Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2/2) | The Gundam Retrospective
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- Tonight we cover the final 2 arcs of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. Released in 2011 Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is an interesting take on the well known Gundam tropes. With a cartoony art style and 3 stories worth of material mashed into 49 episodes, does AGE hold up to the series best?
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Part 1: • Mobile Suit Gundam AGE...
-- THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR GUNDAM AGE --
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Asemu is still my favorite of the the three because he had the most potential in bridging the whole story. It's just a shame that none of the characters are truly given enough time to be fleshed out.
I think it's common consensus Asemu was the favorite of the 3 pilots among most fans of the show
He also had the best Age Gundam. Even the pirate version with the hook. He also had the best hair too.
Call me crazy, but I really do like how Flit became an old racist against the Vegan. Seeing a Gundam protagonist age like that, when they never really had that "we're all just people!" awakening that most get, was an interesting subversion that I didn't expect of a kid-targeted Gundam show like AGE.
You want to know what one of the BIGGEST train wrecks that happened in the series as I watched this as it was coming out? During the final arc, the video game came out when there were 5 episodes left to go. The speed runners in japan went and speed ran the game and ALL the final plot points in the game played out in the series EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as they did in the game so there were massive spoilers for the final 5 episodes out there way in advance.
Gotta love how Kio caused way more death by a detail you neglected to mention.
Kio gives up the AGE system in exchange for some medicine for the terminally sick orphan girl, who dies shortly after anyway.
Honestly I totally forgot about that cuase they dont really bring it up again, but yeah that is big traitor energy from Kio lol
@@Retcon404 It's more that there is so much dropping of the idiot ball once you get to Kio's arc everywhere.
I think Zeheart is a perfect encapsulation of the problems with Gundam AGE. To me, at least, Zeheart should've been essentially Prince Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender. An antagonist who begins his arc motivated by seeking the approval of his tyrannical father-figure but whose growth as a character leads him to inevitably rebel and join the protagonists. For whatever reason AGE... just didn't. Zeheart's gonna show up with his giant fucking metal dragons to start murdering en masse and you're going to like it. So why did we spend all this time with him? Just to have a Char clone to fit the formula?
The irony here is that AGE is clearly going for a younger demographic than typical Gundam. They could've done a story with a more idealistic setting where a pacifist-oriented protagonist feels entirely justified through measured worldbuilding and sympathetic characters on both sides they... just didn't.
@@557deadpool For one, having Level 5 produce the visuals - a company known for Ni nu Kuni, Yokai Watch, and Inuzuma Eleven games - is putting you in a visual style synonymous with works aimed at younger audiences. Having all the Vagan Mobile Suits designed after RPG monsters is also kinda... silly. Particularly the pink flying witch design of the Farsia, though the ogre robot is up there as well.
Then you have things which are just... childish. Like Flit's main rival being a 7 year-old evil gremlin child, characters like the Don Boyage and that whole Fardain gang war arc which just seems like a parody, or the AGE system creating class changes for the AGE-1 in a very monster-of-the-week Power Rangers kind of way. The Flit and Asemu's arc especially have a lot of silly moments which are punctuated by serious one until you get to the Kio arc which is predominantly serious at the expense of Kio who wasn't really capable of carrying it.
This was a major reason why the Gunpla didn't sell well, the demographic who buys gunpla - 20-35 year old men - were alienated by the aesthetic and apparent kiddish-ness of the whole production, even though AGE kits are objectively pretty high quality even to contemporary standards.
Zeheart was also a clone. After the 2nd version he got put away for a while remember? He never aged the whole series.
@@557deadpool The designers at Level-5 was predominantly known for making soccer and toy robot video games/shows aimed specifically at children. The characters are made younger than the traditional Gundam cast. The aesthetic and the narrative stakes of the first generation are more like an adventurous show than a military drama. Gundam AGE *looked* and *sounded* like a shounen action anime made for kids, and that sentiment held true until the show went Elfen Lied on the viewers for the sake of living up to Gundam's reputation of being "grim and gritty."
