I'm watching it now. Up to episode 23. Characters and factions alliegences differ from episode to episode. Everyone keeps on switching sides. It's so confusing. And nobody even bothers to keep the prisoners inside jail or anything. They are free to roam around and even pilot mobile suits.
this sums up why i dropped it at the first instance of prisoners not being prisoners at all. IE that princess or whatever her name is suddenly can just join the crew literally 20 mins after she was captured.
This was a really fair video, I love it. Personally G Reco is something I greatly enjoyed, with a narrative I'm still trying to look more into when I get to. You know, the dialogue is something I go back and forth over, mostly do to personal life experience when it comes to conversation. Where people are simply weird and sometimes I or others do talk directly at people and at times in more commanding ways (Which is more apparent if you speak a language like Spanish). I remember reading a person who was pretty high up there, but I do not recall who he was, but he essentially talked about G Reco being something which tells a story through confusion. Something which I like, especially if you take it in an experimental perspective. Much of the show such as the battles were chaotic, it's a reality and moments such as the worker who lost himself in simply watching war and then getting caught up in it by accident was interesting. I enjoyed your video.
Victory and TurnA have random spontaenous dialogues too but I enjoyed both. Regonguista is just too much. And somehow the clean HD animation just doesn't mesh well with the chaotic narrative.
It's a real shame, because this is my may favorite aesthetic (next Unicorn of course and 00) in the whole show. The rounded design of the G-Self is genius after all of the angular and sharp Gundam frame designs.
@@thejestor9378 LMAO since Sunrise made Code Geass, all the Gundams (with the exception of UC-timeline) became Knightmare-ish in design. In Gundam00, the Exia was like, a rip-off of the Knightmare when I first saw it, which was a heck of head-scratching coz before it was the Seed/Stargazer, and suddenly we got shoehorned with this design. Come 2022, and the Aerial Gundam is just like this kind of design, too. I wish they'd bring back the block-ish, chad-looking Gundam designs that the UC timeline has (or even Wing, or Seed).
I watched this show high as a kite when it first came out. I watched an episode sober, and thought I missed something. Good to know that I didn't. God it's still pretty tho.
3:52 Good point and let's not forget that the original Gundam started it's episodes with an exposition dump so that we knew who Zeon was and what the "One Year War" is.
I kinda love the occasional Tomino people are talking at each other scenes since I used to think they were unnatural but as I have gotten older working with people etc. I can totally see it being realistic Emma Sheen really not caring what Kamille is saying to her before a battle etc. I haven't seen G Reco but I will now because of the video so thanks!
I'm about halfway through G-Reco right now and loving it to pieces. I went in with low expectations because of the confusion surrounding it, but as far as the story goes, I get it. I does make sense if you just pay attention. it's a lot like Zeta Gundam in a way, without the voiceover spelling everything out. The setting, the story, the characters, the suits... I love it all. However, my favorite thing about the series is Bellri. He's a great character and a departure from Gundam pilot protagonists in series past. I think the best quality of G-Reco is the dialogue. Bellri just feels so... real. How often does a real person spell out their motives and reasoning? They always internalize some parts of their psyche. If you pay attention and let his character reveal itself to you through time, dialogue, and actions taken, you'll understand who he really is and why he does what he does. The amount of depth achieved with this series is commendable, and I'd argue that few would pull it off as elegantly, or be so bold as to even try, as Tomino himself. If you're a classic UC Gundam fan, don't hesitate. don't let the confusion shrouding this gem to instill inhibition in your heart. just go for it and I doubt you'd regret it.
Gundam writing is always convoluted, I mean I'm still trying to figure how Lalah and Amuro are supposedly in love after only having all of 5 minutes of interaction
Nomad PK less convoluted and more over truncated. Where ideas are there and written, but none of the characters have any time to actually develop between battles with very few exceptions.
G-Reco is a total mindfuck but I love it because it’s so characteristically… Tomino and unique that I can’t hate it. It’s Tomino running on full gear, not caring what everyone wants and what everyone thinks. It’s an extremely self appealing work that probably only makes 100% sense to Tomino, and that’s what makes it fun to watch, besides it being totally gorgeous and lighthearted
The show is all over the place. There is a story there but it is told without proper world building. Also the conflict , or core reason for fighting does not follow through the show. There is to many characters that don't get flushed out. But the art is great and it was nice to see different mobile suit designs.
You don't need to understand everything about the world if your show is good. What's important are: what are the stakes? Do you empathize with the characters? Compare G Reco with the OG Gundam. You don't perfectly understand the one year war, but you understand the premise and the dire situtations characters find themselves in. There are only two sides you follow: Zeon and the Federation. We know what they want. The stakes and the character motivations are crystal clear, and we get the dramatic hook from the first episode. The first few episodes of G Reco might be how you don't start a series. It is like you are introduced to Star Wars by watching Attack of the Clones. No one seems to be in peril, the character motivations are vague, there is no urgency, too many characters, no dramatic hook... The only reason why people gave benefits of doubt is Torino, and if anyone else made it those same people would have shit on it.
1:41 HOLY SHIZ is this where the Garnidelia song became the OST about??? I know that Garnidelia song, but never thought they have a song in this...what tf even is this Gundam series all about.
By the end, nothing was resolved and nothing really happened. The conclusion I come to is that what happened didn't even matter. No one seemed to really care what was going on in their own story. The best example is when several of them are sitting on an island, having a chat while a freakin battle is going on right above them. If the characters don't care what happens to them, why should I.
I watched the show from beginning to end. I forced myself even when my friends bailed out after 8 episodes. I had to know if the series improved at all. I was rather disappointed that it only got worse. Iron Blooded Orphans just ended and that series is how you do it right. Story and characters. I can say 100% that G-Reco is right at the bottom of my list when it comes to a Gundam series.
Prime92 I could have sworn in one off your later reviews you mentioned dropping it but I just watched some of those videos and you didn't. so I apologize for calling you out on nothing. as for ibo being one of the better gundamn I respect your opinion but literally everyone else, even the Japanese people, hated that show and for good reason. as for the ending of Greco alot of things got resolved like mask realizing his hatred of bell was really stupid and they solved the major issue of the photon battery supply. most of the factions wanted the same thing
Prime92 two words. mari okada. the pacing, the characters, the edginess, and plot armor caused alot of fans to hate it. the only people that like it are fujoshi because it's a show about half naked boys with an easy plot. just like her other work gundam seed which is so widely loved by the Japanese.... fujoshi. If you check sales and viewer rates ibo did better than Greco at first due to the hype reveal and all the edgy stuff but after like episode 6 it plummeted and season 2 had half the sales. there's also the western viewers but most liked it because it was fujo bait, the seed fans, or because of the edgy lead, the wing fans.
G Reco was also Tominos way of getting closure for his moms death his mom died during the production of Victory Gundam, hence why it was such a dark series and why the main characters mom died in the series while G Reco, the main characters mom is in a lot of danger but she lives in the end and everyone live happily it was Tominos story for comfort and closure for himself to undo all the sadness that Victory Gundam brought on
I definitely agree with you. First, the art was wonderful. It has a nostalgic feel. It has one of the best visuals. The story is OK. The problem was the execution. What I can't stand about the G-Reco defenders kept on saying that it's like a book. I wonder what kind of book these people read. Maybe they like reading books with a lot of missing pages with a lot sentence fragments. I personally read a lot of books from different genre. I read Tom Clancy's Ryanverse series, Mario Puzzo's The Godfather, and some other books from local authors. A well written book feeds your mind with so much details full of adjectives and adverbs just to describe a certain scene. Sometimes, an introduction of a character when he or she first appears takes about half the page just to describe how he/she entered the scene and how he/she looked like. Some writers jump from two different scenes after a paragraph, but they always reconcile things in the end. For example, in Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, the story jumps from John Kelly's life into the situation of a POW in Vietnam and into the syndicate members who , but then everything was show how those arcs were connected to each other. Well written books spoon feed you with a lot of details to help you create a mental picture of what is happening.
