I don't know, let me load up my Commodore 64 copy of Wizardy... and then get a pizza while the fucking game loads.

Watching Gundam F91.

a: another dude in a metal mask? Really?

b: they aren't even pretending that the Federal Forces are decent human beings this time around.

Yeah; I think the issue is that people just haven't *seen* the actual Tomino Gundam stuff. Mostly they've seen 0083, I think, as their only UC Gundam.

PS the music in this is so totally ripping off Star Wars. I've already heard Yoda's theme and the Imperial March.

PPS it's kind of annoying the way that important transitional scenes are just kind of...not in the movie. Like how the one chick just kind of shows up at the Space Ark and everyone's all "oh I guess she defected".

Ah, okay. That explains how stuff just kind of happens. Although I can pretty much deal with the stuff-comes-out-of-nowhere, I'm able to invent my own context (or at least puzzle out what happened.) It's the way that they just drop things that they went to great effort to introduce.

Like, um, did everyone in the colony die at the end? That seems like it would be kind of an important plot point, especially since they went to all that trouble to show massive civilian casualties. I guess that's just background noise in the Gundam universe?

What about the Fed resistance movement? They just kind of weren't in the story anymore after a bit.

G Gundam holds up surprisingly well. Its one of the few Gundam TV shows, along with the Turn A, that I can still point to and recommend without any qualifiers attached.

On the other hand, it seems like every Gundam OAV I can recommend wholeheartedly, with the only exception being 0083.

New SRW game: Lord of Elemental II: Revelation of Evil God for PSP... but I really want Z2.2 already or 2nd OG, not a game that will definitely will not come out in the US because its on the PSP.

There's a bundle that comes with a PSP remake of the first game using the new game's engine.

I guess the release date is January 12th.
some scans:





edit: Here's the PV:

I'll say what I said last time that game came up: The ability to beat the shit out of the characters from Blood + as pretty much anyone else may be enough to justify the game's existence to me.

They announced Saisei Hen aka Regeneration Chapter: Famitsu article
New Series for this Game:
Tetsujin 28-go (1981)
Macross 7
Macross 7 Dynamite
Macross F Wings of Farewell
Gurren Lagann: The Lights in the Sky are Stars
Gundam 00 Season 2
Code Geass R2

pics in the link.

although its weird that they would announce a game the week after the previous one launched.

edit: the release date is April 5th.

Does that mean the super tengen toppa gurren lagann will be in it?

Zeorymer does fit for that, but I'm guessing that this is all going to culminate in some combination of the final fight in Gurren Lagann with a healthy mixing of Getter elements, hopefully Getter Emperor, most likely the Space Vagina.

What makes the most sense is to have what was in the GL movie where there was the Super TTGL, but also everyone getting a personal Tengen Toppa machine. They'll do that for all the non-Super TTGL robots while that one will be a unit for that mission. Maybe also Emperor or Shin Getter combined with the Shin Dragon. It'll depend on if super spiral space is what exists beyond the Space Vagina.

I might consider checking out Aquarion because the first one was really stupid with moments of robo-brilliance (punch enemy into the moon, running up the sky) and hilarious absurdity, (space cube) so it could be worth watching for those things.

I agree that I hope we get a new Getter anime. Last one was in 2005, New Getter Robo, and we've had two Mazinger properties, Shin and SKL, relatively recently.

I like the '80s Tetsujin 28. :(

I like the move the main character of 00 pulls where he does the double slash then faces the camera as if to say, "So how you doin'?"

I'm really impressed with those VOTOMS animations. Kinda disappointed there aren't really any interesting Gundams.

IAmZim said:

Kinda disappointed there aren't really any interesting Gundams.

Pray tell what Gundams you find interesting.

in Z2.1 Yoko just used Dayakka's Gunman after you got Dai-Gurren, so they'll probably do the same in Z2.2 with the out of mech version being a event only attack like in Z2.1.
Furthermore there's in all likelihood going to be at least 1 more PV and that will probably have more Dramatic Scenes.

If I remember correctly Yoko gets the space suit when they get Arc Gurren (or is it Chou Ginga Gurren) so they'll probably all be in Gunmen by that point if not get their upgrades, but they might have a scene where it warrants her to use her Sniper Rifle outside the mech, so maybe.

Maybe Shin Getter-1 will be able to use Getter Tomahawk in the prologue (because 1. there is a prologue and 2. it didn't have Getter Tomahawk as an attack in Z2.1), but anyway I imagine Go, Kei, and Gai will end up piloting Shin Dragon like they do in the show and D.

BrokenMagnum said:

IAmZim said:

Kinda disappointed there aren't really any interesting Gundams.

Pray tell what Gundams you find interesting..

Well Gundam 00 was from a season which people seemed to find universally disappointing, and a design which I found pretty garrish. I do kind of like the Exia. X is just a very unremarkable AU series, a tier above Wing, but pretty bland nonetheless.

Gundam I find interesting? Turn A, G, UC. Looking forward to Age making an appearance, since they can do some cool stuff with the three generations. Would like to see Unicorn mainly so I can hear a SRW rendition of that amazing soundtrack. Most of all though, I think its cool when obscure stuff like Hathaways Flash gets a shot.

Also very bummed we didn't get the 2004 Tetsujin-28.

The real problem with these three Gundam novels is that they are incredibly dry. There's no metaphors and almost no descriptions. It's written like this: "Amuro's Gundam pointed at the Zak. The Gundam fired. The Zak exploded. Amuro flew the Gundam back to the White Base."

It's just very literal and unpoetic.

The American Robotech novels are frankly way better than these.

Amuro and Sayla have a relationship, though, if you care about that?

I've never even seen any UC Gundam, so details like the relationship wouldn't make much of a difference to me :T I do plan on picking up the movie trilogy sometime soon though.

Movie Trilogy is really great, certainly preferable to the series. The third is mostly new footage, its really well-animated and storywise tones down the loltomino, creating something a lot more coherent.

I also recommend the OAV's like 0080, O8TH MS TEAM and Unicorn, which require a little bit of pre-requisite knowledge, but are pretty much the best Gundam has to offer. Most of the shows are worth steering clear from, in my opinion (and yet I still watched them all, so take it with a grain of salt)

The novels are ass. Terribly written, they'll steer you far away from Gundam. Their only real use is to flesh out the politics and history of the timeline for the hardcore fans, but I'd argue both Origin and Unicorn do a far better job of that anyway.

Turn A is cool, but it is not very Gundamy for a show with Gundam in the title. Fortunately, it was fansubbed.

Discotek licensed Shin Getter vs Neo Getter, I don't want to be all "beggars can't be choosers" BUT I would have preferred Shin Mazinger because not counting the Getter Robo Go anime (because it doesn't) Shin vs Neo Getter is the weakest of Mazinger/Getter Robo show because it isn't crazy enough but I'll probably buy it.

More dinosaurs than this?

SRW Z2:2 PV2