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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    This show is amazing and god I hope this team gets an additional go around in Gundam, even if it’s not this setting.

    Considering it’s the most well received series in years and is basically lighting up Bandai’s revenue stream like a solar inferno, I’m going to guess yes

    I'm very much expecting that we get some annoucement of "Season 2 now in production" or similar at the end.

    It's...how to put. The vibe i've always gotten from Bandai is while they're pretty happy doing alt universe after alt universe, they would fucking love to have another UC - something they can build in and build in and have a really long tail for decades to come. But none of their series have been resonant enough to justify that. Which you know, when they're reliant on "Make all the model kits ever" for their revenue, it's a big deal.

    And now suddenly WfM doing gangbusters.

    Yeah, i think I’ve heard it suggested this is the best the franchise has caught on since Seed which is… yeah, I could see it. Also, unlike seed, it’s not a frustrating exercise in missed opportunities and thematically stumbling face first into cow shit every arc.

    But our character named Kira hates killing and violence! We're deeeeep we tell you! Deeeeeep!

    Now here's some reused animation, and an opening filled with gratious female nudity.

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
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    Suletta, Gundam Protagnists, and Witch from Mercury 18
    So a few episodes back I had a whole thing written up about Suletta as a gundam protagonist, and how her position in this iteration of Gundam is fairly unique, since she really didn't have any agency. Now, it's not that Gundam hasn't had that kind of protagonist before, I mean, hell, the last big original series Gundam Protagonist Mika, from Iron Blooded Orphans, was that his agency was his violent rejection of agency for most of the series. But Suletta as a protagonist seemed a little bit over the top with it. She lacked agency in action, as her every action was dictated by her mother, she lacked agency in Combat, as she was literally just a vector for Eri and her sisters to use, and even in her relationships, as now Miorine is deciding what's best for her. It seemed a tad bit extreme, and I wasn't sure where the character was going to go.

    Anyways, my whole spiel was that in order for Suletta to properly grasp the protagonist role, and to develop as a character, she would need to be separated from Aerial, if not lose Aerial entirely.

    Naturally tonight's episode proves all my big dumb questions wrong, as indeed, Suletta's extreme lack of control or agency in any given situation was the point hell, Suletta literally says in the episode that it was always like that, that she actually had nothing. And now she's a blank slate, free to finally go on that terrible, terrible Gundam/Utena protagonist's journey.

    Minor Demon Slayer comment.
    I'm going to actually commend the writing of the source material here, which is probably not a take many have. It's a minor compliment, but one that I feel should be shared.

    The author did a really, REALLY good job at portraying how incredibly bullshit the Upper 5 rank demons are, and it is incredibly believable that Hashira after Hashira got mowed down by them for a hundred odd years. It's not that they have the biggest hugest powerlevel, it's that good lord their powers are so nonsensical and obtuse(in a good way!) that by the time you figure it out, even you're already technically "stronger" then them, you're dead. So far we've had karate man who chose to become a demon in his prime so he could literally master martial arts forever(while not original, gives a nice cap to his ability since he uses just hand to hand technique, while being utterly bullshit cause lol demon), A killer Geisha who has her shut in brother who's the actual upper rank living inside of her making them literally immortal if A. He never came out, or B. He came out at the start, or C. they just....lived in two seperate places(While making sense that they don't since if they weren't so incredibly co-dependent they never would have become that kind of demon.), Art dude who's true bullshittery has yet to be revealed, and Coward dude who literally becomes three top tier demons who are immortal unless you figure out that to kill them you need to do the most annoying game of wackamole ever.

    Fun cast of characters overall.

    Can't wait till totally not Tanjiro's ancestor who failed his mission by getting old and became a demon due to depression gets to fight.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    This show is amazing and god I hope this team gets an additional go around in Gundam, even if it’s not this setting.

    Considering it’s the most well received series in years and is basically lighting up Bandai’s revenue stream like a solar inferno, I’m going to guess yes

    I'm very much expecting that we get some annoucement of "Season 2 now in production" or similar at the end.

    It's...how to put. The vibe i've always gotten from Bandai is while they're pretty happy doing alt universe after alt universe, they would fucking love to have another UC - something they can build in and build in and have a really long tail for decades to come. But none of their series have been resonant enough to justify that. Which you know, when they're reliant on "Make all the model kits ever" for their revenue, it's a big deal.

    And now suddenly WfM doing gangbusters.

