Thread 23360188

Gqux was a massive success. You can criticize gqux all you want, but very few gundam shows (or mecha) recieved such a great response. The last anime that inspired such a response from both japanese and western audiences were darling in the franx and gridman.

>sales
The model kits are nearly impossible to get in the west, because they sell out almost instantly. My store bought as many police zaku and gqux as they could and sold out in a weekend. Seed, 0080, and wing are barely moving,but gqux is flying off the shelves at rapid speed.
>fan reaction
Theres few anime that recieved as much interaction, fan art, and discussion as gqux. Its clear the anime struck a cord with alot of people.
>deux and witch
Imagine having two jobber characters, only existing to die, being so well remembered. Any other show, and people would've forgotten. Including the black tri stars, each opponent in clan battle was memorable and had unique action scenes.

As time goes on, gqux will be fondly remembered, and the general audience really enjoyed it. /m/ just hates newtype stories, because they fall more in line with super robot tropes, than real robot. I dont want a season 2, but a spinoff series or movie in the same universe would be nice.

I wish that made me feel less depressed about Machu and Nyaan's show being over when I felt like we were just starting to get to know the characters.

>>23360189
>i want more
So its a good show?

>>23360188 (OP)
>The model kits are nearly impossible to get in the west, because they sell out almost instantly.
None of my local places that have things distributed through Bandai Collectibles even got them yet, the only place I've seen with a kit yet was Target oddly enough, and it was only the GQuuuuuux itself.

>>23360188 (OP)
>The last anime that inspired such a response from both japanese and western audiences were darling in the franx and gridman.
You can praise the series without inventing facts, you know. The Gundam series before it was already very successful.

>>23360200
>they haven't got them yet
They probably did and you were too slow. Both of my stores got an ample supply and were gone during both restocks. They are moving faster than any other kit i've ever seen. I've never seen so much hype for a high grade. Usually, this response is reserved for real grades.

>>23360188 (OP)
>gqux was a massive success
I dont agree. I have seen no evidence of the sales good in the west and while some fans liked it its hard to know how many fans are mecha or just UC fans and how many are anime fans but from what I can tell people have a lot of valid criticisms and details about how references got added because no one else knew what to do reinforces that it was directionless

>>23360191
the show already ruined them and any chances of seeing zeon internal politics
so no that ship has sailed
maybe a gqux for gqux could fix things

>>23360188 (OP)
>deux and witch
only memorable because copers wouldn't stop coping about them coming back 24 fucking 7
>As time goes on, gqux will be fondly remembered
evafags have a habit of inserting head canon until theyre convinced its the best shit ever dont they

>>23360209
>They probably did and you were too slow.
Then they ate my preorders so I hope that isn't the case.

A lot of Deux (and Bask Om) fan content seems to be taking the piss out of this show though.

why is ever g-cuck thread just a dude trying to convince himself it was good if its so obvious and everyones a fan why does it read like youre trying to confine me hell why do they all read the same if theres a bunch of fans making them

>>23360188 (OP)
>Gqux was a massive success.
I'm glad, I hope the rest of the anniversary projects are just as fun or more.

>>23360243
>everyone who disagrees with me is one person
I love this episode!

>>23360257
never said it was one person, just a few annoying people doing the same thing because they cant handle that some people didnt like it

>>23360205
You realize this is bait right

>>23360188 (OP)
I get they felt they needed to do something for the anniversary and bandai probably mandated a bunch of shit for the show which is partially to blame. really they should have just uploaded a bunch of what if char vs amuro scenarios in different suits to gundam info.

>>23360188 (OP)
>The last anime that inspired such a response from both japanese and western audiences were darling in the franx
Didn't everyone turn on that after like 5 episodes?

>>23360275
I don't think anyone remembwrs anything about the show other than the main slut that was a FotM waifu.

>>23360276
Normies remember it, as the only other non gundam, non evangelion, mecha anime, because at the time it was "shocking."

>>23360188 (OP)
>The last anime that inspired such a response from both japanese and western audiences were darling in the franx and gridman.
You are more right than you think you are, ironically. They both fell off by the end.

>>23360286
it wasn't for no reason

>>23360188 (OP)
This anime almost has below a 7 score (currently at 7.09) on MAL. That is really low, especially for a new show. It's remarkable how it's recognized as shit by even the most retarded of communities.

>>23360314
the question now is why do the quackx tards like it and defend it so vehemently

>>23360314
>MAL
The only people hating the show are /v/ newfags huh?

>>23360319
they don't like it. see op didn't say anything about the mcs, the story or the fight scenes. they only care about it as the stick to hit gwitch with.

>>23360319
my own schizo theory, is that a few random Eva fans by chance all saw the same similarities everyone else does and expected this to somehow be evangelion for gundam fans expecting everyone to speak the praises of anno and khara, and when that didnt happen they fucking lost their minds.

>>23360325
>they only care about it as the stick to hit gwitch with.
so it seems

>>23360322
No, those people probably love it. I don't think you get just how low the standards are on that website. I think it's the biggest pool of western opinion on the show that we have at the moment.

>>23360188 (OP)
I loved GQuuuuuuX and hated WFM. I enjoyed most of the episodes of GQX while WFM felt like a slog with no real direction by comparison, also Machu is a much better main character than Suletta in both design and personality.

