Originally Posted by Shin Henshin (Post 349195)

The english dub tried to make the male lead of the show the main character instead of the female lead, Sakura, as a way to attract a young male audience.

As a result, the story's different and episodes are either mixed around or totally cut. It was horrid.

Originally Posted by Locke (Post 349203)

Build Fighters 02.

The best part of Build Fighters is that it shouldn't be as good as it is. It seems almost like an obvious concept, but it's so simple it's kinda brilliant. 'Why not literally make the show a toy ad, but put in just as much effort into it as any other show'? All Gundam is about selling shit, but rather than a pretentious pseudo intellectual space opera, it's literally just Beyblade with Gundams.

The idea that it has battles to rival the best of them, with stunning animation and a wonderful soundtrack but is actually about kids building plastic models - and the quality of the build is actually a story factor - it's just really really fucking clever in my books.

Originally Posted by Powerman293 (Post 349320)

Is that supposed to be an insult to the other Gundam series or not? Because I can't tell. But yeah, Build Fighters sounds like a really fun spin-off. I hope this show gets a lot more people into Gundam because that fanbase is shrinking every year Bandai entertainment America isn't around.

Originally Posted by Locke (Post 349321)

Insult is too strong a word. I've just never much liked the style of anime that shows like Gundam Wing embody which is why I have never gotten much into the franchise. G-Gundam and now Build Fighters are just better to me because they drop all the unnecessary pretence.

Originally Posted by Powerman293 (Post 349323)

From what I see you like, its a minority of Gundam's work that you like. Wing is very pretentious specifically, although I don't know if you're just using that as a one off example.

Originally Posted by Locke (Post 349326)

Wing is the only Gundam series I've seen at any length other than G and Build. But I've watched bits and pieces of other series but saw them going pretentious pretty early and swiftly bowed out.

Originally Posted by Powerman293 (Post 349328)

Well, I guess the majority of Gundam's content is not for you then. Gundam is about the evolution and maturing of humanity, what it means to settle conflict and using war to find out how people truly are. If those concepts sound super pretentious to you, then probably most series will be to you because they potray these ideas in such epic and grandiose ways that I could see it being pretentious.