    Yeah, i think I’ve heard it suggested this is the best the franchise has caught on since Seed which is… yeah, I could see it. Also, unlike seed, it’s not a frustrating exercise in missed opportunities and thematically stumbling face first into cow shit every arc.

    But our character named Kira hates killing and violence! We're deeeeep we tell you! Deeeeeep!

    Now here's some reused animation, and an opening filled with gratious female nudity.

    Not a spoiler, just big on Desktop:
    qahxl40rqjs7.jpeg

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is haro the name for the round robots? If that got mentioned in the show I completely missed it.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    it is, but haro has also been a thing in a whole bunch of gundams all the way back to the original series(even ones in different universes. it just kinda shows up), so there's implied historical recognition

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Haros are the instigators of all the Gundam timelines. They are quiet, judging observers, ever watchful as they gaze upon the destruction their presence in those timelines creates.

    And they are pleased with their creations.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Witch From Mercury is my first Gundam, so I didn't know they were an existing thing.

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    edited April 13
  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

    It's a good show! It's just also very bleak and depressing, and it fumbles communicating things sometimes (for instance, it really could have stood to spell out what an awful thing it would have been if McGillis had won.)

    Which I think in turn influences why people don't talk about it that much, the ending is incredibly bittersweet. (and a lot of the sweet, you sorry of have to take the author's word that no, the authoritarian government is totally on the way to reforming).

    The ending in general I think soured a lot of people

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundamn WFM is not subtle with it's mysteries and very clearly tells you something is going on. It's very loud and colourful and "simple"* about everything, including the almost cartoon like** way it tells you there's a mystery here and how it then unfolds that mystery.

    It works really well. I do think it could use a teeeeeeny bit more subtlety, but I can't deny that it's very effective. It's a good show.

    *simple is not the same as stupid.
    **by this I mean it's very clearly drawing a thick outline around everything so you can see exactly what everything is***
    ***neither of the above are bad things

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

    also WfM doesn't have GIANT SPACE SCISSORS

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    space guts was the best part of IBO, that and the mobile armor part

    so since I finished ZZ, I've hence moved over to victory and just reached the mid-season gundam upgrade

    various spoilery thoughts
    poor shrike team, they eat it so hard for almost no reason most of the time. esp. junko god damn, she didn't even get a newtypey-ghost whispering in uso's head death, just a weird voyeuristic explosion thing and almost nobody seems to grieve for her besides uso.

    why are these monster truck wheels able to fly in space (I assume minovsky drives, but the show has literally not used that as an in-universe explanation once and I only know about it from model kit details)

    why is crazy lady bathing nude with uso (who is 11, mind you) as an interrogation tactic

    show, why. why do this. you were doing so much better than ZZ was and now we get this crap

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

    It's a good show! It's just also very bleak and depressing, and it fumbles communicating things sometimes (for instance, it really could have stood to spell out what an awful thing it would have been if McGillis had won.)

    Which I think in turn influences why people don't talk about it that much, the ending is incredibly bittersweet. (and a lot of the sweet, you sorry of have to take the author's word that no, the authoritarian government is totally on the way to reforming).

    The ending in general I think soured a lot of people

    I'll be honest, I don't even know about any of the author's comments except when they mentioned that
    the girls do get married afterwards, while taking care of Mika's kid.
    And I never really needed any of their comments to actually enjoy the ending. Is it kinda bleak? Yeah, it is. But it's bleak in a way that I anticipated, that I honestly think the narrative demanded it be before it wrapped up. But it's also very hopeful in a lot of small ways that made a lot of sense to me. I don't even need any concept of a shitty authoritarian government reforming to know that the effects on Mars are going to force change there, the very change that the protagonists had been fighting and dying for the whole time.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'll have to re-watch IBO one of these days, but I've certainly come around on it's ending long after the initial run (I absolutely hated the ending in the moment and i've softened on it now in retrospect)

    IBO ending
    I literally do not recall any signs up to the very ending that Rustal was a reformer at all. You could argue he was trying to get rid of the other shitty families in the system (McGillis, Iok, other?) but I don't remember anything he was doing ever pointed at the "I'll become the dictator and then make things better" sign. Esp when you have underlings like Iok "fucking loves warcrimes" Kujan around

