2012-08-13, 13:21 | Link #3403 |
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Well over the last two days I've watched AGE 1-24 so I can finally say something about it. Granted I don't know if anyone will agree with me.
To be brutally honest it's awful so I will just it in bullet point. Flit - Worst Gundam Lead ever. Yes I would take Shinn over this guy. He has the the single worst transition to newbie to skilled. The Space Magic in this show was not handled remotely well and the development of Flit before he gets it's is frankly terrible. Emily - Worst character in Gundam ever. No seriously I've never hated a Gundam character as much as I do child Emily. AGE - 1 - Boring Lead and how it just appears when Flit needs it borders on Shinning/God levels of Dumb accpet with out the cavet that it's meant to be a joke/funny. Next Gen. Asemu - Infinitly more likeable then his father. I don't like him as a character but neither do I hate him, want to see how he transitions. Zeheart - Actually do like this character and the relationship between him and Asemu is the single best thing this show has had to offer. Romary - Better then Emily by a country mile but kinda annoying. Woolf - Best character from the first gen, best character from the second Gen and the G Bouncer is probably the coolest looking suit in the show. Wish he was from a different show or was the lead. AGE -2 - Better then Age-1 but still the wing binders are terrible. So overall I'm down on it. I do believe that Flit section is the worst Gundam series yet, but I would place Asemu's arc so far over both X and SEED Destiny. |
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2012-08-13, 17:06 | Link #3406 | |
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Flit is the very first character I've felt that way with. I won't go into spoilers for Emily. However her personality was complete garbage, she isn't Flit's Girlfriend or wife and I don't give a damn what she wants and the amount of whining she did made me really hate her. I will go into more direct reasons in a spoiler thread. As for G Gundam, I will do one that isn't to much of spoiler. In the forest during the 2 week retreat. This was probably the most glaring case of his Gundam showing up. Also, it's all opinion so everyone can disagree with me and I don't mind. I also agree that Asemu has a chip and can be alittle annoying but at least he has charm and personality that at least in my opinion, his father completely lacked. Also I disagreee, Zeheart has his issues and isn't a perfect character but he is the first one that I've honestly liked since Woolf. As far as the relatioship with Asemu I like the idea and where it could possibly lead as opposed to were it is right now. Lastly I remember Emily helping one person in the First Arc, and that doesn't make up for all the times she cried over what she wanted Flit to do, I hate little girls in Anime and Emily is quite possibly the worst I've ever forced myself to endure. Fardian arc?? For some reason I do not recognize it by name. Still I disagree if for no other reason I just don't buy into Flit as a lead. I don't feel any connection to him as a skilled pilot, I don't give a damn about his relationships with Emily/Yurnin nor do I care for excuses that both he and Grodek made, but that is getting into Spoilers so I will leave it at that. |
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2012-08-13, 18:39 | Link #3409 | |
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Not going to hate on something with out giving it a chance to defend itself. Plus as I said I do enjoy Zeheart. My issue is what little I've seen even if I do think AGE -2 is better then AGE-1 I gunna walk face first into AGE-3 which seems to be everything all the things I hate about Gundam. Still I hope for the best. The show hasn't been all bad and I've seen worse Mecha (King Gainer and Gravion Zwei being the two biggies in my mind) and way, way worse Anime in general. Right now I don't even rate it as the pure worst Gundam so there is that at least. Edit: Episode 26 is probably the highlight of AGE. Up to 30 and I will say that while it in no way redeems Flit's character in my eyes, the fac that he flashes before even the computer can confirm it was the most touching moment he has had through the entire series. Woolf, I think is probably in my top 5 characters from all of Gundam. Granted I don't think AGE as a whole will get much higher then Destiny on my personal list, but still Woolf and Zeheart in AGE-2 are worth the pain that is the rest of the show. Last edited by FalsePrime; 2012-08-13 at 21:46. |
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I've come to expect that there will be arcs that have little importance but still take up time (Fardain), I've come to expect a bunch of characters dying after only one episode, I've come to expect the obvious death flags and I've come to expect all of the other Gundam tropes by now. Woolf, Grodek, Yurin, Flit and Zeheart are all well developed characters in their own right. So far, I'm leaning on giving AGE a 6/10 which isn't really that bad, but not a good score either. Not bad, not good is the best short review I can give to this show.
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2012-08-15, 15:08 | Link #3412 | |
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I do however think that you can do much, much worse. Then again some of the shows I hated the most are some of the most beloved/classiscs to others so my taste in the Genre is really at odds with alot of people. |
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As much as Gundam AGE has had some problems with handling character motivations and having them make 100% sense in context (probably the current arcs overriding flaw) it's still actually been a pretty interesting show throughout and is actually trying to construct an overall narrative. That's far FAR more than I can say for a lot of mecha shows (Star Driver, Guilty Crown, Rinne no Lagrange, Muv-Luv) of late. It's kind of unfortunate, but if Gundam AGE ends up straight mediocre in the end I'll probably still end up considering it a good 2010's TV mecha entry if only because of the totally lacklustre competition on the TV mecha anime front. Right now I'd place Age in about the same category as Eureka Seven AO Lots of interesting ideas, hit or miss execution of them with some characters clearly being given more thought in their development than others. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2012-08-15 at 17:10. |
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i do agree with the Muv-Luv part, but if you read the VN's you'd know the anime isnt going to be like Blue Gender where they encountered Blue all the time, sad enough. Quote:
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2012-08-16, 00:23 | Link #3416 | |
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Personally i enjoy AGE, but at the same time, as i'm sure ive said before, i'm not going to disregard it's many flaws and i enjoy discussing both the ups and downs of the show. The reason i reply to most of your posts is because you have a very strong opinion and i'd like to know how you reason, but at the same time you take anyone discussing AGE's flaws as some kind of personal attack, which they are not, and not to mention you are very quick to throw out the " you are a flamer " card as soon as someone disagrees with you. While Muv-Luv has time to build up it's story, from the VN's, it's alot of peacetime then shit hits the fan with BETA's destroying the calm days, then they head back to their hives for x amount of time, so i have high hopes for that show. The first and second episodes are pretty misleading if you havent read the VN's, it gives off the wrong impressions to a first time viewer. |
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2012-08-23, 02:18 | Link #3419 |
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Lest we get confirmation that the war was changed from 100 to 70, I'll continue to think that something is amiss. Be it a movie, or in the video game, or a manga, going from the episode translations, the story doesn't seem like it's finished.
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2012-08-25, 20:44 | Link #3420 |
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So Gundam wiki has an article on a new EXA-LOG Vagan MS. Not sure where that info came from, but it appears that part of it is from the AGE PSP game.
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Wiegel |
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