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Lieutenant General Gundam

Sublink said:
There's colony gassing, too. This, along with Thunderbolt adding detail to the immediate postwar period, makes me glad IBO is over and we can all forget about it. :V
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From what I can tell, IBO is essentially an old Chinese story about a band disillusioned with then-current dynasty but eventually gets wiped out by the next dynasty...
 
It's boring and has boring battles and when it finished people said 'wow, that wasn't as bad as I expected'. I'm glad it's over.

The Loum two-parter is probably just about January, but I'm interested to see how much they tie Char to British (my understanding is that he wasn't involved at the moment) and how much they go into other Sides. The jazz wrestler show is fun too. The fluidity of the story is excellent.
 
The red Zaku we get looks oddly dark for Char. It'd be funny if they bait-and-switched him for Johnny Ridden. (Then again I saw Kai in a pilot's seat in that trailer, we know Kai wasn't in a cockpit for any of this.)
 
Well, they can do what they want; they're already changing heaps of things. All the Origin show has taken place in many timeframes though, so I wouldn't stress.
 
Sublink said:
It's boring and has boring battles and when it finished people said 'wow, that wasn't as bad as I expected'. I'm glad it's over.

The Loum two-parter is probably just about January, but I'm interested to see how much they tie Char to British (my understanding is that he wasn't involved at the moment) and how much they go into other Sides. The jazz wrestler show is fun too. The fluidity of the story is excellent.
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Actually I like IBO because it's more visceral and actually looks and feels like things are getting bashed around and not explode if you look at them too hard. A great change of pace to Gundam's usual 'look at anything not a named character funny and it explodes in pretty colors'.
 
Aaron Fox said:
Actually I like IBO because it's more visceral and actually looks and feels like things are getting bashed around and not explode if you look at them too hard. A great change of pace to Gundam's usual 'look at anything not a named character funny and it explodes in pretty colors'.
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I found the punching really boring because things happened too slowly and it played really contrived. Maybe it changed later, but the awful writing apparently didn't; the low jeopardy and clunky writing are consistent in this thread through the run. I saved a lot of time.

But yknow, I got further in IBO than ZZ. :V Long-run Gundam just sucks - at least IBO produced some cool kits.
 
ZZ actually gets better from a dramatic standpoint the further you go. IBO...eh. Maybe a little. But not enough to make it interesting.

I mean I didn't really feel much of anything about it again until the finale. I actually really cared about Zeon's most bishie ship captain and Haman Kharn by the Dublin drop at least.
 
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G-Tekketsu's technological setting sounds great on paper - weak ranged weapons and tough armour requiring massive, crushing axes and maces, combined with a one-to-one control interface making complicated melee possible should have been ace, and a fresh take for the franchise. But in practice I don't think they had the action direction on hand to make it anything other than a boring slog, and good sakuga was rare. I actually did like that suits in G-Tekketsu rarely exploded, but that's just a small thing that I'd be willing to mention is the series was more like the last arc and less like the huge, often bad, middle portion.
 
Thunderbolt 6 is out now, by the way.

Also:
Something to do with GBF on 07/05. Dunno if that's 7th of May or 5th of July though.

EDIT: that fucking bobblehead, lmao
 
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I'm not aware there's other source material and it's yet another extension of the Zeon/EF thing beyond the intended finale in CCA; post-Unicorn, about Axis.
 
They're also responsible for the Plot To Assassinate Gihren manga which I enjoyed, and the Johnny Ridden one too, I think.
 
wait Twilight AXIS is post Unicorn?

oh god Sunrise stop playing this shit out over and over please i beg you

if we ever get to the late UC period i fully expect the crossbone vanguard to a) not be real and or b) be zeon holdouts somehow
 
Claudette Savagely said:
wait Twilight AXIS is post Unicorn?

oh god Sunrise stop playing this shit out over and over please i beg you

if we ever get to the late UC period i fully expect the crossbone vanguard to a) not be real and or b) be zeon holdouts somehow
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Well, regarding that, Twilight Axis

does have the Ronah family show up scheming in one of the chapters, Meitzer being one family member specifically from F91,
so I don't think option a) will happen.
 
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Claudette Savagely said:
wait Twilight AXIS is post Unicorn?

oh god Sunrise stop playing this shit out over and over please i beg you

if we ever get to the late UC period i fully expect the crossbone vanguard to a) not be real and or b) be zeon holdouts somehow
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Actually, what will end up happening is that the final Zeon remnant gets their hands on a prototype time machine and travel back in time to form Zeon in the first place. Thus, the circle is complete.
 
What is it about the Byarlant that seems to fascinate the mecha designers for these things?
 
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