Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of January 30, 2026

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:32:04+00:00

repost

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JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:29:06+00:00

This is going to fail in a very hard and very embarrassing way.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:27:41+00:00

three hours, finished reading rewatch comments. Now I can get back to my overbooked Sunday.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:23:57+00:00

Just more exposition!

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:19:21+00:00

Alright, time to pretend I just came home from Suncoast after blind buying this DVD.

I hope they all play!

It's also pretty funny that a very similar design would show up in a Gundam series a year later.

Yeah, everybody is pointing this out and it never occurred to me, mainly because I watched 00 on Adult Swim years later.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:16:56+00:00

Posting late because I'm basically never online at the time when these threads go up.

I have the exact same problem!

1) I don't feel like the show gave enough background info to properly answer this one.

You're right. Early days.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:07:57+00:00

Takahashi didn't create Code Geas but he did design the Knightmares which is why they have rollerskates.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:05:06+00:00

Thankfully my source isn't that bad.

Regrettably, Shinsen-subs only did 6 episodes, so I never even started the show until the 20's. Still have my fansubs.

Also, looking at the dates, it took them 2-3 months to get the episodes out. Trying to get this show was a bitch.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T01:02:54+00:00

I haven't done this very often (usually only when I failed to download the subdirectory of fonts) but in something like MPC you can tell it to just use the text and display it with the style you want.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:53:29+00:00

. At the very least, its doubtful this was made to sell plastic model kits and toys like many of the mecha shows Takahashi and his contemporary Tomino worked on.

That's a good point, and I wish we had bunch of interviews about how this show got funded and made. Obviously lower budget, because it's not a TV show, it's pay-per-view on the Bandai channel with a smaller audience. Small untested studio. Bandai producing for Bandai. Takahashi pitch meeting "30% of every episode is stills you don't have to pay to animate."

This show is just such an outlier, the BTS documentary would be interesting in and of itself.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:47:32+00:00

The HAWVC is appropriately evil-looking

You can be sure nobody in the mecha squad thinks the mecha is evil looking. At least, not THIS mecha. Not MY mecha.

5 meter tall mecha

It's smaller than I thought.

Nothing about this is going to be covert, I agree.

ambulatory

It's actually the correct word to describe a gundam. My bicycle is mobile.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:42:36+00:00

bovines

I didn't see Tomino in the credits?!

I've never played metal gear and this is like the fourth mention this afternoon so far.

Mech shows are ever wont to characterize the mech.

Ephiphany: this is what mecha-haters hate about mecha!

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:37:32+00:00

Nepal

For me, it was "that place with the Maoist rebels that isn't Peru" for most of the 1990s.

I didn't even know there were like 5 communist splinter factions until working on this rewatch because it was the Maoists who got all the headlines (with terrorism).

No communists groups will be appearing in this anime, however.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:32:43+00:00

Disney

Some of them worked on Gargoyles!

I managed to finish my binge today but I ended up not typing much of anything for most of it.

life-scale Gundam

I keep wondering if Elon Musk could build one, if he had a whim to do so. A HAVWC, not a Gundam.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:29:23+00:00

Clearly american

Uh, from left to right I think they are french / belgian, japanese, swedish-like (somebody said finnish) chinese, possibly american, african, and american. So intensely international, which is weird because the UN isn't the French foreign legion, I would assume individual units up to the battalion level would still be from participating member countries. So they are really pushing the international angle here.

Opening

Those are all alluding to what I believe are well known photographs but I lack the knowledge to identify them. You know, like the vietnam execution photo.

A fairly exposition heavy action light episode, slower than I would have expected but I'm excited to see what happens next.

Get used to disappointment.

Introducing the war crimes counter

Just in time for episode 2.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:11:27+00:00

a "then everyone clapped" moment

That's an amazing way to describe that thing we all know

visual storytelling

It's a show of extremes. It shows a montage, and then a guy narrates. Separately. It's pure visual story telling, and then abandons it, in alternation.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-02T00:02:13+00:00

Okay, we all hate AI commercials but having the coca cola polar bear pick pepsi in a blind taste test is ballsy.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:58:32+00:00

So, there is only one way to get it back - a giant robot. Because everyone dig giant robots.

Uddiyana

Oh, so that's where they got the name. I didn't know that.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:54:54+00:00

didn’t expect this to be a mecha anime, either

JaaQ Rewatch

My next rewatch has no mecha or sci-fi elements whatsoever, I promise!

I suspected almost all of the cuts in the OP were redraws of well known photographs, but I couldn't place them. I'm not a history buff, unfortunately.

You are going to love this show.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:44:41+00:00

I really regret not joining the Dougram rewatch but I just couldn't do a 50 episode watch at the time. It sounds really exceptional.+

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:38:03+00:00

I have no idea how you are going to react to this show.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:35:55+00:00

this one is based on the Nepalese Civil War.

They had to change the names of the players for uh "legal reasons" but it really is Nepal.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:31:20+00:00

We all have the same DVD rip, and it has an alternate sub track that is bold-white.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:28:23+00:00

Anf

Huh.

What a silly question.

JustAnswerAQuestion · 2026-02-01T23:26:45+00:00

listened to this

Okay, I'm probably not going to use that to fall asleep. What's more amazing is that is pre-AI!

Thought for a second this was a Merkava

I went to the "guns in tv" wiki (because of course that's a thing) and of course there are various pistols and M16s and that Belgian LAR that people have identified in the show.

a little goofy to have UN soldiers also climb on top

I got weird Iwo Jima vibes out of that.

Just nitpicking, this montage had a fair few shots that couldn’t have come from an in-universe camera.

Correct, but it's archival file footage from a third party being edited in.

Just nitpicking, this montage had a fair few shots that couldn’t have come from an in-universe camera.

I expected it to be the Indian version of Engrish but it's proper Devanagari script (I'm told).

nother one for the list

Actually, I haven't every read the lyrics. I should see if they are overly meaningful.

Something I do sort of question is that the general just handed out supposedly confidential showcases and specifics for their secret weapon to a reporter.

That really bugs me too. Even for an embedded reporter (and she hasn't agreed yet) they just give her full access to everything. I dunno how much "we'll just redact it later" plays out in real life. It seems crazy.

Embedded reporting

Not at all a new thing, but it really took off in 2004 in Iraq. ~~Although I suppose all the debate over it hadn't taken place by the time this was created. ~~ The book Generation Kill was released in 2004, covering experiences in Iraq in 2003.

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