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| XAVIER GETTING SOME ACTION, AND SHUUJI ONLY CARES FOR THE RED GUNDAM! Great action, who wants to kira kira with me? |
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Khara you’ve done wonders on me. Oh my goodness this was the best episode by a country mile. It had everything I love. The political intrigue, romantic angst, character drama, amazing fights.. perfect mix of Zeta and Eva rebuilds?! Hello?! fawwwk. Glad I didn’t watch the previews, this gave me the same feeling I had watching the movie in theaters.
Knew things were reaching a boiling point between Machu and Nyaan, but I didn’t think it would happen this soon holy shit. It wouldn’t be Zeta Gundam inspired if we didn’t have women “throwing everything away for a man” as Annqi references lol.
Respect to Machu for taking, or at least trying to take, the money Annqi owed them. That stand off was so tense, Machu’s seiyuu does such a good job of selling her pain and sense of betrayal. The one safe spot she thought she had has been compromised and now the best friend she thought she had has fallen for the same guy.. can’t talk to mom, can’t talk to Shuji, can’t talk to a friend.. what’s left for her?
The psycho gundam?!! It looks so much more terrifying in Khara’s style. The massive Flying Fortress form really imposes in a never before seen way, but the skinny form where it sheds its armor is legit just an Eva. Matter of fact that entire battle just felt like it could’ve come right out of 3.0 1.0 down to the psycho gundam getting impaled by the beams. Incredible animation, storyboarding and that OST ๐ฉ perfection. Also, “I field”= AT fields??
“Let’s get out of here just you and me. Leave the Gundam and Machu behind” is crazyyyyyyy ๐ญ the fact Nyaan was legit willing to just abandon Machu all because they both like the same guy is wild. Who needs enemies when you got friends like that. I like messy stories like this because I love angst and drama so it’s great to me. But I can’t see how Machu and Nyaan will be anything but enemies the next time they see each other given Nyaan’s off with Zeon now and Machu is in a cell. I mean damn Nyaan didn’t even mention Machu when Kycilia asked if she had friends that’s insane
And where tf did Shuji disappear to? He said he could see the other side, is that him unlocking the ability to perceive 4 dimensional space or what ๐ค so many mysteries!
Chalia with some expertly executed 4D chess. Won over Kycilia and got rid of her suspicions while learning more about the enemy’s capabilities. Definitely learned a lot from his former mav. Can’t wait to see what comes next.
Edit: wouldn’t be a Khara project without a white haired character that gets hyped up, fans fall in love and killed after one episode ๐
Knew things were reaching a boiling point between Machu and Nyaan, but I didn’t think it would happen this soon holy shit. It wouldn’t be Zeta Gundam inspired if we didn’t have women “throwing everything away for a man” as Annqi references lol.
Respect to Machu for taking, or at least trying to take, the money Annqi owed them. That stand off was so tense, Machu’s seiyuu does such a good job of selling her pain and sense of betrayal. The one safe spot she thought she had has been compromised and now the best friend she thought she had has fallen for the same guy.. can’t talk to mom, can’t talk to Shuji, can’t talk to a friend.. what’s left for her?
The psycho gundam?!! It looks so much more terrifying in Khara’s style. The massive Flying Fortress form really imposes in a never before seen way, but the skinny form where it sheds its armor is legit just an Eva. Matter of fact that entire battle just felt like it could’ve come right out of 3.0 1.0 down to the psycho gundam getting impaled by the beams. Incredible animation, storyboarding and that OST ๐ฉ perfection. Also, “I field”= AT fields??
“Let’s get out of here just you and me. Leave the Gundam and Machu behind” is crazyyyyyyy ๐ญ the fact Nyaan was legit willing to just abandon Machu all because they both like the same guy is wild. Who needs enemies when you got friends like that. I like messy stories like this because I love angst and drama so it’s great to me. But I can’t see how Machu and Nyaan will be anything but enemies the next time they see each other given Nyaan’s off with Zeon now and Machu is in a cell. I mean damn Nyaan didn’t even mention Machu when Kycilia asked if she had friends that’s insane
And where tf did Shuji disappear to? He said he could see the other side, is that him unlocking the ability to perceive 4 dimensional space or what ๐ค so many mysteries!
Chalia with some expertly executed 4D chess. Won over Kycilia and got rid of her suspicions while learning more about the enemy’s capabilities. Definitely learned a lot from his former mav. Can’t wait to see what comes next.
