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    Makes sense that a viewport screenshot doesn't have all the lighting of a render. I'm just nitpicking, don't take it too seriously lol.
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    There's also Teal 171, RVF version of it, the movie version of that with twin fold boosters on top of the wings that never got any physical rendition, and their armored packs with the reaction and dimensional bombs. Then theres Michael's tornado, and then we loop back to Durandal, which IMO was what technically kicked off the revival era with minor tweaks through the Max version, although that one wasn't called a revival since it's a new paint job. If I was Bandai and trolling, I'd go for that Konig next lmao. I feel like Luca still has reasonable chances as long as they haven't announce the Durandal to wrap up the Frontier run, but it will be without ghosts, or only 1 ghost but no super pack to chase that shrinkflation trend lol. And then to piss everyone off, they will do a micro run of 100 very floppy YF-24 Evolutions, sold through lottery, at very reasonable prices comparable to retail items of the same weight, and then scrap the molds. Gotta feed the scalper market after all lmao
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    That's just half the reason. The other half is Bandai just wants to mess with people by refusing complete collections. DX Valkyries are just one small thing in Bandai's list of highly sought after items they may or may not have prototyped and refuse to release. For example, the last two MG Age Gundams that they have displayed before have almost become a meme that the gunpla community goes to when it comes to unreleased items. There are tons of gunpla runners that are blatantly divided in ways that are prepared for alternate equipment variants that never get released, despite high demand. They'd rather randomly cook up a new and minimally different variant that nobody asked for, sometimes with completely new molds and runners for existing parts because it's more funny that way. Just look at the YF-21's fold booster struts in preparation for no fold booster release for an example of Bandai's type of sick joke lol
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    I wasn't gonna say anything, but your original texture was a bit too yellow, and the correct does look closer to the model kit, although color correction has deep fried the grays and the shadows lol. Makina also needs more saturation on the level of Mikumo's purple or something to get that eye bleeding hot pink vibrancy lol. Maybe to a tiny degree, Reina too, but I feel like her scheme is mostly lacking because it's reliant on the lime green accesories that aren't from the actual valk, so it can't be helped. Btw some of the "transparent" backgound on their Walkure logos are somehow on the wrong layer and opacity or something, and are deleting parts of the white stripes.
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    Nice work. Freyja reminds me of McD lol. Speaking of Freyja, I always found it strange that her outfit color is swapped with Kaname, based on how everyone is supposed to go by hair color. I feel like the whole "red ranger = MC" trope really messed up their color assignments, and it trickles down all the way to these VFG models. Kaname even gets shafted by having black and gray for secondary colors to go with her filler ranger color lol
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    NGL this thing could have passed for a valk if they weren't so bent on having those oversized truck windshields hanging out the bottom of the fighter, and scrunching up the feet/thrusters closed just to fit in the folding wheels.
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    Yeah, the first one's translation was weird so I couldn't make heads or tails of it and just ignored that statement. The rest of his tweets about it were neutral showcases so he didn't seem to say anything negative, other than that the molds are kinda old, iirc. But the second one alone can't be excused lol... Hope more impressions or reviews come out soon to clear things up.
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    WTF bandai??? From the looks of the clip, it's not even that it's loose. The hip clip can't even reach its locking position so it just springs back... It basically doesn't even transform. Now I'm worried about mine, but I haven't got in stock notice yet. Classic YYK delays I guess, so I get to wait around and see if there's anything to do about it.
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    This reminds me. I should really document my "interpretation" of the transformation to make it accurate in all forms, with ms paint or something, before I forget everything I thought up.
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    The VF-19's design has gone full circle and returned back to Orguss. Complete with the tank mode.
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    I'm not saying Crossbone animation isn't in demand. I'm just saying, the lead Gundams being their primary merchandise, has been done to death, on every product line. I just don't see the remaining circus insectoid grunt bots being popular on the mass market, with those aesthetics of theirs in 2025. It just makes the whole idea of animating Crossbone to sell toys at this point seem rather unprofitable to me. If they want to do charity and feed the old fans with little return, I'm all for it.