The only good explanation I have for this is to drive shock value: the "kiddy show facade" and deception that became very popular back when Magical Girl Madoka Magica was aired several months prior in 2011. The difference is that Madoka Magica knows how to subvert and deconstruct its cutesy magical girl genre to drive a genuine drama, whereas Gundam AGE ends up all over the place between being a U.C. clone royalist, a deconstructionist, and an edgelord tryhard that willingly splatters cute girls onscreen just to prove it's a serious show. This anime suffers a lot because it simply doesn't know what it wants to be.
the age 2 dark hound is still one of my favorite looking mecha
Fun fact about Gerrard:
Super Robot Wars BX openly ships her and Akito from Nadesico as a thing since she's introduced earlier. In fact, it was memed so hard that people actually took the flashbacks from Prince of Darkness and edited Gerrard's face onto Yurika.
They also arguably do a better final boss, assuming you get the Age secrets, since they make Zanald (Vagan with the not-Gorillia MS) the final villian with him overthrowing Ezelcant AND Zeheart in a coup. He even gets taken out, should you get the secrets, with a Zeheart + Asemu combo attack.
"Why don't they just move Second Moon?" When I watched the show when it was airing I thought the main Vagan population was living on the surface of Mars. The idea that they were all on a colony that could have flown anywhere is so bad I think my brain just blocked it out.
You forgot to mention how unlucky with love this series is. Its the most unlucky with love anime to date I think.
Yurin and Flit (Yurin dies)
Flit ends up in whatblooks to be an unhappy marriage with Emily
Zeheart and Romari
Wolf and the Diva's captain (Wolf dies in a completely survivable situation)
Obright and Remi (Why must it be this way)
Asemu marries Romari and goes off to be a deadbeat dad space pirate
That test pilot who lost her fianceé
Abis and Natora (Abis dies)
Zeheart and Fram (they both die in the space of an hour), Romari still cares about him
I'm probably forgetting some too😂
In general it is a good idea to not get into a loving relationship as soon as anything that even remotely looks like a gundam hits the scene around you... even if your love interest has secondary protagonist vibes he or she is not save from deathflags in any gundam series outside of build fighters...and even if they dont die there is a high chance that they will be psychologically crippled!
Flit before the final battle: for our blue and pure world flit after the final battle: let's be friends and sing cumbia
For all of AGE’s faults the mecha design was on point. The Vagan machines were unique and cool looking as opposed to the usual Federation-esq or Zeon-esq designs.
Very good video as always I will say I was kinda shocked you didn't talk about Flit basically being in a loveless marriage at least that's the impression I got when watching part 2 didn't seem like he cared much for his family and when he found out Asamu wasn't an X rounder he stopped caring which is funny he REALLY loved Kio lol
Well yeah, Kio was his revenge baby, raised to be the weapon that kills the Vagan once and for all.
35:44 - Jesus Christ, anime treats supporting women characters as well as American comic book writers do, as in NOT AT ALL! Seriously though, I fully agree that despite its popularity and anti-war themes, a lot of the Gundam franchise' body count feels like underwritten melodramatic theater, losing whatever emotional impact in turn.
That aside, thank you for all you mecha retrospectives and review videos.
I think the biggest issue is how blatant and obvious it is and what it wants to achieve? I mean in a war story its kinda expected that people can and will die suddenly and unexpectedly.. but when you see the death flags from miles away like a shining beacon in the dark... not only does it lose any meaning when they do bite the bullet... you as the viewer feel like the author is simply taking you for a sucker...
Any sympathetic and adorable side character that gets a little bit more screentime then other side characters is basically one huge deathflag... it couldnt be more obvious if they wore red starfleet uniforms in a star trek episode...
I think Natora despite her unfortunate name is one of the most under appreciated characters in the overall franchise. Up there with Roberto Gomez in Victory. I think she offers a unique and relatable perspective, especially if you have ever been thrust in a leadership position because you're the only person with the credentials for it.
I recommend Memory of Eden. It focuses mostly on Asemu and Zeheart, expands on the School Part in a good way and saves Zehearts Character in Part 3 imo and gives his Asemus a better final Duel
I will still say that AGE is an interesting speedrun of all of Gundam present up to the point of the show's airing. While Flit's arc was largely First Gundam with a dash Gundam X and minor references to other entries, Asemu's arc is very much Zeta Gundam with a dash of War in the Pocket, Stardust Memory and ZZ. Kio's arc is very much Victory Gundam with a dash of Crossbone, CCA, Turn A, Seed and Unicorn (special thing to note is that the entire show has Unicorn shoved into it from Woolfe's Genoace Custom looking like the Unicorn's Unicorn mode, to Kio seeing life on the enemy's side ala Banager).
I recommend watching the Memory of Eden OVA which makes both Asemu's and Kio's arcs better.