Edit: wouldn’t be a Khara project without a white haired character that gets hyped up, fans fall in love and killed after one episode ๐
Marinate1016 said: He got a free admit one to CHAR-LAND!!! Not to be confused with Lalah-land.And where tf did Shuji disappear to? He said he could see the other side, is that him unlocking the ability to perceive 4 dimensional space or what ๐ค so many mysteries!  |
kuribo-04 said: @Kimurah Bro you think you have a god tier grasp of writing cause you watched CinemaSins or something (don't know where else you'd learn lack of physics accuracy matters at all in a heightened reality like this). Also...projecting much? Why are yall engaging with that dude he’s a well known troll |
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What's the point of censoring a "WANTED" poster? |
| Red Gundam surprise!! ;) |
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What's the point of censoring a "WANTED" poster?
| @thewiru I think this is a grim joke on expense of the japanese mass media. They post censored pictures like that and people get recognized all the time. |
| I enjoyed the episode, but Nyaan's feelings for Shuuji felt very underdeveloped. Same thing can sorta apply to Machuu, but she's at least been in a few battles alongside him. |
| this episode was right away awesome. We got away from the slice of life and battle of the week, unfortunately they have put most of the attention to the random battles instead of fleshing out the characters. It mercilessly showed that the other episodes were quite rushed character introductions with bad relationship building. We barely know any of the characters before this very episode and they were suddenly acting very differently than before. Machu for example can suddenly crack open a safe, fire a gun and escape from the junkyard gangsters, like a real main character. Ok, who would consider Nyaaan and Machu friends from what we have seen so far, two girls fall in love with a guy because of some magical kira kira effect. It's unfortunate that the show has only so few episodes, the big cast and the tik tok pacing doesn't help the overall experience. From now on things might become nevertheless very interesting on a larger scale and the characters will grow a little more. |
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| Ah, Machu and Nyaan have been separated. At this point it is almost inevitable they will find each other on opposite sides in the coming conflict unless something happens that will subvert my expectations. |
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@Kimurah Bro you think you have a god tier grasp of writing cause you watched CinemaSins or something (don't know where else you'd learn lack of physics accuracy matters at all in a heightened reality like this).
Also...projecting much?
Also...projecting much?
| @kuribo-04 I love it that all salty fanboys just barf the name of cinemasins as some sort of derogatory or detrimental argument while ignoring my original points. Typical low effort strawman. LOL, heightened reality? How far did you have to reach out of your *ss to blurt out this bullshit? They stated in the early episodes that they had artificial gravity. On a similar earth atmosphere even a 30mph car crash is considered a high speed crash and can lead to serious injuries. Or are you going to just fanboy and create "magical" equations that can deny the most basic of physics regarding mass and speed? I'd certainly love to hear all your mental gymnastics covering up BAD WRITING. |
KimurahMay 21, 7:37 AM
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| @AdmiralAngeldust Are you 100% sure she watched the actual code? There were 3 animation cuts. The one where Machu is eavesdropping with her face pointing towards the audience (not the safe). The one where Anqi is actually punching the 5 digit code (which at least the top and mid row are covered by her own hand). And the last one where Machu is looking sideways with her huge fish eyes after Anqi opened the safe. A good director would have made a cut where there's actual visual confirmation that she's looking at the button combination rather than cheaply imply she's looking at the punch code. Secondly, Machu would have to guess 1 out of 3 possibilities for each digit since Anqi's hand is COVERING THE ACTUAL BUTTONS of the 5 digit combination. That would lead to several combinations, but lazy writers just made it look like she punched it correctly the first try. |
KimurahMay 21, 8:30 AM
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@kuribo-04
I love it that all salty fanboys just barf the name of cinemasins as some sort of derogatory or detrimental argument while ignoring my original points. Typical low effort strawman.
LOL, heightened reality? How far did you have to reach out of your *ss to blurt out this bullshit? They stated in the early episodes that they had artificial gravity. On a similar earth atmosphere even a 30mph car crash is considered a high speed crash and can lead to serious injuries. Or are you going to just fanboy and create "magical" equations that can deny the most basic of physics regarding mass and speed? I'd certainly love to hear all your mental gymnastics covering up BAD WRITING.
I love it that all salty fanboys just barf the name of cinemasins as some sort of derogatory or detrimental argument while ignoring my original points. Typical low effort strawman.
