I still feel it sucks real bad, all the time spent on developing the relationships between characters went with not much closure at all - namely Athrun and Cagalli, did it ended and why does it have to? So much time was spent in Seed to develop their relationship, and seemed to be pretty firm in GSD up to the last few episode, I don't get it.
The reason I watch Gundam at all is the character development has always been strong in most of the past series, mecha was secondary after I turned 15 years olds. And that why I like Macross to start with back 20 years ago. Plus the model kits are way cooler than everything else.
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Anyway, I been watching FMP TSR also. So far it's following the novel more or less, I do prefer the novel a bit more since the character development is deeper. However, since I can't read Japanse, and there is not English nor Chiness translation on most of the FMP novel, I'll just have to wait for the nice people at Boku-Tachi for the next installment.
Too bad TSR is only 13 episodes long - as I know of. There should be about three or so more novel after TSR. It took 4 years for TSR to come out after the first series. I don't know if I can wait that long to see the series ends.
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