While waiting for episode 4, I finally finished watching Dai-Guard. It's already a bad sign that my wife said it looks like I am doing a chore to finish the 26 ep. series.
My 2 words review for the series is: painfully unremarkable. I always find some flaws, often serious flaws, with the anime I watch and like. Even some of the not-so-brilliant Gundam series like ZZ and Wing, there are some reasons to keep my attention to the ending. Or pick something that's not even pretending to be cerebral: like Shin Getta Robo and Gunbuster. There you find some braindead fun sometimes enhanced by surrealistic breast physics. Or get to bottom of the barrel, I hate Neon Genesis Evangelion, but at least I _enjoy_ hating it! Dai-Guard: painfully unremarkable. There's nothing to like, and there's even nothing to hate! Just an empty sense of loss, of 10 hours I could have spent on acquiring fun. Perhaps Mizushima had a growth spurt in the 4 years between Dai-Guard and FMA? Or the alternative explanation is that Mizushima is at best a capable animator and VA director, but has no positive influence on the quality of the story and plot/arc. For story, background, mecha and characters, he's only as good as the writer, art director, mecha designer and character designer. When there's a good team, he doesn't screw it up, as resulted in FMA. When there's a mediocre team, he doesn't have any magic of his own to add to the mix, result: Dai-Guard. If that is the case, I will give Gundam 00 no more benefit of the doubt than I give to any generic Gundam/mecha/scifi anime. Like Seed, I can wait for GMLers and others to slog thru the series and tell me if there's any compelling in the series. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
