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If Gundam 0079 is one of the most "It actually is that good" pieces of art ever made, then War in the Pocket is the reverse. Frankly did not care for this. I know exactly what it's going for. The entire look into the loss of childhood innocence and the naivety at which children look at war as just big epic battles not accounting the horror and loss of life. I appreciate it, I get it, and the darkly humorous final scene to nail it in is morbidly great. Unfortunately the whole thing is just a slog to sit through I'm afraid. What a shame ... after the incredible opening sequence in the first episode. First Gundam miss for me since really trying to dive into it outside of randomly coming upon a series or whichever was airing at the time.

Will be one of those things I admit to not liking as me and my family are about to drown in a flooding panic room.

Guess I'm finally actually using this like my Letterboxd and Backloggd since I'm not waiting for anime to get added to the former. Anyways, show is loads of fun, but it really suffers from the unfortunate issue of being a mecha anime made when it's impossible to get even slice of life shit to hit 24 episodes. Grendizer U's biggest issues (besides some really wonky 2D art outside of battle scenes or still shots of the mechs) however is that its pacing is all over the pace. Characters and events seem to just happen and occur like they're teleporting around settings and locations. Again, a ... lot of this feels like it can be squarely blamed on episode count as Mitsuo Fukuda whose work I've become more familiar with after watching Gundam Seed earlier in the year across none of that series has characters just teleport around locations. Also as someone who hasn't watched or read OG Grendizer yet I do know some things about it and yeah this is just a speedran remake of the original story and what I'm truly excited for is the potential of the next season pulling an Evangelion 3.0 and being something with much more leeway to go batshit crazy and be wholly different.

Gotta reiterate that it's a genuinely fun as hell show, but definitely not something I'd go to someone and say HOLY HELL DAWG YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS SHIT!! Like I would with Shin Mazinger Z or Getter Robo Armageddon which are other anime of the big mecha grandfathers meant to be original and psychotic retellings or reinterpretations of the classics. That being said Grendizer U very similar to this years earlier release Bravern while not being perfect or this case particularly great still has highs that surpass almost everything else airing the same season despite their lows. Both series are a loud and defiant cry towards the current industry issues that despite it all Mecha will never die.

Now which country likes Getter Robo the most? We can get them to get us something like this for Getter by using the entire countries tax dollars.