[Blade Raider]

Now to sum up what I've been doing with Gundam since Build Fighters has ended.


Let's start with Super Robot Wars. I found a translation of Alpha Gaiden and I gotta say, it's pretty fun when I can understand what characters are saying and can understand the battle system without a bunch of guides. Having Gundam X in it kept me moving forward in it. I also got side tracked on getting more familier with Magzinger Z. I haven't beaten it yet, but I'm working on it slowly.


Also in this time frame, I picked up Unicorn when I tracked down the English audio track (which may be the best English audio I've ever heard on an anime). I planned on waiting until episode 7 was out, but ended up devouring it 2 months early. After that, I told myself to finish Zeta, ZZ, and then rewatch Unicorn 1-6 before 7. I just now started ZZ this week, but ended up watching episode 7 just now...I do not regret my lack of will with Unicorn. I won't spoil episode 7, but just going to say it's good. It's really good. Like the rest of the show.


Now for the elephant in the room, Zeta Gundam. If you're a Zeta fan, you might want to skip this paragraph. You've be warned. I have now seen every episode of Zeta and I can say without a doubt in my mind that Zeta Gundam, in my opinion, is garbage. Absolute garbage. There is nothing of value here. None of the characters are interesting or likeable (least of all the lead), the plot literally goes in cirles, and the only okay story arc was 100% filler (and then they repeated the same arc two more times, once with the same character dying!). Every character this show tries to make me "care" about is an idoit and their stipudity leads their own deaths. It's no wonder to me why Yoshiyuki Tomino wanted to make a bunch of changes to Zeta ala George Lucas. He was trying to fix this train wreck of a show. Zeta is going at the bottom of my list of Gundam series that I've seen (TV, OVA, movies, etc). Below SD Gundam Force, below G-Savior, and even below Doozy Bots. It amazes me Gundam continued as a franchise after this garbage.


Finally, there's ZZ that I just started this week. This is much better. Thank god. I was going to be so pissed if I wasted my time on Zeta to to find ZZ wasn't any better. Thankfully, that's not the case (so far). Thus far the new characters are enjoyable and Captain Marshmallow (I think Mashymre is the correct spelling) might be my new favorite Zeon character. Also, some (not all) of the returning cast are less annoying like the dumb kids, that fit better in this tone, and Yazan who's basically now Team Rocket trying to catch a Zeta Gundam. Really, the only bad thing here is how heavily it's tied to Zeta. This would be much better if it was more stand alone.