Audience reviews
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DekoMage
this is like the most niche gundam show you could watch
the target audience is for younger people, yes, but it's also in general just an insanely nerdy show that makes an insane amount of callbacks and references to basically every gundam series, meaning a viewer can really only get the full experience by watching the original series and almost all of the alternate universe series while also having a background in building gunpla in order to really catch it all
it's very nice, i went in with low expectations and expected nothing more than a commercial for kids, but it's more of a love letter, it doesn't take itself seriously at all and the entire premise is just silly, but that's what makes it good- it's gundam at its core without any of the serious themes attached to it
there's a lot of…
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story.
Story: 5
Art: 4
Sound: 7
Character: 5
Enjoyment: 5
Overall: 5
A short review because I don't have that many thoughts about this. The reason why I chose to watch this anime in the first place was because this had a Finnish character, though I am interested in other Gundam series. This is an okay anime, nothing great or good; the plot is predictable, many of the 'jokes' and 'funny moments' were way too forced, characters were meh (this is a series for kids with male leads so obviously all of the female characters were extremely badly and lazily written), all in all not that interesting of a show.
I don't hate this show, nor do I think others shouldn't watch it-- I'm obviously not the target audience f…
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When I first watched Gundam Build Fighters Season 1 back in 2016, I adored it. I thought the narrative despite being simple was well executed as the series had great world-building and story elements. I really liked the characters, I thought the visuals were outstanding, and I really adored the soundtrack.
It was my one of favourite anime series period. However, ever since then, I wanted to re-watch it especially now in 2019 I own the DVDs for this show and its squeal. Not to mention I now watched most of the Gundam shows like Wing, Seed, Iron-Blooded Orphans, and most of the U.C century stuff.
Does it still hold up or my opinion of the series has changed? Well, it’s time to find out.
Story.
The story follows a young boy named Sei Iori who has a big passion for Gunpla. He dreams to However…
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So I had just come off of watching Gundam AGE, which really was disappointing, when I watched this. Initially, I thought the concept was going to be lame, but I actually enjoyed it. The idea of how they would make Gundam work in the real world was satisfying enough to me that it rekindled my love for the models and I bought a few soon into the series. The characters are fun and likable, the idea of Gundam competition was fun. Art is fun, and you get some really over the top OP Gundam action.
*****Spoilers Below, ye be warned*****
Now I have to talk about the HUGE missed opportunity of exploring Reiji's world. You really don't get alot of information about his world and I think it really takes away from the story. I felt like it would have made a very interesting season 2 to go to his wor…
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This review has very minor spoilers that won't harm the watching experience. Most of them appear in the first few episodes.
Gundam Build Fighters, or, as I usually call it, Gunpla Build Fighters, is a, in my opinion, a very refreshing take on Gundam, this time by the use of Gunpla (Gundam plus plamo - plastic model) and plot particles. Even though I generally frown upon the use of plot particles and other means of power (looking at you 00, but that was acceptable), it's not anything major and gets an immediate pass. Now, to begin with the review in an orderly fashion.
Story:
As it goes with the story, it's nothing special, but it is a new try in the Gundam series. Various players and Gunpla builders around the world want to test their Gunpla and their skills at the world tournament series…
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Gundam Build Fighters is hands down one of the funnest and entertaining series I have seen.
Gundam Build Fighters was obviously made to sell toys. But, it has fantastic characters, a well thought out story, beautifully animated fights and wonderful catchy music that overshadow the toy angle of the show.
Story (8):
The main plot is an excellent example of how to do a tournament series right and the general mystery behind one of the main character, Reiji is well done.
The tournament plot is handle in a way where during the preliminaries we focus on future opponents instead of focusing on opponents that won't matter in the long run which is something a lot of tournament stories forget about.
