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Nayrael said: tingy said: I liked how McGillis mentioned what I said last episode (but in a better way), that it was hypocritical of the Gjallarhorn to have rejected the Alaya-Vijnana system, yet creating something totally beyond that. By extension, it means that they don't care for their own values and instead do whatever it takes to complete their goals. Gaelio wasn't a bad person, but his acceptance of what Ein had become showed that he was not much different from the organization he also knew as corrupted. It was good when they showed Gjallarhorn soldiers saying that their mobile suit was like a demon. If you forgot, he only accepted it because McGillis manipulated him into it. And even McGillis needed several attempts to finally succeed. So no, he wasn't corrupted. He just trusted McGillis too much. desertkona said: How the fuck they are survive, maybe Ein survive too lol Why are so many people surprised? We saw their bodies in last ep, none were dismembered or struck fatal blows (I guess that even insane, Ein instinctively fought to incapacitate rather than kill). Nah I am just very Happy, that they are survive, because you know that blood in episode 24 |
| On second thought, I do have to agree with those who feel disappointed at how none of the important characters on Tekkadan's side died. It really does feel like Tekkadan's plot armor is being taken a little more overboard than necessary. Although the damage Mika took from forcing Barbatos and his body to the limit hurts, it's only appropriate for him to pay that rather heavy price. Like GH paid the appropriately heavy price. Yet Tekkadan on the whole (Mika excluded as the mc) didn't suffer damage that could be felt by us viewers in this final battle at all. Every named character miraclously survived! To say that it's unbelievable and cheapened the ending a lot is an understatement. I mean, they could've killed a couple of faces we know so we could actually feel some gravity from the battle, and still have the improtant cast left: ok, we still might need Shino for the possible development between him and Yamagi, and we might need Lafter for possible Akihiro/Lafter later on, but I see no objective reason not to kill off Azee and Ride/Dante, for example, the former so that Naze could make a little sad but important speech about choices and their consequences and the latter for Tekkadan to grieve on-screen in a way we could relate. Now that I think about it, this is probably the reason I find that the last episode, despite being not bad overall, can't hold a candle to the previous one in any aspect, and I still have this aftertaste of disappointment by the final, despite knowing that we'll have a 2nd season. |
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
| Well I called it halfway through the anime that we are likely to get a sequel. So, Biscuit is just a fat bastard who didn't mean anything? I am really enjoying(!) the comments that say none of the important characters on Tekkadan's side died. Even though his death was pathetic, I still think he deserves a bit of a recognition for playing the part of holding the Tekkdan together. Besides, he was the one who went against handing Kudelia over to the enemy. Coming back to the episode, it was a bit rushed but it played out okay in the end. McGillis gave me the creeps the way he used his subordinate Ein, his lover Carta, and his only friend Gaelio. I am just glad that Lafter, Akihiro, Azee, Shino and even Orga who almost certainly raised his final flag when he went out on his own survived the battlefield. Mikazuki lost his right eyesight and the ability to use his right arm too, which is quite tragic on its own. But loved it when Atra and Kudelia (blushing too) patted him. Anyways, I noticed the pirate boys (Akihiro brother's friends) joined Tekkadan after all. Don't think they were shown between episode 13 and this final one. Overall, I really liked the anime but I will stick with a 7.5/10 I guess because of the cheap drama before deaths of Akihiros' brother, then Fumitan and even Biscuit. Will hope for a better sequel and eagerly wait for it! |
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lord23 said: Not really if you read the comments Not review not everyone thinks like you ( shallow I guess ? must make you an ugly person inside huh ) there where a lot of decent human beings who give good comments about Biscuit here But I don't expect anything form someone who views characters for their looks means I don't have to take a troll like you seriously :) What part made you think I was judging Biscuit because of his looks. Check the forum for episode discussion thread when he died and even now some are claiming that no important character died. Biscuit died a rather pathetic death something he didn't deserve. Watch his death scene again as he tried to cling to life to see it through with Orga, Mika and everyone else in the Tekkadan. He is (well was is now more appropriate) one of my favourite characters and it just added salt to it when Shino and Eugene mentioned about his sisters in this episode. |
