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With the focus on the action sequences, Sunrise gets to show off a lot with the animation, particularly in the couple of really key battles in the series where Barbatos gets involved and it goes into its powerful overdrive mode. The other pairings I thought worked really well, with some cute moments with each couple, and I’ll give it props for meaningfully including a gay character and being respectful about it. I’d say that the love triangle between Mikazuki, Atra and Kudelia still feels a bit awkward, but I think this is more my distaste for Atra’s tendency to push her feelings onto others rather than anything else. The romantic developments in this half are a lot better too, as we see different members of this one big family bond in different ways, exploring more of Okada’s family-based themes. While Orga and Mikazuki are still the leads, it’s pleasing to see the younger characters get a lot of development too, with the likes of Takaki and Ride really coming into their own, alongside newcomers such as Mikazuki’s upstart rival Hush.

This speaks a lot for the quality of Mari Okada’s script and how the characters develop over the course of the series, using both the action and the downtime in between battles to explore and flesh out certain characters. It also treats them with a lot of care and respect, in a way that on both sides of the conflict, each major death has a meaning or a purpose, and you can empathise with the rest of the cast as you can really feel their impact. While the grunts are very much expendable, every named character’s death means something and helps drive the story forward. Speaking of which, the show definitely isn’t afraid of killing off its characters, with the series boasting a very high body count by the end. The Gundam Frames in particular look like utter beasts and they really light things up whenever they appear, while one unit in particular that may be familiar to Gundam veterans also gets a terrifyingly good reimagining, which makes them feel like a vicious threat, holding the power to slaughter humanity. It helps that the mobile suits themselves have had a clear upgrade, and feature more distinct designs and variety, whether that’s the Gundam Frames themselves or the standard grunt units. While I found the first part’s physical combat to be lacking in spectacle, particularly in comparison to the franchise’s traditional laser beam-based fights, they have managed to overcome that here as the mobile suits dance elaborately on the battlefield and punch and kick their way through hordes of enemies. If the drama is the slow climb up, then these are the exhilarating rush down to the bottom, being frenetically paced and utterly brutal to watch. While it still retains some of the drama and politics, they certainly don’t seem to be as effective, as it moves things away from showcasing the humanitarian subtext of people being oppressed, to this simpler power struggle.įrom a pure entertainment point of view, this actually works in its favour, as it allows the show to focus on its fantastic action sequences. This second half of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is a rollercoaster ride into hell, as it drops a lot of the drama and politics for high-octane battles that make it feel a lot more like a more typical Gundam series compared to its first half. Will our heroes be able to survive, or are they doomed to fall? As the power struggle between these two men eventually leads to proxy wars and other conflicts, Tekkadan find themselves ensnared in a deadly trap, as Rustal uses his influence to manipulate both Teiwaz and Gjallarhorn to dance in the palm of his hand.

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With the organisation’s corruption now exposed, McGillis Fareed sees this is an opportunity to wrangle Gjallarhorn away from the seven controlling families and take full control of the organisation, yet to do that he has to face off against the tactical genius of the scheming Rustal Ellion. However, their actions have had unintended consequences elsewhere, as the erosion of Gjallarhorn’s authority has seen the rise of both terrorism and piracy, while tensions between Earth’s three economic blocks are at the highest they have been since the Calamity War.

Now a full member of Teiwaz, they have been able to secure enough money to spread themselves out over both Mars and Earth, while their funding of Kudelia’s newly formed Admoss Company has enabled the building of both a school and an orphanage for the red planet’s impoverished children. Two years on from the battle of Edmonton and fulfilling their mission to get Kudelia Aina Bernstein to Earth in order to secure the de-regulation of half-metal, Tekkadan stand as victorious heroes.