TBH Island Wars was a little disappointing to me still the ZII and Gyancelot were pretty cool.

I think Island Wars would've benfited from being a full length movie rather than 1 shot OVA.

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I watched the first disc to Victory today, which covered the first 9 episodes. Overall, it was a lot better than I was anticipating, but it feels like nothing is happening yet. I know it's Gundam, and they always start slow, but usually by this point there is at least some plot progression. I still don't know jackshit about anything that is happening. Who are these people? Why is the Earth Federation not doing anything to stop the Zanscare Empire? Who is the Zanscare Empire? How did they come into power? Are they the remnants of the Crossbone Vanguard? Why are they executing random people? What do they want? How are Uso and gang illegal immigrants?

The episodes themselves were pretty good even though I really don't see why we need to have prequel episodes that lead up to the first episode. They could have easily told that story in the span of two episodes. Also, Cronicle Asher is hands down the worst Char clone ever! The man is a bumbling idiot and can't even do anything right even in a mobile suit. In fact, he isn't even worthy of being called a Char clone. He doesn't even wear a mask for any other reason than the Earth's environment annoys him.

As for the Victory Gundam, it's a cool design, but seems to be the weakest Gundam ever made as its body parts keep getting destroyed as if they were made of tissue paper. I guess the alternative would be it being indestructible no matter what touched it, but still, this is a Gundam, it shouldn't be falling to pieces just from being sneezed on.

BTW, is it just me, or do the mobile suits seem to be a lot smaller in this series?

Man, I think I complained a lot, but they really are just minor gripes I have right now about this series. I'm sure things will improve over the next 43 episodes, but I can already see why Tomino hated working on this show.

You're not wrong. Story goes is that when Bandai bought Sunrise, Bandai wanted to make the Gundam models for the next show smaller and cheaper, so an in universe shrinking of mobile suits happened, with the explanation being a technological shift from heavier armor that can tank hits to faster and leaner mobile suits that are susceptible to more physical weapons due to less armor.

Watching Island Wars has me in the mood to go through Build Fighters again, currently working my way through the first series and I'm up to about episode 5.

It's a shame that some people can't get passed the Beyblade aspect of the show cause it's still just as fantastic as when I first went through it.

The animation is top notch and the fight choreography is amazing.

Even though in a lot of series, like Wing, the Gundams are still nigh-invulnerable at times.

I was able to ignore the childish aspect of it, but even still it didn't do a thing for me.

I was just explaning the general justification, not how things actually are.

Oh I know, I was just making a comment at how indestructable some of the Wing Gundams got when pitted against grunts.

Also:

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Stick it in me.

So I watched episodes 10-15 today and the show is still moving at a snail's pace, but I am enjoing it. Well, mostly. That all girl team seems to be utterly pointless when a member is dying in each episode. The villains still have yet to be developed or even properly introduced, which is really getting on my nerves given that I'm a quarter of the way done with the show. Uso is a pretty likable main character though.

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