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Zin5ki
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A frustrating lacuna, I agree. The inexplicable rallying cry of 'Boppin' falls on too few ears these days. My fondness of those shorts is such that the super-deformed versions of Kamille and Sirocco shall always be their definitive incarnations in my eyes. |
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Zeino
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Personally, I believe Tomino is the George Lucas of Japan with even worse track record. Of the stuff he's made that I've seen, I think only the original Mobile Suit Gundam series/movies, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Turn-A Gundam and if we are counting manga, Crossbone Gundam to be actually good. Everything else for him is fun but not really good, (ZZ, King Gainer) a let-down of what could have been, (Char's Counterattack, F91, G-Reco) or outright terrible. (Zeta, Victory, Dunbine and it's sequels, Brain Powerd).
Of those, I said the Zeta remakes are of the second category as I think that the story should have been completely rewritten to make the new better ending for Kamille's story work better instead of lazily grafting it on to the original mostly unchanged TV story. Last edited by Zeino on Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:02 pm; edited 5 times in total |
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IanC
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Zeta, terrible??
Your opinion sure, but terrible? |
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Color2413
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I think you may be taking Gackt a bit too lightly.
This is my favorite live show of his: The 2003 "Waxing Moon" Tour -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAZq9x800Po If you want just a taste, start at 15:02, where a certain song begins. Stick with it for 2 minutes 53 seconds, which marks the beginning of the most thrilling, breathtaking piece of stagecraft that I have ever seen in a live rock show. As you might have gathered, I am a huge Gackt fan I have always thought that if David Bowie and Madonna had an Asian love child, he would have turned out exactly like Gackt. 
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John Thacker
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The recent Turn A Gundam North American sets had some nice anniversary interviews with a lot of people who worked on various Gundam projects, and it was amusing to hear all of them mention in more or less diplomatic ways that Tomino is "difficult to work with."
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Zeino
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It is. Most of the protagonist cast is unlikable in not interesting way. The Titans are boring, one-dimensional antagonists (Jerid aside and he gets wasted in the end) who aren't even fun in a cackling supervillain way with no real plan. It's pacing drags. It's mecha battles are a monotonous blur. It has nothing really intelligent or insightful to say about war or humanity that other Gundams don't do better. It's tragedies are hollow. And it is above of all, deeply sexist. (Only Victory and Age are worse then it on that.) I know that is an opinion that going to be vehemently disagreed with by the orthodox Gundam fandom. But I am of the belief that said fans aren't the best judges of their franchise especially the Zeon sympathizer crowd. Last edited by Zeino on Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:08 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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MrBonk
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Lynx Amali
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Dunbine's only terrible because of the awful subs though. The actual show's great. Rean is too, assuming one read the novels beforehand. There's also Daitarn, Zambot and Xabungle, all of which are pretty great. Also; Victory is terrible? I liked it more than IBO and everybody sings praise for that. Uso's probably the single character in the franchise with that high of a kill count to boot. |
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penguintruth
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Zeta Gundam is my favorite chapter of the Gundam franchise, so to me, the Zeta Gundam movies are a double-edge sword. On the one hand, the movie trilogy proved that the series was still popular and well-regarded decades after it originally aired. The newly animated scenes were gorgeous and I was happy that Shigeaki Saegusa returned to compose new music, touching upon his old music for the series. It's like having Kikuchi returning for a Dragon Ball production. The music is so iconic and having even more in similar style was fantastic. I could take or leave the Gackt songs, some were good, others not so much.
But boy did it remove a lot of the plot. I can understand removing the repetitive Kamille/Fa arguments that just rinse and repeat, but the story suffered greatly by removing most of Jerid's development and the Dakar episode (Tomino probably wanted to simplify the Four arc by removing the Kilimanjaro episodes that led up to that episode, and so there was less reason to put that in because there was little excuse for Kamille to be back on Earth again). Basically the whole point of the series is that Dakar episode. Huge swaths of the rest of the story were removed, too, favoring new and improved action. I wasn't really bothered by the voice acting scandal. Most of the better VAs returned to play their roles. But taking out so much of the story, the mix of old and new animation, and Tomino rewriting the ending to be "happier" were a few too many insults. In short, the Zeta Gundam movies were only really good to prove that the series is still beloved. And with good reason. The complexities of the plot, the evolved mechanical design, better character dynamics, and darker tone really made it the best Gundam TV series. Last edited by penguintruth on Sun Aug 06, 2017 6:59 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Zeino
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People are allowed to have dissenting opinions you know. Such as thinking that all those are legitimately bad or that the AU series that aren't Seed Destiny or Age are better then 90% of UC Gundam canon. |
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Beltane70
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Personally, I found Dunbine to be better(save some of the odd name choices of most of its American characters) than Gundam, but my favorite Tomino work will always be Space Runaway Ideon.
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kenrobinson1982
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That Tomino story from Romi Park story is the best!
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luffypirate
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spoiler["At that moment, the Ide was invoked."] <3 |
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BadNewsBlues
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Well sure if you ignore some of the criticisms of the cast and the writing.....the latter of which makes season 2 an unwatchable mess towards it's second half. |
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WatcherZer
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San was indeed amazing, my favourite joke was when Sayla told Char off that just painting his suit a garush red wouldnt make it go faster, then her closing remark "and no painting it gold in future either".
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