Maaaaaaaaan…
So far, I’ve been content to let Tsurumaki’s pace carry me, but unlike FLCL which kinda had no expectations placed upon the viewer and the intended viewing experience was to just go with the flow, GQX is building upon decades of narrative and lore that at this point are kinda essential for context, so as of right now even I’m starting to feel how crazy fast we’re hitting plot beats out here.
I mean, the entire episode is about Lalah Sune, who she is as a character and what she represents thematically to the entire series, but if you haven’t seen OG Gundam thru Char’s Counterattack (because her relationship with Amuro and Char is an important aspect of her character) her appearance here is just going to be a weird catalyst for Machu’s character growth and probably very confusing.
She looks great in GQX’s animation style tho
But having said that, doing The Man in the High Castle with UC0079 Gundam is so insanely ballsy and ambitious, I’m down for the ride.
Chalia Bull is the best character to have come out this season.
come out this season
We don’t know if he’s out yet, he could still be in the closet.
Jokes aside, he’s definitely had quite the glow up
They are baiting the shippers hard. Hey at least they didnt forget Lt. Bakharov, she was like one of the few active female soldiers (well she is more of a field scientist type) in the OG.
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I’ve been enjoying things a lot more with Shuji gone.
I tried to sit down and watch Char’s counterattack last night but the copy I dl’ed had English dubbing. Gotta find another one.😅 Watched season 2 of Castlevania Nocturne instead. 
That Ocean Group dub of CCA isn’t awful, but yeah, it’s hard not to watch the original Tomino Gundams without the original Japanese cast.
It doesn’t help when the subs don’t match the dubs either. I got like two minutes in and decided not bother.
subs don’t match the dubs
I’ve been enjoying things a lot more with Shuji gone.
Y’knoooow, valid. His absence makes screentime for all the messy fictional politics I like Gundam for.
Yeah the series is better without him and every scene he’s not in is significantly more enjoyable.
I watched the dubbed CCA for the first time a few days ago and enjoyed it, but I’m also a filthy casual who prefers dubbed anime so I can focus on the animation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah the series is better without him and every scene he’s not in is significantly more enjoyable.
Funnily enough this series has very much turned into doing the “specific character should be on screen all the time and when he’s not onscreen everyone should be asking where is the character.” lol.
I watched the dubbed CCA for the first time a few days ago and enjoyed it, but I’m also a filthy casual who prefers dubbed anime so I can focus on the animation ¯_(ツ)_/¯
lol. I probably could’ve gotten through it if not for the mismatching sub/dub. As I get older, I rely on subs a lot regardless. Tho I do prefer japanese audio as I find they’re more emotionally expressive. idk. Might totally be in my head. ngl, while I did enjoy the general story beats of Castlevania last night, I found the dialogue/voice work to be questionable at times. like literally asking myself what the editor was thinking using the clips they did.
Even with this TikTok-ass pacing, I do not see how they could have all these things come to a satisfying conclusion in just three more episodes. The ending of Witch from Mercury felt to me like they had more planned but didn’t get greenlit, so they had to pivot hard to an ending, I fear this one will end with a “then everyone space magic exploded the end”.
I do love a nice Gogg, though.
“then everyone space magic exploded the end”
I mean, that’s basically CCA and Unicorn/Narrative lol, so if anything it’ll be kinda par for the course.
Tsurumaki seems to be building up to something rather intentionally tho, so we’ll see.
“then everyone space magic exploded the end”
Space magic exploding is a huge part of Tomino shows, too. Just look at Space Runaway Ideon (which inspired Anno to do it with NGE) and Turn A Gundam.
The WfM ending had a bad case of The Swerve
Gundam’s always going to be an annoying franchise for newcomers - you more or less need to watch ~140 episodes of Tomino anime and a movie to have a baseline understanding of things.
What are the odds that we get a Beyond the Time or Meguriai insert song by the end of this?
I went back to episode 41 of Mobile Suit Gundam and Encounters in Space to revisit the big moment. Putting a spoiler tag, even if it might not be totally necessary (it feels like spoiler tagging Empire Strikes Back).
