No. Haven’t you seen GW where one gundam can wipe out 100-plus mobile suits? Here, the Gundams are almost god-like, which is even more powerful than GW Gundams, despite whatever that guy said. Yes, THAT guy.

Hey, don’t get pissed at me. More characters have been added to this episode (and it’s all still very confusing and annoying)…For yaoi fan’s pleasure - GAR and little brother/younger man. That’s right, the dude who was doing one arm push ups and the sissy (yep, you read that, another sissy) who was wearing a one piece (is that for girls? I know, I know, 50’s man swimsuits).

In any case, Heero Yui…I mean Setuna goes to Marina Ismael (gosh I love her long black hair and lith body…but no way in hell would a Muslim country accept a woman leader) and ask her some stupid question: “Why is the world twisted?” And OF COURSE she gives an answer that says that God/god/Allah/Real Master/whatever is fair, it’s just people…

Oooh. Trying to comfort him? But we know that people are evil already and Marina is Relena-like idealist. Gosh, get the heroine a new personality or something!

The ending theme changes to these 4 gay guys having a Bar-B-Q on beach (middle eastern style?) And of course to the delight of yaoi fan girls, Setsuna strips naked.

Thanks to Sumeragi’s breasts, the day is saved (for me)!

So, another useless effort by normal earth-dwelling peasants trying to fight off heavenly invaders who live among resource rocks floating in space near the COLONIES THAT THE US BUILT.

Nice reference there, son. But we all know in reality, not Japan but US will make colonies in space, if that were to happen, har har har har har har!

Good luck fighting the fat Gundam greasing up and stroking that BFG.

That scientist dude with the long pony tail just shows the secret military data to Sumeragi, a supposedly civilian personnel, trying to impress her or something so she’d go out with him and sleep with him; I mean, big breasts would make a man lose his intelligence and show just about any high-level sensitive data to the girl, right? Makes a hell lot of sense especially when all she wears are small tops that shows clevege and she drinks a ton.

So here’s a tip, kind of be firm and ask her to stay and buy her expensive drinks! Duh! Twin peaks are within your grasp…Oh I get it. I know why the doc can’t score with Sumeragi.

Because that would severely displease all the yaoi fan girls who wants the Captain to do the doc in the ass.

I’m in despair over how gundam has turned out.

Yeah, oh well, we do have plot improvement. But I think they should officially place Gundam 00 as a shojo anime and draw a shojo manga for it. After all, Escaflowne came out of a shojo manga.

But Escaflowne has a better plot, better music, better characters (not a massive number of them), better conflict, oh and not to mention…

The main guy actually gets a girl!

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So…what shows and movies deserve a place in the hall of shame rather than the hall of fame? Since I tend to give up on shows I dislike very quickly, it’s shorter than the winners’ list. But we’ve still got plenty to populate this, the first annual Diet Demerits!

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Finally, a great episode where these loser CBs actually do something right.

I was satisfied to see the terrorists get blown up and slaughtered. Good job, CB!

Why the hell am I 4 fucking episodes late? Because I started hating having to write something about anime! Dammit!

It was a good episode. I promise I’ll write something about episode 12.

FINISH.

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I wish I could like these 4 more. I really do.

If it weren’t for Sumeragi’s nice cleverage, I’d skip forward all the fighting sequences and just watch the politics (and I normally hate politics!)

GW’s fighting sequence were really cool, even though the GW Gundams were also slaughtering, but the impact and the sounds are simply awesome. The CB fighting sequences are sometimes so short and almost like place holders. And the worse part is -

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I figured that an upgrading was coming. Time for model fans to shell out more money.

To be perfectly honest with you, I don’t like the design of any of the 4 gundams, maybe except Heavy Gundam with the guns. I though that Freedom Gundam and its predecessor from Gundam Seed was awesome, but the Gundams here simply don’t impress me.

That being said, this is definitely one of the more intelligent Gundam in recent years. Political intrigue, conflicting opinions, character contrasts…This has it all.