I'm haflway through gqux and I like it.
If you can somehow watch char go through his bootleg amuro character arc and feel zero joy, I'm pretty sure you're dead inside.
It's also extremely fun to watch the newtype trope getting back to its murderhobo roots after unicorn's whole spiel.
The whole episodic feel also brings back an extremely old school gundam feel compared to IBO where it was more cyclical.
It's good!

elon musk is the irl shuji hes an autistic freak and hes fucked up our timeline with his shitty exploding rockets now we will never have the one year war by 2079

>>23360325
>>23360329
>>23360331
>>23360363
Keep bumping it bot.

>>23360275
STOP you're ruining OP's narrative

>>23360222
By the way I just called them cause that anon made me paranoid and no, The just don't have the kits in yet.

>>23360261
I would have been happy if we just got a short film with Char and Amuro just fighting each in different MSes and areas. Instead we got this Khara led mid show.

>>23360188 (OP)
NO LIES DETECTED

>>23360188 (OP)
Do you guys think gqux will be a show people will remember for a long time? I haven't watched it yet.

>>23360550
Definitely something people will talk about.

>>23360550
Not even remotely, it’ll be forgotten like Darling in the Franxx.

>>23360314
>trusting 3rd party review sites
Who even uses MAL? Isnt it mostly cdawgva's community? Are you going to ask iron mouse to review gundam next?

>>23360565
Probably worse tbqh. Franxx at least has Zero Two for the coomers and cosplayers. Gqux doesn't even have that, unless you count hotter Chalia.

>>23360188 (OP)
>The model kits are nearly impossible to get in the west, because they sell out almost instantly.

They're sold out in Japan too.
Friend of mine went to Gundam Base a month or so ago and there was literally nothing available.

I've been able to snag a Gqux, Police Zaku and Sugai's Gelgoog, and they're incredible kits, nothing like any other High Grade I've ever built. I'm still trying to get a Red Gundam, and I think the Light Guncannon is out too, but I will 100% buy every kit from this show.

>>23360565
>>23360569
Franxx was memory holed because people hated it, nobody hated gqux.

>>23360572
The model kits will 100% save this show.

>>23360329
This is what happened. People thought shuji was shinji, and when he wasn't people flipped out.

>>23360329
>>23360586
Nice headcanon, maybe talk about the show instead of coming up with false scenarios in your head.

>>23360584
Name 5 personality traits Shuji has.

>>23360586
What’s there to save about it? It got good viewership ratings and a lot of people liked it. By most metrics it performed a bit worse than G-Witch all around and since G-Witch was a huge hit that means Gquacks did great too

>>23360632
Because gwitch was saved by the kits

>>23360636
What Gundam anime wasn’t saved by the kits under this logic

>>23360641
X lol

>>23360641
Age?

>>23360567
>cdawgva's community
First time I've seen this name in my life. You watch shitty YT anime reviewers/podcasters?
I think MAL has 500k+ active members online a day and its the biggest manga/anime database we have. It's worth a mention, but the point was that the community has no standards and yet GQuux is regarded as shit.

>>23360811
>the community has no standards and yet GQuux is regarded as shit
Point for Gqux.

>>23360314
No one gives a fuck about MAL, this shit was so popular every well known japanese account on twitter was talking about watching it. Japan basically sat the fuck down as a society to watch Gqux
>>23360188 (OP)
OP is correct 100%, OP probably doesn't even realize how correct he is

>>23360636
Model kits are gay and you should feel bad for enjoying shitty nerd hobbies.

>>23360600
Well he spends the first half of the show being an absent minded hobo who seems to be relatively protective of the two girls and not very judgemental, and then he shows up again as an obsessed Lalah stalker who is determined to do whatever it takes to ensure she's happy. I think you can cobble together 5 traits in that description, but I still don't think he's well defined.

>>23360188 (OP)
>You can criticize gqux all you want, but very few gundam shows (or mecha) recieved such a great response.
I haven't seen a soul talk about the show outside of 4chan.

>>23360550
I honestly think the ending makes it too reasy to dismiss as a passing novelty. It's very absurd but also seems to completely revolve around the mystery between Shuji and Lalah's relationship to have much meaning. But there aren't enough clues to make it worth discussing.
If they had been more grounded I think people would continue to discuss this series under the context of "the timeline where Zeon won", but now it's more "Remember when Lalah got so pissed off she kept creating and destroying dream universes?". It's going to be just as forgotten as that weird Eureka Seven movie.

>>23360831
This, americans think Japan is jaded and hateful like them but they hold lots of respect for the production team of GQuX even if some aspects of the show seemed weird at first or weren't to their liking.

>>23360845
This is my main problem with Shuji.
I think I am at odds with most of his haters, because I actually think his characterization before he 'leaves' for the first time is decent and well defined. He is aloof and eccentric but empathetic. He has his mind set on a serious goal, but seems to indulge a bit, with things like painting, his robot who he treats like a pet, and statements like "Nyaan is fun too!". People shit on him for killing Shiiko which I get, but they seem to skip over him essentially seeing her ghost off and framing it like a long overdue release for her (still feel bad for her kid though).
But then the final episode hits. And you learn just enough regarding the mystery behind him to make it seem like we probably never knew him at all up until this point.
He's apparently been damning whole universes over and over for the sake of his love for a character we never see him interact with. He doesn't seem particularly chill at all and doesn't seem like the kind of character who would care about things like indulging or being empathetic with others when he sees them all as temporary things anyways. It reframes things like episode seven, which makes it seem like he's learning about the true nature of the Zeknova at the same time as everyone else, as a big performance, since he clearly has done this all before.
It makes it seem like he likely saw Machu and Nyaan as stepping stones to reaching his goals, and considering he's done this at least a dozen times, not very significant stepping stones at that. It really sours me on his whole character, which is a problem, because the ending essentially reframes this entire setting as him failing to properly cope with Lalah's feelings on her behalf.

