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Oct 17, 7:06 AM
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Well, it's about a Zeon Mobile squadron, the Red Wolf Squadron, who are assigned to Earth in the fight for conquest.
First mission and first surprise, a Black Gundam with a lightsaber causes them a lot of damage and even deaths.

First episode and the animation is terrible.
The initial song is horrible
female characters are enhanced and horrible
male characters are very feminized

I don't really like it
Oct 17, 7:43 AM
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This is beyond epic, the graphics, the cinematography, the acting, you can really feel the pain and suffering of war and the gray morality of each side.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.

Oct 17, 9:58 AM
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November in Eastern Europe...so this is just before Odessa. One very advanced-looing Gundam is ensuring Zekes know the name is to be feared away from the exploits of White Base's Gundam. Solari, who demonstrates newtype abilities, escapes barely from the menacing monster of a Zeon horror story.

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Oct 17, 2:03 PM
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OK, this is not related, but feels like MS IGLOO.

Ranxomare said:
Black Gundam

Is it really black? (More like with a darkish colour scheme.) Is it really Gundam? (More of a souped-up GM, but without its "ski mask" visor thing.)

PS
OK, in the following episodes they show it's RX-78 EX.
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Oct 17, 2:18 PM
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Yo, first few minutes of the episode and I see Bucharest!

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Oct 17, 2:53 PM
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Reply to alshu
OK, this is not related, but feels like MS IGLOO.

Ranxomare said:
Black Gundam

Is it really black? (More like with a darkish colour scheme.) Is it really Gundam? (More of a souped-up GM, but without its "ski mask" visor thing.)

PS
OK, in the following episodes they show it's RX-78 EX.
alshu said:
RX-78 EX
Peak Gundam design, the attention to detail is immaculate.

Oct 17, 5:26 PM
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Mixed feelings so far.

On one hand, I really like the concept of showing the One-Year War from Zeon's perspective, and the folk-sounding song they used for the beginning sequence was good as well, it creates sort of a gloomy atmosphere. The gundam design is also fire, much better than all the goofy, cartoonish-looking stuff taken from older Gundam media, like the Zaku Tanks.

On the other hand, however the animation, while not as atrocious as I initially suspected it to be, is still very bad. The character movements look stiff and the face expressions are horrible. Another major letdown is the English dub (although can you really call it a dub if it's the series' default language?). I thought that if the Americans were in charge of this they would make sure that the English version was good but it turned out to be crap. The only one who delivers a servicable performance is the main heroine's VA, the rest is absolutely garbage.

The show has an interesting premise, and it could've been a banger if it was a mainline Sunrise work, not some half-assed Unreal asset flip outsourced to an unknown western studio. I'll finish the show as I always do, but I don't have much hope for improvement (though I'd love to be proven wrong).
Oct 17, 8:43 PM
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As a UC fan, I've decided to watch the first episode with an open mind, can't say I'm too impressed. Seems to be much on the same vein as 08TH MS Team with a gritty realistic story but do we actually need more One Year War side stories? Having survivors from the battle of Lum is the only remotely interesting bit I caught from this first episode, Iria seems to be a Newtype (what a surprise lol)

The animation is very clunky, the MS looked pretty good but looked like Gunpla animated in stop motion at times. The japanese voice acting is decent at best and the lipsync is completely off, the English dub also sucks. Haven't tried the Spanish dub but I can't believe this is probably the only UC series dubbed to Spanish, what a shame.
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Oct 20, 4:57 AM
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Was watching the first episode and thinking to myself "they should have spend more money on graphical quality and less on diversity-equity-inclusion consulting.".
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Oct 21, 1:49 AM
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Was watching the first episode and thinking to myself "they should have spend more money on graphical quality and less on diversity-equity-inclusion consulting.".
@ZingFreelancer are you trolling or being serious? I can't tell with people on this site sometimes.
Oct 21, 11:00 AM
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The animation of the human characters are so stiff.
The facial animations are really distracting in the sense that they are like NPCs.

Otherwise the MS all look and move great.
The vfx for the fights are incredible.
Oct 26, 10:24 AM

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This gundam is switching quick between shield+beamrifle and melee only. No idea why it waited without shield+rifle when the zaku's first engaged on it (also why didnt it do anything before as it seems they werent far apart at all lol). Suddenly however it quickswapped to its shield and rifle again without the zaku pilots noticing? What?
Punching through the cockpit is pretty savage.

Ye all in all the char models are not great, not bad. Coming from MS IGLOO this might be a lil better haha. Mech designs are an interesting take (albeit somewhat bloated).
Oct 26, 5:11 PM

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@ZingFreelancer are you trolling or being serious? I can't tell with people on this site sometimes.
@Will444 I mean he's kinda right, just got down watching it and it's typical netflix woke. To be expected at this point.
Oct 27, 2:07 PM

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Oh boy, this is rough. Instead of character or story, they jump into action with little explanation. Fine, so it's supposed to be impessive eye candy instead of content, but it's not good at that either. The Bakus and Gundams look passable, but the rest is garbage. Hell, Final Fantasy Spirits from Within, which came out 23 years ago looked better than the characters in this thing. Why does this exist?
Oct 27, 2:55 PM
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@Will444 I mean he's kinda right, just got down watching it and it's typical netflix woke. To be expected at this point.
@ex_necross what's your definition of woke? When people throw that word around its usually just whining because there are non-white and/or female lead characters.

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