Kurogane’s Anime Blog

GG Setsuna.

Fuck you Sunrise, just… fuck you.

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Lockon T.T

Hah! I decided to watch raw this time. If people are gonna talk shit about about me spoiling, fine then, muahahaha!

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LOCKONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TT_TT *sheds manly tears*

God damn, that was a better death than I expected. He actually left Dynames, and sniped Ali manually by connecting his sniper attachment to the GN Arm gun. Incidentally, he relinquished ownership of the Haro before he did that, so the “any character with a Haro doesn’t die” rule still holds true >:).

Well, with Dynames’s GN Drive still intact, it does mean that there’ll be either: (i). Lockon’s twin brother taking up his role; (ii) A new Meister next season; (iii) Lockon is somewhat saved and returns next season as the masked protagonist (lol). Let’s hope (iii) doesn’t happen again ^^;;.

NERAEUTSU ZE!

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs Lockon! May you both weather both FLAG’s and Thrones together and live until the world is finally rid of warfare!

BTW, Hallelujah and Setsuna were the bridesmaid and best man respectively.

Red Exia = 300% Speed.

Oh god, Exia gets powered up, hax way. Turns out that ‘ol Aeolia didn’t unlock the full capacity of the GN drives, and after Corner tries to kill him, he unleashes the power of the Trans-Am system, with some nice timing right in the middle of the fight between Setsuna and Ali al-Sarshes.

With the Trans-Am system, Setsuna’s Exia turns red and his speed gets boosted up 3 times! Which translates to easy pwnage of Ali, even with his hijacked Gundam Zwei. But. BUT. He has to let the fella get away. Like, d00d, just finish the damn job there, man!

Anyways, poor Thrones, and they’ve finally reached the end of their line, with Micheal and Johann killed in action. Nena somehow still survives, proving that any character that owns a Haro will never die in combat, and I actually don’t mind it. The bigger question now is what will she do? Will she join CB or will she go berserk and hunt down Ali solo?

Bye bye, Eins and Zwei.

Gandamoo finally shifts in to high gear this week.

Let’s see, Saji gets more heartbreak upcoming with Kinue finally killed by Ali al-Sarshes, or whatever his real name is. Well, she did get warned already.

The main plot development in this episode is the world finally uniting as one, in order to repel the Gundams, especially now that they’ve each been given a fair share of GN Drive-equipped mobile suits. The Trinity are the first to taste this new power, which kinda makes me pity them since I can foresee them dying by the end of the season.

What really surprised me this episode though is Wan Liu-Min’s more sinister side, as she reveals herself to the Trinity, offering them assistance under the guise of her own desire to see the world change. I foresee her becoming at least a semi-final boss, even if it sounds a bit unlikely.

The other major thing to happen is Alexandro Corner being led to the main body of Veda by his green-haired sidekick, whose name is revealed to be Gibbons Almark, who is a Veda interfacer like Tieria and Nena and he seems to have plans of his own as well. Not surprising if he turns out to be the final boss. Either Aeolia Schenberg devised a pretty elaborate scheme or CB’s true ideals are going to be hijacked by someone else, judging from the plot so far.

Oh and Graham Aker is GAR, seriously. He’s offered captain position of the new GN Drive mechas but declines it to fight them with a Flag because of his vow earlier. I really can’t help but respect that. On the hand… his AEU “supposedly” counterpart, Patrick remains a huge running (literally and figuratively) joke.

That line can so be taken out of context.

The calm before the storm episode. Exia, Virtue and Dynames face off with the Thrones, with Nadleeh revealing a hidden feature that allows him to control any unit linked to Veda, after stopping Eins and Zwei from doing that docking thing. I love that actually. Docking in the middle of a battle is really illogical. But Tieria should’ve let them dock and then activate that Trial Feature. Makes them an easier target. Anyways, the Thrones retreat, leaving a parting gift, Setsuna’s background and real name.

