∀Gundam

I suggest all UC Gundam fans to see ∀Gundam!

∀Gundam is known to be failure. When it was published, similar to the majority of Gundam fans, I refused this picture as Gundam. As you know, ugly machinery design (esp the ∀Gundam's face...) is the most disgusting. Furthermore, absent of universe-scale war and lack of beautiful MS battles are another reason for its failure. Business is business. As a commercial product, obviously it won't survive in the our world with those features.

When I was reading the story, first time in 1999, I saw boredom. Comparing Turn A Gundam to other Gundam's stories, like Gundam Seed & Gundam 0079, it seems not that amusing. So, I put it away from my memory. I've heard of many comments about Turn A for years. I found that feedbacks of Turn A from hardcore Gundam fans were not as worse as I expected. However, the majority still regard Turn A as nightmare, someone claims it degrading the reputation of Gundam.

As of the year 2005, I started my journey to Turn A world, for no reason.

First impression is not that worse :)
At the beginning, everything is wonderful. Their lifestyle is nice. Life is simple, people are friendly and helpful. No war, no competition. Since the war began, everything got worse. It told us how war could destroy our homes, our planet. The main theme is still anti-war. It's done a good job on focusing the aim, I think.
Actually, I like the characters most: Loran Cehack, Dianna Soreil, Harry Ord, Kihel Heim & Sochie Heim. They acted well. They can shown their characteristics clearly. To me, most Gundam's pilots are just war machines. Loran is different, he always wanna stop the war, not just saying so and keep killing others. ( I won't care if Kira Yamato will die in the next episode of Gundam Seed Destiny :P)

I like their interpretation of "ragnarok" (end of world), and its illustration (the moonlight of butterfly). If our world really need an end, Turn A could do us a favor.

The music of ∀Gundam is wonderful. While I was seeing final episode, the music really touched me deeply. The background music really impressed me much. The ending song "Moon" is particularly matching with the theme of last episode - Golden Autumn.

Turn A Gundam has completed the "black history" among different Gundams, and bring all of theme back to the origin. It might be a little bit unreasonable, but I do accept. It is just similar to the Recycling of Universe, which I believe in.