Reminder that Gundam Blu-rays are gonna be on sale at Rightstuf for black friday. It'll be cheaper then amazon if you get their membership which is $12 for 10% off purchases and buy a lot of stuff.

What? They're on sale?

At least Original Gundam is. Blu-rays are down to $37 each.

This week's episode of IBO actually felt pretty long and a lot happened. Vidar looks awesome although it was kinda hard to see what was going on when it fought. And Julieta is actually a tsundere for Vidar.

I know people love to poke fun at McGillis for thinking hes a pedo, but from what I've seen of him and the little girl, he's not attracted to her or a creep at all. He knows and I think she knows it's all for political gain, and McGillis is being the respectable understanding adult in the situation.

I'm also interested in the book he was reading. Hopefully we get more into the Gjallerhorn founder's ideals then that basic thing McGillis said.

Also, that grunt suit that looks like the Unicorn is called the King's Throne. Holy shit that name is badass.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn! Premiering January 7th at 1 AM on Toonami. I hope it's better than IBO. I give up on IBO because I didn't like the story that much.

It's the bad version of Unicorn, RE 0096. The pacing is really messed up compared to the OVAs and there was no attempt to do anything about the awkward cuts as a result of shorter episode runtime. The intial press release also stated there would be "new footage" but nothing of significance was added. A few seconds of new animation or redrawn stuff, that's it. No extended final battle, no Sinaju hijacking flashback, no other miscellanous stuff from the novels added into this version. The only reason it was made was to keep a timeslot on Japanese tv from a show that got cancelled.

I stopped watching IBO because it's not a once a week show. Plus, it doesn't help that CN is skipping Season 2 to air a crappy cut of Unicorn. They should have just aired IBO all of the way through.

You realize there's not an English dub of season 2 yet right? And season 2 isn't over in Japan by the time they're airing Unicorn, so they haven't technically skipped it.

They have the dub actors, they've dubbed Unicorn at the same time, and Toonami aired Space Dandy dubbed at the same time it aired in Japan, so there's no reason CN couldn't air Season 2 now. The days for a dub to not be completed at the same time as the Japanese language track are over. There is no excuse to not do it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't IBO season 1 not get dubbed until after the season was over?

Also I was under the impression that RE:96 just re-used the old OVA dub.