Just finished Gundam Wing finally, it took me forever
Good OST , Amazing Mech designs, Beautiful but sometimes blatantly overused visuals,horrible story,horrible characters.
Half way through the anime started acting as if disliking war is some incredibly rare trait only few selected people have which was absolutely retarded.
The final episode was great and a had a nice callback to the very first episode,but the series in its entirety just felt incredibly dissapointing and a fun finale can't make up for over 40 episodes of utter mediocrity(Or even Less-than-mediocrity at times)
The absolutely most dissapointing thing was
Spoiler: "Episode 48" (click to see content)
Treize suddenly calling Wu Fei his friend,impaling himself on his trident,and Wu Fei crying over him. What the fuck
What happened there. Why did it happen
I understand Treize wanted to die in the war to show humanity how horrible wars are so they'd stop doing them forever (Which is a retarded notion on its own) but why call the guy thats been trying to kill you for a long while your friend and then why'd he cry over you
What
Another thing that made no sense
Spoiler: "Dorothy stuff" (click to see content)
Dorothy just popped up on the ship and Milliardo took one look at her penguin eyebrows and thought to himself "Hmmm yes, this lass looks like she'd do good operating a deathlaser of fuckall".
Also her constant switching from "Yamete Miriardo kun" to "Yes Zechs you're doing great" made no sense either. Milliardo at one point proclaims her a traitor and the next episode she's running freely around the ship like she's aight with everything agian.
Also her absolute obsession around Relena made me think she is in love with her or something but that never got mentioned or explained or anyhting so she just ended up looking like a ridiciolous fangirl
This writing was a mess
I'll watch the Endless Waltz movie later but I doubt it can make this any better
pretty much every gundam,except Zero,looked amazing
Zero looked really generic but most protagonists in gundam get the short end of the stick with the basic "White suit with generic gundam head" design (Rare deviations being Moustache Man and Double X and probably a few others I dont know or remember)
It also had amazing tracks. The OPs were great,and so were the battle themes. The ED felt outta place throughout the entirety of the series.What was Relena doing on a safari? Why as she there? Whats the point of that?
But yea visuals and sound were not enough to save this for me
4/10
Edit: Forgot to add but the plot armor for main characters was absolutely insane and killed absolutely all tension
Also Heero threatened to murder a bunch of characters and by the end of the series they're all alive and well and most are his friends now. Good going you.
Edit 2 : Also I have no idea why they made Chang Wufei hate women so much. All it did was make him absolutely hilarious to me and sometimes hard to take seriously when everything he does is stuff "Begone thot" facebook pages would do