Shanalua is a spin on Miharu's story (spy for the enemy for money for youger sibling(s), decides to do the right thing but dies). Remy is actually a reference to the mechanic, Milly Childer, on board the La Vie En Rose in ZZ (I'd say Remy had a bigger role comparatively since Milly was barely around in ZZ). The AGE-FX's FX Burst is a reference to Layzer's V-MAX system activating.
Some extra story bits that add to the show are actually in the PSP games. In particular, during the first time skip, Flit had actually fought Dole before. What's interesting about it is that it took place before Asemu was born and Dole pilots the Wiegel which is the direct predecessor of Desil's Khronos.
I just love asumu descent craze revenge. From the federation war hero to being kick out due his anti vagan policy becoming extreme . To the point he view anybody with
A pint of sympathy to the vagans as trators. I wouldn't be suprise in between the series there were some "purges" that he directed.
I will say this again: the worst part about asemu's admittedly solid arc is that a non-small chunk of it got cut from the anime
You could legitimately use that reasoning for the entire series. If it was initially planned on going for a year and a half like he said in the first part and being cut to only 1 season it explains all of the pacing issues throughout. Unnecessary parts taking longer due to it already being fully flushed out, important parts being cut completely due to episode restraints, all of it.
Three generations of child soldiers, lovely!
As for the "Mars cancer", Mars does have a much weaker atmosphere than Earth, and space stations might also lack that kind of protection, that could explain it, I guess?
Another Retcon_404 Gundam Retrospective? Hell yea, Imma dive in!
If I could rewrite AGE I would’ve had Desil not die in part 2 and be the final villain have to where the two sides are about to come to cease fire Desil and his followers pull a coup and attempt to crash the second moon into the earth colony drop style.
As for Asemu and Zeheart I’d have it that Asemu disgusted with his father’s draconian actions decides to defect and even work with Zeheart to ending the war peacefully by supporting the anti war movements in both sides.
Gundam Age is a prime example of "WASTED POTENTIAL". There was a lot of good there, but just nobody knew how to utilize it in a way that made it work.
That, and _way_ too many of the deaths were unnecessary and completely avoidable.
I stand behind the statement that Gundam Age is just an attempt at a shortened retelling of Gundam, Zeta Gundam, ZZ Gundam, through to Char's Counterattack. I think that's a big part of why it's not great. The show's trying to cram almost 150 episodes of older anime plus a movie into 50 modern episodes. The actual production fact that Age was originally meant to be a Gundam video game doesn't help either.
Mostly I just think Age had some decent ideas that are executed poorly. Dragon mobile suits had me so hyped for this when it was still in previews, but the show does not deliver. :(
Ah, AGE...
Well, what's important is that, Flit did nothing wrong!
He didnt pull the trigger... /s
The fact he went General Ripper on the entire Vegan race just because his girlfriend is dead is wrong on every level.
The art may have made Flit look younger than he should, but it doesn't stop the fact that most Gundam protagonists 15 and under are better at handling trauma and are more morally driven than he'll ever be.
Yeah sure totally dosent want to commit genocide to other humans and whipe out everyone on mars
Asemu’s arc is so Good that they made an OVA focusing on Asemu
Also the pilot of the Vagan gear
I thought its a Clone of Dezel to make him Relevant to the final arc instead of an Unknown child
What impressed me most was the scene where the pirate crew replaced the whole Diva crew peacefully because the latter were so incompetent!
The Fact that Gundam and GOW hold such nostalgia on your channel are fantastically relatable to my Youth! Got yourself a Sub brotha👍👍
I am still raving over the fact that Newtypes in this universe are called "X Rounders". Who came up with such a ridiculous name? Could'nt they think of something better??? Ok, ok there is Full Frontal from the Unicorn ... why bother.
its also a show where thay named a person 'Anus". couldve at least google the names u plan to use on ur OC even if english isnt ur first language or dont speak it at all
The best thing with the AGE series has to be the music. At some points (for instance Kio:s outburst) it really hits the mark in my opinion.. Then again, most Gundam shows have got really good music.
Ah Kio, the awful fusion of Kira Yamato and Üso Ewin, maybe with a little Relena Peacecraft, and grandson of Adolph Flitler (or was it Gendo Ikari?). They give him Bask Ohm goggles for a reason. I liked Asemu at least. He's a super pilot!
If you ever cover more Gundam side material, Memory of Eden may interest you.
This show is weird. While it obviously takes from early UC and bits from Wing, I think it takes a little from Victory as well.
