Awesome very obscure Mecha manga, a sad tale which ends in tragedy and death for the protagonists and human race as a whole, more modernly very reminiscent of Bokurano and very distantly of Evangelion, which might have taken an inspiration or two from "The Moon"
The Art is okay, it's a classic style of manga, kinda like Getter Robo or Mazinger Z, the pages are clean and the story is easily to follow through the panels, most of the characters are kinda of a one note though, and some seem strange and very out of place unless you know the rest of the cosmology of the
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Aug 9, 2020
Kidou Senshi Gundam NT
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I went in into Narrative expecting a dumpster fire of a movie that tried to piggyback itself into the heart of the viewers by referencing older Gundam works, want to guess what i got? Yeah, it couldn't even do that, it couldn't even made me go "Oh! look, that's something that Kamille did in Zeta!, or look! i know that! that's like the ZZ's High Mega Cannon!"
STORY But, let's start from the beginning, aka, the story, this part of the review contains spoilers for the entire movie, and its gonna be long, very long, but the thing is so bad i just HAVE to talk about ... it, also, i actually encourage you to read through it so that you can save yourself an hour and a half of time and fucking go watch De:vadasy or something. The story is...so paper thin, that you could say its literally two-dimensional, half of the fucking story doesn't make any sense and has no explanation whats so ever, except for "Newtype Autism!". I actually believe it was written by somebody who just glanced over the wikipedia page for the classic UC quadrilogy and thought "well, adding this and this would be neat, oh, of course my characters must shit all over Amuro, Kamille and Judau! who cares about them? Banagher? oh yes, yes, he is shit too compared to my characters!". Starting in, if you watched 0079, you probably remember that the Feddies started taking Zeon seriously when they dropped a goddamn colony on Sydney and killed millions, but...what if, nobody was actually killed? why? cause of three random kids that randomly developed newtype powers and advised everyone to get the fuck out of there? yes, if you are asking, no, those kids never went to space, they just randomly got Newtype autism out of nowhere. The story continues in UC.097, one year after the Laplace box incident, we find ourselves involved in a peculiar situation...a Gundam chase, so then, what Gundam are we chasing? is it the Unicorn? did the Nu return from Beyond the time? did Jesus Yamato open a portal to the UC timeline? is Gigantis (cough cough Ideon) out for blood? no, unfortunately, but well, what if i told you that there was another Gundam in the UC project, one even more powerful than both the Unicorn and the Banshee: The Phenex, a Gundam which went missing the day that the Laplace box was unsealed. After a small fight scene, we are introduced to our main characters back to earth, Jona and Michele being two of three grown up kids that saved the Aussies back in the day. Then, the movie tells us that after Laplace box, the Federation dismantled both the Unicorn and the Banshee cause they where too dangerous to be left functioning, and then, for some retarded ass reason, they created another Psycho-frame, NTR...D capable Gundam, called "Narrative", Jona, being the main character of the movie, is of course the pilot of it. The second character of the trio, Michele, is introduced as a fortuneteller and is somewhat able to see the future using her Newtype abilities, she used this apparent power to make her company "Luio e Co" rise to be successfull and gain support from the federation. After being introduced to them, we are immediately shot up in space, where we see the Narrative Gundam in action during a training session, and see that Jona is actually a pretty bad pilot all things considered, even tho he is supposedly Cyber-Enhanced, or at least the pilots he is training with believe so. Oh wait, let's talk for a second about Cyber-Newtypes, or Enhanced humans as Japs like to call them, in particular, the ones that the Feddies made: rolling back our story a bit, after the trio of kids that saved Sydney, nicked, Miracle Kids where discovered, they where immediately sought after by the Titans, and where brought to one of the many institutes that enhanced people to create Newtypes. The conditions where very harsh to our poor trio of protagonists, since the Titans discovered that only one of them was actually a decent newtype, and so where thinking about something that would cause the kids to reveal who is it between them, considering that they also had to deliver the NT to a company: Luio e Co. Things weren't really the best for our protagonists too, especially cause Michele wanted Jona to throw his sausage into her hallway, but the latter would have much rather thrown in into the the third miracle kid: Rita, with Rita being the true Newtype of the trio. The Titans come out with a plan, if they don't spill the beans about who the Newtype is, two of the kids are gonna end up dead in the end, Michele overhears them, and convinces Jona to reveal that Rita is the Newtype...and then things start making much less sense, with Michele being taken to Luio e Co instead of Rita? the latter being Cyber-Enhanced and Jona living on without modifications of any kind and getting kicked out once best girl Kamille lets the AEUG win the Gryps war. Returning to 0097, our protagonists are able to track down the Phenex, and follow him...but they aren't alone, a band of Neo Zeon remnants is also tracking down the Phenex, with one of them being a failed Full Frontal that went crazy