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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 6:33:44 GMT -5
I'm not that far into it yet, 3 episodes in, but I'm loving it.
I have to say, though, Relena is a mixed bag. I really like her design, as she looks much more realistic than most women in anime, and she has a good VA(I'm watching the dub), but I swear she's insane.
Obviously, that is not all that uncommon in the series, given the main character is similarly nuts, but she under-reacts to everything, including Heero explicitly saying he will kill her.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 6:40:18 GMT -5
I forgot to mention, one of the reasons the show is very warmly regarded by many Gundam fans is that the main cast has a lot of very cool mobile suits. Everyone has a favorite. And there is also Wufei's Shenlong.  Kidding, it's cool and all, but really, compared to the others, it's just not all that interesting. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Aug 18, 2011 6:47:57 GMT -5
Relena is partly hated by a lot of female fans because she disrupts the Heero/Duo slash pairing, I think. I don't share the same feelings, as she does serve a purpose- but as someone who loves badly-written slash, I understand.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 6:52:05 GMT -5
Relena is partly hated by a lot of female fans because she disrupts the Heero/Duo slash pairing, I think. I don't share the same feelings, as she does serve a purpose- but as someone who loves badly-written slash, I understand. I can understand that, I guess, but eh. I got a lot more of a slash vibe from Quatre and Trowa, but that is my own personal take on it. |
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Post by JDviant on Aug 18, 2011 7:03:26 GMT -5
Everyone has a favorite. And there is also Wufei's Shenlong. Kidding, it's cool and all, but really, compared to the others, it's just not all that interesting. We all enjoyed Gundam Wing in about 2000 when it was on Toonami, but for the life of us me and my friends ALWAYS forget Shenlong when listing the suits. Deathscythe FTW. And if you're enjoying it now thats good, I found the first half od the series can drag, but the second half was pretty exciting all the way through. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 7:11:38 GMT -5
Everyone has a favorite. And there is also Wufei's Shenlong. Kidding, it's cool and all, but really, compared to the others, it's just not all that interesting. We all enjoyed Gundam Wing in about 2000 when it was on Toonami, but for the life of us me and my friends ALWAYS forget Shenlong when listing the suits. Deathscythe FTW. And if you're enjoying it now thats good, I found the first half od the series can drag, but the second half was pretty exciting all the way through. I'm personally a big Sandrock fan, but they're all cool. And yeah, I'm enjoying it. I just finished Gundam SEED beforehand, and decided I'd skip Destiny. I liked that and all, but was ready for something different. |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Aug 18, 2011 8:02:41 GMT -5
Relena doesn't really underreact that much to "I'll Kill You." in the grand scheme of things.
Hell, a private joke between an old friend of mine and I basically revolved around flanderizing her entire character to spend the rest of her life obsessing over "I'll Kill You." and dangling it over Heero's head.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 8:08:03 GMT -5
Relena doesn't really underreact that much to "I'll Kill You." in the grand scheme of things. Hell, a private joke between an old friend of mine and I basically revolved around flanderizing her entire character to spend the rest of her life obsessing over "I'll Kill You." and dangling it over Heero's head. Well, like I said, I am not very far. To her credit, she did get much more concerned when he held her at gunpoint, even if her first instinct when Duo shot him was to try to protect him. |
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Aug 18, 2011 8:14:21 GMT -5
I was a fan of the Heavyarms. Of course, I always played a mage in WoW, and a Blaster in CoH, so I'm kind of consistent there.