>>23360919
Personally I think the final episode worked well for him, it recontextualized all the "gundam says" shit earlier on. My biggest gripe is we have no context on his connection to lalah at all, I get that there was no time for it but they really ought to have explored that somehow.

>>23360933
It essentially told us we don't know the real him, but then didn't really tell us much about the real him.

>>23360919
One thing I wonder about his characterisation is whether we're meant to see two sides to him. Just before he fucks off until Episode 11, he talks about needing to "paint over" everything again, which, given the context of his motivation, might imply he only decides at that point to reset the universe. In that sense you end up seeing the Shuji behind his obsession early on, when he still thinks that he can do...something...to salvage it, but he gives up on that idea when it becomes apparent to him that shit is going to hit the fan.

>>23360319
Because people seem it was made by the same guy who made FLCL and see the guy who made Evangelion was very vaguely involved and immediately drop their already low standards

>>23361011
that doesn't make any sense

>>23361013
Don't feed the schizo.

>>23360992
Man you made me realize there's a portion of the show where he's pretty sure Char just fucking left the universe.
You know, the guy his whole plan revolved around. You'd think he'd be more bothered by that. But that's when he seems the most chill.

>>23360831
It's not a success just because people watched it. That's retarded. It's not pay per view. It will be a success if it sells a lot of merchandise and gets people to invest in its creators.

>>23361099
We don't really know when they met, could be well after the first Zeknova, so Shuji might be aware he's LARPing as a scientist.

>>23361108
>It's not a success just because people watched it
Cope.

>>23361135
No he is right, success comes from finances. That said those were ALSO really good. The plastic sells like crack in the middle of a ghetto.

>>23360831
OP is a troll, but that doesn’t mean the series wasn’t a success

>>23360587
you can always tell when you've got it right cause the khara fags get so pissy

>>23361187
Gquacksfag…

>>23360567
Literally never seen a cdawgva stream/video/song/whatever the fuck he makes in my life.

What a random fucking accusation

>>23360188 (OP)
>anecdotal evidence
>westoid nonsense
Call me back when you can offer some concrete proof, not worthless hearsay.

>>23360831
>this shit was so popular every well known japanese account on twitter was talking about watching it. Japan basically sat the fuck down as a society to watch Gqux
Who the fuck is "Masahiro Ito"? Should we know who he is?

>>23361414
>>23361616
>>23361619
Go back zoomies.

>>23360188 (OP)
>Gqux Was A Massive Success
thats a good one, got any more jokes?

>>23360567
>>23361414
>cdawgva
My life was better before learning about YET ANOTHER worthless e-celeb.

Anyone who hates gqux, loves cdawgva and his normie friends

>>23361619
Not my problem that you're an uncultured swine

>>23361681
im sorry, I don't play surval horror slop.

>>23361619
Just how underage are you?

>>23361692
see >>23361691

>>23361691
Neither do you have the ability to speak in English, apparently.

>>23361625
>>23361691
>>23361694
Bots.

>>23361714
Sorry, not a bot. Just pulling your hair.

Gqux haters can't even point out flaws that are not minor plot grievances (endymion system, beyond the time, machu being straight) or just silly shit no one cares about (minor time skip in the final arc, stuff not 1:1 matching with UC).

The only valid complaint i've heard is the show was "rushed", but this series was more high concept, than any anime this year. You can't compare the pacing of a 12 episode isekai, to gqux.

>I DIDNT LIKE SHUJI
Because you don't like twist villains. From the beginning it was obvious shuji had ulterior motives (and it became super obvious when he wanted to go to earth).

Hating this because it wasn't ghirens greed, and was a more modern take on UC is dumb.

From the beginning we knew this show was about an "after war" period, where WMD's and subterfuge would be the main ways to wage war, and thats exactly what was delivered. There wasn't a big war, because modern countries don't engage in big wars. They use super weapons like the solar ray, or plot assasinations like kycillia did. Overall gqux was fire and the secons compilation movie will be announced soon.

>>23361747
>Gqux haters can't even point out flaws that are not minor plot grievances (endymion system, beyond the time, machu being straight) or just silly shit no one cares about (minor time skip in the final arc, stuff not 1:1 matching with UC).


I feel like the majority of haters never even watched GQuuuuuux or were just arguing in bad faith to troll.

>>23361714
Schizo.

>>23361747
Name 5 personality traits Shuji has.

>>23361803
One worded responses don't really make you sound human

>>23361805
Spamming like a bitch at people who criticize your rushed garbage show doesn’t make you sound human either.

>>23361804
See
>>23360992
>>23360933
>>23360919
>>23360845

Your bot posted this yesterday.

>>23361810
I meant last week not yesterday. >>23361804
>>23360600

Fucking weirdo

>>23361815
Who are you quoting and why are you so mad?

>>23361815
People are calling you a bot because if they admitted you were human it would make them lose faith in humanity. They would realize most people ar

>>23361817
>>23361820
>I have no argument and I must SNEED
I accept your concession GCuck.

>>23361817
He is a bit obsessed to be fair.

>>23361832
Damn and no one has posted proof to ANY of those that show Shuji isn’t just a walking plot device with 0 personality……

>>23361835
Try watching the show.

