me + my brother hatewatched AGE weekly for the entire run and the most amazing thing about the show is that it kept getting worse all the way to those last episodes (which are the worssssst things)
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The Official Gundam Thread of Gunpla, Origins, and 35 Years of GUNDAMUUUU!
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me + my brother hatewatched AGE weekly for the entire run and the most amazing thing about the show is that it kept getting worse all the way to those last episodes (which are the worssssst things)
Good god, I kinda want to watch that now.
Meh, it seems so. I should better rewatch MSG 0079. Waiting for the next episode of UC is so hard
EvilKatarn
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At least finish S1. I thought it was great.Meh, it seems so. I should better rewatch MSG 0079. Waiting for the next episode of UC is so hard
Flit was like 80 and had a wife and was still thinking about a 10 year old girl. I'll say what I want about Space Hitler.
Meh, it seems so. I should better rewatch MSG 0079. Waiting for the next episode of UC is so hard
Finish S1. Do it for Lockon.
Awesome! If you are doing it in an art studio are you planning to paint it or something?
Speaking of new Gunpla it looks like MG 1/100 Crossbone Gundam X3 Ver.Ka is coming, but as Premium Bandai release.
http://p-bandai.jp/hobby/
Also as you can see in that last image the Gundam Decal DX sheets are going to be re-released. I missed them the first time around and wonder if I should get the set (minus the Seed one maybe since I don't really have any Seed kits).
GundamGAF's Victory Gundam Rewatch:
Episode 30
Episode starts with Uso having a flashback of his mom teaching him how to throw knives. Mother of the year.
Afterwards, Uso and the gang land on the moon and, in a moment of sheer coincidence, run into his mother who they save from a group of 1970's thugs.
Rest of the episode is mostly flashbacks, with Uso chilling with his mother and talking about his time on Earth piloting the Victory.
Episode 30
Episode starts with Uso having a flashback of his mom teaching him how to throw knives. Mother of the year.
Afterwards, Uso and the gang land on the moon and, in a moment of sheer coincidence, run into his mother who they save from a group of 1970's thugs.
Rest of the episode is mostly flashbacks, with Uso chilling with his mother and talking about his time on Earth piloting the Victory.
EvilKatarn
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ALL ABOARD THE CRONICLE HATE TRAIN
GundamGAF Victory Gundam rewatch
Episode 30
Haro, Flanders and Uso are the tag team of the century.
recaps
GundamGAF Victory Gundam rewatch
Episode 30
Haro, Flanders and Uso are the tag team of the century.
recaps
amishpriest99
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Just got to say your posts are amazing. And spot on!
I think I'll join you all in progress on the Victory Rewatch.
Aizo
Banned
I am thinking about it. This is only my third kit. I painted my first one when this friend and I lived in another country, and he had an actual studio. It just took so long, so I'm not sure..
Gundam Seed - 15
I like how
Kira
Spoiler: http://i.imgur.com/fKIyoHq.jpg
Megalosaro
Banned
Apparently that was quite controversial in Japan.
Seriously though, I hate Flay so much. Seed would have been like 10% better without her. It still would have been shit, but it wouldn't have been utter shit.
Seriously though, I hate Flay so much. Seed would have been like 10% better without her. It still would have been shit, but it wouldn't have been utter shit.
distantmantra
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Yep, people didn't like that being part of a 5pm anime targeted towards kids.
As bad as Flay was, she was so much better than Stella. So, so, so so so so so so so so much better.
Megalosaro
Banned
I'll give you that. Stella was pretty terrible.
She was in love with the worst protagonist in the series.
Megalosaro
Banned
Can you really call that love? I call it a drug fueled stupor.
EvilKatarn
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mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru mamoru ~~
At least Stella's dialogue was top notch.
At least Stella's dialogue was top notch.
Yeah well, as terrible as she was Flay at least had some personality.
Mobile Suit Gundam 18
For the first time i find myself rooting for Kira. But killing that Professor of was really cheap, he could have made the series so much better.
I'm still with the people who don't have the fancy GN Particles though. Especially that faction with the guy whose name makes me want to drink and their one eyed suits!