Too many times in this video I could not make out what the narrator was saying, such as at 2:22 and 1:57. This video in some ways defines what it is like to watch Reconguista.
Hey, great video. Quite a balanced look at a controversial series. I hadn't heard Urobuchi's reading before, so that was great. F91 is a good comparison, too; though because that was just a film I didn't find it as easy to get past the narrative shortcomings. Keep it up, Captain Galactic ^_^
I'm 3 episodes from being done, and I need a damn update on the story. Bloody hell. I think this series is almost on the threshold of greatness....then it dives off. It has much of the excellent Gundam flare we needed as you mentioned, but they can't overcome the deep issues. I'll finish the series tonight.
g no reconguista is the kind of anime that requires you to think, not just swallowing it raw. Same like turn - A Gundam, or any anime that Tomino directed. It's not bad anime at all, if you pay attention in each episode of course.
Thanks for this. I'm a die-hard UC fan and I've been thinking about getting this to complete my UC collection, but was hesitant due to its price and generally negative reviews. But I really like your take on it. And while I wouldn't pick it up to complete my UC collection because it doesn't really have anything to do with the UC, I will be picking it up eventually because the art, and your views on it have me interested. So thanks again!
Just pumped my MAL score from 3 to 4 after watching this. You reminded me of the gorgeous art/character disign and animation, but it still couldn't safe the show for me, which is a shame. Edit: Just watched your other videos and I'm now subscribed. I like your approach to watch into controversial show and try to explain what they're about and find the merits that they might have. Keep it up!
I feel that Belri lacked a life direction, that recos story his him trying to find direction through others lives and stories, his conclusion being that he must forge his own path, it made the series sit better for me at least. Its wonderful to have such a controversial series in the franchise, where people can gleam their own meaning, rather than the all to common product pushing series(all of build fighters).
Your analysis is well-researched and interesting, but I'm struggling to hear/make-out some of the words. One major offender is "slapstick" around 2:21, had to go over about a half-dozen times before catching it. I understand speech and enunciation differ from person to person, so maybe having captions might be a manageable band-aid solution?
I’m two episodes from the finale. I like the concepts here, I was bummed with The Sound of a Newtype, I thought there was going to be something on that, not Rockpie being turned into Swiss cheese.
@@leo11lim it’s not universal century, it’s Regild century. Same universe, but different timeline that occurs thousands of years after Universal Century timeline. And according to Tomino, it is the canon end timeline to Universal Century. But again thousands of years later.
@UCDWaTFTNxICL3i4FjTCf5_Q No, i'm not joking. That declaration is by the company that owns Gundam, not by Tomino, I'm just telling you what timeline Regild Century is itself is tied in with and what Tomino declared it as being. The company decided that the canon end for Universal Century timeline is not Regild Century timeline, so it is now an alternate timeline for company, but it is canon end by creators design. There can be more than one canon, this happens more than people think.
@@thejestor9378 So G reco is Garbage and Everyone wants it Decanonized and Tomino is a Shadow of his Formers self who don't care about Continuity I can't believe you are Defending that that Garbage Reco Crap i puke watching that mess.
Personally I was honestly super bored with G-Reco. While it has a ton of fights, and beautiful animation. But you don't really get into anything because the show constantly forces a bunch of terms down your throat and expects you to completely follow it, honestly it felt like I had to rewatch the episode to understand anything. Plus while the fighting is great because you know Gundam, but they were almost always useless and contributed nothing but triggering an Emo state for Bell for a couple episodes, which you didn't really get to know much about the character or got to truly know them which may it hard to emphasize with the main character/s. G-Self in my opinion was too overpowered I mean the highest amount of damage it got was it's leg cut off in the final episode, when it had nothing but Beam sabers while the other MS had all it's weapons and such. Not to mention the units names were not rememberable plus not to mention they ALWAYS had some new unit rolling in about every 1 to 2 episodes which usually lost in about 1 episode which to me made the names even more complex because they're rolling out too much at you in one time. The side switching was too constant which made no sense to me and to a bunch of others because like you said TOO MANY FACTIONS which almost made no sense as to what they were planning to do. The story feels as though it never really picks up and they add an important moment that you wonder about because it's not really that important to you, I mean there's great important moments that you realize how important it really is, but them finding out they were siblings simply got rid of the Bell x Aida (which had to google the name :\ because that's how rememberable it truly was.) I hate to do this but the designs really didn't feel Gundam enough for a lot of old fans. Personally I want to rewatch to see if my opinion will change but I can't get myself to do it. :(
I feel it ran into a lot of the same problems that Zeta had towards the end only on a much larger scale. A lot of the battles felt like they were just trying to hit a quote of 'a fight per episode' and they introduce a crazy amount of new MS for that, but the fights themselves just don't have much purpose and take time away from other stuff that really needed it.
Battles being there for the sake of it can be fun sometimes, but the best battles have real stakes and emotions behind them, which you don't get when they're thrown at you every episode.
Captain Galactic Exactly :D I don't really like a Gundam series if it doesn't throw enough action to show it's Gundam, but I don't like them throwing half done battles all the time for the per aspect of merchandising the fact that it's cool. I think 00 did it well, and so did IBO as mainly every battle was pretty important and contributed to the anime, Would mention the manga only series but it's hard to find people who read them as much as the anime. :(
While watching me and my friends have this theory that Bellri is a psycho who aims to kill any and every opponent and will stop his ally from attacking the opponent just so he could get the kill.
What always interests me about Greco is whenever someone "x didn't make sense" there is usually an answer and when you go back to look you feel a bit dumb for not seeing it. I'm rewatching it right now and multiple times I've seen it mentioned that the Capital Army is a new occurrence in comparison to the Capital Guard, yet I've seen multiple people confused on that in various ways. At some point you have to go yes the serious can be obtuse but when people miss clearly stated and acted upon things the blame can't just be on the show. It also means the better discussion about the real flaws of greco, which are there, kind of get lost in stuff that was said but maybe could have been made clearer. No one wants to talk about Bellri getting over a certain death too quick or how Aida's arc could rap up better which is a shame. I think that is why I've seen so many people have a positive experience on a rewatch, a show shouldn't have to be rewatched to be enjoyed but once people get the base structure is actually pretty easy to follow there is a lot to dig into with the show. Not the deepest thing ever, but you can get a lot out of the themes and characters. Mask is especially interesting. Is he an activist fighting for a valid cause but is used by the old system, or is he looking for a way to justify his actions and preconceived notions ultimately being quite self centred. Maybe a bit of both, which is told through dialogue and action not just exposition. And it ultimately does lead to the somewhat ironic message that you need to go out and listen to others, understand their views even if you don't agree and not let yourself be controlled by old interpretations. It is kind of an important message for this day and age. Even though it has flaws it is nice to see a show that tried and I think succeeded in enough ways.
