History Headscratchers / GundamBuildFighters

* Why are they called Plavsky Particles? Since they only move gunpla plastic, why weren't they called gunpla particles or some such name?

** Take into account that even if Gunpla Battle was ONLY kids (Which it isn't and as stated above it's a misconception to assume Gunpla, and by extension, Gunpla Battles, are a 'kids only' thing), look at all the horrible things parents in real life do to have their kid's team get an advantage. If it's as popular as they say it is, with decent prizes and such, people will invest into doing silly things in order to win.

** This seems to be a bit of a misconception. Sure, a lot of kids play with Gunpla, but we also see many adults into the hobby too. It's just that as a hobby, Gunpla is easier for kids to get into than most other sports like football or basketball because those sports require a great degree of physical ability.

*** Also, more prosaically, as with all sports, there will always be betting, both illegal and sanctioned.

* How did the Star Build Strike manage to beat the Exia Dark Matter without its booster and an arm missing? Last time it used the RG system while missing an arm and having taken extensive damage, they could only utilize the system to 30% or risk the additional particles destroying the gunpla by themselves. Also, it's stated that much of its additional mobility and power comes from the attached booster providing additional particles. How could the Exia Dark Matter be beaten by what was essentially the Build Strike Gundam in its base form?

** Oddly enough, Nils has been far less blatantly Japanophile ever since his defeat. Perhaps he just mellowed out?

* Why didn't Nils wear his ninja outfit when infiltrating the Plavsky Particle production facility? That sword would definitely have come in handy.

* How did they manage to modify the Amazing Exia to the Exia Dark Matter in less than a week? The A5 unit was in development for months at least by the whole of the PPSE dev team, if we assume they began developing it immediately after finishing the Kampfer Amazing. When Allan requests it to be sent to him it's far from finished, and even with the combined efforts and talent of Allan and the Meijin they only get it 80% functional about a week later in time to fight Julian Mackenzie. Then tack on another week... and it has a brand new paint job, new weapons, new booster, new parts, and is practically unrecognizable from its previous form. How?

** Plus, the Meijin already suspected Mashita was trying to the rig the tournament after the appearance of the Mega Zaku, and actively threatened Mashita not to pull anything like that again. It would look very suspicious to him if he was immediately put up against Sei and Reiji in the opening round.

*** With sports the thrill of supporting better funded teams is that you're guaranteed an hour or so of curbstomping. In gunpla battles of the aforementioned characters the fight is over almost right after it begins. In most cases it's not even awesome. Imagine watching one of Aila's fights. There are hundreds of people in the stadium, and many are hyped for an epic battle. The battle begins, the opponent charges right at her gunpla... and blows up. That's it. Time to go home. Who cheers for something like that? It's like cheering for someone who plays videogame with an insta-kill cheat activated.

** Episode 22 reveals that all PPSE employees are required to attend a Gunpla Academy before they are recruited. From how strict the program is implied to be, it's very likely most PPSE employees are indoctrinated into sticking to the old way of developing Gunpla.

** They probably didn't want to risk the possibility of their own fighter losing early in the tournament. Notice that the Meijin is put in the block with a bunch of no name fighters, while Sei and Reiji are placed in the block with all of the big name monsters like Aila and Nils. They wanted to guarantee the Meijin would reach the finals. After all, why should they risk their own fighter when they can throw unwitting CannonFodder at the problem?

** They probably didn't want to risk the possibility of their own fighter losing early in the tournament. Notice that the Meijin is put in the block with a bunch of no name fighters, while Sei and Reiji are placed in the block with all of the big name monsters like Aila and Nils. They wanted to guarantee the Meijin would reach the finals.

* If Mashita wanted Sei and Reiji out of the tournament, why not sic the Meijin on them early on? The Meijin is the PPSE's best and brightest, why not have him destroy the 16th place entrants in the first round of the finals?

*** They have literally unlimited resources compared to everyone else. They've got a lab full of world-level personnel and equipment to do the job that normally would be assigned to a single person. Moreover, some of them are just scientists hired to do a job instead of being gunpla fans. You'd imagine that some of them would at least explore powered frames or matching particle bands to cancel beam attacks. They're clearly not limited to a given setting seeing as they were able to armor up a Kampfer and give it much more weaponry than the original, plus convert it all to beam weaponry, and modify it to work in space and underwater as well. Alan does do a good job squeezing every last inch of performance out of his suits, but the results don't look like they'd be worth paying a room full of mooks for seeing as several other entries in the tournament were able to come up with similar results with one- or two-man teams.

** Probably because like most other builders, PPSE builders are constrained by the old way of thinking, by building Gunpla within the constraints of their own setting. It's actually very plausible, considering PPSE employees are undoubtedly put through a strict training regimen and selection process. For example, while Sei, Mao, and Nils like to come up with exotic systems and technologies, Alan seems to focus on squeezing every ounce of performance out of his suits.

* Why do the PPSE gunplas seem so underpowered? Sure the Kampfer Amazing can shrug off a direct hit from the K9, but all their technologies manifest themselves in such mundane ways. You'd think that the creators of gunpla battle would have had Plavsky power gates and powered frames down with all their researchers and development, but all they do is make traditional-style gunpla with best-in-class performance, and even then it's not by much.