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The Official Gundam Thread of Gunpla, Origins, and 35 Years of GUNDAMUUUU!
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Son of Cervantes
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Who doesn't love space pirates? 
On the other hand, everything in the third generation other than the Dark Hound and Legillis....sucks.
On the other hand, everything in the third generation other than the Dark Hound and Legillis....sucks.
EvilKatarn
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Gorilla suits? Is AGE the true sequel to Victory?
When scorpions and hubba bubba doesn't quite cut it.
When scorpions and hubba bubba doesn't quite cut it.
I actually had no issue with AGE and enjoyed portions of it. But then again, Outside of enjoying my fair share of gundam. I've also been a Level 5 Fan since Watching Inazuma Eleven and Danball Senki. I went into AGE with less of a "It's Gundam" Mentality, and more of "Let's Take Danball Senki to a Larger Scale" and enjoyed it that way. I enjoyed the Homage to the UC Trilogy of 0079, Z and ZZ with how AGE was set up. I never allowed myself to take it seriously, which is why I managed to enjoy it.
Kio's portion of the story was my least favorite. Asemu was definitely the best character for me, and I wish they expanded more on him. Being unable to be an X Rounder like his father and all the enemies he accountered. He quest to become SUPER PILOT with pure skill, and Tales of him in his Pirate days would've been a lot better.
Who doesn't love space pirates?
On the other hand, everything in the third generation other than the Dark Hound and Legillis....sucks.
Kio's portion of the story was my least favorite. Asemu was definitely the best character for me, and I wish they expanded more on him. Being unable to be an X Rounder like his father and all the enemies he accountered. He quest to become SUPER PILOT with pure skill, and Tales of him in his Pirate days would've been a lot better.
I'm not the hugest fan of Strike Freedom but I've always had a real problem with this RG (I own it, but still) just because the proportions seem to be off.
The Guns are way to big and the chest canon is also way larger then I would like it to be. I will say though at least they fixed the damn clown feet that Destiny has.
As for AGE I'm one of the few that prefer AGE-2 Normal (well Special Forces) to Dark Hound by a large degree. Don't get me wrong the colors of DH are cool, but I hate the new head sculpt and the new wing binders don't look as good to me.
My favorite designs from the series though are easily G-Bouncer and AGE-3 Normal, it's just sad they couldn't bring out the size of AGE-3 Normal that the Line Art implied damn it.
I'm on my phone, so I couldn't really see it in too much detail.
As bad as Strike Freedom is (and it is bad), it's still not nearly as awful as the knockoff Gundams the psycho trios from Seed and Destiny pilot (Gaia, Abyss, etc..).
I like all six more than Strike Freedom.
I enjoy the crab, granted it just because it's terrible design and really stupid twisting beam canon.
Everything in Destiny was awful. SEED however, was pretty good and I'll never understand the hate it gets. It's easily in the top half of Gundam things and while it's got pretty mediocre art, it's also probably got some of the best music in the franchise.
I just assume Destiny was the product of Fukuda feeling bad about his wife having cancer and giving her full creative freedom. If only her ideas weren't awful.
I just assume Destiny was the product of Fukuda feeling bad about his wife having cancer and giving her full creative freedom. If only her ideas weren't awful.
Yeah, Stella's suit are the worst from the bunch.
Hey now, last time I checked, Toshihiko Sahashi was still the composer for Destiny and it had a bigger music budget than SEED too!
I'm on my phone, so I couldn't really see it in too much detail.
As bad as Strike Freedom is (and it is bad), it's still not nearly as awful as the knockoff Gundams the psycho trios from Seed and Destiny pilot (Gaia, Abyss, etc..).
It might be kinda rough around the edges but with a few touch ups Calamity Gundam can make for a great Gundam.
Hey now, last time I checked, Toshihiko Sahashi was still the composer for Destiny and it had a bigger music budget than SEED too!
Okay, the music is still good, but gets massively overshadowed by how bad everything else was.
I actually like Forbidden, it's got a nasty colour scheme, but the design is pretty unique and solid. Raider is terribad though.
Megalosaro
Banned
Gundam in general is a franchise with good bgms. That said, I think seed has some of the most forgettable. Certainly the worst ops. The only series with more forgettable soundtrack is x.
For thw record I think the original, victory, turn a and unicorn have the best. Zeta and zz also have great osts, but a bit too much seinfeld bass in it
For thw record I think the original, victory, turn a and unicorn have the best. Zeta and zz also have great osts, but a bit too much seinfeld bass in it
Well okay, I REALLY disagree with that, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
I agree on X and I just don't understand the love it gets.
Gotta disagree on SEED and Destiny though, the OSTs alone justify their existence.
Megalosaro
Banned
I dont understand the love tiffa gets. She is the worst kind of anime female. So passive its annoying. And I hate her voice.
The show itself is okay, but I dont think it takes advantage of its setting. It should have been more mad max with gundams instead of what it actually was.
Frost bros were pretty lame.
The show itself is okay, but I dont think it takes advantage of its setting. It should have been more mad max with gundams instead of what it actually was.
Frost bros were pretty lame.
Hnnnngg!
Thr only thing I liked was Jamil and X.
The characters of Garrod and Tiffa were awful and the majority of Gundams were just Wing Gundams with parts swapped around.
Crimsonlink
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Wtf people hate Dreams Op?! Some of you don't have souls.
You must repent. G Gundam music so good.
If that's your opinion, fine.. but mass usually cherishes the OST and theme song the most when about SEED. So "forgettable" is certainly not popular word for that aspect of SEED.
Megalosaro
Banned
Xs ops were wonderful. The background music not so much.
For as much shit as I talk on G I do want to like it. I do plan to give it another shot while I build MG God, I just don't think ill like it anymore then I did then.