Also PLEASE watch clips of the dub if you haven't, it's hilarious. That also goes for the MSG movies, ZZ, Wing, Build Fighters, and Build Fighters Try.
Flit Asuno: He makes Shinn Asuka look like Mother Theresa.
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There's a reason why the AGE-1 has devil horns...
I second this it's so bad it's funny also they only have like 15 actors and they have to keep getting recast. One of the actors starts out voicing Desil, then moves on to Romary in the second arc, and then gets recast as Kio in the third arc. And all of the acting is so funny it's impossible to take the show seriously
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It's also probably the best Hong Kong dub I've heard. Believe it or not, the dubs of ZZ, Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try are worse.
I can't believe you skipped over the part where Kio literally sold the Gundam technology for damn near useless magic beans. Even Ezelcant warns him this is a bad trade.
Thanks for the video really makes me watch gundam age !!!
The Darkhound vs Legilis to me is the highlight of the series, honestly it was a good decision to have Asemu have the final fight against zeheart
And the memory of eden version of that fight is really great
Your doing a great job dude
you given more time to develop each arc, than the studio itself.
when i saw the series i thought 3 arcs was so much , with two was good with time, the crammed a lot in bad time.
Hell yeah, more AGE!!
Of all the arcs in the series, the asemu arc is the best as being the most consistently paced, better characters, and more engaging action(somthing I think sunrise agrees on as the compilation film is based around this arc). Unfortunately the kio arc is when everything went off the rails in terms of story, character motivation, plot lines that didn't need to be there, wasting of characters and such a rushed ending that made everything seem inconsequential. Gundam Age was the victim of an ambitious premise but botched on execution.
Theres a reason the super pilot skill is op and broken in cross rays.
so many of the ideas in this series were so fucking good and almost fucking worked together but they really seemed to make every single decision in the last couple arcs that could possibly ruin what they had going for them
utterly insane
and of course the lack of popularity has led to too few of the Vagan suits getting model kits, because i adore their aesthetic and would love to kitbash them into a custom, draconic Mobile Suit but the more time goes by the less likely that seems to become
Man I can't wait for you to do Iron blooded orphans
What I loved about AGE, is that the story is set during a century, much like the UC from First Gundam.
I'm never forgiving AGE for killing off the Milly Childer analog, Remy.
Milly best Gundam girl.
Thr thing I can't get over about AGE is that when Flit *overthrows his own government* at the end of the second arc, he would have learned everything his son and grandson learn during the third arc off-screen. AND HE MUST HAVE HELPED COVER IT UP!
Flit and his son both decide to prolong the war for another 20 years - which gives the Big Bad the Eugenics War meat-grinder he's actually after.
Meanwhile, researching a cure for Martian cancer, relocation aid, or providing better radiation shielding would erode the Martian government's control over their population and make *Vegans* nore open to peace.
Flit should have considered it just as a strategy to weaken the Vegan will to fight.
Honestly, the AGE device should have spat out a vaccine all by itself at several points.
Age has some of my favorite MS: The Age 3 Orbital, the Clanche, the Gafran, and the Fawn Farsia.
I wonder if he will do Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Memory of Eden? It basically re tells parts 2 and 3, but it makes it better by just focusing on Asemu Asuno and Zeheart Galette.
Arc 2 is pretty much the best arc which is why it was the only one that got a movie adaptation with sprinkles of the ending of the series. Still feel bad Bandai didn't do a regular release of the red Legilis.
yeah my favorite is the asemu arc up to the point where they discover that he is still alive
Gundam Age definitely revived the franchise. We got it right after Unicorn and before Iron Blooded Orphans.
I actually saw the second part before the first arc so I enjoyed it. But I still enjoyed the first arc too.
Memory of Eden is interesting. It has been a long time since I watched it, but I recommend you check it out. It focuses solely on Asumu and Zeheart.
from your summary Kio feels like diet Kira
I liked the first two arcs of AGE more than most. I sympathized with young Flit and Asemu (but that may be my daddy issues talking).
The big ending battle went completely off the rails and was very bad. I was okay with the humanization of the Vagan until then. Your point about just keeping Zeheart as the villain was always my big gripe, too.
I loved AGE visually in all aspects. But I'll never defend it from the episodes into the 40s till the end.
Now I don't have to watch AGE, thanks! I hope someday you will do reviews for Megazone 23 and Full Metal Panic.
