Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-

7.25/10 ~ Man im so hype for this From what I can tell this is going to be the first few episodes of the TV series so dont fret if you did not get the opportunity to see it in theaters like I did. GQuX is an alternative timeline of WHAT IF Char got the RX78 instead of Amaro during the One Year War. You do not technically need to know anything about Gundam as a whole and you can go into this one pretty blind, however for the best viewer experience I would probably recommend watching: - 0079 (the original show or 3 piece movie) - Gundamthe Origin (back story on Char) - Char's Counter Attack (to know what the outcome of the original show to have a comparison of why this is so hype) And for you Gundam Nerds out there they took the overall Plot elements from G-Fighter and mashed them together with the Universal time line. Gundam has become very stagnant over the years with only 2 real stand outs in my personal opinion, Thunderbolt; a pretty forgotten about series that is unfinished that really took a fresh way to look at Gundam. AND Which from mercury, that really just took all the Gundam tropes and reversed them.... which honestly was pretty poorly executed. Pretty much every other Gundam feels like Gundam, is loaded with nearly all the same story beats, at this point Cliche's and almost everything feels pretty over done. GQuX really feels diffrent, it feels like something TRIGGER would have made, very wild and over the top. It doesnt even really look like a Gundam show and I honestly love all the changes to the show. I forsee this being my favorite Gundam Show to date which currently is Origins, I really just hope they do not botch this. I also am really curious if they are going to do what DBS did with the DBZ-battle of gods movie which was the same events but spread out into a season vs 1 movie... or if it will be a 1-1 copy and paste from the anime, hard to tell honestly. I may update my score when I rewatch this as well.