#really- not enough screentime for miorine in general

[scarletlotus182]

Also ranking all the Gundam series' I've seen so far

Zeta Gundam

Witch from Mercury Season 1

Gundam: Thunderbolt

Second half of ZZ Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam 0079

Witch from Mercury Season 2

First half of ZZ Gundam

Stardust Memory

Fuck Stardust Memory.

[randomidiocyncrazies]

eurgh i'm still salty that Witch from Mercury was like half the length of a typical gundam anime! i mean they wrapped up the main plot well enough, but they could've let it breathe a bit, dug a bit deeper into its themes etc. like... i love Suletta and Miorine and i'm so happy that they got a happy ending! but it was also really frustrating that a lot of stuff kinda happened super fast or off-screen (remember Prospera's whole thing about needing Miorine to become the President of Benerit Group to continue Quiet Zero? then Mio became the president off screen while she's having her breakdown I guess? it was sorta mentioned in a line of dialogue. and Quiet Zero was completed off-screen right away? okay.)

also... i like Guel fine, i think he's an interesting/sympathetic character for the most part, but the Jeturk family drama got soooo much screen time near the end there. like if there were more episodes it wouldn't feel as aggravating but i'm like. we're in the endgame here i don't actually care. I did like Felsi saving the day because it speaks to breaking the cycle of legacies as a shackle (the entire show is about children inheriting their parents' bloody legacies and being a pawn in the grudges of the previous generation), and I guess that could be a hint that Suletta and Miorine are able to stop Prospera (without killing/physically harming her), but. I was kinda annoyed that so much of the other stuff was rushed, so it felt like this plot got a disproportionate amount of screentime? annoyed that Schwarzette looks so cool but the fight was kinda hamfisted due to time constraints

AND CALIBARN! I wish they had alluded to it before the official introduction, it felt super rushed to me and i really wish we got more lore about it. like... IBO's mythologizing of gundams in its setting was really cool, and for a series that has "witch" in its title i kinda wish they leaned more heavily on those concepts—i'm not great with technical details so the point about Calibarn having no AI filter for the data storm would've felt more emotionally powerful/resonant if the idea of a super powerful ultra forbidden tech that takes on a kind of supernatural/mythic quality was brought up earlier, to build up the hype (and terror) of it

(and like, it sounded like Bandai kinda screwed the writers/staff over, judging by the whole "it's up to interpretation" BS statement regarding SuleMio from Bandai and the staff having a very different reaction to that? idk if the writers knew they only have 24 eps going in, or if it got cut afterwards)