Gundam Discussion - Twilight Axis

[Edelweiss]

I'd assume IC might know, I can't bring myself to watch it. lol

[Insanecyclone]

I have the 3 SEED compilation movies near me, I can check if you want.

DVD1: The Empty Battlefield
DVD2: The Far-Away Dawn
DVD3: The Rumbling Sky

well nvm wikipedia helps

Special Edition I - The Empty Battlefield
A brand new 55 second scene showing preparation for the assault on Heliopolis (shows more shots of Miguel and new shots of Rusty)
Scenes of Kira and his friends before the going off were redone
Newtype flash added when Mu senses Creuset for the first time
Footage of GINN's battling with Moebius mobile armors outside the colony, has been removed.
Debut of Cagalli is retold and a new scene of her conversation with Kira with new footage
Athrun and Kira's first meeting during the firefight in episode 1 intercuts with scenes when they were kids instead of being shown slowly with negative colors.
Scene of Flay emerging from the lifepod (ep 4) and hugging Kira is redone and retold. Also a new 30 second scene of Sai and Flay conversing has been added
The scene with Rau and Athrun discussing the Strike's pilot is reduced to a 10 second flashback and is inserted into the scene where Athrun is lying and thinking about the loss of Rusty and Miguel
The Archangel's heading to Artemis and the Battle of Artemis footage had been removed.
Athrun's shower scene (ep 8 ) is lengthened and intercut with scenes of his parents; and the scene following this (his discovery of Lacus' disappearance) is completely redone and moved to be ahead of hatch opening sequence of Lacus's life pod.
Backstory from the first clip show is never told.
New 25 second clip of Lacus trip to the cafeteria onboard the Archangel
The scene of Rau and Mu taking the opportunity to attack during the time that Kira is transferring Lacus to Athrun only for Lacus to order Rau to stand down and withdraw is removed.
Scene of Kira having sex with Flay is shown cut between Strike's first battle in the desert with additional new footage.
Cagalli's bath sequence is changed from a bath to a shower instead, probably for fanservice.
The scenes of Dearka and Yzak assisting Andrew Waltfeld during his final attack on the Archangel have been removed.

Special Edition II - The Far-Away Dawn
Kira's battles with Marco Morassim are reduced to a few frames
The scene where Cagalli and Athrun formally introduce themselves to each other has been moved into a flashback scene during the Zala Team's attack on the Archangel.
There are only a few seconds separating Nicol's death from the next battle between Kira and Athrun.
Tolle's death scene is redone and is more gruesome than the TV Series version.
A new scene is added where Kisaka comes to get Cagalli after the Archangel sends a distress signal to Orb after the battle between Kira and Athrun.
When Athrun meets with Lacus in the theatre, the gunmen attempting to assassinate her are removed.
The scene where Erica Simmons shows that she has rebuilt the Strike and equipped it with Orb's OS system and Mu's decision to pilot it has been removed, instead it shows Mu piloting the rebuilt Strike during the Orb arc without any explanation of how he received it.
Most of the Orb arc is shown with battle scenes being spliced together to create enlarged confrontations.
The footage of the Le Creuset team observing the Battle of Orb has been removed.
The song "Akatsuki no Kuruma" (暁の車?, "Cart of Dawn") by FictionJunction YUUKA is played in full towards the end of the movie instead of the shortened TV edit.

Special Edition III - The Rumbling Sky
Rau's face is shown in the laboratory sequence.
Kira has a talk with Lacus about how he isn't sure if he wasn't meant to be born in the world after he found out the truth from Rau. Lacus responds by telling Kira he belongs to the world as long as he is born and exist in the world and his birth has made her a much happier woman, she then tells him she wants him to stay with her.
In the final battle at GENESIS, Athrun shoots down a GuAIZ Experimental Firearms Type and a CGUE D.E.E.P. Arms from SEED-MSV.
Clotho is killed by Dearka instead of Yzak.
Mu La Flaga's battered helmet is removed from the debris.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRN-IrejBTw

edit: No clue why it just shows a link...

[Cleverness]

Saw that posted on /m/, best part is the Hyaku Shiki coming out of a red car

[Edelweiss]

Maybe it's just the retards dickriding it so hard on /m/, but I honestly can't even like this.