LOL, heightened reality? How far did you have to reach out of your *ss to blurt out this bullshit? They stated in the early episodes that they had artificial gravity. On a similar earth atmosphere even a 30mph car crash is considered a high speed crash and can lead to serious injuries. Or are you going to just fanboy and create "magical" equations that can deny the most basic of physics regarding mass and speed? I'd certainly love to hear all your mental gymnastics covering up BAD WRITING.
| @Kimurah Dude it's not a strawman. You're literally doing the cinemasins shit right now. And it's painful. Who the fuck cares what the physics would be. It's a bit created for tone, to put us in the characters heads. To show us what Nyaan feels for Shuuji. This might look silly in live action, but certainly not in an anime with SUPER cartoony designs. Blah why am I even explaining shit to you. Btw going on about writing all the time doesn't mean you actually understand writing. Like right now you're showing you don't get different priorities in different types of work. Did it bother you too when |
kuribo-04May 21, 7:40 AM
| Machu punching in the code is all the confirmation that we need that she saw it, plus it's a little surprise, and tells us with zeronexposition she's a quick thinker. Efficient storytelling. |
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@Kimurah Dude it's not a strawman. You're literally doing the cinemasins shit right now. And it's painful.
Who the fuck cares what the physics would be. It's a bit created for tone, to put us in the characters heads. To show us what Nyaan feels for Shuuji. This might look silly in live action, but certainly not in an anime with SUPER cartoony designs.
Blah why am I even explaining shit to you.
Btw going on about writing all the time doesn't mean you actually understand writing. Like right now you're showing you don't get different priorities in different types of work.
Did it bother you too when
Who the fuck cares what the physics would be. It's a bit created for tone, to put us in the characters heads. To show us what Nyaan feels for Shuuji. This might look silly in live action, but certainly not in an anime with SUPER cartoony designs.
Blah why am I even explaining shit to you.
Btw going on about writing all the time doesn't mean you actually understand writing. Like right now you're showing you don't get different priorities in different types of work.
Did it bother you too when
| @kuribo-04 The show itself started with a realistic depiction of the way the colony gravity works, Machu fell into the pool slightly off center because the colony is rotating to create the gravity. expecting real physics from the show is something the show itself started, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it from the show... since they started it. |
| So you think that one scene means the staff has to limit themselves in exaggerated and heightened scenes cause muh physics...in a Gundam show??? Also she wouldn't fall off center anway cause of the momentum she carries for standing on the colony. But jesus Im not watching this show for physics. OK I researched and she might not fall in the exact same spot despite momentum, but also who cares, this is GQuuuuuuX lol. |
kuribo-04May 21, 7:54 AM
kuribo-04 said: Dude it's not a strawman. You're literally doing the cinemasins shit right now. And it's painful. That in it self is the definition of a strawman, because you're not addressing my point. You're deflecting because you have nothing to argue and need to release all that fan hate. kuribo-04 said: Who the fuck cares what the physics would be. People like me that like to get things as accurate as possible in sci-fi. Again, you're nagging on me because I don't share your low bar where ANYTHING is good just because the author said so. This isn't my first dance with stubborn fans with a low bar. kuribo-04 said: It's a bit created for tone, to put us in the characters heads. To show us what Nyaan feels for Shuuji. What's there to think about that cut? That Nyan has even MORE reasons to fall in love for a souless character? She's already over the moon with Shuuji before that. That cut was just redudant and ridiculous IMHO. kuribo-04 said: This might look silly in live action, but certainly not in an anime with SUPER cartoony designs. Going by your logic and low bar if they had pulled out a Coyote & Roadrunner joke about both of them smashing themselves into a wall to the point of them becoming 2d paper cartoons that would also be okay, just because they are silly cartoons. Am I right? kuribo-04 said: Blah why am I even explaining shit to you. Because you're stubborn on barfing your low bar on someone that obviously has a higher bar and we've been thru this in a quite lengthy matter. I know you'll still bark at me with stupid reasons for me to just "turn my brain off" and enjoy bullshit, but that's not my thing. kuribo-04 said: Ryuko fucking falls to Earth at the end of Kill la Kill without anyone being injured at all? Not even the same GENRE nor TONE. KLK was so OVER THE TOP that doing something rational would had felt out of place (we the fans always joke how every single Trigger anime would make their cast go into space). So I'll have to strike your verbal diahrrea as "false equivalence". kuribo-04 said: Machu punching in the code is all the confirmation that we need that she saw it, plus it's a little surprise, and tells us with zeronexposition she's a quick thinker. Efficient storytelling. TRANSLATION: me kuribo-04 will believe anything because I don't need to think for myself. There I explained it to everyone in the room. Edit: I'll also add an attachement on your statement that "she's a quick thinker". This would feel certified/justified if she was some sort of overachiever at school, had some hobby that would sharpen her senses or she would practice any kind of instrument that would make her more skillful in order to learn new things. Nothing similar has happened before, maybe I'm imagining things but her scores weren't that good in the early episodes (you or anyone else can correct me). It makes it harder to believe that a bland character that only has magical powers to pilot a Gundam can also be skillful in other areas without a previous foundation on it. |
