Gundam Build Fighters

May is more like Hiroto's lovechild with Eve, since she has a mixture of both their looks and was born from both their feelings, and even inherited her mum's keepsake. Truly best daughteru :3

I personally don't see May as Hiroto and Eve's daughter, because that veers into Squick territory, especially if you ship Hiroto and May together. I personally just see it as Eve straight-up reincarnated, just with a different personality, look and mannerisms.

Also, this confirms what I previously suspected in Episode 24, in that EL-Divers can age.

However, their level of maturity when they're born seems to be decided at random between baby and teenager.

That turned out pretty much how I expected... minus the revelation about May.

I still think super moves are dumb as hell and I would have enjoyed the ending battle more if it wasn't just a super move showcase.

I am left wondering at the implications of that little scene at the end. Is there an emergent intelligence in the leftover One-Eye units after Alus left? Also, how did Eldora get a full moon back?

I don't think it did. The moon probably just rotated back into its old orbit.

I don't ship them, so eh :V

Like mother like daughter

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Aug 27th 2020 at 7:45:32 PM

It's only Squick if you ship them. If you don't then it's actually pretty sweet.

I dunno, it's kinda weird to have May kiss Hiroto on the cheek like that then. She doesn't think much of it, but Kazami and Par, and by extension the show, frame it as a romantic act. They purposefully framed it that way when they didn't at all have to. Also weird to think Eve and Ancient!Eve for that matter (seeing as how she shows up at the end to take Alus away with Ancient!Sarah) are possessing their offspring rather than their reincarnations.

Not that I think it can't be read the other way if you want. Just, to me, it really does seem the show is purposefully trying to play it both ways, so they can have both Hiroto x Hinata and Hiroto x May shippers be equally happy with the series.

Pretty incredible episode, and a very good way to cap off the series. If they do another Build series, they will likely do a new setting with new characters, but I wouldn't mind seeing these guys again.

What an awesome finale. The all-out battle with Alus was great, especially with our favorite doggo captain showing up as Captain Zeon. And all the randos pitching in! Then you have Core Gundam mishmashing parts together like I always wanted it to. Too many Kamehameha beams for my liking but it is cool for what is. Champion’s (haha I forgot his name) card-drawing sword move was equally hype and hilarious.

However, the really cool stuff comes after the battle. Glad to get canon confirmation that May is Eve’s reincarnation of sorts, and it is really sweet that she got to reunite with Hiroto. Kazami also seems to form some sort of team with Captain Zeon and... Colasour?! Hinata’s avatar has fantastic design.

And overall the idea that that it was possibly Eldora’s Ancients that spurred the birth of data life forms in GBN nicely ties the two worlds together. Great show, and an installment that is up to par with the OG Build Fighters.

If we get a new Build Divers it needs to be about the wacky road trip of Those Two Guys and the One-Eye with the sombrero. I am only half kidding.

Edited by fillerdude on Aug 28th 2020 at 1:39:35 AM

I like thinking this roundabout process of Eve going from Eldora to GBN, gets reincarnated as May, and May goes to Eldora from GBN.

Does that make May the only one to see the homeland of her predecessors?

She can bring the other EL-Divers since it looks like anyone can visit Eldora now.

And wow, they’ve basically accomplished interstellar travel. Think of all the possibilities!

True, but GBN would have to be careful now. Especially since they're still running the Alus "event" as their cover story. They're probably wary of the implications of letting anyone mess with the tech.

We still have the loose ends of what happened with whoever was invading Eldora before the EL Divers went to GBN and where the current inhabitants came from.

I don't think those plot threads are actually important.

For all intents and purposes, the ancient war was won, so they're probably not gonna appear any time soon (and even then, would they care about Eldora any more?), and it's pretty clear that the current inhabitants just evolved naturally.

I know Cuadorn mentioned that the Ancients "gifted" them with intelligence, but he might have been speaking metaphorically.

Actually, Freddy’s people might have evolved from the dog hanging around the Ancients.

Oh yeah, I remember speculating the Injustice Weapon Set implied Alus would make evil doppelgangers of the Build Divers, but nothing came of that.

Good theory, but that wasn't gonna happen anyway.

Apparently, there's a variant of the Justice Knight called the Freedom Knight which uses the InJustice set and the backstory behind that was that Captain Zeon made it a deliberate counterpart to the Justice Knight.

Edited by G2BattleConvoy on Aug 30th 2020 at 9:10:30 AM

Yeah, the Captain Zeon Hobby Hobby Imagining Divers side stories are all available on the official Japanese Build Divers site, including the Freedom Knight one, if you want to see them for yourself: http://gundam-bd.net/sidestory/hhid03/

They're making more altcolour variants of the Core Gundam II, they've planned for the golden Re:Rise version (metallic version P-Bandai, lol), G3 colours (again), and Gundam MKII Titans black/blue.

Gag Comic (translated by /m/)

You tell them, May. You’re above getting involved in hackneyed love triangles.

Par is like "WHAT IS GOING ON?!"

Deffo picking up the Titans Core Gundam II. Because a ridiculous transforming midget mobile suit that wears armor for missions is exactly what the Titans would design if ''Advance of Zeta" is any indication.

Plus I have the G3 Core Gundam.

Taking a closer look at the Nepteight Weapons pack, the backpack has 6 coffin shaped parts, and the one they used in-show as Eve's symbolic coffin is the central H3-17 plus I3-10 piece with the ring of fluro lights formed via stickers.

A nice little short that takes place after Re:RISE. Naturally, they showed off some of the newer kits.