DriftiniMar 1

finished the first of the three gundam 0079 recap movies

I think this was just setting up the universe for the most part, but it did have its thought-provoking moments

I'll have to see whether to watch the 2nd movie tomorrow or next week

the animation shows its age but it's fine, if anything it makes you appreciate a lot more what was possible some 14-ish years later in evangelion and whatnot (had to slip in an eva mention somehow), my only gripe is that it kinda struggles with strong emotions, I think..? idk I feel like later animations got a whole lot better at that, but we ARE talking about an almost-50yo production here, so I'm not holding anything against gundam here

that ending theme was good btw

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FINALLY got around to watching the 2nd recap

not much to say about the movie itself that I haven't said about the first one - I think it has all the cards to be a banger, but it's massively held back by being a product of its time

(rare) comedic animation details in the middle of serious sequences, hit-or-miss sound design, these are the kinda things I believe would've been handled a lot better if 0079 was made a few years later

the deeper themes don't come up in this recap as much as they did in the first one so that's also a bummer ig

one thing that didn't disappoint is yet another great ending theme

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Ending M-21

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I'm editing the posts in this thread with links to the ending themes I'm talking about, cause there are two audio tracks for the movies with different music so uhh yeah idk it's confusing
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anyway I'll admit at this point I'm mostly just continuing the og trilogy as a chore of sorts cause I'm more curious about later entries

it seems I have made a mistake by watching the recaps instead of the show, apparently some character development and whatnot got glossed over in exchange for more general polish

definitely not going back and restarting from square one now though

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finished the 3rd and final 0079 recap

I found this one not only easier to follow but overall better than the 2nd one, I was particularly glad to see a lot of the focus shift back onto characters rather than just the action

this still doesn't change that 0079 is definitely not one of those watches that'll stick with me for a long time, but it was fine nonetheless, and more importantly it opens the gates for me to check out some more cherrypicked entries of the franchise

more precisely, I'm looking forward to watching

  • zeta (which seems to have an awesome reputation)
  • witch from mercury (partly cause haha yama op)
  • iron-blooded orphans (stumbled across a video about it like years ago and I remember finding it interesting)
  • seed (literally just saw it on wikipedia and got weirdly hung up on how it's a 2002 production, then thinking way too hard about 2002 sounding like kind of an odd year that never comes up anywhere) (yeah this makes no sense) (another, more sane explanation would be I'm curious about early 2000s anime cause I don't think I've seen any besides initial d ages ago, and FLCL like a month ago)

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oh yeah almost forgot to add this

"see how the man who follows in hitler's footsteps can fight" is (1) not a sentence I ever expected to read, and (2) not something I expected from a far-future mecha franchise of all things

that short exchange made me drop to the floor, like degwin asking gihren if he "ever heard of a man named adolf hitler" out of the blue was insane