I got sick of watching one Gundam destroying like 20 plus enemy crafts within one second. I got really sick of that after watching Gundam Wing.

It’s also hard to follow the characters, because there are just so freaking many characters in this one. Way too many.

France is still selling weapons to Middle Eastern countries. But that’s fine. Money is money.

I’m just surprised that Europeans in this show didn’t exactly make it to space. That’s higtly unlikely.

I wish I could give an in depth analysis and not just glossing over, but there are just so many characters and so many subplots to keep track of. It’s way too complex for my taste and I’ve got 3 other shows to write about. It’s safe to say that Setuna is getting most of the drama so far, as he seems to encounter his old mentor or leader of the resistance force that he used to be in on the battle field as an enemy. I hope this turns out to be more interesting.

No one’s wearing a mask yet. But we have Newtypes running around. The lieutenant from China/Russia/India side can sense Allelujah…Allelujah… Allelujah…A-L-L-E-L-U-J-A-H (I’m thinking Eva mind rape of Asuka by the angel with the music playing in the background, well the lieutenant is a girl, and Allelujah is a guy, so….uh, never mind).

The episodes are fine, it’s just that too many characters are there and too many plots are going, and the unnecessary comic relief character wasn’t remotely funny at all.

85% recommended.

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I think I’m impressed.

Who would’ve guessed that Allellujah Haptism has a split personality so much like the Newtypes, or rather, the artificial Newtypes developed by Murasame Research Institute in Zeta?

It’s very clear who’s the product of the “Newtype research”, and she gets…well, a pink “Zaku”, not quite red. But hey, there’s a mask…Just not very distinctive.

This episode has quite a few references. One of them is the sensory thing that Newtypes have when near each other. Another one is Gundam and Zaku saving something and preventing it from falling unto Earth.

I’m very intrigued that they would actually pull some classic Gundam references out of their hat. Gundam Kyrios kind of remind me of Zeta Gundam.

Other than that, as most of you probably have already seen, this episode doesn’t do that much. One interesting thing we get to learn is that Haptism has a very dark past and something akin to the nano-machines inside the lieutenant who pilots the pink Zaku, and somehow they’ll be connected.

CB help saving people…Is that surprising? I don’t know. All I know is that this episode makes the whole series that much more intriguing.

The verdict is still out that who will wear a mask and become the arch enemy of Setsuna.

For the US audience, I think the creators of this one read Michael Moore’s books. But hey, I got a lot of dough during Clinton era, so I’m all for it (again, the president dude looks like good ol’ Bill).

90% recommended.

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[Editor's note: going through some tough time and sorry about the 1 week late review]

USA! USA! USA!

Smart Tabila, pretending to breaking away from our great imperial US of A, ran by the great Bill Clinton (come, that guy looks nothing like Bush but much like Clinton…Oh, and we’ll have a woman for president. Eat you hearts out everywhere, male Otakus from other countries! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!).

But guess what? Awesome information work and good strategy backing away from our indestructible forces godly forces of USA! Nice move, CB faggots! Mwa hahahahahahhaha!

I’m still pissed that the rival of Setsuna ISN’T WEARING A MASK! Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His new suits got the mobility, and the weapons (he just needs to color his mobile suit red!) Give him a mask! The classic Gundam fan inside me is crying (like anyone gives a shit XD).

OK, seriously, though, this episode really tried to demonstrate why Gundam 00 is intelligent. But for me the verdict is still out.

Yes, the CB aren’t fooled by Taliban…I mean, Tabila after all. They pretended to go independent, and CB doesn’t buy that shit, and Tablia get their asses kicked. Fair enough. I guess they knew how to deal with that long ago.

I’m still wondering why they backed off from the US forces. With their powers they could easily pull off a Gundam Wing and destroy the US fleet…Oh wait, Bandai is trying to sell the anime in US, aren’t they? Mwa hahahahhahahahahahahahaha!!! Well, too bad, everyone else, they love us and want our market!

