Review of Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX

I have a Zeon tattoo. I got it in 2011. I would like to think that would lend me some credibility in telling others what I think they should be watching in a franchise about people with large robots in space committing war crimes. I began watching this series with very low expectations, and knowing very little other than the fact that this was a timeline where Zeon had won the war. While I do find a lot of the story jarring, and a bit sporadic in its nature at how fast they try to push us through everything; I was not disappointed. It's definitely notthe Gundam that I have come to love, but a brand new one that I am genuinely interested in. Cameos of familiar characters is always a fun thing, but meeting the new ones felt just as good.

I think my only major gripe I really had with this was at times older character's designs seemed to clash with the newer more wide-eyed designs of the youths. I definitely enjoyed the throwback animation during the retellings of prior events, but jumping forward to everybody with bigger heads and eyeballs was something I didn't quite get over.

You can listen to what the other reviewers are saying who gave this the lower score, and be highly cynical about mishandling of Universal Century lore, or you can just approach this as a fun new thing in the same way people approached other Gundam series such as build fighters.