Seriously man, I love all the segments about business, social-economy, management and even mob-dealings in this Gundam series, and episode 01 does not disappoint by addressing all that has happened after Tekkadan’s successful maiden mission. Some might view it as super-boring (like many has expressed for the first season), but I adore those kinds of things in a mecha series. Not just mindless action each episode to fill a quota. You did good Okada (and Nagai).
Also glad that the show touched the social impact of Tekkadan winning the battle against Gjallarhorn. The economic blocks other than Arbrau want their own Tekkadan so they forcefully hire kids from streets to make them into sooldiers & mercenaries or worse. They seem so eager to be independent from Gjallarhorn as soon as possible.
I like all the bits about the characters too. If people can still associate Kudelia with Relena (from
Wing) in the first season, it seems she has thrown away almost all of those damn traits. She’s a mature and independent woman now. She runs her own business of taking care the half-metal and manages its mines. And she’s a legit Tekkadan’s business partner now. Merribit being a legit Tekkadan member now (assuming from her uniform) is neat for Orga. He definitely needs her now that Biscuit has gone. Shino purposefully being the “bad cop” so that Eugene can be the “good cop” is also amusing. Even minor characers like the “Huey-Dewey-Louie” kids with colored-caps who learnt to read with Mika in season 1 are still relevant. We didn’t get to see Takaki’s lil-sis yet (correct me if I’m wrong), but I assume she also goes to a decent school. And glad that both Biscuit & Fumitan’s sacrifices are acknowledged by the Martians (it helps that Kudelia use Fumitan’s name for her company).
Ps: I really really hope Hush is not the Shinn Asuka of this season. Heck, I won’t even tolerate another Camille Bidan if he doesn’t receive a good character development along the way. Or maybe that was the intention?
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Originally Posted by B214
The opening, Gaelio is that you? Or is that Ein? Either way, what's with that utterly ugly mask? You look like some rapist who had his head covered due to being too ugly.
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With that full-mask, he reminds me of Carozzo Ronah from
Gundam F91. Hey, maybe we'll have "Char-clone vs. Carozzo-clone" this season. Wouldn't that be great?
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Originally Posted by Global Sword 2
funny that Mika was now nicknamed the devil much like Amuro,
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In both univere, the ones people called (White) Devils are the Gundams, not the pilots
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