Mobile Suit Gundam

I enjoyed it for what it was. Continues the Igloo trend of using uncanny valley CG (FFS the humans look like they spent 5 minutes in Blender on the animation, mechs and environment are amazing though) to tell OYW stuff from the Zeon side. They did a fantastic job depicting the Gundam as a terrifying menace. Unlike Igloo, there's no way really to make this jibe with existing UC canon, so it sits in with other alt-UC stuff like Thunderbolt and Origin.

If nothing else, it's only 6 episodes. Can't hurt to give it a whirl.

It's okay. The animation is mixed, scenery and mecha are amazing, facial animation is awful. The story has a good premise in making the traditional bad guys the protagonists and the Gundam the antagonist, but the actual story is mid at best.

Story is alright. Human renderings are kinda jank. Worth the watch imo.

I enjoyed it. It has a heavier focus on the war aspect of Gundam - relative to the political aspect - so it is not like your typical Gundam IMO.

I have heard from Gundam fans that the story / protagonist is no good given the context of the Universal Century timeline.

However, I watched it without much knowledge of the bigger universe, so the criticisms mean nothing to me.

P.S. I watched the subbed version

I watched it and tbh I thought it was kinda bad. The ending was kinda dumb. That episode where they said

Requiem for Vengeance

"Instead of taking the Zaku apart, what if we put them together?"

was also extremely dumb. The writing sometimes had the sort of subtlety that makes you wonder if they're actually aiming this show at small children. I'm impressed by how it didn't look like ass most of the time though; the mechs actually looked pretty good! It's certainly a step up from the animation quality of IGLOO.

There's another huge issue I've realized in retrospect. If none of the characters are named anything like "Full Frontal" or "Bring Stabity" is it really Gundam?

Requiem for Vengeance ending

Anyways, her kid is gonna be pissed off if she survives and her only answer for why it took so long for her to get home is "well I could've returned earlier but for vague reasons didn't really feel like it"

edit: Lemmy desperately needs in-line spoilers.

Don't do it. It's as bad as your instincts are telling you.