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  1. PointBlankSniper
    The VF-19's design has gone full circle and returned back to Orguss. Complete with the tank mode.
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    I'm not saying Crossbone animation isn't in demand. I'm just saying, the lead Gundams being their primary merchandise, has been done to death, on every product line. I just don't see the remaining circus insectoid grunt bots being popular on the mass market, with those aesthetics of theirs in 2025. It just makes the whole idea of animating Crossbone to sell toys at this point seem rather unprofitable to me. If they want to do charity and feed the old fans with little return, I'm all for it.
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    Crossbone should have been the brain dead pick, since a long time ago. But the problem now is that they've already milked it to death. I'm not sure anyone actually cares about the buggo and clow looking grunts, so theres probably little incentive to squeeze it anymore. Astray is in the same place imo. The one that probably has the best chances now is probably going to be Seed Eclipse. It's part of seed and part of their never ending anniversary celebration banner, it launched with kits as well, and they made it free to read with official translations on their gundam.info youtube channel, or so I've heard. It's ongoing too, so they could change gears and start pumping out marketable mechas and alt colors for easy cash grabs the moment they decide to go all in and animate it.
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    I fully understand how dead in the water Gundam mangas are. I'm not saying it will get a show. Just addressing that it is their next immediate venture into tropey themes that they are throwing money behind, yet not fully commiting to it, exactly in the way you described. Just tacking on personal hopes that the writing does something I want to see, so that it could turn into something worth animating, not saying that has anything to do with plans for the project actually going anywhere.
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    Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet. The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates. Since I have no hope of the mechs looking good, I'm hoping it's at least really about aliens, and they don't show up in humanoid mecha, or turn out to be space humans... It would be great if they go all in with the desolate space horror, and use ugly space monsters, since the gimmick is that the human head count is finite. Last thing I want to see is a kitbashed pla plate Zaku with a Char clone inside. Maybe if it doesn't suck, they will animate it.
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    Dude knows what's up.
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    I'll admit, the got me good. They kept ass pulling new subplots and mechanics on the double, with steriods, through this finale, just so they could finally reached guren lagan proportions of joke. It took 11 eps to setup this masterpiece, but we finally got here. Spaceballs for gundam. I was laughing all ep.
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    That's not them expositing to explain themselves and to close out the story. That was just them using old mysteries as a springboard to invent more new bs to add to the chaos.
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    Nice, just when it's at the point where every show is supposed to exposition dump to try to make sense of itself, we ge for the classic "random bs, go!!!11!!1!" ending instead.
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    I think Kycilia's scheme is irrelevant until our MC trio finishes their tour on the other side and sends a paradigm shift back to change everything on this side near the end of my assumed second cour. The scheme is probably just an excuse for someone to build our kiddies a portal and give them a reason to fight over it until they both get sucked in.
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    As far as I can tell, the signs are all there that this will end in zeknova, and the nonsense, or any semblance of real plot, will continue with a post isekai time skip to kick off a second cour. Everything up until this point has been proluge. The main duo has finally picked their teams and are about to confront each other on their newfound ideology. The train wreck blood fued in a foreign world starts when the show resumes in spring. There are 2 Chars and an Amuro over there, so it's a whole different ball game. If that's really where it's going, they may as well end this cour next ep instead of dragging out the reactor fight to reach 12 or 13 eps lol
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    First of all, I double checked google to make sure I'm not tripping: Nyan had all the agency. She choses to cuck, and choses to kill. She decided to run away on foot when the gundam was in her hands, and choses to join a political faction for a scholarship. The only decision Machu makes is to continue to stick her neck into danger for the sake of the story continuing, otherwise, Everything she only ever does involves escaping mortal danger by the guidance of someone else. IBO was not heavy at all. It was absurdly shallow, and I rate it the absolute worst of Gundam. The main story was Mikazuki fights crazy frog guy, and learns from him that he likes killing people. The rest of the story is him living this out by gaslighting Orga into sending all their friends to their death. Everytime Orga tries to give up on their stupid suicide quest, Mika tells him to question himself until he's ready for war again. When Orga gives in and plans to send their friends to their deaths, Mika gasses him up with feigned indifference as support. Any character that comes to their senses and tries breaking away from their suicide quest gets to die first. Rinse and repeat. The underlying story, is Mcgillis wants to be king, so he starts by pissing and killing off his most loyal followers in order destroy his own chances. We are told that to be the boss, you just need to steal the Bael. Had he started with that move, while he was still loved, nobody would have opposed him, and he would have instantly succeeded. To access Bael's hangar, all you need is for Vidar to kick the ceiling in. We also know Gaelio would have unconditionally done that for Mcgillis had he not been betrayed. This could all have been done on day 1 and the whole pointless Tekkadan story could have been avoided. Basically, the plot was a big roundabout nothing burger. My favorite part was when Juilieta debuted by eating a butterfly to show how she was a psychotic genius child. By the end, she became more and more stoned so that a random evil engineer could expose the whole plot to her for no reason, without her interjecting. And then she became a normal person and lived happily ever after with Gaelio. 