[Edelweiss]

So I went through Crossbone again today; and it occurred to me that this song was fucking wasted on AGE:

(Was posted before, etc.)


It really does feel like a fit for the Gale Death Team.

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Also, side note: there's been something like over 16,000 pre-orders for The Origin's first Vertical release as of last week worldwide. Pretty impressive considering it's months away yet. Finally, there's some talk of those SEED Remaster BDs being made availible in limited quantities in the US/Canada market in afew months; if you're interested in this, probably keep an eye on ANN or whatever to see if they're repackaging and repricing or what. Cleverness, IC, or myself will probably catch it before anyone else does though.

[Insanecyclone]

If I see them in store I'm picking them up right away. Was looking up SEED Destiny tv movie prices and the 4th(final) movie on amazon is high as FUCK.

[KuroTsuki]

Niiiice. Good to hear. I guess I'll wait to see if those come instead of getting the DVD's. I'll keep checking on Amazon and here. Thanks for the heads up Edelweiss.

[Edelweiss]

Amazon may be slower than RightStuf because this may not be a domestic release in the traditional sense (it would be akin to how Unicorn BDs are obtained in North America I guess?), so I would check there as well. They're probably also going to have some kind of restriction on them to hinder reverse-importing (since there's no way they're going to foreseeably have an English audio track) by Japanese trying to skirt their JP prices.

Essentially, I have a feeling you would likely have to expect a price point alittle above what we normally have in the NA market (though I really doubt it's going to be JP domestic or whatever NIS charges).

Finally, as some know (or don't know), AGE has an English dub for Southeast Asia airing concurrently; since the series hasn't exactly been the success that it was hoped to be there is a strong possibility it'll be the same dubbing used in any possible English-speaking releases to cut costs (from what i've seen, the dub is ok).

[Insanecyclone]

Long as old age flit sounds pissed off in dubbed format is fine by me.

[Insanecyclone]

[Edelweiss]

^Riding the coattails of that, we'll probably know what the Ver. Ka. for December 2012 will be around the 5th week of October or probably no later than the 1st week of November (if the usual distributor heads up remains consistent). They usually begin production around that last week of the month for big deals like the Ver. Ka. line; if it's something like the V2 (or any of those fucking Jegans/Geara Dogas or Zulus we still don't have) it'll be hard to keep that on the down low for very long.

[Edelweiss]

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I've been meaning to make a compilation of various places to buy Gunpla; a kind Anon on /m/ beat me to it (adding afew I didn't even know about). I pretty much agree entirely with their assessments of each.

I would also recommend HobbyFan.com for resin-related Gundam stuff (both recast and original/SMS versions) and/or potentially cheaper-ish plastic kits. There's also figures and statues (PVC, resin kits, etc.).

[Cleverness]

I used to go to Image Anime for kits back then since it was closeby and was cheap at the time so saved me cost of shipping.

Looking at some sites MG kits seem to be way more expensive nowadays.

[Edelweiss]

Sadly, yeah prices have risen due in large part to the Yen exchange rate.

Image Anime used to be good (for recent kits); then their prices kinda went up by.. I guess maybe 20 USD or more? I don't know what they're like now.

[Edelweiss]

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Genocide ending is the only way to redeem this series (wipe the whole fucking cast out, please). Might be the first time characters actually accomplish more as radioactive dust.



I don't even fucking know anymore.

[Cleverness]

I sort of jokingly posted on /m/ that the ending is probably going to involve Kio finally melting Flit's cold heart with a warm island song, and Flit will realize how wrong he's been the whole time and sacrifice himself to defeat whatever bullshit they invent for the final enemy, and see Yurin's ghost and the other dead people waiting for him. But it sounds so terrible and cliche that it can very well be the real ending.

And I finished watching the episode and idk what that guy is supposed to be.

[Edelweiss]

80s Hair metal guy.

It's clearly a nod to Chara Soon!

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[Edelweiss]

Think this image sums up female characters in AGE pretty well:

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Dear IC:

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[Cleverness]

Kio makes it easy to sympathize with a guy who wants to commit complete genocide.