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Hello. Today we are doing a Anime Series Review. The first one I though should be a recent anime which was also a big hit(for me anyway): Gundam 00. This will be a review of the series in a general whole sense. Sadly, I'll have to divide this into two parts as there are two seasons and I want to be able to review something without mushing it. Here we go.
Summary- The Series starts in the year of 2307. The human race has just completely used up all of Earth's fossil fuels. But in turn, they have come up with a way to replace that by utilizing three normous Space Elevators equipped with massive Solar power generation systems. But the ones that are in control of it are three power blocks of the worl: UNION, Human Reform League (HRL), and AEU(Europe).
Because the downfall of fossil fuels, countries that once were so rich in them had went into poverty. Wars erupted as some suffering places tried to "persuade" the Three Powers to share. This war was the 20 Year Solar War.
This lead to the creation of the Celestial Being, a group that started an armed intervention, vowing to end all war and unifying the world at any means necessary. They have the most advanced mobile suits of the time, The Gundam. These Gundams are piloted by four chosen pilots known as the Gundam Meisters.
As the armed interventions continue, the Three Powers are pushed to form the United Nations Army. Still being over powered by Celestial Being and its Gundams, the UNA hires a Celestial Being intel agent turned traitor, Laguna Harvey. This has Celestial Being put in a tight spot.
During a battle where the Gundams are losing, The Gundam Thrones show up. They help the Gundams out of the tight spot and say that they have a the same intention as Celestial Being. However, the Thrones go on about it in a more aggressive, cold-hearted way; killing everything and everyone that gets in the way. This leads to the people and government feeling more strong about the eradication of Celestial Being.
While this is happening, Alexander Corner and his companion, Ribbons Almark, search for the computer that aided Celestial Being, VEDA. As Ribbons hacks into it, they find that the founder of Celestial Being, Aeolia Schenberg, is in a cryogenic stasis. Alexander, then, takes a gun and fires upon the frozen man. Without knowing though, this activates Celestial Beings key system, The Trans Am System, only installed on the original Gundams' solar furnaces.
As this happens, someone sends 30 GN-Xs to the UNA along with pseudo Solar Furnaces. This, finally enables the tables to be turned and allows the location of Ptolemaios, Celestial Beings space ship, to be known.
Finally, Celestial Being and The UNA start the final battle. The first wave cripples Celestial Being massively, having one of the Gundam Meisters killed. As they regroup and resupply, they go into battle knowning that there maybe no return at this point.
As their battles continue, the Gundam Meisters then use there Trans Am System for the last time for one last final push, making the UNA retreat at the cost of the destroyed Gundams.
In the finally, the most highlighted battle is with Setsuna's Exia(the main protagonist) and Alexander Corner's Alvatorre. Setsuna over powers the Alvatorre and uses Trans Am one last time, believing that Alexander is the reason for the chaos in the world.
Out of the blue, though, Graham, Setsuna's rival, goes in a GN Flag to avenge his soldiers. The battle leads to both suits heavily damaged. Setsuna and his Gundam Exia float in space...
It is now four years later. The World has finally unified as one and Ribbons is now pulling all the strings. What could happen in season 2?
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This, I will say, was one of my favorite stories in an anime thus far. There was so much hinting at the things that are going on in our world: the running out of fossil fuels, poverty countries, and the solar power system, as we look into ways of solar power.
I admit, some episodes were runny while most of them were excellent. All in all, lots of character development, good plot. Though there are some things I really don't like. Like Tieria and Lockon thing going on at the end. I really don't like looking up pictures for them -_______-;
The animation was probably one of the best that I've seen. There was no stock footage used, proportions were usually correct, though sometimes I see the animators are still getting lazy.
One complaint I have is how Japan is always chosing little brats as main protagonists. I like Setsuna a lot because of his development in season 2, but season 1, many you could never find such a bigger brat than him in the series.
But, it's got everything you could want: Good animation, good plot, nice pace, though it can get to fast sometimes, good looking characters for both men and women if you're like that, and good development. I highly recommend this if you are a gundam fan, and I only recomment this if you're an anime fan.
That's all for now. Give me some feedback, eh?
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That's my thinner behind it :)
Transparent parts painted green :)
The grey parts were next. I masked the white parts that needed grey parts. Perhaps I'll make a video on my youtube account :)
A lighter grey that the default grey :)
A lighter red. Pink you could say. Going for the designer's color
The arms aren't on because the shoulder pads are connected to it. Painting the blue and yellow tomorrow. Then it's the silver and top coat :). Oh I'm excited