10/10 consistent and deep character development writing. I'm still wondering what the inspiring speech Kudelia gave to the parliament at the end of s1 entails to this day. All I got was that she made an opening statement, and then the random nobody Ein from ep1 came to be the s1 final boss for no reason so that the writer could skip the speech. Rustal was drummed to be the greatest strategic genius too, but all a saw was the writer recycling Iok's idiotic plan on a greater scale, and then attributing it to Rustal's success. While I'm at it, lets not forget the designated 3 eps of talking heads on panning still backgrounds, into a battle previews, where the battle then happens at the last minute of the ep, and then gets resolved in the opening minute of the next ep, while all the notable choreography was already shown in the previews. Also, most of the fights involve top right entrance, bumping the enemy away towards the left. Almost as stock footage as seed. The show was so predicatble that it was basically clockwork. By the end, it was actually cathartic to watch Julieta and Gaelio put and end to the deplorable trainwreck writing. I couldn't believe how much I ended up liking them for McDuffing up the misserable attempt at reskinning Macbeth in a gundam setting.
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    The first half of that statement is true. The second half, not necessarily. You can have an entire story follow an observer or victim with no agency, just esperiencing the powers that be running their course. The real mistake of the show is framing the main trio, with its promotions and opening theme, as a trio central to the plot, with agency in their actions. In reality, Shuji is not a character. He is a mysterious plot device. Nyan is the one with some agency, which amounts to denying Machu's ability to have any agency, while her own character is poorly explained, if at all. I suspect she will continue to derail the whole story much like how Slaine Troyad derailed Aldnoah. Machu has so far been just an observer to the cosmic powers, and I think would have been fine, if only they didn't spin her has the chosen one, as that burden comes default with a gundam protagonist. The real fatal flaw with her though, are reasons the writer gives her to subject herself to such extraordinary events, when it is all out of her depth and needs. Her setup and the world building required to make it work is entirely absurd. Then she is given the illusion of agency through excessive handholding by other actors and powers that be, and doesn't seem to acknowledge it. Intended or not, that kind of writing just makes her an insufferably entitled child. She's currently basically in the role of the annoying news host, when all we need out of her is a cameraman to watch the world to unfold through. Maybe she is a slow cooking character that will change, but that is a big maybe. The trend these days is to put those character changes in a time skip between split cours or seasons. So things don't look good for her writing regardless, but that's just my guess. IMO good Gundam writing died after the original Build FIghters season. Everything from all the follow up Build titles, to G Reco, IBO, and WfM, has all been nonsensical slop with poorly reasoned character writing and screenplay. Even the totally-not-gundam Kyoukai Senki is just more of the same. The mega budget UC milking that comes on the side is just pretentious grandeur that often makes as little sense as the rest of the slop tbh. It's been that way since the latter half of Unicorn. Yall are expecting too much out of the cash cow slop machine tbh.
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    Hear me out. Char died in the last shooting. Zeknova sama isekai'd Challia's boyfriend. Which means Quattro is...
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    I don't think any anime has gone past 24-26 eps in a single season for the past decade, without being never ending holdovers from the era before that. Modern Gundams just follow that trend, so the best you are gonna get is a split cours of 12 eps that's half a year apart, with some disjointed pacing and character building.
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    Zeknova is turning out to be code for truck-sama lol
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    Seems like twitter did something weird and signed everyone off while randomly hiding months of tweets while leaving a sporadic few to be visible between the time skips to people not signed in. I guess these happenings are just another day under their king. Anyway, a bit disappointing the brace is back, but it's expected I guess. Still hoping the joints are tightened like Ozma's though, or that's gonna further nuke the reputation of the mold and design, and kill my chances of having Michael's Tornado even further lol
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    Seems like it's not selling very well tbh. Probably from same unit fatigue, and maybe lack of faith in Bandai's quality after the last few 25 revivals. Only Ozma's Armored has been tightened up, but maybe those fixes aren't so well known, since its a web exclusive. Or maybe everyone prefers Michael's version like me, and we are all torpedoing its chances of happening by having Bandai learn the wrong lessons again lol.