Art (8):
The animation is like most Gundam series where you can tell Sunrise put all their money in…
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Back when I was a kid, I'd say 4 or 5, I began my path to geekdom with two legendary and out of this world sci-fi series, Robotech and Star Wars. These two golden oldies were part of my childhood and I can't thank my parents enough for introducing them to me. More than 10 years later, I'd eventually hear about the "Star Wars of anime", Gundam, a legendary robot war franchise as expansive as the Star Wars universe itself. I loved Code Geass, all 3 seasons of Robotech (Macross, Southern Cross, and MOSPEADA), so I was interested. More than a year and several Gundam series later, I wound up here.
I felt like a kid again.
*mild spoilers*
Gundam Build Fighters was such a personal breath of fresh air for me that I haven't had since the early episodes of G Gundam and the 4 monthly episodes of T…
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Naturally, people don't tend to start something new without building a few first impressions. We might do this by reading a synopsis, looking at cover art, or checking out reviews. Isn't it strange that how we determine whether or not to watch, read, or play something comes from things that don't actually matter? Some of us will start an anime just because we think the opening is cool, or disregard the anime because it isn’t. Some of us will start something because there are half-nude girls on the cover, and others keep scrolling at the sight of it. Some of us will start something simply because it claims to adhere to our favorite genres, regardless of what it's about.
We all make a few pointless assumptions about the quality of a series, but in reality, there's no telling how good or bad…
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Build Burning Gundam Launching!
Hi all welcome to review about Gundam Build fighters, I'm Loveanime93 and today i'm giving my views on this anime.
Now Build Fighters is a cross between Beyblade and Gundam in my opinion and I think its been achieved extremely well. The anime in general allows newcomers to Gundam to experience it in a lighter atmosphere without any danger to the characters but still have the awesome battles and suits clash. As a veteran of Gundam though i would of liked it to be a bit darker because as i said there wasn't any real danger to the characters.
Now the story was in my opinion well done and easy to follow and simple for someone new to the series of Gundam. The story follows two young teens who want to become stronger then their rival. That's the brunt of it r…
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When I heard of Gundam Build Fighters I initially dismissed it as a desperate attempt to sell more models. However, now that I've finished the entire series I'm all the more glad to be proven wrong given how this show is surprisingly great.
Story 8/10
The overall story is pretty simple: Sei Iori is a Gundam fanboy who sucks at Gunpla battling so he teams up with a mysterious boy named Reiji to compete in Gunpla fighting as a team to win the world championship. While the story itself seems like a formulaic fighting tournament narrative, there are some moments of smart writing and commentary. The backstory of Aila, a rival teenage girl who grew up in poverty and thus was forced to fight in the tournaments by Team Nemesis upon learning of her natural talent, can seen as an allusion to real l…
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Gundam Build Fighters is pretty much tailored as a promotion to real-life Gundam model kits (also known as Gunpla), though this series depicts the Gunpla in question being used by their builders to participate in virtual battles that can simulate differing terrain and bring the Gunpla to life to be controlled by their creators. Sei Iori is the Gunpla maker of focus in this series who is a horrible Gunpla pilot in spite of his talent to create excellent quality Gunpla models. He encounters a mysterious boy around his age named Reiji who claims to be from a different world and offers to become his pilot for Gunpla battles, as the boy quickly picks up on piloting them in spite of his lack of experience with participating in battles. The two partner up to take part in an international Gunpla t…
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Gundam Build Fighters is a prime example of turning a lame idea into something worthwhile. I really was not expecting it to be this good. Even with it's strange premise, it manages to reach outside the box of its genre and become something more than I ever imagined it could be.
The idea of special particles only reacting with the plastic of model Gundams is retarded, to be quite frank. That overarching property is applied too many times to the reasoning of things that happen during the show, but it is masked by emotion and epic battles, so you gradually come to not care anymore about how dumb the idea is. It is never fully explained how Arian and Earth are connected and how Reiji and the PPSE president are able to be there. Those 2 things aside, Gundam Build Fighters is fantastic in every…
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Gundam Build Fighters, the 2013 Gundam series is a show that aims to promote Bandai's Gunpla. It aired every Monday on TV Tokyo at 6pm and is available with English subtitles on GundamInfo's YouTube channel to the international audience.
