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| Not going to lie, I like the way Amate handled herself this episode. Seems like the daredevil type that isn't afraid to take risks. It's only first episode and she gets control of a gundam mech already. Military elements is evident in this and the technology you'd expect out of a Gundam show. Might have to get used to the art style though. Nyaan is also another character to take notice of. It's still early but I want to see character relationships develop and more lore in their universe. |
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| It's already wild to think that we’re getting GUNDAM content in the year of our lady Aqua, but add to that the fact that THE Evangelion director and creator are involved? This thing is set up to be a massive hit. Even as a casual Gundam fan, this has easily been one of my most anticipated shows of the season. I’ve watched a few episodes of the OG and maybe a couple of those recap movies or whatever, but that’s pretty much the extent of my Gundam experience. So technically, this is my first real Gundam, and if they’re all like this (story-wise), then man, I seriously need to dive in, because I LOVED THE HELL OUT OF THIS FIRST EPISODE. The plot feels engaging even for someone like me who doesn’t know much about the lore. The characters are already super likable right out of the gate. I’m loving the chemistry so far, and if Nyaan keeps getting more screen time, she’ll probably end up being my favorite. And ofc, with both Khara and Sunrise behind this, the visuals are absolutely stunning, everything looks incredible. I haven’t even mentioned the OST yet, god, it’s amazing so far. Overall, an incredible start. I honestly wish I had watched more Gundam beforehand, but I definitely plan to after this finishes airing, because so far... I’m LOVING IT. |
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| Was it literally the same as the movie? Didn't see any real differences other than maybe a couple different small scenes? Like the ending was the same and all? Excited for the rest of the series though |
| Wasn’t sure what to expect going in, but I really liked the blend of callbacks and new ideas. You can definitely feel the UC influence, but it’s doing its own thing too, which I appreciate. Pacing was a bit fast in parts (probably because of the movie rework?), but overall it didn’t ruin the experience for me. That final scene with the ED song hit hard—Suisei’s voice always adds so much emotion. I haven’t seen a lot of UC stuff beyond the basics (OG, maybe Zeta ages ago), and I still followed everything just fine. Lots of little references if you know the lore, but not mandatory. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here. If episode 2 brings more original content, I’m in. |
| Amate’s a natural at handling Gundams. Not sure about the story yet, but I like the art—it’s good to see the mechas aren’t CGI. I’m pretty sure Amate just flashed her panties to that boy. |
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| i'm the number one Gundam fan and ok, it was a very good start great animation, i was going to say impossible to fell asleep but i was tired, to I had to rewatch the second part to not miss a scene the only thing that was missing was the dead bodies, it is gundam or not... |
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| Another Yuri shit like Witch |
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| I love that not only is Haro extra competent and helpful but also that it's rocking a beanie. Hope it stays on for all its scenes. |
| This started where the U.C. 0085 portion of the Beginning movie did; the Sodon tracking the Red Gundam to Side 6. From the looks of the preview, the second episode will be cut from the U.C. 0079 portion of the Beginning movie. The globe in the ED has evidence of Operation British in it; the crater in Australia. I can't help but wonder if the resulting tsunamis and earthquakes in the Asia-Pacific region led many to seek refuge in space since the Izuma colony has a noticeable Asian flair: The station signage is in Japanese and English and Machu uses her smartphone in Japanese. Even the Side 6 Police Zakus have Kanji on their shields. All of this is intriguing since Gundam typically has on-screen text in English. The second time Machu meets Nyaan is at a Shinto shrine. On the Pommerian office entrance, the vertical sign reads "有限公司" (Simplified Chinese for "Limited Company") on the white board inside, there is Thai, Korean and Chinese text. |
Fortress_MaximusApr 9, 2025 5:17 PM
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| A new Gundam story begins! That was by far the best premiere of the season so far visually, and knowing who the staff are behind this, Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion, as well as Kazuya Tsurumaki, the director of FLCL, among other names, my expectations were high. I loved the setting, atmosphere, and the music a lot, and there's no doubt this will be a very epic series. I'm not an expert on Gundam by any means, as the only other series I've seen was The Witch From Mercury, but I guess the one concern I have would be the length of this series likely being quite short. It'll be a visual spectacle, and the politics will be interesting, but can the story hold up? I will say one thing though, Tomoyo Kurosawa, one of my favourite voice actors, voicing Amate is just the icing on the cake. Really looking forward to more! |
| Yeah that's A FUCKING 10 FOR ME! I'm so glad this moe-take on an alternate UC timeline where CHAR IS SUCCESSFUL IN HIS MISSION (outside killing Cycillia Zabi) TO CULTIVATE A GRAND FUTURE FOR SPACENOIDS, was as phenomenal as this turned out to be. Aesthetic and lush vibrant color schemes, fluid wonton mecha violence, civilians getting btfo'd to demonstrate the horrors of war, and it's presenting a Gundam world that's yet to be seen in such a new and vibrant light. It's won me over! Great OST too, hopefully our MC's get more development in the coming eps. LOVE IT THO!!! |
bboy_OatsnRiceApr 8, 2025 10:45 AM
| All right, I didn't like the Mobile Suit designs at first, but now they are growing on me. |
| the first 1 cour gundam tv anime is here so gone are the days of 4 cours gundam tv shows well gwitch is already 2 cour gundam anyway so far so good looks like our pink or red hair main girl has the chosen one trope im guessing this could be isekai aka other world or other dimension or other universe seeing this new gundam show is a what if version of the original gundam anyway that kira kira thing is the isekai portal  |
| Cool visuals and animation, some of those moments looked spectacular but this felt more like gurren lagann or even more like your typical shounen stuff. Witch from mercury had a banger first episode which made me hyped from getgo. This though felt okay, I just watched without feeling a thing. OST was different than usual too. I was expecting something different so this isn't a major turn off and I'm still looking forward to seeing how this goes. If nothing else we'll get another anime with good animation/visuals. |
