Kidou Senshi Z Gundam II: Koibito-tachi

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation II - Lovers
I wrote a review on the previous part and this one does a better job but still has the same issues that plagued the first part.
The 2 major issues with these movie retelling are as follows
1) The combination of new animation and art style with the original 80s - Like the previous part this one does this also and it's less annoying this time around only because firstly if you are watching part 2 you should be by now use to the scenes, art style and animation randomly switching up on you and this ... one feels like it has 45% old art style and animation and 55% which in comparison to the old one it felt more like 35% New and 65% old. So more new this time are but at the end of the day it's still a con that all of it isn't new art style and animation because it today it looks really good and has aged well.
2) Second major issue is obviously what every movie retelling of an anime suffers from and this is story content (that i felt was important enough to be mentioned) missing from this part. The first part did it and so did this one, I'm only going to name one example since when it comes to these reviews they don't want us spoiling the story it's basically the part in the original anime that explains how the Zeta Gundam is created and who creates the blue prints for it originally, none of this was explained in this part which I felt it should have because if you haven't watched the anime you'll never know.

So basically in my opinion this part is definitely better than the first I felt even though it was missing certain scenes I felt where important it still cover a lot of content for what it was and I do commend that and if there are any pros about this movie it would definitely be that.

Lastly just like I said in for the first part I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who hasn't seen the original 80s 50 episode version. I my opinion that is still the definitive version for Zeta Gundam and once again I can only recommend this to people who has seen Zeta Gundam a long time ago and barely remember anything about the characters or plot these movie parts.

Lovers is the second of 3 digitally remastered movies that encompasses the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam storyline (A New Translation II). The second movie covers the middle of the MS Zeta Gundam series, which is pivotal for Camille's relationship with Four Murasame.

The digital remastering was not done totally. There would be new scenes added in with wonderful new animation. Just as you're happy and marvelling at the animation they cut to the scenes lifted 100% from the series, which while they might have been remastered look very dated. The switch between the "new" and "old" scenes is very jarring and affected my enjoyment of these ... movies.

That being said, some new scenes added in were very good and helped with character development. They also cut out a lot of fluff which made the movie much more enjoyable than the series, which tended to move along at a snail's pace.

Overall the second movie is almost worse than the series. Not many new scenes were added and the old animation was 100% copy/paste. This was the most interesting arc and they made it seem slow and boring, which was a waste.