KIDOU SENSHI GUNDAM: TWILIGHT AXIS
STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
6
RELEASE
September 1, 2017
LENGTH
3 min
DESCRIPTION
Late U.C. 0096. The Earth Federation government, organizes the Mastema special forces team to enter and investigate part of the shattered asteroid Axis, which is drifting in the Earth Sphere. The investigative team accompanying Mehmet includes two civilians named Arlette Almage and Danton Highleg, who were formerly an engineer and a test pilot.
While investigating, they come under attack by a private milita. As the fighting escalates, Arlette, following a secret agenda of her own, makes her way to the wreckage of the Sazabi that lies abandoned on the surface of Axis...
(Source: Gundam.Info, edited)
CAST
Danton Hyleg
Arlette Almage
Walter Fermo
Quentin Fermo
Char Aznable
Lalah Sune
Mehmet Merca
EPISODES
Dubbed
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REVIEWS
SpiritChaser
A shameless and miserable ad for it's toys and light novel. An embarrassment to Gundam and anime in general.Continue on AniListSadly, Sunrise vomited this out as one of the most shameful and worst series to ever come out. This isn't just for the Gundam franchise, but for anime in general. Even if this is just an ad, it's still a terrible one that deserves to be criticized. There's no easy pass out of it. This is an Original Net Animation with 6 episodes to it. Each one is 3 minutes long except the last which goes on for 9 minutes. Consequently, every episode makes little to no sense. I thought NT was terrible, and yet this one comes to make that look decent. This was supposed to be a direct sequel to Gundam Unicorn, and yet feels nothing like it. In fact, is leeches off of the original Gundam more with random screenshots of Char. There is some sort of story here about Newtypes and Char, a dry cleaner, a girl, her father figure, and their love for each other. It comes full circle though nothing really happens to build it up or to make it meaningful.
The first episode is the worst offender. From the usual tellings of lazy slideshow and still shot presentations, to some of the most awkwardly timed scene transitions I have ever seen. At one point there is dramatic music playing during a mobile suit battle, and then it suddenly cuts the music off to the character working at a dry cleaner. It feels terribly executed. Sometimes I just laughed.
And yet, what puzzles me about this is that there are people out there trying to defend this. It's one thing to be subjective. It's another when something starts failing everywhere on a technical level. It's fine to not like a series; one doesn't have to see the best in trash. Outright say it. It isn't being "nice," but cowardice to not want to point out something is terrible just because one doesn't want to be "negative." Criticizing something doesn't make someone negative.
The battles are laughable. Instead of properly animating them, it looks like the usual poorly made gacha animation. They take a drawing of the Gundam, and move it's lifeless frame around the screen. To make matters worse, there's previews at the end of the episode. Why bother with a preview when the next episode is 3 minutes long? It doesn't feel necessary and takes time away from putting more content in the episode. There are also comical cliffhangers. Viewers had to wait weeks for each episode; that's just laughable and irritating. The antagonist, who's name I don't care to remember, is essentially the atrocity that was Zoltan from Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative all over again.
Of course, at the end it's green glitter and rainbows all over again as something happens that leads to the characters opening up a dry cleaner business. What a strange entry.
SCORE
- (2.3/5)
MORE INFO
Ended inSeptember 1, 2017
Main Studio Sunrise
Favorited by 16 Users
Hashtag #G-TA