Gundam Thunderbolt is ending soon.

>>23318353 (OP)
Good
It jumped the shark at the Fed Zeong

>>23318353 (OP)
Finally. Shitshow from day one and a stain upon the entire mecha genre.
May it never rest in peace.

>>23318353 (OP)
Still the only good gundam story
Yasuo otagaki is so underrated

Sure it is. And Bleach will be ending any day now.

I thought it already did lllol

>>23318364
>>23318370
Go back to your Geass/Seed thread.

Any good place to read every translated volume/chapter of thunderbolt so far?

>>23318549
Im pretty sure you can read all 165 current translated chapters on mangafire

Don't listen to ragebaiters its top tier gundam

>>23318483
I have this book, it’s very good

Good. Glad they're ending on a highnote after the cripple offed himself when he realized he could never be Io

>>23318353 (OP)
>3 months hiatus
>8 chapters left
>new mango is a training flashback of the Guntank team
Thunderbolt is already over and this is just moping up. Also, Darylfags saying he survived, "it was a newtype dream", etc on suicide watch

Daryl is dead, it's already over

>>23318696
If we're lucky, they'll rush out Super Gundam for a finale battle

>>23318353 (OP)
There hasn't been a single memorable fight I can think of in the manga's final battle.

Every single fight is always interrupted, way too short, and a complete let down.

Even the hyped "Fed Zeong vs Perfect Gundam" was a disaster. They hyped it up for like 30 chapters.

Then then the fight actually happened, both suits just shot each other's i-Fields with beams a few times. Then clashed with their beam sabers like twice. Then Io in the Perfect Zeong ran away. That's it. Barely 1 chapter worth of a fight. That's all we got after 30 chapters of hype.

Then both suits are semi-destroyed when they are caught in the Colony laser blast.

I just don't understand what this author is thinking. Is he intentionally subverting every fight with a poor ending?

>>23318970
His hands are fucked and he refuses to let anyone else work on it
He dug his own grave

>>23318970
Ohtagaki doesn't want to keep doing it. It's been obvious for a while now that he's been dragging shit to no end.
Furthermore, he doesn't take any hard decisions. Up until the very end, it was a perpetual draw between Io and Darryl.

>>23318986
No, he has an assisstant, Sakura Mizuki.

New ONAs when?

>>23319635
And he hasn't gotten her to draw the Super Gundam and G-Defenser yet because why?

>>23319635
None of these mecha designs in the Thunderbolt manga DO anything. They make an appearance once, then get some cool cover art like the suit is going to be important, then gets destroyed in 1 or 2 chapters in some meaningless way.

That's how the pattern of this manga has been for like 10 years now.

>>23319855
Dude this guy lasted like 30 chapters and if I remember he actually managed to damage daryl's gundam

>>23319879
>lasted 30 chapters
This is beyond exaggerating. He wasn't in 30 chapters. He appeared once, disappeared for almost 30 chapters like a useless background character, then showed up randomly to dogpile Daryl when his Perfect Zaku Gundam was already heavily damaged. Pointless and you know it.

That's not how you make mecha look cool or appealing.

>>23319635
What is this guy? Looks sick

>>23319946
His name? Your fucking hero that's what his name is.
Ignore this loser >>23319943
Probably some limp cripple crying about people having fun

>>23319946
He's a no name grunt that the Federation uses in the Thunderbolt manga. Cool design, but gets wrecked later on and plays no important role.

>>23319946
Bull-G, he gets BTFO by the Nise Gundam twice, but does get a couple hits in, and actually survives. Funnily enought, it's just a Guncannon II with a new mask

Friendly reminder she TANKED a bazooka to the face and getting flung into space

Good fucking riddance. One of the worst and most insulting stains on the entirety of Gundam's legacy.

God dammit.

Man, the art in this really goes to shit latter on.

>>23323164
Yeah, the author had an injury in his hand. He got better overtime, but volumes 12 to 16 (iirc) look like scribblings

>>23318353 (OP)
Good, took a good concept and crashed it with stupid space monks turning into terrorists. Who cares

>>23323023
The Doloss is so cool...

>>23323023
>>23323527
I actually think a giant underwater Doloss carrier is incredibly cool. It's a great idea.

The original anime never did much with submarine combat and controlling the ocean. After a few episodes of showing some water mobile suits, Zeon controlling the oceans was quickly forgotten by Tomino. So Thunderbolt giving the Zeon ocean mecha a "buff" is great.

However the problem with the Thunderbolt author is doesn't DO anything significant with it! It's featured in several chapters and then quietly destroyed.

That's how he does everything in this manga. After monk island is destroyed, the manga basically goes on autopilot.

1. Introduce cool design
2. Hype it up
3. Battle is a huge let down
4. Destroy cool design in boring way.


It would have been awesome to have a great underwater battle to destroy the Dolos carrier. Like a "Battle of A Boa Que" but with submarines and underwater suits. Like the Federation deciding once and for all to send all their submarines to eliminate Zeon from the oceans and destroy their Dolos super giant submarine carrier. Hundreds of Federation ships sent to destroy it. Would have been awesome.

