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NEWS: Right Stuf Details Home Video Releases of Gundam AGE, Gundam UC, Gundam 00 Anime

I cannot recommend Gundam Unicorn enough, though you're better off watching after being well versed in Universal Century lore. A lot of people seemed confused while watching it on Toonami and I realized I was too entrenched in UC knowledge to see it from the outside. I bought each Blu-Ray volume individually (save for the couple I was gifted), and it was uber expensive, so I'm torn about whether I actually want this to be affordable or not.

Gundam 00 was... decent, for the most part. The first season took longer than it should have to kick in and the second season crammed in too much all at once, but overall, a watchable show with some good Gundam designs and some decent combat and characters. It's certainly better than AGE or Wing, but that's a low bar.

Gundam AGE, on the other hand, well... I stopped watching about twenty episode in because I found it was too predictable and I didn't care much about the characters. The concept of the evolving AGE system and the different generations of main protagonists were interesting, but they didn't really do enough with the rest of the elements in the show.

I cannot recommend Gundam Unicorn enough, though you're better off watching after being well versed in Universal Century lore. A lot of people seemed confused while watching it on Toonami and I realized I was too entrenched in UC knowledge to see it from the outside.

And AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise ever for reasons that could fill an entire 10 page essay with.

The only flaw here is that AGE has an Animax dub.

Zeino wrote:

And AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise ever for reasons that could fill an entire 10 page essay with.

What's at least one reason why AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise?
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belvadeer wrote:

The only flaw here is that AGE has an Animax dub.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I wonder if the dub is at least watchable.

What's at least one reason why AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise?

Zeino wrote:

And AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise ever for reasons that could fill an entire 10 page essay with.

What's at least one reason why AGE is simply the worst entry in the franchise?

Rapidly; the scenario is previsible and really boring,characters are deeply forgettable. The whole thing suffer also from poor pacing and bad execution. It had a lot of potential and all, but it failed on almost every aspect.

It's basically 3 different story crammed into a whole show, with each part having their whole set of flaws.

I watched it a long time ago, and it wasn't because I enjoyed it; it was a real slug watching all of it. I just wanted to get into gundam. (And I was young and stupid)

The sexism for one. Every female in AGE exist solely to be a baby-maker or to be killed off to give Asuno boys angst. The only other Gundam that is also this bad on that front is Victory Gundam and that has the excuse of Tomino, the director being deeply depressed at the time and he regrets making it now. AGE has no excuse. Also for what Lynx Amali says.

The only reason they probably included the dub was because that shows geared more towards children and most of them wouldn't want to read subtitles even if they could. You're probably not going to find many 7 to 10 year olds on the internet talking about how bad so and so's portrayal of such and such character is. Of course it probably won't be the age group that that show is made for that's buying it over here anyway.

With that, what's left as far as unreleased Gundam stuff in the west?