>>23361832
Damn what the fuck

I like how Gquxtards factually can not prove that Shuji is a character, every single person, even the ones who like Gqux, have admitted that the Clan Battle episodes are a complete waste of time that are disjointed from the actual plot, yet those same episodes make up more than 80% of Shuji’s screentime since he just randomly disappears halfway through the show, he is so worthless as a character that you could have just made the sentient magic RX-78 the main villain and remove Shuji entirely and nothing would change.

>>23361845
Shuji is a nihilist. He's stuck on this never ending loop with lalah, and hes just given up, so hehangs out with machu and nyan since they are the only other newtypes that are around his age.

It really is that simple.

>>23361845
>If I make up an argument for the people I disagree with I can still win!
Why did you choose to be a throwaway villain anon

>>23361847
Also the whole show ends on this character growth. He literally says hes learned so much from machu, and he was happy to meet her. Machus convinced him, he didnt need to protect lalah, and that made the loop end.

Shujis arc involves learning to let go of his nihilism, and stop protecting lalahs feelings.

>>23361850
He is the main god damn villain of the entire show yet his motivations are flimsy and can be changed entirely by a single random newtype girl he met after killing several universes full of newtype girls, a show with a bottom of the barrel antagonist like this can never be good, let alone great.

>>23361856
Damn, who knew that all it would take to convince a guy who has killed billions of people is….. a single person he could have connected with in any of the other universes he’s already gone through.

>>23361858
>bottom of the barrel antagonist

This has to be a bot right? Who the fuck says shit like this lol

>>23361845
>like how Gquxtards factually can not prove that Shuji is a character


We see him in the show therefore that is the factual proof he is literally a character.

Gquacksbros really aren’t disproving the /a/ tourist allegations

>>23361859
>a single person he could have connected with in any of the other universes he’s already gone through.

He could have but he didnt.
Its kind of like trying to find a non schizophrenic bot post on /m/ right now. Really fucking rare so it barely ever happend. It finding someone to show you Bob's and vagene. Billions of women and you met none of them

>>23361859
Its literally in the beginning OP that this is the only universe where nyann, shuji, and machu meet. The whole point is the chance encounter with nyann leads machu to meeting shuji and engaging in a spiritual newtype journey

Did you watch the show? This is the first line in the song.

>>23361864
I don't know they're able to type coherent thoughts in posts longer than a sentence and don't schizoohrenically obsess and spam their feelings so I'm going to give this one to GQuuuuuux fags

>Challia goes from putting Char on a pedestal to trying to kill him to letting him go all in one episode
So this is what “good character development” looks like…

>>23361860
>This has to be a bot right?
DUH

>>23361868
>Did you watch the show?

Why would I watch such a piece of shit liking GQuuuuux sir

This bot has a few phrases fed through a prompt that it spits out on different threads at random.

>>23361872
What the fuck if it's so obviously a bot why aren't the posts deleted by a mod?

>>23361874
Holy Christ I'm sorry I replied to it. I thought at least replying to it would contain it to this one thread I didnt know I was making more cancer pop out. The internet is fucking ruined now jesus christ

>>23361878
Is it just bots trolling bots WHAT IS GOING ON

>>23361881
Calling out bots is a human's right and duty.

I'm making a gqux thread every week after this one hits the bump limit. You can't mine salt this efficientlyanywhere else.

>>23361747
>the secons compilation movie will be announced soon.
lol. lmao even.

Official art of running through the kira-kira. Is Deux doing the Ple run in the background or something?

>>23361891
If G-Reco can get a compilation movie than so can Gquacks, and for all of Gquacks many flaws it still had a lot of people watching it during it’s air time.

>>23361895
It's a nardo run, the arms aren't high enough for a puru run. I'm sorry but we are gonna have to put her down, again.

>>23361895
Hiring the pokemon designer was unironically the best move in gundam history

Next gundam anime will be huge.

>>23361903
The best move in Gundam history was making Gundam SEED.

>>23361897
You are not getting a new movie announcement soon/this year.

>>23361907
They can literally fit all clan battles up until the end of the psycho gundam episode into a movie, without much editing

(And they can add in that "character development" you whine so much about.)

>>23361810
so now you are mass replying and not even including me lmao, you've actually lost it

>>23361895
>woh I hecking love wholesome cute pokeslop
nah mate

>>23361916
He’s a lost cause he’s been mass replying to everyone who criticizes this show with bot accusations.

>>23361903
why cause it makes everything look better by comparison?
>>23361904
most likely true, seed was huge

>>23361921
he was too stupid to understand what PS meant when I responded to him twice because I forgot to say something and he had a schizophrenic melt down thinking he had caught some broken bot or spammer and now I see him in every thread
honestly very sad I hope he gets help before he murders his mom or something

>>23361878
>>23361882
>>23361885
Damn you made it shortcircuit.

>>23361878
>>23361882
>>23361885
>the entire board is full of bots
>I will now continue to use the board and engage with them
he doesn't believe it himself. hes not a schizo just really really stupid. I dont know what his goal is but I assume its to mindlessly dismiss all criticism of gq-ACKs

>machu
No.character development, except she develops emotions and connections to her friends, experiences a newtype journey, achieves her dreams of going to the beach, is able to pull both of her friends from the brink of becoming evil, and saves the universe, all from a chance encounter in a subway station.

>amuro
Just gets angrier

This show would’ve been much better off if they had Kycilia and Nyaan as the final bosses with Char and Shuji being plot threads saved for a second cour.