I think the issue is, yes G-reco explains itself, the problem is the things it explains simply arent interesting. Some of my favorite mechas keep ou super in the dark, sometimes for large portions of the series (zegapain and RahXephon come to mind), the thing is with them is they help build a mystery and place you in the perspective of the characters figuring things out and being caught off guard which makes rewatches even cooler when you know whats going on. With G-reco its just like, info dumps for vocabulary that doesnt really add anything and usually comes in late. It never felt like it was building an mystery even though it was simply cause it cant get me to care cause the way it presents info is boring and the characters dont compell me, in fact bellri infuriated me cause he basically came off like a sociopath at points with how much he blames the people he kills for their death (ie his teacher)
"info dumps for vocabulary that doesnt really add anything and usually comes in late" I completely disagree honestly, there is not much that is superfluous information. Which is partly why it can be such a problem for some to keep up, missing a line means you can miss some very important information. Even a lot of the casual dialogue helps define the characters, their motivations or is building on stuff. Something like the kuntala is not the most relevant aspect of the main plot, but it explain's characters like Mask's motivation, world builds by showing how bad the world got before the taboo and explains the perception earthnoids that the G-IT lab and spacenoids in general have. Plus there is little I would describe as an info dump, one of the strengths (or negatives depending how you look at it) is how much information is well integrated into normal dialogue. It generally avoids characters just constantly telling each other stuff they know for the viewers convenience. To the determent of some viewers. There are very few times you get a group of characters and one or two monologues about stuff. Even when they do like one scene on the crescent ship, it is a mix of various characters expanding on information but also playing into the show's themes. You have older characters admitting they are using tech they don't understand just for their own goals, but also pointing out characters like Aida who assume they are open minded and well educated can be as indoctrinated as her enemies. The scene could have just been this is venus globe we make shit here, but a lot more is done with it. The information is very often contextualised with the actions being taken, the feelings of a character or a mystery being set up like Towasanga or Venus Globe. "how much he blames the people he kills for their death (ie his teacher)" I remember a few times where he said stuff like don't make me kill you, but you seem to have taken a pretty cliche kind of line in an odd direction.He isn't just blaming them, he (and the point the show/ones with similar lines) is saying by not being willing to engage in other methods they are forced into fighting scenario. He also has a very negative emotional reaction to this, when he kill his teacher Bellri was incredibly upset . Later he is even upset with how destructive the photon torpedoes are making him not want to use them, don't think he even killed anyone that time. In generally he is an overly emotional character, which I like cause he actually feels like someone around his age rather than just a character who happens to be that old.
the argument for and against G-Reco's narrative explanations sounds, to me, a lot like the argument over sub and dubs in a lot of ways. Dubs being analogous for "exposition dump and explaining helps me know what's going on, even if it takes away from the intended experience" and Subs with "Helping one taking it as it was meant to be, on its own merits, but being marred by an inconvenience on the viewer."
after 10 eps, id say both sides are completely right. there is a WHOLE LOTTA random asspully shit and it is intense as fuck, but there is also some actual intent and method to all this freakin madness. its honestly like is Michael bay made an anime but learned to give a fuck about character and story overall, and I dig the shit out of this massive cluster lol.
The guy got a lot of ideas but the story telling part was almost real time, at any one time, audience only seen one side of things happening, hence audience would have trouble following what's going on at all. I personally like the mechanics designs except for main G unit. It needs room to tell a much more understandable story. All of the directors strength of weakness are perfectly show here, good ones are small details of tech to unnecessary humour, great concept ideas, but he fail to connect them together. The same issue was in F91, it was just worst here in the way he tells it.
story wise, I think its probably OK to make a kinda ambiguos ending... following the flow of events to make the best of it is an ok reasons for me to survive but the flow is kinda absurd you kill each other, and without any realization of the relationship they just become the best of friends its kinda like you fell in a river suddenly you caught by rapids and the next second you go into hotsprings its a big mess i dropped this after 6 episodes, and brave myself to watch the last episode wishing the end of story will be at least good enough for me to withstand the rest unfortunately, the battle scene are even more messed up than the story its like, X fights Y in north, and then Z joins in the far south, and suddenly we find X fight Z while leaving Y behind. the battle looked like X and Y has more or less the same speed, how can X suddenly fight Z while Y is left behind far far away??? it doesn't make a good flow and then A joins in, the same happened, and then B joins in and the same things happened again the reason the battle ended is acceptable, but the way it progress are very dissapointing.....
I can tolerate the wacky storytelling but like 6:51 , MS holding banners. Or G self wrapped with band tape, weird MS naming like Jahannam, weird Transformation...It was like a never ending troll. Back to 6:51 . How on earth they can build space elevator but using MS instead poles...
The only thing i dont like in this gundam series is the sudden change of emotion from the characters to happy to sad like they mourn from some one who died then a few minutes there happy again and the worst villain that never wins even once i like the design of the mech and this gundam series the story is like been rush ive watch it i finished it i understand but there no impact to compare 00 or unicorn , ibo i rather watch gundam age than this!
G-Reco is like Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex... They paint the world through dialogue... I think G-Reco suffered from being only 26 episodes... It should have been 50ish episodes to really go anywhere...
(Eats popcorn) Well I for one just love people still having heated discussions about G-Reco to this day, about as entertaining as SEED Destiny ones. Even in a vid where it takes a very good middle stance towards the situation. I love the Gundam fan base :D
I don't know why, but I really like G-Reco...maybe I'm weird. Or maybe I was just in it for the art and I couldn't care less if they wanted to drop colonies or clean space garbage. I'd still take G-Reco any day of the week over Aldnoah Zero. Iunno, I find the latter to take itself too seriously. Both MCs are OP as fuck, but since I'm only watching G-Reco for the hilariously janky dialogue, outdated directing style and great combat sequence, I don't squint my eyes so much when the MC pulls off some ridiculous stunt that ends up saving the day.
I think the best way to understand G-Reco... was to go back to other UC series and Turn A. ... Meh. Everyone doesn't even know where they are going. Even if you atleast understand a bit of it, the story wasn't actually going places. Mask was a terrible villain too (and despite his AMEIJIN voice, he was not AMEIJIN enough and always gets his ass kicked. Dat "BALLARA!!" doe")
@@rxzero00 Probably because Eureka 7 is 50 episode.. while G-Reco is 26. While Eureka can take it's time slowly unfold the world and start get it's shit down later, G-reco can't. Tho I would argue that Eureka can be said to take things way too slow.
@@JeSt4m I think G no Reconsieringmylifechoices could have still be paced better within 26 episodes if the cast was smaller and generally be written better in general. It was both the pacing which could've been fixed and the writing which seems impossible with the amount of characters. Also I hated Bellry or whatever the weird MC's name is.
@@rxzero00 That's why Eureka had 50 episode, the cast are huge and there's so many different faction that I literally only realized it years later e.g the coralian, the coralian sect, the army are divided into 3 and Gecko State itself are divided into those who are in the know and those who don't. They actually spent some segment of the show flushing out their background and motivation so it actually clicked together.. Which is why the biggest hurdle of E7 is actually the first 10 episode which seems pointless. Reco-G had about equal number of cast in half of the episode count so we ended up somewhat "villain of the week" feels instead of proper continuity. If large cast and various faction are what they're aiming for they need double the episode than that.
@@rxzero00 That's why Eureka had 50 episode, the cast are huge and there's so many different faction that I literally only realized it years later e.g the coralian, the coralian sect, the army are divided into 3 and Gecko State itself are divided into those who are in the know and those who don't. They actually spent some segment of the show flushing out their background and motivation so it actually clicked together.. Which is why the biggest hurdle of E7 is actually the first 10 episode which seems pointless. Reco-G had about equal number of cast in half of the episode count so we ended up somewhat "villain of the week" feels instead of proper continuity. If large cast and various faction are what they're aiming for they need double the episode than that.
If people just wrote down the name of the spaceships and countries to memorize, all the confusion would end. But no, they keep asking for a slow paced story, something totally not usual from Tomino.
You are not. But there's people with slow heads in the world. They may not get the names in the first time. They can get smarter, write down the names or just stop watching.
im a gundam fanatic and i dont like tomino i see him as the george lucas of japan, a visionary yes, but when given full creative freedom he tends to make overwrought garbage. the best aspects of his best shows came from other people working on it besides him and the best gundam series were usually made by people other than him. thunderbolt, unicorn , war in the pocket, stardust memory, 08th ms team, etc. I love Turn A's art style and atmosphere, but as a story its hot garbage.i think that pretty much describes the tominos work as a whole.
its not getting a spin off, its getting a movie series, tomino has expressed disatisfaction with how G-reco turned out and want to remedy it with a movie iteration.
Great story settings, great characters, great MS. I watched 11 episodes and still don't remember 90% of the character's names...don't even understand a lot of proper nouns. 26 episodes isn't enough.
