[Spoilers] Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX - Episode 12 Discussion

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Gundam GSuuuuX

This entire project was basically a way for Khara to re-create some iconic scenes from their previous works.

I never managed to connect with any of the new characters in the end, they didn't make much sense to me. And the fan-service was too heavy for my liking, it felt like the anime was more interested in flying from reference to reference at breakneck speed rather than telling its story.
It's a shame because it feels like there may be a good story hidden somewhere in there. But even then, I'm not sure how to feel about this multiverse story...

Whelp, that was as much of a clusterfuck as expected. Newtype stuff has always been a bit hokey, but here, it can do literally anything the writers want because Lalah's Newtype powers apparently make her fucking borderline omnipotent. This feels like someone read The Flash and fanfic'd up a Gundam story afterwards.

The writers really thought they had something with Shuji, didn't they? All of this and we still don't even know who he is. We just know what he does. What was his motivation before falling in love with Lalah through these cycles? He just does shit because the plot needs him to. I thought Machu and Shuji's relationship was meant to at least be intentionally shallow, but no... seems like it wasn't. Machu falls in love with him because he showed her freedom through the kira-kira... not for him as a person in the slightest, it's what he can do. It would be interesting if they did anything with it and it felt deliberate.

Challia's entire character seemed to be revolving around Char and fulfilling Char's last wishes... but nope, it's for Artesia! Don't get me wrong, I love Sayla too, but really? How did these two even meet? Where has Sayla been? You can't pull her out as a key part of Challia's motivation and not explain any of that! Then again, they can't even be bothered to define Char's character properly. So, not too surprising. I can infer how this happened (after Zeon won, Artesia saw the Zabis' infighting and the consequences of it and finally decided to step in to lead, since as far as everyone knew, Char was dead, then she contacted Challia given his ties to her brother and such), but it's such a pull from nowhere given that Artesia's barely been mentioned in this story.

They couldn't even be bothered to have Machu reflect on her own actions. Nyaan has pretty much nothing to apologise for. Machu is such a nothing character, and even her "stifled life" is incredibly nothing -- it's the same life as a ton of Japanese kids. Which is likely the intent -- she's an audience surrogate. Except they don't do that enough and have her act in ways that make her unlikable. While not apologising for it. Yaaaaay. At least Kamille and Shinn reflected on being pricks!

Utter waste of some good animation.

I feel straight up deceived by the anime that pretended to have a cast, and pretended to even care about them to deliver the most horrible and emotionless climax for these kids imaginable. Every scene with Shuji spouting love, and this whole debacle felt completly hollow because these characters were not allowed to develop let alone have relationship to begin with. Heck Shuji was not even a character, and yet the climax core point is the emotional connection between people transcending universes.

Worst of all was the whole thing with Nyaan and Machu that geuinely goes whatever direction the show needed at any given time. These characters from the 1st episode did not change A SLIGHTEST BIT. The pinnacle is the fact that Nyaan commited bordelrine genocide, felt like she did wrong ONLY TO BE TOLD by now her best friend (for some reason) that she was in the right and all that matters is she survived! What did it tell her? What did they learn? That's right. NOTHING.

The UC hijacked the show in its entirety and failed to even make a slightetst point. Our cast of kids existed solely to be used by the walking icons of old Gundams and were not allowed to growth at any point because that was of no importance. The further it went the worst the dichotomy became, and everything became a total mess.

I feel devasted.

I thought it's a really solid entry for the franchise.
Like its predecessor G-Witch, it might bring a new wave of fans into the franchise. Not only that, but people who are new to Gundam probably experienced around 40/50% of the impact this series has, if they haven't watched at LEAST the OG Gundam/GundamOrigin.

This means that not only brings new fans to the franchise, this might also motivate people to enjoy some of UC's work like the OG Movie Triology or Gundam Origin.

They designs were nice, both characters and Mechs. It took a while to get used to some of them, but hey, i did end up buying Zaku Police and GQuuux despite my mixed reaction at first hahaha

What makes me sad, is that even though it was entertaining and, in my opinion, a really solid entry, it was still just 12 eps.
This whole alternative possibility for an alt. UC timeline like this, could be even more exciting given more time to cook. Even the characters that, despite being fun, don't go beyond that since you barely spend time with them in just 12 eps.

In the end, it was a really fun show. It was fun to watch and I liked the tribute to the OG series.
It's the best Gundam? Nah. That tittle for me still belongs to Turn A and AfterWar X.

But I wouldn't hold back recommending this entry to someone.
Depsite being short, it was REALLY solid for just 12 eps, which makes it even more frustrating when you start to think what they could've done with even more EP's, if these 12 were already really nice.

Gundam fans tend to be really overcritic towards newer entries, but I still hope people can have their share of fun watching GQuuux, being them a new fan or an old one.

Goated is all I can say.

Probably a bad choice to choose this as my first Gundam show.
The writing of the characters was paper thin, the story pretty confusing and the pacing felt very rushed.
But I still enjoyed most episodes, and it had a lot of cool and interesting stuff going on.
I think you could call this guilty pleasure. 3/5

Lol what the hell even was this? It was dumb, but not the fun kind of dumb and more like the frustrating kind.

