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Originally Posted by Kiryu

Gundam AGE is…alright. Having the main antagonist be disgruntled Martian settlers was really a lame plot twist, the Vegans were cooler when they were this mysterious force that only showed up to wreck stuff, that said though: I love some of their designs they're the most unique I've seen in any Gundam universe.

The whole three generation ark thing was neat and it was cool seeing our protagonists as they age throughout the series. The only problem is though…I feel as though this came back to bite them in ass as Gen 3 is just a wreck.

I absolutely HATED Kio, that damned Kira Yamato wannabee freaking RUINED gen 3 in my opinion. Not to mention that the cast grew so large that it felt like they didn't know what to do with most of the characters.

Age is a mixed bag for me. The firs Age is where some of the best character development, and probably best characters reside. The Vegans felt the most threatening as well. But the show just didn't know how to handle transitions from age to age. Asemu from the 2nd age is still the best of the protagonists in my opinion and that was helped by the fact that his father essentially became a basket case after his experiences in age 1. But 2nd Age has the worst pacing of 3. So poor that a movie specifically aimed at smoothing out the inconsistencies present in that age actually made them worse. And the 3rd age is where the entire affair falls completely flat. Kyo is one of the worst protagonists ever and I'm sorry but he's far far too young, even for the children the show is aimed at, to identify with.

Each age has a big problem with introducing new characters to you that you were supposedly meant to care about as well. They were meant to be introduced in such a way that when they died it would matter to the viewers and to the Gundam pilot of the age. But because of the shortened length of each age almost none of the characters had impactful deaths/development that anyone other than the main 3 pilots ever cared about. Aside from our main trio of pilots the only other truly memorable character who really stuck with me before their death was the always awesome Wolf Enneacle.

I found mostly all the Vegan Mobile Suit designs to be terribly boring and non-threatening aside from a handful of 3rd age suits. The Federation was fine but most of the designs felt like poor attempts to recapture the classicness of the Federation from the original series. And it really felt like the show just wasn't sure how advanced the technology was from setting to setting, it varies to great degrees from Earth, to Space, to the colonies, etc.

Age has it's moments though, it engaged me with it's certainly unique premise. Flit & Asemu are great characters during their respective ages, Asemu even after his thankfully. But ultimately the show just had no idea where it wanted to go or which characters actually mattered.