Gundam Build Divers Prologue

This preview episode essentially continues the trend of the Build Fighters subseries by focusing on fights to the exclusion of all character and story. Not only that, we have completely abandoned the semi-realistic premise of the first two series by including anthropomorphized animals to the cast with no explanation. I hope the main series gets into an explanation of that, but I'm really mourning the first show's focus on the characters and their love of Gundam as the main driver of the show, not necessarily the fights.

In the end, we see that the characters featured in this are considered inspirational by the actual main character ... of the new show, which just drives home again how pointless the time you spend with this preview is. We know that gumplay fight in this universe. We didn't learn anything new about any of the new cast except that some are now animals.

[[Edit: It's been pointed out to me that the reason there are animals is because this takes place in an online world this time around. I think that's a pretty lazy direction to take the series. It's already included some ridiculous stuff like alternate dimensions and mind control, gunplay design as martial discipline, and megacorporations basing their entire businesses around gunplay. Rather than extending any one of those ideas into a new plotline, you're going to throw us into a different world? So that we can get animal characters? I just don't think throwing more stuff into the pile without any rhyme, reason, or connection to how we understand the world is a great direction for the series.]]