GBF was carried out by Studio Sunrise and directed by Kenji Nagasaki. Yosuke Kuroda wrote the story and Yuki Hayashi composed the OST. Kenichi Ohnuki drew the characters' models with Yasuda Suzuhito's cooperation.
Story: 7/10
The story revolves around Sei Iori, whose father, Takeshi Iori is a Gunpla Battle champion and mother, Rinko Iori runs a Gunpla shop.
Often, Sei helps out his mother in the shop. Therefore, he got a deep insight into Gunpla building and gave it his all as this was his passion. His dream was to be a Gunpla Battle champion to succeed…
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Most definitely a very underrated series of the Spring 2014 season. Sure, the general premise of "gunpla battles" is a bit unattractive, but they've done so much good with this series, making it, BY FAR, the most enjoyable anime of Spring 2014. Let's go into details:
Story: 7/10
As I mentioned, the general storyline kind of lacks premise. More or less, gunpla battles are used in international competition, and the main character's dream is to be able to participate (and win) the world championships. Though he is a terrible pilot, he finds and teams up with someone who can move to his ideals, and they team up from there.
Art: 10/10
The art is hands down beautiful. The fighting animations are ridiculously smooth, and drawings are so detailed in almost every aspect. I have no complaints.
So…
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Bandai made this to promote Gunpla and to introduce people to Gundam but if you are newcomer to Gundam, this series wont give you an impression on what the other series are and you might not understand the jokes and references.
If you are someone who is really in to Gundam, from any angle; the UC fan or a fan of all of it, you will enjoy this, it references everything from 0079, to Turn A, Wing, even G-Savior and SD Gundam.
When Gundam fans first heard news of the new Gundam TV series, there was outrage that Gundam was turning into something like Yu-Gi-Oh! or Beyblade.
The reaction was similar to the one Gundam AGE; Gundam being aimed at kids due to the character designs (which AGE wad far from. if watch it) but AGE got bad reception even after it aired, but I have observed this series rec…
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This is going to be a quick, straight to the point review done by an amateur writer, but an expirienced anime viewer.
First of all, instead of making a new Gundam oriented time-line or using recycled eras such as U.C. (Universal Century, timeline featuring the most famous pilot and new type: Amuro Ray and his gundam(s) RX-78-2 and Gundam Nu)/C.E. (Cosmic Era, different timeline featuring revamped gundams and featuring GAT- Strike Gundam and) a new timeline is built showing off the various gunpla models (or Gundam Model Kits) of all or if not, most of the Mobile Suits from previous gundams. Most are in there, some are just hard to find (refer to Gunpla Battle Tournament gunplas and Iori Modeling Shop's Gundam Display Shelf).
The story had a very good development, but towards the end, the p…
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In your youth, have you ever played out your imagination? Has your toy soldier ever battled across the carpet, your racing car sped along the dinner table? Do you know the wonder of outer-space and the distant stars? Dear reader, as you are presumably an anime-watcher, I am sure that feeling hasn't quite left you yet.
Gundam Buld Fighters is the playroom that has always been a reality, where our protagonists find themselves in a world where Gundam toys are alive and the world might just as well revolve around them. In short, this is a world where noone has to grow up. Fun is the oath to live by.
But what's in a Gundam?
Gundam is a toy comercial filled with a burning passion. There's no denying it, each and every Gundam is an aniamted advertisement for selling Gundam model kits, and along…
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Mecha series usually comes with the package of giant robots fighting space wars for liberation, conquest, and establishing a position in their perspective universe. Often or not, they adapt this style into a genre of warfare because colonies and countries rarely get along as result of internal/external conflicts. Gundam Build Fighters takes a bit of a different approach. Rather than world conquest, it adapts a competitive play involving technology that allows users to control Gundam models. These models are known by standards used in the so-called “Gunpla battles” as a sports competition. It presents a different atmosphere from the usual mecha series you may be used to watching. However, being different isn’t necessary a drawback. In fact, Gundam Build Fighters proves itself to be unique i…
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