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Zeta Gundam: New Translation: Heir to the Stars

I just rewatched this movie since I was bored.

After watching Zeta Gundam, I notice a lot of things when watching this movie. Like the spots where they put in new footage to speed along the plot (Franklin Bidan, getting the Hyaku Shiki, e.t.c.) It also took me awhile to get used to the characters' voices again. I swear in the first half hour of the movie, Quattro sounds really old. Although I do think Kamille's voice matches him a bit better in this as he's supposed be be 17 but he sounded like he was 14 or 15 in the show.

The movie has really terrible pacing. It speeds along and it it doesn't give you time to process anything. Even after having this movie once before and Zeta Gundam proper, there's spots in the movie where I am still lost, like the battle between the Argama and that Titans ship and Franklin is.

The art and animation is beautiful. After seeing Zeta Gundam, I appreciate that older style of animation a lot more. I actually got confused at some points thinking the Zeta footage was new footage because they cleaned it up so well. And the new animation is beautiful, it perfectly fits in with Zeta's style and adds a ton of detail to everything. But, if there's one problem with the entire movie is that there's a lot of fucking grain. Even on the new animated sequences there's a fair amount. I don't know why that is but its annoying and distracts from the beautiful art.

I don't remember Rosamia having that much focus when that fight happened in the show.

I think I learned nothing about Kamille in this movie. I know he's a very animeish protagonist because he screams when he fights but that's it.