>>23361681
poor nyan, I could have saved her

>>23361932
>Machu learns nothing from the experience and still wants to go chasing highs like she did at the start of the show, this time chasing Shuji instead of chasing the Earth

>>23361939
Machu literallly has no friends at the start of the show, and has never left side 6. Her entire worldview and perspective changes. The old machu would never have made progress on friends or traveling, without nyann, chalia, and shuji helping her.

>>23360188 (OP)
its a shitty show made for fedtranneis
machus soul was weighed down by gravity wish she died

So why do the writers want us to believe that Machu and Nyaan being stuck on Earth as wanted criminals and with a highly experimental Gundam in their possession that the underhanded Earth Federation would love to get their hands on is a good ending?

>>23361932
>dreams of going to the beach

I don't know if there is a real GQuuuuux to put this in but I just realized how fucked the ending really is if they can't do anything about Earth's global cooling Kycilia mentioned of that was even true.

>>23361946

Because they dance

>>23361946
excuse me anon but did you not see the funny TikTok clips playing during the ending
they clearly have so much fun together

>>23361964
Pfffttttt they’ll just Newtype away all their problems since Newtypes are basically gods now with how much bullshit they can do.

>>23361946
>attempted colony drop on the moon
>Shiiko trying to kill someone just because he was piloting Char's gundam
>Bask sending a young orphan out on a murder-suicide mission

It's weird that the only EFSF representation we've gotten in GQX has been way more unhinged than the majority of the Zeon characters.

>>23361981
Why the fuck was Bask even in this show if he wasn't going do anything else, we don’t even see him getting captured by Zeon after his failed assassination, he just disappears.

>>23361981
In an oblique way, Shuji was the sympathetic EF representative (even if it's an implied EF in another dimension). He was also insane and the final villain.

>>23361993
why's he always got catchers mitts on

>>23361995
>Yaoi hands
take a wild guess

>>23361981
>>23361993
>Earth Federation gets demonized into oblivion and do nothing but serve as antagonists that commit mass murders and atrocities
>Zeon gets put on such a ginormous pedestal that a timeline where they don’t lose the war (with Kycilia and fucking Gihren in charge for several years) not only doesn’t lead to a bleak future but might actually end on a good note since nice girl Sayla is suddenly in charge of a Zeon that can defend itself and other spacenoids
I never want to see anyone say that Zeon wank isn’t real after this ever again.

>>23361996
well what is it?

>>23361995
He's a mechanic, because he's his universe's version of Amuro/Kamille.

>>23362000
designed for gays and fujos

>>23362005
>Gquack’s equivalent of Amuro and Kamille has committed universal genocide multiple times
I don’t want to see how much worse this timeline’s equivalent of Banana and Hathaway are.

>>23361999
The good end has always been that Zeon and the Federation fuck each other up so hard that a multipolar order was allowed to spring up afterwards. If the Feds gain control of the Earth Sphere, they go right back to being a sham democracy that exists only to enrich a few oligarchic families and enables the next space crazies due to their incompetence and maliciousness. If Zeon wins control, it's space death camps, billions must die. Knowing the Zabis, humanity will be near extinction within a few decades (basically achieving what took the Federation a hundred years to achieve).

>>23362014
Yeah I get that, both of them are terrible factions with consistently awful leaders. It’s just hard to accept that getting Zeon and the Federatiom to stalemate so humanity can evolve and have actual peace involves letting Gihren and Kycilia live for several years more than they deserve after starting a war that killed billions in just one single year.

>>23362005
>Amuro helped his alternate self or alternate Kamille to get laid

>>23362080
Getting kissed isn’t the same as getting laid.

>>23362084
Implying that Machu isn't going to suck him dry when he returns.

>>23362088
How the fuck is he gonna return if he doesn’t have a way to travel between universes now?

>>23361981
How is that weird? That's pretty how exactly how the feddies have been portrayed from 0083 onward(timelinewise). Only now they lost the oyw and have a chip on their shoulder in addition to general feddie psychopathy. I'm ignoring the novels where the feddies are murders and rapists from the get go, although given how hard gquux draws from gundam novels maybe I shouldn't.

>>23362014
>it's space death camps, billions must die.
Except Gquuuux doesn't show or even hint at any of that.

It's in not in Netflix so it flopped. 90 percent of the world population dont have acces to Amazon Prime.

>>23362204
this the new cope?

>>23362224
its actually a lot of fun watching the cope evolve in real time

>>23360636
G-witch was saved by being a good show.

>>23360188 (OP)
based and true

>>23362204
>>23362224
>>23362227
Bots working overtime.

>>23362296
>defenders of the show are now also bots
lmao you need help man

>>23360188 (OP)
As long as LGBT from Mercury is fucked over I don't mind.

>>23362343
seeing how it made gbitch look better by contrast id say no

>>23362364
At least G-Witch did it’s own thing.

>>23362378
which is one of the reasons it looks so much better in comparison

>>23362186
Zeon's win was extremely shaky in GQuX (hence, having to negotiate with Side 6 rather than just taking the resource by force). In the OTL, the Feds were comfortable enough to be gassing colonies over protests by this point.

>>23362089
Zekova are confirmed to happen regularly in the GQuuX world and Machu's Gundam can universe travel. Perhaps is not accurate to say Shuuji will go to her, but who knows

>>23361999
If challia re-enacting Gundam vs zeong based solely on the fact that he knew char was a lost cause didn't tell you everything you needed to know about zeonism I don't know what else to tell you
Zeeks are so comically evil that even when they win, they immediately realize that they're the bad guys. It's the sole existential reason for every single Zeek character in the show - to ensure a zeon victory never happens again, and the one zeek that does try classic zeonism against earth is unequivocally the BBEG of the entire show
The only possible redemption for zeeks is to appoint an active feddie, literally piloting a Jim not one month prior against char, as their new queen.
Fuck zeeks.