Seems like it would be a sequel to "Turn A" just like Turn A was the distant future from X... at least that's what I'm gathering from the clips here. X was amazing Turn A was kind of a dumpster fire and I cant imagine this would be too much better
I really like Reconguista in G. It reminded me somewhat of Zeta Gundam which also just drops you into the story rather blind and is filled with combat and multiple factions with their own plotlines. Zeta had the benefit of being a sequel so people already knew the basics of the setting. But everything you need to know about the stetting is explain just by watching the show. I didn't find G: Reco that hard to follow and it certainly makes more sense of a second viewing. Anyway, I'm quite happy about G: Reco being in SRW X. Apparently the storyline was made a bit less confusing. Besides, the mecha artwork really is the best part of the show. lol
I'm actually enjoying G-Reco quite a bit. Maybe it's because I'm more of a fan of Tomino's more upbeat work, and also the fact that I loved Turn A, but G-Reco seems simple enough to follow honestly. There's details I don't get sure, but the over conflict? Easy, it's about regulation and monopoly control over resources. The spacenoids who live on the moon? Probably a decendent of the Moonrace from Turn A, so that's simple enough. The Capital army thinks their right, has a ton of funding, and bullies everyone else to maintain control. The Ameria army wants to take away the capital armies monopoly on resources because otherwise they can make whatever demands they want with no oversight. The moonrace (as you said) see the earthnoids as savages as they did in Turn A, so it's clear despite Dianna's efforts the Moonrace's bigotry towards earthnoids continued. A lot of the big ideas are very easy to follow and I think they all provide solid footing to let you explore the details and dialogue that comes up as the show goes on. It's a really deep show and it refuses to explain itself to you, asking you to instead dwell on what it's saying and make an interpretation for yourself.
Just finished watching it and your sum up of the ending is the same as mine. Its pointless...just continues in the same rapid execution of character events. I was fine with the self discovery of the exposition, and loved the obligatory UC references but the story was massively disjointed still. I feel that had it been extended to 50 episodes the pacing if the story wouldn’t be so jarring. The artwork very reminiscent of Eureka 7 style too.
Personally I think you must watch this show several times to really understand. I personally had a bit of trouble understanding the story and I had to watch it at least 5 times to get it. Probably it would have benefited if it had a dub, hearing them speak is easier than reading subtitles, especially if they disappear fast. I agree when you said it should have been a longer show.
the most depressing thing about g reco is that, it has such a nice visual, that is completely wasted on a messy story. it saddens me even more because while g reco had this nice visual, hathaway's flash will be just another generic looking horrendous CGi show.
I can't rate this anime much because I only got 5 minutes in before dropping it. I wanted a serious Gundam series to watch and I found a slice of life comedy one instead. I'm not a fan of those shows and after watch your video it looks like I would have just gotten more and more pissed off as it went. The fighting of the main Gundam looks like they took some moves from dragon ball z and shit. Not my show and I don't think I missed much. The art is nice though
Im halfway thru the second movie and while I like it it doesnt seem all the different from other mainline UC series like 70, Zeta, or even Victory. A journey with a kid that pilots a suit that gunna solve a problem. I really enjoy the non battles tho. I kinda wish Tomino would step back and take some advice on what he should do instead of falling back on "Quick pace anime is the most exciting" When I am here skipping 2-5 sec of battle or unnecessary dialogue. I understood pretty quickly that the Capitol City is exploitative/hoarding, have some sort of secret (at least to me it was kinda spelled out) but they take forever to get anywhere sometimes. I cant help but think; Here we go the enemy is attacking the White base-esque good guy ship, again. These things have to happen but its a bit excessive imo. But I get it. Tomino hasnt made a Gundam since 1991 etc. Other than the things that make me think Im just watching the other Tomino stuff I really like the series. I love the characters there interactions, and the slap stick. I guess we also have to think "This series isnt really made for us" its made the the next generation to get them into it. (feels like to me, and with how Tomino has spoken about G reco) Still, Im excited for part 3-5. Tomino said that after 3 its totally different. Says that Part 3 was also very different from the TV series but thinks that Part 4 will be an even bigger shift from that.
i stopped watching immediately when the protag takes along a prisoner of war princess for absolutely no reason whatsoever.... like there was never time to interact with her it was just suddenly your coming even tho we cant trust you and there is no in universe reason for you to come at all. when characters in a show do shit that they have no motivation for doing i drop that series because its not well written..... also called contrived.
This is the worse of gundam that I ever watch. Unnecessary character's reaction despite of mentioning some character that need to be memorized and what's with switching side that frequently done by the capital army. Oh and what's more is I hate that this seires focus on sending teenagers especially girls who didn't take war seriously. Where are all the male lead characters that supposed to make gundam series more exciting. Don't make me mention about the "commercial" break tho
Safwan Nazari I'm watching it now. It's so stupid how they let prisoners do whatever they want, even pilot mobile suits! No surprise when the prisoner betrays them. But no one seems to care at all.
@@557deadpool Or Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. That show is dreadful to watch. The story is fairly straight forward at least, but you don't give a crap about anyone or anything in it. No redemption for anything. Worst media I've ever seen.
I thought g redo was a pretty decent series, what I thought the writers did wrong was they followed way too much of wat they think instead of wat the fans think... the writers understand the stories but they forgot we don't, if they went thro the whole script again this franchisee could have been an masterpiece
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I still don't know why bell can pick any side he wants to join and gets welcomed like he never did anything wrong
One word: fear
@ Okay, you try.
I'm watching it now. Up to episode 23. Characters and factions alliegences differ from episode to episode. Everyone keeps on switching sides. It's so confusing. And nobody even bothers to keep the prisoners inside jail or anything. They are free to roam around and even pilot mobile suits.
this sums up why i dropped it at the first instance of prisoners not being prisoners at all. IE that princess or whatever her name is suddenly can just join the crew literally 20 mins after she was captured.
Yeah it's a mess
That happened also in mobile suit Gundam zeta
@@gaaraXXnot that often.
Tomino has made many gundam series based on his emotions. This time he tried being high.
guess he had too much magic mushrooms while making this.
This was a really fair video, I love it. Personally G Reco is something I greatly enjoyed, with a narrative I'm still trying to look more into when I get to.
You know, the dialogue is something I go back and forth over, mostly do to personal life experience when it comes to conversation. Where people are simply weird and sometimes I or others do talk directly at people and at times in more commanding ways (Which is more apparent if you speak a language like Spanish).
I remember reading a person who was pretty high up there, but I do not recall who he was, but he essentially talked about G Reco being something which tells a story through confusion. Something which I like, especially if you take it in an experimental perspective. Much of the show such as the battles were chaotic, it's a reality and moments such as the worker who lost himself in simply watching war and then getting caught up in it by accident was interesting.
I enjoyed your video.
Zeta, do a video on reconquista :c
Victory and TurnA have random spontaenous dialogues too but I enjoyed both. Regonguista is just too much. And somehow the clean HD animation just doesn't mesh well with the chaotic narrative.
@@calforrai it is a arthouse film now i think about it
It's a real shame, because this is my may favorite aesthetic (next Unicorn of course and 00) in the whole show. The rounded design of the G-Self is genius after all of the angular and sharp Gundam frame designs.
It was still recognizable as a gundam while at the same time being very different.
@@thejestor9378 LMAO since Sunrise made Code Geass, all the Gundams (with the exception of UC-timeline) became Knightmare-ish in design. In Gundam00, the Exia was like, a rip-off of the Knightmare when I first saw it, which was a heck of head-scratching coz before it was the Seed/Stargazer, and suddenly we got shoehorned with this design.
Come 2022, and the Aerial Gundam is just like this kind of design, too.
I wish they'd bring back the block-ish, chad-looking Gundam designs that the UC timeline has (or even Wing, or Seed).
@@wiltedsheep I remember the old designs to.. but they still all read to me as gundam.
I watched this show high as a kite when it first came out. I watched an episode sober, and thought I missed something. Good to know that I didn't. God it's still pretty tho.
lolooool
3:52 Good point and let's not forget that the original Gundam started it's episodes with an exposition dump so that we knew who Zeon was and what the "One Year War" is.
Credit where credit is due, the OP is quite amazing. Blazing is the best thing to come out of G-Reco
"as a human woman I am healthy"
wait I think we forgot g gundam
This is probably one of my favorite perspective on the series. Keep up the good work!
