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  • Holy hell this episode looked great. The animation was fantastic while also feeling like it was ripped straight out of history. I can't put my finger on it, but between the character designs, sound effects, eyecatches I was feeling nostalgic for an era of anime gone by...and I never even watched the series it was trying to evoke nostalgia for.

    I enjoyed this episode a lot. I am sure that I am only getting the surface level comprehension of this recap. Even I can tell that it was probably packed full of references to things I have no knowledge of. However, it was good enough. The one big question mark I still have from this sequence of events is what the hell happened to Char that caused him to go rogue? I am sure it is something that will be explored during this show (I am guessing it has something to do with the kira-kira vision that happened in the first episode). Looking forward to meeting Char eventually during this season in the current timeline.

    • After watching that episode I was really worried that people who haven't seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam would mostly be confused and disoriented (it flashed through alternate versions of events spanning the whole 50 episode original series), so I'm relieved that that isn't the case.

      • Yeah, I have watched enough anime to understand that I probably saw several seasons worth of anime go by in a flash. There are plenty of gaps, but I think I was able to grasp the broad strokes of how things played out. I don't know some of the characters. Like that Lady they kept talking about (I assume the one with a veil) and then her brother(?). Also several other important figures that seemed to have some kind of factional infighting over the direction of the war strategy. I wasn't able to really get much more of a picture than "some power struggles took place internally during the war" and then Char saved the moon and went awol, leaving his Mav, the green-haired guy, chasing down the ghost of every rumor of Char's return.

        ...or something like that. I am writing this specifically from memory instead of looking anything up to try to convey what stuck in my brain.

    • Glad you were able to enjoy despite the lack of background. The GQX movie was all laid out chronologically, so this is how it opened. Straight up nostalgia assault. I didn't want the "prologue" parts to end, gimme the whole OYW in this alt timeline lol.

  • Really cool watching all this AU stuff happen, but it's also a little frustrating that I definitely can't recommend this show to people who haven't seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam. This episode would probably be more confusing than cool or interesting to someone who isn't familiar with how the One Year War was supposed to have happened.

    Also I thought it was super cool that they were using the distinct music from the original, or at least a good remake of it.

  • 🔥🦆🔥

    Back when I watched the original Gundam, I thought that its story stood the test of time, but the aesthetic side of it did not.

    With its modern art style and top notch animation, this episode is my dream remake. 10 / 10 episode.

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    This scene is simply too iconic to pass up.

    • Done!

    • I'm going to agree with the exception of the new mech designs. The originals are iconic, and Origin did a fantastic job updating them for modern times. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with what they went with for GQX. But I'd want a proper remake to keep the general mech aesthetic.

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