KimurahMay 21, 8:06 AM
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| @AdmiralAngeldust Well, all haters are like that, 0% reading comprehension lol |
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| Challia has much Main Protag Aura is insane. So I guess all of this is heading into a confrontation between Nyaan Vs Amate. |
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@AdmiralAngeldust Well, all haters are like that, 0% reading comprehension lol
| @AquaMercury ZERO READING COMPREHENSION And you conveniently ignored the post where I demonstrated that Machu didn't actually see the code herself BECAUSE ANQI'S HAND COVERED EACH DIGIT IN THE 5 DIGIT COMBINATION. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2215342&id=72768346 |
| After the introduction of Bask Om and Psycho Gundam in the previous episode, I was expecting a real massacre. Thousands of corpses and Machu's mother being slaughter. Unfortunately, Khara didn't deliver. On the plus side, we've probably already put that nasty triangle behind us. Even if it's realistic, I'm not turning on Gundam to suffer through such crap. Machu is finally starting to face the consequences of her own idiocy. True, they're milder than I'd like. Her mother survived, she still hasn't stained her hands with blood. But oh well, it's better than nothing. Now that she's been taken care of by Challia, maybe she'll finally stop being such a scumbag. Grey Ghost can be her father figure and correct her. A bit like Sergei Smirnov and Soma Peries. Although the latter wasn't as much of a waste as Machu. The way Challia stepped into action and destroyed the AltTitans was powerful. I hope he shows even more. The guy is the brightest point in the series at the moment. On top of that, his agenda is more than everyone's repeated - "I want my boyfriend back". Preventing war and probably mass genocide is something worth getting your hands and conscience dirty. Let's just hope they lead it well. So far it looks like Machu will be the MAV for Challia and Nyaan for Xavier. This could be really good, although I don't want Challia and Xavier to fight each other... but oh well, I expect ruthlessness from Gundam. |
| These truly are the topics of all time. To high bar man I'll just say Trigger staff are the alumni of Tsurumaki, so no, their styles aren't that different. Your "high bar" is just arbitrary permissions you give to different works. High or low scores at school don't mean someone is or isn't a quick thinker. Machu paid attention and saw the code. That's it. A show is allowed to reveal new aspects of a character as it goes along, despite your incredibly high bar not allowing you to like that for some reason. "I know you'll still bark at me with stupid reasons for me to just "turn my brain off" and enjoy bullshit, but that's not my thing." You have yet to say anything insightful or interesting about this show. I really don't know where this superiority comes from. |
kuribo-04May 21, 9:21 AM
kuribo-04 said: To high bar man I'll just say Trigger staff are the alumni of Tsurumaki, so no, their styles aren't that different. Who's talking about style? I'm talking about tone and genre. KLK was an over the top brawler fighting show with some sci-fi sprinkled on top. KLK is more akin to Dragon Ball Z series than to hard sci-fi shows like Gundam or other mech shows. You can bark all you want, but just because you say an orange is the same as an apple it doesn't make it so. kuribo-04 said: High or low scores at school don't mean someone is or isn't a quick thinker. Machu paid attention and saw the code. That's it. A show is allowed to reveal new aspects of a character as it goes along, despite your incredibly high bar not allowing you to like that for some reason. As it goes along, AKA an asspull. But then again you're the kind of guy that will eat anything the writer throws at you just because the writer said so. It reminds me of that Southpark episode were the 4 kids were playing as anime heroes and Cartman kept saying that his character had all kinds of powers and he would blurt he could do X power as they go while Kyle and the others always gave him the side-eyes. We're up to episode 7 and just now we're being taught that a D grade student with no aspirations, no hobbies, and no skills can brute force a safe? Come on. This is something that should have been established beforehand (basic lampshading) but then again you don't care for anything about well established story writing. kuribo-04 said: You have yet to say anything insightful or interesting about this show. I really don't know where this superiority comes from. I missed the part where anyone in here is bound by duty to provide positive feedback to any kind of entertainment. If you have some sort of rosetta stone, book (or inside your little brain where everyone should be on the same level as you) please provide these sets of rules to everyone in here. Likewise I could hypothetically also accuse you for not pointing out any flaws in the show as it goes... Insightful or interesting verbal diahrrea coming from you? Your most significant contributions to this and other threads are "LOL, it's Gundam, who cares what happens". I'll just stop our word interchange here, otherwise people will think that this clown fiesta of a show does generate hype. |
