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Mobile Fighter G Gundam Overall Review

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Time for another “I don’t really do these anymore but since I’ve done them for all of the other Gundam series I don’t want to break the streak now we’re near the end” Overall Review, this time for the decidedly un-Gundam-like Mobile Fighter G Gundam. If you’re in the mood for a bit of over-the-top silliness and martial art film tropes then G Gundam is for you, but if you’re looking for a “real robot” war story like most Gundam shows you’ve picked the wrong one. Let’s take a quick overall look then, shall we?

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Episodes 40 – 49) Review

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G Gundam comes to its rather spectacular end with its final 10 episodes. We find out the truth behind “Schwarz Bruder” (as if the name wasn’t obvious enough), we see the finals, then the um, battle royal after the finals and then the actual final of the Gundam Fight (what a confusing tournament it is!) and the Devil Gundam is once again defeated and once again returns to be taken out again… or is it?! Let’s take a look!

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Episodes 26 – 39) Review

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The next lot of G Gundam episodes are a bit of a let down overall. After a fun and crazy story arc last time the show reverts to a “of the week” format again, with different adversaries for Domon to take down each week and even a rematch with his Shuffle Alliance pals with each getting an episode for a rematch. It’s not bad per say, but it did feel like the show was breaking out of the convention and stretching out a bit, only to snap right back. Let’s take a look!

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Episodes 1 – 13) Review

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It’s finally time for our next archive anime review series and it’s also the return of looking at an older Gundam series, though really “Mobile Fighter G Gundam” isn’t a Gundam series in nearly every way you’d normally count one as, beyond having white mobile suits called “Gundam” in it, though even then there are tonnes of them of all colours, shapes and sizes. Instead G Gundam is far closer to the old fashioned “Super Robot” shows that the original Gundam tried to distance itself from, with some Shonen fighting tropes thrown in to make things even weirder. The important thing though: does this mean it’s bad? No, it’s quite fun actually…

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Star Wars: Visions – Season 3 Review

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The third season of “Visions” is an odd one. The first season had the whole fresh ideas and “weird, Star Wars made by anime studios!” thing going for it, and Season 2 had fresh ideas from animations studios around the world. This season is more shorts by anime studios, some of which are sequels to ones from the first season, so it all feels less special this time round. Some are good, some are middling, some are bad, as per usual with any collection of short stories, but overall I felt this was the weakest Season of the three. Let’s take a look, anyway (and with no Spoiler Section because that would just take too long to recap the ends of all nine shorts…)

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One Piece – Egghead Arc (Episodes 1123 – 1155) Review

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Time to look at the second half of the Egghead arc, which has a hell of a flashback story mixed in with plenty of over-the-top action and some leaps forward in terms of the overarching plot that has been teased for the last few DECADES. Very pretty to look at too, though there were plenty of recap episodes and breaks to allow this, something that will hopefully vanish now One Piece is switching to a seasonal model at long last. Anyway, let’s take a look!

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