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azrael Super Dimension Member

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55 minutes ago, Keith said:

Even Bandai is trying to forget Build Divers...

Nah. Just gotta fulfill the not-so-blatant-30-minute-Gunpla-commercial-show quota.

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5 hours ago, azrael said:

Nah. Just gotta fulfill the not-so-blatant-30-minute-Gunpla-commercial-show quota.

It's weird enough that the second season hasn't come out over here on blu-ray yet.

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Gundam magical girls coming soon?

I'm strangely ok with this.

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Finally, a modern take on a Zaku I throwing boulders.

"■2022 - Official announcement of a new movie, “Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island”
Directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the film focuses on episode 15, “Cucuruz Doan’s Island” from “Mobile Suit Gundam” and depicts it from a new angle with plans of release in theaters for 2022.
"Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island" official website URL: http://g-doan.net/"

 

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6 hours ago, Keith said:

Even Bandai is trying to forget Build Divers...

No such show.  That was a hallucination.  Swamp gas.  A weather balloon.  Something like that.

 

10 minutes ago, Keith said:

I'm strangely ok with this.

Given the Gundam franchise's general obsession with turning its now-vestigial War is Hell message into straight-up misery porn... I can all too readily imagine that'd end up as Puella Magi Madoka Magica but with giant robots.

Not sure if that's better or worse than the comparisons made between Macross Delta and Pretty Cure...

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On 9/15/2021 at 4:42 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Given the Gundam franchise's general obsession with turning its now-vestigial War is Hell message into straight-up misery porn... I can all too readily imagine that'd end up as Puella Magi Madoka Magica but with giant robots.

Masochistic Suit Gundam?

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On 9/15/2021 at 4:42 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Given the Gundam franchise's general obsession with turning its now-vestigial War is Hell message into straight-up misery porn... I can all too readily imagine that'd end up as Puella Magi Madoka Magica but with giant robots.

So taking a page from the book of Symphogear? But going full armour?

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I'm gonna make an major left field theory on what "The Witch From Mercury" is about. I imagine it'll feature the daughter of Scirocco Paptimus after being ousted from the Jupiter mining fleet after her fathers failed coup, she was raised in the harsh Mercury-someyhingerother-fleet, and returns as an adult to take her revenge on the Earth Sphere.

Also, this could be placed after Hathaway, and detail the events that finally lead to the isolated state we see things in during Victory. Bonus points it it has old man Kamille or his progeny.

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I’m pretty sure it’s an alternate universe story rather than uc. Although maybe the whole witch thing is not so much regarding the pilot, but the abilities of the gundam. Kinda like how the unicorn had the ntd thing and other weirdness like narrative. The creators just gave up on pseudo science and called it magic because they couldn’t even explain those abilities 

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On 9/15/2021 at 1:40 PM, Keith said:

Finally, a modern take on a Zaku I throwing boulders.

"■2022 - Official announcement of a new movie, “Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island”
Directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the film focuses on episode 15, “Cucuruz Doan’s Island” from “Mobile Suit Gundam” and depicts it from a new angle with plans of release in theaters for 2022.
"Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island" official website URL: http://g-doan.net/"

 

I heard this news and I'm pumped - I'm a huge Crusher Joe and Venus Wars fan so I'm excited to see Yasuhiko back in the director's seat.

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14 hours ago, Rhubarbarian said:

I heard this news and I'm pumped

Sorry, but I think you've been trolled.  "Cucuruz Doan’s Island" is the infamous Gundam episode that was officially disowned by everyone involved in it.

It'd be like Disney announcing a feature-film remake of The Star Wars Holiday Special. 😅

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1 minute ago, tekering said:

It'd be like Disney announcing a feature-film remake of The Star Wars Holiday Special. 😅

DO.

NOT.

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THEM.

IDEAS!

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4 hours ago, tekering said:

Sorry, but I think you've been trolled.  "Cucuruz Doan’s Island" is the infamous Gundam episode that was officially disowned by everyone involved in it.

It'd be like Disney announcing a feature-film remake of The Star Wars Holiday Special. 😅

Yasuhiko could come out and say he was directing a remake of the SW Holiday Special and I'd still be pumped. His movies are rad and I'm excited to see what his take is. I know it's cool on the internet to react to news of everything with cynicism, but I'm not about that life.

EDIT: Actually I thought about this more, and a Yasuhiko-directed remake of the animated sequence in the SWHS would be hella rad. It already has the cool Moebius design aesthetic.

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I’m not sure why they decided to redo an episode that even the creators thought was trash, but if they do it right maybe it could be good. I don’t even remember if I’ve seen it since the English version left it out. 

