Un sublime trailer de deux heures

"Fansub" vu sur Anime-Ultime, traduction officielle (vosta) revue sur Gundam.info.

Le potentiel renouveau de tout ce qui constituait Gundam, réhaussé par des dessins absolument sublimes et une animation excellente, malheureusement sapé par les circonstances entourant sa création.

So much attention for details (I loved Cecilia's hairs line variation based on the lighting), no awkward dialogue, Yasuhiko Yoshikazu's art in its most sublime rendition (along with Venus Wars)...
By the way, looks like he recycled one character-design for Unicorn:

The worst aspect was the music: it was "invisible". And the cuts of course. (it was hurting more the relations between characters than my understanding of the movie though)

The long opening sequence was certainly one of the best military attacks I have ever seen and the best Colony attack I saw in a Gundam.
The characters, especially the two central ones, were certainly interesting and had a good potential. Particularly to treat in a larger/better way a theme who had been more or less visible in previous incarnations: the family. (and the adults/children confrontation the director likes). And the other young and less young members of the crew seemed to make a good replacement for my favourite squad (the 0079 White Base).

The mobile suits designs were a welcomed change (the Crossbone "grunts" units being in the tradition of the Zaku, a monster-looking MS) marking a will in the rejuvenation of the title I suppose.
The apparition of beam shields made sense, the return to moderate sizes (for "economic purposes) came at the right time (after the monstruous Sazabi and Nu).
The way the Newtype element is treated makes everything we went through until now seem so aimless in the Newtype department: it is sad to see how this became nothing more than a legend of super pilots/soldiers. At the end, one of the things the past heroes tried to fight became the common idea.
"bugs" were a new step in the horror of man slaughter: it looked less simple than the effective gaz attacks but were in a sense more horrifying.
The final sequence was simply good.

Plaisir: 5/5
Score: 4~6/10 How am I supposed to rate something who was first amputed, then left without the sequel it was relying on ? (I seriously can't understand how 0083 could be more well-received to the detriment of).

When I see this, I have some difficulties to believe Zeta and G-Reco weird making are the works of the same man. I am seriously confused, because on one side, there is this and Mobile Suit Gundam who have really well told stories (for the limits they had to put with) and on the other hand, there are those other titles where Tomino was either at its peak of power/popularity or welcomed as a living God who are terribly told.
I read somewhere that the chara-designer who handled some animation posts too, Yasuhiko, had some inputs into the creative part on 0079 and accepted to come back for F91 on the condition he would take a part in the creation too. Maybe he is able to "balance" out Tomino's problems ?