Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Just watched the new Gundam series (Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance) on Netflix.
I have not watched much Gundam, but most have had the Earth Federation if not "the good guys" at least the origin of the primary POV characters.

This series is entirely from the point of view of characters from The Principality of Zeon.

It is interesting to see the war in UC0079 from a different outlook.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81276500

[OSHIROmodels]

I think I’ll give that a watch 

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[Westfalia Chris]

I was quite surprised to get it recommended yesterday (although I'll wait until I've got the time and leisure to watch it with subtitles, the English dub over the trailer sounded a bit iffy...).

It'll be interesting to see how it will differ from the previous Zeon-focused/heavy shows, notable Igloo's first season. The visuals look rather nice, though.

[HerbertTarkel]

I binged it on Friday. The good: the graphics were awesome, with fun fight scenes. The bad: the story was secondary to the action. Tune out when there’s talking, tune back in when the action starts.

Overall, I thought it was fun, made me want to play some Xbox maybe.

[OSHIROmodels]

Meh. Couldn't get through the first episode.

[HerbertTarkel]

Meh. Couldn't get through the first episode.

It gets marginally better.

[Westfalia Chris]

I'm up to the fifth episode now, and it's a bit meh for me, too.

Most irritating to me, apart from that dreary washed-out tone, is the animation of the human characters which seems a bit jerkily awkward, and as for story and plot, I think it suffers from being "more of the same", essentially rehashing things covered before (and, IMHO, better and more concisely) in 0080, 08th MS Team and Igloo.

I liked the jury-rigged Zakus with tank tracklink extra armour, though.

[Elbows]

Gotta agree with some of the others here...the mecha, etc. look great and the fighting scenes are pretty well done.  It's a neat perspective.

However, the writing, the characters/stories/voiceovers are...tragic.  I mean, painfully bad at points.  I found myself having to fast-forward through some scenes because the dialogue was so bad, and terribly delivered it was like nails on a chalkboard.  I was actually upset when I realized it wasn't available in Japanese, etc.

So, if you watch it, watch it for the occasional cool visuals (excluding the infantry who have that typical bizarre Gundam look of Napoleonic troops wearing medieval helmets, carrying machine guns...something I've never liked).

I feel like whoever animated the mecha fights was living their dream life...everyone else phoned it in, or performed their lines over a zoom call.

[Westfalia Chris]

I was actually upset when I realized it wasn't available in Japanese, etc.

Is that a regional issue? After the first episode, I switched to Japanese audio with English subtitles and it worked fine here (Germany). To my mind, the Japanese voice actors did a better, less wooden job.

[OSHIROmodels]

Couldn’t find Japanese audio but to be honest I didn’t look all that hard.

[HerbertTarkel]

Couldn’t find Japanese audio but to be honest I didn’t look all that hard.

It said “English Original” when I watched it; if you could change to Japanese, it would probably be even weirder.

And I always read my movies, if the original is in not-English. The AI assisted dubs are terrible all the time. So much more emotion with the originals.