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I don’t really keep up with the manga and spinoff stuff, so this does seem far more interesting than the actual episode judging by the synopsis. There also seems to be a large amount of different types of mobile suits that will more than likely have variations in the anime, and of course be commercialized into model kits and toys

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So... anyone else watch Gundam Build Real?  I'm not sure what the format was outside of the US, but GundamInfo's official YouTube channel uploaded it last week.  The premise is, more or less, a live-action story akin to Gundam Build Fighters.  The cast consists of a group of high schoolers who used to be on a Gunpla Battle team when they were kids but they had a falling out when their Gunpla went missing.  They reunite when one of them summons the others after receiving a package with the missing model, causing the team to get back together.  As a live-action product it's slightly more grounded than the anime, but there's still plenty of tropes including the more organized and well-finances rival team, a girl that's popular with all the boys on the team becoming the hero's love interest, and a hero who trains hard and pilots the Gunpla yet does none of the actual work on the model.  It's... ok.  I mean, objectively I don't think it's all that great, but it managed to keep my interest enough that I binge watched the whole thing (right now, it's just six episodes but the story leaves room for a second "season").  And when it was over I went and busted out my copy of Gundam Breaker 3 (while lamenting that New Gundam Breaker sucked, that NGB seems to have killed the franchise, and that Bandai loves to complain that Gundam games do poorly in America but they only seem to bring over the worst ones).

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On 12/6/2021 at 11:44 AM, mikeszekely said:

So... anyone else watch Gundam Build Real?  I'm not sure what the format was outside of the US, but GundamInfo's official YouTube channel uploaded it last week.  The premise is, more or less, a live-action story akin to Gundam Build Fighters.  The cast consists of a group of high schoolers who used to be on a Gunpla Battle team when they were kids but they had a falling out when their Gunpla went missing.  They reunite when one of them summons the others after receiving a package with the missing model, causing the team to get back together.  As a live-action product it's slightly more grounded than the anime, but there's still plenty of tropes including the more organized and well-finances rival team, a girl that's popular with all the boys on the team becoming the hero's love interest, and a hero who trains hard and pilots the Gunpla yet does none of the actual work on the model.  It's... ok.  I mean, objectively I don't think it's all that great, but it managed to keep my interest enough that I binge watched the whole thing (right now, it's just six episodes but the story leaves room for a second "season").  And when it was over I went and busted out my copy of Gundam Breaker 3 (while lamenting that New Gundam Breaker sucked, that NGB seems to have killed the franchise, and that Bandai loves to complain that Gundam games do poorly in America but they only seem to bring over the worst ones).

I've only seen the first episode. Planning on watching it continuously during my winter break. ;)

Also, found this on YouTube. Just funny. But the VFX looks superb. :lol::good: 

 

 

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mikeszekely Super Dimension Member

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Say what you will about the particular episode they chose to make a movie of, the RX-78 looks great.  I'd love to see more of Amuro's adventures re-animated.

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That's a beautifully animated Gundam... it'll be interesting to see how they clean up the story.

kajnrig SMS Squadron Leader

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Any reason why this particular episode needs retelling? (Besides it having originally been done by a third party.) Is this specific story particularly resonant with the creators and/or fans or something?

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55 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Any reason why this particular episode needs retelling? (Besides it having originally been done by a third party.) Is this specific story particularly resonant with the creators and/or fans or something?

This is a do-over on an episode of the original series (#15) that Yoshiyuki Tomino was so unhappy with he asked for it to not be aired or included in the home video releases in the Americas.

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1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

This is a do-over on an episode of the original series (#15) that Yoshiyuki Tomino was so unhappy with he asked for it to not be aired or included in the home video releases in the Americas.

Not exactly.  It's actually an anime adaptation of the Gundam: The Origin spin-off manga of the same title.

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Seems that the manga was to retell and expand that story and to forget the anime episode that everyone seemed to dislike. When I watched the original series it was a version that didn’t include it and I don’t think I ever saw it. I appreciate the fact that those older gundam shows made it to the states, but I really wish they hadn’t altered them like episode count or opening and ending themes. I remember being super excited for zeta and then the songs were missing from the opening and just had dramatic music 

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1 hour ago, Big s said:

Seems that the manga was to retell and expand that story and to forget the anime episode that everyone seemed to dislike. When I watched the original series it was a version that didn’t include it and I don’t think I ever saw it. I appreciate the fact that those older gundam shows made it to the states, but I really wish they hadn’t altered them like episode count or opening and ending themes. I remember being super excited for zeta and then the songs were missing from the opening and just had dramatic music 

It's Neal Sadaka's fault the Zeta music was changed, bastard!

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