At least its Tomino's least killcounted series.
That's just another symptom.
He is too old for kill streaks/death streaks.
Bruh, Overman King Gainer had even less deaths
Last time I remembered Brain powered didn't have a high kill coun
I kinda love the occasional Tomino people are talking at each other scenes since I used to think they were unnatural but as I have gotten older working with people etc. I can totally see it being realistic Emma Sheen really not caring what Kamille is saying to her before a battle etc.
I haven't seen G Reco but I will now because of the video so thanks!
dont do it.. the series makes you dumber.
I have not seen this show but it looks like the son of Turn A gundam and Eureka Seven. I would dare to say it has a bit of King Gainer too.
I'm about halfway through G-Reco right now and loving it to pieces. I went in with low expectations because of the confusion surrounding it, but as far as the story goes, I get it. I does make sense if you just pay attention. it's a lot like Zeta Gundam in a way, without the voiceover spelling everything out. The setting, the story, the characters, the suits... I love it all.
However, my favorite thing about the series is Bellri. He's a great character and a departure from Gundam pilot protagonists in series past. I think the best quality of G-Reco is the dialogue. Bellri just feels so... real. How often does a real person spell out their motives and reasoning? They always internalize some parts of their psyche. If you pay attention and let his character reveal itself to you through time, dialogue, and actions taken, you'll understand who he really is and why he does what he does. The amount of depth achieved with this series is commendable, and I'd argue that few would pull it off as elegantly, or be so bold as to even try, as Tomino himself. If you're a classic UC Gundam fan, don't hesitate. don't let the confusion shrouding this gem to instill inhibition in your heart. just go for it and I doubt you'd regret it.
They’re attempting to fix the structure with some new movies compiling the show.
First one is being released in November.
Gundam writing is always convoluted, I mean I'm still trying to figure how Lalah and Amuro are supposedly in love after only having all of 5 minutes of interaction
Newtype nonsense
Nomad PK less convoluted and more over truncated. Where ideas are there and written, but none of the characters have any time to actually develop between battles with very few exceptions.
Horny as hell.
Amuro kind of explaining it to Kamille after he asked about Four and newtype
@@edea_obligewrong, but you go ahead an belive the show would be better without something that makes it more unique.
G-Reco is a total mindfuck but I love it because it’s so characteristically… Tomino and unique that I can’t hate it. It’s Tomino running on full gear, not caring what everyone wants and what everyone thinks. It’s an extremely self appealing work that probably only makes 100% sense to Tomino, and that’s what makes it fun to watch, besides it being totally gorgeous and lighthearted
Its basically Gundam Gaia Gear without char and Mahua. But add a little of post Victory Tomino.
Gundam G Reco is much ado about nothing gundam edition. Basically the fighting was pointless but that also made a point.
The show is all over the place. There is a story there but it is told without proper world building. Also the conflict , or core reason for fighting does not follow through the show. There is to many characters that don't get flushed out. But the art is great and it was nice to see different mobile suit designs.
You don't need to understand everything about the world if your show is good. What's important are: what are the stakes? Do you empathize with the characters?
Compare G Reco with the OG Gundam. You don't perfectly understand the one year war, but you understand the premise and the dire situtations characters find themselves in. There are only two sides you follow: Zeon and the Federation. We know what they want. The stakes and the character motivations are crystal clear, and we get the dramatic hook from the first episode.
The first few episodes of G Reco might be how you don't start a series. It is like you are introduced to Star Wars by watching Attack of the Clones. No one seems to be in peril, the character motivations are vague, there is no urgency, too many characters, no dramatic hook...
The only reason why people gave benefits of doubt is Torino, and if anyone else made it those same people would have shit on it.
1:41 HOLY SHIZ is this where the Garnidelia song became the OST about??? I know that Garnidelia song, but never thought they have a song in this...what tf even is this Gundam series all about.
By the end, nothing was resolved and nothing really happened. The conclusion I come to is that what happened didn't even matter. No one seemed to really care what was going on in their own story. The best example is when several of them are sitting on an island, having a chat while a freakin battle is going on right above them. If the characters don't care what happens to them, why should I.
Prime92 that's what happens when you only read the wikis as not actually watch the show.
I watched the show from beginning to end. I forced myself even when my friends bailed out after 8 episodes. I had to know if the series improved at all. I was rather disappointed that it only got worse. Iron Blooded Orphans just ended and that series is how you do it right. Story and characters. I can say 100% that G-Reco is right at the bottom of my list when it comes to a Gundam series.
Prime92 I could have sworn in one off your later reviews you mentioned dropping it but I just watched some of those videos and you didn't. so I apologize for calling you out on nothing. as for ibo being one of the better gundamn I respect your opinion but literally everyone else, even the Japanese people, hated that show and for good reason.
as for the ending of Greco alot of things got resolved like mask realizing his hatred of bell was really stupid and they solved the major issue of the photon battery supply. most of the factions wanted the same thing
So what are the reasons that people "hated' IBO? This I have to know.
Prime92 two words. mari okada. the pacing, the characters, the edginess, and plot armor caused alot of fans to hate it. the only people that like it are fujoshi because it's a show about half naked boys with an easy plot. just like her other work gundam seed which is so widely loved by the Japanese.... fujoshi. If you check sales and viewer rates ibo did better than Greco at first due to the hype reveal and all the edgy stuff but after like episode 6 it plummeted and season 2 had half the sales. there's also the western viewers but most liked it because it was fujo bait, the seed fans, or because of the edgy lead, the wing fans.
3:07 It’s almost a what if scenario for Gundam Unicorn
G Reco was also Tominos way of getting closure for his moms death
his mom died during the production of Victory Gundam, hence why it was such a dark series and why the main characters mom died in the series
while G Reco, the main characters mom is in a lot of danger but she lives in the end and everyone live happily
it was Tominos story for comfort and closure for himself to undo all the sadness that Victory Gundam brought on
Any source for that?
22 episodes in and I have no clue what in the fuck is actually going on
This art team is amazing. I wish they can release a remake Gundam G. It’s gonna be super lit.
I definitely agree with you. First, the art was wonderful. It has a nostalgic feel. It has one of the best visuals. The story is OK. The problem was the execution. What I can't stand about the G-Reco defenders kept on saying that it's like a book. I wonder what kind of book these people read. Maybe they like reading books with a lot of missing pages with a lot sentence fragments.
I personally read a lot of books from different genre. I read Tom Clancy's Ryanverse series, Mario Puzzo's The Godfather, and some other books from local authors. A well written book feeds your mind with so much details full of adjectives and adverbs just to describe a certain scene. Sometimes, an introduction of a character when he or she first appears takes about half the page just to describe how he/she entered the scene and how he/she looked like. Some writers jump from two different scenes after a paragraph, but they always reconcile things in the end. For example, in Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, the story jumps from John Kelly's life into the situation of a POW in Vietnam and into the syndicate members who , but then everything was show how those arcs were connected to each other. Well written books spoon feed you with a lot of details to help you create a mental picture of what is happening.
Too many times in this video I could not make out what the narrator was saying, such as at 2:22 and 1:57. This video in some ways defines what it is like to watch Reconguista.
Hey, great video. Quite a balanced look at a controversial series. I hadn't heard Urobuchi's reading before, so that was great. F91 is a good comparison, too; though because that was just a film I didn't find it as easy to get past the narrative shortcomings. Keep it up, Captain Galactic ^_^
I'm 3 episodes from being done, and I need a damn update on the story. Bloody hell. I think this series is almost on the threshold of greatness....then it dives off. It has much of the excellent Gundam flare we needed as you mentioned, but they can't overcome the deep issues. I'll finish the series tonight.
g no reconguista is the kind of anime that requires you to think, not just swallowing it raw. Same like turn - A Gundam, or any anime that Tomino directed. It's not bad anime at all, if you pay attention in each episode of course.