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| Wow. 1. Writers who actually get Gundam and Universal Century in particular. 2. Mechanical designers who get the mobile suites from said franchise. 3. Animators and action choreographers who get the Gundam battles. That was a nice surprise. I had my doubts (now I have hopes), but the people here definitely know what they are doing. You can call GQuuuuuuX some sort of FLCL (or DieBuster) alternative take on Gundam UC. |
alshuApr 8, 2025 12:04 PM
| This might be the first installment of Gundam I could get. The character design is superb. I love the color palette. The ending was sick. The fights and the choreography were well executed. |
| I'm impressed. fuck. most interesting 1st ep of any gundam I've seen so far. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| i don't know. i hope for a good story. The look is amazing though. |
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| This shit was fucking fire bro, definitely my second favorite anime of the season right now. The entire first episode was like I was in a cinema, amazing cgi too. EP1 Rating: 9/10 |
| Oh its alternative u.c. its basically Zeon won the One Year War and took a different approach.... |
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| cool visuals and animation. MC suddenly wanting to fight and kill was way too random for my likings tho |
| I'm not entirely sold cause alot of the alt UC stuff is kind of feeling fanservicy over substance and the 12 ep runtime has me worried, but the actual episode was pretty good, machu is likable, but more than anything god damn is the directing oozing atmosphere I dont think the colonies have ever felt this moody. next week might win me over or lose me more depending cause its all the char flashback stuff. . I think where im at is, the original stuff of this seedy underground mech fights feels like it all could work without being part of an alt UC, so im just kind of looking at the small runtime and worrying all the time we are spending referencing fucking M'Quve could be better cut and this just being its own au. Now to be that guy and I'll only do this once cause its redundant, but man I feel like more things of substance happened in these 24 minutes than 24 episodes of G-witch, and I think even if I dont like this series I already respect it more. |
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Xenocrisi said: MC suddenly wanting to fight and kill was way too random for my likings tho Sudden impulses to do stuff (especially the wrong stuff) is a very NewType thing. So at least it makes sense in universe. |
| Saw it in theaters so just coming here to talk about how amazing the soundtrack is and how the opening 30 minutes or so felt like a perfect mix of OG Gundam with the movement/storyboarding of the EVA rebuilds. I love how it felt like Old school Gundam brought to a modern age. |
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Was it literally the same as the movie? Didn't see any real differences other than maybe a couple different small scenes? Like the ending was the same and all? Excited for the rest of the series though
| @GumiXia Well I mean, they cut out the entire first 40 minutes of the movie which was the best part. |
| The dynamic between the heroines is awesome. |
| The movie wasn't in cinemas where I live so I'm finally getting to know Amate and Nyaan I like what I see so far . As a long time Gundam fan, the multiple 0079 references almost made me blush, the green White (lol) Base felt so strange. Amate seems like a brave girl, loved how she didn’t twice to get into the GQuuuuuuX just like Amuro and Kamille. Cautiously excited for the next episodes, I do hope they dial down a little bit of the UC nostalgia and develop more the current state of Earth sphere without the Federation. |
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| I saw the Beginning movie (which is not on here for some reason), so I saw this already. it was quite good. I do miss the 0079 segment from the movie. that thing was cool. |
| I loved it. There are implicit things because it shows skills, has the psycommu, robot fights But for me, in the end the course will change for political struggle, colony x earth |
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| New season new Gundam and this time I was able to do my homework and watch the original from 1979 so I kinda know who Char is although this seems to be placed in an alternate timeline of sorts. We follow this red haired girl who I'm not sure is kinda aloof or spaced out encountering with a dark haired girl who's a fugitive doing a side job. Apparently her delivery got mixed up with red girl so she got back to her and accompained her to the place where she was either too brave or dumb to realise the situation she was involving herself in. Well, from that all this time a battle between the red Gundam and the white gundam controlled by a top of the class is bringing on security who seek to destroy refugee spacenoids and people who they consider inferior. By only focusing on this, red hair girl jumps with the delivery item to activate some robot there, crashes into a duct and sees the white gundam so decides to get in there and activates it. This is all happening as some weird robot companion appears and starts to repeat words and act as the key but not enough of an explanation is provided for his presence. So she starts hallucinating or something, controls the mecha and defeats the pursuers ending in a scene with blue haired girl leaving the site. So yeah, the pace is a bit fast but not too much and the mc hasn't grabbed me yet. The setting is cool as it is set in a somewhat similar place to 1979 from what I could remember, leaving us with some cool 360 shots during battles, and the music in particular for some of the scenes almost made me get up and vibe. Chill ed that that tells us that both girls will start getting closer at some point. What I wonder is how long it will be until we actually see Char. |
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| huh... its quite different from the OG series, its crazy that Zeon won the war... i still don't get whats going on tho i think next episode will clear up whats going on with Char. The art is crazy different and violence seems to be very toned down, also gundams seem to be much more computer like instead of mechanical with the Key being basically a hard drive and Haro hacking into the system. Double female protagonists again? very moe. Personally i don't mind but i expect the series to still be quite militaristic |
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