Again, seriously, I’m wondering why they decided not to attack the US forces. Perhaps they realized that it was a trick to capture them. If that’s the case than I don’t think they’re superiorly intelligent. I think they planted a mole in all the military powers in the world.

[Editor's note: the rest of this review is based on what I remember. Still too busy to do anything]

There are still too many things going on and I’ve thought about how they can pull it all off. I think I’m just getting old because for classic Gundam and even modernized Gundam like Wing, Seed, and even Destiny, the characters were more memorable and easier for me to remember, and their names weren’t that confusing. But here, the names are hard to remember. To their credit, though, the issues involved here are far more complex than probably all the previous modern efforts to produce intelligent Gundam. In some ways not having gung ho men trying to fight for what they believe in or some young people simply wanting to live in peace and be in love (see Z Gundam) actually makes it more believable for a cynic like me who grew up in the 90’s USA. Boy I hated that era.

I love classic Gundam precisely because it became what it was in the 80’s and things were so much simpler then.

89% recommended.

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I had no clue how naive these gundam writers are. Terrorism isn’t going to stop just because some military intervention from outside. Even if the outside force fights both sides. In fact, what that often does is actually uniting the two enemies and make them fight against the outsider.

“…the REAL IRA stops their terrorism activities in Northern Ireland…”(snicker) I’ve been told that the IRA in real life (the really real IRA) had already stopped terrorism activities.

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Between the three bloggers on this site, it looks like we’ve covered pretty much every major show except Shana 2 (none of us have seen season 1). This is my opinion on shows we’ve already covered: Blue Drop, Dragonaut, ef-a tale of memories, Gundam 00, Genshiken 2, and Mokke. You can read Ray’s articles in the links provided.

Blue Drop 1 (Ray’s Review of 1 and 2)

Now that’s more like it. If there was ever a show that was calculated to make me swallow yuri, it would be this one. :) It’s the only show this whole season that to me as any degree of genuine aesthetic beauty–beautiful music, beautiful imagery, emotional nuance (with one slight misstep in an unnecessary slapstick scene near the end in the cafeteria). It is slow, though, slow on the edge of boring, but given my tastes for European art film, I didn’t find it unbearable in the least. Mari is already an interesting character, though Senkouji, the alien girl, is still a rather blank personality so far (despite her sudden KILL ALL HUMANS activation program or something). The flowers were also a bit much, I think, a bit too shoujo-y for even my taste, and certainly all the hint we need that sometime soon there will be wink-wink-nudge-nudge-saynomore going on. Lovers always start by fighting. But I found the birds around Senkouji in the start to be rather beautiful. Gonzo did a good job animating that scene.

I am keeping a close eye on this one. I need some seriousness in my diet too, you know.

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AH!!!! It’s like Char without a mask and a Zaku pulled out a beam saber but the main Gundam uses a fucking heat blade??? What the hell?

Speaking of Zakus, the modern Gundam series really lacks something - a group of opponent mechas, which are not gundam-based, that one can root for and be impressed with.

For the UC gundam series (look it up, young’uns, if don’t know), what often helped the sale of models weren’t the gundams, it was the Zakus, the Doms, the Rick Diases, and other badass non-gundam mecha. I mean, there were good gundams but one had a choice. That’s why there are so many Zeon-followers in Gundam fandom. Because the guys with Zeon had distinctive and sometimes quirky personalities, and their mecha are often customized. For these who really know UC Gundam, who could forget the Black Tri-stars? The Golf? The RED ZAKU, gelgoog, and the Zeong? Who the fuck needs legs on a mobile suit when Char is piloting it?

Sounds silly? Well, kid, that’s a big part of the charm and flair of the UC Gundam. Gung ho men dreaming of bettering the world, even if they have to gas a whole colony to do it, but it’s not like the so-called good guys are all that honorable. In fact, watching the Zeon squad from 0083, they showed more courage than these Feddies. Even Cima Garahau was a character infinitely better than someone like that bitch Releena Peacecraft.

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