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I’ve been watching every single Gundam from the beginning. Most of them are very hit and miss, with about 10 amazing episodes, 25 decent ones, and 15 toy commercials.
But Turn A Gundam is a fucking masterpiece. It’s set in America with 1920’s level technology, being invaded by humans migrating from the moon. The 1920’s level civilization at first tries to fight them off with biplanes, but quickly finds ancient technology buried underground–including a Gundam. It’s pretty close to Macross in tone and story, which is very happy-go-lucky by Gundam standards.
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But then someone digs up a nuke.
It’s hard to rank the UC entries because most of them are sequels to each other in some respect, but the UC mainline probably peaks somewhere towards the end of Zeta. That said, the only actually bad parts of the UC timeline are the first half of Double Zeta and Char’s Counterattack.
Gundam 0079 has some great moments and a great twist, but also has like 25 episodes in the middle where nothing happens but new gunpla. Also nobody has the same rank insignia for more than two consecutive scenes and it’s really frustrating that nobody else on the internet complains about it.
Zeta Gundam’s highs aren’t really higher than Gundam 0079’s highs, but there’s hardly any filler. The rank insignia continuity errors are somehow even worse, to the point where I’m almost convinced that it’s the artists trolling the fans.
Double Zeta puts the 25 terrible episodes from Gundam 0079 right at the beginning, but is as good as Zeta towards the end. They fix the rank insignia problem by just not drawing any this time.
Char’s Counterattack is dumb. The character motivations are dumb. The deus ex machina at the end is dumb.
Gundam 0080 is great; a “fun” little child soldier story.
Gundam 0083 was good but forgettable.
Gundam F91 seems like it could have been a good series, dumb-looking villain notwithstanding. That series didn’t get made, and we got a bad movie instead.
Victory Gundam had some gloriously stupid mecha designs, 200 m tall motorcycles, and a whole female-only pilot squad whose only narrative purpose was to die horribly one by one. It wasn’t great, really, but there were some good character moments and lots of cute dog animations.
08th Mobile Suit Team was absolutely excellent for the first half. The second half after the director swap got progressively worse and worse until I hated the last episode.
Gundam Unicorn does a decent job of retconning Char’s Counterattack to be slightly less dumb and horrible, and the characters are fun, but I didn’t find it all that engaging. The giant political revelation that shakes the foundation of the federation government or whatever just seemed so extremely meaningless lib shit.
Gundam NT was forgettable. I just watched it and I literally can’t tell you what happened.
Gundam THE ORIGIN was actually some of my favorite Gundam content. I loved it.
I just started G-Reco, and it’s already way way too rushed, but I like the idea of a far-future Turn A sequel.
I haven’t watched any of the non-UC Gundam or read the Crossbones manga. Not sure I’ll bother.
I’ve been watching every single Gundam from the beginning
I haven’t watched any of the non-UC Gundam…Not sure I’ll bother.
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A few months ago, as I was working my way through the Ghibli/Miyazaki films I hadn’t seen (notably: Castle in the Sky, Whisper of the Heart, and Nausicaa) I decided to rewatch Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro and realized that I really liked Lupin III.
Since then, I’ve been slowly working my way through the series as a whole. The last thing I watched was Goemon’s Spray of Blood which, while enjoyable, I didn’t really love like I did The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (hell yeah, the Cuba/Fidel Castro episode) or Part V. I think before I start my way from the Part I and work back up to V, I think I’ll watch The Secret of Mamo.
The anime channel on the discord hyped up Symphogear and I now I can’t stop watching it. I’ve plowed through two and a half seasons in like 5 days. Please send help.
I actually dove into fate recently. I work at an anime shop, and we sell NO Fate merch and I didn’t realise how big a deal that is.
I finished the VN, am almost done with UBW anime. Also watched Carnival and that weird cooking spin off. I’m waiting to watch Zero with a friend who’s in another city due to the rona.
This series is fucking fire
Yeah for sure. I’m so glad I played the VN. I had SOMEHOW avoided spoilers completely for the series so everything (Saber’s backstory being the one I’m surprised I didn’t know) was so cool to me. Wish the Fate route had an adaptation but I’m not too upset about it cause UBW was my favourite route anyway.
I’m always glad to see someone else enjoying Fate. Which VN route was your favourite?
Definitely UBW. Had my favourite ending with Rin, developed Archer’s story which blew my fucking mind, and had Emiya being the coolest he gets throughout the game.
The other two are about tied to me. I loved some things (HF Rider, Illya being relevant), but didn’t like some other things (Sakura).
So, I didn’t do any of the tiger stamps, because I misunderstood it, and thought it was gonna be spoiler-y. So I just reloaded saves when I got to them, and only after did I find out what they actually were and I’m kicking myself because of it.
UBW is my favourite too, but I do wish it had more of Illya. Rin and Archer being super prominent makes it a good route, because they’re so fun to watch. Plus you get Shirou at his snarkiest, which is great. I also prefer the ending,
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I like how Shirou decides that the process of saving people is more important than the end goal, and I think that makes it more interesting than either going all in like in Fate, or abandoning it. Plus he actually starts working on his terrible mental health, which is nice.
