Gundam Build Fighters Try: Island Wars

There comes a time where you watch a Gundam show. It can be a good one or a bad one but at the end, you will feel satisfied watching that show because it had some good elements in it.
Gundam Wing as much I disliked the show itself it has some good things in it such as Duo, Zechs, and Treize being decent chararters as well the design of Tallgeese being great. I can say the first thing about season 1 of Gundam Seed while despite being a mediocre re-telling of First Gundam it was overall a decent Gundam show with great moments every now and ... then. I can’t say the same thing about Shin Destiny because that show, in my opinion, is utter garbage filled with stock footage, bad/unoriginal characters, rips off Zeta Gundam heavily and too many plot holes/ inconsistent story direction.
Then we have Gundam Build Fighters season 1. I never expected that show to be good. That show ended up way too good for its own good to the point where I can say its one of my favourite Gundam shows. It’s had a good simple plot with good worldbuilding, great characters are well written, well developed along with great visuals and soundtrack.
Then we have its squeal Gundam Build Fighters Try which was a terrible squeal that not only removes all the charm of the series but it added things that have no business being in a Gundam show such as harem elements.

Now we have Gundam Build Fighters Island Wars a lazily and poorly made train wreck of an OVA that not wastes the viewers time but it insults the viewer’s intelligence with its bad pacing and horrible harem elements that clearly have no place being in a Gundam show. Now with said and done let’s dive in into this shit show shall we.

Story.
Taking place one year after team Try Fighters Gunpla Battle National Championships Sekai and Fumila are invited to an island resort by Yajima Trading to test their new combat system. When Sekai and Fumina arrive on the island, they’re greeted by Gyanko, Shia and Minato as well as an embarrassed Yuuma, who had initially passed up the offer to assist Mirai on a photoshoot. Whilst training on the beach, Sekai also meets a mysterious girl who takes an interest in his Gunpla. Meanwhile, in the Nielsen labs, an anomaly with their new particle causes the crystal to expand and mutate, taking over the lab whilst simultaneously bringing the Gunpla in the vicinity to life. Just as Sei Iori did eight years ago, Team Try Fighters and their friends must battle their way through the lab to stop the crystal from getting any further out of control.
For starters this ova, for the most part, it just a shitter version of episode 7 of the original series where not only it had no charm whatsoever but it was this OVA excuse of showing it’s crappy harem elements once more to the viewer. The ova least the first half is badly paced as the shipping and harem elements seemed to drag on forever.
The second half is not much better. Yes, the harem bullshit was none existent in the second half however the second half only gave us unanswered questions which are never explained to the viewer whatsoever. Don’t get me started with the ending for this tripe because it’s basically a giant screw you to the fans of the original series,
Now the one thing I forgot to mention in my of Gundam Build Fighters Try review is that power scaling in that show is screwed beyond belief where there were certain gunpla that can full heavy blast without getting heavily damaged. Well now the main characters in Island Wars can take can tank hits from the 80cm GN Laser, Gryps Colony Laser all at once. What the hell Build Fighters Try Island Wars!!!
Overall the story is at hot garbage and at worst it’s a complete abomination that should have seen the light of day.
1/10

Chararters.
Oh god, the chararters. Now if you thought the chararters in the original series were already bad enough guess what. This OVA somehow made the chararters even worse.
While I didn’t like Sekai in the series for being an asspuller on screen as well having no real passion of Gunpla as a hobby least he had a few redeeming qualities like where at the end he kinda admitted that he didn’t have a real passion for Gunpla. Unfortunately now he’s just a creator’s asspulling husk where he just continues being a Gary sue idiot preaching about friendship and what’s right. It is that point where I hated Sekai more than Kira Yamato. Screw this chararters and everything that he stands for.
It’s honestly hard to call Fumina a chararter at this point as now she devolved into generic harem girl 1 where her dialogue is mostly reduced to sucking Sekai dick while fighter generic harem girl 2 aka Kaoruko.
Yumma is still horrendously annoying as ever as now he just a freaking stalker for Sekai Sister Mirai. Horrible
The rest of the chararters minus once again Minato who is decent are complete garbage and not worth mentioning at all.
Overall like with the story the chararters are shit.
2/10

Visuals.
Visually Gundam Build Fighters Try Island Wars pretty alright. While it’s not as good as season 1 visually it’s still a decent improved over the TV series for Try where it looked pretty choppy and ugly at times. The mecha designs are alright and they are nothing to write home about whatsoever and the animation is thankfully much better this time around as hardly any use of stock footage. Thank god!!!
7/10

Sound.
The soundtrack once again is the best part of the series. While it’s not as memorable as Season 1 soundtrack it’s still a pretty decent soundtrack overall.
The voice acting is pretty solid overall as you expect.
Like with Gundam Build Fighters GM Counterattack there is no English Dub for it and for this case am glad it hasn’t been dub yet because the dub for Build Fighters Try was already bad enough and it was honestly a blessing that this will never be dubbed. I honestly can’t imagine this shit feast being dubbed and to be honest the less I think about it the better.
7/10

Final Thoughts.
So that was Gundam Build Fighters Try Island Wars a poorly made, disjointed and harem pandering mess of an OVA that not only wastes the viewers time but it took everything that I hated about Try and made it worse to a point where the Try series as a whole is a more insufferable experience. The story was awful, the pacing was dreadful, all of the chararters were terrible and the ending was horrendous. The only decent things about this show are the visuals and music everything else is a dumpster fire of shit.
I don’t recommend this ova to anyone as it will only insult your intelligence.
Stay away from this OVA and the Try series as a whole.
Final Score 3/10

What's the difference between the original GBF and GBF Try? GBF (especially the ending) makes my heart cried a lot, while GBF Try (as a whole) makes me cringed a lot.

The reason why you want to watch this is most likely you want to see more of Mirai and Fumina's (or Gyanko too if you like her) tits, that's it.

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I personally watched Try because i watch GBF and i watch this OVA because i watch Try, and i regret it. Try is already so wrong in the first place, and this OVA still keeps it. It's too.. shonen. Really. A lot of screaming, a lot ... of exaggerated beam, and thick plot-armor.