>>23362610
>If challia re-enacting Gundam vs zeong based solely on the fact that he knew char was a lost cause didn't tell you everything you needed to know
It only tells me Enokido is a hack who completely discount how Char's character evolved from 0079 to 0093.

I loved GQuuuuuuX.
I think it's messy, in ways that are both frustratingly similar to Tomino shows and frustratingly different, but it's a fun wild ride, dense with interesting ideas, and it does some great things with the UC main characters.
Lalah saying "even the one in the white mobile suit is pure" made the show worthwhile for me. I was ready to forgive a clusterfuck of an ending after that, because that was a very poignant moment, but even then I think it stuck the landing for me.

Great show.

>>23362937
>It only tells me Enokido is a hack who completely discount how Char's character evolved from 0079 to 0093.

Considering how they used a Tomino novel moment for Kycilia's characterization, I guess they see Char like in Tomino's writing. Where he was just aimless and stalling during Zeta, but basically was his CCA self already and just needed a clear goal to get on with that path rather than the popular interpretation here (and in some games) of Zeta's and ZZ's events making him fall towards that path (even though none of that comes up in CCA...).

It never reached the popularity of the previous series though. No one's talking about it. Everyone was sleeping on it. Gbitch ACTUALLY managed to penetrate non mech fans and spawned memes. But Gquuuux? Discussions and the hype mostly stayed on /m/.

test

>>23363253
People are STILL talking aboutit, Japan is STILL talking about it, please troll harder.

>>23363253
That's just it anon, it doesn't matter what the non-fans think. They don't buy plastic. Witch was gundam for fags who don't like gundam, gquux was gundam for people who do.

>>23363285
I heard Witch Gunpla sold pretty good

>>23363285
How many times do you need to be reminded that Aerial sold like hot cakes in 22 and 23 too?

Did G-Witch get people into UC like GQuuuuuuX did?

>>23363300
No, that's why there were so many zoomies going "omg what should I watch for gquuuuuux???".

>>23363300
Some did, some didn't. When I told them the BARE MINIMUM to understand it was:

>0079
>Zeta
>ZZ
>CCA

Most people did, others didn't.

>>23363323
You don't need any of that to understand gbitch.

>>23363324
That's the advantage of AUs - you don't need anymore materials unless it's the second season of said AU.

GQuX is by its core a What If AU of UC, which means it solely relies on other materials to stand.

It's easier for newcomers to watch G-Witch than to get to them be interested in GQuX due to the amount of context you need to just make sense of it.

>>23363328
Okay, but did people watch Witch From Mercury and go 'Gundam is cool more of that' or did they just move on to the next yuri anime? More G-Witch fans have watched The Owl House than 0079.

>>23363332
Now that's a tough question, I knew some G-Witch fans moved on to other AUs like 00. While some didn't.

It's hard to tell.

>>23363328
>It's easier for newcomers to watch G-Witch than to get to them be interested in GQuX due to the amount of context you need to just make sense of it.
That's irrelevant, people saw the hype for GQuX in cinemas and went without any knowledge of the franchise.

>>23363294
Aerial sure did, but most of the other kits were middling or rotted on shelves.
>>23363295
And what about most of the other kits? Did witchfags buy anything other than witch related plastic before ditching? gquuxx kits not only have no shelf warmers but also boosted the sales of plastic not directly related to the show.

>>23363328
GQ is in the same vein as Unicorn. If you watched everything before, it's supposed to be more enjoyable. If not, you'll still understand it major points well enough.

>>23363336
>gquuxx kits not only have no shelf warmers but also boosted the sales of plastic not directly related to the show.
I can show Aerial was still a top 10 best seller in 2023. Where's the source of your claim outside of your imagination?

>>23363358
>aerial sure did
Yes, and I agreed with you. Now how about anything else? That list only has caliburn and aerial cracking the top ten. Outside of sluttella's suits did anything else sell? According to your own source, no.

>>23363367
>gquuxx kits not only have no shelf warmers but also boosted the sales of plastic not directly related to the show.
Substantiate your claim, or keep your mouth shut.

>>23363373
Have you tried to buy them? Most of the kits are backordered out the ass no matter where you go. Shit flies off shelves and out of warehouses. Use your eyes anon. Even the ugly ass gm gelgoog is hard to find for retail without getting on a waiting list.

>>23360188 (OP)
>The model kits are nearly impossible to get in the west, because they sell out almost instantly
The Gquxx and police Zaku are avaliable at Amzon.

>>23363373
Shaddiq did get meme'd on for having his mobile suit's kit sell so poorly among other things. Other ones I don't know.

>>23363387
>Shit flies off shelves
lol

>>23361918
Is this what you wanted?

>>23363513
Gquacksbros…

>>23363513
That's AI

>>23363539
This does look better though

>>23360188 (OP)

> The model kits are nearly impossible to get in the west, because

Distribution KNOWS it's a hot mess and that their retail partners get really, really mad if they try to dump too much garbage on them all at once.

>>23363546

1. I assure you it's not.

2. This happens when a sell is PARTICULARLY bad, because it means even their lowest projections weren't low enough.

Remember, Bandai typically uses a JIT process because they can switch machine molds very quickly. They only accumulate large stockpiles to deal with release surge demand.

>>23363866
>>23363874
It's too early for yoir coping anon.