    While it's nice that the protagonists got what they were hoping to bring to Mars in the end (at great personal cost), it feels like such tonal whiplash in the moment of watching it

    fuck Iok though that dude deserved a thousand deaths

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    I'll have to re-watch IBO one of these days, but I've certainly come around on it's ending long after the initial run (I absolutely hated the ending in the moment and i've softened on it now in retrospect)

    IBO ending
    I literally do not recall any signs up to the very ending that Rustal was a reformer at all. You could argue he was trying to get rid of the other shitty families in the system (McGillis, Iok, other?) but I don't remember anything he was doing ever pointed at the "I'll become the dictator and then make things better" sign. Esp when you have underlings like Iok "fucking loves warcrimes" Kujan around

    While it's nice that the protagonists got what they were hoping to bring to Mars in the end (at great personal cost), it feels like such tonal whiplash in the moment of watching it

    fuck Iok though that dude deserved a thousand deaths

    Yeah RE: the first thing
    I don't really remember anything much about Rustal either. I mean, the guy literally broke their weaponry treaty and used mass drivers to beat the boys. He is NOT a good dude and the show absolutely demonstrates that.

    But also I think whether he's a reformer or not is irrelevant. The ending is all about what happens with Mars, not about the system as a whole.

    100% agreed on the last point lol

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    all my homies hate iok kujan

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I had a thought on WFM, ep18ish:
    Can Prospera even communicate with Eri/Quiet Zero? If not, it has to be maddening that she's incapable of communicating with her own daughter.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I had a thought on WFM, ep18ish:
    Can Prospera even communicate with Eri/Quiet Zero? If not, it has to be maddening that she's incapable of communicating with her own daughter.
    it appears since suletta's last duel, yes, she can now. eri's data storm power has been growing every time suletta and aeriel pushed to another permet level. whatever trojan horse was in suletta's phone appears to have something to do with connecting the data storm output to prospera's helmet; we saw it flash with the permet glow at the end of that fight when the trojan was triggered, and it glowed briefly this past episode when prospera appeared to communicate with aerial/eri about what to do with suletta.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

    It's a good show! It's just also very bleak and depressing, and it fumbles communicating things sometimes (for instance, it really could have stood to spell out what an awful thing it would have been if McGillis had won.)

    Which I think in turn influences why people don't talk about it that much, the ending is incredibly bittersweet. (and a lot of the sweet, you sorry of have to take the author's word that no, the authoritarian government is totally on the way to reforming).

    The ending in general I think soured a lot of people

    Honestly I didn't watch IBO, because I watched two episodes and it completely failed to grab me so I moved on, but all three of the people in my circle that regularly watch Gundam stuff and DID watch it are on a spectrum that goes from "thinking it's pretty mid first season, and pretty bad second season", to "straight up hating it", so, generally, if this is extrapolable, I don't feel it landed exactly great with a lot of people even before the ending?

    Meanwhile those same people are basically vibrating with anticipation in our discord each Suletta Sunday.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    @Anzekay it's a metaphorical the way the show presents things to us, it wants us to believe that Rustal is a reformer. Which, as you say, just dosen't bear up under everything else we've seen in the show.

    To memory last time were discussed this @lanz had some really good takes on things

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Drascin wrote: »
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I still regard Iron-Blooded Orphans as some superb Gundam, and while WfM is the same level of brilliance, I am always deeply sad that people skip over IBO when going back to when we last had "good" Gundam

    It's a good show! It's just also very bleak and depressing, and it fumbles communicating things sometimes (for instance, it really could have stood to spell out what an awful thing it would have been if McGillis had won.)

    Which I think in turn influences why people don't talk about it that much, the ending is incredibly bittersweet. (and a lot of the sweet, you sorry of have to take the author's word that no, the authoritarian government is totally on the way to reforming).

    The ending in general I think soured a lot of people

    Honestly I didn't watch IBO, because I watched two episodes and it completely failed to grab me so I moved on, but all three of the people in my circle that regularly watch Gundam stuff and DID watch it are on a spectrum that goes from "thinking it's pretty mid first season, and pretty bad second season", to "straight up hating it", so, generally, if this is extrapolable, I don't feel it landed exactly great with a lot of people even before the ending?

    Meanwhile those same people are basically vibrating with anticipation in our discord each Suletta Sunday.

    While I like IBO a whole lot, WfM is a vastly more coherent and interesting show, while also being a lot less bleak.

