I'll be honest, I'm rather gritting my teeth through this series, trying to learn some Japanese, track the plot, hoping for the visuals to sharpen up in Zeta or beyond.The series was dubbed in the early 2000s by Ocean Productions for Bandai Entertainment, following the success of their dub of Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. There's also one from the 00s (I think?) set amongst ground forces, I think it was called 08th MS Team? Sounds like some crew who went up the amazon looking for ideas for Windows Vista 2. I hear that the next series - ZETA - is considered the 'best', and someone recommended Char's Counter-Attack to me a month or two ago, so I'm looking forward to getting through those at least. I didn't like Evangelion because of the way the jettisoned all romance/human interest threads during the final few episodes - it has shades of MGS5 fading away in the final act - I have a feeling I'll somewhat prefer Gundam. The space craft crashing into a city in the intro sequence is particularly cool. They did some cool slight-of-hand tricks to spice up what was still, seemingly, a pretty simplistic animation process that I appreciate. Character design is pretty rough, but after watching 999 I find it easy to understand and forgive this. I've yet to get a comprehensive handle on Amuro's chops as a Gundam pilot but I think the idea is he's a bit of a savant and I can get behind that. This time around I'm seeing why people liked it, enough new stuff happens in the mix to make it unique - the bedridden captain, the 18 year old stand-in. It's a trope that's been done many times since (and before?) but I'm enjoying it. There's a cool, collaborative, fish-out-of-water martial aspect that kind of reminds me of Luke joining up with Han in A New Hope or, if I may draw a strained comparison, Starship Troopers. There's an interesting flavour to proceedings here that I didn't pick on last time. I'm glad this dude didn't do the DBZ OPs. I'm not one to take much pleasure in hindsight though. Compared to the theme tune to my favourite recent anime series it feels like a pretty risible folly. I like it, it'll grow on me, but I very much prefer the 999 OPs and EDs. Did this dude sing all the OPs? 'Gundamu Gundamu' theme song must be famous among all fans, well I'd like you to know - though surely u already do - that he also did the OP for 999: Galaxy Express. I'll be trying to watch a few episodes a day to bolster my usual Japanese learning. Full disclosure I tried to get into this very series a year or two ago, but failed to do so as I couldn't handle the old school exposition and was very distracted at the time.

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