KimurahMay 21, 9:42 AM
| Something insightful or interesting doesn't have to be positive lol. Tbh I don't remember if I've said this on MAL but I think the show kinda botches the Char part compared to the movie. Episode 2 is pretty awkward. So no, I'm not 100% positive. I've never said "lol it's Gundam who cares what happens", I've said that physics don't matter in a scene CLEARLY and obviously designed around tone, drama, style and rule of cool. That you fail to notice or understand this shows a serious lack of media literacy. And since you keep throwing ad hominems, I'll have to keep countering this high bar bullshit. Bro.BRO. You've given a 6/10 to schlock like A Kite. Where's this high bar? |
kuribo-04May 21, 9:54 AM
| This is some crap zoomer romcom for teenage girls. Waste of nice art. |
| I've enjoyed Gquuuux so far, truly, but I wish they dedicated a bit more time to explore the dynamic between Machu, Nyaan and Shuji and to showcase more adversaries in Clan Battle. Thre have been only 4 episodes with proper battles and that part of the story seems to be already over. This episode cements they idea that Machu and Nyaan don't actually care about Shuji as a person. They like him as a mystery, as a canvas to project their desires into. They talk about him, but they don't talk with him, they don't listen. They planned a way to run away and "protect" Shuji without consultim him, just for him to blip into "the other side" with the red gundam leaving them both behind. Machu and Nyaan shared a few cute moments running errands, but not enough to develop an actual frienship. None of them tried to get to know Shuji, never asked him how did he found the gundam or why is he living alone on the streets. Annqi was right.  Deux has a lot of wasted potential. She looks cool, but the only thing we learned about her is that she was an artificial newtype. She didn't even get to interact with any of the main characters the way Shiiko did in her own episode. The other adversaries are forgetable. The animation is great, the stakes are getting higher and higher, the plot has a lot of depth and the music is fantastic. I just wish we had a bit more of time with this part of the story before moving into whatever is coming next (after what seems like another flashback episode). |
SleepingAsteriaMay 21, 3:45 PM
| I don't like Nyaan or Shuuji. I guess I just think their personalities suck, Idk. |
SleepingAsteria said: They like him as a mystery, as a canvas to project their desires into. Most of the teens in love do exactly that, aren't they? Nice to have somehow realistic take about this in the show. Objectively speaking Shuji is a total psycho, nobody should've crush on him. |
| Darn, what a cliffhanger. Are we going back to the prologue/movie content next week? Kinda wish they kept those movie-exclusive so that we could dedicate the full season to Machu/Nyaa. |
| That was amazing. Best episode yet. I love the build up with all the plots slowly converging and then culminating into a crazy episode like this. It almost reminds me of my all-time favorite Gundam battle scene which was in Gundam Hathaway. I really wish this series was longer. I feel like it would've been perfect if they had more episodes to flesh out all the characters. Deux would've probably befriended Machu or Nyaan on the street for an episode before her demise. What a missed opportunity. It feels like they're advancing the plot at breakneck speeds to compensate for the 12 episode limit. |
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@JewelRunner
I'm sorry to disappointed you this happen a lot in gundam series since OG gundam.
Put pretty girl for short time screen........ Then dies.
I'm sorry to disappointed you this happen a lot in gundam series since OG gundam.
Put pretty girl for short time screen........ Then dies.
| @RedCobra75 True. Not to look far, Challia Bull was one such figure... and now, the guy literally rules. I don't really believe Deux died. This isn't the kind of thing we've seen in Gundams. |
| This episode has Anno's fingerprints all over it. That Gundam shooting lasers everywhere was straight outta Shin Godzilla. Anyways it was a good episode. Seems like things are heating up right now. |
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This episode has Anno's fingerprints all over it. That Gundam shooting lasers everywhere was straight outta Shin Godzilla.
Anyways it was a good episode. Seems like things are heating up right now.
Anyways it was a good episode. Seems like things are heating up right now.
| @Runasius That's true, but he isn't actually credited on it. Mahiro Maeda is though, and he helped out on Shin Godzilla. I think at this point all these guys influence each other. |
| Insane episode but they keep adding interesting characters and killing them off just like that. Lemme see more of the mom character and Deux dammit ๐ญ. |
| So is this Red Gundamn teleporting? |
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