Apr 6, 2014
Gundam Build Fighters, the 2013 Gundam series is a show that aims to promote Bandai's Gunpla. It aired every Monday on TV Tokyo at 6pm and is available with English subtitles on GundamInfo's YouTube channel to the international audience.
GBF was carried out by Studio Sunrise and directed by Kenji Nagasaki. Yosuke Kuroda wrote the story and Yuki Hayashi composed the OST. Kenichi Ohnuki drew the characters' models with Yasuda Suzuhito's cooperation.
Story: 7/10
The story revolves around Sei Iori, whose father, Takeshi Iori is a Gunpla Battle champion and mother, Rinko Iori runs a Gunpla shop.
Often, Sei helps out his mother in the shop. Therefore, he
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got a deep insight into Gunpla building and gave it his all as this was his passion. His dream was to be a Gunpla Battle champion to succeed to his father but he was only goot at Gunpla building.
One day, he encounters a mysterious boy, Reiji. Reiji tells Sei that he is a the prince of Arian. Soon, he thinks of Reiji as very strong Gunpla pilot and teams up with him. Together, they will enter the Gunpla World Championship and face very strong opponents.
Unlike competitive shows, GBF's story has many axes: The championship, profound relations between the characters and Reiji's story. Every one of these axes is very important to the entire series and let the show be a lot more than a just a competitve series with just battles and a champion at the end.
The battles feature all of the series' characters and every battle is very intense. The battles between side characters tend even to be the best.
Sound: 9/10
Yuki Hayashi did an awesome work here. The entire OST is a masterpiece. The musics go from calm partitions up to insanely intense stuff. The OPs are sung by Back-On and are very good (they work as insert songs in the last episode). The first ED is sung by AiRI (and is the best ED) and the second is sung by Hyadain.
Character: 7/10
The characters are very attractive, every one has got his own story and every one's is a major part of the whole story. We get to see that in the series' second part (15-23).
Animation: 9/10
GBF is animated by Sunrise, possibly the best studio for robot shows. The animation team has great names of robots animation and GBF is just what you get from robot show carried out by a team full of passion for robots.
Every one of those is very good at mechanical and effects animation, and that is just what a mecha show needs. Effect (beams, explosions, smears on character animation) are all over the place, along with awesome mechanical animation and choreography on the battles (and even for fun. Just watch episode 13!)
Gundam Build Fighters' first appeal is to promote Bandai's Gunpla, but I tend love it even more because it is. If entertainment alone is what you expect from an anime, then Gundam Build Fighters is for you. If you expect a lot more, then Gundam Build Fighters IS for you. The show's target is everyone at every age, and I think GBF does better at proving this than words.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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