Audience reviews
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Frousties
Everything I've already said about THOYW applies here too, so I won't bother much.
It looks bad, even for the time (same year as Kung Fu Panda lmao), the animation is decent but the super sharp shadows combined with nuclear bloom on everything makes for a very muddy appearance, and the character models look atrocious. It's more than a decade behind visually.
It also does the incredibly classic cheap CG trick of having all the plot take place inside a barren desert.
I don't really get what the point of this one is, more than the other two. The whole appeal of this series was originally to witness the Zeon point of view of the war, but now we're watching the same plot but from the Federation's side? What's the point really
It's just as boring as the other ones, endless and mediocre combat…
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(LAZAROTH REVIEW - INDIVIDUAL EPISODE REVIEWS - SPOILER FREE)
This OVA set of "MS Igloo" is an episodic foray into the trials and tribulations of three separate Federation Soldiers of different ground units. It's an incredibly immersive setting as these people are quite literally at the bottom of the military power level, being forced to face these "Death Gods" called Mobile Suits as Zeon begins their invasion of earth. Overall, the CGI, tone and cinematography for all of them are top notch, but I'm going to delve a little deeper by reviewing each individual episode. This will be a short review due to most of my overarching impressions being found in my first MS Igloo review, and is only intended to review the story, action and cinematography of these episodes. If you need a recommendatio…
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I love the plot of this gundam saga, it shows you the war that we already know from a perspective where mobile suits are not used and I loved that. Show you that you do them are not only pilots. That common soldiers do their job too. The animation is still a CGI but not as bad as the previous ones. It is improving little by little better. After the character design I liked it, it has a very good character development with the little time it has I liked a lot I think it was the best of this new gundam saga, I am talking about more igloo of course. I recommend it but I warn you that if you don't like CGI, don't even spend it.
En español:
Me encanta la trama de esta saga de gundam, te muestra la guerra que ya conocemos desde un perpectiva donde no se usan mobile suit y me encanto eso. Mostart…
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This short gundam ova depicting three different characters durning the beginning of the invasion of the principality of zeon. Each character had some sort of very strong desire for revenge for some specific reason or another. And each person, during each episode, seemed to show some signs of slight insanity or madness during each of the short three episodes, as I did very much so pay close attention to each episode attentively so that I was not to miss a single detail during the three dimensional graphic story-line. Also, each individual were haunted by something, though to not spoil the anime, I will not say what, and let, "you" the fellow gundam fans that are reading this review, to find out for yourselves, exactly, what this haunting entity is. Although short, this was a very interestin…
Read at the sourceStormy_77
As a fan of MS Igloo I was excited to finally see this in its entirety and was not disappointed.
Story and Characters
The year is Universial Century 0079 at the start of the war when Zeon has just landed on earth. These 3 OVAs are the stories of 3 common soldiers, their weaponary and revenge as their motivation in fighting for the Earth Forces during the period.
OVA1's protagonist is the conflicted Ben Barberry, notorious as a death god for sucking the life out of his unit but somehow surviving. At the start of the war, Zeon's Zaku's held the tactical advantage and Ben's anti tank unit is hastily renamed the anti Mobile Suit unit with their weapon of choice being a modified bazooka that fires (larger) anti Mobile suit missiles. Ben and his new unit of fresh recruits are sent to hunt Za…
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