As a long time gundam fan, I felt devoted to watch the latest series, Gundam AGE.
- Spoiler Alert -
Episode 46 came out today, and assuming AGE follows previous series' pattern of having only 50 episodes, AGE is nearing its conclusion.
This week, the episode opened with the various factions preparing for what I assume should be the first part of the final battle. A lot of time was spent showing all the characters are growing anxious preceding their upcoming battle. Kio gets a talk from a squad leader/officer/guy with sunglasses (I can't seem to remember his name) about how he will get killed if he keeps sparing the lives of his enemies by only dismembering their mobile suits while keeping the cockpits intact. Next, son of Madorna and Wootbit tell Kio they've finished Gundam Age FX's burst mode and tell him he should use it in battle.
We get a quick glimpse of Ezelcant talking to a sleeping Zera Gins (introduced last episode I think), saying Gins is his clone and although he is the successor to Ezelcant's DNA, Zeheart is the successor to Ezelcant's Soul... okay... The fat Vagan guy, Zanald (the eyepatch commander with the fat mobile suit) then appears on the computer and Ezelcant instructs him to become Zeheart's right hand man.
When the final battle arrives, the typical mobile suit explosion montage is shown. A grunt Clanche suit notices a Vagan ship behaving oddly, and flies in for a closer look. At that moment Flit realizes the Vagans have a dummy fleet and intend on using it as bait to fire their giant laser at the Earth fleet. Too late, a large fraction of the Earth forces are destroyed.
Meanwhile, Kio flies around in Gundam Age FX and continues to disable enemy units until Zeheart shows up in Gundam Legilis. They both go super saiyan, and by that I mean envelope their gundams in what appears to be a glowing sphere (actually they just yell and their bits/funnels start flying around them in circles really fast). Zeheart and Kio proceed to start flying around really fast and bouncing off of each other's bubbles until Fram shows up and starts firing her laser baton stick at AGE FX. The duel is now tipped towards Zeheart's favour and Wootbit urges Kio to activate burst mode over the com-link but Kio says he doesn't want to and needs to do this his own way.. Their duel is interrupted a second time by Zanald's forces who fire at both Kio and Zeheart.
My thoughts on this episode are mixed. I feel like there has been pretty much no focus on secondary characters, it's like they just introduce them and they either die the next episode or fade into obscurity. I'm still waiting to see how things turn out with Zera Gins. On the other hand, it was good to see that the other pilots in the show also thought Kio was being a Kira Yamato. However it is evident from the battle scenes that he does things a bit more realistically, taking down suits 1 by 1, rather than just randomly firing and destroying an entire fleet.
I haven't really enjoyed AGE as much as other Gundam shows. Then again it's supposed to be capturing a new generation of Gundam fans, aka kids. I should really be less critical...
Sorry if this post was confusing, I kind of wrote this on a whim, as it never occurred to me to write posts about AGE before, so there are a lot of new terms that readers who don't watch the show won't understand. I started off trying to write this post in a professional manner but halfway through things kind of got out of hand.
I'll be sure to have screenshots next week for episode 48.
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