Yes, I managed to finish this super-solid first season in light of the coming sequal. Why the hell didn’t I finish it until now? Not sure, but, I’m glad to be amped for next month.
Most of my Gundam 00 episodic impressions can be found at melative, but I will say this about Gundam 00: It surpasses Code Geass by a big margin. Which sort of redeems the Sunrise in my eyes, after R2… but doesn’t G00 predate R2 O.o
My real beef is that, Code Geass S1 was quite a good series, and ended decently, but G00 had a much better first season than Geass. Now, if Sunrise decided to take to R2 form with this second season of G00, I will be _______. Right!
Simply, here are some points G00 has over Geass, which Sunrise could totally FFFF:
- Composure (G00 was well-oiled, Geass was shredded tranny)
- Beauty (Space-Beautiful vs ugly persona, or die)
- Resolve (G00 has a handle to grasp, Geass is excite bike on acid)
- Identification (I can feel for members of Celestial Being, Geass everyone has un-human decision-making skills)
- Meaning (Eradicate war vs the world as a chess board)
- Justification (sound flow to Geass’s inverse variant of logic)
- Romance (mine as well, even if it is faint… Setsuna and Marina have a deeper relationship than everyone in Geass except Lulu X Suzaku)
Har Har. Whether I exaggerate or not, I still believe Gundam 00 has more wholesome attributes than Geass, and by far a more invigorating watch, without the eyerolls and doggie bag.
Of course you are exaggerating, to a greater or lesser extent, so a detailed analysis is useless…but I’d agree that G00 had better execution and a more straightforward plot.
On the other hand, I found most of the G00 cast to be boring and unidentifiable, and it recycles enough Gundam cliches -not just the good ones either.
You know, I agree. I was thinking something about how Lockon’s end wasn’t that dramatic, because he wasn’t fleshed enough. One of G00’s pitfalls is definitely the depth of characterization, the characters that received more fleshing were secondary (and/or the characterization was typical or weak).
Generally, it is easier to identify with them imo because they aren’t 24×7 outrageous.
Specifically, I didn’t include Characterization in the list, because Geass has stronger characters, even if they are mad.
G00 is basically the second Gundam series I’ve ever watched (08th MS Team being the first).
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