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I’m not a huge Gundam dan in general. I thought ironblooded orphans was fantastic but some of the older series seem to lose their purpose on me. Despite that I really enjoyed 08th team despite its flaws.

Where the anime goes right. I great action packed high quality animated Gundam with plenty of fun action. The fights have a sense of grounding to them which makes them very enjoyable and they are all animated superbly especially for the age of the anime. While the style will show this anime’s age the animation it’s self does not. Following a ragtag squad of pilots going about their missions ... while not necessarily being the linchpin of every major battle really works for me as I feel like I’m really watching what a squad of troops in war would experience.

Where the anime goes wrong. Every episode about the main love interest and pacifism is just boring to me. The love interest doesn’t feel deserved or interesting. It feel increasingly forced. When 08th takes a major turn into being about war being bad and peace is the only way just simply destroys the pacing. I’m here to see giant robots blow each other up not be told how bad war is. I know war is bad that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun to watch.

At the end of the day the good out weights the bad for me and it’s not a series that gets too bogged down in politics and jargon that you have to have watched 3 other series in their entirety to understand. Would recommend if you are looking for a fun action Gundam to watch just be ready for the mood killers.

how TF we getting a score above 7 on this anime (7.34 at the time of writing).

spoiler-free review

The first 4 sections of this review are the experience of watching this anime and what watching it puts you through. the very bottom will be the TL;DR and all you really need to know

OK so a bit of back story on this anime and my experience watching. Before watching this anime I saw it and had heard good things about it though knew nothing about it so I got in the discord VC with a few of the boiis and we began watching. A few of my ... boiis knew nothing but had heard of the anime GOD eater.

THE START
So for the beginning of the anime, we watched and it was just kinda slow and boring but I wasn't going to judge the anime based on one episode so we kept watching. The anime struggled with several things at the very beginning. For starters, nothing is really explained in the anime. You need to pick up a lot of things about this world bassed on anime tropes ( which don't worry it relies on a ton of them) and context clues. It makes a well-illustrated and potentially interesting world but I'm still not sure I know anything about it. Passed that the actual visual its self constantly switches between 3D CGI animated and 2D hand-drawn animation. While the 2D is not bad and the 3D is pretty sloid compared to most 3D animation I've seen the problem lies with its constant switching between the two. it swaps animation for no rhyme or reason. it's not even like all the fights are done in CGI and exposition is done in 2D, nah it'll do both either way. it seems like the animators just couldn't be bothered to give a shit some days. Past that my complaints about these first few episodes are quite simple. The anime relies on a simple law. The rule of cool. The rule of cool states that if it looks cool ... they will probably just put it in this anime cuz why TF not. even if it makes no sense for it to be put there. Past that the characters in the anime... well TBH they don't really give me a reason to care about any of them except the ones with big ol tiddies so there are a few good characters in the anime. Pretty much everyone whether you like or dislike this anime seems to agree that it starts slow. Well, no argument from me there. We read a few reviews after giving the anime the obligatory 3 episodes to truly get a feel for it. The reviews seemed to agree that after the slow start around episodes 4 or 5 it really picks up and sucked them in. Well, who were we to argue? we agreed we needed to see where this anime "really picked up".

THE PICKUP
After episode 3 the anime really picks up. Or so we were told. At this point Id like to explain how poor the pacing in this anime is. despite being an action anime about GUNS TITS and EXPLOSIONS. very little is accomplished in each episode. At one point one of my boiis left to go eat. he was gone for about an episode when he returned he asked what he had missed. the answer lasted about 3 sentences. The anime does a poor job of making us feel concerned about these characters. During these episodes we each stopped and asked ourselves do any of us care if any of these guys die? The answer was other than me being concerned for the one girl with huge badonkers. No. no one really cared. The issues in these episodes are the same as previously except we were promised better.

THE ENDING
So if you are actually reading this review and wondering how I can write about the ending when I've only seen 6 episodes well then do I have an answer for you. we skipped to the last episode. We wanted to see if this anime would still make sense to us even though we had only seen 5 previous episodes. The answer, yeah pretty much. the only things we were curious about were all pretty trial things that didn't seem to impact the actually ending more so just made it so the characters have an answer to a problem that we already knew about. The problems continued, we didn't care about the cardboard cutouts they placed in front of us and called characters. And down to this animes final moments, it follows the one rule it set in place. The rule of cool. The ending is just whatever looks cool cuz why not.

IN CONCLUSION
This anime is not good and does nothing a good action anime should set out to accomplish. However, if you are looking for something to laugh at and crack a few jokes over well then look no further. This anime is bad but has plenty to make fun of. If you know how to make a good time of a bad anime then this is a big recommendation.

I know I put this anime at a 1 but, honestly its the best 1 you will ever watch. After finishing this anime I couldn't decide between giving the anime a score of 9 or 1. still not sure BTW. But the reason for this is because it is the greatest shit storm I've ever watch. While me and the homies are stuck in quarantine hundreds of miles apart. We watch anime together and this is a great anime to watch with friends. Get a group of the boiis together and laugh at the mess that is bloodivores.

SUPER MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD

So the only thing ... left to say I guess is why its so bad.
To start with the story. I still am not sure what it is. The anime makes rules then breaks them the next second. It's like every character in the anime both the MCs and the extras seem either idiotic or deaf or both. Cuz as soon as we are told one thing it's like they didn't hear it or just chose to ignore it. At one point dozens of people are told everyone in this room is a bloodivore. Then the next 3 episodes are full "wait he's a bloodivore?" "that girl is a bloodivore?" "I'm a bloodivore????". everything that's introduced just makes no sense or is a lie and isn't actually explain that it was a lie cuz they keep repeating it like its the truth. TIME PARADOX BTW

The art is actually amazing. This part isn't even sarcasm or satire or anything. I genuinely mean its amazing. its amazing how lazy the animation got. I mean in the second episode the MC breaks his fucking neck just leaning back. Every flashbang is actually a small atomic bomb for some reason. There are just random 3-5 second breaks that I think the video is buffering but nope, they just randomly froze a frame for like 5 seconds for no reason. Sometimes when another character starts talking you can tell the animator forgot anyone else was in frame either that or all the characters are playing the most intense game of red light green light I have ever seen because they will just stop moving no matter how awkward the position. Also full-auto shotgun.

The sound. Well, its either amazing or terrible and I honestly have no idea. I was too distracted by the rest of the shit show to see if the sound engineering was on point.

Enjoyment. FUCKING 10. god I loved the experience of watching this with friends. If you don't have friends maybe it's not a watch for you but it might still be funny by yourself.

Overall 1 or a 9. its really hard to say could go either way.