Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5903

Did you miss how the teacher was acting the whole time and how she's a succubus? She obviously wasn't thinking properly because of her crush on him but nothing is going to come from it. The teacher figure has a good head on as well and I don't see the anime going that route.

First off lets start with the positives

-The animation aged surprisingly well for how old it is and looked pretty good overall. The quality was at it best during the first and last 10 episodes of the show while the middle parts had more QUALITY but it never got as bad as 0079. Special shoutout to episode 26 since that episode had a lot of sakuga in the space battles.

-The cast was much bigger and had more interesting characters than 0079. The cast of 0079 outside of the main white base crew and some antagonists was pretty boring so Zeta was a big step-up in that regard.

-Likewise the plot was also a lot more large-scale than whitebase's semi-episodic adventures.

-Zeta had so many awesome designs, most looked pretty great and much less goofy than some of the 0079 designs (Gogg, Zakrello, Zeong, Big Zam, Guntank,....)
Favorite models were the Gundam MkII, Zeta Gundam, Rick Dias, Hyaku Shiki, Hambrabi, Gabthley and Marasai.

Zeta has a lot going for it but my experience was soiled mainly due to the two following reasons: A near complete lack of explaination about the plot and a lot of the science-newtype stuff and weird-to-incomprehensible dialogue and characterisation wich me confused very frequently and made lots of characters unlikeable. This isn't exclusive to Zeta either as 0079 also had this problem but it wasn't nearly as much of a big deal as in Zeta.

The first point plotwise was mostly an issue during the middle parts of the show (from around episode 16-ish to episode 30-ish) where the plot felt like it lacked focus and there wasn't much of a clear endgame aside from something vague like defeating the titans.
Science-newtype stuff wasn't as much of an issue for the most part aside for the last 3 episodes where a lot of stuff happened (the ghosts, the forcefields, etc.etc.). It doesn't help that the only comment the show and characters made about them was "what is this pressure" wich got old when it appeared atleast 3 times every episode. I had to look up some episode discussions on reddit to find paragraphs of explainations so I could make sense of all the newtype space magic.

For the second point this happened nearly all the time with almost all characters. It got really annoying during Kamille and Fa's recreation where they constantly argued about god knows what, made up by the end of the episode only to start arguing again about something stupid the very next episode. God that section was a pain, most of the middle part was pretty hard to get through.
Episode 31 also stuck to my mind for being pretty weird too. That episode was when Kamille had a nice chat with Sarah only to remember midway through the episode that she's a backstabbing bitch and started hating her again.

Still I had a good time with Zeta and the last 15 episodes of the show were more than worth it despite my complaints above. I'm looking forward to ZZ even though I've heard it's the black sheep of the UC and has a weird tone for the first half.

Tomino himself was involved with a lot of the dialogue for Zeta Gundam, which shows since the guy makes some wonky dialogue. His characters come off as insane. I can get people not liking it, but I can just tell myself "well, that made no sense since this person is batshit, so it makes sense in that light".

When I was watching it, there were really just two parts that bugged the hell out of me. First was the first couple of episodes, which was mainly because at the time you don't really know much about the Titans, or why Kamille hates them as much as he does. When I was watching it the first time, it was like... A Titans guy bullied him, so Kamille steals a Mobile Suit to make the guy shit his pants, and joins a rebellion. Seemed kind of extreme. Its only later that you learn more about the Titans and the situation that helped me accept it more. And then that last Rosamia arc, like right before the finale. That shit hurt the pacing of the final arc by a lot, IMO.

Wong: Who's that boy ?
Driver: Kamille the gundam pilot.
Wong: Alright. Hey Kamille!
Kamille: ?
Wong: *Start beating the shit out of Kamille*

The Rosamia Arc didn't really bother me too much because she was so damn funny, the show established that she was completely insane anyway so I just rolled with it. Also when she appeared in episode 39 I had completely forgotten that she was the crazy girl who talked about how the sky was falling 20 episodes back, she always had felt familiar but I couldn't remember who she was untill after I finished the show.

The second arc was like "And now we will pause for our 3-way war between Axis, the Titans, and the AEUG to redo that arc about Four, except this time with Rosamia!" I'm just glad that part wasn't any longer.

I think you can chalk the craziness up to everyone having brain damage from getting punched in the face constantly.