IT'S JUST CROSS ANGE HOLY SHIT. THIS MOVIE SOUNDS SO FUCKING BAD

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firstly, the movie is very hamstrung together. The pacing of the movie is suffocating. It jumps from one plot point to another and another.

there is no character development. In the beginning, it initially tease Kira as mentally unstable or deranged, with the effects of his conversation with durandal and the destiny plan, even hinting at an obsession with it.

the main villain Orpheus (or whatever his name is idk) is something out of fanfiction. He and the entire black knight squadron can read and manipulate minds. In addition, Orpheus desperately wants to bang lacus (to the point he attempted to rape her)

the movie has all the issues of destiny (constant flashbacks, nonstop reuse of old footage (yes Nicol getting sliced again) and lacklustre use of characters (Agnes especially)

Agnes is a character that can be described as a flay clone but not only exhibiting her bad traits but written even more poorly than flay herself

this movie was written with a boner. Literally you have boobs swinging left and right and athrun showing next level resistance to mind control by thinking of an aroused cagalli (I’m not making this up, those who have watched it can corroborate this.

strike freedom has a katana and impulse has three new color schemes… yay

the whole last arc is just super robot wars

Overall, this movie was a mess. You could tell the story was stitched together with plot points and not a story. In fact, this should have been a third season of Gundam seed, not a movie. Had this been a season instead of a movie, this movie could’ve worked.

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Skimmed through comments on Chinese forums. We have

Enemies who can read minds / mind control

Archangel was blown off.

Kira cried because Lacus was NTRed away.

Athrun escaped mind control thinking of aroused Cagali

Shinn can’t be read because there’s nothing to read.

Movie ended with Kira and Lacus on a beach.

The only casualties seemed to be the Dom pilots

For MSs, we have Strike Freedom in a new backpack with a katana and ZZ style head laser, Infinite Justice enclosed in Z’Gok build fighter style, Akatsuki with a new backpack later borrowed by Destiny, different forms of Impulse in new colours, new Duel and Buster Gundams using Meteor.

Edit: enemies were to revive Destiny plan while Shinn delivered the final blow to their weapon of mass destruction. Massive win for Shinn fans. Flay and Stella appeared as space ghosts. New character voiced by Houko Kuwashima survived. Athrun and Cagali got married.

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    • Cromalin [she/her]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago
      spoiler

      have you seen cross ange? because this is such a big thing in cross ange, it's like borderline the main plot of the show

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Nope, I've thought about trying to watch Cross Ange or Darling in the Franxxx, but I've tended towards watching shows that are enjoyable instead lol.

        I think watching through 100 episodes of SEED for GGP killed my appetite for really garbage anime.

        • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          Cross Ange is awful in the beginning, mid in the middle (they lay off the CW-Worthy stuff for a few episodes for some reason) and awful in the end. Truly a delicacy for enjoyers of bad media - I would not recommend it to anyone else.

          I didn't get far into Franxx, I found it kinda dull, but apparently the worst of parts happen later in the show.

          • Cromalin [she/her]
            hexagon
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            10 months ago

            even if you enjoy bad media you need to be prepared for

            major cw sa

            SO much sexual assault. some is just standard anime "haha i tripped and landed face first in your crotch! whoops, i gotta suck snake venom from your inner thigh without your permission!" stuff, some is predatory lesbian shit, and some is through mind control, which is the major thing fukuda seems to have brought to seed freedom

        • Cromalin [she/her]
          hexagon
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          10 months ago

          you should not watch cross ange. it's probably the worst show i've seen all of