I would gladly win any of those.

I watch Iron-Blooded Orphans tonight on Toonami. I enjoy the first episode a second time when I saw it dubbed. I'm hooked on the show now.

I found it adequate enough to tune in next week.

Which reminds me, I need to finish the last two episodes of IBO.

24 is the best episode of the show so far, promptly ruined by 25.

I heard the Zeta Plus shows up in Unicorn....

Does it get atleast one good fight in or is it a blink and you'll miss it cameo?

I think it's at the big Earth fight scene in episode 7 in Colorado when Bright is trying to stop Gryps from firing. There's a few shots of it I think.

One barely gets to move before it has a beam saber pointed at it's cockpit, and the other gets stepped on. They're two mass-production variants guarding bad guy HQ.

...Well that sucks.

The Gustav Karl gets it even worse. It gets to stand up before it's arm is sliced off.

Those ECOAS boys are efficient.

I just watched all the episodes of RE:96 Gundaminfo has up...

I think Marida might be one of my favorite Gundam characters now.

Built a GM III today without so much as glancing at the manual. Even with that added challenge, it was still a nice mental health build after that MG Zeta.

Mg Zeta is that bad?

I recommend the original OVA. RE:96 kinda messes up the story with the editing.

It even spoils future plot developments in the previously on and next time segments.

Well it's free so I can't complain too much.


I usually always skip those to be honest.

RE 0096 pisses me off so much not just because of the sloppy editing or the spoilers in the Previoulsy or Previews. But because the original press release stated "new footage" and all we've got so is a few seconds added to fight scenes nobody would have noticed. They could have added an entire OVA episode of material to expand the story of Unicorn, maybe introduce some new subplots, new suits, e.t.c. in the 26 episode span they set up for themselves. But instead, they are just deciding to include recaps to reach that episode number artifically.

Also, they redrew Banahger's hand for no reason.

I can't be the only one that stops the video after before the next episode preview.

So I'm gonna try and have my mom watch the first 0079 movie with me tomorrow so she could get a better idea about what Gundam is when I talk about it. I'm not gonna try and make her a fan or anything, but I hope to show her into what I'm interested in.

I tried doing stuff like that with my parents doesn't work really. Instead I just show them basic clips from toku or something I'm a big fan of. When I first showed them what Gaim was and some of the various henshin the riders did, they got a kick out of that. Now they always tease me when they see a fruit in the groccery store :lol

Lol. Defintley sounds like a hoot.

On Friday from a convention I went to, I got HG Barbatos and the HG Full Armor Gundam from Thunderbolt. Working on Barbatos now and I have to say, the Gundam frame bown parts look so cool contrasting with the white parts.

That's a pretty lame excuse. You can't expect people to prophetically know not to watch certain aspects of the show to avoid spoilers or convuluted storytelling.

This arrived today:

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We watched the first disc and man those were some damn good episodes. The only truly weak episode I felt was the second one on the disc which had a sea fering boy using the mobile suit that will go on to appear in Turn A. Other than that, this show continues to be so damn good. I really like how they are developing Glemy as he is more than just a normal goon and the stuff that occured in Dakar was awesome.

I also did some comparison shots with the Japanese BDs like I did with Volume 1:

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Ayyyy, so has anyone done business with GG Infinite since their website revamp? I'm kinda wanting to pre-order the Premium Bandai HG Blast Impulse from them but I have no clue if they do an imediate card charge or not.

Not watching possible spoilers because you don't want to be spoiled is a lame excuse?

Here's some pictures I took of Barbatos. He looks very different from any of the other HGs I own.

It's more just draining. I'm not really a fan of MGs at all, and I really only got it because it's the least crap Zeta Gundam.

I've always been wary of using GG, heard too many horror stories about them.


I usually watch stuff on the TV in the living room, and the way our house is designed the downstairs is pretty much just one big room, so both my parents have seen snippets of most of what I watch just out of coincidence. I remember my mom actually thinking the political aspects of 00 were really interesting.

Watched the second disc (well, technically fifth disc) tonight and man these episodes just keep getting better every time. I completely forgot that they killed Kobayashi off. Also, my god, everything that went down in the episodes of Dublin are just down right incredible. Not only does it give Haman the Gundam Badass Seal of Approval, but it also solidifies her as the greatest Gundam villain ever!! Of course, was she was the bad guy or was it the jackasses of the Federation who chose to just let everyone die? And then we had the return of the Psycho Gundam which was AMAZING!! I can't wait to watch the final disc tomorrow as it is going to be grand.

Is he one of the older MGs that needed screws?

So may I ask what your guys favorite episode of the original series is? I'd say so far from what I've seen it's the episode with the zeon grunts and the attempting to blow up the gundam. The episode really did humanize those grunts that you'd never really think about, showing that they have wants and desires of their own. It had Amuro being his selfless self. i Just love that scene where the zeon troops roll up to the whitebase and give them their regards and saying they're doing a good job and stuff showed that there was a respect for the enemy side.

Oh wow. You'd think the giant robot action would get them hooked lol. Season 1 in particular has a ton of great political stuff. Watching how everything plays out, various groups trying to manipulate each other, the tension, its fantastic. So if your mom is into that kind of stuff, I could see her liking it.

