Gundam Build Fighters

So I've been watching THE original Mobile Suit Gundam, aka First Gundam, and now I'm up to ep 36.

That's released in 1979, and let me tell you, choreography-wise that series is actually better than Try.

Yeah. Shame on you, Try.

Also, speaking of GBF and romance writing, it speaks a lot about nowadays' so called romance comedy anime/manga /light novel, when most of them doesn't have romance as well developed and sweet as in GBF....basically a children's toy advertisement anime.

Seriously though, I just want to say how much I love GBF. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have started to watch First Gundam and G-Reco.

Try before it hit the mid point was on GBF's quality I think, especially with Choreography.

Burning bursting out of Dom was more epic than anything from GBF, methinks, and episode 3 actually had some pretty solid choreography and tactics.

And then episode 6 came along and it started to show that Sekai could pretty much Jegan How're You his way through any opponent, really.

Come to think of it, it speaks a LOT of Shimon's piloting skill. In fact, the chances are that pure skills are concerned, he is one of the highest tier in both seasons.

And they had to get rid of him in one episode. What a waste....

So... what would happen if Shimon was to get his very own custom Gunpla with all the changes to fight with?

He'd solo the Crapla Crapcademy in record time.

I always thought Shimon was about the same tier as Reiji in piloting skill. Would have been nice if he had his own custom Destiny gundam modelled after..maybe the Soul gain.(I actually tried to made one)

How about modeling the Destiny Custom after the Maxter Gundam ? No, how about gaining his own custom Maxter Gundam ?

Maxter Destiny Gundam?

I want this very much.

If I remember correctly, Maxter Gundam is a boxer Gundam.

Now, a custom Maxter?

Let me tell you, that would be enough to make Shimon a freaking final boss of this season.

And it would be awesome, really, especially for Sekai. He loves to use his martial arts, and what better rival than a boxer?

Another student of the Jigen Haoh school! Surely he couldn't plothax his way to victory against someone else who can also use plothax!

...oh, wait, nevermind.

edited 22nd Mar '15 12:22:09 PM by NativeJovian

Junya fight was far more underwhelming than it should be. I mean come on, it should have been one of the best fights in the season!

Also, remember how Meijin called out Junya for using dirty tricks?

How come he doesn't say a thing when Try Fighters attack Tryon 3 while it's combining?

The difference is that Junya's dirty tricks worked for a short time and the Tryon 3 was protected against attacks while combining.

They thought the GM Sniper Bros were taking it too seriously even though in a competitive environment the strats were within the realm of the game they were playing, I don't trust anyone in the GBF Universe when it come to what's cheap or immoral.

x3

Because attacking while combining isn't cheating.

edited 22nd Mar '15 7:26:25 PM by Chariot

@Echo - That still makes Try Fighters cheaters, it only speaks better of Minato's preparedness.

@Chariot - It totally is. In mecha anime, it's an unspoken rule that you don't interrupt when someone's transforming. When it does happen, it's only done by villains or anti-heroes at best.

And seriously, Junya did not cheat at all. If he did that in an official martial art tournaments, like say, MMA that would be cheating because most of them clearly have those written as violations.

This? It's a freaking Gunpla battle! You are free to bite someone's head off, shoot someone straight in the stomach, punch someone in the groin (which Mirai totally did btw) and it would be legal.

Wouldn't that lack of established rules also make it AOK to shoot a mech as it's combining?

Well possibly.

But standard conventions of the super robot genre say nay to that.

Hmm, fair enough.

Anyhow, if whatever Junya pulled off is cheating, so is Try Fighters' interruption, but if the latter is not, so is the former.

Personally, I liked the Super Renato Bros precisely because they treated it like a military battlefield rather than an honorable duel. Sure, they had a bad attitude, but nothing they actually did was all that heinous. Sabotaging the opposing player or their gunpla somehow (like Mihoshi did early in GBF) would've absolutely been cheating, but they didn't do anything like that. I don't see a meaningful difference between blindsiding people with scale model bomb-toting soldiers and invisible funnels made of clear plastic, for example. (Hell, the soldiers have more precedent in Gundam canon than the translucent funnels do.) They weren't the nicest guys ever, but they weren't really major assholes, and they made a nice change of pace from the rest of the cast.

Yup.

Their attitudes and words were very arrogant and overly serious.

However, their actual actions are nothing objectionable and their fighting style is totally legit and totally kickass.

The issue was they took Gunpla too seriously instead of what it was, a fun game that eventually became big. Hell they were probably followers of the Second Mejin.

The series draws a line between "Take this seriously, but in the end this is still a fun game," and "Win at all costs, so screw you!", definitely.

The first one is the line of thought of the Third Mejin who wanted to make Gunpla fun because honestly building your own custom Mobile Suit is awesome and fun.

The second was the line of thought of the Second Mejin (Who was possibly mind controlled) who was "Win, Win, WIN!"

Speaking of Meijin, am I the only one who wants to see Exia Dark Matter again?

Because holy shit, It's the most spectacularly kickass Gunpla I've ever seen, PERIOD.◊

edited 23rd Mar '15 6:11:20 AM by dRoy

Honestly if we didn't have the Gundam The End i'd make a joke about it being needlessly edgy.

Besides, the Amazing Exia is pretty much the same without being Red and Black and Evil All Over