Audience reviews
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whymeo
I once saw someone say that Gundam Reconguista in G (G-Reco) was originally planned to be fifty episodes long, before the planned length was changed at some point before production began to be twenty-six episodes -- and I have never felt more certain in a statement being true without looking into the validity of it. G-Reco's pacing issues are, quite frankly, really bad. The show moves at a breakneck speed, with almost nothing in it getting room to breath. What few moments the show does take the time to stop and linger on, often don't hit quite as well as they should, because they simply didn't have time to setup the emotional stakes and make the moment land. The show practically feels like a work that was completed, and then was forced to be ruthlessly cut down into half its original runti…
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Many Gundam fans avoid G Reco due to its reputation as being confusing and nonsensical, whether these claims are accurate or not is very subjective yet one thing is clear: G Reco is an extremely flawed work.
G Reco, just like its spiritual predecessor Turn A Gundam, has amazing worldbuilding, we are presented with a seemingly peaceful Earth with a complex political division due to the regulation of energy resources and technological advancements by a religious institution. Several factions, with diverging ambitions, fight across this stage, thus giving the setting to the plot of G Reco. The protagonist Bellri gets to pilot the G Self by mere casualty, a mysterious advanced mecha that fell from the sky with an impaired pilot. The plot advances when Bellri starts to learn truths about the a…
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Reconguista in G has a lot going for it, but it's pretty messy in execution. It's animated extremely well, I never noticed any reused animation at all and there's a lot of little details in the animations that add a lot of energy to the show and breathe a lot of life into everything. I found the show to be energetic and generally focused on being fun which resulted in it staying entertaining throughout, even during the messiest points. My main problem with the show is its pacing, things move too fast for you to easily follow things properly sometimes. I also would like to note the last few episodes are comparable like classic Gundam climaxes where war is shown with extreme brutality, which is surprising considering how everything up to that is relatively lighthearted like Turn A Gundam, bu…
Read at the sourceGundam_Sage
I'm one of the biggest defenders of this series and find it greatly misunderstood. For me, it was like watching something you would find in avant-garde cinema. Maybe not necessarily from an experimentation standpoint, but in the sense of trying to piece the narrative together. It was such a perplexing, daring, and challenging experience.
The messy politics, confusing human relations, lore, characters, and sprawl of it all was fascinating for me to unpack. Each episode is dense with thematic exploration and plot movement. You cannot watch this with your brain on autopilot mode. This series makes you work to understand it all because you won't get any info bumping from the director.
G Reco is also Tomino at his most auteur, so you're either along for the ride or not. It is uncompromising…
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I won't lie this was absolutely the most annoying and disgraceful gundam anime I have ever seen, and I have literally seen quite a bit of anime, especially the gundam related kind, this gundam series didn't really seem like it had a good story at all, it just seems like this was nothing but, bits and pieces that were put together in a rush, with no one to look over the final finished product. I just didn't really much care for this strange gundam anime. I just honestly wished it would end faster than what it did, but at the end of the day, it's up to me to, be the finish something. Not, other people.
Read at the sourceWaywardScythe
This show is one of the most brutal rebuttals of almost every aspect of Gundam. However that feels like the only focus of the show, at the expense of being enjoyable to watch.
The story mostly happens around the main characters, but that seems to be by design. That would be more forgivable if the characters weren't so frustrating. But even the characters being annoying and nonsensical and stupid seems to have been done at least partially on purpose, considering the background of the Char clone character and what his background means for the world at large.
The best parts of the show by far are the ones focused on the absolute hostility of living in space. These scenes are done well, with one small scene in particular really elevating that aspect of the show.
The mechanical design is b…
Read at the sourceUnluckyCat13
G-Reco is a mix of the best of the UC with the politics of Wing. Very human, sometimes autistic-like characters go through strings of mini arcs that defy conventional plot structure. Along their way some of these arcs may have "pointless" conclusions. In a traditional anime a character will go through an arc and then they will be changed. In G-reco, a general may learn the truth in one arc, but then go back to his home country and choose to still continue with their potentially improper military campaign. A girl will learn her enemies are human, but still choose to continue trying to kill them for selfish reasons when her mettle is tested. Exposition is rarely given except to subvert expectations, and people do not always grandly declare their motivations. Sometimes extremely important plo…
Read at the sourceKitt_Starr
in the beginning it was great but as the series went on it felt like i had somehow skipped episodes at certain points.
the series has some of my favorite suit designs in the franchise with incredible art as well. the characters (mostly) feel real enough for the setting and the tone.