For the first time i find myself rooting for Kira. But killing that Professor of was really cheap, he could have made the series so much better.
I'm still with the people who don't have the fancy GN Particles though. Especially that faction with the guy whose name makes me want to drink and their one eyed suits!
amishpriest99
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No, no you don't. Trust me. I must be a true masochist for watching all the way through.
EvilKatarn
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ALL ABOARD THE CRONICLE HATE TRAIN
GundamGAF Victory Gundam rewatch
Episode 31
Some creeps kidnap Shakti.
Urgh, Cronicle makes an appearance. I now hate his voice as well. If I end up disliking red haired chicks because of Victory Gundam then I'm sending Tomino a rude letter.
Then after successfully rescuing Shakti, Katejina kidnaps Uso's mom to get back at LM instead of Shakti. Why she didn't steal Shakti we'll never know.
Odelo is sortied.
The battle that takes place in this episode is pretty damn intense.
GundamGAF Victory Gundam rewatch
Episode 31
Some creeps kidnap Shakti.
Urgh, Cronicle makes an appearance. I now hate his voice as well. If I end up disliking red haired chicks because of Victory Gundam then I'm sending Tomino a rude letter.
Then after successfully rescuing Shakti, Katejina kidnaps Uso's mom to get back at LM instead of Shakti. Why she didn't steal Shakti we'll never know.
Odelo is sortied.
The battle that takes place in this episode is pretty damn intense.
Holy shit, Oliver!
distantmantra
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Totally forgot that Origin vol. 3 comes out next Tuesday.
I can't. But you wouldn't believe the people who do.
Ed, Edd n Eddy's Plank had better lines.
I almost cared about her at the end of SEED. And then that ridiculous naked space hallucination. This was before I knew that was a thing in Gundam.
See, I wish when people wanted to talk about how unjustified Kira was at things, they'd bring this up, because to me this is the real ridiculous thing he did. I mean, bro, you stole your best friend's girlfriend (which he would later do again, to Athrun) and now you're kicking his ass (again to Athrun)? Just ain't right.
Megalosaro
Banned
According to interviews the hallucination didn't even really happen. It was some sort of interpretative thing. Really, they just wanted to have a homage and it was a dumb. To imply that Kira and Flay had anywhere near the same relationship that Lalah and Amuro had is ridiculous.
Megalosaro
Banned
Yeah, silly stuff. If they aren't newtypes or something analogous to newtypes with psychic powers, spare us the trippy telepathic sequences, Sunrise.
In other news, next week is going to be pretty sweet. Volume 3 of Origin will be out, and it focuses on one of the most bad ass characters in the franchise. Not to mention, presumably, it will also have "the speech".
Can't wait to see how both Ramba Ral and Garma's funeral will be portrayed.
In other news, next week is going to be pretty sweet. Volume 3 of Origin will be out, and it focuses on one of the most bad ass characters in the franchise. Not to mention, presumably, it will also have "the speech".
Can't wait to see how both Ramba Ral and Garma's funeral will be portrayed.
Aizo
Banned
I felt the same way. It seemed quite out of character to me. So harsh, man.
Don't forget though, that Kira IS a Newtype. SRW may disagree, but he has the Newtype flash going on.
Sometimes Jesus is a jerk.
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-Karlmann shrieks like the demon pig that he is even when allegedly happy. I have NEVER seen this horrible fiend shut up. I'm going to be a terrible father some day.
-Speaking of bad parenting: "Hey Shakti this white lady is your mom! She doesn't look even remotely like you, and is the Queen of a brutal, violent and stupid (they're a spacenoid empire, that goes without saying) regime which violently executes people! Yay don't you feel so happy at meeting this woman claiming to be your mother with only "blood tests" that you have not been shown as her proof?"
-No Shakti has not been constantly fighting Cronicle she's done like, even less than you, which I grant isn't saying much because you've done about as much fighting as fucking Flanders you lazy ass, sorry, pathetic excuse for a Char clone.
