Gunstar Green wrote:Xeogred wrote:Finally watching Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans. It's super... vanilla. Totally okay stuff so far that doesn't seem amazing nor annoying. lol
I haven't gotten around to it yet either. Some casual anime fans have told me it was amazing while some Gundam fans have told me it's not so hot. I don't know what to make of that.
One of my friends liked it.
One of my friends didn't like it.
So that doesn't help.
It's pretty different though. Like I don't know if there's any Haro's around, or Newtype-esque people. Except the pilots have these weird spikes in their backs that plugs into the pilot seats, so that's their excuse for being able to pull off human like movement and reactions in the mobile suits. Music is very so-so and I noticed the composer is like 30's something, so pretty young and new. Plot seems kind of small in scale, it reminds me of X in ways so far but doesn't quite have that charm. But it's basically just been following this small group of youngsters trying to travel from Mars to Earth with an important lady that will help them fight for Mars' independence. It's small skirmish stuff and not really full out war. The action has been fairly cool and creative, like using tethered strings to propel themselves around asteroids, captains using the ships to fly by others or scrape them up, lots of melee combat, it's all pretty dirty and rough in a cool way if that makes sense. The mobile suits get really banged up and still seem fragile in between some episodes.
I'm 8 episodes in. I guess this one has a time leap and split season format as well like 00, which worries me a bit, but who knows.
00 in comparison seemed way bigger in scope, the tactical action was really cool and I liked all the MS designs in that one, I still think the first season was pretty solid all around but that second season sabotaged everything. It was a bit too serious for its own good too. So I guess IBO being a bit more tame after that might not be a terrible thing. Feels like it might be an alright 7/10 so far.
Either way, modern anime has come to this reality that Gundam is the only franchise that still hits some of those checkboxes I love, like no school bullshit, space drama and travel, and an emphasis on military shenanigans. So as average as the franchise has been, it will probably always keep pulling me back. lol
Did you see Thunderbolt got a second season? And maybe Origin finishes up soon this year, though I still don't think I need more context around the 0079 events. Either way, the UC OVA's always seem to be pretty solid though.