Thanks for this. I'm a die-hard UC fan and I've been thinking about getting this to complete my UC collection, but was hesitant due to its price and generally negative reviews. But I really like your take on it. And while I wouldn't pick it up to complete my UC collection because it doesn't really have anything to do with the UC, I will be picking it up eventually because the art, and your views on it have me interested. So thanks again!
G-reco is one of the best Gundam series out there
I agree
Then why it lacks quality
@@leo11lim not really tbh it's far superior than Age, Wing, X, IBO, GSD, and Seed,
CherryShia and yet it’s a total mess thank god it’s now non canon to UC.
@@leo11lim It isn't non canon. Maybe you just didn't understand it...
Just pumped my MAL score from 3 to 4 after watching this. You reminded me of the gorgeous art/character disign and animation, but it still couldn't safe the show for me, which is a shame.
Edit: Just watched your other videos and I'm now subscribed. I like your approach to watch into controversial show and try to explain what they're about and find the merits that they might have. Keep it up!
"as a human woman, I am healthy"
-> proceeds to try to break her wrist swinging a tennis racquet without her hips
I feel that Belri lacked a life direction, that recos story his him trying to find direction through others lives and stories, his conclusion being that he must forge his own path, it made the series sit better for me at least. Its wonderful to have such a controversial series in the franchise, where people can gleam their own meaning, rather than the all to common product pushing series(all of build fighters).
Your analysis is well-researched and interesting, but I'm struggling to hear/make-out some of the words. One major offender is "slapstick" around 2:21, had to go over about a half-dozen times before catching it. I understand speech and enunciation differ from person to person, so maybe having captions might be a manageable band-aid solution?
I’m two episodes from the finale. I like the concepts here, I was bummed with The Sound of a Newtype, I thought there was going to be something on that, not Rockpie being turned into Swiss cheese.
The Universal Century seems to have a liking in girls dropping from the sky
G reco is non canon
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@@leo11lim it’s not universal century, it’s Regild century. Same universe, but different timeline that occurs thousands of years after Universal Century timeline. And according to Tomino, it is the canon end timeline to Universal Century. But again thousands of years later.
@UCDWaTFTNxICL3i4FjTCf5_Q No, i'm not joking. That declaration is by the company that owns Gundam, not by Tomino, I'm just telling you what timeline Regild Century is itself is tied in with and what Tomino declared it as being. The company decided that the canon end for Universal Century timeline is not Regild Century timeline, so it is now an alternate timeline for company, but it is canon end by creators design. There can be more than one canon, this happens more than people think.
@@thejestor9378 So G reco is Garbage and Everyone wants it Decanonized and Tomino is a Shadow of his Formers self who don't care about Continuity I can't believe you are Defending that that Garbage Reco Crap i puke watching that mess.
Personally I was honestly super bored with G-Reco. While it has a ton of fights, and beautiful animation. But you don't really get into anything because the show constantly forces a bunch of terms down your throat and expects you to completely follow it, honestly it felt like I had to rewatch the episode to understand anything.
Plus while the fighting is great because you know Gundam, but they were almost always useless and contributed nothing but triggering an Emo state for Bell for a couple episodes, which you didn't really get to know much about the character or got to truly know them which may it hard to emphasize with the main character/s.
G-Self in my opinion was too overpowered I mean the highest amount of damage it got was it's leg cut off in the final episode, when it had nothing but Beam sabers while the other MS had all it's weapons and such. Not to mention the units names were not rememberable plus not to mention they ALWAYS had some new unit rolling in about every 1 to 2 episodes which usually lost in about 1 episode which to me made the names even more complex because they're rolling out too much at you in one time.
The side switching was too constant which made no sense to me and to a bunch of others because like you said TOO MANY FACTIONS which almost made no sense as to what they were planning to do. The story feels as though it never really picks up and they add an important moment that you wonder about because it's not really that important to you, I mean there's great important moments that you realize how important it really is, but them finding out they were siblings simply got rid of the Bell x Aida (which had to google the name :\ because that's how rememberable it truly was.)
I hate to do this but the designs really didn't feel Gundam enough for a lot of old fans.
Personally I want to rewatch to see if my opinion will change but I can't get myself to do it. :(
I feel it ran into a lot of the same problems that Zeta had towards the end only on a much larger scale. A lot of the battles felt like they were just trying to hit a quote of 'a fight per episode' and they introduce a crazy amount of new MS for that, but the fights themselves just don't have much purpose and take time away from other stuff that really needed it.
Captain Galactic What do you prefer a battle every episode that're pointless, or a battle every other episode/s? :)
Battles being there for the sake of it can be fun sometimes, but the best battles have real stakes and emotions behind them, which you don't get when they're thrown at you every episode.
Captain Galactic Exactly :D
I don't really like a Gundam series if it doesn't throw enough action to show it's Gundam, but I don't like them throwing half done battles all the time for the per aspect of merchandising the fact that it's cool. I think 00 did it well, and so did IBO as mainly every battle was pretty important and contributed to the anime, Would mention the manga only series but it's hard to find people who read them as much as the anime. :(
Worst part was when I was half way through the show and still didn't know where the show was going
While watching me and my friends have this theory that Bellri is a psycho who aims to kill any and every opponent and will stop his ally from attacking the opponent just so he could get the kill.
What always interests me about Greco is whenever someone "x didn't make sense" there is usually an answer and when you go back to look you feel a bit dumb for not seeing it. I'm rewatching it right now and multiple times I've seen it mentioned that the Capital Army is a new occurrence in comparison to the Capital Guard, yet I've seen multiple people confused on that in various ways. At some point you have to go yes the serious can be obtuse but when people miss clearly stated and acted upon things the blame can't just be on the show. It also means the better discussion about the real flaws of greco, which are there, kind of get lost in stuff that was said but maybe could have been made clearer. No one wants to talk about Bellri getting over a certain death too quick or how Aida's arc could rap up better which is a shame.
I think that is why I've seen so many people have a positive experience on a rewatch, a show shouldn't have to be rewatched to be enjoyed but once people get the base structure is actually pretty easy to follow there is a lot to dig into with the show. Not the deepest thing ever, but you can get a lot out of the themes and characters. Mask is especially interesting. Is he an activist fighting for a valid cause but is used by the old system, or is he looking for a way to justify his actions and preconceived notions ultimately being quite self centred. Maybe a bit of both, which is told through dialogue and action not just exposition. And it ultimately does lead to the somewhat ironic message that you need to go out and listen to others, understand their views even if you don't agree and not let yourself be controlled by old interpretations. It is kind of an important message for this day and age. Even though it has flaws it is nice to see a show that tried and I think succeeded in enough ways.
I think the issue is, yes G-reco explains itself, the problem is the things it explains simply arent interesting. Some of my favorite mechas keep ou super in the dark, sometimes for large portions of the series (zegapain and RahXephon come to mind), the thing is with them is they help build a mystery and place you in the perspective of the characters figuring things out and being caught off guard which makes rewatches even cooler when you know whats going on. With G-reco its just like, info dumps for vocabulary that doesnt really add anything and usually comes in late. It never felt like it was building an mystery even though it was simply cause it cant get me to care cause the way it presents info is boring and the characters dont compell me, in fact bellri infuriated me cause he basically came off like a sociopath at points with how much he blames the people he kills for their death (ie his teacher)
"info dumps for vocabulary that doesnt really add anything and usually comes in late"
I completely disagree honestly, there is not much that is superfluous information. Which is partly why it can be such a problem for some to keep up, missing a line means you can miss some very important information. Even a lot of the casual dialogue helps define the characters, their motivations or is building on stuff. Something like the kuntala is not the most relevant aspect of the main plot, but it explain's characters like Mask's motivation, world builds by showing how bad the world got before the taboo and explains the perception earthnoids that the G-IT lab and spacenoids in general have.
