A Girl with a camera, and some robots

She/Her, I don't normally do social media stuff

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Time for panel lining! Mark II's up for some first testing

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She looks so nice! That little extra bit of flare really does add to the whole thing. I like the very fine motion (🐎) required for it, but some of the less defined lines require a very steady hand, which I'm not the best at. Still, very cool!

Mk II feet, now in excruciating detail. How scandalous~

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Time for panel lining! Mark II's up for some first testing

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More girls have arrived!

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Anime Ja Nai??

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words to live by

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So, since I watch longer anime at a somewhat slow pace (as evidenced by my posting (in)frequency), I tend to take a break somewhere around half way through, watch a 12 episode thing, and then come back. It helps to not get burned out. And right now, I'm wondering if now is a good time to take a break from Gundam ZZ. Leina's dead, the immediate grief has been dealt with, and there's a 2 parter up next. And I like the time in earth, so it might be good to take a break, and come back to it.

(I'll be watching Symphogear season 2 in the meantime. I probably won't post about it, but shit's awesome. Idol magical girls, very dangerous villains, very gay protagonists, and they already destroyed a chunk of the moon!)

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Runaway Roux!

"No matter the era, children are always the victims of war" is a fantastic line to start the episode on, goddamn. The tragedy of Leina's death is still palpable. And Judau locking himself in the core fighter for the night, knuckles bloody from slamming on the screen. Lots of great mood in the beginning of this episode.

Okay, when they reframe Roux's words later, the idea of "war sucks, people die needlessly, this should ignite a fire in you (to stop/end the war)" I get it, but girl was not making it clear when she's telling the guy who's sister was just killed last night that he just needs to get over it, and it's actually kinda stupid fir you to be crying over this. There is a time and a place, and this is not it.

But also, Beecha and Mondo are fucking insane for going "wow, Roux was really rude, we should use her as a meat shield against the creepy guy that's into her". Like, holy shit, I know that these guys are the bad idea twins, but jesus fuckig christ. Well, as a slight positive, they left Glemmy stranded in the desert, which is awesome. Leave that fucker to rot. I am a certified Glemmy Toto hater

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Gundam rogue orbit looks like they assembled a team of scientists to create a game that has the looks of ai generated result in a google search but also without any of the pesky ‘themes’ and ‘politics’ that got in the way of unlocking the franchise’s true potential. It looks like what I picture in my head for Anthem or any EoS’d live service game in the last 5 years

In reality it was probably a decent mecha game green-lit when AC6 was announced and hastily rebranded with a V-fin. It’ll probably have alright gameplay, but I don’t look forward to another spinoff embarrassed to look like anime, and marketed to techwear sneakerheads who try to flip MG Barbatos for 200 bucks on Facebook marketplace.

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Leina's Blood (part 2)

SHE EXPLODED! THEY FUCKING BLEW HER UP! I was worried about the bullet wound, but they dropped a fucking mobile suit on her! I guess, if she wasn't injured, she would have run away because of the newtype sense.

Speaking of, I think that they did really good with the newtype vibes based communication between everyone during the battle. It's a good way to show what makes newtypes special. Also, the battle itself was very good and dynamic. The ZZ Gundam combination brought good tension this time, and ny theory was right with just having the core top and core base.

Ple's gonna have a lot ot trauma from this one. Well, everyone is, but especially Ple.

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Leina's Blood (part 1)

So, immediately I'm scared that they're gonna kill off Leina after she's been a damsel in distress for half of the series, but so far, she's only suffered a flesh wound. Hopefully she doesn't bleed out. Also, Judau made a giant newtype psychich ghost of himself because he got pissed, which is neat. Haman made one when she was first seen again in ZZ, so I guess that's just a newtype thing.

So, between this and the last episode, I guess they've just scrapped the 3 parts to make a whole ZZ Gundam thing? Because, with Ple always riding passenger, there's not enough people in "team Gundam" to pilot the Mark II, Hyaku Shiki, Zeta, Mega Rider, and 3 different Core fighters. This episode kind of implies that they just realized "we can just use one of the core fighters carrying the top/bottom parts as the core of the gundam, so we only need to fly two", but last episode, it was just the Core Top, and a bare core fighter, and the bottom just sorta appeared out of nowhere. More reasons to not like the Double Zeta design. More power, but worse in every other aspect.