Instead it's blown up by some Zeon traitors who want to defect. What a lame way to destroy a cool design!

>>23318353 (OP)
How many times have Io and Daryl tied?

Didnt everyone die what's there to do in 8 chapters

>>23325358
Well let's see...depends on what you mean by tie?

Their Psycho Zaku VS FA Gundam battle was a tie. But Io became kind broken because he thought he should have won.

Their rematch on Monk Island, Daryl was using an unarmed prototype of the Psycho Zaku Mk II. It was literally a skeleton with no armor and only had a heat hawk axe. Meanwhile Io was using a fully armed Gundam Atlas. Io was losing until the Psycho Zaku prototype malfunctioned. Then Io became bloodthirsty and killed his girlfriend and became mind broke again. Io had to be rescued and ran away.

Then their first Perfect Psycho Gundam VS Perfect Zeong fight wasn't a tie. Io (and his 2 copilots) were losing badly against Daryl and his newtype abilities. Io was getting pushed back and needed to get help from a bunch of other pilots to help him. Io ran away afraid of Daryl


Then their second Perfect Psycho Gundam VS Perfect Zeong fight wasn't a tie either. Daryl was dominating Io (and his 2 co-pilots), and Io needed to run away and call for help from his teammates and half the fleet to push back Daryl in the Psycho Gundam.

Their next fought was in the Zeong head VS damaged Psycho Gundam.

Their final fight was just Io running away from Daryl. Daryl was in a Zaku 1 and Io had an anti-MS bazooka. Daryl was going to kill Io, but was saved at the very last second by outside forces helping Io.


So I guess the record is 1 tie and 5 losses. In favor of Daryl.

Honestly I have no idea why the author kept making them fight. Daryl was already much stronger than Io by their 2nd fight due to newtype power. Io became nothing more than a jobber like Jerid from Zeta Gundam

>>23325678
>Proper Gundam Mk-II/Super Gundam debut
>AEUG/Titans split
>Psycho Gundam
>The-O for final big bad suit

This really loses it's groove after the volcano island battle. Io bounces back from killing both his childhood friends like it's fucking nothing.

>>23318353 (OP)
I like the fact that Darryl has, ultimately, absolutely failed at whatever he was trying to accomplish.

>>23328165
He got a loli newtype gf, a lot of things bounced that day, rolf

>>23328589
Based.

Can't wait for MSG Thunderbolt 2: Rise of the Titans

>>23328589
Get better scans, anon

GQuuuuuuX was made just so Thunderbolt wouldn't be the worst thing in the franchise when it ended.

>>23328717
>thunderbolt worse than seed or turn A

>>23328722
Do you really need to whine about Turn A in every thread?

>>23328727
>/m/ is one person

>>23318553
Now that I finished, can anybody tell me where can I read translated chapters from 166?

>>23329200
Buying the Viz edition

>>23329310

>>23321679
She survived?! Holy shit.

>>23329338
Bro, being a poorfag is embarrasing enought, you don't need to anounce it

>>23329512

>>23326132
>Their Psycho Zaku VS FA Gundam battle was a tie. But Io became kind broken because he thought he should have won.
Daryl won that one fair and square. Io and his Gundam were captured. The only mistake here was not putting a bullet through Io's skull and end it right then and there.
Instead, he manages to escape captivity for bullshit reasons.

>>23326244
>AEUG/Titans split
What "AEUG", dumbass? Anaheim is the Titans now. The official Federation is their enemy.

>>23319635
>Sakura Mizuki
Her designs are pretty good.
Is she the only female mecha designer for Gundam or are there more?

>>23329545
>daryl's zaku disabled
>io's gundam functional
>stabbed the head, would've killed daryl if he pulled the saber down to the cockpit
technically io's victory

8 chapters? What's Io current status?

>>23329576
>>daryl's zaku disabled
>>io's gundam functional
They both were disabled.

>>stabbed the head, would've killed daryl if he pulled the saber down to the cockpit
And Io would have died he Daryl shot the Gundam's chest with the rocket instead of shooting Gundam head. Your logic is pointless. You need to understand that Io stabbing the Zaku head is the BEST Io could do.

>>23326132
>io is a jobber
Who is still alive, while Daryl killed himself like a little bitch

>>23329582
>8 chapters? What's Io current status?
Both Daryl and Io are alive. But we don't know their exact status.

The author is devoting the remaining single chapters to giving us character epilogues. Each chapter is about a pilot. The recent one was about the Guntank pilots. Next will probably be other pilots. The last 2 chapters of the manga will probably be Daryl and Io.

>>23329613
Didn't Daryl die in space? or was it a fake-out?

>>23329612
>Who is still alive, while Daryl killed himself like a little bitch

Anon. You've been saying this for 150 chapters and 15 years. You've whining in every Thunderbolt thread, and saying Daryl should die.

