Keeping with my Gundam kick: watched the prologue and first four eps of Witch From Mercury. This show rocks!!! Aerial is a sick Gundam and the primary thematic element being “we hate capitalist space assholes” Is really good atm. I like ask the characters a lot and am greatly enjoying hours many loud angry girls are in it. I haven’t watched a new contemporary Gundam series since the first Build Fighters so it feels pay pretty exciting to have this!
I feel like this one was pretty popular but I can’t exactly remember.
I don’t typically gravitate toward Gundam, but enjoyed Witch From Mercury. Went from “let’s give it a try” to building one of Chuchu’s model kits. I think you’re in for a treat!
Did you get the kit of her mobile suit or the one they made of her? I’m kinda curious about the latter one but the human model kits can sometimes be weird.
Chuchu already has one of the best moments I’ve ever seen in Gundam when she knocked those two girls out lol
I’m surprised at how relatively few mobile suit kits there are for G-Witch. I kinda wanted a MG kit of the Aerial Gundam but it looks like there isn’t one! There’s a Full Mechanics 1/100 but I’m not vague on what Fm even is, lol.
But yeah, Chuchu is possibly the best part of that show!
It feels like of the recent shows, like last 10 years, Iron Blooded Orphans has by far the most kits. Then the various Build Fighters sequels, then GWitch, then GReco. I’m not that interested in IBO but it seems very very popular.
FM seems to be MG but a little less detailed, I think. Like it doesn’t have the inner frame or same amount of gimmicks but does have all the good detail and color separation you’d want from non-HG kits.
Went and saw the new Gundam gquuuuuuux in imax. What a crazy world we have arrived in from the toonami days.
I left extraordinarily mixed. Bummer!
Kazuya Tsurumaki is my favorite anime director and this being his first thing with the big director since dragon dentist (he’s been trapped in Eva rebuild world) had me excited, even though I’m not much of a gundam guy.
This doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be in this first slice of whatever this is ( is it a show is it movies?) it starts out as an alternate retelling of the Universal Century ( I am not an expert but I know who char is) and turns into a street level thing about kids in a gundam fight club.
Kazuya tsurumaki is in there somewhere. They managed to get power lines in a gundam show. The stuff with the kids is a lot more interesting to me than the universal century reverence, and ultimately these kids emotions aren’t done nearly as well as FLCL. But I love the art direction and soundtrack and this certainly feels more like a lot of what I love about FLCL than those sequels.
Gundam GQuuuuuux. Oh my god. That was incredible. I need more now. Without spoiling anything, that felt like something you weren’t “supposed” to see in the best way possible.
Finished Gundam 0080 tonight and really loved it! Very complex and interesting show, it feels even more grounded nowadays about 30 years later compared to all of the flashy Gundam stuff since. Incredible mobile suits too, the Hygogg especially was dope.
That was a major one crossed off my “to watch” list did the franchise. Second season of GWitch is next, probably followed by Gundam X. Eventually get around to Hathaway, Narrative, and 0083. No real interest in Victory or the SEED sequels.
Count me in as another in-theater GQuuuuuuX watcher and I absolutely stinking loved it! I’m an unabashed Gundam (and UC) fangirl so UC Gundam Man In The High Castle is wicked up my alley and I am all in on this show when it actually comes out
I made an accidental hilarious choise in watching GQuuuuuuX by bringing my friends who are loosely familiar and with the UC and friends who were not familiar with Gundam at all. They were so confused by all the proper nouns and speedran historical events in the first 0030 minutes that I made a powerpoint to help explain what’s going on, their cultural significance, the polyonymous qualities of things, and the characters as they were originally.
Finished up season 2 of Gundam Witch from Mercury and came away a big fan! Probably my favorite Gundam since Unicorn, and on the whole I think it’s probably more interesting overall than that one. I loved the angle that capitalism and big business are the main cause of war and strife in the world, FEELS ACCURATE. And the emotional core of Suletta, her family, and Miorine is super compelling. Basically all of the interpersonal relationships are pretty good.
I think my real disappointment isn’t even with the show itself, it’s with the decisions around it. Why is this the shortest mainline Gundam show? The story does definitely feel like it could have used more time to breathe at times, the Earth portions and relevant characters/conflicts there especially felt like they could have used an entire arc. I can’t help but feel cynical about Sunrise not wanting to green light a regular 50 episode series for this because it’s led by two women and their romance. I would have loved more episodes and I think overall it would have probably benefitted from it too.
Local theater added more GQuuuuuux movie showings so I saw it today and omg I loved it!!! I’m so stoked to keep watching when the show starts. The alternate U.C. stuff was really compelling. Visually really stunning and I wonder how much of that is going to carry over to the show when there’s probably a tighter budget to keep to. I ordered the HG GQuuuuux like right when I got out lol
I really feel the Gainax legacy in Kara’s stuff, in more of a personally resonant way than with the work Trigger and Imaishi have done.
Keeping the UC train going here, I finished up ZZ over the weekend. Really great series, like 0079 and zeta the back half really picks up.
Judau was also a fun protagonist, his anger towards both the federation and zeon was refreshing.
This time around though I feel like the villains had a lot more going on. The stuff with Glemy, Mashymre, and Haman was the highlight for me.
I’m lucky that I just so happened to finish ZZ when Char’s Counterattack comes back to theaters later this week. Excited to not only see it for the first time but also to see if it’s all Travis Touchdown made it out to be.
I’ve about to wrap up the first season of Iron Blooded Orphans! I completely bounced off it the first time, for reasons that I literally can’t remember, but it turns out I hadn’t even gotten through the first episode somehow. It’s also got one of the absolute best Gundam designs as far as I’m concerned in the Barbatos (so much so that I’ve bought the model kit for it)! Also-- and this is the weird thing-- the final battle of season 1 is somehow, bizarrely, here in Edmonton. Which is the capital of one of the future times economic blocs? Yet somehow it looks just like present day Edmonton despite being a few hundred years from now?