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KING_Solomon16 said: Mmm, then you're not watching this show attentively enough, evidently? Which is your choice untimately and no one's forcing you to watch something you don't find interesting enough to want to pay attention to of your own will, but it also makes it your fault not knowing who Dante/Ride etc are. CG said: Oh you want to play it like that huh ? okay lets do it your way, Sorry But I don't know who your talking about they seem pretty forgot able and not important, so I don't understand your argument :/ I don't remember side Characters who don't move the plot sorry, what where their names again ? I only remember important characters who died in this season not forgot able ones who survived.I mean, they could've killed a couple of faces we know . And before anything, are people misunderstanding something in regards to my post above? I thought it was obvious that I personally (don't know about others) was talking about the final episode and final battle only, not the whole season and not Buscuit (whom I personally didn't even mention, fyi). Before you start accusing me of any more sins, 7.5? Heh, my final score for this series is 9/10 which's probably a lot higher than most people's here, mind you, but what I don't like, I don't like, and I found the last episode cheapened by the miraclous contrieved survivals all over the place. |
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
One could unmistakably tell that Graze Ein was burning with passion...  I do not know whether his (or its) performance was dramatic or comical (particularly Ein calling Mikazuki a monster). Nevertheless, I am glad he (or it) was taken care of.  The McGillis versus Gaelio fight was priceless, in a dramatic sense as well as from an aesthetic point of view. Grimgerde is a seriously photogenic unit, watching it engage the Kimaris was a bliss! It is a shame, however, that Gaelio had to die.  On the note of death, I am genuinely surprised the female duo managed to survive, for better or worse. |
GhostofSide6 said: ...Eh. I expected much more. So for a while now they'd been building up the whole revenge thing. All the kids were talking about revenge. So, out pops up a guy whose only motivation is revenge, he attacks some named characters and heavily wounds them. Perfect, right? We can show the effects of the cycle of revenge! But no, they're actually just fine and dandy. Out the window that aspect goes. The children that had been emotionally wounded by all this war stuff? Who craved only vengeance? They're fiiiine. "they're still brats lmao" this was the worst thing. why even introduce the concept if you're never going to resolve it? the time for that is the last episode of season 1, not season 2 |
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| god damn Chocolate dude is just fucking cold and yes a second season |
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| Damn, I feel pretty bad for Gaelio... Overall a decent series. 7.5/10 my final rating. I'm looking forward to season 2. |
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| Ein went full Jerid: nothing good can ever come out of going full Jerid. I'm glad Mika put this poor irrelevant sod out of his misery but as others have pointed out, the fact that everyone he attacked survived seriously cheapens the impact of the message the show tried to convey regarding revenge and the consequences of taking such a destructive path (tho I can't exactly say I wasn't happy to see Shino survive: I would've been depressed as hell if he was killed here). I can somehow overlook it because we are getting a second season and the deaths of Naze's waifus would've inevitably made the relationship between Tekkadan and his crew more tense. Chocolate Macky Aznable is the purest form of assholeness I've seen in a while: I haven't watched enough AU Gundams to make a proper comparison, but I can say without doubt that this is an excellent Char imitation. My heart is bleeding for Gali Gali and Carta-chan now: they certainly didn't deserve to grow up with such a two faced bastard of a friend. Bless their easily decieved souls, may they find peace in an afterlife free of McGillis's backstabbing ass. As always, Orga x Mika interactions are the best. If only for them and Eugene and Shino, I'm immensly happy we get a season 2. There's plenty more to do with these two characters' relationship and individual progression and I'm looking forward to that. It was a solid Gundam; despite its slowing down around the middle, it managed to pick itself up near the end and absolutely delivered. 7.5 rounded up to a 8/10 for IBO. Keeping my flag raised until season 2 |
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FragOutFire said: GhostofSide6 said: ...Eh. I expected much more. So for a while now they'd been building up the whole revenge thing. All the kids were talking about revenge. So, out pops up a guy whose only motivation is revenge, he attacks some named characters and heavily wounds them. Perfect, right? We can show the effects of the cycle of revenge! But no, they're actually just fine and dandy. Out the window that aspect goes. The children that had been emotionally wounded by all this war stuff? Who craved only vengeance? They're fiiiine. "they're still brats lmao" this was the worst thing. why even introduce the concept if you're never going to resolve it? the time for that is the last episode of season 1, not season 2 And the worst part is, since that never got any resolution, the implication is that it was completely natural of the "brats" to be so completely obsessed with throwing their lives away for revenge. Nevermind the fact that they are child soldiers and that they've been spelling it out since the beginning that this is a terrible situation, and that the main reason they're even fighting is so that this situation never happens again to other children! Nope! They're still brats. I imagine that also applies to those starving children we saw dying in the streets in that brief slide show at the beginning. Man, the more i think about it, the more i dislike this ending. |