I feel like the story had been planned partially and then they just made it as the went after around the halfway point. and the ending doesn't feel like it belongs.
overall the first half i gave a 7 but it dropped to a 5 because of the second half.
Read at the sourcemobiru
All over the place in terms of characters and plot. So many terms, concepts and factions are thrown at you without any real base or development. Maybe I'm just an idiot and lots went over my head, or maybe I wasn't observant enough? After finishing the series there are plenty of things I felt were needlessly obscure, and what appears to be too much assumption from the writers made any of the bigger moments lack any impact. It can be interred that a number of characters have strong romantic relationships based on script and some of the actions/sacrifices they make for each other. They almost never feel earned or genuine because of the lack of development or context. The sense of humour also just didn't hit for me. Even the mecha designs didn't provide much to enjoy. The only positive thing…
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It's basically a war story where there hasn't been a conflict in hundred of years, Human forgot the horror of war and they play around in it. This is the main theme for G no Reconguista.
The show isn't as confusing as many make it out to be. Just actually listen to what characters say and don't have the memory of a goldfish. But you can also benefit from looking at who is saying stuff, how they are saying it and why. The dialogue isn't as surface level like many shows, characters don't just serve as mouth pieces for the plot so the exposition you get is in a context. For the most part anyway.
The best part is the animation. It's beautiful and fluid plus with Tomino directing experience action scenes are fun to watch. The way color pallete and how the characters are drawn makes it feel l…
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Review 12.12.2017: Gundam G no Reconguista
"Every review is subjective, art is subjective your opinion may differ, never trust reviews to make the opinion for you, use them as a guide and make your own journey."
Tomino is certainly known to be very skilled at writing interesting really strange stories, Reconguista is a return to the old Tomino style of odd dialogues, very strange character behaviour choices and a world very unlike our own however despite being so alien and so strange its actually very evident that Tomino WANTS it to be different.
Its not that Tomino cannot write consistent dialogue and realistic character behaviour because he can however there is a certain uniqueness to Reconguista because of this chosen style and while I hated it at first I grown to understand Tomino a…
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So I decided to give this show go and I still stopped at episode 13. Main reason because is due to this show being an eye rape. The art style would have been popular back in 1970+. Yeah the OG grandpa gundam was no bae i will give you that but I was able to bear with it since it came out way before i was born. G-reco is in the 21st frigging century.
The decline started notably in Age when we had oddly shaped gundams. took a real peak in g-reco with the cute g-self. and well each episode looked like it had no AA applied to it or whatsoever. IBO itself was weird too, gundams were ok but mikazuki and kudelia eyes look weird af. That wraps it up for my holy trinity of gundam going weird.
Also, the plot seems a bit too soft core like it was made for kids. Apparently it wasn't made for an old…
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This series is full of holes and problems in general. It's very rushed and they take no time at all to explain anything.
The character motivations don't exist, and they have no depth at all.
It feels like you missed something between each episode because something just happens for no reason all the time.
They do minor time skips for no reason.
They constantly talk about "the taboo" and then break it immediately after. Which is all about not developing U.C. timeframe weapons on earth because they destroyed the earth.
They introduce characters that have little to no importance on the plot and make them seem important for no reason at all. They even have next to no lines, be we focus on them for some reason.
Primary masked badguy (Char proxy) has the shittiest motivation ever. "My peopl…
Read at the sourceRoarkTenjouin
I've noticed that a lot of reviews for this series say that the person who wrote them did not finish said series - sure, there are some people who have finished the series, but the first 11 reviews are by people who, at the time they wrote their reviews, had not finished the series. So, as someone who's finished this series, I thought that I might as well add my opinion to the mix. No, I'm not going to be comparing this to Gundam IBO, Unicorn, both seasons of Build Fighters, or Thunderbolt - I'm going to instead compare this to Turn A Gundam, which, in addition to being my favorite Gundam series, also happens to be in my top 5 (as well as the last Gundam series Tomino directed before G-Reco, not counting the Zeta Gundam compilation movies).