    Mika is... Well, he'd be a flat out villain in most shows. He's kinda hard to root for. Actually he's very hard to root for, he's a sociopath. Interesting character, but not an interesting protagonist is the difference makes sense

    I'd kinda love an IBO that did more with the Gundams vs Mobile armors thing (hell, give me a sequel series where suddenly mass MAs wake up, and everyone's scrambling to rouse the Gundams and restore the ones that were wrecked in the first series)

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    space guts was the best part of IBO, that and the mobile armor part

    so since I finished ZZ, I've hence moved over to victory and just reached the mid-season gundam upgrade

    various spoilery thoughts
    poor shrike team, they eat it so hard for almost no reason most of the time. esp. junko god damn, she didn't even get a newtypey-ghost whispering in uso's head death, just a weird voyeuristic explosion thing and almost nobody seems to grieve for her besides uso.

    why are these monster truck wheels able to fly in space (I assume minovsky drives, but the show has literally not used that as an in-universe explanation once and I only know about it from model kit details)

    why is crazy lady bathing nude with uso (who is 11, mind you) as an interrogation tactic

    show, why. why do this. you were doing so much better than ZZ was and now we get this crap

    The thing about Gundam is that it's quite often bad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlRxAIYy-WU

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    space guts was the best part of IBO, that and the mobile armor part

    so since I finished ZZ, I've hence moved over to victory and just reached the mid-season gundam upgrade

    various spoilery thoughts
    poor shrike team, they eat it so hard for almost no reason most of the time. esp. junko god damn, she didn't even get a newtypey-ghost whispering in uso's head death, just a weird voyeuristic explosion thing and almost nobody seems to grieve for her besides uso.

    why are these monster truck wheels able to fly in space (I assume minovsky drives, but the show has literally not used that as an in-universe explanation once and I only know about it from model kit details)

    why is crazy lady bathing nude with uso (who is 11, mind you) as an interrogation tactic

    show, why. why do this. you were doing so much better than ZZ was and now we get this crap

    The thing about Gundam is that it's quite often bad

    Having watched the OG, Z, ZZ, 08th MS, some of Wing, and WFM, most of them are disappointing and spin their wheels way too much.

    Since the only good ones are 08th and WFM, the takeaway is to keep it short.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I’ll weigh in on the other stuff later but:
    Don't buy these DVDs because you should not watch them!
    I want to completely reject this work. These kind of results are the full responsibility of the director. If you should by some mistake watch this Blu-ray, try looking for what’s bad in ‘Mobile Suit V Gundam’. If even one person notices, then I believe that there will have been meaning in releasing this Blu-ray

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I like UC Gundam a lot, but I feel like it suffers a similar trap that Star Trek does, where the people in charge of creative would rather revisit old stuff like yet another One Year War side story than actually move the timeline forward, and then when they do move the timeline forward it's a total gamble on how good it's actually gonna be because of the sheer inertial mass of lore that has to go into every single decision

    But then many AU Gundams (most notably Seed) seem to feel bound by the original series or even sometimes each other -- for example 00 feels like a remake of Wing in the same way Seed is a remake of 0079, and then Turn A is simultaneously liberated from and bound by every single Gundam before it

    So (as far as I can tell, haven't watched any of it yet) WfM seems to be hitting the sweet spot on being accessible without any prior lore knowledge, and thematically concrete on its own merits, while also generally respecting what came before in a way that doesn't anger the kind of nerds who require their own preconceived notions of what the franchise is

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    space guts was the best part of IBO, that and the mobile armor part

    so since I finished ZZ, I've hence moved over to victory and just reached the mid-season gundam upgrade

    various spoilery thoughts
    poor shrike team, they eat it so hard for almost no reason most of the time. esp. junko god damn, she didn't even get a newtypey-ghost whispering in uso's head death, just a weird voyeuristic explosion thing and almost nobody seems to grieve for her besides uso.

    why are these monster truck wheels able to fly in space (I assume minovsky drives, but the show has literally not used that as an in-universe explanation once and I only know about it from model kit details)

    why is crazy lady bathing nude with uso (who is 11, mind you) as an interrogation tactic

    show, why. why do this. you were doing so much better than ZZ was and now we get this crap

    The thing about Gundam is that it's quite often bad

    Lots of bad stuff in Gundam. And Victory is commonly considered to be one of the worst things in the franchise. IIRC even Tomino himself is like "do not watch Victory Gundam, it is terrible".