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    Crossbone should have been the brain dead pick, since a long time ago. But the problem now is that they've already milked it to death. I'm not sure anyone actually cares about the buggo and clow looking grunts, so theres probably little incentive to squeeze it anymore. Astray is in the same place imo. The one that probably has the best chances now is probably going to be Seed Eclipse. It's part of seed and part of their never ending anniversary celebration banner, it launched with kits as well, and they made it free to read with official translations on their gundam.info youtube channel, or so I've heard. It's ongoing too, so they could change gears and start pumping out marketable mechas and alt colors for easy cash grabs the moment they decide to go all in and animate it.
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    I fully understand how dead in the water Gundam mangas are. I'm not saying it will get a show. Just addressing that it is their next immediate venture into tropey themes that they are throwing money behind, yet not fully commiting to it, exactly in the way you described. Just tacking on personal hopes that the writing does something I want to see, so that it could turn into something worth animating, not saying that has anything to do with plans for the project actually going anywhere.
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    Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet. The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates. Since I have no hope of the mechs looking good, I'm hoping it's at least really about aliens, and they don't show up in humanoid mecha, or turn out to be space humans... It would be great if they go all in with the desolate space horror, and use ugly space monsters, since the gimmick is that the human head count is finite. Last thing I want to see is a kitbashed pla plate Zaku with a Char clone inside. Maybe if it doesn't suck, they will animate it.
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    Dude knows what's up.
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    I'll admit, the got me good. They kept ass pulling new subplots and mechanics on the double, with steriods, through this finale, just so they could finally reached guren lagan proportions of joke. It took 11 eps to setup this masterpiece, but we finally got here. Spaceballs for gundam. I was laughing all ep.
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    That's not them expositing to explain themselves and to close out the story. That was just them using old mysteries as a springboard to invent more new bs to add to the chaos.
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    Nice, just when it's at the point where every show is supposed to exposition dump to try to make sense of itself, we ge for the classic "random bs, go!!!11!!1!" ending instead.
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    I think Kycilia's scheme is irrelevant until our MC trio finishes their tour on the other side and sends a paradigm shift back to change everything on this side near the end of my assumed second cour. The scheme is probably just an excuse for someone to build our kiddies a portal and give them a reason to fight over it until they both get sucked in.
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    As far as I can tell, the signs are all there that this will end in zeknova, and the nonsense, or any semblance of real plot, will continue with a post isekai time skip to kick off a second cour. Everything up until this point has been proluge. The main duo has finally picked their teams and are about to confront each other on their newfound ideology. The train wreck blood fued in a foreign world starts when the show resumes in spring. There are 2 Chars and an Amuro over there, so it's a whole different ball game. If that's really where it's going, they may as well end this cour next ep instead of dragging out the reactor fight to reach 12 or 13 eps lol
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    First of all, I double checked google to make sure I'm not tripping: Nyan had all the agency. She choses to cuck, and choses to kill. She decided to run away on foot when the gundam was in her hands, and choses to join a political faction for a scholarship. The only decision Machu makes is to continue to stick her neck into danger for the sake of the story continuing, otherwise, Everything she only ever does involves escaping mortal danger by the guidance of someone else. IBO was not heavy at all. It was absurdly shallow, and I rate it the absolute worst of Gundam. The main story was Mikazuki fights crazy frog guy, and learns from him that he likes killing people. The rest of the story is him living this out by gaslighting Orga into sending all their friends to their death. Everytime Orga tries to give up on their stupid suicide quest, Mika tells him to question himself until he's ready for war again. When Orga gives in and plans to send their friends to their deaths, Mika gasses him up with feigned indifference as support. Any character that comes to their senses and tries breaking away from their suicide quest gets to die first. Rinse and repeat. The underlying story, is Mcgillis wants