Gundam meme: day 10

[feuervogel]

Day 10 - Favorite OVA

The 08th Mobile Suit Team is an OVA, right? I just finished watching it with Ben, and I remember why I liked it so much. Even if Ginias' motivations are tropey as hell, and Shiro's kind of a dork (and Aina gets all gooey-stereotype-girly after Reunion). It's a tight 11-episode series (episode 12 isn't that great, and it's sort of an epilogue, anyway) about how war sucks and is stupid and the "good guys" are as big assholes as the "bad guys."

Also, the closing credits are spectacular.


Day 11 - Favorite Gundam series
Day 12 - Favorite scene
Day 13 - Cosplay of your favorite Gundam character
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) Gundam wallpaper
Day 15 - Post a battle scene
Day 16 - Post a quote from a character
Day 17 - Favorite woman from Gundam
Day 18 - Favorite Non Gundam Mobile Suit
Day 19 - Favorite Universal Century Gundam
Day 20 - Favorite Masked character
Day 21 - Best Gundam of all time
Day 22 - Favorite couple
Day 23 - Gundam you think had the best, or most intriguing, art
Day 24 - Favorite Gundam hero or heroine
Day 25 - Best Gundam villain
Day 26 - Your favorite mobile suit weapon
Day 27 - Favorite opening theme song
Day 28 - Favorite Non Gundam pilot
Day 29 - Favorite Model kit
Day 30 - Favorite ending to a Gundam series

Comments

[eisen]

When 08th is on, it's really on, isn't it? My answers to this meme really didn't indicate how close the running was between 08th's ending and W's, if only because I am ridiculously character-biased and always will be, but it is pretty great. And yeah, it's an OVA.

(Obviously, it's not my favorite, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize quality when it happens.)

[feuervogel]

I need to watch Wing again, because I haven't seen it since it ran on Cartoon Network, and I want to see what I think of it with a) a little age, b) a little more familiarity with the franchise and its tropes, and c) the peer pressure in yaoi fandom to haet the shipwrecker Relena. (As far as I remember, there wasn't as much hate directed at Hilde, Sally, or Noin. But, you know, that was a decade ago. (OMG, seriously?))

I'm unemployed and finished this draft of my novel. I can work in some anime watching.