>>23363866
ive heard the same, no one wants this shit

>>23363539
yeah? this is so much better. do you actually like the Pokemon art style or do you just want to defend the show im actually curious because I really cant understand someone thinking it looks good

>>23363898
>>23363899
Bot posts.

>>23363901
so you DO like the Pokemon art style more?

>>23361832
And he's never gotten a response, says a lot about this shit show huh?

>>23363901
Answer the question retard

>>23363539
Sir I ordered 00 or mikimoto character designs. Not Yasuhiko done badly.

>>23362005
>>he's his universe's version of Amuro/Kamille.
>he's his universe's version of two entirely separate characters
Man even the theorists can't make sense out of this character.

>>23363883
>>23363901
Actual mindbroken bot post

>>23363285
>gquux was gundam for people who do.
It's funny how delusional gcucks fanbase is.

>>23360188 (OP)
>success and response to the product is rated by state of growth of the company WHEN the product was released
shut the fuck up illiterate retard. kill yourself, even.

this is some of the best bait or saddest cope I've ever witnessed. the desperation of gcucks makes me worry it's sincere.

>>23363975
No matter how much you witchfags shitpost about it, it doesn't make it untrue. You don't throw in a ton of references that no one outside of people who are well ingrained into the franchise would get if it isn't targeted at them.

Anybody who believes that either G-witch or G-quacks sold poorly because some indivudal stores couldn’t move product is an iditom

>>23360188 (OP)
>the kits sold out everywhere! It MUST be a success!

Errm, awkward...

>>23360188 (OP)
If it's wrong to criticize successful things then all anonymous image boards shouldn't exist.

>>23364750
that pic is taken from a store that's one of many that has been out of stock of Gquuuuuux in Japan. Looks intentional to fuck with scalpers and Chinese resellers

>>23363336
I mean that’s true for every Gundam series, I just passed a shelf filled to the brim with red gundams and police zakus while the Gquuuuuux was totally sold out

>>23364783
Pics?

>>23364750
where, i still waiting for my orders.

So here's a plot hole or maybe plot hook concerning the cyberloli. Ep 11 Challia literally says that Kira-Kira is a phenomenon when energy from the Other Side reacts to the Minovsky Particles, expanding Newtype cognition. That means Newtypes can only experience it when around someone or something from the Other Side like Shuji or Lalah. If you follow this line of logic here, that means it would be impossible for Deux to even KNOW about it (Gates Cappa thought her kira-kira babble was insane and further proof of her defectiveness).

The only way this makes sense is if the Feds have someone from the Other Side at Murasame Labs, whoever this third person may be. They more than likely also have Ooparts (Out of Place Artifacts) as well, because the new Psycho Gundam was FAR more advanced than it should be at that point (Psycho Frame Plates all over it).

There is also the fact that Deux uses the same terminology that Machu and Nyaan uses (kira-kira), rather than something unique like everyone else does when talking about it (since there isn't a settled upon word for it).

Basically, coupled with Bask Om still being around and the Federation being completely out of focus, this is all a big plot point for later. There was a storyboard leak for ep 12 before it aired on /a/ as well, with accurate boards and episode synopsis. This same thread from the same source stated that they're producing a sequel. Whether that is true or not is unknown, but the rest of the leaks were real. If we do get a sequel, it will probably be to Zeta what GQX was to 0079.

>>23365457
kira-kira isn't terminology

>>23365457
Since Murasame Labs are on Earth, and we never really got a good sense of what sort of proximity is even needed for the phenomena to trigger, Deux could've just been experiencing it due to being within range of the Elmeth.

>1 week
>already completely forgotten

Shiiko, more like Sexo

>>23366410
shikoshiko with shiiko

>>23366312
>There's still Japanese posts trending about Gqux at anime expo
I'm sorry but this cope that it's already forgotten is fucking hilarious

>>23362937
>Enokido is a hack
When was the last time the guy wrote for something actually worth watching?

>>23367229
This year.

>>23367237
Yer kidding.

>>23360188 (OP)
>Massive Success
That's most Gundams.

>>23366410
>>23366416
such a missed opportunity

>>23363539
if you think the pokèshit is better than this you should be fucking ashamed lmao

>>23360188 (OP)
Ive seen no evidence of the show being a success the reception seems to be mid and confusing or people who downright hate it
even if it was a massive success why should we care? just to be happy that the franchise is popular even if its changed so much it no longer resembles what people wanted?
normie reddit brain

>>23360188 (OP)
I wish it had 24 episodes.
I wish I could change G-Witch's mechadesign to pass it on to Gquux
The show started to work towards the middle, for me, however I don't really appreciate multiverses, it makes me feel too much like the worst marvel MCU.
I really enjoyed the friendship between Machu and Nyaan as the show treats it as true friendship and camaraderie between two girls and not as yuri fetish.

I can't stand Shuji though, he's apathetic and autistic, and I don't think it's believable that two girls could fall for him. I wish he was genuinely some heroic and inspiring "Kamina guy" who could really justify the attention he gets.

Challia Bull probably the best character in the show and he also occasionally acts as a mentor.

Ultimately I'm disappointed with the ending.

>>23373803
>>23373833
Bot.

I've never seen anything of Universal Century Gundam besides the first dub. Is there anything in this show for me, or does it require me to watch a bunch of super old shit just to understand why my mecha friends wank off hard to this show?