Plus there is little I would describe as an info dump, one of the strengths (or negatives depending how you look at it) is how much information is well integrated into normal dialogue. It generally avoids characters just constantly telling each other stuff they know for the viewers convenience. To the determent of some viewers. There are very few times you get a group of characters and one or two monologues about stuff. Even when they do like one scene on the crescent ship, it is a mix of various characters expanding on information but also playing into the show's themes. You have older characters admitting they are using tech they don't understand just for their own goals, but also pointing out characters like Aida who assume they are open minded and well educated can be as indoctrinated as her enemies. The scene could have just been this is venus globe we make shit here, but a lot more is done with it. The information is very often contextualised with the actions being taken, the feelings of a character or a mystery being set up like Towasanga or Venus Globe.
"how much he blames the people he kills for their death (ie his teacher)"
I remember a few times where he said stuff like don't make me kill you, but you seem to have taken a pretty cliche kind of line in an odd direction.He isn't just blaming them, he (and the point the show/ones with similar lines) is saying by not being willing to engage in other methods they are forced into fighting scenario. He also has a very negative emotional reaction to this, when he kill his teacher Bellri was incredibly upset . Later he is even upset with how destructive the photon torpedoes are making him not want to use them, don't think he even killed anyone that time. In generally he is an overly emotional character, which I like cause he actually feels like someone around his age rather than just a character who happens to be that old.
the argument for and against G-Reco's narrative explanations sounds, to me, a lot like the argument over sub and dubs in a lot of ways.
Dubs being analogous for "exposition dump and explaining helps me know what's going on, even if it takes away from the intended experience" and Subs with "Helping one taking it as it was meant to be, on its own merits, but being marred by an inconvenience on the viewer."
It's pretty much F91 all over again. Tomino wanted to make a 50 episode show, was given half that, and said let's do it anyway.
Ok it is a arthouse film/series in gundam world . Too experimental for plebeian like me lol
I drop this show when they suddenly show a pilot take a shit in the mobile suit out of nowhere
after 10 eps, id say both sides are completely right. there is a WHOLE LOTTA random asspully shit and it is intense as fuck, but there is also some actual intent and method to all this freakin madness. its honestly like is Michael bay made an anime but learned to give a fuck about character and story overall, and I dig the shit out of this massive cluster lol.
Great video, thank you! Boy, I can't wait to watch this! I hope Netflix pushes it!
The guy got a lot of ideas but the story telling part was almost real time, at any one time, audience only seen one side of things happening, hence audience would have trouble following what's going on at all. I personally like the mechanics designs except for main G unit. It needs room to tell a much more understandable story. All of the directors strength of weakness are perfectly show here, good ones are small details of tech to unnecessary humour, great concept ideas, but he fail to connect them together. The same issue was in F91, it was just worst here in the way he tells it.
story wise, I think its probably OK to make a kinda ambiguos ending...
following the flow of events to make the best of it is an ok reasons for me to survive but the flow is kinda absurd
you kill each other, and without any realization of the relationship they just become the best of friends
its kinda like you fell in a river suddenly you caught by rapids and the next second you go into hotsprings
its a big mess
i dropped this after 6 episodes, and brave myself to watch the last episode wishing the end of story will be at least good enough for me to withstand the rest
unfortunately, the battle scene are even more messed up than the story
its like, X fights Y in north, and then Z joins in the far south, and suddenly we find X fight Z while leaving Y behind.
the battle looked like X and Y has more or less the same speed, how can X suddenly fight Z while Y is left behind far far away??? it doesn't make a good flow
and then A joins in, the same happened, and then B joins in and the same things happened again
the reason the battle ended is acceptable, but the way it progress are very dissapointing.....
I can tolerate the wacky storytelling but like 6:51 , MS holding banners. Or G self wrapped with band tape, weird MS naming like Jahannam, weird Transformation...It was like a never ending troll.
Back to 6:51 . How on earth they can build space elevator but using MS instead poles...
I really like turn a gundam and king gainer, so this was fun
this is still the only gundam series I can't bring myself to finish, G Saviour doesn't count
The only thing i dont like in this gundam series is the sudden change of emotion from the characters to happy to sad like they mourn from some one who died then a few minutes there happy again and the worst villain that never wins even once i like the design of the mech and this gundam series the story is like been rush ive watch it i finished it i understand but there no impact to compare 00 or unicorn , ibo i rather watch gundam age than this!
After this series I never watch any other gundam series except Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
G-Reco is like Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex... They paint the world through dialogue... I think G-Reco suffered from being only 26 episodes... It should have been 50ish episodes to really go anywhere...
This will feel like a breath of fresh air after struggling down IBO
SinLikeSnow wtf are you talking about
How Iron Blood Orpahns is the skid mark on the gundam franchise and should be destroyed
Stay mad
(Eats popcorn) Well I for one just love people still having heated discussions about G-Reco to this day, about as entertaining as SEED Destiny ones. Even in a vid where it takes a very good middle stance towards the situation. I love the Gundam fan base :D
0:58 0079 the one year war
I don't know why, but I really like G-Reco...maybe I'm weird. Or maybe I was just in it for the art and I couldn't care less if they wanted to drop colonies or clean space garbage.
I'd still take G-Reco any day of the week over Aldnoah Zero. Iunno, I find the latter to take itself too seriously. Both MCs are OP as fuck, but since I'm only watching G-Reco for the hilariously janky dialogue, outdated directing style and great combat sequence, I don't squint my eyes so much when the MC pulls off some ridiculous stunt that ends up saving the day.
I think the best way to understand G-Reco... was to go back to other UC series and Turn A.
... Meh. Everyone doesn't even know where they are going. Even if you atleast understand a bit of it, the story wasn't actually going places. Mask was a terrible villain too (and despite his AMEIJIN voice, he was not AMEIJIN enough and always gets his ass kicked. Dat "BALLARA!!" doe")
you mean a thousend year after uc?
I watch this one solely because Kenichi Yoshida did the character design. It makes all worth while.
5:35 what ep is that?
this shows feels more Eureka 7 than a Gundam show... which is a huge problem
I really like Gundam, I really like Eureka 7, but I couldn't get into Gundam G no Reconsideringmylifechoices.
@@rxzero00 Probably because Eureka 7 is 50 episode.. while G-Reco is 26.
While Eureka can take it's time slowly unfold the world and start get it's shit down later, G-reco can't. Tho I would argue that Eureka can be said to take things way too slow.
@@JeSt4m I think G no Reconsieringmylifechoices could have still be paced better within 26 episodes if the cast was smaller and generally be written better in general. It was both the pacing which could've been fixed and the writing which seems impossible with the amount of characters. Also I hated Bellry or whatever the weird MC's name is.
@@rxzero00 That's why Eureka had 50 episode, the cast are huge and there's so many different faction that I literally only realized it years later
e.g the coralian, the coralian sect, the army are divided into 3 and Gecko State itself are divided into those who are in the know and those who don't.
They actually spent some segment of the show flushing out their background and motivation so it actually clicked together.. Which is why the biggest hurdle of E7 is actually the first 10 episode which seems pointless.
Reco-G had about equal number of cast in half of the episode count so we ended up somewhat "villain of the week" feels instead of proper continuity. If large cast and various faction are what they're aiming for they need double the episode than that.
@@rxzero00 That's why Eureka had 50 episode, the cast are huge and there's so many different faction that I literally only realized it years later
e.g the coralian, the coralian sect, the army are divided into 3 and Gecko State itself are divided into those who are in the know and those who don't.
They actually spent some segment of the show flushing out their background and motivation so it actually clicked together.. Which is why the biggest hurdle of E7 is actually the first 10 episode which seems pointless.
Reco-G had about equal number of cast in half of the episode count so we ended up somewhat "villain of the week" feels instead of proper continuity. If large cast and various faction are what they're aiming for they need double the episode than that.
Idk why but this reminds me of GL or KlK basically anything trigger related
If people just wrote down the name of the spaceships and countries to memorize, all the confusion would end. But no, they keep asking for a slow paced story, something totally not usual from Tomino.
because everyone wants to take notes and study for a show huh?
That is how you learn new names, if your memory isnt very good.
Dude, you should NOT be expected to have to do a research project for an anime made for entertainment.
