Anyone following this series?
What are your views?

For me:
It's been 22 episodes in right now, and personally I'm forcing myself to keep watching, hoping to find something to like about it. I've finally had enough.

I am a HUGE fan of the Gundam universe, but this series is an incomprehensible mess. The storytelling is terrible; you have no idea what is going on or why it is going on. There are many different factions who's motivations are unlear and you just don't know what they are about.
Is there a war going on? If so, between who, and why? They introduce some sort of conflict, only to abandon it a few episodes later without resolution. Characters seem to jump from faction to faction (Manny) without anyone caring about their affiliation).

The characters lack any kind of motivation to do what they do, I don't care about any of them. If next week one of the protagonists dies, I couldn't care less about it. The MS battles they are in don't seem to make any sense at all, they are only there because it is a gundam series. I haven't found a good reason for many of the battles. Besides from that they are not exciting at all, the pacing is slow and the protagonists never truly need to fight for their lives.

The mobile suit designs are weak. None of them are memorable, even the G-Self looks uninspired to me. I do see it as a good thing that the G-self by itself is a basic design, without bells and whistles.

A very personal thing: I don't like the art direction and character designs, they seem crappy on purpose to make it look more retro.

I don't mind them breaking from standard Gundam traditions, but at least make it relate to the Gundam spirit. Turn A Gundam broke with many traditions and still managed to be entertaining to me.



I can go on and on about this, but I'm interested in what you think. When I look up reviews on the internet (even gundam fansites), none of them seem to share my thoughts, although many of them seem to be Tomino-fanboys that only like it because he is heavily involved.
Just because the creator of the whole series is involved, doesn't make it good. People should have learned that from the Star Wars prequels..