Legillis is also one of the most beautiful gundams ever.
I always figured Ezlecant didn't use the ExaDB to cure Mars Disease because that would have ended his best excuse for the war. But I don't remember if there's any support for that in the show.
I would have like to had heard your thoughts on the generation gimick, if you thought that worked or not and what you would have like to have seen to make it more complete, like more characters or families that show up/grow during the different time lines?
Will you do a retrospective for Memory of Eden?
Zehart shouldve couped and sued for peace and reconciliation with Kyo. Wouldve leqned into his sympathetic plot and been a unique ending.
I am here once again to kindly ask for a Big-O retrospective.
Plz thx
Ah yes, Capt Anus... A true gem of a character name ❤️
Unpopular comment time, Flit was my favorite right until he didn't shoot the missile. Had he shot that missile he would have been the single most evil protagonist ever and AGE would have been a lot darker.
He could have also have been the final antagonist to stop. Basically Kio and Asemu fight to stop Flit from committing genocide.
Seric never becomes Natora's lover, man's married and with a kid. Natora however is 100% crushing HARD on the man
AGE, while not the best, I still think is worth at least watching
Since the movie version makes some significant changes compared to the anime will we see your opinion on that too?
The worst aspect of the ending - on top of everything else wrong with it - was that Flit stopped being super villain grandpa.
I think the final arc of age would had turned out better if Bandai and sunrise did give a middle fingers to the series and cut asamu and koi arcs down a total of I think was 13 or 24 episodes,I can't remember which right off hand because of bad merchandise sells in the first arc -_-
I remeber i watched the dub once and i heard a character sound exactly like barney the dinosaur and that second i switched to the jp audio . The show isnt the worst but it wasnt that great either .
"no gundam would made the hero good and vilain bad"... didn't gundam 00 did it with the inovado though ? ^^
21:24 after seeing the love of his life killed he trigger the mobile suits Super-Mode "Freeeeza YOULL PAY FOR THIS!!!" Oops wrong anime " TAKE THIS MY LOVE MY ANGER AND ALL MY SORROW SHINNNNING FINGER!!!"
wasn't there a movie covering the Asemu arc?
Fun fact: Woolf's VA is the same one as Jotaro from Jojo.
This would have been a good game tho if I am being honest as a game some of the pacing issues wouldn’t matter
Would you be willing to check out Madox 01 it's short and sweet.
Where can I watch this? Do I have to Luffy it?
Currently it isn't streaming legally in the west, sometimes it is on the Gundam info CZcams channel though.
I like the series but is flawed love the mech design tho
Flit should've done it
Is this the only Gundam series that we get to see the protagonists married?
No I'm pretty sure shiro and Aina from the 08th ms team got married and we do see Aina pregnant
@@perceptor1525legally probably not. Due to shiro deserted the federation and considered as a deserter and if he decided to reappear in anywhere feddie occupied in would be kill on sight
And Aina would be considered "kill in action" due to she haven't return to Zeon officially. Honesty any zeon soldier in 08th team show is actually dead. Because feddies shot the spacecraft that housed wounded soldiers or died in the area before.
Age get's too little attention. It's not as good as say seed, but it's better then alot of the recent stuff. It's biggest negative is it kills alot of great caracters, giving it a way too much zeta vibe.
38:27 "But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into Dinosaurs!"
In all seriousness Gundam AGE sounds like a dumb show with a wasted premise. Multiple generations of protagonists from the same bloodline fighting an ongoing evil force with reoccurring menaces coming back to haunt the new heroes like a cursed heirloom? Oh wait we have that it's called Jojo's Bizarre Adventure! I mean it could work but a lot more thought needed to be put into it. I mean come on the main villains are basically the Jovian Federation from Martian Successor Nadesico only these guys aren't supposed to be funny! At least not intentionally. Jeez, I bet the reason why most in the west give SEED so much grief is because they haven't seen AGE, Victory or G Reco.
Victory was just an excuse to murder as many women as possible on screen... preferably in bikinis!
And then things go wrong. Now maybe I could forgive the whole Asumu arc being a diet coke Seed and maybe I could forgive the idea of all of the later love interests being very weak along with Natora Anus having the worst name for a female captain I ever heard in the third arc.........But Kio is where I draw the damn line. So many things that I just don't even like Eszancunt's evil plan, wasting time on a pointless character for several episodes, Asumu's idea to leave his family to be a Johnny Depp, Flint being outed for hating the enemy despite the fact that it was their fault everything went to shit for him along with his rage being completely justifed and Kio not shutting up about we must understand each other while being given a powerful gundam AND not learning his damn mistakes like he really was Kira Yamato mark 2. The whole series really was rushed in retrospect like damn.
