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Originally Posted by 2ndSndWve

I don't like it either. Although, many of the things that I dislike about it are possibly elements of Gundam anime in general, which probably explains why I like Build Fighters, the most un-Gundam-y Gundam anime, so much. 00 seemed to take itself way to seriously, and it feels like nothing about the show would change if you completely removed the mobile suits from it. It'd still be a story about an anti-war organization trying to stop a war-torn world from fighting. That's why I loved Pacific Rim so much, it just said "Screw logic, here's a giant mech hitting a kaiju with a barge, and now it's jumping through a portal into another dimension. But wait, now it's grappling with a bird kaiju, and it has sword whips, too." It just had such an over-the-top feel to it that so perfectly fit what I expected to see. Build Fighters isn't quite at that extreme, but it had plenty of long, memorable, and downright awesome fight scenes dispersed among segments of an entertaining story. Now, before you say "But 2ndSndWve, 00 gets way better later on!", I've already endured the first 13 episodes of 00. So far, I've only liked a couple of epsiodes. That's 2 out of 13, not a very good score. My rule for tv shows it shouldn't take more than 12 episodes to get to the tone, quality, and pacing that it will have for the rest of the series. If I don't like it after 12 episodes, I won't waste any more of my time watching. I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for this rant, but I just feel that another opinion is needed here.

TL;DR version: watch Build Fighters.

I'm not gonna say your opinion is wrong but, have you only seen build fighters? Because BF is a spin-off and is not in line with the other series. Unless you're watching G gundam or the beginning of ZZ, that super seriousness you're complaining about is in every other Gundam series.