  19. PointBlankSniper
    The show is living up to its name. Little girls getting high on LSD and murder, while mutually cucking each other, only for big red to swoop in and assert dominance as the original spouse. Definitely GCucks alright.
  20. PointBlankSniper
    Plane towing the container would be topkek rad 🤪 Anyway, I wonder if Bandai got insider info and realized they needed to compete against this mouth, teeth, and tongue. 🙃
  21. PointBlankSniper
    If you are asking about glues, I assume you aren't a moddeler with supplies. I recommend starting with white kiddie crafting glue. Given an extremely long time, they become fairly hard and secure. If it doesn't go well, at least it's still easy to clean and remove, and you will have not done anything destructive to othe plastic. Any other glue probably begins to enter the destructive or permanent modification territory, and you would have to start being careful. I'd say hot glue with a light touch and fast hands as to not melt anything would be the next safest. At least it's also removable, and melting is probably unlikely lol. And then we enter toxic fumes territory, starting with basic hobby cement with the clear resin, such as the Tamiya yellow capped bottles. It minimally damages the ABS plastic as those are solvents that target PS in model kits instead. But once you apply it, the goopy resin could get stringy and messy, and can't really be cleanly wiped off without using the corresponding pure solvent cement. It will take from hours to a day to cure while you pray it doesn't run into the joints. I have used pure solvent to break the cured resin before, even on dissolvable PS parts, but lets just say, you don't want to go there. Next would be acetone based ABS hobby cements. Works the same as above, but stronger, because now, with the correct solvent, your pieces will dissolve to fuse together. But that means your contact points with the cement become gooey, so you have to be extremely careful with alignment before it cures, or improper force will cause the pieces to smear, smudge, and sink inside each other, while sliding and squirming out of alignment. The final boss is probably the dollar store super glue. Dissolves and corrodes everything it touches, so the plastic may also become brittle. Same for your skin, and maybe even metal parts, and rapidly fuses them all together in 2 seconds. So you can permanently be part of your toy if you wish. Most people would go this route out of dollar store convenience and a quick job I guess. I do wonder if caulking might be a reasonable choice lol.
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    Absolute insanity. Seeing that they gimped it of all the fiddly bits presumably to deactivate it from being a displayable unit, yet didn't bother to just yank the fin out and mail it for cheaper is crazy. Anyway, I'm guessing that they threw in the extra canopy despite all that because they know it's made of the latest iteration of explodium.
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    In that case, even the test flight version as a regular release is on the cards...
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    Sure these are months, and years old respectively, and out of stock. But you can see for yourself how their pricing is automated to behave. This is not regular retailer behavior. https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/metal-build/139288-metal-build-mobile-suit-gundam-00v-gnt-0000fs-00-qan-t-full-saber-tamashii-nation-24-limited-bandai-spirits-.html https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/gundam/21906-mobile-suit-gundam-seed-astray-powered-red-150-gerber-straight-power-option-set-limited-edition-metal-build-.html
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    Not exactly sure what this comparison is alluding to. Mandarake is 2nd hand store, TNE is not retail. This only speaks well of Mandarake, so I'm not making the connection of how this is contrary to my view of Nin-Nin being shadier than 2nd hand stores, exactly such as Mandarake. TBF, I have never had any personal issues in dealing with them. They do as expected and you get what you pay for. I just have been looking at their prices of things outside of freshly opened POs, and how their prices change on slightly older low stock items, until its priced out of being desirable at all, and then the single unit's price drags on into museum worthy price tags months or years later. If you order from them right when PO opens, and never browse for things you missed, you will never notice the pattern of their pricing. They do also have clearance sales on random items that they somehow deem less scalpable. But once you look at the more collectible items, or some very drawn out preorders, they stop looking like a retailer and more like an artificially self fulfilling antique store. Any other japanese toy retailer I've seen tends to stick to their lane as a retailer, and don't meddle with artificial scarcity and pricing. Their warehouse policy is just one of the more rigidly inflexible and short term ones. Nothing particularly foul, but is another factor to consider.
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