to be king, so he starts by pissing and killing off his most loyal followers in order destroy his own chances. We are told that to be the boss, you just need to steal the Bael. Had he started with that move, while he was still loved, nobody would have opposed him, and he would have instantly succeeded. To access Bael's hangar, all you need is for Vidar to kick the ceiling in. We also know Gaelio would have unconditionally done that for Mcgillis had he not been betrayed. This could all have been done on day 1 and the whole pointless Tekkadan story could have been avoided. Basically, the plot was a big roundabout nothing burger. My favorite part was when Juilieta debuted by eating a butterfly to show how she was a psychotic genius child. By the end, she became more and more stoned so that a random evil engineer could expose the whole plot to her for no reason, without her interjecting. And then she became a normal person and lived happily ever after with Gaelio. 10/10 consistent and deep character development writing. I'm still wondering what the inspiring speech Kudelia gave to the parliament at the end of s1 entails to this day. All I got was that she made an opening statement, and then the random nobody Ein from ep1 came to be the s1 final boss for no reason so that the writer could skip the speech. Rustal was drummed to be the greatest strategic genius too, but all a saw was the writer recycling Iok's idiotic plan on a greater scale, and then attributing it to Rustal's success. While I'm at it, lets not forget the designated 3 eps of talking heads on panning still backgrounds, into a battle previews, where the battle then happens at the last minute of the ep, and then gets resolved in the opening minute of the next ep, while all the notable choreography was already shown in the previews. Also, most of the fights involve top right entrance, bumping the enemy away towards the left. Almost as stock footage as seed. The show was so predicatble that it was basically clockwork. By the end, it was actually cathartic to watch Julieta and Gaelio put and end to the deplorable trainwreck writing. I couldn't believe how much I ended up liking them for McDuffing up the misserable attempt at reskinning Macbeth in a gundam setting.
  22. PointBlankSniper
    The first half of that statement is true. The second half, not necessarily. You can have an entire story follow an observer or victim with no agency, just esperiencing the powers that be running their course. The real mistake of the show is framing the main trio, with its promotions and opening theme, as a trio central to the plot, with agency in their actions. In reality, Shuji is not a character. He is a mysterious plot device. Nyan is the one with some agency, which amounts to denying Machu's ability to have any agency, while her own character is poorly explained, if at all. I suspect she will continue to derail the whole story much like how Slaine Troyad derailed Aldnoah. Machu has so far been just an observer to the cosmic powers, and I think would have been fine, if only they didn't spin her has the chosen one, as that burden comes default with a gundam protagonist. The real fatal flaw with her though, are reasons the writer gives her to subject herself to such extraordinary events, when it is all out of her depth and needs. Her setup and the world building required to make it work is entirely absurd. Then she is given the illusion of agency through excessive handholding by other actors and powers that be, and doesn't seem to acknowledge it. Intended or not, that kind of writing just makes her an insufferably entitled child. She's currently basically in the role of the annoying news host, when all we need out of her is a cameraman to watch the world to unfold through. Maybe she is a slow cooking character that will change, but that is a big maybe. The trend these days is to put those character changes in a time skip between split cours or seasons. So things don't look good for her writing regardless, but that's just my guess. IMO good Gundam writing died after the original Build FIghters season. Everything from all the follow up Build titles, to G Reco, IBO, and WfM, has all been nonsensical slop with poorly reasoned character writing and screenplay. Even the totally-not-gundam Kyoukai Senki is just more of the same. The mega budget UC milking that comes on the side is just pretentious grandeur that often makes as little sense as the rest of the slop tbh. It's been that way since the latter half of Unicorn. Yall are expecting too much out of the cash cow slop machine tbh.
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    Hear me out. Char died in the last shooting. Zeknova sama isekai'd Challia's boyfriend. Which means Quattro is...
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    I don't think any anime has gone past 24-26 eps in a single season for the past decade, without being never ending holdovers from the era before that. Modern Gundams just follow that trend, so the best you are gonna get is a split cours of 12 eps that's half a year apart, with some disjointed pacing and character building.
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    Zeknova is turning out to be code for truck-sama lol
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