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You were all dumping on this show several episodes ago, but now you're all loving it because it's stopped being about its characters and is now about characters from other shows. How do you live with yourselves?
 
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Trollblade69 said:
You were all dumping on this show several episodes ago, but now you're all loving it because it's stopped being about its characters and is now about characters from other shows. How do you live with yourselves?
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Beyond the time
 
M3xus said:
Streaming has a lot to answer for. Everything needs to be content to be fed into the machine to keep engagement up, which means they put out these shortened seasons because they're faster to produce and get out there. But directors and writers still aren't used to the compressed episode order, so shit gets rushed and hardly anyone's satisfied.
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Compressed seasons with 12 or less episodes of 20 plus minute, 12 plus minutes, and shorter length episodes had been an (off hour) mainstay for anime since the late 90s. Steaming just made it where everyone is noticing it.
 
Trollblade69 said:
You were all dumping on this show several episodes ago, but now you're all loving it because it's stopped being about its characters and is now about characters from other shows. How do you live with yourselves?
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Easily, I still think this show is for low-IQ zoomers that galoomph from anime to anime because they consoom the medium to a retarded degree.

I still think GQX is the equivalent of a Disney ride. It sprinkles in little things you know from the source material while doing whatever it wants because it's just a ride. It was never going to be meaningful or revolutionary.

It's the MCU but for Gundam with multiverses and everything.

No, I'm still shitting on GQX and challenge you to find a post where I praise it.
 
Fatsuit Shinji said:
Compressed seasons with 12 or less episodes of 20 plus minute, 12 plus minutes, and shorter length episodes had been an (off hour) mainstay for anime since the late 90s. Steaming just made it where everyone is noticing it.
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24 is the best low number in my opinion. 16 at the very least can scrape by.

12 is fun but you're gonna leave some unaddressed plot threads and condensed storytelling. I don't deny the show had flaws, but it was all pretty entertaining.


The next next Super robot wars is definitely gonna be very interesting.
 
Trollblade69 said:
You were all dumping on this show several episodes ago, but now you're all loving it because it's stopped being about its characters and is now about characters from other shows. How do you live with yourselves?
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The problem is that it was barely about the characters, it felt like everyone was just twiddling there thumbs during the junk yard battle arc. You have stuff like the milf murder that lollipop head barely reacted at all to and meow felt like a background character until her gundam fight, outside of extreme hobo lust and general angst they felt very hollow. All there characterization was truncated for all the OYW background and zeon politics and now that that is the focus I actually feel invest. God I wish this show had more room to breath to better develop its cast because even at this point the main character at most feels likes just a pawn to move shit forward.
I'm still so frustrated how little side 6 was explored, an occupied uneasy colony full of space slums is very interesting but outside of the clan battles, hobo's sewer, and a train station we barley saw it. Hell the colony was blitz by the not psycho gundam and we've seen zero effects of that since it's last time we've heard of anything to do with side 6
Cedric_Eff said:
Shuji is Chan and Amuro’s kid
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That's absolutely retarded, he's obviously amuro's and char's butt baby, there are things about newtypes the shows don't go into.
 
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Nothing Is Written said:
Cocaine and zoomers are to blame for this travesty.

I just don't have time to care. The show doesn't give me time to care.
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Allow me to elaborate.

This episode should’ve been the emotional climax between Machu and Nyaan, with psychic stakes, Zeon intrigue, and substantial tying of the loose ends plot-wise. We got a mash of telepathy gimmicks, recycled UC fan-service, and rushed melodrama that barely registers because of how fucking rushed EVERYTHING is. Indulge my autism for a moment:
  1. Psychic melodrama over mech warfare
    • Episode 11 stalls the mech battle between Challia and Kycilia's forces to cram in melodramatic sparkly distractions. We don’t get a full-on GQX vs GFred dogfight, just pantomime mind‑speak while the show insists it’s deep. It’s sold as a duel that "matters" (as per Episode 10's post credit teaser) but all we get is fuzzy psychic mumbo-jumbo
  2. Return of Char & Red Gundam felt like an afterthought
    • Char pops back into the Red Gundam to "kill the Rose of Sharon" after a convenient flash-back explaining his connection to Shuji (probably some alternative Amuro faggot, and definitely not "Shinji from Eva, we promise there's no resemblance, stop paying attention to the GFred's colours")
  3. Emotional detonation without context
    • The moment Machu and Nyaan confront eachother they sperg out like emotionally stunted babies (this was set up for UC '79 Amuro necessarily over tens of episodes before he's even remotely stable). But after 20 seconds of angst, Nyaan chases Machu because she broke the McGuffin, and ends up killing Kycilia, sensing Shuji, and oh now she's calling him Shuji-chan fuck me I'm so tired
    • The entire conflict on Yogna'moth feels like a 7zip'd fast track to introduce WHITE GUNDAM (REMEMBER?) and Char, which fails to pay off anyway as we're aware of his existence since like Episode 6
  4. Curveball from a literally who
    • They end with a Zeknova, but this time cross‑dimensional. Shuji reveals he's from the other side, despite there being no setup 5 minutes prior to Char revealing he gave him the Red Gundam to Machu. I'M STRUGGLING TO KEEP PACE HERE.
  5. No mech action, no stakes, no substance
    • Eleven episodes in, this show still hasn’t delivered a single satisfying mech battle at its climax. It speeds from sisterly showdown into cosmic psychodrama. From important Zeon intrigue and power figures into forgotten and fragmented factions (Amala Kamala?)... all while struggling to draw the audience's attention to one singular overarching narrative (spoiler: there isn't one, there's like three and they're unfinished)
I doubt Episode 12 will be any more coherent unless they pull some 200IQ narrative stunt that justifies the colour vomit and super robot gimmicks that don't belong in Gundam.

And no, Unicorn isn't super robot.

The only thing I liked about this episode was the feeling of optimistic naivety I had about Char's role before they fucked everything up by not sufficiently giving him screentime.

And the credits song by TMN. That was good. I got chills.



Just look at the animation in that video, let alone the music. I want to go back so badly bros.
 
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I wanted isolated alt-timeline UC Gundam fiction, and then I got half a season of hobo lust/high stakes rock em sock em robots and now I'm getting half a season of multiverse memberberries.

It still looks cool, at least, and I might pick up a kit of the not-Eva on the basis of design alone. I'll only be properly pissed if GCucks goes like post-J.J. Star Trek and shits on the original timeline; this had better stick to its own tardacious duo of (alternate) universes and leave the real UC untainted - or at least, no more tainted than it already is after all these years of continuous additions.
 
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crowabunga said:
this had better stick to its own tardacious duo of (alternate) universes and leave the real UC untainted - or at least, no more tainted than it already is after all these years of continuous additions.
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That's what I'm really worried about.

Gundam, especially UC, is a real war mecha anime. This latest entry is the canary in the coal mine.
 
Nothing Is Written said:
That's what I'm really worried about.

Gundam, especially UC, is a real war mecha anime. This latest entry is the canary in the coal mine.
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"But don't you know that Gundam had G Gundam and also space magic?! So it was never really a Real Mecha show but a Super Mecha show!!!" - Reddit

Sunrise/Bandai says out with the old and in with the new fans. The slop must flow
 
While we're at it will we get a Gundam equivalent to How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer where some pilots end up dating reverse traps and masculine women and they are their end game?
 
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