I didnt believe funnel combat could work until i saw GWitch. I love how the aerials funnels move with the music, and how they quickly zip around cutting everything in half. It reminds me alot of how unicorn would go into destroy mode or 00 woukd go trans am.

I loved seeing the aerial struggle for 2/3rds of the fight, before finally gaining its footing and using the funnels to slowly mount a comeback.

My favorite season 1 moment isagainst shaddiq, where she takes down 5 Ms, before losing to the michealis, only to get taken down by her team mate who was gaining a vantage point the entire match.

By comparison gqux's action was too hard to follow, and i dont remember much outside of the beam saber drawing the shape of a beam axe, or doms skating.

So witch was peak. Maybe not the characters or the story, but the fights were on jujutsu kaisen or demon slayer level.

So when is the wfm spinoff?

Where the fuck are these tards coming from, are we being raided?, nobody cares your old news.

>>23378859
I love suletta and gwitch.

Iwatched 0079, and it was the worst show ive ever watched. The animation quality is poor, and amuro only wins when the enemys kill themselves (ex. Ramba ral, and purple hair dude).

If anyone is a mary sue its the entire uc cast, not suletta.

>>23379035
Fuck off tourist

>>23379036
WFM was peak, and everytime i think about it i realize how good that show was. I'm watching 00 right now and the fights are in slow motion. It takes like 30 seconds for the exia to swing its sword once. Every hit, we need 5 pilot shots and random background characters reactions. 00 spent all its animation budget on background art assets and face animation instead of the fights.

>>23378859
>are we being raided
oldfags keep dying out and the fags are against gatekeeping

People like OP are the reason I'm really hesitant on watching WfM. Idk, it's something about the insufferableness they exhibit, other than LGBT pandering.

>>23379195
If there's anything you're the slightest bit interested in watching or playing or whatever, avoid any and all discussion of it before doing so. You will be better off by a long, long way.

>>23379195
It's a troll looking to piss off /m/ fans by gassing up one of the shows they can't stand

>>23379195
Literally nothing happens in the show. I quit after the first cour because fags like OP kept promising shit was finally get real in the next episode and it never did. I finally got around to the second cour to give it another chance it's literally another season of slice of life shit where nothing happens. It's literally nothing.

>>23379198
Oh yeah, I do that occassionally. Despite being active in toku boards I never really participate in weekly episode discussion.

Probably gonna try watch WfM without internet, the only thing that made me wanna watch is that mobile suit actions are in 2D (I've been watching GQuux and Origin and Doan Island so I was dreading that modern Gundam is CGI only)

The reason /m/ hates the show is because its not a show about war. Its a show about a young girl and her mobile suit. Its interesting to see how suletta adapts to the problems she faces.
The show really gets across the myth of the gundam. I like that the aerial is the last and only remnant of the mercury civilization. I like that people don't believe its real until they see it. Other shows get the myth of the "gundam" so wrong to where it feels like gundam is just an op mobile suit and not something deeper.

Witch has a slow second half, but it does eventually pay off when suletta gets the calibarn, and learns to pilot the "monster". Anyone who watches the show will tell you the calibarn is their favorite gundam.

If the show was not gundam and had a male protag, it'd be heralded as the best mecha anime ever.

>>23379195
The show falls off a cliff after the first season. There are good moments, and one really good episode, but doesn't make up for the whole.
Not much happens in the first season either, but you get the idea it's gonna go do something. Then, when it gets real, the main plot just kinda faffs about.

>>23379035
Its been 4 years, fuck off

>>23379152
>oldfags keep dying out
Unfortunately not Ghoul though.

>>23379195
Witch From Mercury is just one of those relatively low stakes shows that set out to tell a specific story and be done, when people say things like 'nothing happened' its usually to mean nothing they wanted happened.

At the very least the main cast goes through character development and is just a small journey for the MC, not a show about war or fixing the earthsphere.
Either you like it or you don't, one issue here is cases like this ragebait thread because people who like it or dislike it can be both loud and annoying its incredibly easy to write something like the OP(or something saying the opposite) for easy replies, I personally enjoy WFM but I also enjoyed most Gundam content I consumed, I just take each show on its own and what it's trying to tell

>>23379712
>nothing happened
Usually just means it was not a 1:1 retelling of the OYW.

At the very least
>quiet zero
>existence of aerial causes inter-company conflict
>earth conflict
>suletta saves her witch boyfriend before he dies.
>constant company politiking to develop new gundams to destroy the aerial.
>suletta constantly humiliating heirs of rival families

People never realized the rivals were representatives for different companys interests. Guel is obviously being used as a pawn until he fails and gets removed from his family. Same with basically every other character except shaddiq who has crazy power fantasies.

The ONLY problem i have with the general plot is that it shouldve been a college and not a high school.

>>23379331
That's disappointing. My only G-Witch experience was the prologue which I really liked, but when I watched first ep I can't stand Suletta as a main character, and the LGBT discourse turned me off the show till now. Only wanna watch it because of that 2D mecha action.

>>23379712
So instead of war shows it's more akin to a Build Fighters (aka tournament) but in a mainline Gundam setting?

>>23379919
Its basically build fighters if it was a uc show

>>23378800 (OP)
The fights were really good. After that one bit in episode 1 I was concerned the mechs would all be CGI. Seemed they used it pretty sparingly, which was a relief.

>>23380042
In true, they're not that good. In 24 episodes, there are only four good duels.