Flit being justified is a bit of a stretch. His hatred and willingness to genocide an entire civilisation stems from the fact that one asshole killed his first childhood crush, because until that moment in time he was just trying to protect his home from an invading force... oh and said childhood crush was a member of the civilisation he wants to eradicate... making his desire to wipe out the Vaegans down to the last man, woman and child even more nonsensical
Age 1 was good age 2 was even better but I just could not enjoy age 3 at all. The show felt so rushed near the end of age 2 and throughout age 3. This anime could've done so much better with a few more episodes to work with so age 2 and possibly age 3 could've turned out even better.
Theres an alternate reality out there where AGE got the full 75 episode run that they had planned for it
AGE has some timely stuff as I'm seeing the two sides that have generations of hate and can't help but think of how I see things like that in conflicts going on in the real world at the moment. Still...good god did they drop the ball with everything in the last half with Kio being the worst parts of Kira and a joke of a final boss...though I guess unlike some later entries we at least have a final boss. Still, best of luck with the next video.
Not gonna lie after Yuri's death I started to dislike Flint even thou I understood his hate
I'm with Flit. We must all do our part to protect our families from those filthy vegans.
High potential but much wasted.
Should've used asemu and zeheart relationship to solve the story. Should've made ezelcant the big bad as he brainwashed all vegan and zeheart to repent and somehow work together with the mcs lead them to peace. Should not kill likeable character with the most boring reason such as seric and wolf. Should've had better character design not to childish looking like inazuma eleven.
Boy was this a mess of a show. The show feels like a case of too many cooks in the kitchen.
The motivations and actions of the Vaegir are just so friggin stupid... it ruins the entire plot of the whole series... also the amount of throwaway characters that simply exist to emotionally manipulate the viewer in blatantly obvious ways is unreal, every chapter of the story someone (usually a female) dies to motivate the protagonist to be even more of a moron then they allready are! Thats why no one WANTS to remember AGE.
And while we are at "stupid motivations" lets put the cherry ontop for the Vaegir shall we?: In the final chapter we learn that A) they could have moved their colony simply away from mars to literally anywhere else in the solar system.. or b) used the EXA-DB to clean up mars atmosphere (why does cleaning the atmosphere of mars suddenly remove the cancer rays.. and why does it even matter since the colony was moved away?) but instead decided to go C) use stupid amounts of resources that could have been used to improve the living standards of their people to build super death machines in order to go full genocide against people who have nothing to do with their plight and didnt even knew they existed.... hell its even doubtfull that many people who directly work for the federation even knew about the abandoned colony project...
And then theres the pitifull poverty the Vaegir live in....
I mean the cancer rays is one thing... but why does the populace have to wallow in poverty in what looks like some middle eastern slums during the dark age.. when they can produce warships and mobile suits that are so advanced and ahead of the technology curve that the federation at first thought they where friggin aliens? You tell me they can produce entire colossal superweapons.. but cant give the people some decent housing? And why is it the earth federations fault they live in a shithole? They clearly have the most modern production technology available to mankind at the start of the story.... why is everyone poor, dirty and lives in houses without even a single AC unit?
They tried to tell a anti-war story, but hamfisted it so bad with these nonsensical plothole filled motivations from everyone... and i didnt even talk how Flit was willing to genocide an entire civilisation down to the last man, woman and child... because one asshole killed his first childhood crush... WICH WAS FROM THE SAME CIVILISATION! XD
Nobody makes any friggin sense in this story....
I watched this few months ago and it was trash, the pacing is horrendous, it felt like a shitty rushed version of SEED especially second part, i stopped watching the moment I saw there was antoher timeskip, so I only now found out about the 3rd part, it sounds awful I made a good choice.
I don't really mind the idea of Kio (or any Gundam protag) fighting to disable rather than kill, since in practical terms that more less achieves the same results as fighting to kill the pilot, so if they have the capability to do it, it's not as naive as I think people say. The problem is the execution of it, is terrible. Literally every other time Gundam did this with one of it's protags , it was done better than with Kio.
This was arguably my least favorite Gundam show of the ones I've watched. It had a lot of cool ideas and some pretty cool MS-designs, but the execution was just so poorly done...