You are not. But there's people with slow heads in the world. They may not get the names in the first time. They can get smarter, write down the names or just stop watching.
*cogh*TurnA*coughcough*
im a gundam fanatic and i dont like tomino
i see him as the george lucas of japan, a visionary yes, but when given full creative freedom he tends to make overwrought garbage. the best aspects of his best shows came from other people working on it besides him and the best gundam series were usually made by people other than him. thunderbolt, unicorn , war in the pocket, stardust memory, 08th ms team, etc. I love Turn A's art style and atmosphere, but as a story its hot garbage.i think that pretty much describes the tominos work as a whole.
so apparently g-reco is getting a spin-off I guess I need to finish watching the rest g-reco
strawberrybankai12 If you're talking about Twilight Axis, it's possible.
its not getting a spin off, its getting a movie series, tomino has expressed disatisfaction with how G-reco turned out and want to remedy it with a movie iteration.
excuse me?
*WHERE DID YOU FIND THOSE OST?*
there is not so much fight cuz there is 1/10human if you compare w/ UC
We love defending g reco and build diver so much
Great story settings, great characters, great MS. I watched 11 episodes and still don't remember 90% of the character's names...don't even understand a lot of proper nouns. 26 episodes isn't enough.
You said it was on Hulu, but i don't see it anywhere on it
I think Hulu have removed a lot of their anime since I made the video
Seems like it would be a sequel to "Turn A" just like Turn A was the distant future from X... at least that's what I'm gathering from the clips here. X was amazing Turn A was kind of a dumpster fire and I cant imagine this would be too much better
The real question is...
_What the fuck is a Reconguista, with a G???_
Well it better than the train wreck know as Gundam Wing.For me Gundam Wing is even worst than this.
I really like Reconguista in G. It reminded me somewhat of Zeta Gundam which also just drops you into the story rather blind and is filled with combat and multiple factions with their own plotlines. Zeta had the benefit of being a sequel so people already knew the basics of the setting. But everything you need to know about the stetting is explain just by watching the show. I didn't find G: Reco that hard to follow and it certainly makes more sense of a second viewing. Anyway, I'm quite happy about G: Reco being in SRW X. Apparently the storyline was made a bit less confusing. Besides, the mecha artwork really is the best part of the show. lol
It make zero sense
It makes me lose 1 brain cell per minute i watch it
But artstyle is so pretty thats why i still watch it
This shit’s so beautiful the designs are also it seems like a toy
G-self reminded me on strike gundam
Atmospheric pack
I'm actually enjoying G-Reco quite a bit. Maybe it's because I'm more of a fan of Tomino's more upbeat work, and also the fact that I loved Turn A, but G-Reco seems simple enough to follow honestly. There's details I don't get sure, but the over conflict? Easy, it's about regulation and monopoly control over resources. The spacenoids who live on the moon? Probably a decendent of the Moonrace from Turn A, so that's simple enough. The Capital army thinks their right, has a ton of funding, and bullies everyone else to maintain control. The Ameria army wants to take away the capital armies monopoly on resources because otherwise they can make whatever demands they want with no oversight. The moonrace (as you said) see the earthnoids as savages as they did in Turn A, so it's clear despite Dianna's efforts the Moonrace's bigotry towards earthnoids continued.
A lot of the big ideas are very easy to follow and I think they all provide solid footing to let you explore the details and dialogue that comes up as the show goes on. It's a really deep show and it refuses to explain itself to you, asking you to instead dwell on what it's saying and make an interpretation for yourself.
So which is more advanced the Turn A or G-Reco? so which is it...anyone has an opinion or knows the answer then you may speak.
Turn A. G-Reco's MS technology got toned down due to religious taboos. I mean seriously.... PHOTON BATTERIES?
The ms desing is A+ in that show. I would even say it is on the same level as IBO.
Haha. I remember this. I tried to stomach it and reached Episode 9. Afterwards, I stopped watching.
Just finished watching it and your sum up of the ending is the same as mine. Its pointless...just continues in the same rapid execution of character events.
I was fine with the self discovery of the exposition, and loved the obligatory UC references but the story was massively disjointed still.
I feel that had it been extended to 50 episodes the pacing if the story wouldn’t be so jarring. The artwork very reminiscent of Eureka 7 style too.
Its non canon to UC
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Personally I think you must watch this show several times to really understand. I personally had a bit of trouble understanding the story and I had to watch it at least 5 times to get it. Probably it would have benefited if it had a dub, hearing them speak is easier than reading subtitles, especially if they disappear fast. I agree when you said it should have been a longer show.
is that this series Char? dude looks like a fairy.
The only thing that is good in this anime is the opening song
the most depressing thing about g reco is that, it has such a nice visual, that is completely wasted on a messy story. it saddens me even more because while g reco had this nice visual, hathaway's flash will be just another generic looking horrendous CGi show.
I can't rate this anime much because I only got 5 minutes in before dropping it. I wanted a serious Gundam series to watch and I found a slice of life comedy one instead. I'm not a fan of those shows and after watch your video it looks like I would have just gotten more and more pissed off as it went. The fighting of the main Gundam looks like they took some moves from dragon ball z and shit. Not my show and I don't think I missed much. The art is nice though
Let's just agree that Aida is best girl
Im halfway thru the second movie and while I like it it doesnt seem all the different from other mainline UC series like 70, Zeta, or even Victory. A journey with a kid that pilots a suit that gunna solve a problem.
I really enjoy the non battles tho. I kinda wish Tomino would step back and take some advice on what he should do instead of falling back on "Quick pace anime is the most exciting" When I am here skipping 2-5 sec of battle or unnecessary dialogue. I understood pretty quickly that the Capitol City is exploitative/hoarding, have some sort of secret (at least to me it was kinda spelled out) but they take forever to get anywhere sometimes. I cant help but think; Here we go the enemy is attacking the White base-esque good guy ship, again. These things have to happen but its a bit excessive imo. But I get it. Tomino hasnt made a Gundam since 1991 etc.
Other than the things that make me think Im just watching the other Tomino stuff I really like the series. I love the characters there interactions, and the slap stick. I guess we also have to think "This series isnt really made for us" its made the the next generation to get them into it. (feels like to me, and with how Tomino has spoken about G reco)
Still, Im excited for part 3-5. Tomino said that after 3 its totally different. Says that Part 3 was also very different from the TV series but thinks that Part 4 will be an even bigger shift from that.
i stopped watching immediately when the protag takes along a prisoner of war princess for absolutely no reason whatsoever.... like there was never time to interact with her it was just suddenly your coming even tho we cant trust you and there is no in universe reason for you to come at all. when characters in a show do shit that they have no motivation for doing i drop that series because its not well written..... also called contrived.
This is the worse of gundam that I ever watch. Unnecessary character's reaction despite of mentioning some character that need to be memorized and what's with switching side that frequently done by the capital army. Oh and what's more is I hate that this seires focus on sending teenagers especially girls who didn't take war seriously. Where are all the male lead characters that supposed to make gundam series more exciting. Don't make me mention about the "commercial" break tho
Safwan Nazari someone hasn't seen Seed Destiny, F91, and the second half and movie of 00
Safwan Nazari I'm watching it now. It's so stupid how they let prisoners do whatever they want, even pilot mobile suits! No surprise when the prisoner betrays them. But no one seems to care at all.
@@557deadpool Or Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. That show is dreadful to watch. The story is fairly straight forward at least, but you don't give a crap about anyone or anything in it. No redemption for anything. Worst media I've ever seen.
The name and character designs are what put me off
E7 chara design OwO
you gotta work on your delivery bro...
No English dubbed version? Only subtitled? In foreign language only?
Yeah unfortunately it wasn't really popular enough in the west for a dub.
I thought g redo was a pretty decent series, what I thought the writers did wrong was they followed way too much of wat they think instead of wat the fans think... the writers understand the stories but they forgot we don't, if they went thro the whole script again this franchisee could have been an masterpiece
This anime told us a very valuable lesson. When you making an anime, if the story was screwed the anything will be useless.