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This film is really good, actually
Okay, this will be very off the cuff and probably sloppy.
For several months now I have deluded myself into thinking I wrote a review for Char's Counterattack. You can imagine my shock now when I checked my reviews list, simply to reread it and see if I touched upon any interesting ideas, and saw t…
Read full review on AniList →Despite trying to cap off one of the most monumental sagas in the industry, the film can't justify its own existence.
*Spoilers for Char’s Counterattack*
A harrowing tale of love, betrayal, grudges, death, and faith, an epic battle to save the world, and a final battle to settle one of fiction’s greatest rivalries and conclude an epic saga that has spanned an entire decade. This is final chapter! This is Mobile Su…
Read full review on AniList →A grandiose epic of a film and the culmination of nearly a decade of storytelling.
_Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack_ is the culmination of the franchise up to that point, and a suitably grand capstone to the early era of _Gundam_. The movie wastes no time establishing the stakes: Char Aznable is back, in control of the Neo-Zeon forces, and plans to drop an asteroid on the…
Read full review on AniList →A landmark, and worth watching for any mecha fan.
Char's Counterattack is (mostly) the end of the main "Earth Federation vs Zeon" story arc as told by Tomino, featuring the return of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable for the first time since Zeta Gundam. Despite being the end of a larger story, I would say that both Zeta and ZZ are not required reading to…
Read full review on AniList →An epic Gundam tale of galaxian proportions, that I wouldn’t trade for the sake of Earth.
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This is the direct sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ despite having nothing to do with that series. Instead the story focuses on (coolest of the cool) Char on a mission to remove humans off of Earth with his favorite frenemy Amuro Ray, who's trying to put…
Read full review on AniList →A sour and confused end to Yoshiyuki Tomino's first GUNDAM tetralogy...
__At the start of this year__, among other things and getting COVID, I experienced the original Mobile Suit Gundam for the first time. It was an experience I was unsure about at first, but one I came to recognize as a very ambitious series through the eyes of a child flung into conflict and a cycle…
Read full review on AniList →I just don't think I like Yoshiyuki Tomino very much.
Char's Counterattack is a very distilled concentration of all the things that are right but also all of the things that are wrong with Yoshiyuki Tomino's first three series of Gundam.
Firstly, positives. It's beautiful to look at and nicely atmospheric. The mobile suit combat is fast and frenetic…
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