I just hate the enemy a week style and the overuse of single attacks. Domon and Asia can be fun, their interaction with Hetero and Milliardo in DWG show that to me, but the rest of the cast is fucking trash.
Duckroll dropping truefacts here.
TBH I actually prefer Meyrin to Cagali anyway. Cagali's behavior in Destiny pretty much killed the respect I had for her character.
Athrun was hands down the best guy to come out of SEED.
Now, I despise AGE and its designs, but I'll admit that AGE-2 White and the G-Bouncer and their variants were ok. Every other design in that show was the worst kind of trash, though. Victory is the only show to rival it in bad mechanical designs.
'Cuz as much as I did not like 00, its mecha were cool.
Se-arrependa then. Sometimes I just rock out to that Burning Finger theme.
Good god, I hope you only mean the op/eds for Victory. The bgm was horrendous, if for no other reason than there's only like 3 or 4 goddamn tracks that they repeat over and over and over and over and over and over...
The G Gundam score is fantastic. Its Kohei Tanaka. How can you even......
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Just didn't care for it.
I love unique stuff to so I don't know why it didn't click with me. 0079, ZZ, and Wing all had really unique music for the genre and I love them. More so I can and do like the OSTs for series that I hate such as Destiny, yet I still couldn't enjoy the G Gundam OST.
Maybe when I rewatch it in the coming months I will warm to it more then I did in the past. However I think Gunpla Build Fighters will actually keep that from happening.
I don't remember Victory's OST being that bad. Maybe I only remember the 3 or 4 tracks. Actually what I do remember was that I liked the scenery in Victory a lot. When it comes to sound in Victory I mostly remember the sound of Uso and Karlman screaming.
Yeah. I hate G Gundam but the score is sensational.
Devil Gundam probably stole your soul. I pray that one day God Gundam will tenderly show you his burning finger and the heat end will open your path to enlightenment so you may join the rest of us. May God Gundam have mercy on your soul after he Sekiha Love Love Tenkyokens Devil Gundam back to the fiery pits of hell to rest forever on Setsuna's lap.
G Gundam is also my favorite Gundam show by a mile.
Also I'm glad I found someone who shares my opinion on SEED. It's so well designed and has such mass market appeal that it's probably the most important and influential show since the original MSG. A generation of fans grew up on SEED and it also brought in a ton of additional fans of the extra angsty soap opera stuff it has in there.
Strike Freedom is also UGLY AS SIN.
Also I'm glad I found someone who shares my opinion on SEED. It's so well designed and has such mass market appeal that it's probably the most important and influential show since the original MSG. A generation of fans grew up on SEED and it also brought in a ton of additional fans of the extra angsty soap opera stuff it has in there.
Strike Freedom is also UGLY AS SIN.
There's a Korean TV program which featured Tomino working on G-Reco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdEP9ryCr74
He's drawing storyboards for the show, while there's a design reference on his desk for an unannounced mech.
He's drawing storyboards for the show, while there's a design reference on his desk for an unannounced mech.
Haha even if I did ever for some reason do a 180 and start loving G Gundam one thing I know I would never love is the Love Love. Rain is one the reasons I dislike G Gundam as much as I do.
She has no damn right whatsoever to even be in a Gundam that is still standing beyond 2 second when she is against some one as skilled as Allenby and Nobell Gundam.
I don't think many would argue about anything aside from this one.
It's really not, everything it does is just a retooled 0079/Zeta and it's by no means the first AU to be heavily influenced by 0079. It surely retarted the Gundam craze after the low points of X and Turn A, but even things that have come after it aren't all that influenced by SEED.
OO is influenced by Wing, or at least a lot of people would argue and even Build Fighters who's lead suit is a Strike variant isn't heavily like SEED. Then you have stuff like Unicorn which is just a love letter to other parts of UC. The only thing you could argue that was heavily influenced by SEED would be AGE and that is only in the base idea that it takes and tries to retell UC, but again this isn't and never was exclusive to SEED.
Megalosaro
Banned
Victory gundams soundtrack is amazing
http://youtu.be/AB6uxRM6phQ
http://youtu.be/9vZG9VipOjo
http://youtu.be/HVO5tQgjnJw
I should note that I dont like most anime. I like a lot of the older stuff when theu focused on space opera and mecha. I do watch some new stuff from time to time, but over all I dont care for the medium over all.
Seed was way too anime-ish for me, down to its bgms.
I don't know about usage in the show itself since I don't intend to see it but the OST on album has pretty good stuff imo.
Just in time.
Akira Senju <3
Megalosaro
Banned
Those arent even its best songs. Sadly im at work and its hard copy/pasting youtube links from my phone while dodging my supe, or else I could find better tracks.
So basically you want him to be fingered.
I think it's less of an issue of the quality of the tracks and more a problem of how repetitively a handful of them are used. Doesn't help that the show itself is terrible, I suppose.
To add, I really liked this insert song: http://youtu.be/X_1Bs-ntkdk
Always felt like the show wasn't deserving of it.
But it was an anime. Gundam is anime.
Except for Double Zeta.
SousedLouse
Member
That's fair. There are some themes that essentially say "look out, something dumb is about to happen" because of how they're used.
True. They tell you at the start, just in case you were unsure or somehow mislead.
Megalosaro
Banned
It is truly real.
Son of Cervantes
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I was just looking through my closet and found this, which I was given as a gift about ten years ago:
I can't make out the signature, and I was wondering if anyone here could read it. あきえとみと？ That's what it looks like to me anyway. All I know is that it was done by one of the mechanical designers from one of the shows.
I can't make out the signature, and I was wondering if anyone here could read it. あきえとみと？ That's what it looks like to me anyway. All I know is that it was done by one of the mechanical designers from one of the shows.
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