What age did you grow out of Gundam and into Five Star Stories?
>>22131771>What age did you grow out of GundamAfter my first one
FSS is so bad. It's like Nagano doesn't understand what made L-Gaim good.
>>22131771>reading booksNo thanks
>>22131771I grew into L-Gaim actually.
>>22131829This. FSS has too many words per page. It's practically a novel
>>22132038If I wanted to read walls of text on a page, then I'd read a proper intellectual SF novel and not a manga. Nagano doesn't understand the "show" part of "show don't tell."
Did Lachesis fight for the commies or nazis?
>>22131771When I realized that snapkits were for children>>22131826>what made L-Gaim goodWhat?>>22131829>>22132038>>22132055I too would think something was a novel if all I read of it was a wiki page.
>>22131771I like both
>>22132143She's a good person so obviously the commies.
>>22132143>>22132511>Division NordlanticUh...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_SS_Volunteer_Panzergrenadier_Division_Nordland
>>22131771Whats this about? I’ve seen the artwork a lot. Anyone want to give me a qrd or should I just google it and check it out?
>>22132521It's a multi-protagonist anthology of loosely-tied stories that take place in the same universe that features some robots every once in a while. Also untranslated after volume 10.
>>22132525Thanks, also this sounds pretty neat.
>>22132529The movie is fun too but makes sense only after reading the first volume which it adapts.
>>22131771>Assuming all questions have a binary answer.Concerned_Lachesis.jpeg
How did /m/ react to the news in 1987?
Actually just started reading it, finished part 1 of v04 (american v09) a few days ago. Was pretty excited for it after L-Gaim, kinda hyped myself up a bit too much though in retrospect. Gorgeous artwork, great characters, and amazing attention to detail. On the other hand, it feels like he goes into that autistic headcanon super-story telling a bit too hard. Rather, I'm happy he has an outline for all the events he intends the story to have, but "As the planet is destroyed, the immortal god emperor of light is ejected from his mech entirely made of gold - however his android wife and the mech are thrown through time and space. They'll travel thousands of years before reuniting in the year 7776" sounds hella chuuni on paper. Similarly while some names are generically fantasy/sci-fi and are fine, ×bin (pronounced Crossbin) and that pseudo-Cleopatra with the sneeze name are eye-rolling.My biggest issue with it currently is it feels a bit too much like this guy >>22132055 said in the sense of too much tell, not enough show. I get the sense of this vast multi-generational pantheon of heroes and characters, all of them seeming interesting, but it feels a bit too brusque with depictions of them. Even if it was just meant to be buildup, the war with Hagooda felt too brief for me to care about Ulicul and Colus; there's a page later after the L-Gaim sneak peek that has Clotho looking back on them & others around that timeframe, but...we barely knew them. I have no emotional connection to them for it to work (picrel). I need more time with these people to enjoy them more. I want more content. I love what I've gotten, I just need more.Keep in mind I'm only just into Kastenpo with the attack on the village, so these "issues" may be fixed going forward, but even knowing he's ongoing...with only 17 volumes so far it's either going to continue to be too fast-paced, snopshot style for my taste, or he's going to die before the story goes anywhere.
>>22132984And to clarify, I'm 100% down for the chuuni shit. It's more just that it feels like he's jumping the gun with it . Once (if) I see it in action it'll be completely fine. I dig almost everything about TFSS, I just want some refinement. On that note, one (editor-related, not author) aspect that could be improved is a proper dramatis personae. We've got a lot of names and characters running around, and with how outlandish the names are at times something to help us keep them sorted in our heads would be vastly appreciated. I know the "starring in this chapter" thing at the start of each part does something similar, but only for new characters (and also, again, I'd very much appreciate if he'd tone down the "this is X, the dude who's yada yada, blada blada of the such and such empire [fine so far]. As you can see, his brash personality will lead to his demise this chapter after instigating a fight with Y [this is not fine, why do you need to spoil every arc by describing it before I see it, Nagano? Put this at the end of the arc, not before]"
>>22132984The English version was bundled random parts of the artbooks with all the extra bios and details which are all supplementary. So those extra events mentioned are basically like Gundam MSV and don't really matter to the actual events of the manga. Most of the shit on the timeline never happens in the manga and the only reason it's there is because Nagano transplated it over from the L-Gaim mook that all of FSS is based on.
>>22132513What did Nagano mean by this?
>>22132038>this>proceeds to complain about something that's distinctly a Tomino'ism mainstayLike groomer, like groomee turns out
I never knew L-gaim was connected to this.For the longest time, I had no idea what this was, I only know it because Newtype magazine used to (still does?) contain pages of the manga of this.
>>22132498Is the Bangdoll on the left the Volks plastic kit?
>>22132680I tried to find this on Youtube but no luck. Anyone know if it is online to watch somewhere?
>>22132521You should fuck off.
>>22131771Gothicmade isn't real
>>22135056Workshop Cast resin. You can tell because it actually has a good sculpt.
It is very curious how every mecha designer, artist, or talented person in the anime industry thinks FSS is a masterpiece. But consoomer Gundumb manchildren here hate it.
>>22133694That he wanted people to write "BASED" in the future
>>22131771about a year ago>>22132498l-gaim IS good though. tomino and nagano make an excellent team and complement each other greatly. that's what happens when you get two genius friends working together
>>22137889it's not really that weird, they just haven't developed taste yet. gundam as a franchise, including the mecha designs (apart from the brief experimental period they had with zeta/zz), is designed to have mass appeal and be accessible to everyone. it works as a great entryway into the 'genre'. fss has great elaborate designs, but they aren't really mass appeal and 'accessible' so while they appeal to seasoned mecha fans and people in the industry they can be a bit offputting to people new to mecha stuff.i followed a similar trajectory myself, gundam basically got me into mecha then over time i started liking more elaborate and 'weird' designs. when i was newer to mecha i really didn't like fss designs, then i started seeing how good mortarheadds actually were but didn't get gtms, and now i love gtms as well and think a lot of gundam designs except the more obscure zeta era and late uc designs are kind of boring (inlcuding some i used to love)basically, you need a high iq to understand fss and pickle rick
>>22137889>every mecha designer, artist, or talented person in the anime industry thinks FSS is a masterpiece>everyYou went to every one of these people and asked them? Doubt it.It's always a red flag for bullshit when people use terms like "every" when speaking for other peoples opinions.
>>22139026enough to notice that is it a mana source for a fair few artists. if you ever go to Japan youll also see FSS stuff in all the hardcore hobby shops and otaku caves. I havent investigated FSS myself, but as an outsider I know its something Ill need to look into eventually.
>>22137927We need another L-Gaim installment.
>>22131771It is depressing that the board is more often relying on bait threads. This board is slow you don't need to do this to have a 5 star thread
>>22137927FSS designs are so fucking beautiful