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    well gundam was worth it at least for g gundam I guess

    edit: look. I suffered through brain powerd and king gainer

    I can handle a little victory gundam, as a treat punishment

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    On a lighter note:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJaRegMCbNQ

    (Initial D sequel in 2023)

    Clearly they did their homework on the music.

    Yes, once again we're Running In The 90s.

    More impressive to me are the little things like drone cameras, which show some thought in how this evolution would work.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    I’ll weigh in on the other stuff later but:
    Don't buy these DVDs because you should not watch them!
    I want to completely reject this work. These kind of results are the full responsibility of the director. If you should by some mistake watch this Blu-ray, try looking for what’s bad in ‘Mobile Suit V Gundam’. If even one person notices, then I believe that there will have been meaning in releasing this Blu-ray

    Bikini suicide squad.

    (I have never watched Victory, but I'm aware of that part and uh, boy, some fucking choices were made there)

    One of the other things though on the WfM front is that by putting corporate dickery front and centre, it's a lot more grokkable to today's audience than "war is hell".

    War is pretty distant for most of us these days. But corporate shit fuckery? Oh boy do we know about that.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
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    Naphtali wrote: »
    I'll have to re-watch IBO one of these days, but I've certainly come around on it's ending long after the initial run (I absolutely hated the ending in the moment and i've softened on it now in retrospect)

    IBO ending
    I literally do not recall any signs up to the very ending that Rustal was a reformer at all. You could argue he was trying to get rid of the other shitty families in the system (McGillis, Iok, other?) but I don't remember anything he was doing ever pointed at the "I'll become the dictator and then make things better" sign. Esp when you have underlings like Iok "fucking loves warcrimes" Kujan around

    While it's nice that the protagonists got what they were hoping to bring to Mars in the end (at great personal cost), it feels like such tonal whiplash in the moment of watching it

    fuck Iok though that dude deserved a thousand deaths
    He was not a real reformer. But he was a prideful dude with ego who saw the way his world was moving and decided that by giving up power he could become a 'hero' with an everlasting legacy. Basically the events of the show showed him that the status quo was ultimately not sustainable so might as well cash out when you're ahead.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Watched witch from mercury 18
    boy everyone suletta cares about is convinced the best thing to do for her is fucking gaslight her huh? I want chuchu to punch out prospera, miorine and fucking aerial, do it, punch out a gundam chuchu!

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    In terms of CSM, I'd say the book was better but the show has been real good so far. Better then I'd have expected at maintaining the tone.

    Elsewhere, Vinland Saga 2 is killing it. Great adapation. I'll usually prefer the version I first experienced, and the book is a favorite of mine. But they're covering this section great. I like it better then the first season, where there were some small changes that irked me, but it was also still good. I can't even remember what they were at the time.

    Fingers crossed Dungeon Meshi gets as well adapated as either CSM or Vinland Saga.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Watched witch from mercury 18
    boy everyone suletta cares about is convinced the best thing to do for her is fucking gaslight her huh? I want chuchu to punch out prospera, miorine and fucking aerial, do it, punch out a gundam chuchu!
    I think it is doing a good job showing how the people who aren't even around -- and that she cares about -- don't see how much she's clearly hurting from it all, meanwhile her Earthian house friends are all really concerned for her cause they can see it looks like very much a happy facade.
    I'm sure the Miorine shippers are gonna hate me for this, but you know what? Suletta can do better than that bitch.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    akajaybay wrote: »
    In terms of CSM, I'd say the book was better but the show has been real good so far. Better then I'd have expected at maintaining the tone.

    Elsewhere, Vinland Saga 2 is killing it. Great adapation. I'll usually prefer the version I first experienced, and the book is a favorite of mine. But they're covering this section great. I like it better then the first season, where there were some small changes that irked me, but it was also still good. I can't even remember what they were at the time.

    Fingers crossed Dungeon Meshi gets as well adapated as either CSM or Vinland Saga.

    Speaking of CSM, revisiting the later arcs... I'm not sure I'm excited for the anime adaptations of the later arcs, because one particular chapter is such a giant, chaotic mess of characters, that I have no idea how the anime could possible tackle it, and I don't envy the poor director who gets tasked with it.
    I love the Reze arc and the endgame against the final boss of Part 1, but the international assassin arc is a gigantic clusterf, especially with the chaos around Santa and the Darkness Devil. The Gun and Bomb stuff, though? A+.

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