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wtfNeedSignUp said:
So if I want to be Gundam pilled, what is the anime I should and what in what order?

I remember watching the films of the first series some years ago, and watched G Gundam more for meme reasons.
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Technically, you should watch in release order, but here's a cheat sheet.

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If you don't want to touch the UC timeline, Gundam Ironblooded Orphans is a fun watch
 
Jason_Cruiser said:
The show was supposed to last way longer than it did. Originally it was planned to basically be a monster of the week show, which is why the middle half is so slow and repetitive, but when the show was close to cancelation they massively increased the pacing. The last ten episodes are great and the ending is unique for a show of its era. But your completely right about the quality around that point. The animation gets very lazy and every fight re-uses the same few clips of a Zaku blowing up multiple times a episode.


I dropped Gundam with Zeta. I couldn't stand Kamille as a character, he's a re-tread of Amuro, but way more retarded, where most of the bad things that happened to him were his own fault. I also got really bored with the story. The politics of Gundam are very samey and have that anti-war "let's get along, everyone is equal" boomer liberalism that's painful to look back on in the 21st century.
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Kamille is different from Amuro, but he is indeed infuriating to see. He is like a turbo autistic dude, but if you hated him, then you should watch Zeta to the end then. You will get something interesting then.

I rank Judau > Amuro > Kamille in the first part of UC Gundam.

>anti-war "let's get along, everyone is equal"

Not at all, they understand that living on Earth is better and even after fucking earth up, they still don't let spacenoids go down there. But then you have different spacenoids ideologies later with space aristocracy and later space feminism mumbo jumbo (Mariaism). The thing is less about equality and more about letting spacenoids decide their fate

It is more complex than your reduction
 
Registration said:
Kamille
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I think the main problem with Kamille is just the fact that he's a very VERY powerful New Type who gets fucked up by his interactions with other newtypes which causes him to sperg the fuck out.

Amuro does to an extent as well, what with his interactions with Chaar but he's a lot older when his new type abilities fully manifest and I think it's stated that he's a lot weaker than Kamille is in terms of the whole empathy thing
 
I swear, Slam Dunk's soundtrack sounds more like video game arcade music than anime music, I love it even if it's likely I'll never remember a single moment a killer soundtrack plays in by itself.

Imam Shamil said:
You guys know any chill mangas? I need some stuff to read when travelling to work. Ideally nothing echii or wierd cuz I'm gunna read this shit in public.
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Naoki Urasawa's Monster.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
So if I want to be Gundam pilled, what is the anime I should and what in what order?

I remember watching the films of the first series some years ago, and watched G Gundam more for meme reasons.
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Speed through 0079 so you can watch War in the Pocket now which is the best time of the year to see it.
 
HexFag said:
Speed through 0079 so you can watch War in the Pocket now which is the best time of the year to see it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ShHntNzRgI
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Brutal gun kills in that. 0080, 08th MS Team, and Stardust Memory are all I need. Yeah G Gundam is a fun romp, but there's too much shit to wade through when it comes to a decades long multimedia empire. Stick with the more grounded stories and you can't go wrong.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Brutal gun kills in that. 0080, 08th MS Team, and Stardust Memory are all I need. Yeah G Gundam is a fun romp, but there's too much shit to wade through when it comes to a decades long multimedia empire. Stick with the more grounded stories and you can't go wrong.
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I still cant deal with the fact that the guy who is doing the new manga version got cancer. It wouldn't be the first gundam manga that would be unfinished due to death by disease.
 
Registration said:
New Evangelion short im february 2026
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The event will take place at the Yokohama Arena from February 21 through 23, and the short will screen one time each day on the arena's 18 meter x 15 meter (about 59 feet x 49 feet) giant LED screen.

Khara and Shochiku are also collaborating for the Kabuki Kōkyōkyoku Dai Kyū-ban Evangelion (Kabuki Symphony No. 9 Evangelion) kabuki project. The performance will also be held at the "Evangelion:30+; 30th Anniversary of Evangelion" festival.
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BingBongDingDong said:
You're bitching about the plot but admit to skimming shit and then get annoyed and things that are clearly explained.
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Gimmick Account said:
I was also semi-skimming at this point (mainly just because the SHARKS ON A PLANE spaceship to namek felt a little needless and wore me out) but c'mon man, the monks said who they were.
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I'm bitchig about a Deus Ex Machina. The point of the negative spaces is that they are pocket planes, it's not like Momo had a GPS.
I have read everything again from chatper 200 to the end of the arc and I still don't know where they explained the monks appearing? I have 2 screenshots but it's flimsy at best.

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Gimmick Account said:
I really don't know what you're complaining about, the mini-momo thing felt like it had actual stakes and the outcome (post where you apparently stopped) has let the series revisit some of the best stuff and feels like it's set up as deliberate refocusing of all the stuff going on.
And also a really cool and fun fight we just had. Imagine wanting to include those in a fun and cool fight manga.
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Trust me, I love the fights in here. I like taking the time looking at the panneling, it's great but I still think the manga suffers of too much of a good thing. Putting so many fights back to back just makes me go: did this fight accomplish anything? Are there consequences to it besides a power-up?
"Are our heores in danger?", "Did the fight they had 2 hours ago put a toll on them?", "Did they blow their load too early?" "Are they in danger of losing even if they win?"
It's a staple of shonen to have dramatic fights every 5 chapters but I hate it when we are told that the fighter is on their last legs, wins the fight and then has to fight again as if nothing happened.

Anyways, I just feel that chapter 260 will have Momo get her memory back via a kiss from Okarun or a lightning bolt or any convenient method of her saving the gang at the last second. Just like chapter 117.
 
Hell yeah. Still wrapped in cellophane.
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One of the rarest DVDs I'll ever own. Think this is more rare than the Catnapped! DVD by a long shot.
 
TopTierHealer said:
Putting so many fights back to back just makes me go: did this fight accomplish anything? Are there consequences to it besides a power-up?
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Well yeah, in this case: there was a pretty serious ticking clock going on with major consequences (which turned out to not even be a fake-out despite what ended up happening being slightly different than what they were worried about). Everything slowing them down was a major problem. Except the plane thing, which was part of my issue with it, since taking time to reach your destination is just kinda how planes work whether you get attacked by lizard people during the flight or not.

I understand being fatigued though, it probably didn't help that there was so much battling leading up to it. Personally I'm usually fine with this as long as the context is changing up and it's not some volume-long bullshit on a single fight, or the author completely forgets that they used to have regular shit going on between battles. But it seems to be returning to the non-fighting stuff currently.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
TorrentFreak: Crunchyroll Takedown Efforts Target Anime Torrent Client Hayase (archive) (mega)
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As seen in the archive:
Through their Indian takedown partner, MarkScan, Crunchyroll recently asked GitHub to remove links to various Hayase releases. Notably, the notice cites Indian IT regulations alongside U.S. copyright law to support its demands.
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Definitely not helping with the bad press India is getting over the last couple of years.
 
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