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(GUNDAM GQUUUX REVIEW SPOILERS AHEAD) I’ll be direct, the show’s not good. When you love something you gotta be direct, and this is the true; It’s bad. It’s a mess. A horrendous, uncreative attempt of a story that is a perfect showcase of everything wrong with modern shows. First of we have the characters; Who are they, what do they want? Well the show does do well to explain some of their things and what they do, however, that’s where it ends. If you came here to see characters grow you’ve come to the wrong place. The show isn’t interested in creating a beautiful story about loss or war, or even a tragedy—it just doesn’t care. It doesn’t care to deepen on Nyaan or Machu or Shuji more than it shallow presentation they gave her, she never grows, she never thinks or deepens on her life, the show even goes as far as to have her say that she doesn’t even know why she’s doing all of this. And no, it’s not some moment where a young girl looks into her heart and genuinely asks herself why she’s doing all of this, why is she even breathing—no. It doesn’t do that, and if that’s why she says that, It doesn’t work either. She’s not once asked anything or considered it—never has such a thing come up. That’s the show in a nutshell, it just does things and expects you to believe it without doing any of the work.

There are no build ups, there’s no care in the characters, they all move forward aimlessly into the void like cows to slaughter—and once again— this is not on purpose, it just does it. It angers me because the series spends so long crafting this alternative universe and it's people and problems and ideas, only to just discard them and throw them away like pieces of paper.

The show is more interested in reminding you of the past and people you seen before and how cool they are instead of working two seconds to develop any of the main characters, almost as if it's telling you to watch Gundam 079 instead. (Which you should, but that's another thing.) It's sad, because in between all the nonsense and good parts we could've have gotten an intersting story about the survivors of a terrible war and the societies that were created and evolved from such event. About the search of freedom in an authoritarian society that does its best to push people into things they dislike, but no, it doesn't care, because what matters to the show is the old stuff, that's what leds the narrative, the past, but no, it doesn't do it in that way. It's not about the haunting reminding of the people we lost and the opportunities that we have lost (with exception of a singular chapter which is arguably the best of the show ---which is quickly forgotten--) The good parts are of course the animation which is without doubt superb, the music is sometimes great, and the best part is Challia Bull and the trio of Zeon which sole purpose is to act as the people explaining stuff. Like I said, Challia is great. A veteran of the OYW, a man haunted by the disappearance of his MAV and decided to find him wherever he is. At the beginning an aura of mystery surrounds him, and as the series advances we are revealed bits of his life and they all land.

Then we have Xavier, he’s alright. Honestly, just watch 079, it'll be a better use of your time, or just read a book or something.

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This is a drawing of one my OCs made by https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/10199408

She's one of the MC of my fanfic https://archiveofourown.org/works/64298053/chapters/165048544

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This is the cover of my history, Dragon Ball Space Adventures, some little fanfic I did. https://archiveofourown.org/works/52242544/chapters/132151570 Artwork by https://x.com/janye_park