Barbatos wasn't tuned right and didn't have the right equipment. And Mika didn't wipe the floor with the veteran. It was a close fight.
Mika controls Orga as much as Orga controls Mika.
This is probably my favorite gundam series yet. The fights are excellently directed and hair-raising. Now we have a new twin-tailed harem candidate.
Peace.
Episode 9 - HS
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If this continues like this, Orphans will be my favourite Gundam show. This is a genuinely good and balanced show, not just as far as Gundams go. Although the real enemies have been a bit superficial so far, but I hope they get some flesh on their bones later if indeed that is of any relevance.
If this continues like this, Orphans will be one of my favorite shows period.
Every single scene is good or awesome. Amazing writing, amazing characters, amazing action. Amazing.
Peace.
I enjoy the show so far, but I can't share the same excitement level as you guys (not yet at least). The last two episodes have felt very filler like to me, what with the big detour to visit Turbine.
If you check the name of the show, it already reveals this a story of those orphans, the space rats. This detour, as you called it, is monumental for their growth. If you only look at this show from Kudelia's and perhaps the Martian politics' point of view, then it's a different thing, but I never felt that was the core of this story. This is also why I'm forgiving the almost goofy portrayal of Gjallarhorn so far.Originally Posted by vejita613
What he said. This gundam is all about the characters, and I love it. It feels like the characters are moving the plot instead of the other way around.
Peace.
I guess that's what I've been more focused on. That and the mecha porn.
Episode 10 - HS
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It certainly took Atra long enough to realise she doesn't need to compete with the highly feminine and sexy Kudelia if they just share Mika! But perhaps one doesn't naturally come to think like that before witnessing a working example of a harem. Not that Mika would have really shown a single second worth of any romantic interest in anybody. He barely displays the need for more mundane relationships for that matter. Orga is the only person he's connected with at a deeper level, but even that relationship is kind of ghastly in some ways.
Orga, however, showed pretty entertaining interaction with the new lady. Dunno if he's just shy and is thus acting coldly, or if he's genuinely trying to keep the woman at a safe distance since she's not one of them, not even a client like Kudelia. But even if the plot does build something between them, I still think Orga might end up dead before the end of the show.
I wonder when it'll be revealed Fumitan is an enemy agent. Almost every other time she's shown, she looks really guilty and somewhat suffering when Kudelia is treating her like a trusted friend and ally.
Fumitan is almost too obvious of a suspected villain.
I'm interested in where the show is going, since it's not focussed on the Gundams or battles itself, and that is rare for a gundam series. It really spends time building the characters. Also, as of now, there is no war. Some resistance, yes, but no open war.
It does foreshadow some big things. No matter what choice Kudelia made, there would be some form war.
She made de decision to go to earth and do her thing, because not doing it will just sign the death warrant of Tekkadan by the hands of Gjallarhorn on Mars and possibly the slaughter of the resistance on Mars.
I wonder if the "I hate Tekkadan"-guy will become the masked enemy in this series, If they decide to have one at all.
Strangely enough I'm still not sure what to think about this series. It's not blatantly bad like G no Reconquista, but it's not screaming "awesome" at me as well. If this is a proper 40-50 episode series, there is plenty of time to win me over, since I'm still very much excited for the new episodes. The 'real' look does hook me, even thought the non-gundam units are a bit bland for my taste. Maybe I'm just expecting more 'standard' Gundam from this series, even though I'm open to a change of direction in the franchise.
Fumitan is not a villain. She's a red herring.
Peace.
HS - Episode 12
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Caught up on this.
-This is one of my favourite gundam shows to date. It's really focused, started off low-tech, child (prodigy) pilots make sense.
-Mika x Orga is scary. Mika is a nice guy, but he's also some crazy, strong dog (rat) that will listen to Orga only if he's worthy. Pretty fucking scary. I'm an Orga fan, just like I was a Kamina fan. I'm really excited that he's still alive and hope it stays that way. For one, the Turbine alliance would by symbolically weak if one brother died off.
