Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis Episode 6 Discussion

The Origin official website said:
Q: - You are also producing the newly begun "MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM Twilight AXIS," aren't you, Mr. Taniguchi?

Taniguchi: Origin Studio is producing "Twilight AXIS" as well. There was talk of producing something in collaboration with Ark Performance. At first we even considered going in a "picture drama" direction, where there's not much movement, but I just couldn't go along with that. If we're going to spend that much time and effort, I wanted something that would be animated, so we did that. We hired Mr. (Sejoon) Kim, who is an acquaintance of mine, as director on "Twilight AXIS," and the mechanical animation director Mr. (Shingo) Abe. They're at the heart of that and they're in their thirties, and unlike THE ORIGIN, they're animating everything in the hand-drawn style. In terms of era, it's close to "UC," and several new mobile suits appear. We're aiming to create a new feeling with the project. It seems like they thought I could keep working on Gundam since I've been in charge on "THE ORIGIN." I'm producing them both simultaneously.

Rei366 said:
Zut, you took my place!

Enjoyment: 1/5


Score: 2/10 (And my score too.)
With the choppy nature of this web series, the apparent dropping of the story, the unfaithfulness to the novel and loss of any interest it had, and the addition of a new gunpla Mobile Armor model, I dare to say this was nothing more than a too lengthy toy commercial.

Led_Wayline said:
The background music was so beautiful. Mesmerising. Regardless of the small number of tracks. A glimpse into Arlette's background was intriguing as well. The pyscho-phenomenon was off-putting, though. An odd way to end a series.

A bit of a shame really. Lukewarm.

Daniel_Naumov said:
Yes, I myself have thought that Gundam should not really go into "supernatural" phenomenon,

Tenth said:
First female protagonist and they do this shit and waste all the potential it had? nice Sunrise.

TrentJones said:
That was pretty bad, lads.


Does War in the Pocket count?

lemostr00 said:
True, the compilation is better and well paced, the direction is amazing, the characters and stories are well introduced and developed. I guess people nowadays are dumb enough to not know how to enjoy not linear stories anymore, because it is quite simple and well shown in this anime.

HibiChika said:
ppl who arbitrarily hate this are pretentious and self entitled tbh. i didn't have a single problem with it and in fact welcomed the shorter runtime like a true gundam fan would.

allblue1 said:


WTF are you talking about? It's not a multiple path visual novel, it's a animation. The story was linear, dumbass.

And the sequence of the scenes, non-chronological order of short clips of miscellaneous events, is what made this series a fucking mess. There is nothing for the viewer to really sinking their teeth into. I understood the gist of the story, but can you imagine reading a manga with a page order of: 1-6-2-8-3-7-4-9-5-10, etc? It's fucking ridiculous, so gtfo with that high raise.

lemostr00 said:


This is how you know someone doesn't know shit about what they are talking about. Funnily enough, today I was looking into TA volume 3 and guess what, it works really like a visual novel, being different from both the anime (web), anime (OVA) and the novel. For example, the Kurwenal and the Ahava Azieru are anime only, the final client in the dry cleaner wasn't the feddie guy and it was the Fermo Brothers and so on, so it was pretty much different.

"There is nothing for the viewer to really sinking their teeth into. I understood the gist of the story, but can you imagine reading a manga with a page order of: 1-6-2-8-3-7-4-9-5-10, etc? It's fucking ridiculous, so gtfo with that high raise."

Well, guess what even the manga did it? It was not chronological too, you jump into times of Zeon, Axis Zeon, Neo Zeon and so on, with the characters (this is where there isn't even the problem of: "wah wah, I dont know when it is, because the character designs sets clearly when it is when it looks younger or older)

"but can you imagine reading a manga with a page order of: 1-6-2-8-3-7-4-9-5-10"

yeah, you can do it if you want, there is no one stoping you, so if anybody wants to read it this way, they can.

Twilight Axis is fucking good, simply as that, Ark Performance is simply one of the best gundam writers, and Sejoon Kim is a fucking beast directing a small project that grew out of just a picture drama to a small story where every personal aspect of both creators shows in their respective mediums.

so go be a pleb somewhere else.