I hope I spelled the title right. . . I found out why the character designs suck ass. According to Wiki, Level 5 Studios had a hand in development of the show. So Professor Layton meets Gundam. Keep it, and Bandai and Sunrise should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the neat premise of a multi-generational series to be dicked with by shitty character designs.
Anyway Episode 3 continues with much of the same as in episode 2. The Deus Ex Machina gun wont work this time because they dont have enough data. *Sighs*
Flit has to hold off the UE until the White Base Diva can pull out the colony core and save the denizens of Nora.
Fighting, stuff, flashback time. Raging on how a military can let a FRACKING CHILD DESIGN AND BUILD A MOBILE SUIT. How would any person have faith in their armed forces if they something like that happen. Oh, Flit at the time of the flashback appears to be barely old enough to tell what side of his bed smells funny. Anyway, I digress.
More fighting, the old dude who took Flit in does things, and the episode ends with a scene of a dude waking up out of a healing chamber a la DBZ *another borrowed trope* And he looks like a douche.
Episode 4
This is where I start to get conflicted. All previous criticisms aside, the story seems to be improving. But there is still enough to have a frustrated yell at.
We begin this episode with dude who woke up last time in the shower. That one for the fangirls, I can only assume. Because it served no point other than for this dude to say "I have the best because I am the best". . . *sigh*
We are introduced to a dude known as "Shiro No Okami" or "White Wolf". His name is Woolf, and he has white hair. Get it!? I did, and it sucked.
See, they want everything about this a-hole to remind you of wolves. Right down to the FUCKING EAR SHAPED BUMPS IN HIS HAIR!!! Fuck, that is annoying. They dont call Flit Seaweed, because his hair looks like algae.
So, Wolf decides that he wants Flits Gundam, because he is the ace, and more importantly The White Wolf gets to fly a white mobile suit. *groan*
Flit and Wolf have a little competition to see who gets to keep the Gundam, and they get interrupted by the UE. This is where things actually start to redeem themselves. The battle is so well done. The environment used perfectly. And more importantly, Wolf showing that he isnt all talk. Unlike Patrick from Gundam 00 (Though that guy was awesome, he got the girl in the end) He thinks quickly, comes up with a clever way to buy them time to escape with minimal damage taken.
Flit and Wolf argue like Older and Younger brothers, and between them, it works for me.
Summary thus far:
I was planning on this episode being my cutoff for continued viewership. And all of the complaints withstanding, it did what I had eventually hoped. The story is making me stick around. These people are going to grow, change, and develop with time. And Im curious to see what happens next week. This series is still nowhere near good enough to hold a candle to other fantastic Gundam Titles, but we'll see where it goes.