due to the modifications done to his body, piloting, a Sinanju stein that also uses a Psycho-frame, also, has another Neo Zeong prototype just lying around. So, both sides enter a side 6 colony to follow the Phenex, but discover that the Psycho-frames where resonating and their respective detectors picked up eachother instead of the Gundam, so a fight starts, and the Narrative is losing pretty badly to our failed Full Frontal. The Phenex intervenes and we discover that the pilot of it is none other than Rita, who lets us in on 30 minutes of flashbacks in which literally nothing happens, Jona gets angry cause he discovers the truth about why Michele made him spill the beans, and starts going Berserk, so much so that he drags the Neo Zeong prototype out of FFFs mothership and starts wrecking the poor colony killing tens of thousands at the very least. Rita stops him using Newtype autism and reveals to him that she is actually dead, and that the only thing keeping her alive is the psycho-frame that keeps her soul anchored, and then...cut to another 10 minutes of flashbacks, Rita uses her omega-newtype retardation to go beyond the speed of light, and then back to some ship talking, that reveal the intentions of Michele: And bear with me, this entire paragraph will be some of the most retarded shit in any Gundam media Basically, she wants the Phenex's Psycho-frame so that she can use it to make everybody immortal by trapping their souls in machines...cause, that makes any fucking sense, oh, and apparently Newtypes are now some kind of higher dimensional entity and the Neo Zeong is also not from this dimension, why you may be asking? cause Char gave the plans of the Psycho-frame to fucking Full Frontal after his death with Newtype wanking, even tho technology similiar to it, like the Psycommu was in use since fucking 0080 at least, or, are you telling me that the Gundam Alex is a not from this dimension? or that some random Newtype ghost came in and gave the plans to the feddies or something?. I swear, when i first read this, i thought i had the wrong subs or something, checking in...no...seems like i this is it... Anyway, this leads to the final fight against FFFs Sinanju/Neo Zeong, it goes down as expected: The Narrative and the Neo Zeong fight, then Phenex shows up, and the Neo Zeong pulls up his trick card, FFF intends to pull up Gundam Villains favourite weapons: Gas, and make it explode so that it destroys an entire colony side, the debris would then fall to earth and...you know where this is going, freeze the earth and yada yada... Long story short, the Neo Zeong uses ultra autism to win, but then Michele sacrifices herself and lets the Narrative go all sparkly and Jona to have his anime moment, culminating in him getting into the Phenex and kicking FFFs ass, and using the Phenex retardation powers to stop the gas from exploding. In the end, before he goes beyond the time, he gets saved by our favourite Banana making a cameo, and the movie ends here, even toh both Rita and Michele are now dead lol. So...let us make a Tl;dr out of all of this "MY CHARACTERS ARE THE BEST THING EVER! AND NEWTYPES ROCKKK!!!!" That's this movie summed up, all of it, from Rita going at the speed of light using Newtype autism to the entire Phenex thing, to a trio of kids retconning the start of the OYW out of existence, there is nothing, in this story, that you can find likable, at least as long as you have watched at least 10 decent anime and aren't a complete newfag to the genre ART I am gonna be rather short, the art is good and the animation is solid, this being a Sunrise anime after all, but i still don't like the CGI mixed in with 2d art SOUND Instead of Unicorn's orchestral soundtrack, in Narrative, there's a generic J-pop mix, along with some other modern genres, for what there is in there, its even mediocre in of itself CHARACTERS Jona "Rita have my children" Basta Michele "Jona why won't you give me your children" Luio Rita "I have the biggest Newtype dick of them all" Bernal Zoltan "I am another Char clone but i look like a punk now" Akkanen ENJOYMENT If i was a masochist, i think i would have had the biggest boner of my life, but, i am not, therefore, i found no enjoyment in Narrative, and if you aren't new to Gundam, neither will you, so, don't watch it and forget it ever existed, there is nothing redeaming about this, while Unicorn had a ton of problems, at least it had a solid base that you could work on and find some positive aspects, and Miss Marida of course, which was my light in the dark while i was watching it. But Narrative? Narrative had nothing going for it, the story was vomit inducing and a collection of tropes, the art was just okay (which is not enough for a fucking Sunrise film, a company which held the top spot in animation by 1987 when CCA was released), the music was bland as fuck pop , and our protagonists where some of the worst and most stereotyped characters to ever come out of any anime. If works like G Gundam, After War X or 00 make me believe that other authors are actually able to approach the Gundam franchise in a decent manner without help from Tomino, and create fun stories that are absolutely worth sitting in 50 episodes, and that make you feel pure emotions of Joy and Sadness, then works like Narrative make me believe that Tomino should just prohibit anyone else from writing Gundam and secure the copyright for it forever
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jul 23, 2020
Juusou Kikou Dancougar Nova
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I don't usually review things, but i felt that Dancouga Nova was so bad that it's an insult to the original series, and overall near garbage, i swear i found more enjoyment out of Devadasy than in this...
