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NEWS: New Unspecified Gundam AGE Project Green-Lit

When you are telling a story you have to make at least an ending. Not like Zeta's original

spoiler[And Kamille was mindraped by that dude using some deus ex he never tried doing before. Nothing was solved... And now to something completely different, Double Zeta.]

Also the story about Kamille's "sister" was a copypaste of Four but with a different name. It was the same stuff happening four the third time considering Four was already Lalah 2.0 and the ending of the arc was no different from the other ones. It's like if the writer was running out of ideas about how to kill characters just like that kid who crashes with an asteroid.

deus ex

To me the worst Gundam was 0079 its probably the most boring and slow of the gundams and it went no where fast. Also the animation was just lulzy half the time even worse than AGE's and Victory's.

I suppose this is the project they had hinted at back when the show was airing that was supposed to be targetted more towards the typical Gundam fanbase. If Akihiro Hino doesn't write this I don't see any reason why they can't salvage a little bit of the AGE media. To me AGE's problem wasn't that it was terrible by default or that it lacked a good director, but that Hino's scenario writing was so simplistic, safe and typical of a generic Level 5 family friendly game as opposed to fitting the mold of what actual Gundam fans have come to expect out of the franchise that it really hurt the show in the long run and turned a lot of long time franchise fans off.

Level 5 and Gundam were just a really bad match-up that should never have been made in retrospect so I can't say I see the wisdom of more AGE unless it were to have a different key staff that limits Level 5's involvement in the actual production process as much as possible.

Rosammy's arc was there to reflect how far Kamille had grown. spoiler[He still wanted to cling to Four, but ultimately he decided he had to kill her for her and others' own good.] This is something the old Kamille, the Kamille of the Hong Kong or Kilamanjaro arc wouldn't have been able to do. Four's arc reflected the tragic connection between some Newtypes, especially the young, and how history often repeats itself. Kamille sees in these two, Four and Rosammy, the sort of closeness that he takes for granted in Fa, but more than that, a commonality of being different. He wants to cling to these two because he ultimately doesn't like himself very much. It's not until he admits to Four that he no longer hates his own name that he can even realize what he need to do with himself.