Review of Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX

Before this anime started airing, every forum post, article and Gundam fan was recommending it for those who had never seen a single piece of Gundam media in their life, having never watched Gundam, I heard to their recommendation and thought this was an amazing point to start. I WAS WRONG! THIS WAS A TERRIBLE STARTING POINT. This show REQUIRES you to have watched multiple other Gundam projects, I don't know which ones, you'll have to look that up. If you ARE a gundam fan, however, there's clearly a lot of love put into this show, be it the amazing animation, all the references to past shows,returning characters, you name it, and while I believe you will find some enjoyment in that, it will not magically make this show good.

Even not counting all of the things that you need to understand before watching this (I spent a long time on thje Gundam wiki), which is roughly 50% of the whole show. Even the parts that stand alone are riddled with problems.

FIrst and most importantly is the pacing, in 12 episodes, this show goes through what essentially is 4 arcs, estabilishes multiple original characters, as well as having arcs for all the returning characters and it is RUSHED as all hell.

The show clearly wants you to desperately care about its main cast and their relationship, but it gives basically no time at all in building up those characters, it estabilishes very quickly their arcs and relationship, and then it moves on because it has no time to go through all of its other plots that are all cramped in here and expects the audience to fill the gaps by themselves.

The last episode, especially, shows that they are just rushing towards the ending, as characters barely even have any time to talk.

This show should've been 24 episodes, and the director clearly wanted to cram in here as much Gundam lore as he could + establishing a whole new set of main characters. Add to that the already complicated politics present in the Gundam universe, and what you have is a rushed mess of a show that had the potential to be much much better. The best thing that I can say about it is that it made me interested in watching the other Gundam shows it constantly references.

If you're not a gundam fan, don't even bother with this,

If you ARE a Gundam fan, you will definitely find enjoyment in this show, but it is still a rushed story with uninteresting characters that you will probably not give a sh*t about.