[Electric Turahk]

Up to episode 8 of Angel Beats!

Episode 6 definitely gave me some feels. But up until the end of episode 7 I honestly felt it to be generally predictable. Like Angel (maybe?) not actually being evil but just misunderstood. Saw Yuzuru getting interesting in her coming from a mile away. But it is indeed a pretty enjoyable show.

[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

The english dub tried to make the male lead of the show the main character instead of the female lead, Sakura, as a way to attract a young male audience.

As a result, the story's different and episodes are either mixed around or totally cut. It was horrid.

That's thing when I was a kid never got the feeling lee was main lead in the dub I all took Sakura as lead cause she was out looking for the cards

[XW1n5t0nX]

Well thanks to Talisman, I'll be starting Ronin Warriors soon making this the first time in about a year I'll watch something I've never seen before anime wise.

[KR Blade King Form]

All 39 episodes are on Youtube to watch right now so it's easy to do so.

[Powerman293]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Build Fighters 02.

The best part of Build Fighters is that it shouldn't be as good as it is. It seems almost like an obvious concept, but it's so simple it's kinda brilliant. 'Why not literally make the show a toy ad, but put in just as much effort into it as any other show'? All Gundam is about selling shit, but rather than a pretentious pseudo intellectual space opera, it's literally just Beyblade with Gundams.

The idea that it has battles to rival the best of them, with stunning animation and a wonderful soundtrack but is actually about kids building plastic models - and the quality of the build is actually a story factor - it's just really really fucking clever in my books.

Is that supposed to be an insult to the other Gundam series or not? Because I can't tell. But yeah, Build Fighters sounds like a really fun spin-off. I hope this show gets a lot more people into Gundam because that fanbase is shrinking every year Bandai entertainment America isn't around.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Is that supposed to be an insult to the other Gundam series or not? Because I can't tell. But yeah, Build Fighters sounds like a really fun spin-off. I hope this show gets a lot more people into Gundam because that fanbase is shrinking every year Bandai entertainment America isn't around.

Insult is too strong a word. I've just never much liked the style of anime that shows like Gundam Wing embody which is why I have never gotten much into the franchise. G-Gundam and now Build Fighters are just better to me because they drop all the unnecessary pretence.

[Powerman293]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Insult is too strong a word. I've just never much liked the style of anime that shows like Gundam Wing embody which is why I have never gotten much into the franchise. G-Gundam and now Build Fighters are just better to me because they drop all the unnecessary pretence.

From what I see you like, its a minority of Gundam's work that you like. Wing is very pretentious specifically, although I don't know if you're just using that as a one off example.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

From what I see you like, its a minority of Gundam's work that you like. Wing is very pretentious specifically, although I don't know if you're just using that as a one off example.

Wing is the only Gundam series I've seen at any length other than G and Build. But I've watched bits and pieces of other series but saw them going pretentious pretty early and swiftly bowed out.

[Powerman293]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Wing is the only Gundam series I've seen at any length other than G and Build. But I've watched bits and pieces of other series but saw them going pretentious pretty early and swiftly bowed out.

Well, I guess the majority of Gundam's content is not for you then. Gundam is about the evolution and maturing of humanity, what it means to settle conflict and using war to find out how people truly are. If those concepts sound super pretentious to you, then probably most series will be to you because they potray these ideas in such epic and grandiose ways that I could see it being pretentious.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Well, I guess the majority of Gundam's content is not for you then. Gundam is about the evolution and maturing of humanity, what it means to settle conflict and using war to find out how people truly are. If those concepts sound super pretentious to you, then probably most series will be to you because they potray these ideas in such epic and grandiose ways that I could see it being pretentious.

I just find a lot of anime pretentious if I'm honest, not just Gundam. I used to be into anime in a big way when I was a kid, but as I got older I started to notice all the cheap little devices anime used to come across as more intelligent than it really is. I'm not saying that anime can't be intelligent, or though provoking but shit like this, is intelligence as penned by a fourteen year old child.