Mobile Suit Gundam
You don’t say, Amuro. She’s had to
everything and it seems like there’s almost no way for her to save the person she feels like she owes everything to. It sounded like she’s had to see the outcome where Amuro kills Char during the OYW in alternate timelines. Also, she’s probably had to watch G-Savior a few dozen times.Here’s the explosion of the Hermes/Elmeth in the original series:
Here’s the explosion in the movie version:
The big ol ball of light that Char and Shuji disappeared into is definitely referencing this explosion.
Right, like everyone confused about Machu/Shuji kinda need to see this ep for the exact kind of Newtype weirdness we’re working with (although imo the scene with Challia this ep really did a lot to flesh out Machu and Shuji’s relationship through inference, like imagine living most of your life with your parent not understanding your emotional wants or needs and then suddenly finding the one cute guy in the universe who could literally read your mind), but at the same time I think it’s completely reasonable to expect a show to stand on it’s own and explain weirdness like that as part of the story and not off-screen that storytelling duty to past franchise entries. It kinda is what it is at this point tho
Also, she’s probably had to watch G-Savior a few dozen times.
A fate worse than death.
spoiler
Anno backdoor writing in a prequel/sequel to 0079/CCA on a multiversal technicality wasn’t on my bingo card, but I’ll take it since Tsurumaki seems to have something class conscious in mind to say, and I trust Khara enough to handle postmodern metatext right even after the Rebuilds. I can’t believe how blatantly they’re getting away with cribbing The Man in the High Castle tho lol
Beyond the Time
No shot that they don’t use it as an insert song in the finale
but at the same time I think it’s completely reasonable to expect a show to stand on it’s own and explain weirdness like that as part of the story and not off-screen that storytelling duty to past franchise entries. It kinda is what it is at this point tho
I feel like we’re so far in the age of remake-sequels and cinematic universe stuff that media homework isn’t unusual. It’s part of the curse of easy-ish access to so much media.
I agree with you, though, I wish more stuff would be able to stand alone for viewers who didn’t do all the homework!
spoiler
I can’t believe how blatantly they’re getting away with cribbing The Man in the High Castle tho lol
Found my vacation book for my upcoming trip this summer lol. I should read more sci-fi novels haha.
True, as usual the problem is the internet lol
Philip K. Dick is a great author, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is probably his best work, iirc Man in the High Castle’s ending was a bit anti-climatic but I need to reread the book now too lol
Yeah I finished watching the original series and watched Char’s Counterattack for the first time a few days ago. Glad I did since they’re introducing alternate timeline stuff in Gquux.
I had a partial understanding of UC since 8th. MS Team is one of my all-time favorite series, but I hadn’t actually seen the entire Amuro Ray story, only bits and pieces of it when it was on Toonami like 20 years ago. I’ve always preferred Gundam Wing, but that could be nostalgia talking.
I’ve always preferred Gundam Wing, but that could be nostalgia talking.
Wing is one of those shows that sits better in the memory and conversation than on the screen imo. Endless Waltz fucking slaps, though.
If you like the aesthetics of Wing and want another “alternate UC” show, you should check out After War Gundam X. Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam might help give more context (for all of the franchise, really), but it stands alone better than GQuuuuuuX.
MS Team is one of my all-time favorite series
You should try Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket or Armor Hunter Mellowlink, or if you’re looking for a longer show, Fang of the Sun Dougram or Armored Trooper Votoms.
After War Gundam X is one of my favorites, with how it critiques key aspects of the UC’s newtype mythology.
I did like Gundam 00 a lot in its first season, but season 2 was merely “good” and the movie… was meh?
VOTOMS is amazing, I agree.
Where are folks watching this? I’d like to jump in.
I’ve been sailing the high seas and torrenting the eps off of Nyaa.si
You can legally watch it on Amazon prime I think but as much as I want to support studio Khara I want to give money to Jeff Bezos less
Fuck Bezos, sailing is fun ⛵