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OrangeJP said: That final fight was awesome and I'm hyped for season 2 I can't wait to see an upgraded form of Barbatos next season and hopefully Mika's eye and hand gets fixed :(  Let's just hope Mika doesn't go Inaho on us. |
| That's a good ending they made there. So, I'm still gonna watch the second season. Anyway, I'll rate this a 8 out of 10 score overall. |
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Hope we have Orga and Tekkadan´s men at steam room, not Nobliss Gordon!! |
jirico said: I liked the ending. But too bad no more Mika & Kudelia, it would be nice. And the girls resurrecting in the end was weird because I got so hyped when Ein started to kill everybody, GoT feelings. it was a little strange that the girls were alive. Especially the one with gray hair, because if i remember, Ein hit her in the head o.O But, maybe they are doing this to kill them only in season 2. Let's see xD |
| Well it was never a question of whether there would be a second season or not. Gundam almost always has more than 25 episodes, barring certain catastrophically bad exceptions, since it's basically just one giant Gunpla advertisement lol. Think about it, out of the 72 Gundam machines, we've seen a grand total of 3! There's plenty more Gundam demons to come! Since the first episode I assumed this season was going to be a buildup to a new "Disaster", which is what we're seeing here. There is a resolution with ominous signs of impending consequences for Tekkadan's actions (Nobody actually believes there's going to be a happily ever after right now, right?). We can be sure that this Independence movement is going to have long-lasting universal consequences. Revolutions are notorious for being a bloody mess and this isn't going to be an exception. |
| What an intense finale. The last episodes were intense, heart thumping, that keeps me on the edge of my seat. Its been so long since I feel that way. It was worth marathoning this than waiting one episode a week. Shion, Laftee, and Azee miraculously survived. I don't care how cheap, poorly written, plot armor or whatever other people negatively say. I'm glad they're alright. Gundam UC is next since I never finished the OVA. |
| With the damages done by Ein, you would think some of the character inside the mobile suit would die 0.0" oh well, the finale is good and I hope the sequel doesn't continue immediately but rather many years into the future. |
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| The only good things in this series were the battle scenes and Biscuit's family. Every thing else was pretty average. Absolutely ZERO character development, especially from Mika's end. If the annoying Kudelia is Relena Peaceful 3.0 then Mika must be Hiiro Yui 3.0. They killed off characters nobody would miss except for Biscuit and from my POV, it was discrimination. Kill off the fat kid that none of the fujoshis would miss. Fuck you, Sunrise. They didn't bother killing any Tekkadan pretty boys or any of the females except for Fumitan whose death was already apparent from the moment people started suspecting that she was a spy. No more than a 6/10 from me. |
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| Pretty good season-ending of a pretty good Gundam series. As of now one of the better I've seen and I hope they won't ruin it the next season. It sucks that Gaelio had to (probably) die now when I started to like him for his humanity while McGillis had thrown away his instead. And while I'm glad that Lafter, Azee and Shino are alive it is kind of bullshit, so I am torn on that. But the final battle was nice and I hope that the next season will be better to be a 10/10 though I very highly doubt it. 8/10 |
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lord23 said: JeffreyZin said: Wasn't trying to ignore you friend sorry :( But Ein is pretty dead since Mika stab the cockpit so he won't be coming back as for Galieo who knows he could be dead he could be alive nobody knows at this point.*cricket sounds* I can't believe NOBODY seems to reply my questions whatsoever. Since BISCUIT IS DEAD, I WANT TO KNOW IS EIN & GALIEO REALLY DEAD?! I CAN'T BELIEVE WE AIN'T GONNA SEE THEIR ACTUAL DEAD BODY & WE NEVER KNOW WHETHER HE'S DEAD OR NOT! Is NOBLESSE GORDON be a bad guy?! I really wanna kill that fat fuck so bad. Geez people on MAL nowadays... that pretty much explains to me why am I getting ignored all the time. I mean I'm curious over what's gonna happen in season 2. Ein and Galieo are likely both very dead. I would imagine that the old guys will likely pay a more prominent part in season 2. Season 1 has been predominantly Tekkadon being manipulated left and right. |
