pirx wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:59 am
Watched it yesterday.
It is an extended and improved version of episode 15 from first Gundam TV series.
Animation is gorgeous, same style as Hathaway (same animation team?) while keeping retro look to conform with TV series.
I wish they would redo entire Gundam TV series in this style, that would be excellent. Gundam looks amazing. Story is well... changed and improved from what we can see in Episode 15. Doan is more fleshed out because he gets more screen time. Movie is about 1 hour 48 minutes long.
From now on if you watch First Gundam TV series, i recommend you watch this movie instead of episode 15 and then continue with episode 16.
One scene with irked me is when Doan's Zaku gets it's right arm cut off while fighting Southern Cross team leader's High Mobility Zaku. When Doan's Zaku hand is cut off, it kneels, using it's left arm to cover cut spot on right arm like human would do when having arm cut off to stop bleeding. Why?!! It is Gundam! Not Evangelion! Not Evangelion!
There is no "neural feedback" between mecha and it's pilot.
Another set of new characters is Zaku Southern Cropss Corps team introduced here who use High Mobility Zakus. Doan was a former member of the team.
It is not really just an extended and improved version.
You get some elements saved but some cut away.
YAS view the story as something like a
Ninkyou story.
No, not really the knight errant type but more of the gangster type, in one of the interviews he even give examples of actors to characters.
Zeon sending troops after him is more like gangsters trying to get a defector instead of an army getting a defector.
The original ep.15 has Doan teaching Amuro to fight unarmed.(ok, MS without a weapon)
And before that he also utilised a big rock to intercept Amuro's missiles.
While his Zaku took damage, it is realistic and show how you fight with an MS, you use what you can.
The movie changed that quite a lot and I really hated the scene where he threw rocks in a futile attempt to try to stop the enemy.
I really recommend watching ep.15 with this movie. The movie isn't bad as a whole, for entertainment purposes, but the original ep., while poorly made in drawings, has messages related more to Amuro's growth as a young man and a pilot with Doan as one of his mentors. It is actually even better than the previous ep. where he defused the bombs which has little to do with his actual piloting skills and character growth.