kamille.
Not sure how I feel about Gusion. It's proportions are a bit funky. The top half and bottom half kind of look from different designs. It's also got the Barbatos waist going on, which I don't mind on that suit, but is kind of weird here.
Kimaris looks like a real bruiser. I dig it. Kind of sad it has zero Gundam features in the head, but I still like it. I thought all the Gundams were supposed to use the same frame. Do we believe the Barbatos frame is really under that armor?
I'm really interested to see Barbatos start stripping parts off the rival gundams. Hopefully the MS development is as cool as the idea sounds.
See aside from the head crest the Gusion is the only Gundam of the three I like.
I will definitely pick up a model od that beast.
Megalosaro
Banned
My copy of A COSMIC Glow just shipped. Ready for feels
This is what happens when you remember Gundam shows have attractive women and attractive mecha. Wings female designs are actually probably under rated or either forgotten after the likes of Sumeragi and Murue Ramius.
I am still waiting to see any attractive unit or woman in Wing.
Despite your rediculous hatred of Wing there is nothing wrong with Noin, she is a strong, non sexualized woman who has traditional beauty if she wants it and they avoid sexualizing her at all unlike a lot of Gundam shows and AU's.
JadedWriter
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If you couldn't find Noin, Sally, closeted lesbian twig brows or non military bitch Une attractive then I don't know what to say to you. Best part about the Wing women was that they weren't fan service characters. They stood by their men and helped prop their ass' up if they needed to. Both Zechs and Treize would not have gotten as far as they did without the help of Noin and Lady Une. Wing probably has the most realistic portrayal of women that I can think of since none of them minus Relena and Une with her split personality disorder were insane, granted Dorothy had problems which she kept in check until her grandfather died on a giant tv screen right in front of her. And even without their men they were all very accomplished in their own right. Even Sally slapped some sense into Wufei, these were not a cast full of Nina Purpleton's. Wing had some nice suits with Altron and Epyon being my favs.
Regardless of what series it is I love the phrase "these were not a cast of Nina Purpleton's"
JadedWriter
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Even Aina was better than Nina. I have no idea why Kou even liked her.
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