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Aug 4, 2010 6:28 AM
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So another one bites the dust... exactly 10 minutes after receiving some minimal character development.
Damnit Tomino stop doing that already, its not a sign of good storytelling, or even average storytelling... its one of weak storytelling, of pathetic storytelling... why the hell would people be baited to feel sad over sth as obvious as this? If anything its annoying, especially when the characters react as if they lost their soulmate or sth... I mean for fuck's sake she had what? 2 minutes of screentime? 20 seconds of acting like sth other than eye candy?
Meh...
Nov 11, 2010 4:39 AM
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Really disappointed with the deaths here. The shrike team are very underdeveloped to make me feel any emotion to their deaths, at least Tomino should take the time to develop them further before killing them.
Aug 14, 2012 6:59 PM
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Knew she was going to die as soon as she started talking about herself lol. I've been saying this that Oliver's harem are canon fodder cause if they had real importance they would be more involved with the plot.

Felt bad for Uso though. Also for Suzy too since she realized " Sweet and Kind Chocolate-Cream Sister" was on the enemy side

5/5
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Nov 24, 2012 7:04 AM
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Roloko said:
Knew she was going to die as soon as she started talking about herself lol.

I was exactly the same way! I figured they'd at least leave it an episode or two though.

Other than that, I think the show has picked up a lot in the last few episodes.
Jan 22, 2013 1:28 PM
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Now I guess one woman will die per episode. I think Tomino made the Strike Team so he could kill some characters without anyone caring.
Jan 25, 2014 11:24 AM
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I hope it takes its time before killing the rest of the Shrike Team.
So far this installment is just tragedy after tragedy..
Apr 11, 2014 1:11 AM
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Asher looks completely ridiculous with that crappy mask. If you're going to try and copy Char then please do it right. Also saw that chick dying from a mile away, pointless characters are pointless : /
Apr 21, 2014 10:45 AM
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Alas86 said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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So another one bites the dust... exactly 10 minutes after receiving some minimal character development.
Damnit Tomino stop doing that already, its not a sign of good storytelling, or even average storytelling... its one of weak storytelling, of pathetic storytelling... why the hell would people be baited to feel sad over sth as obvious as this? If anything its annoying, especially when the characters react as if they lost their soulmate or sth... I mean for fuck's sake she had what? 2 minutes of screentime? 20 seconds of acting like sth other than eye candy?
Meh...
yeah that sums up my thoughts for sure, this series has gone from being kind of enjoyable to ZZ levels of poor writing recently, definetly starting to see why people call this the worst gundam

Immahnoob said:
Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit,

tokiyashiro said:

Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

Aug 27, 2014 6:41 AM
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Yet another death that wasn't supposed to make you feel sad, but was more of a device used to develop Uso's character. I don't see why people think that they have care about her death when that isn't exactly the point.

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Dec 18, 2014 8:58 PM

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JizzyHitler said:
Alas86 said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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So another one bites the dust... exactly 10 minutes after receiving some minimal character development.
Damnit Tomino stop doing that already, its not a sign of good storytelling, or even average storytelling... its one of weak storytelling, of pathetic storytelling... why the hell would people be baited to feel sad over sth as obvious as this? If anything its annoying, especially when the characters react as if they lost their soulmate or sth... I mean for fuck's sake she had what? 2 minutes of screentime? 20 seconds of acting like sth other than eye candy?
Meh...
yeah that sums up my thoughts for sure, this series has gone from being kind of enjoyable to ZZ levels of poor writing recently, definetly starting to see why people call this the worst gundam

Agreed, but come on...ZZ clearly is the worst.
Oct 7, 2016 11:06 AM
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another death of the alies in combat....the miseries of the war!!!!
Oct 25, 2016 12:05 AM

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second ♀ pilot KIA ! Looks like it will be one per episode -_- It was again overdramatized in the following scenes, the death preparation was too obvious (previous one was okay), but this time there was no exagerrated reaction of the teammates (that's the most annoying thing in the last case). Instead, Uso's reaction was interesting:
"I couldn't save her".
Is he following the path of Camille Bidan?

Miss Griffon is back to her usual self, again with no exlanation.

My biggest concern is the coherence in the parents infos: they went in space right after their kid was born and then abandoned him? What about this memory of the three of them being together on Earth? And what about the meat her mother left for Uso? ...

3/5 Still easier to watch than Zeta's early segment or some ZZ episodes

Avenger-senpai said:
Asher looks completely ridiculous with that crappy mask. If you're going to try and copy Char then please do it right.

It's just a big "cold mask" like the Japanese wear, but his own is against pollution particles.
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Jan 28, 2017 10:41 PM

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Literally MATILDA-SAAAN 2.0 but even more retarded. At least in 0079 Tomino didn't pretend to give the character some half-assed characterization before killing her off, even if the reactions to her death were just as overblown.
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Jul 29, 2017 10:47 PM

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ZetaZaku said:
Yet another death that wasn't supposed to make you feel sad, but was more of a device used to develop Uso's character. I don't see why people think that they have care about her death when that isn't exactly the point.


I was thinking the same thing here. People are not getting the point. And I'm actually enjoying this show a lot
Aug 29, 2018 6:19 PM

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Yet another death that wasn't supposed to make you feel sad, but was more of a device used to develop Uso's character. I don't see why people think that they have care about her death when that isn't exactly the point.


Yes, I am thinking the same exact thing. The whole point is to convey Uso having to witness the horror of war and death.. that's the character development.. it was for Uso. Tomino did a fantastic job of that in this episode!

Insanely depressing episode and man I felt fucking terrible for Uso. I also absolutely despised the Yellow Jackets in this episode, too.
Jul 26, 2020 2:28 PM

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Nitpick: that mobile armor's main gun was destroyed in ep. 12, but is seen functioning again.

I just realized that the half-transformed Victory looks like a Valkyrie from Macross...when Victory is fully assembled, it can "pull out" its core fighter part so that it looks like GERWALK mode from VF.
https://imgur.com/a/GYv2lAZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie#/media/File:VF-1S-Strike-Valkyrie-02.jpg

What's with the excessive use of black "speed lines" in this episode :p

RIP Mahalia, another oneesan with some strange ideas about using lipstick. This time Uso's reaction was more believable due to his brief experience with her in the cockpit.
Also poor Suzy discovered that her chocolate parfait oneesan was a bad girl :-[
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Jul 7, 2021 12:35 PM

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Just kill them Uso, even on of them executed one of your allies, wtf.
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Oct 25, 2021 9:36 AM

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Victory Gundam, my favorite mexican soap opera.
The worst moments of Z & ZZ were much better than this.
Oct 1, 2023 3:04 AM

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loved this episode, i think Zeta is way worst than this, at least for now, and people spread hate on zz without knowing really why ( they hate the shift in the general tone of the serie)
i think that zz is really unappreciated
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Oct 18, 2023 8:49 AM

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Best episode so far. The fact people don't get what Tomino was doing with this episode and call it poor writing shows why Victory is overhated, he's almost in Zeta level writing here.

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