Review of Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX
Finally this disgusting mess is done for good. And honestly it shouldn't even titled "Mobile Suit Gundam" in the first place. As lots of you notice, this anime serves no purpose other than how-many-reference-can-you-put-in-here challenge. If reference or cameo is a dyck, this anime can literally be defined as non-stop jerk off with premature ejaculation for 12 episodes straight. But what makes it so worse is instead of keeping those reference accurate to the source material, they really take extra effort to go the extra miles to make it's about something else completely at its core which resulting in this anime feels so much morelike an alternate timeline of Neon Genesis Evangelion instead of the one that is in its title.
The whole 12 episode of this mess is basically Evangelion's Impact events with some copy paste moments from Ideon, Gunbuster and FLCL, almost nothing feels like the typical UC war stuffs, not even UC's most space-magic period felt near familiar to whatever bullshit they put in this abomination. A gundam that can turn mega size out of nowhere, people who can change suits like sailor moon, the talking gundam who always tells characters what to do, mechanical hands that can retract and extend on its own wheel inside the cockpit that seems to have no purpose than hugging the pilot, the made-up zeknova term and event, the made-up endymion bullshit or whatever that thing that makes the robot have power ball for god knows why. The made-up duet tactic called mav. Etcetera. In the last episode alone near the end there's a bunch of "cool sounding term but who cares what they mean" bullshit.
Heck, they even make being a newtype is like this cool and every kids dream endgame in this anime with that "a true newtype don't need to be protected", sounds and feels like a very typical shounen ambition trope like when naruto wanted to be hokage. In fact, being Newtype is tragedy in every UC, even in it's most space-magic period. They're used to kill each others, got jailed after the war ended, put into lab to to be lab rats, etc. But suddenly being newtype is the cool thing endgame out of nowhere? I can't even expect even a badly written fan fiction would be that wrong, let alone an official "continuation"
And I really have to repeat that NOTHING really feels like the early UC gundam stuffs in this mess. Not even characters personality and interactions, not even the dialogs, not even the looks and the fight of the mechs. And you can even find videos online comparing how close this mess is to eva, ideon, or whatever moments it cameod from another anime which is the funniest part of all.
The robot design are ugly and very unfamiliar, but holy hell everything else are unexpectedly so much worse than that. This thing is a love letter to old gundam fans you said? That's gotta be the best joke of the century because this is actually a love story to anno/evangelion fanboys while at the same time an insult to that old gundam fans. This thing is not a Gundam show made by evangelion team, it's actually evangelion with a very thin gundam skin. This thing is not Gundam alternate timeline, it's actually Evangelion alternate universe.