Pas une critique!

Fansub vu sur Anime-Ultime, traduction officielle revue sur Gundam.info.

Cette série n'aura pas du tout été ce que j'attendais une fois 0079 achevé. Le focus passe du monde, de sa politique et des mécaniques de la guerre à l'expérience purement personnelle d'un conflit armé,, ce qui est également très intéressant. Elle parvient à fournir plusieurs personnages suffisamment différents pour constater comment chacun vit les terribles évènements qui vont les submerger. Mais...

The biggest problem of this series is its length. It is horribly long and it felt at times laborious to go through (I say that and I was raised with 60+ eps anime and love full 26eps ones). I love a lot of mecha shows but was never into robot battles, here it takes 50% of each episode with almost no exception. Many of those skirmishes feel strongly artificial and bring nothing. A 26eps format would have worked a lot better because, even aside from the battles, the series had to repeat over and over the same things (lots of the main characters had antics to deliver each episode) to be able to reach its full year length.
The fact it is a civil war makes it different enough from the OYW, but the antagonists leaders,their goals/visions, are mostly lame. Paptimus had a good concept for example but they didn't really made a lot out of him, he seems pretty weak compared to any Zabi (except maybe Garma). Haaman is probably the only good "bad guy" and I was saad for Mineva's situation. There were in a few occasions up to four camps with almost none supporting an ideology.

The themes, the exposition of the war horrors, and Camille's progression, his struggle and failure to apply his own way to the conflict he falled in were very good. And they maintained a very light 0079 feeling with the political plots. On that plan, it was a successfull "migration" sequel (like Aliens for Alien).
But this great story was poorly build. It would benefit from a manga retelling like Yasuhiko did for the original series. I don't have high hopes because this artist does mainly manga about politic and history.

Score: ??/10
Du brillant, de l'insupportable... Cette chose étrange étant si inconstante, ma notation devrait osciller de 9 à 4

Plaisir: 1/5

Complément:
Rapport Deluxe ~ une interview avec Yoshiyuki Tomino