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REVIEW: Gundam Reconguista in G Sub.Blu-Ray

I've taken movie courses in college too, you'd be amazed how inaccurate internet reviews act (IE using the word film since starting from the 90s onward many movies use video and digital recording techniques so the proper term should be motion picture not film).

(IE using the word film since starting from the 90s onward many movies use video and digital recording techniques so the proper term should be motion picture not film).

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I love that in one sentence you prove that you completely demolish any tiny bit of credibility you think you may have had. Bravo!

You seem to lack a citation or point out how I am wrong.

(And if we're being pedantic, I think that you want e.g, not i.e. in this instance)

At her Otakon panel on the Gundam franchise, Lauren Orsini described Gundam Reconquista in G as, "Tomino comes out of retirement to confuse everybody." That seems to pretty well distill this review too. For me, that's not necessarily a reason to avoid watching it, because its intentions strike me as interesting and its failures potentially so as well, so the review is more guidance as to how to adjust my expectations.

On your link, one of those is still bull. If it was oxygen deprivation (which I agree is what it looked like), then her magically getting better when they go to space makes absolutely no sense. Brain cells just don't magically recover. Tomino seems to know this too given Amuro's dad.

The overall isn't an average.

I had no problems following what was happening, and the plot was indeed bad. The pacing was awful as well. I really wouldn't have expected such an experienced director to screw up the pacing that much to where he runs out of time and is forced to cram.

Not comparable. G-Reco was aimed at a much smaller, older niche audience. That group buys more discs which is why the whole late night anime thing works. Prime time anime actually gets money from commercials, and offers much more visible product placement for merchandise. Prime time isn't going to necessarily mean lots more disc sales because the majority of that expanded audience doesn't buy expensive discs.

I wouldn't call that exceptionally high either. 10k+ is exceptionally high (average, not talking about first volume only sales), and plenty of 10k+ series still aren't big enough for sequels. 7300 isn't a bomb or anything, but it is quite a leap to compare that to a prime time slot. The fact they didn't give it a prime time slot like every other made for tv gundam already shows they knew it wouldn't be popular on that level.

- a narrative where the "whys" are a bit murky as he focuses on the "therefores" and the "thuses" for the end result

Or maybe people are too dumb / thick to understand the plot.

Fans these days have ADHD and are too used to anime spoonfeeding them every plot point, every detail, constantly.

SD Gundam which are by far the worst series for the franchise.

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For somebody who professes to be disinterested in the opinions of critics, the effort that you expend trying to delegitimize makes you seem in some measure emotionally invested in their opinions and unable to accept how they don't validate your own reactions to media.