I wouldn't say Haman is the best Gundam villains ever, but she defintley makes an impact in ZZ.

Yeah, the Federation are kinda pussies in ZZ. It's weird how the federation prior to this point has at least tried to get thier shit together fighting Zeon, and are more proactive post OYW here it's just they stop altogether.

I've seen the movies, I've read the Origin manga, never watched the show so any specific episode I can't pick. Maybe the TV show counterpart to the sequence where Garma is trying to find White Base and Char betrays him?

I also got my mom to watch about an hour of the first 0079 movie. I interjected the movie with interesting facts and answered any questions she had. She fell asleep after White Base entered Earth's atmosphere, but she woke up and told me she liked it, and that we should finish it on Thursday. The way she explained it to me is it was like watching the first Star Wars movie,which she saw in theaters in like 6th grade, and how it was different from everything else at the time. I think she understands why I like it a lot more now.

You know what, that was actually my least favorite episode until I watched the series back in March. It wasn't so bad this time around for some reason.

My favorite episode of the original series? I'm not sure, but it is definitely one of the Ramba Ral episodes. Might be the one where He meets Amuro and Fraw in the tavern.

It depends, as she is my favorite Gundam character of all time.

To be fair, the Titans did pretty much take control of the Federation, so everyone left are pretty much penniless and scared. However, it doesn't excuse them from being douchebags.

Was it the original or 2.0?

From what I've heard the original aka 1.0 Zeta has stability issues up the wazoo and pretty much falls apart just by being looked at.

It was the 2.0. It's better than the 1.0 for sure (and the RG), but I still wouldn't put it in the same tier as the seed and wing MGs.

And so ends the adventures of ZZ. My god this show was down right incredible. Sure, it isn't as good as Zeta, but it is better than the original. In fact, I feel like it takes the best elements of both series and makes it its own thing. The last disc just continued to show how great Tomino is when it comes to storytelling, at least when you look at the whole picture. There were some little issues that crop up, especially because characters like the 3Ds just disappear. As I have said many times, Haman Karn is my favorite Gundam character and the last batch of episodes continue to show why. Judau is also one of the best Gundam pilots ever because much of how a likable of a guy he is and he grows quite significantly throughout the show. In fact, I'd say that he might even have more character depth than Kamille does because he has seen the dark side of life and still tries to look past it. Of course, Kamille is still my favorite Gundam pilot, he just isn't the best. It is a shame Char never showed up in this show, which is a shame because it would have been nice to have some type of build up to the genocidal dickwad we get in the next story, but oh well. It's time to watch Char's Counterattack.

Prepare thyself for cool designs, a drawn out boring plot, and an annoying as shit character.

Fixed that for you.

What is it about Zeta gundam that makes it into a hot mess in kit form? Though can't say how the hg turned out as I don't have that one

The HG's a partsformer.

So it's more stable but you'll have some parts*the head and most of the torso* left over.

Char's Counterattack - So this was my first time watching this movie since seeing Zeta and ZZ. In fact, I watched this one back in 2010 before I even saw either of those series for the first time. I've always had mixed feelings about this movie, which came even moreso after seeing Zeta because why would Char go from Earth defender to genocidal douche who wants to kill everyone? Well, now that I have the series fresh in my mind I came to realize why during the movie, which deals with the way the Federation were treating the event of Dublin from ZZ. I think it is that moment that made Char become the man he is in this movie. Holy crap, now it all makes sense to me.

So does that change my opinion of the movie? Well yes and no. I'm still mixed on it as the movie runs 30 minutes longer than it needed to be. Quess is by far one of the worst Gundam characters ever (probably second to Flay from SEED) and every scene that deals with her is a poorly contived mess. I have no idea what her purpose was to this or why Tomino felt the need to add this little ****, but if you remove every scene of her from the movie, you would have a really tight 90 minute adventure. Of course, there is another issue, the ending, or the lack thereof. God does it suck. It just stops as if Tomino forgot to write the last 2 pages of the script and Sunrise didn't bother saying anything to him.

There is another issue with the movie, but that isn't the movie's fault, it is Bandai's Their translation is utter dogpoop. I hope to the gods that Rightstuf uses an accurate script that also remembers proper grammar and doesn't decide to call "the Titans" by their proper name instead of "The Haman" like their subs say. Oh, and "I won't let closer to the thrusters," makes no sense whatsoever. So here's hoping Rightstuf has proper subs to go with their remastered video.

Anyway, I do think the music is great, the mech designs are great, and the scene when Char makes his big speech (despites its poor translation) is stellar. None of the new characters are all that memorable though and were really there just to die, which was annoying. Chan was such a T's. :-) Nevertheless, I'm going to give the movie a 7/10 because when it is great, it is really great and it is a nice finale to the Amuro/Char story (kind of).

Well, I can now finally watch Unicorn, YES!!!!!!

EDIT:
Watched the first 3 episodes to Unicorn today and OMGTHEYWERESOAWESOME!!!!!

I've seen the first two before, but it was nice to finally watch episode 3 right after and damn, that episode was great. I loved the reveal behind wh Marida, especially after just coming off the high of ZZ. I won't have the chance to watch anymore until Sat, but I look forward to it. So far though, I think Banagher is the worst character on the show. He isn't unlikable, but he isn't a great individual either. It is everyone else that is driving him along.