Gundam Build Fighters

I'd want one of Super fumina.

Build Burning can go f**k itself.

Gundam Barbatos is pretty cool. But wrong thread.

I got the GM K9 and the Kampfer Amazing.

Well, the thing getting exploded IS Build Burning, so...

So... why was it just Gundam Gundam Gundam for Try?

Seems kind of unoriginal after a certain point.

Yeah I know. I would have loved seeing less super powered gundams and more customized grunt units. I somehow got the idea that a red Flag would suit Yuuki really well.

The only gundams I genuinely liked were the Denial ( because it looked cool) and the Tryon 3 because at least it was honest in being a super robot unlike the other gundams. And seriously Team Ez8 should have taken the Chibinato bros place in the nationals. They did the whole fighting tactically better (in my opinion)

edited 19th Oct '15 6:52:19 AM by TheMainCharacter

The Chibinato bros' strategy relied on team Try Fighters not being smart enough to not enter the large ominous castle. Really, they could've waited outside and let the SD trio go to them, considering that Yuuma can snipe from a distance, Sekai could be their meat shield, and Fumina could just provide fire support, but plot needed to happen so yeah.

I am still annoyed how Team Try Fighters didn't just explode the entire castle from the beginning, something that they are not only capable of, but also end up doing anyway in the next episode anyway.

Try's writing just wasn't nearly as tight as GBF's was, both in terms of the storyline and the combat. Stuff happened because the writers needed it to happen, not because it made any damn sense.

It's also funny that they watched a video match of the Chibinato brothers' match, so they should've been aware that they preferred ambush tactics, yet decided that "Hey, lets enter this giant castle where the guys who like to ambush people might be hiding". Compare that to Tatsuya's match with the Renato brothers, where watching their previous match helped somewhat to avoid the Renato bros' use of mini soldiers to plant bombs at the opponent's gunpla's joints.

Not even Reiji in the early episodes would have been stupid enough to do that.

Man, I miss that guy. And Aira.

Reiji had skills and wasn't an idiot despite being a Fish out of Water. Sekai was an Idiot Hero from the word go with emphasis on Idiot.

I expected Sekai to just rush in the castle, the problem is that Yuuma and Fumina, the brains of team Try fighters and have extensive knowledge of some tropes associated with combat and gundam walked in with Sekai.

I think Reiji would've probably done the same thing, except he actually listens to Sei, who would've advised against it.

Yeah, Reiji — despite being the Hot-Blooded warrior type, getting a lot of exposition directed at him for being a Fish out of Water, and his Belligerent Sexual Tension with Aria — isn't actually a social lost cause. He's not polite, but he's not a totally clueless loser, either. (For example, when Mao is moaning about screwing up his chance with his would-be girlfriend, it's Reiji who flatly points out that Mao was an idiot for trying to kiss her first thing on their first date.)

Meanwhile, Sekai thinks that a "girlfriend" is "a friend who's a girl", completely fails to notice the fact that several girls are competing for his romantic attention, and doesn't understand why everyone's looking at him funny when he disappears for a while and comes back saying that he went of to spend time alone with one of said girls.

And they are the same age.

-sighs- Goddamn it, Try. Did you really have to dumb everything down?

Reji probably would have done the same thing, yes, without Sei.

The difference between Reji and Sekai is that Reji may have been a hothead, but not to the level of Sekai. He rushes in without making plans, but at the same time Sei makes some really GOOD plans and he listens to them. Sekai rarely listens to the plans.

Reji could also do significantly more with the Build Strike than Sekai could with the Build Burning.

Reji is not clueless, just lazy. He doesn't care for social niceties but he's not going to completely misinterpret situations most of the time, Aila Notwithstanding.

Sekai...

edited 19th Oct '15 4:53:57 PM by ultimatepheer

I also found it ironic that despite being a team match format, the battles always came down to on vs one matches. The only ones who actually valued team strategy are the Chibinato triplets, team SRSC and Lucas Nemesis, which despite his style of soloing opponents, relies on his teammates to act as his extra batteries.

On the other hand, when pitted against the Mega Zaku, players showed amazing teamwork.

Strangely enough, the teamwork issue came up while Try was still airing (though I don't recall if it was here or somewhere else). If you look at Gundam as a whole, teamwork is actually quite rare. Usually it's the main character in their Gundam tearing things up while supporting characters fight mooks mostly off-screen. Occasionally you get an enemy group that works as a team (like the Black Tri-Stars) but that's rare and usually more of a gimmick (like the Tri-Star's Jet Stream Attack) than them actually using tactics appropriate to a multi-man unit.

Worse than that, when there is a team, it's usually a team on one side versus a single enemy on the other (like the 08th Team vs the Gouf Custom, for example), so the GBF Try format of a 3 vs 3 team match was pretty novel in the Gundam franchise.

Of course, they immediately proceed to do nothing with it and turn every fight into either three one-on-one duels, or have one powerful opponent (with two useless mooks for teammates) take on the entire enemy team. Sigh.

If Gundam Build Fighter gets another installment, the battle format should be one vs one instead of three vs three. We all know it wasn't executed well mainly to do with the animation budget for GBF Try...

... no, we are not discussing about the budget for GBF Try again.

I actually really liked the pilot/builder team format from the original GBF. It basically meant that each combatant was an Ace Pilot (the fighter) with a Guy in Back (the builder), which is another dynamic that Gundam hasn't really used much, but has lots of potential to be interesting. Of course, the three-on-three team battle would also be really interesting if it was actually done well, so...

Yeah the Pilot with a Co-Pilot system works really well for BF.

Random gushing.

It's amazing how a show about a plastic model fighting has far, far better romance than most romantic comedy/harem shows nowadays. I appreciated how instead of having one guy hog all the girls, every girl had her own guy to get paired up with, and in a way that was relatively cute way.

Wait until Season 2, AKA Try with the Jegan How are You and Sekai.

And the wannabe harem of girls who like Sekai for no real reason.

Honestly, would it have been to much to ask for Try to be about Shimon and Gyanko instead?