Setsuna’s real name turns out to be Sorun Ibrahim, which really doesn’t fully sound Arabic, but who am I to judge Sunrise’s naming sense? He was also part of the KP-something, who decided to suicide bomb Ireland for some reason, I suspect it’s the Irish love for alcohol since there’s no other reason why Ireland would be screwing up with the world’s oil export market, which took out Lockon’s entire family. This sparks a faceoff between Lockon and Setsuna, and I really expected better of Lockon, but it seems my expectations were too high. Long story short, he decides to trust in Setsuna after shooting off some hair. *rolls eyes*

As for Louise, okay I was wrong, she still has her legs working fine. God damn Sunrise plot armor. Anyways, she decides to split it off with Saji, because she’s going to be a burden and cue emotional flashbacks complete with insert songs. Just as they were gaining some brownie points… they had to spoil it so soon. Well, hopefully that’ll be the last we’ll be seeing of random Louise x Saji moments.

Saji’s sister also gets some headway in her investigation of “Lagna”, who turns out to be her boss. Meanwhile, a “rat” in CB contacts the three main powers and leads them to a base in Antartica, chockful of solar furnaces. I’m starting to think CB’s “eradicate war” ideal is to “let them kill each other after we stir them up with our technology”. I’m starting to envision an Last Exile-ish situation in the future with CB as “The Guild”, regulating battles between the three super powers.

In all honesty, I have to admit this is a decent episode of Gundam 00. It actually managed to engender sympathy for Louise in me and rightly shows the injustice of war via the suffering of innocents. Seriously, Neena isn’t yandere, she’s freaking psycho. The fact that it’s Rie Kugimiya somewhat makes it more… frightening. Oh well, even Houko Kuwashima was in this kind of role before, so it’s not too surprising. But I’ll say, this is going to spawn a whole group of Kugimin character jokes…. imagine Shana in a Gundam.

But really, poor Louise finally gets a real role in the story, other than just being the bitchy girlfriend of wimp Saji. You have to admit, she really didn’t deserve having her whole clan wiped out, plus losing both legs and her left hand. I’m really thankful that they didn’t chicken out on the gruesomeness of war by letting her get away uninjured, or worse… dying (so that she’ll get naked “spiritual” cameos”).

It will be interesting to see how this will impact poor Saji, and possibly define his future role in the series. Or they could just forget about him and get along with the main storyline at last. I find it pretty much a flaw when the fate of a side character is way more interesting than the main characters of the series.

Okay, Neena is pretty hawt. But she kinda scares me with her threat to Setsuna of “not making her mad”. Will she turn out to be a yandere before the end of the series? I guess it would be the first Rie Kugimiya role to turn yandere if it happened lulz.

As for this episode, it’s hinted the GN Drives are Jupiter-made, and Eins shows off some impressive firepower with his GN Mega Launcher. Seriously, overkill, plus the whole “docking” thing…. it’s so “Super Robot.”

Also, the Haro’s. The damn Haro’s. Man, they are hilarious. Totally. Especially when Orange Haro calls Purple Haro “Nii-san! Nii-san!”, and Purple bullies Orange. Even the Meisters and Sumeragi did a double take at that. I sure hopes Micheal dies soon. He is soooo irritating.

Also, I feel like running a pool to bet on Louise’s death by the end of the series. I’ll put the current odds at 7 to 3, though the next episode preview shows her already injured.

Yeah, I decided to jump ship and get Shitnsen in the meantime. Yeah, boring mostly recap episode is boring.

That aside, hearing Rie Kugimiya in an Gundam show is just lol. Much more when Neena has such awesome boobs, especially for a Rie Kugimiya character. Really. Awesome boobs. And she has freckles as well. LOL.

As for the new Gundams, Neena’s unit is pretty awesome with her Stealth Field feature, while the bits on Zwei are just overpowered. Oh, and I hate Zwei’s pilot the most. Neena’s Haro is pretty disturbing to me for some reason.