Review of Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX

I want to make a pretty soft and fast review. At first touch, animation and design is what stand out, both in good and bad way: general design, animation and Gundam stand out for the amazing quality and precision of details, then you look at the characters design, how they are literally drawn, and you can’t understand why this choice. At left we have the amazing Gundam design from Ikuto Yamashita, the master who invented and design the EVA of Evangelion, an amazing mecha designer; and on the right we have characters design from someone during an acid trip. It doesn’t make sense. I can’tsee why this design choice, that make you feel this show very poor from the start.

Then about character and story, mmmh, there is a better way to describe this. At first, on the first 2/3 episodes, I was just watching the snow, trying to find stuff and understand, but after a bit I noticed a similarity to another anime I already see, multiple time too. Almost like a déjà vu. Then I remember that this anime is directed by Anno, and what you see on this show is a nostalgic Anno, because when you start to making pieces together you start finding old plot threads. You can see this on a lot of stuff, even on some animation on the last 2 episodes, I’m not kidding, there is a specific scene on the last episode that make me scream Evangelion!

I could say, that it’s welcoming the fact Anno is using a lot of his old stuff, on making this anime, but the fact is that it isn’t Evangelion, It’s Gundam, and you should stick to this. It still amazes me, how so many amazing people, capable of making some of the best anime ever made in the world, like Evangelion or FLCL, end up making this thing, even considering the budget they had available.

I don’t want to go deep into the story or plot, there are already very good review talking about the issue I was describing above.

In the end, even if I don’t suggest seeing this show, considering how boring it is, I still convinced “The Witch From Mercury” is much worse in terms of plot and characters.

To the guy talking bad about Unicorn, it’s an amazing anime, considering the high production quality and low episodes number, I can’t understand why is compared to this one, when maybe the closest show to compare the last one made, The Witch From Mercury, on this one, there is ton of stuff to say, about how trashy it is, and how bad money get spent from company on making anime based on what people don’t want to see.