-Speaking of how awful you are, Cronicle, you do realize you just told a frightened little girl, who has seen your men kill people and threaten to rape people (like seriously, the Zeon, Cosmo Babylonians, and Jovians never seemed even remotely as rapey as the Zanscare) that if she doesn't accept the woman who condones the brutal, public execution of her political opponents as her mother, as opposed to the woman who raised her as her own, that she will be instead choosing to accept a return to the war.
You know, the war that this so called mother of hers has started and perpetuates and does nothing with her title of Queen to stop, nor shows any sign of regretting, feeling, or giving a fuck about at all. This war that is this woman's fault, and whom the support of would be, in fact, a resolution to return to the battlefield, as opposed to running away, which is a very reasonable thing to do when a frightened little girl is having a big, ugly guy shout in her face.
AND ALL THIS IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES.
I want to call Victory the AGE of UC, but I think it would be more fair to call it the 00 of UC. Great music, well animated, some good fights and mechanical designs, but a plot so shitty that it could only have been ass-crafted by the royal Poopsmith himself. AGE has more in common with the plot, but it didn't have good music, and the mechanical designs look like something that captain hook would have drawn with his one good hand behind his back and a bad case of explosive diarrhea.
You want to know why Gundam started to falter, look no further than Victory. Thank goodness it was followed up with the stellar Turn A.
WHY ARE THERE SHIRTS ADVERTISING THE UTAH JAZZ AND SHAQUIEL O'NEIL AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY?
I don't know if it is the show's quality or just that I've watched SO MUCH Gundam that I'm just tired of some of it, but I really can barely pay attention to a full episode of this right now. I'll get like six minutes into an episode and wish it was over already.
distantmantra
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SEED was Sunrise's attempt to reboot Gundam and make another UC 0079 type show, hence the 0079 similarities in SEED and Zeta touches in Destiny.
Canis lupus
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Just started Zeta Gundam and Im liking the show so far, whats better: dub or sub? I'm watching it subbed. Its not too late to change the audio
also victory touches for some reason! (impulse is kinda V1, destiny is kinda v2)
Just started Zeta Gundam and Im liking the show so far, whats better: dub or sub? I'm watching it subbed. Its not too late to change the audio
0079 dub is good, CCA dub is good: Zeta's is not.
Just started Zeta Gundam and Im liking the show so far, whats better: dub or sub? I'm watching it subbed. Its not too late to change the audio
SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB.
I watched the dub and I'm almost certain it is half the reason I'm NOT a big fan of Zeta.
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I suppose I can't say "Nothing" happened this time, as there was a fair amount of plot progression. The League Militaire was defeated by the Zanscare, who now possess almost all of Side 2 (making them pathetically small when it comes to the grand scheme of things, which makes the Federation hilariously lazy for not fighting them.), Marbet lost her marbles and decided "we have to go back." Uso got socked in the face and I finally realized that he isn't going to worry about that because whenever someone punishes Uso a hot woman in a tight space suit comes and shoves his face in their tits or pats his ass or something. The point is Uso's negative behavior is positively reinforced by the Shrike Team, who continue to die in droves.
Oh, and Jin Gehenam is not the REAL Jin Gehenam, who I suppose will be as scary as his descendant was. Also I would like to continue to contest that in a long line of terrible Spacer rulers, the Zanscare Queen is without a doubt the worst. I mean, at times it seemed very clear that Degwin Zabi knew what he was doing, and when he was wrong, but he was also not good at knowing who to trust. Ghiren was nuuuuuts. Hahaha who cares about Stardust Memory. Haman Khan was brilliant, but she sorta bet it all on conquering the Earth there, and kinda should've taken the time to seduce Glemy as thoroughly as she had Mashmyre, but she spent too much time on Judau. Char put Quess in his army. I mean he should've just surrendered then and there. Cosmo Babylonia is meh. Crux was awesome crazy and also sort of less concerned with ruling so much as total annihilation. This bitch is trying to be all motherly like she's Dianna Soreil or something except her people USE A GUILLOTINE and are basically space barbarians.
