Many years after the Universal Century is the Reguild Century, home to giant space elevators, a theocracy that controls all power distribution on the planet and relics of the past. Many say this is their lease favorite entry in the gundam franchise, calling it confusing but beautiful. Today we are taking a look back at Reconguista in G, to see if itās reputation has been well earned.
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Perhaps it was the hype Tomino was putting into the world building or perhaps it was the art style made it DOA for me? I couldn't get past episode 3 when this first aired and the hate for this series due to the messy plot and boring characters will never allow me to sit down and watch this to the end. Thank you for the recap/summary and saving me time. They should have made this into a video game instead like the MS SAGA Gundam JRPG. There's just too much info and characters that needs time which wasn't allotted for this show.
Glad to here IBO is a fav of yours. I really enjoyed it and was surprised to hear that it was not well loved
Also every time you said Space Pope in this video I thought of Futurama
I just saw a few clips of Gundam Seed Freedom making the rounds, so this is good timing. I personally loved G-Reco, it's what I can only describe as "heartfelt insanity." It had a lot to say and wanted to say those things at whatever pace it wanted, and I respect that.
Canāt wait for the G-Witch and SEED Freedom retrospectives, honestly loved both of them so much
Ive watch like 10 mim of this series and quit. After watching you excelent review, in glad i did.
Huh, is that how it went? I remember watching it and I'd have sworn up and down that I didn't finish it except I've definitely seen that bit where the ultimate antagonist is just accidentally punted off a cliff. I wish this had a better plot, as you said everything else about the show is amazing.
King Gainer adds to this show a lot
recap for Reconguista In G something happens to the characters and then they keep losing brain cells the anime
i wish i could love g reco because itās very stunning to look at but i just never knew what was happening
Super robot wars og is just as crazy
Well, at least the suit designs are pretty cool. Sounds like they tried to cram the series full of content and ended up having it be wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
I'm glad someone is finally talking about the greatest Tomino anime, Gundam G no Reconguista!
I was really looking forward to you getting to this series. So I can finally learn what it's about š. I tried to watch it when it came out & it was so bad, I dropped it super quick. I was really disappointed because this came out after Gundam Age, which I didn't like. So ti was two series in a row for me.
I wonder if weāll get a Eureka 7 Retrospective in the future. G-Reco really piqued my interest in revisiting the series
i feel the series had a lack of time o so much things to fit , when i saw i needed to read a lot to understand, and with this video well fills a lot of gaps.
and the movies are doing a good job fixing the series, is not magic, but is better.
this honestly feels like gundam fire emblem
Ringo went from a red unit to a blue unit by talking to him with the right party member and no one bats an eye
I watched G-Reco via the compilation movies and while the added scenes and changes did make it a bit more coherent, in the end itās the same story that is like drinking through a firehose of information. Hell I didnāt even catch the Kuntala explanation on my watch through and wow is that dark for like, no reason. Overall theyāre widely regarded as a better experience of the series, even if ultimately it ends in more or less the same place.
Great review, you can definitely miss things in G-Reco so you emphasizing those points is definitely appreciated!
I loved the design of the G-Self, but every character in the show was insufferable. I couldn't finish this show.
I'd like too imagine recongestia is to show war and conflict stupid
Dropped this by episode 6. Mind you, I usually give an anime 3 ep before deciding wether to continue watching or not. Just like this video said, it's too confusing. I like the Gundam though. Perfect Pact is sexy af.
I wonder if the movies are just better to watch over the TV.
Or do they ultimately both fail.
It really is a shame about the story because this Gundam series probably has my favorite designs and art style out of any Gundam
This is a series I struggled with and gave up on after about 5 episodes. Thank you for going through that pain for us!
As always, this another compelling video that I've already watched or listened to 4 or 5 times.
I mean, there's a reason I've been a member of your channel for over a year now. Much love man! ā¤
If you saw the compilation movies, there's an extra bit at the end where Noredo and Bellri end up together.
Unfiltered Tomino incoherent nonsense. I will forever be thankful for First Gundam, but G Reco makes it clear that at some point after FG, Tomino fell off. I still enjoy Zeta, ZZ, and CCA, but the signs were there. Eventually, his style of frustratingly impulsive, unreasonable and naive characters (showcased in force here and in Turn A) became all he wanted to write.
