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One of the most boring things I've had the displeasure of reading. A friend obsessed with self-important pretentious manga and comics made me read this because I don't understand art apparently, and then he drops this on me. Like I said earlier I've never been more bored in my life, and thank god it has no dialogue because otherwise, I would never have finished.

All it is, is a showcase of the artistic rendering of a train ride, and the art isn't even that good, I hate how he draws people, I hate how he dresses them, and I hate how meaningless everything that he ... draws is. And that's one of the things I hate about self-important trash like this. I like art, a painting or other standalone piece is nice, but I hate long-form art like this where the art exists to be art and no meaningful merit or things to say. Things like it meticulously goes over every little detail in a normal day action just to show off detail, and then just have that detail stand on its own building up to nothing else but the next self-indulgent over detailing.

And then he draws trippy abstract stuff, I like that kind of stuff, but in long-form stuff like this, it bores me to tears, especially when its' not even that good. You can't have meaningless trippy art that's also just mediocre. The characters aren't tripping out on drugs, stuck in their minds self-actualizing, or going through a Cthulu-esque experience their minds can't comprehend. You could argue it's their minds are just wandering into nonsense because of the mind-numbing daily commute, but I could also argue that this isn't wasting my time with how it says nothing meaningful on that with boring art and story presentation.

Did I mention how I hate the character art? Yeah, I hate them, their stupid beady squinted eyes, even the irises are squinted, even Rick and Morty's eyes annoy me less, then you have their stupid hair like target head man, or all the balding men having the same exact perfect straight hairline. And their stupid baggy pants with their size twenty-five yeezies that are like one foot tall.

All in all, I hate this manga, I generally don't like this type of manga, but think it has the right to exist for the people who like it, but I cannot imagine why anyone would like this and would spit on any physical copy I saw as it has no value, even from the self-indulgent artsy perspective because the art sucks.

At best it is forgettably mediocre and at worst so hilariously bad it's somehow entertaining.

There is not a single character I liked, all of them are either forgettable or extremely shallow and painful to watch. All but one of the main pilots are some kind of edge lord that only a 13-year-old would think is cool because if they were one of them they could tell their stepdad Terry to shut up. Going from left to right, Trowa is your emo sad boi with like two feet of hair in front of his face, he least edgy of the edge lords but still ... enough to be annoying. Quatre is the cherry nice one of the group, and while he's not edgy he's still annoyingly naive. Heero is the edgiest of the bunch constantly talking in a low flat voice to show disinterested he is in everything when he's not fighting or droning on about who his enemies are. Duo is the jokey too cool for school one, but while he's still one of the edgy ones, calls himself the God of Death, he's the most tolerable of them. And then there's Wufei who I struggle to distinguish from Heero in any meaningful way other than he's more aggressive so ends up fighting the other main pilots more and didn't have some girl fawning over his dick.

Speaking of the girls, most of the female characters of any significant value in this show exist to fangirl over one of the main male characters. 3 of the main pilots and two antagonists, all have girls who are obsessed with them for little to no reason, such as Relena who falls in love with Heero after repeated death threats that I'm sure at the time he was fully capable of doing.

Also, the Gundam engineers or whatever were really boring, and strangely cartoonish in anime that took itself so seriously, they would fit in G Gundam better.

It runs with the established anti-war sentiment that Gundam had been running with for like 16 years at that point, but gave it the most shallow and "I'm 14 and this deep" spin to it. It somehow takes itself more seriously than OG Gundam, but you just can't because it's so incompetently written.

The fights and mecha designs are alright, but nothing to write home about really.

The dub is terrible and you should only watch if you really really like Gundam, or enjoy garbage, both of which are me.