Also, there was one shot of a Zaku and a Hi-Zack (where did Neo-Zeon get that from? That was Titans) next to each other, and it reinforces my belief that the Hi-Zack is so much cooler. Deeper colors, bulkier, the core design takes some inspiration from the Gundam to make it feel all around better, the arm shield. I love the Hi-Zack. I want one someday, even if it's only available as an old Master Grade.

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I kitbashed my eternal blorbo Ruby Rose from RWBY :3c

First time using paint for a model, specifically the cape (came in gray)

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Masai's Heart!

Ooo, new intro! I like the mood of it. And, while it reused a lot of animation from the first opening, I do really like the new stuff. Also, a new outro to go along side it, with all of the Gundams. How neat.

So, I think I missed it when they first said it, but I guess that the reason why they're trekking across the desert is to sneak up on Dakar and Haman's forces? Did the Argama really land on the other side of the continent, or just down the coast? I feel like they shouldn't be this inland. But hey, desert fights are cool. Also, the town they come across has cool architecture, like Timbuktu! And I think that also makes me question the strategy, because that would place them probably in Mali, which is pretty far from Dakar.

So, Masai has a dead husband(?) Who piloted a Gelgoog, died at some point 3 years ago (probably not in war, maybe because of exile?), and Masai kept his mobile suit to someday reclaim his honor in the eyes of the townspeople (who don't really want anything to do with the mobile suit or Zeon or anything). A lot of questions, a lot left unsaid and unexplained. I didn't get as much out of this as last episode. But still, consequences of war, and how they destroy people, even well after their war has ended.

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The Face of Rommel!

It seems like Rommel and his group are some old Zeon remnants, bringing up the White Base as if the stories are still fresh in their minds. Also, I think this has been the first mention of Mineva Zabi. I guess she's on Haman's ship, somewhere. Hardly even a figurehead now.

These are some really cool mobile suits, variations on a Zaku and Dom. They have style, and the Dom especially is intimidating. The whole fight this episode was really done well. Very dynamic, and good use of the terrain. The bazooka's burried in the dunes were amazing!

I guess it's true that every time the fighting comes back to earth, you get stories of just how tragic and useless the war is. Rommel's squad prepared day in and day out for 8 years, just waiting for the day that Zeon would return and they could fight The Gundam(s). And within a day, they're all wiped out, leaving their families to mourn. All the training, all the strategies, all the bravado, and it all amounted to nothing. Because the only way you get out of a war is to not fight it

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She's gone a little haywire after being introduced to yuri. But is there such thing as too much yuri?

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It's him! Jim!

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Look, I'm as proud of Bright for learning pattern recognition as anyone, but is this really what we're doing? "Fa! The pilot who managed to survive 30 eps worth of Gundam battles, including the last one that killed every other pilot in my crew! If you can, give the Gundam to the boy whose flight hours can be counted on one hand."

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Okay so the progression of Fa's arc has a pilot has been:

Early Zeta: "Oh wow, my childhood friend Fa has become a pilot!"

Mid Zeta: "We mostly show Fa piloting to show her needing to be saved by the Zeta, but that's also the case for most of the other mobile suits. Fa is committed to being a pilot, but does she have the skills?"

Mid-late Zeta: "We've decided Fa just doesn't have the skills to be a pilot. We're gonna make a big thing of Bright deciding this, and will even have Fa make one last attempt to prove to herself whether or not she has the skills."

Late Zeta: "Actually no we're gonna pretend that didn't happen, Fa's gonna regularly go out in a mobile suit and do just about as well as anyone else."

ZZ Gundam: "Wow, what a shitty pilot."

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Sibling Love Blooms in the Southern Seas!

Back to Dakar, and someone brought up Titans stragglers, and I didn't really think about there. There would still be remnants, especially since it's not long after Zeta. It's always neat seeing remnants of old armies, because winning the war won't get rid of all of the soldiers.

I sorta didn't expect Gundam to actually address and have a take on colonialism, so this episode is very interesting. In previous series, Africa has just been treated as another continent. Sorta the futuristic notion of "it's all just earth, there's no need for borders, it's all equal." Which, can be nice in it's own right. But this episode makes it known that the people living here don't want to be involved with the Federation and their wars, and they're worse off for it (destroying fishing prospects). Plus, the powerful nations that destroyed their normal way of life now manipulate them with money (that they're now reliant upon) to do whatever they want. I don't really know how to conclude this other than *gestures around at screen* that's some colonialist shit, and it sucks!

(*pokes index fingers* the water Zaku's and that capsule were cool...)