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EP. REVIEW: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

Not a fan of the plot device where Mika suddenly sucks at fighting a normal person when he has upgraded Gundam frame and taboo surgery. He should have been able to disable her in no time. Kind of weak writing there if you ask me.

This type of enemy has always given Mika issues. In season one he had tons of trouble dealing with Lafter and Galieo due to how fast and maneuverable their suits were and it's the same here.

Not a fan of the plot device where Mika suddenly sucks at fighting a normal person when he has upgraded Gundam frame and taboo surgery. He should have been able to disable her in no time. Kind of weak writing there if you ask me.

AholePony wrote:

Not a fan of the plot device where Mika suddenly sucks at fighting a normal person when he has upgraded Gundam frame and taboo surgery. He should have been able to disable her in no time. Kind of weak writing there if you ask me.

I didn't think it was weird. Mika, and several other characters, had mentioned how long they have been fighting by the time Julieta's team showed up. IMO Tekkadan were just already exhausted. I think this was one of the considerations Rustal had when he entrusted the handling of Barbatos to Julieta.

By the way, I just realized nobody here thought much about Liza's death. Since he was a Gjallarhorn officer, at one point I thought he'd be handed a mobile suit.

Man, I'm soo going to miss Gundam IBO next season. No new mecha anime to take it's place too.

While I understand he failed to kill Al-Saachez, Lockon still managed to take him and the Gundam Throne Zwei out from that last battle. It was still a meaningful sacrifice, albeit a tremendous loss, so I don't think it was entirely a flub.

By the way, I just realized nobody here thought much about Liza's death. Since he was a Gjallarhorn officer, at one point I thought he'd be handed a mobile suit.

Lockon didn't miss. He destroyed Zwei and most of Ali's body. The innovators just 'regenerated' it like they did for Louise.

Who?

Man, I'm soo going to miss Gundam IBO next season. No new mecha anime to take it's place too.

But it was a senseless sacrifice, which was the point. Neil lost himself in his thirst for revenge and died for it. Lyle didn't make that mistake and was willing to let Ali go and only killed him when Ali didn't take that opportunity.

The thing about Mika and Barbatos is that Julietta is the kind of anime he's weak against. Even as far back as season one he's had problems with fast mobile suits. His fight with Lafter pretty much came to a draw and Kimaris, despite being piloted by Gaelio with no Alaya-Vijnana, also gave the Barbatos a run for its money. The fact is that speed is the ultimate weakness for a close-combat fighter like Mikazuki and the Barbatos. He can't catch up to them and they use hit and run tactics on him which means he can't do anything.

Not surprised by such a reaction, Tekkedan also had a similar reaction as his presence didn't feel as big of a mover and shaker as say MacGillis when Liza personally came to greet them.

Vaisaga wrote:

But it was a senseless sacrifice, which was the point. Neil lost himself in his thirst for revenge and died for it. Lyle didn't make that mistake and was willing to let Ali go and only killed him when Ali didn't take that opportunity.

Lyle was never going to let him go... come on. He knew full well the kind of trash Ali was and knew exactly what he was going to do which is why Ali was dead before he even fully turned around.

Nyren wrote:

The thing about Mika and Barbatos is that Julietta is the kind of anime he's weak against. Even as far back as season one he's had problems with fast mobile suits. His fight with Lafter pretty much came to a draw and Kimaris, despite being piloted by Gaelio with no Alaya-Vijnana, also gave the Barbatos a run for its money. The fact is that speed is the ultimate weakness for a close-combat fighter like Mikazuki and the Barbatos. He can't catch up to them and they use hit and run tactics on him which means he can't do anything.

Sorry, but you're ignoring several key points that blow massive holes in your argument. All of those season 1 fights were before Mika upped his sync level. I'm also pretty sure that Mika would have killed Gaelio in Kimaris during their first fight except Ein stepped in. Kimaris also should have had roughly equal specs aside from the AV system to Barbatos at the time where as Barbatos Rex is a higher spec suit than the Julia.

Julieta, like Mika, is also a close range fighter. Even if her Julia is fast, it had to come inside Mika's kill range to do anything. If we were talking about some long range load out on a suit that was able to run away and keep distance on Barbatos, that would be a different matter. Amida handily beat Juiletta using a suit that is no way faster than Barbatos.

since i'm a mecha porn addict, i coudnt help but comment on how undetailed with below mediocre animation of almost every, if not all, SPACE battles on IBO(please forgive my grammar). It was like the scenes were animated on a whim or maybe they where animated by some shounen animators, or maybe by the dudes who animated TTGL because of the undetailed scenes and mech frames. Maybe of the time constraints or by the episode director, or maybe by budget issues, who knows.

On a lighter note, it let me think that maybe they were preparing their remaining resources for the last few episodez where i expect it to be well executed with a satisfyimg ending.