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So I just watched the first episode of Iron Blooded Orphans and it was fantastic. The plot was a little too fast paced to establish too much, but hopefully next episode can delve a bit more into some parts without trying to hook people immediately.

I'm really interested in the world so far. What do the implants in all these kids' backs do to help them pilot the workers? What is Gjallarhorns' motives and goal? What was going on in that flashback? What even was the great war they were referencing, what even is the Gundam?

And yes, the no shirt in the cockpit thing we saw in the trailers is actually part of the plot of the show not just to show some sexy man abs. And despite the some of the main characters having that Gundam Age aesthetic to them, the main character and Orga have nice deep voices.

I felt like there were lots of little callbacks to other Gundam shows in this opening episode. The flashback was very 00-ish(plus the whole child solider thing). McGillis monolouging on his ship kinda reminds me of Zechs chillin' in space in the beginning of Gundam Wing. And some 8th MS team in there with groundedness. Something I did not expect, however, was the mobile workers to be much, much smaller then the size of the MSes. I mean, it's just sad to see this maybe 7 foot tall metal box with guns go up against a 60 ft war machine.

Can't wait for next week's episode. obviously I'm not gonna stay up until 3AM for every episode but damn it, this show is good so far.