Gundam Reconguista in G: Profound Weaponized Storytelling or Unintelligible Garbage? | G-Reco 

ALL HAIL THE GREAT GOD MICKEY!

The thing with Tomino is the fact that he has been working almost nonstop for over 40 years, so some of his ideas are brilliant, but others are just plain dumb. But he keeps on working and creating new things. That's probably the secret.

@@absa he was like this back in the 90s too tho victory gundam would have been so good if he wasnt so weird and cynical!

He's just too galaxy-brained for us.

I wish him and Hideo Kojima would make a Gundam game together.

Yeah, something like that would've done wonders for the story. Either that or just focus on one plot, be it the venus globe, towasanga or the capital army... not the three at the same time.

It did work better in his 6 compilation movies, so yeah.

Given their eccentrics and the fact Tomino's one of the most stubborn people on Earth, I'd bet they'd both have a terrible time. This may have worked when Tomino was younger but he's not.

Hahaha that pairing has only 2 possible outcomes: a fantastic magnum opus that reinvigorates the mecha genre with the power of an exploding sun... or a super weird and incomprehensible plot that alienates and destroys it.

After drinking a 30 pack, Taro would take Gundam completely off the rails and turn it into Ikaruga and who would be the main character? A garbage can of course

That's exactly my problem... if it's trying to deliver this supposed anti war metatextual message, at least make it interesting to watch.

Thank you very much!

Interesting, because AGE got in due to Level-5's insistence on "making Gundam for children" via their Little Battler's Experience (LBX) series. After AGE, Level-5's mostly went back to their Professor Layton & Yo-kai Watch series...leaving LBX to the dust & AGE for Sunrise to pick up the pieces. Tbh, part of Sunrise is also to blame. They still foster this "don't take it seriously, it's for kids" mindset in some of their shows, like Build Divers & Re;Rise. It's easier to them to not think of character & narrative development when anything can be excused.

@@TheRibbonRed And to sell toys. I mean the Build series was good. But it has long overstayed its welcome.

@@aliastheabnormal well, the whole Gundam franchise exists to sell toys. But 00, IBO, Build Fighters, Origin, Thunderbolt, Hathaway, etc. still think about their characters & the story. There's really no excuse to not properly expand them out. People saying "it's for kids" is inherently mocking us for watching it & children for their comprehension. As if kids couldn't get how good a show would be & it'd just be a waste to make anything good for them.

@@TheRibbonRed AGE wasn't meant to be an anime to begin with. It was an RPG. But some higher up decided to take the plot of a JRPG and place it whole cloth on a 50 episode anime.

@@aliastheabnormal yet even then, they didn't properly expand a lot of AGE (especially Kio's Arc) & things just happened for the Asuno bloodline to solve because they're the MC.

I'll recommend the compilation movies over the TV. At least there, it's more focused & didn't have writing problems with Bellri & the world around him.

Wow, so the movies really do a better job at explaining the story? I think that I'll check them out sooner than later then.

@@absa It would be awesome to see you do a review of the movies as well while making comparisons to how the story is told between the TV and film formats.

All the Tomino Gubdams are worth watching, even if you don't like them.

Didn’t know that. Hopefully I can rent the movies or crunchyroll gets them

@@telluhwatboy Eventually Gundam info will air them

I don't know what's worse. The fact that the SU-cordists didn't learn a god damn thing from UC. Or that SU-cordism actually managed to fix the Earth...

@@aliastheabnormal Both implications are hilarious either way you look at it, The concept of building a religion around space power cords is hilarious and wacky and that's why I love it

@@ShinetoZeroX GundamInfo did air the first three, but waiting for all 6 is near-impossible. They really want you to buy them all to experience it, and they'd rather re-air the worse TV version if push comes to shove. They still haven't aired all of Origin, so why expect the G-Reco movies?

A major theme found in G-Reco is also in Dune, that being not too rely too much on leaders and believing what they say so easily.

its before, but Turn A is a combination of 3 different timelines so its not directly a continuation.

I don't know, aside Genius Klim and maybe Mask and his whole kuntala pride... all of the others feel a little bit uninspired.

The characters were absolutely 'meh'. When anyone died I just blinked and shrugged.

I have seen 3 of the 5. I would say it is easier to comsume than the series. SRW X is the fastest way to know story of G-Reco tho, imo.

Yeah, hopefully the movies tell a more concise story, that's the only thing really missing, everything else feels like gundam.

Llegó un punto donde ya dije prácticamente todo lo que tenía que decir de Saint Seiya e intenté hablar de robots pero al público no le interesó tanto así que preferí seguir mi camino ahora en inglés.

Destiny was great until Kira came back lol.

​@@joeyzapata6786honestly yeah, wasnt amazing but was enjoyable before Kira

​@@joeyzapata6786This, the entire first half of Seed Destiny was interesting Then the 2nd half happened

Well sai and laid out. Any love for this crappy excuse for a Gundam series is nothing but cope for fawning fans of a director who enjoyed the smell of his own farts one too many times.

Haha right now I just started checking out Aquarion but I'll do my best to check out Zoids.

@@absa Now that is something I look forward to as someone with only a tangential involvement with Zoids. (I feel the one series I saw did the 'mech fighting as a sport' thing better than any other attempt I've heard of.) Getting to know it better from someone who's depth of analysis and opinion has earned my respect is something I look forward to.

It's still there... just in sleep-mode haha.

@@absaHahaha I understand, at least I know you're okay, your inactivity on that channel made me worry

You really believe so? I mean, I can more or less understand the G-Gundam statement... but Turn A?

@@absa 1- Plot was one way or another depends "durr hurr Diana-sama" point and I can't endure this. 2- Turn A's tremendous power level and references on non animated contents (also my next reason) makes Turn A looks like a mecha-Dragonball Z than a realrobot story. Same way, Loran's attempts as using %1 (or %0.001) power mode were unacceptable design choice for me too. 3- Turn A's "end of all timelines" presentation not worked on my headcanon and references shows itself as a fanfiction. After War Gundam X or G Gundam elements were unreconizable. Same way SEED's Coordinators, 00's Innovators, AGE's X Rounders, G Reco's outer sphere factions or IBO's destroyed Moon or terraformed Mars not worked on Turn A's story on me. 4- Characters weren't memorable for me. I can't say Turn A was 1/10 show but I can't say above 6/10 for me. I can understand likers arguments due people wanted see this a "end of all timelines" or "Ghibli Gundam" but I prefer G Reco as a far future story and consider every timeline as stand alone except G Reco.

I'd say Build Divers & Re;Rise is equal to AGE, and this is a bit higher but not by much. Turn A is above all of them though.