Episode 1 is good for animation, and it renders the funnels quite well, even though Aerial barely moves.
Aerial VS Daribalde first fight
Aerial VS Daribalde second fight
Calibarn battle

The rest are incredibly monotonous and flat. I especially rewatched Pharact vs. Aerial recently, and it's really boring. And the battle against Shaddiq is also really unexciting.

>>23380063
>Guel vs his dad wasn't good
>Dawn of Fold vs Benerit wasn't good
>The battle royale wasn't good
>Rebuild vs Ur and Thorn wasn't good
You're crazy if you think none of the above was animated well

>>23380063
I think there were more good fights than just those. Earth House vs Grassley, Dilanza vs Pharact, etc.

>>23380096
>>Guel vs his dad wasn't good
I give you that, Gaul starts doing full Kira Yamato and deflects a bullet. Actually, my bad.

>Dawn of Fold vs Benerit wasn't good
>The battle royale wasn't good
>Rebuild vs Ur and Thorn wasn't good

Here I disagree and I'll explain why, and it's also the reason why I really don't like Suletta's way of piloting.

Suletta is terribly static; only when she has the Calibarn does she start dodging attacks like Setsuna or Kira. Until then, she's stupidly irritating, as the funnels act as a shield, and she just sits there, blissfully calm.

Another problem I have is that the fight direction really does a poor job of showing Suletta as a good pilot. Just watch Rejii or even Sei after he's grown up and you can see a huge difference in skill in how they move with their gundam, but Suletta doesn't prove anything of the sort.

I understand that it's there to show that Eri is the real Pilot and Suletta is just a co-pilot who only starts doing something at the end, Jesus Christ. In all of G.Witch, I haven't seen a single battle that even remotely lives up to the choreography of Reji vs. Majin Second Fight.

And you did well to quote Guell against his Father because that is a good fight.

>>23380113
>Dilanza vs Pharact, etc.
yes, you're right too, I focused too much on Suletta.

>>23380116
>Until then, she's stupidly irritating, as the funnels act as a shield, and she just sits there, blissfully calm.
?
https://youtu.be/BhClgp-tLMA

She's literally the aggressor here, and only uses funnels once the other Lfrith jumps in

Also Suletta isn't even in the Benerit patrol vs Dawn of Fold fight, she isn't in any of the fights where those two particular factions clash

>>23379701
Diabetes will take him eventually.

>>23380124
Dude, I get it you're praising the beginning of the fight when she finally uses her sword a bit, you're literally proving my point. If it weren't for Eri, she would have already died in this fight. She took every single hit Thorn fired.

>>23380161
Actually beyond the two hits Thorn got on the funnels (which even if the Funnels weren't there, it wasn't going to hit her) Suletta dodged every shot they fired at her, you can tell because there's no funnel audio que

This thread is depressing as fuck.

>>23380116
Suletta has to focus moving the funnels at the same time formulating an attack plan for the aerial. She uses the funnels as shield and plays defensively until she can determine a weak point.

Shes much more defensive than any other gundam pilot,but thats expected since shes one of the few female ones. Female ms in general have large shield and tend to be defensive (kshatriya, lalah, quebeley).

At the very least you have to acknowledge these are the most technically animated fights in gundam. Every suit designed by different designers, with beautiful animation, and unique gimmicks for all the main antagonists. The coloring always reflects the current lighting and looks beautiful.

>>23380161
Yea thats the point.

The aerial is not strong because its a gundam, but because it has 2 pilots that operate perfectly in sync with each other. When guel gets funnels. He loses because his autopilot is just not as good as eri and suletta working together.

Its not a plothole. Its the entire plot of the show

Fuck I am depressed now.

>>23380207
Rope yourself, anon. It's not gonna get better. We might get garbage that makes GWitch look like Z by comparison in 5 years.

>>23380179
>which even if the Funnels weren't there, it wasn't going to hit her

This was a clean hit, since Suletta moved later. Please don't be dishonest.

>>23380192

>At the very least you have to acknowledge these are the most technically animated fights in gundam.
Mecha design in GH-Witch is fantastic. There's no other way to say it. But few duels have seemed truly memorable to me.

>>23380211
anon...

>>23379195
It’d 24 episodes of 22 minutes. Watch one and make up your mind, otherwise quit your bitching.

>>23379834
>The ONLY problem i have with the general plot is that it shouldve been a college and not a high school.

I'm not criticizing you, but how would this have made things better? Aside protagonists a bit older.

>>23378800 (OP)
I fucking love the aerial but every other MS in gwtich is so bad, same goes for the battles, I'm more for grounded battles like in 8th ms team or air battles like in f91.

>>23379195
The woke thing is complete bullshit, yeah the main characters are dykes that's it, they don't cry victim or put an agenda like in the west. Gwitch isn't a masterpiece but it's decent.

>>23379916
Oh, You're really not gonna like it if you don't like Suletta. Because she really doesn't move too much past her start point

>>23380380
>Because she really doesn't move too much past her start point

I disagree, the whole second season is she realizing how much she depends on her mother and she needs to start thinking by herself.

>>23378800 (OP)
>Grendizer has crafty transforming designs and a lot of dismemberment (the latter was pretty commonplace in '70s mecha)
>Patlabor takes place in a fairly low-tech setting, so beam weapons and jet engines are actually portrayed as a big deal
>Bubblegum Crisis (very nimble machines)
>New Getter Robo