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Fans should manage their expectations for Hideaki Anno’s film Gundam

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Fans should manage their expectations for Hideaki Anno’s film Gundam


This review contains light spoilers for the mobile combination GUNDAM GQUUUUUUX -BEGINNING-. Proceed to caution.

Following Mobile Gundam costume: Mercury’s witch success, it is sure to say that the Gundam The franchise is stronger than ever. However, this is only really true for the alternative universes (AU) of the first mecha franchise anime. The universal century of origin (UC), which told the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, was stuck in limbo for the best of the last 20 years. The new series and films of the UC only make up for the gaps in chronology, without advancing the global history forward.

But since the end of the war both in the universe and in the real world, there is really anywhere else so that the UC has. Fortunately, this stagnant status quo is about to change with the next anime series Mobile Gundam Gquuuuux costumethat started with the compilation film Mobile costume GUNDAM GQUUUUUUX -BEGINNING-. The film tells not only a new story of Gundam for a new generation, but it binds to the roots of the franchise by rewriting its own story. Although exciting, the final results are anything but perfect.

Mobile costume GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING- is a new look at a familiar world

The film reflected changing times through its history and animation

What makes GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- It was so intriguing that it was both a soft restart and a new start. Essentially, it was both a UC and one Gundam history. Furthermore, Neon Genesis Evangelion Creator Hideaki Anno helped write this film alongside the veteran of the Yoji Enokido industry. The end result was a film that celebrated simultaneously Gundam Passed, while paving the way in the future of the franchise in an intelligent way. In general, GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- accomplished what he decided to do. More importantly, it was the best type of nostalgia trip that could be done in the obsessed zeitgeist today.

The film respected the original through its romantic recreation from the past. However, he changed key parts to do more than just a recutation. Even longtime fans will have guess by this story and its questions. The film was also accessible to franchise newcomers by rationalizing the one year war and some of its most important figures. It may not seem much, but given the impenetrable and the labyrinsts Gundam Maybe foreigners, it’s more than commendable. Attach the new and the old so well Yuzuhira amate (alias machu), a sympathetic and funny head that gives GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- his heart and his personality. She channeled previously Gundam The stubborn personalities of heroes, while keeping fresh things by reflecting existential boredom and needing meaning that most young people are now confronted daily. The other characters serve their objective, but it is the story of Machu – even if it only presents itself two -thirds of the story.

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The animation here is not only stellar, but also creative. Brief, GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- There are mainly two anime films of two widely different kinds in one. The first third in the film redid part of the original Gundam The most emblematic moments of the anime using the granular and realistic style of modernized UC films. Despite the upgrade, the essence of the Classic Mecha Anime series can still be felt. But when history spends its post-war years, the animation moved to a more loose and alive style which was perfect for the stories of life. It is obvious that the prelude has been animated in a long time in the Sunrise Gundam The animators, while the film’s gift was managed by the Khara studio. It should be noted that Studio Khara is mainly composed of Gainax veterans, who worked on everything, FLC has Panty and stockings with a hock belt.

The only more impressive thing than to see the distinct styles of these two studios on the big screen was the fact that they adapt so perfectly together. In addition, the different animation styles and the conceptions of characters completed the changing times of the story. It was a beautiful visual stenography to show how so many things can change in a few years, even if certain things remain the same. Combined with incredible combat animation, an excellent work of voice and a strong soundtrack, and GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- is really a cinematic feat to see. If it was judged only on the value of production, this film would be perfect. However, it is retained by its nature as a compilation film and some unhappy accidental implications.

Mobile costume Gundam gquuuuux -beginning – has precipitated and wasted its construction of the world

The film has clearly saved the full potential of its premise for the anime series

The most frustrating thing about GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- Has he asked very interesting questions, only to let them suspend. Worse, The film has not maximized its exciting framework and has passed over its most urgent ideas. Following another story in which Zeon won the one -year war is legitimately one of the most exciting things that Gundam did with the UC. Not only has it inspired a new life in this classic but overused premise, but he finally answered a question that fans have been asking for decades. Since Gundam started, the fans wondered what would happen if Zeon and his heroes were the protagonists. This led to countless fanfictions, and even cannon stories told from the point of view of Zeon soldiers or their stand-in.