JeffreyZin said: *cricket sounds* I can't believe NOBODY seems to reply my questions whatsoever. Since BISCUIT IS DEAD, I WANT TO KNOW IS EIN & GALIEO REALLY DEAD?! I CAN'T BELIEVE WE AIN'T GONNA SEE THEIR ACTUAL DEAD BODY & WE NEVER KNOW WHETHER HE'S DEAD OR NOT! Was a body found or shown? Are they really truly dead? NO ONE KNOWS. NO. ONE. KNOWS. What we can do know is just speculate or simply wait for Season 2 to find out their fates. Seriously, do you really think anyone of us here knows? You think the writers of IBO are secretly whispering in our ears? It's a gray area. Most of the Gundam antagonists are. JeffreyZin said: Geez people on MAL nowadays... that pretty much explains to me why am I getting ignored all the time. I mean I'm curious over what's gonna happen in season 2. Again, what makes you think we know what will happen in Season 2? Go e-mail the writers and see where that gets you. Lastly, stop being obnoxious and get a chill pill. Then, maybe, people will start giving you attention. Yes, even in the Gundam club. |
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| What a snake. McGillis's treachery knows no bounds. Towards the start of the series I wasn't too fond of Gaelio, but by the end I felt so utterly bad for him. At this point I somehow wanted him to live. McGillis is shaping up to be a very fascinating antagonist, completely stepping all over everyone close to him. It's so creepy to watch McGillis comforting Gaelio's sister though, blegh! I'm absolutely ecstatic about the second season announcement. Given the pace, it feels like the best deal since I really enjoyed the SOL-esque approach to the character growth. It seems like the stage is set for the grand scheme to be set in motion. There were times when I was worried that the slow pace might become too much of an offset from the action, but IBO surprised me with a great balance of both. The sheer amount of tragedy and cruelty was a shock as well. The bond between these orphan soldiers is definitely the highlight of the series. The conversation between Naze and Orga at the end really emphasizes how Tekkaden became a home, a place of hope, and a grave for these kids with an otherwise hopeless future. 9/10 |
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| Not a bad show at all, considering I went into this with no expectations this was an especially nice surprise. Looking forward to watching the second season while it airs since I know having a few of the character deaths spoiled for me ruined a bit of the experience. 3 of my 4 top favorite characters died. McGillis gives off occasional Char vibes (why must the purple haired bff's of the blonde antognists have such cruel fates) And I'm definitely worried about who might die in season 2. Also, Takaki taking up Biscuit's role kinda hurts me considering their similarities.... However, maybe I just wasn't pay attention (which is likely tbh) but I didn't get the impression that Ein died...? Maybe when I rewatch the last ep a few things will get a bit more cleared up for me, but maybe it's possible he'll somehow survive. |
| I hope Ein stays freaking dead, as he was completely annoying. His constant whining and holier-then-you attitude made me want to kill him with a hammer. |
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| finally finished IBO! it was very good! Mikazuki made Ein shut the hell-up to oblivion but the price is no more right hand/arm for fapping & right eye also? what!? no kiss from Kudelia? and no kiss also from Merribit to Orga? nopt even a developing romance? d'awwww Shino, Lafter & Azee survived! we all thought they were dead...whew! oh man! McGillis too strong! even his red comet gundam frame! LOLZ! 5/5. 8/10. |
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| Poor Gaelio... So chocolate man literally sent his friends to die just to take their political power...? *sigh* That said, is McGillis' mobile suit one of the 72 gundams or did Gaelio lose despite having better specs? Surely, McGillis wasn't THAT superior in piloting.... |
| Better than average action again. So... nobody died (Lafter only appeared to be injured last episode, but Azee looked pretty dead)? I'd half expect Gaelio and robo-man Ein to be back next season (I hope not). I'm guessing McGillis vs Mika will be the final battle next season. 5/10 (average) This was not the next "good gundam" it was hyped to be. Between the boring plot, unappealing characters, and lack of action (though the action was really good when it was there)... pretty disappointed. I hope the next season has more action, that's usually how Sunrise rolls. |
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| So Ein didn't do shit! Lol! At least Shino should have died, who cares about him tbh.. Though as a finale this was kinda "eh", especially how the kids are all back to normal after them going insane with revenge stuff. Eitherway this was a good come back for Gundam after G-Reco. Here's hoping McGillis gets whats coming to him next season. 8/10 |
| This was a good show. It has likeable cast and an action driven plot. Initially it took some time to grasp the story since I was not familiar with the Gundam franchise and felt a little boring and slow from time to time but overall it was good. I think it would've been even more interesting if the characters were adults. It's just sad what McGillis did to his friends. I am pretty sure he will end up being a major antagonist in S2. 7/10 |
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