Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance

I really love Gundam and have been watching and playing with it since the 80's.

But I have an extremely hard time trying to enjoy this due to the absolute wonky and amateur looking visuals.

As if they hired a company that only showed them pictures of what it could look like and the character facial details which looked amazing. So they accepted them for doing the visuals and never asked for actual movies scenes and just released it with full confidence.

I mean the characters look, act and behave so unrealistically.

Especially their facial expressions... It's just a pain to watch and only those that don't care about visuals would be able to enjoy this.

I'd rather listen to this as if it's an audio book then expose myself to these horrific visual.

Not a fan of Gundam, so watching this on a whim... as it came into my recommended movies list on Netflix.

I have to say, the animation is made up of very detailed images , photo realistic at times. I actually thought it was a mixed action + CGI type film at one point a the beginning. Amazing visuals.

The movement of the characters is a bit comic like or weird.. and the voices used for the actors are all over the show.

As far as the storyline, obviously some cliche scenes etc. From episode one I can figure out what the plot line will be for the series.

Other than that, l it looks decent enough (i'm only half way through it) Will update my rating later,.

I'm a major gundam fan and this show was a honestly a disappointment. The concept of showing these events from the regular soldiers point of view was a great idea in my opinion. I like that it shows the struggles of war in a more dark tone than gundam normally does.

This is definitely not a children's Gundam side story, it's rated MA for a reason. Just putting this here incase a parent didn't realize.

As far as the bad goes: I really did not like the animation style. It's one of those weird attempts at trying to make animation look more like live action and it just doesn't work. I don't like how the MC contradicts her morals for the writers to try and make her look like a beacon of morality. This is kind of a theme throughout, you can tell it was written for western audiences. I also don't like the heavy plot armor to keep the show going. I would rather have seen some of the main characters fall. It would have made the story more realistic. It's hard to explain well without spoilers, but there's many situations where atleast one of them should have either made a sacrifice for the team or fell heroically, etc. Not doing so took all the weight of the decisions away and makes everything feel pretty pointless. Most good war movies show this because it's important to make the characters actions feel important. I feel like MC should have been like the only one to survive the horror which could have fundamentally altered her view of humanity.

Overall I like the base idea, but the executive was pretty bad imo.

So this really is a mixed bag. Overall I'm very happy it was made but disappointed.

There are some very strong points such as the animation the fight sequences the level of detail i like the main character who is a very strong female lead without being a mary sue.

There are some very weak points such as the actual dialogue which fluctuates between well thought out episodes with realistic dialogue and other episodes that sound like they were written by chat gpt .

There is a level of modernism that is thrown into this which is completely unnecessary and attracts from it.

The accents are all over the place which normally compliments Gundam films and TV shows but in this case was poorly chosen and makes no sense.

The middle half of it felt very weak and lackluster where is the beginning and ending was phenomenal. Episodes 1-2 and 6 held up to the original Gundam films. Where is episodes 3 through 5 varied from g gundam level of sillyness to some well done scenes.

As far as the mobile suits various armor and fight scenes very well done. They do overpower the Gundam which I think was silly and change the face. But it's much better than a lot of the UC spin-offs we have.

I do hope they make some video games with this assets.

Strenths Base story Set design and details Battle sequence Strong female lead Didn't red con anything Solid voice acting

Weak points Silly secondary characters Overpowered Gundam Bad dialogue written by chat GPT or poorly translated Filler episodes Modern political discourse injected which has nothing to do with Gundam or anti war gundam themes.

On the one hand I'm happy for anything uc thats new. But this very easily could have been much better with a little editing and a little better writing.... I'm convinced if you cut this down from 3 hours to an hour and a half and used ai to change some lines and add some it would actually A+ film . But its not . Worth watching for any Gundam fan not sure for anybody else.

The first 2 episodes are incredible. The action is superb and ruthless. The depiction of the Gundam was like an unstoppable entity of warfare horror and I loved it. I found it difficult not to root for it. What helped this was that no identity of the pilot was given until the second to last episode; and the voice acting in this movie is a bit cringe, the characterizations even more so, exacerbated by the subpar CGI of faces. Whereas the effects excelled in the suits and combat, they failed with the people. I found this passable though; for episodes 1, 2, and 4. Episode 3 was a yawnfest and the last 2 episodes, while having some good action, were crippled by awful plot twists and revelations. Barring spoilers, I won't get into it, but...laughably bad. Nonetheless, a fun series to enjoy parts of if you like mecha.