Traditional “escape the colony” Gundam scenario.
After watching Gundam SEED, OO, or even Unicorn, the last thing you expect a Gundam to do is walking. Like Holy shit, how long has it been since we saw a Gundam walking across the colony, slowly, normally, like seriously WALKING.
*ahem*
Anyway, to get to the point.
HOLY SHIT! IT’s BASARA
Not much else to say, just look.
More scans:
http://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=45116
This has to be one of the most…well, cliche’ first episode to any Mecha show. That’s actually a compliment, cliches in Gundam is awesome.
Again, special thanks to Bandai’s channel on Youtube.
Alright, on to the review:
Story:
First of all, the OP is awesome.
The episode starts off with a flashback similar to SEED Destiny, with Flit losing his parents in an incident. Except, kinda cheesier. The important part is the AGE Device passed down by his parents, which we have seen that not too long ago in Unicorn.
[Spoiler Alert: Macross Seven series]
In anime, especially Mecha, characters that are most loved(aka. less criticized) are the Hot-blooded ones. It is understandable that people have different taste in characteristic or personality, and the fact is nothing will please everyone. Therefore characters whom is more expressive than other will be the main target of frame wars. While the Hot-blooded dudes which has relatively no personality are the one people will care less about. It’s normal, really.
Stage 9 – Crimson Wings
Brocken(Sp?) first appearance. The enemies here are pretty tough, try not to do anything reckless. Luckily they alll lined up in front of my Argama, therefore blowing them down is easier
Stage 10 – Hero Raideen
Raideen’s debut, together with the villians. Again, they all die here. We’re also given 2 Blugars to play with. Raideen’s final attack is God Bird for some reasons.
Amuro mention that Raideen fought in the DC war too, even though we didn’t see or even heard of it in SRW2. Other thing is Four got captured. It seems they just wanted to have another Kamile vs Four, lame story writing but whatever.
Stage 11 – The Rumored Haran Banjo
While Daiturn 3 debuts here, we didn’t see any of the villains. Too bad then.
The enemy comes from left and right. Yes, we’re in the middle. Daitarn 3′s Spirit is the sun attack post, so they wouldn’t need to draw another one of the attack. Clever.