>>23374111
if you enjoyed 79 then the show has nothing for you. forget about amuro learning to pilot the gundam, becoming overzealous, burning out, interacting with his mother, etc etc etc
its just CGDCT show with a robot filter over top, characters dont even change throughout the series

>>23374111
Do you like anime? Do you like cool robots? Have you ever heard about the red comet, the man who died three times as much as anyone else? Then yeah the show has plenty for you.

>>23374165
>>23374193
>two completely polar opposite opinions
Guess I should have expected that, but unironically still thankful for your honest input. Guess I'll put it closer to the bottom of my animation priority list then and lower my expectations accordingly.

>>23374213
>two completely polar opposite opinions
I dont think these 2 opinions are mutually exclusive it just depends what you want out of a gundam series that determines if you will like it or not

>>23374213
Do not let the 2nd retard trick you, 0079 is mandatory viewing if you wanna watch Gquacks, hell maybe even Zeta too
That being said it should still be at the bottom of your priority list since its pretty bad

>>23373855
Somehow, someway they made a worse Mikazuki. Literally less emotion than the character whose character sheet strictly said he couldn't show much emotion at all. I recall the VA also mentioned that he complained that he barely had any lines too.

>>23374193
>do you like anime
this says it all quxtards aren't mecha fans and sure as fuck aren't real robot fans
they just consume whatever seasonal moeshit slop is served to them

>>23374353
Atleast Mika's lack of depth and development is supposed to be a character flaw, its what gets him killed
Machu is the same but she gets a happy ending even though she learned nothing

>>23374213
Tempered expectations is the way to go. I think the best way to view the reception is that the show is very devisive, with general perception definitely more negative (in the west, at least, as an EOP I won't speak on Japan).

>>23374213
you have to understand the GQUX is new and /m/is full of autistic retards that can't handle anything after the 80s.

I've seen all of UC and it's very good, definitely a watch after you're done 79-Z-ZZ-CA

>>23374333
>>23374375
This is a bot btw.

>>23374436
I imagine qux hate will lesson after we get some more stuff in line with the tone of UC if not UC itself.
in the future people will just see it as an interesting oddity worth watching but for now they feel shafted for not getting a war drama, which khara couldn't have executed on and is probably for the best

>>23374436
>>23374485
90s. Every UC fag wants everything to look and feel like Stardust Memory.

>>23374485
It's definitely "that time sunrise and khara collaborated for the anniversary", but having anno attached to the project ensured a very vocal minority would dedicate their every waking minute to shitposting about it.

>>23374485
>they feel shafted for not getting a war drama
I didn't really want a war drama that I could find in any other Gundam. I wanted either Cold War shenanigans and/or newtype slice of life teenage drama with the clan bat opponents used as a way to explore the new UC setting.

>>23374489
I liked space top gun. I wish they would do something that looks and feels the same without the flaws of 0083

>>23374499
>I wanted either Cold War shenanigans
this or a gundam series inspired by the innate complexity of insurgencies or what were now seeing with drone warfare is a direction I hope they take a more series AU. just any side of conflict and war that is novel for the setting really

>>23374499
You got both of that, in a very small dose yeah but still.

>>23374499
show should have just been goofy fun to complement the more cute? childish? Pokemon art style
just have space witch lalah pulling in all kinds of crazy what if characters and mobile suits for some multiverse g gundam in order to figure out what she should do to save char or some shit

>>23374493
The show's quality contributed to more shitposting than Anno's presence.

>>23374545
Not really, a 12 episode anniversary project doesn't entail such dedication.

>>23374493
people dont hate anno to the extent they will shit on something he had a minor part in if the show was good people would have memed about anno cucking out to the chad tomino and throwing evas in the trash or something of the sort
the show was not well received its that simple

>>23374557
the behaviour of qux defenders hasnt helped its legacy

>>23374566
The defense of GQux has been
>you're too dumb to get an anime made for middle schoolers
repeated ad nauseam.

>>23374566
>attack people for even the most good faith criticism
>claim the show wont do something and then say its genius after the fact
>claim the characters and settings are the only good thing gundam has ever done
>accuse everyone of being fake fans for not hating every other gundam series
>accuse everyone of being bots schizophrenic style

>>23374558
>people dont hate anno to the extent they will shit on something he had a minor part in
I mean, they often tried to make it seem like he was the main person behind Gquuuuux, often ignoring the actual director and main writer. So, yeah, it was clearly very personal above anything else.

>>23374622
as far as I can tell when people shit on anno despite not being majorly involved, is just a shorthand for things that remind them of NGE

>>23360188 (OP)
people buy shit all the time you know?

>>23376277
yes it's called fertilizer

>>23376336
>gqux improved the ground where the new generation of mecha shows will grow in
Bravo Khara, you saved anime. Again :')

I’m not comfortable with how sexualized Machu is in this episode.

Brainlet here. Is Shuji supposed to be an AU Amuro?

>>23376405
No.

Reminder

>>23374628
because laughably retarded shit like the cucks itself having abs and bearing its teeth to power up should be mocked

>>23360188 (OP)
Other than the ending, I'm pretty satisfied with Gqux. Granted, it could have used more lesbian romance but I know not to ask for the moon and stars.

>>23378055
Why did you reply to yourself?

>>23360550
This is probably the most cynical response, but it has Gundam in the name people will be talking about it 20 years from now regardless.

>>23378230
Even if only in comparison to other Gundam anime.

>>23361796
>everyone who didn't like this shit is a le troll!!!!
So 99% of the community is a troll?

So which was objectively worse:
Gquuuuuux or Gwitch?

>>23382860
Gwitch caused irreversible damage to the franchise.