I think I might like the Zeta movies better then the series... as of right now. I'm on 37 and am almost done so if the ending is that much better, I'll think about it.

I…didn't think Zeta Gundam was that great myself either. Maybe it's because I saw a lot of AU's first before watching Zeta but I didn't really understand the hype.

ZZ on the other hand…is pretty bad. The first half is a lot of nonsensical crap that doesn't really start to get good till the last couple of episodes or so.

ZZ I'll give you isn't as great, but I still really enjoyed it. Where's DaiRiderRX when you need him? He's my Zeta Bro.

The thing with Zeta is Tomino was suffering from the worst depression of his career. So he poured a lot of his raw emotion into the show. He used his pain to craft the story. Now by the time ZZ was commissioned he was on stronger anti-depressants and felt that he'd gone "too far" and been too dark with Zeta. So he tried to course correct so to speak with ZZ. Which result in the very mixed and light hearted tone of the first half of the series.

That was until fans outraged by the huge tonal shift from Zeta to the first half of ZZ got the message to Sunrise that they were displeased. Sales numbers falling also helped communicate this. This message in turn got to Tomino and Sunrise tried to get him to shift focus back to how Zeta had been crafted. Resulting in the even more mixed signals from the series.

I enjoy it, but I know it isn't for everyone.

Oh my yes :D

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Zeta is my favorite, but I enjoyed ZZ. There was some really great episodes, but it's too uneven, and really slow in the middle. I find Dragonar a better "light" show then ZZ though.

Yeah ZZ Gundam gets decent once they kill off the comic relieve commander villain and Haman takes the reigns.

I see no fault with this statement. The beginning of the series is not to my liking, especially as a successor to Zeta. once the focus shifted, I found myself increasingly more interested in the series.

As for Zeta, it was a fitting and natural extension of the story established in the original program. Details such as the integration of Zeonic scientists and engineers into the ranks of the Federation influencing the designs of the newer mobile suits helped to sell that idea to me. That they essentially flipped the roles of the federation and the insurgents was welcomed. The Titans and their constant need for increasing power and control within the Federation forces proved interesting and different enough from Zeon and its function. The characters were enjoyable, most having flaws, effectively demonstrating believable growth within the context of the series.

My original watching was spread over a couple of months, allowing me the opportunity to not experience the density of the series within a short amount of time.

Is HLJ the best place to order kits from? It just seems like they have the really competitive pricing on their HGs and have some decent policies but I want to make sure, since that kind of stuff can be insane if you don't know of any underlying problems.

As long as it's not a preorder there should be no problem ordering from HLJ.

AmiAmi and HobbySearch are reccomended too.

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