Stay retired, Tomino.
lol the logic of this series like ZZ Gundam on steroids
I have watched the show, I have watched this retrospective. I still have not a single clue what the heaven was going on in the show.
Yes Sir!
Steer is the most beautiful Gundam waifu.
I have watched so many of your vids and some of them more than a few times. Everytime you drop a gundam video, Iām stoked
I swear to god, I know I watched all of g reco, and do not remember ANY of this
I loved g reco, but I have an infinite threshold for confusing and sparse information so I understand it not being too popular. I mostly like seeing Yoshiyuki's style reach it newest point, and the art and animation of Gundam is always pushing the bar further forward.
Hadn't thought of it until you mentioned it, but I'm wondering if the Kuntala were perhaps inspired by or a reference to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, where it is implied that the Eloi, who spend all day lounging about eating fruits, are perhaps in turn eaten by the Morlocks, who live underground and have an entire technologically advanced society underground. Both races are thought to be descendants of far future humans, evolving in different ways.
Kinda surprised you hadn't mentioned that Tomino claims (I believe in an interview) that G-Reco takes place after Turn A in the timeline, despite numerous contradictions with hard dates on the timeline for both series (such as Reglid being 1000 years post-UC while Turn A takes place in CC 2345) as well as the worldbuilding. The more I reflect on his shows and writing the more I determine that Tomino is wrong about them lol
the techno babble of G reco is Anno level
I watched this show 2 1/2 times and I still can't follow everything. It's so boring and the thing that makes me love it still is the art and mecha designs.
This is what happened when Tomino stop being depressed. lol
Also
BANDAI WHERE IS THE G-SELF GUNDAM MG 1/100!!!!
I really do not like Gundam G No Reconguista. Just like everyone, the world building and pacing is bafflingly confusing and never slows down enough to digest the info. The animation, character designs, and mech designs maybe extremely fantastic and better than most mecha series, but holy fuck does the wacky directing bring it down.
I've said it once and I will say it again, Yoshiyuki Tomino is the Frank Miller of anime. The man has created the greatest most iconic masterpieces of the mecha genre and made it to what it is now, but as he got older his newer works grow bafflingly infuriating.
New to the channel but have been binging it! I enjoyed gundam anime as a kid and would check back in periodically but was held back by how confusing it could get. I really appreciate the breakdowns of the series so I can finally make sense of something I always liked but was kept from fully enjoying due to not getting everything! Thanks
Anyone know if the films fix anything?
Thanks for the video! Your channel has helped me figure out what series I'm willing to invest time into!
Ah my favorite DragonBall z character: president Zuchinni
Did I hear duiletst of the roses' sound track??šš
Greco is a rare example of a gundam series better served by just making AMVs with the battle scenes then watched as a story
Fuckin awesome gundam designs tho, loved using it as a unit in SRW
God this show was a headache to follow. Another example of a show benefiting from more episodes than just 25. So much could have been fleshed out properly with 49-50 episodes like other Gundam series.
Nam the people in this show think they are bad ass until one of the MANY Zeon Remnants pop up with a thousand year old OP Mobile Armor.
g reco had cool designs that you can see ideas of reused for ibo and wfm like theres a suit you even had from the git labs guys that is just a stripped down schwarzette
like design wise the show was a departure from gundam but did look good def felt more like eureka 7 but story wise
my god this is awful
it def feels like it got gutted and half the story was ripped out at times and the show cut halved and compressed badly
NGL So much of this just screams to me "Lets do TurnA Gundam again BUT BIGGER" but instead its just way way worse, less visually cohesive units & factions and everyone seems to contradict with their own philosophies. Way too many Factions involved with not nearly enough of the setting explained out the gate. So many characters and groups just share identical looking mechs and ships that the only differences seem to be the colors on them.
It seems like the only positives of this show are a lot of great individual character designs and a handful of neat looking Mobile Suits and Ships. But I wouldn't ever tell someone to watch a confusing messy show just to see one cool robot I'd save them the time and just tell them to google it.
Would rather just watch TurnA Gundam instead over this and thats like TWICE as long lmfao