Megalosaro
Banned
Outside of Stella/Shinn's relationship there isn't really much the same in SD as Zeta. I'd say 00 S2 is more Zeta than SD
Aizo
Banned
At least Astray exists because of all that nonsense. Speaking of the Seed universe...
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer (1-3; End)
Grimdark Gundam? The first episode sure made it seem like that.
The pacing is positively awful, especially in the last episode. The Stargazer hardly got any screen time. Bah.
sixteen-bit
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Man that Cronicle Asher is such a nice, badass guy. Killing defenseless women and punching little boys in handcuffs. Such an upstanding villain who is definitely competent and capable of getting things done without handicaps.
And that queen Maria, so nice. She waits until Cronicle has killed someone senselessly before asking him to stand down. And she's all "I wish to stop the guillotine's use, too!" You're the FUCKING QUEEN OF THE ZANSCARE. If you can't stop its use, when you want to, then what in the fuck DO you do?
And Katejina, what a great spy she is, fucking Cronicle all the time and doing work for the Zanscare and not actually ever reporting to the League Militaire and out and out obstructing Uso's attempted escape.
What a cast of genuine, not shitty characters.
LOLOLO Maria has magical healing powers and Katejina is now an ace MS pilot. Fuck this show is so bad.
Man that Cronicle Asher is such a nice, badass guy. Killing defenseless women and punching little boys in handcuffs. Such an upstanding villain who is definitely competent and capable of getting things done without handicaps.
And that queen Maria, so nice. She waits until Cronicle has killed someone senselessly before asking him to stand down. And she's all "I wish to stop the guillotine's use, too!" You're the FUCKING QUEEN OF THE ZANSCARE. If you can't stop its use, when you want to, then what in the fuck DO you do?
And Katejina, what a great spy she is, fucking Cronicle all the time and doing work for the Zanscare and not actually ever reporting to the League Militaire and out and out obstructing Uso's attempted escape.
What a cast of genuine, not shitty characters.
LOLOLO Maria has magical healing powers and Katejina is now an ace MS pilot. Fuck this show is so bad.
Passive Assassin
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MSG Zeta 24
Never let Fa do anything ever again. I'm sure the people of Von Braun appreciate her tunnel vision.
Add Katz to the list too.
Never let Fa do anything ever again. I'm sure the people of Von Braun appreciate her tunnel vision.
Add Katz to the list too.
KillerMan91
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Ending song was at least awesome (Well both SEED and Destiny had awesome soundtracks too so not a surprise...)
To be fair, after they first landed on Earth wasn't his whole demeanor for those first few episodes written to come across a bit asshole-ish/immature? The way he talked to the captain/reporter chick, and fought in the field.
At that time Jesus hadn't fully accepted the mantle of our Lord and Saviour. He was still cranky about it. It was all the Devil Flay's work anyway. He beat that temptation and went out of the desert though!
If having sex is a method of beating temptation the Church of Mecha just got a whole lot more popular.
This was obvious early in the show, I thought.
Aizo
Banned
I face space, and pray to Mecha five times a day.
All right, so, I've got some Gundam related stuff to say about TGS. Shin Gundam Musou was playable, but the line was too long. I saw that Big Zam was playable, but I didn't get a good look at a trailer they played to see which suits are new. I saw that the return to less cell shaded graphics looked good, and there were far more enemies on screen than in previous titles. To me, it looks like a lot of fun.
Second, does anyone have Gundam Breaker? I got some product code for it with some Gundam pamphlets. Does anyone want it?
I have Gundam Breaker though I haven't played it as much as I should. Any idea what the code is for?
I was thinking of going to TGS this year. Although I say that every year! I'm not in Tokyo so it would cost me $140 in round trip shinkansen tickets to get there then I always think about how much gunpla I could buy with that and do I really want to deal with the huge crowds so I never end up actually going lol. One of these years...
Onto some Gunpla news! A new Beargguy is on the way! Beargguy III! What happened to Beargguy II? I don't know. Maybe a future Premium Bandai release? Was the Beargguy we currently know actually II and Acuguy count as I? This is an important question!
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