First, let's start with the story. While I do co…
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It's amazing this is the lowest rated Gundam show on this site. It honestly doesn't deserve it. It didn't fuck up nearly as much as Gundam Age or Gundam Seed Destiny--I mean, at least someone put some thought into it. But the point is, it did fuck up. You learn in writing class 101 that every story has to have a denouement, a fancy way of saying "ending". Gundam: G no Reconguista has none. And that is why it fails. And fails hard, which is a shame to say as I tried to love this show as much as I could.
Yoshiyuki Tomino is the director, you know, the guy who created Gundam in the first place back in 1979. This was his first anime he directed in over a decade. I have great respect for the man--he directed so many classics, even outside of Gundam, like Dunbine and Ideon, plus he has an inter…
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Most of the previous articles on G no reconguista have been written by die-hard Tomino fanboys and not without a certain dosage of dogmatism and perhaps faith in the director's skill as well as vision. Their reviews hinge on comparing the series to earlier installations in the Gundam Franchise, with all the associated angst and archetypes. I am most probably one such a fanboy, but I am not going to commit to the exercise of comparison. I will instead be sharing my thoughts on G no reconguista as a disappointing work simply in its own right.
If anything at all can be said to drive Reconguista, it is the story, and it is the plot. Both elements are best summarised as: complexity without invoking thought. There is a Byzantine web of power relations, much like any other Gundam series or war d…
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Gundam: Reconguista in G (from hence forth RG) is an ambitious project from a man who made the Gundam metafranchise what it is today. The show takes some big risks, but unfortunately, the execution leaves much to be desired.
First some back story. When Tomino produced the original Mobile Suit Gundam, he was struggling with deep depression and extreme suicidal thoughts. This led to his signature "Kill'em All Tomino" storytelling that bears a remarkable resemblance to George R.R. Martin's way of storytelling today--develop characters, get the audience invested, then give them the axe. By the mid-90s, however, Tomino was receiving treatment and began to reverse his dark disposition. He was less inclined to "Kill'em All" and more inclined to work out happier endings for his characters. This c…
Read at the sourceYamarashi9627
First I need to say a few things before doing the actual review.
1. English is not my native language so forgive me for any commited mistakes during this review.
2. This is my first review, so keep that in mind.
3. May include a few SPOILERS, not so many neither important ones.
4. This is my first Gundam canon series (I have watched Wing and Seed)
Now let's get started with the review.
Story (5/10): This is where my forth statement come along, since I haven't watched any other canon series, I don't quite understand the whole UC thing mentioned during the story. While the premise is quite good the whole story seems quite awkward.
And for some time I didn't even know what to expect from the next episode so.
My main problem here is the un-organized scheme that the guionist and director…
Read at the sourceZEROthefirst
I'm not going to make a long review for this series, as I have quite a bit I would like to actually cover, but do not feel doing so here would be the best. So I will make a very basic review, more or less outlining some of the points of Gundam: Reconguista in G.
--Story: (This is the part I have a lot to touch upon, but will wait until I have a more fleshed out script set up to add back in if possible or re-do my review later on since there is more I would like to add to the rest as well)
The story for Reconguista is G is very basic and straight forward. It follows the same basic set-up of most Gundam series' in that faction a is after faction b, with some sort of side agenda, or in Reconguista in G's case, factions a, b, c, etc. are after each other and will occasionally work with each…
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Story:It hard to understand by watch one time and have many relax scenes but it makes this drama serie have good lesson for kids about wars and reasons to fight of them.
Art:Good , this is the one of all anime in previously season that have outstanding art.Especially,Mobile suit action scenes that born form animator drawn it and have red or blue shade when climax scene of that battle.And eyecatch dance scenes of main characters.Totally,it makes this serie easy to memorize.
Sound:Have a good soundtrack that suit this story even relax scene,battle scene,G-Self's Theme and Ending G no Senkou that have good meaning for this story.
Character:Many characters,many sides,it make so hard to memorize them but each main character have standpoint that make this seire have not good-evil character and…
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