Forum - View topicNEWS: Gundam: Reconguista in G's 2nd Video, Story, Cast, Staff, Designs Unveiled
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Elder God Demonbane
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I don't know much about gundam, but is this a new story, like do I have to watch the other gundam anime to understand this?
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WeirDiE_InC
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I'd say probably not, since most Gundam shows in the late-UC (or made after 1989) are generally self-contained. |
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Elder God Demonbane
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thanks |
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DangerMouse
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Can't freaking wait!
Agreed, two of my favorites. Also, Aliida certainly looks a decent bit like Anemone which is great for me, she had a great design.
Totally agree. He's a fantastic animator so I hope so too. I'm also expecting some seriously great emotional facial expressions that are going to further enhance this show. |
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kazenoyume
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Recent Gundam series have been too male heavy, so I'm excited to see more of a gender balanced cast. Reminds me of SEED, which frankly, is only a good thing in my opinion.
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kgw
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But this is "Reconguista", which has no meaning. I liked Turn A, so I hope this series will be a success. At least they're not trying to remake the One Year War again. |
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Wrangler
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So was Gundam AGE, look how the reaction to that ended up. Still, if that is the case, i won't be too judgmental of it being to kiddized. It really depends on how well written it is. I'd hope it will be good. |
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Wrangler
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You know looking at the character designs, it reminds me of Captain Earth.
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ATastySub
Past ANN Contributor
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They changed a letter to fit Japanese fans. The word is effectively the same. "Reconguista in G was officially unveiled in a Gundam 35th Anniversary event on March 20, 2014. During the unveiling, Tomino explained that the "G" in the title stands for "Gundam", but primarily means "ground". He also explained that the word "reconguista" is a coined word based on the Spanish word reconquista; however, the Japanese audience prefers a hard "g" in the title which necessitated the change." |
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enurtsol
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What's so bad about the k sound |
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kgw
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Probably nothing, since I never heard about Japanese audiencies hating the words 根気 , 根基, 婚期(perseverance, radical and... marriageable age). All of them are "konki". Also, if you change a Q for a G then it's not the same word. Period. |
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ATastySub
Past ANN Contributor
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I think it's less about the k sound at all as much as that the fans wanted a hard G sound to match up with "Gundam" and "G" in the title.
It's an artistic choice in a title. That's like saying Se7en isn't Seven. It's recognizable and the meaning is still there. They just used a style choice to fit the show. I don't know why you're so adamant that it has to have it's own special meaning. Even outside of artistic license look at words like color/colour, theater/theatre, and catalog/catalogue . They are the same words with different spellings due to dialect. |
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Krotchstak
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I'm liking this the more I see of it. The first trailer didn't blow me away but this one hyped me up a bit more.
The setting and story sound cool. I've never seen Eureka Seven, so I don't know if the premise is as similar as everyone says, but a synopsis tells me it's really just the mysterious-girl-drops-robot-on-protagonist bit (and I bet the character designer was chosen because of that). We'll see where it goes but I'm not sure why people are being cautious about their optimism - I can't see many obvious pitfalls except maybe endless shipping, which has never (really) been Tomino's bag anyways. The mechs are hard to judge right off, but I certainly like them more than anything out of AGE. My only issue is that nothing about the G-Self screams "mysterious advanced MS". It certainly looks a bit different from the others in the show, but while that works well in series like 00 (where nothing resembling a Gundam had ever been seen before), this is a show that plainly connects itself to UC directly. It's weird to have a design with such classic Gundam elements be labeled as futuristic. Then again, I suppose it has been over a millennium since the UC theoretically ended.
The gender balance is nice, though how they use those characters is important too (something that I feel SEED didn't do very well for the most part, despite having a fairly equal cast). Tomino is...well, he's hit-or-miss on that. We'll see. |
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Ambimunch
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Watching that trailer put me slightly at ease, I though this was going to be another built fighters (as in a gundam show for ages 4+). We'll see how it goes, this might be relatively decent if they play their cards right
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DangerMouse
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The character designer actually also worked with Tomino before on Overman King Gainer so that's probably another reason he was chosen.
Good point about the main mech. Yeah, I don't expect shipping to the extent where it gets in the way of the story of this to be a problem at all with Tomino involved. Agreed, I was pretty disappointed with how those female characters were used in SEED even if there were a decent amount of them. |
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