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AiddonValentine
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-Gundam Age-
....Why? That was the show that put the franchise on ice. |
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Nyren
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Personally I feel that AGE is watchable only if you watch the first arc of the TV series, and then just watch the Memory of Eden compilation films since they only cover the second and third arcs, and really just cut out the third arc in favor of making it an extension of Asemu's story. Kio and his AGE-FX are basically just cameo's.
I'll give you that the female characters in AGE don't really do much besides being love interests and giving birth to the next generation to continue the story, but it's already been established that AGE is just terrible in general. I wouldn't go as far as to call sexism though. |
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Top Gun
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I think RightStuf is on a mission to make me re-buy every single Gundam I snapped up in Bandai's dying days, and I haven't even watched most of them yet. Hell, I even bought the DVD release of Unicorn for cheap after its Toonami run since I figured that'd be the best I could do, given its ridiculous BD release. Whoops. About the only thing I don't need to worry about is the 00 movie. Who needs money, right?
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TheMorry
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I hoped that Sunrise would redub Gundam 00 like they are redubbing Gundam Seed. The dub my Ocean is okish. I just dont understand how the heal the voices dont sound "clear".. Like where did they record the dub with? Some cheapass microphone?
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cyberdraco
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Most likely not, and I'm fine with that. |
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Nyren
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Shirohae
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Aww Shitt I love both UC and 00..dunno about Age..but definitely looking forward to them!!!
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Zeino
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The Zanscare Empire is literally portrayed in the series as "Feminism is evil and wrong and will lead to Fascism and having you head cut off with a guillotine or being crushed by giant motorbike battleships or turn into a vegetable by their psychic fortress." That is the message the series was presenting and that last word I going to have on the subject here. |
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SilverTalon01
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It isn't really sexism. Saying that is just blatantly ignoring the real problem. None of the side characters have anything to them at all. They are all just shallow shells there for convenience. Yes, the girls tend to be there for the reasons you stated so I'm not saying you're absolutely wrong on that, but what you are talking about is just a symptom of the larger issue. They had to squish everything so they could have 3 sets of characters due to the large time skips which results in essentially nobody past 5-6 characters having anything to them. This is one of the big problems with Age. Having a strong supporting cast matters a lot.
Unless your definition of feminism is "women are superior, men should bow down" then no, Zanscare was not run by feminists. That isn't what feminism is. What Zanscare was actually run by was misandrists. That actually is sexist, and yes one of the messages of the series is that discrimination leads to all of that stuff. |
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Kicksville
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It's good that we're getting everything. I'm not personally a fan of Age, but it's nice that it'll be out there for people obtain properly.
I've never understood this reading since, although I think it's fair to say that V Gundam can be weird about women, "feminism" is never really framed as being at fault, and the primary ills of the story pretty clearly go back to the men. I thought it was apparent that spoiler[Maria was a good person who was used, and that Fonse Kagatie is The Old Man of the story who is largely at fault and really just needed to die already (one of the most recurrent Tomino tropes).] In the case of Age, I do agree with the criticism that it largely treats its women and girls especially poorly, as yes, it seems just about all of them exist only to make kids or prove a point (usually by dying). |
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Covnam
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Hmm, might be worth picking up UC, but 96 will probably be coming down the line and it's probably not worth it to get both...
I've got 00 on DVD so I don't think I'll rebuy that as I didn't find the 2nd half as enjoyable as the first |
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Zetabag
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Besides the OPs and EDs, there are no differences between the OVAs and 0096 (TV). 0096 was just a last minute attempt to fill in a timeslot after the show that previously held it got cancelled. Even if the 0096 was out on DVD or Blu Ray (which I doubt it ever will be) I see no reason to choose it over the OVAs. |
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jr240483
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in other words, their getting the same treatment as build fighters & build fighters try. well there's only one option for that. AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!! i would rather have those series get the sub only treatment than having them get plastered with the atrocious animax dub versions. and this here is why some of the fans on their youtube channel is complaining about. sunrise and right stuff is more or less giving SEED & SEED DESTINY the royal treatment with an english dub remake, while more or less plastering others with the animax versions. at least they didn't do that to turn a gundam , otherwise they would have a massive revolt on their hands!!!!!! |
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#alfrescoCR
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Is it weird for me to say that Gundam Unicorn was my introduction to the gundam, not just on U.C. timeline but for the entire franchise as well. Man, i remembered myself watching it knowing nothing about the timeline stuff (except for some small random gundam series called SEED and Destiny which i enjoyed as a kid) and without prior knowledge of the immense U.C. lore history before it, but in the end. i still managed my self to enjoy it. Can't say much on G 00 except that its was good but lacks characters, yeah, only the gundam meisters and some bad-ass Chinese general were interesting to follow. I'm not saying that they are all bad but they got a bunch of good characters that never reached its full level or simply speaking, they lacked in depth development that is also proportional to the escalating plot. Aside from that, it was epic with mecha porn to match all thanks to sunrise. as for G AGE, one of the biggest move on it is that , sunrise or bandai (probably bandai, yeah, its definitely bandai) they a it aimed it for kids aging 6 to 10 yrs old to cram more cash from the merchandise, and also to create new, young fan base on the modern generation of anime viewers. The biggest effect on that would hit the story department so hard, well because they need to tone down the atmosphere and simplified the plot, because of course there primary target are kids. I mean, if the story was kind a bit complex and grim like seed or 00, or even UC then probably the viewing experience would have been awesome, it got potential to be a hit but just became a meh show after all. Too bad. |
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Kadmos1
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With "AGE", they could always re-dub it here using some of the L.A. voice pool.
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