-Kudelia eyecandy is nice and shows her class, but her art can be pretty damn jarring as well. No one else has such detailed eyelashes, hair and eye patterns as she does. It's like everyone else came from G no Reconquista and she came from Seed.
-Merribit Stapleton hhhhrrng. Better than Kudelia IMO. She gave me more 'secret traitor' signals than Fumitan though. Big boss McMurdo Barriston had me worried too until he struck a deal with Kudelia and had a personal interest in her succeeding.
-Akihiro's red shoulder stripe throws me off. When I remember seeing it on one of his white T-shirts post-training I thought he was injured but sortied anyway. When he came back alive I was all WTF. Now I know that he just like to look like he's bleeding all the time -_-.
-The way they handled Akihiro's brother's 'rescue' was weird. Mika strikes the cockpit of his crew, but single him out to be saved. That doesn't sit well. At least send out message asking any slaves to defect over.
-The ED is amazing. The flac was hard to find, but it was found. I'd link, but I don't think anyone here listens to it over mp3.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
ED= Ravise your flagrant by Man with a mission. Wolf head guys ftw!
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
That's the OP David.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yup, my mistake and the horrible auto-suggestions from Apple....
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
HS - Episode 13
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Mikazuki, going in for the kill!
I didn't expect that. At least 3 pairings in this anime have a large age difference. I won't diss Orga for his lack of advances since he's got it tough managing everybody's interests. It's a little hard to see him pairing up with Merribit at the moment since she's still schooling him about being a responsible adult. With a time skip things may work out, but it'd feel quite unnatural if they kicked off soon. Maybe he'll die after all, and she'll find her handkerchief that he never actually lost.
Poor Atra being the butt end of every boob joke.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Boom.
This show continues to deliver. That sudden attack from Mikazuki came out of nowhere but made perfect sense. Excellent.
Atra better start executing her harem plan before Mika decides to grow some fidelity to someone other than Olga, er, Orga.
Kidding aside, these characters are all awesome. I love Mika's lines when he is talking with the side characters too. Kudelia might have elicited a stronger reaction if she tiptoed and squished Mika's face to her boobs, like the Fumi-hug.
Peace.
Kudelia's reaction was suitably amusing as well. She hasn't really actively added much to the show all in all (she's like a part of the background setting giving Tekkadan the reason to act), but perhaps this will lead to something.
Mika is an interesting character in many ways. This scene added nicely to his personality also outside of battle.
This really is becoming my favourite Gundam show. I hope it stays like this till the end to earn the place.
Great Gundam show? Absolutely.
Best Gundam show of all? Not in my opinion. How quickly Seed and 00 are forgotten.
I never actually got around to Seed. I've heard Destiny was shit though.
00? Not this level. The story felt fragmented. There wasn't exactly a pull. Season 2 of 00 felt more 'mainstream' (edit: than S1), but was executed better. The movie actually did a very good job of tying up loose ends, even if it wasn't considered great as a standalone film.
Unicorn was better than both of them from memory.
Build Fighters > Build Fighters Try in my book, mainly because of the more focused story. Overall they were fun, but I don't think it's appropriate to add them in for comparison. They'd do better in the Sports Anime genre.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Of course this isn't finished yet, so it could still easily crash and become miserable, but if it manages to continue like this till the end, this will easily beat the likes of 00 in my mind. 00 suffered greatly from the annoying Gundam worship and that only got worse as the show went on. It even jumped into the fricking quantum space, though that was not all bad since it actually connected the best couple in the show (and I don't mean Setsuna+Gundam). 00 had some great characters, though. Al-Saachez is one of the best villains in my opinion, although the series failed to give him the kind of an end he would have deserved (not deserved as a person because he was a nasty villain, but as a character to make the story better).
I consider Build Fighters better Gundam shows than 00s, which tells something about 00's problems. But then again, I'm not a real Gundam fan, having never seen the old shows.
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