Really liked the Tallgeese II's design, as well. You, uh, won't see that until later. Much later.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 8:16:55 GMT -5
I was a fan of the Heavyarms. Of course, I always played a mage in WoW, and a Blaster in CoH, so I'm kind of consistent there. Really liked the Tallgeese II's design, as well. You, uh, won't see that until later. Much later. True, but I have seen the design. Gundam models are a hobby I've been meaning to get into, after all. Hell, ask Void/Eric Northman. He knows how much of a nut I am for them, but he's very passionate himself. |
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Post by Muskrat on Aug 18, 2011 8:57:52 GMT -5
I was just thinkin about this show today, and how I had to go back and re-watch it. Haven't seen it since the Toonami airings, but I remember my friends thinking it was a pretty blasphemous statement when I said I preferred it to DBZ at that point.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Aug 18, 2011 9:05:16 GMT -5
The mobile suits of the main characters never really interested me. Epyon was my favorite, though Heero did pilot it for a while. Tallgeese is cool as well.
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Post by N E O G E O B O Y S on Aug 18, 2011 9:10:05 GMT -5
Quatre Raberba Winner is literally, the most awesome name that I had ever heard
If I had a son, he has to be named like him, just to assure that he will be a winner
And GW, must be one of my favorite animes ever, I depicted as first, but then watch it and was awesome, the 2 openings are epic as hell, the gundams were cool, the characters had tons of personality traits that made them unique, and lots of more things
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 9:37:05 GMT -5
I was just thinkin about this show today, and how I had to go back and re-watch it. Haven't seen it since the Toonami airings, but I remember my friends thinking it was a pretty blasphemous statement when I said I preferred it to DBZ at that point. The whole series is officially free to watch on Youtube, if I recall. I think just dubbed, but it's a good dub. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2011 9:39:30 GMT -5
The mobile suits of the main characters never really interested me. Epyon was my favorite, though Heero did pilot it for a while. Tallgeese is cool as well. Epyon looks quite a bit like Tekkaman Evil in Blaster mode, if you wanted to see more things like that. I'm surprised you couldn't at least like Sandrock, though. How often do you see a mech use khopesh? |
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Post by Fundertaker on Aug 18, 2011 10:11:09 GMT -5
None of them got shit on Gundam X and especially Double X (yeah, I know, it's my biased Gundam X fandom speaking) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2011 14:17:00 GMT -5
I hated tallgeeses design originally because of that stupid thing on it's head lol , but then when getting to the endless waltz movie Talgeese 3 is gawd damn epic.
And of course Deathscythe was everyones including mines favourite , i loved when you get to see the deathscythe and shenglong new suits rise up out of the moon to battle some of the new mobile dolls and this awesome gawd damn beat kicks in as wufei and duo whip ass.
Thats another thing about this series i love the gawd damn music.
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Post by Johnny Truant on Aug 18, 2011 15:10:55 GMT -5
I've been meaning to rewatch it for the longest time, and I've also heard that if you're a fan of Wing you'll love 00.
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Post by Fundertaker on Aug 18, 2011 15:38:57 GMT -5
I've been meaning to rewatch it for the longest time, and I've also heard that if you're a fan of Wing you'll love 00. It has a similar feel, but for my expirience after seeing both, that's about it. Sure, there's a peace-only loving princess in need to be protected, some guys wrecking hell on the governments with their Gundams and a few conspiracies in between, but I seriously liked 00 better. Something about the characters just clicked better with me, I guess. Still neither are in my top 3 as far as Gundam is concerned (X first, then Zeta and finally G. Random as hell for a top 3, but I love'em!) |
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Post by Johnny Truant on Aug 18, 2011 15:43:41 GMT -5
I've been meaning to rewatch it for the longest time, and I've also heard that if you're a fan of Wing you'll love 00. It has a similar feel, but for my expirience after seeing both, that's about it. Sure, there's a peace-only loving princess in need to be protected, some guys wrecking hell on the governments with their Gundams and a few conspiracies in between, but I seriously liked 00 better. Something about the characters just clicked better with me, I guess. Still neither are in my top 3 as far as Gundam is concerned (X first, then Zeta and finally G. Random as hell for a top 3, but I love'em!) I've only seen the first three episodes. I got spoiled on a lot of it, and it really killed the hype for me. I'll finish it eventually, though. |
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