STORY Let's start with the story...it's a mess: plot points that get brought up only to be forgotten after the episode ends, the pacing is all over the place, HUGE infodumps that never end and things that literally don't make any fucking sense placed all over the show (For Example, Spoiler Alert, in episode 9 the main characters find themselves trapped on an deserted island after Dancouga was badly ... damaged, and need to contact the crew to pick them up...guess what happens? yeah right, they find some kind of cult/civilization that lives in there, that happens to have a Telegraph, and one of the fucking characters knows morse code, even to the thing takes place in the 22nd century, and one of the characters even remarks that the thing has been supposedly out of use for at least an entire century) There's also a huge misuse of its themes, and i felt that much the show was written by at least 9 or different writers, cause it's barely cohesive at times, 70's Super Robot shows had better story arcs in their MOTW Style ART AND SOUND The art is fine, the characters are well designed, the mechanical design is solid, especially for the enemy Mechs and bootleg Gundor, or "Dragon's Hive", the animation is a bit choppy at times, but its never very bad, the action scenes are pretty nice too... The sound and the music, on the other end, is forgettable as hell, the only saving grace is the OP, Tori No Uta, which is admittedly pretty nice (the SRW versions are still better tho), also, most of the sounds are either stock sounds, or come from other Mecha Anime, i swear i heard Muv Luv's BETA alert sound somewhere THE CHARACTERS The characters are...ugh...i think Laura from the original series had more personality than all of them combined, they are some of the worst characters in any Mecha Anime that i have seen (and i've seen a lot). Let's start with the Dancouga pilots, 3 of them are a walking pair of tits, with barely, and i want to emphasize BARELY anything else to them Aoi has nearly no personality except for "muh guys i am a hot-blooded pilot, look at me guys, i am shouting "Yatte Yaru Ze" like Shinobu from the 80's series, oh, also, sometimes i am also sarcastic and buddy buddy with the other girl", she's also gotta have a sad past with lots of mental problems, cause, well, it makes the story better, somehow? ya know, post-Eva influence and shit Kurara is supposed to be the "cool girl" of the bunch, she works as a policewoman in the Narcotics department, and is somewhat proficient with a gun, she also has a troubled past, after that...i...don't know, that's all i remember about her, and i am sure that's all there is to her Ada, she's an idol with an incredibly annoying voice (Small spoiler: she's also the pilot of the R-Daigun), she is so bad that i think elementary schoolers could think up a character with more personality than her, she's in love with Johnny The last 2 male pilots include: Sakuya is the only character that i could get ANY enjoyment out of, at least he cracks a couple of jokes that gave me a chuckle or two, sometimes breaking the 4th wall or referencing other Mecha shows, he's also a hobo and has a last second romance with the the report in-show: Isabelle Johnny...is he even a character? he has a romance (that is seriously some of the worst i have ever seen in any piece of media) with Ada, and is a salaryman, his gag is that everything he knows comes from monthly magazines, he is what i would call "a shell with nothing inside" The rest of the characters are either so bad that my brain refuses to remember them, failed copies of characters from either Gravion or the old Dancouga, or completely insignificant there's the reporter Isabella, which tries to discover Dancougar's mystery, and has a last episode romance with Sakuya The chief of the Dancouga base, Tanaka, who is completely forgettable and tries to copy (failing miserably) the one from the original Dancouga The other character which is a candidate for "the most annoying voice ever", Roo Riruri, she's the maid type character The Mechanic, Seimii, who is the 4th pair of walking tits Fog Sweeper, who has a retarded name and Will, who has the same VA as Shapiro from the original series And with this, i literally explained everything there is to them, there's nothing else, you can watch the series, but you won't find anything more to these characters ENJOYMENT Is there anything that i found enjoyable in Dancouga Nova? Yes, 2, maybe 3 Jokes, the OP, and the action, that's all OVERALL Dancouga Nova is a mess, there's nearly no enjoyment to be found in it, the characters are complete shit, the plot is nonsensical at times, and bland the other times, the sound is bland, with literally the only thing good being the art, it's so fucking bad it trascends being "so bad it's so good" and is just insultingly bad, only watch it if: A: you are a completionist and want to see everything Dancouga related B: you want to shut off your brain and look ONLY at the Mecha fights C: you want to know the show that redhead which you saw on that very nice Doujin you found last week comes from D: you saw Nova on SRW and want to see it for yourself, cause you thought it looked as cool as it does in those games Otherwise, stay clear of this, if you want to waste some time you could watch Mars of destruction or Garzey's wing, at least in that case you can laugh at them
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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