We never found out who Shuji was or why Lalah's actions seemed so personal to him. Char deciding mid way to go back to his Zabi killing plan and in response, Challia going for the kill last minute. The mandatory 1:1 OYW battle flashback. The RX-78-2 turning into a giant because ???? Then Shuji changing his mind because hey, he actually does love Machu! Let's not even get to the part when Amuro's part of the GquuuuuuX or something like that.

At least Char and Lalah get a happy ending in this universe. That's a W for both of them. Our heroines are forever doomed to chase Shuji I guess, keeping them right where they are character wise. That's disappointing, but not surprising considering the way they've been treated this whole time. Least the show was consistently beautiful visually. That's one area I won't be able to take points off of.

In a nutshell, GquuuuuuX is summed up by this:

CCA BUT HAPPY ENDING

I forgot Nyaan has blue hair. I should figured it out lol.

Review on it, to be honest I am in lost most of the show. Seems like I'm just in for the ride but the final episode kinda let me understand s bit.

This show feels like a tech demo for a game.

Like "Look: we can mage great cgi and weird looking characters [sorry I don't like the Pokemon design]. Good looking and intense fights."
Sadly the main part of the mecha fights were always cut short because of "story telling". The story is... whatever they wanted to tell. I honestly don't even know. I even wanted that OG Gundam win against the two girls.

The idea is nice, alternative timeline where xyz happened. Still, it feels empty. Kinda forgettable to be honest.

Maybe I have trash taste, but even I found the silly part of Gundam ZZ more enjoyable because I know it will turn around at some point and doesn't feel rushed "lets make a quick 12 episode Gundam thingy".

Wonder if Bandai will ever release any of the new mecha as RG/MG/PG. I doubt it. GWitch so far got only HG Gunplas. I think this series will share the same fate.

Maybe I want a brutal mecha show like the short clip of Amored Core on Prime...

This show seriously needed more episodes. None of the big character moments in the finale really landed: like Machu and Nyaan making up, or Shuji and Machu’s kiss, they just kind of happened without much weight. The individual scenes were great, and I loved all the memes the community came up with each week, but the moment I actually stop to think about it, the main trio just feels really underdeveloped, both as characters and in their relationships with each other.

Aside from everything else it was a bit galling for it to go "Look here's a traditionally animated Gundam fight with real crunch and impact, just to remind you that it's possible. Anyway back to our regular programming of frenetic, weightless CGI fights."

Sorry to say but there's 0 chances of a sequel. If we're lucky we'll eventually get another Khara/Tsurumaki Gundam related project, but no GQX.

12 eps is the longest a Tsurumaki directed project has ever been, and the only show he's been director for that has gotten a sequel was FLCL which doesn't even count for obvious reasons. He clearly believes on density over length, everything he has made is short and rushed/incomprehensible to some level. He wanted to make an entertaining and stylish Gundam show with a hundred tons of 0079 wank, and this is what GQX is, literally nothing more, nothing less. For better or worse.

I really think shuji's character is the weakest link in the story, his relation with the others and the other's relationships with him seemed contrived specifically to drive the plot forward. I get newtypes are capable of understanding each other very quickly and thus quickly build strong attachments, but that doesn't prevent it from coming across as poor storytelling. There's still so much that left entirely unexplained or glossed over as well. This speaks to the glaring structural issue that this story just didn't have the time to do its premise justice.

For the show's strong points, its the art, setting, action and fanservice? I have to admit, hearing zeta's OST during the psycho gundam fight, seeing the shot-for-shot recreations of the older shows was pretty fun. But these things don't make a substantial show and are meaningless to those who aren't fans of the franchise. If there is a sequel I hope it focuses on Chalia or at least characters other than Machu and Nyaan.

24 or 36 episodes could be a much better format for this, still I enjoyed every second of it! Beautiful visuals, lots of funny references (especially when Gquuuuuux went full Eva mode) and of course Nyaan being the best girl of the show ^^

Should've just cut the UC flashbacks out and had actual character writing in place then maybe this would've been better but who knows, just a what-if.

I really, really did not get why they introduced new characters at all if they do the story like this.

You could use so pretty much onlny older characters so that we can already have an idea of the relationships already and don't have to establish new ones in that run time with the nostalgia characters taking away any screen time the new ones have.

Like the Titans thing could have been interesting, but the plot doesn't have the time or care for it, which then puts into question why they were even part of the plot in the first place.

Maybe make it about how the Titan start a resistance, look like the good guys in the eyes of the people, while they also of course have the same fucked up ideologies secretly like Zeon just like Zeta. You know, turn it on it's head. Make them the Neo Zeon of that universe. Show how Haman is a threat rising through the ranks and how Kycillia and Challia deal with it etc.

Sure it would also be hard to do in 12 episodes, but at least it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting.

While I do think the finale both metaphorically and literally got overshadowed by the OG Gundam, we still have to remember that a good half of the show was a lot of its own thing.