Unfortunately, GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- showed how Zeon won the most practical and most disappointing war in the war in the way. Without spoiling too much, the events of the original Gundam are rewritten in such a way that everything goes by magic for spacenoids, leading them to the best possible end. To say that the configuration of the film and the bridge between the generations lacked participations and tension is an understatement. In addition, the film ignored fascism, Zeon’s militarism and, above all, its fatal faults. In the original UC, these were an integral part of the identity and the fall of Zeon. But beyond a few parallel comments of the characters in the film, the implications of the victory in wartime of Zeon and its basic imperfections are barely, or even recognized.

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That said, GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- Clearly avoided his deeper narration and themed interrogations for the animated series. After all, the film is a compilation of the first episodes of the series, not an autonomous cinematographic history. As things approach, the anime series will examine what a successful secessionist movement will look like, and if today’s revolutionaries will only become the oppressors of tomorrow. This subtext recorded this film to transform into the kind of boring Zeon apology that only the most annoying Gundam Fans could create (see: Netflix Gundam: Requiem for revenge). However, a side effect of having more questions than answers was that the film felt strangely apolitical and revisionist in certain places.

To keep the short duration of the history of this franchise, Gundam is anything but apolitical or revisionist. Despite its many retorts and stories, each Gundam The animated series, the cinema, the manga and so on were always against tyranny and always in favor of freedom. Zeon was the antagonist for a reason. GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING’S- The current calendar evokes this, but its prelude does not do so. The political and thematic contradictions between the past and the present are shocked to say the least, and the film never tries to reconcile them. Although it is clear that this surveillance will be resolved later in the series, it was always strange to look at what was essentially a shallow Zeon fanfiction, followed by opportunities of science fiction in time on topical issues, such as immigration and state violence against refugees. It would have been better if the origins of this alternative chronology were more convincing and less propagandist.

Mobile costume GUNDAM GQUUUUUUX -BEGINNING- is a big teaser for the animated series, but little else

The film is a long long prologue to the real story

Machu enters the cockpit in mobile suits GUNDAM GQUUUUUUX -BEGINNING-
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GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- was made to excite the public for the most recent Gundam Anime series, and to prick the interest of veterans. In these respects, this compilation film succeeded. The film was beautifully animated in two distinctly different styles, the actors of the voice have delivered excellent performances, and the story will leave the sole viewers hungry for more. Gundam Fans will want to unpack the mysteries of this other UC now, while newcomers can use this film as a starting point. However, the film is even more a glorified teaser for the animated series than an appropriate and autonomous effort.

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Most obviously everyone, GUNDAM GQUUUUUUux -BeGINNING MOBILE COSTUM- It isJustified worm why Machu’s World is a parallel version of the original UC instead of its own chronology at. Obviously, the answers to it and to all the other revelations are recorded for the animated series, but the film leaves too many son of intrigue and questions which were hanging so that it has a satisfactory conclusion. While anime fans must catch this film in the cinemas to bask in the joy of watching Mecha anime on the big screen, they will be forced to watch the series when it is broadcast, because it is the only way they get a kind of resolution to the history of Machu and this new world.

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A girl with mysterious abilities finds herself to manage a new Gundam in underground mixture battles while looking for answers on her powers.

Advantages and disadvantages

  • The film is an excellent jumping point for the new and old fans of Gundam
  • The film lays the basics of a promising story with intriguing mysteries
  • The animation is visually creative and really cinematographic
  • The film has subcontracted its most interesting implications and its most difficult questions
  • The film, not surprisingly, saved its answers and its resolutions for the animated series
  • The film is more an introduction than an autonomous story

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