Face it.

The author is NOT going to kill Daryl or Io.

Stop being a little turd and just accept what the author wants and move on.

>Daryl is stronger than Io

Post Daryl playing a musical instrument with superior dexterity and precision or running on a beach with his girlfriend

>>23329613
>>23329622
>The author is NOT going to kill Daryl or Io.
Daryl is dead. He went to Newtype heaven.

>>23329571
>>23319664
>her
>she
You fucking morons, why do you think Sakura Mizuki is a woman? Although unusual, "Sakura" can also work as a masculine name, and...
https://x.com/rakusakizumi
Well, I'll be damned.

>>23329641
There have been like 20 fake outs in this manga. When will you learn? Io and Daryl aren't going to die.

>>23329655
It's finished, Anon. Daryl died.
>Karla took Daryl's in her arms
>Big Zam explodes with Solar System
>あらゆるものを飲み込み、それでも歴史は続く･･･

Next chapter is the Federation dicking around about what to do with Anaheim.

>>23329667
>Final 2 chapters.
>Daryl is revealed to be alive.
>Anon rages in this thread for the 157th time.
Screenshot and bookmark this post. We all know what's coming.

>>23329654
>Daryl redeems himself by killing Machu and Nyaan
Gcucks would instantly be animu of the year

>>23329696
Ohtagaki is obsessed with keeping his protagonists, but not even he is so much of a hack to outright nullify a climax.

>Daryl is revealed to be alive.
What would this accomplish? Pissing off the manga's readers in the style of Prison School or Oshi no Ko? For what?

>>23329667
The most beautiful chapter. When daryl said "I know I'll never be a real man like io, he was right." And pulled off his helmet I was holding back tears.

>>23329728
>Pissing off the manga's readers in the style of Prison School or Oshi no Ko?
NTA but you imply they haven't been doing that or winging it for a long time.

>>23329728
>What would this accomplish? Pissing off the manga's readers
You've been complaining a long time already. That goal is already achieved.

>>23330013
>You
Who is this "you"? Is this another delusion where any and all complaints come from a single, imaginary individual?

>>23329998
>but you imply they haven't been doing that or winging it for a long time.
One thing is to be winging it and have some "cool" moments here and there (yes, there are people that liked Braw Bro vs Zeong; not me, granted), but something else entirely is to ruin everything retrospectively with a bad finale.

>>23330144
>bad finale.
It would be a great ending though?

You just have sh1t taste.

>make a gundam sidestory that starts in the oyw
>once it leaves the oyw it suddenly loses all urgency and gravitas
>focuses on smaller, less meaningful conflicts between minor factions and personal vengeance arcs that just aren't as interesting as a full war
Many such cases!

>>23329558
AEUG stands for Anti Earth Union Group...

>>23330367
It's a stupid Engrish back-acronym. Tomino or someone else settled for the phonetic "eugo" before defining what it meant, but the complete original name is in Japanese: "Han Chikyuu Rempou Soshiki" (反地球連邦組織).
If Anaheim, now calling themselves "Titans", then they are the "Anti Earth Federation Organization" in Thunderbolt.

>Anaheim is good actually :)
Fuck off.

>>23330731
Anaheim used the chaos caused by the monks to declare independency while THE ENTIRE federation has mobilized to defend AE, that is a dick move

>>23330865
You're not getting 0079 synergy
The chance for that was lost years ago

I wonder if they will finish the anime adaptation now that the manga is ending
I don't know about Daryl's but Io's voice actor is still love to voice the character

>>23330989
I fucking wish, but there is no way more than 10 years later. The "we're waiting for the manga to continue" turned out to be an excuse.
Shame, because I fucking love Thunderbolt, but the best we can hope for now is a "Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood" situation

>>23330433
Zeta databooks disagree with you. Opinion discarded.

>>23331030
>there is no way more than 10 years later
This, I wonder how much of the original staff are still alive
Maybe things have changed recently but I feel like >75% of the people who work on 2D mecha and make it look good are old men

>>23330989
About a year ago, the Sunrise producer, who worked on Thunderbolt, was asked about this. He said they want to wait until the manga 100% officially finished before making more Thunderbolt anime.

There was some Japanese fan backlash against Sunrise for the amount of material they cut from the Thunderbolt movies. Especially the Battle of A Boa Que. Bandai Sunrise got greedy and rushed the anime hoping to cash in quickly. So they cut a lot of scenes to fit everything into a 90 minute movie. Then the Thunderbolt author hurt his hand and needed to take a long break. So Bandai ran out of manga material and couldn't do anything.

Considering it's been over 10 years since the first Thunderbolt movie has been made, Bandai may decide to just re-animate everything from the beginning, and include all the cut scenes. Very similar to what they did with the Break Blade anime. They reanimated the first arc of the anime after the author took a long hiatus. So we have multiple Break Blade anime released and OVAs.

>>23318353 (OP)
I wish otagaki make another mecha manga like front mission

>>23332226
source?