Comin’ again to save the mother-fuckin’ day, yeah!
Obviously, I am pleased about the new Gundam 00 series. My gibbering, tea-soaked thoughts, as well as pretty pretty pictures, under the jump.
Picture summary: crazy genome soldiers like tea, too; no one on the production team watched Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, we swear; Exia looks more badass with the half-cape — which is probably just concealing tarp, but whatever; they seem to have decided to break the cutie; Lockon; and the crazy rival dude is back, and with a mask. If I’d been paying attention last year, I would have wondered where the mask-guy was in this iteration of Gundam. There he is! Fuck yeah!
Everything has hit the fan, so to speak. Whereas there was terrible corruption and Cold War-style marginal violence, at the beginning of the first series the world was pretty okay. Now it’s five years after that, though, and the world is shit, apparently. The factions are openly fighting, there are new-new mobile suit models, and Saji is sad. Celestial Being hasn’t seen one another, for the most part, in four years, and they’re getting the band back together. I support this move whole-heartedly.
What’s interesting about this series, now that we’re post-series jump, is that it’s very clearly taking on the repercussions of trying to “police the world.” Most of us, I would assume, believe the Meisters have good intentions — that is, despite what might be going on above their heads, all four of the Meisters want peace and love and all that Vash the Stamplede-hippy shit. And yet, things seem to be going awry, even though they’re “the good guys,” or the closest we get. Yes, I know we sympathize with some people in every faction, shut up.
This has nothing to do with modern international politics. Move along, nothing to see here.
It’s a first episode of a second series, I can’t think of much to say.