The Psycho Gundam episode midway was the best thing to come out of Gquuux honestly. You can't say nobody in the main cast has any development when that was the apex of Nyaan's unhealthy attachment with Shuji (ready to abandon Machu on Side 6 to flee with Shuji) and Machu's rebelliousness. It was the peak of Challia's manigances to get to Kycilia and even though they treated the Titans like dogshit Deux was still pretty cool.

I don't feel very disappointed but if I had to be it'd be at how they had a solid, original storyline with their own cast that also gave a chance to underdeveloped characters from the OG. And then by leaving Side 6 they threw it all away and made it all about Char Amuro and Lalah again (except for the Nyaan lunar episode. That one was excellent)

Furuya coming back was insulting, though. You can feel they didn't want him included. He had two miserable lines to show that he was back and that was it. He was better left alone but they brought him back to scrap the barrel of nostalgia.

It's not even that the episode was bad, but if this was the thing they were going for then I don't understand why the fuck we wasted half the series on those stupid tournaments and side characters. Also, Machu, Nyaan and Shuuji are a really bad main character trio (Shuuji maybe being ok now that I know what he was striving for) and their relationship feels superficial and not developed. Challia, Char and Lalah ended up being the best part of the show

Well, that's over. They went full Evangelion here, so much so that they didn't even bother trying to hide it anymore. Melancholy music to try to make me feel something? Check. Out of nowhere dialog about hearts wanting and rejecting? Check. Giant, white version of a character with red eyes? Check. Mecha with a "soul" bearing teeth and roaring while it moves like an animal? Check on all counts. It was the Gainax version of Hideo Kojima's exit from Konami, where the creator of something leaves a project just to start another one that borrows way too much from the former, like Death Stranding. I'm not sure how to feel about investing this much time and thought into an anime that was just callbacks to other, better series. I could go further in my mixed feelings about it, but it doesn't matter in the long run. You either loved GquuuuuuX, hated it, or just felt numb to the experience.

I think in the end, the only thing I really enjoyed about this series was seeing Kycilia and different facets of her on the screen, which came as a surprise. They didn't really do anything with anyone else (aside from basically adopting Challia as their OC), and now that it's over I can just forget about GCucks in a week. I hope Tsurumaki and anyone in that circle never works on Gundam again.

I thought I could muster more hate for this but it just fell so flat that I can't even hate it anymore, and now it's over definitively so I don't have to care. Just a "meh".

THIS WHOLE SERIES WAS SO PEAK
we got doomed yaoi, we got resurected yaoi, we got the lalah and char a happy ending, we got ramba ral, we got sayla, we got the gquuuuuux and the gfred fighting the og gundam and then a giant white gundam, we got machu and nyaan a possibility of coming back but still a good end point for them AND CHALIA BULL WAS WEARING CHAR'S MASK IN THE END LOL
I really think this one is in between the best gundams I've watched

The anime was nowhere near perfect but it was fun to watch at the very least. Only other Gundam I have finished was the original and that one was way better (duh). Wish this anime was 24 episodes or two seasons at the very least. There's interesting stuff in here that never gets fully developed or explored it's a shame. Felt very rushed and all over the place.
Machu and Nyaan are...fine but Shuji is a nothing burger plot device sadly. Didn't become interesting until the last two episodes smh.
Best characters in this anime was Challia and Char tbh.

The fights in this episode were cool as fuck though. The final episode in general was fire tbh. I laughed irl when Kycilia got headshotted by a bazooka again lmfao.
Cool to see Artesia run things and nice Ramba Ral cameo. Hoping Char and Lalah can be happy in this timeline at least

tl;dr Fun anime. Not great but not bad either. Would've benefited from more episodes. Neat fanservice to the UC. Trio is underdeveloped though

P.S Enjoy some take art

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Which Gundams, besides the original, do I need to watch to watch this one?

I wish Shuji and Amate didn’t kiss I’d rather have nyaan and Amate kiss but it’s whatever (Shuji I hated so much)

I honestly don't even know what to say about this episode. Part of me wants to rant incessantly about all the things I disliked in this anime but the other part is just feeling completely numb after watching this episode. I'm just sitting here, looking at my screen thinking "that's it? this is the finale? really?".

I felt ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about anything that happened in this episode, it completely failed to bring any emotion out of me. This isn't the first time that I felt completely indifferent to an anime or manga ending but it's always a weird feeling because you'd think that something you've followed for 12 weeks coming to an end would invoke some kind of feeling or emotion from you. Nope, there's absolutely nothing.

I feel like this anime would've worked better as an "anniversary tribute show" because Gquuuuuux is basically a fanfic turned anime. If it's a good fanfic or not that's up for debate. For me it was a solid 6 / 10.

A lot has already been said about this episode and the series in whole so I’ll keep mine short. I liked it overall, not my favorite, but it was fine. I think Gundam is overanalyzed by the hardcore fandom, much like Star Wars, and that unfortunately takes the joy out of the fans overanalyzing. I’m just happy we got more Gundam and we’ll probably get more Gundam in the future.

It was fun, but I got lost a few too many times, and other times...I could barely pay attention.
That's a shame because the most interesting parts of the show were Machu, Nyaan, and Challia. Everything else could've and should've been either better executed or just ignored.

I just need more Machu and Nyaan!