Air Date: April 9, 2025

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Type: Series

Studio: Khara

Age Rating: 13+

Rating: 4/10

/Summary

Jelly fish finds freedom in Sekai-kei.

/Review

I have never had a show face fuck and rape me for trying to give it a fair shot. I'm a huge Gundam fan. I've spent days of my life dedicated to this series. It's one of my favorite things ever. SO when they announced a new Gundam series I was happy. It was more Gundam, how can I hate that. Even if the show wasn't the best I would still find something to enjoy about it, like Ms-08th Team. All because it was a Gundam.

This show does not feel like a Gundam. It feels more akin to the Eva rebuilds, which I don't like. Of course it would be similar since Tsurumaki is directing it. I do not hate Tsurumaki, FLCL is one of my favorite anime of all time and he has had his hand in some of my other favorites. However I do NOT want that kinda of writing in Gundam, before anything else I am watching for Gundam. So when I'm watching a series that claims to be a Gundam yet doesn't feel like it, I get mad.

It lacks a lot of things you'd find in other Gundam like political focus and world building. An example would be in 0083 when they dedicate an episode and a half to a former Zeon soldier that's lost an arm and meaning in life after the war. No mentions of this dude before hand, Kou(main character) happened to have a chance encounter with him so we get his story. You don't have stuff like that happening in Gquuuuuux. It has little nuggets and pieces where you'd think they're going into those directions but they don't. It's either the trio or legacy characters from past Gundams.

I understand that that since this more of a sekai-kei that they would try to give more time to the main characters to make it work, but they still fall on their faces because even after doing that the main trio still come out underdeveloped. We don't get much of Machu and Shuji's back story other than the basics of from another time line or I rebel against mommy. Shuji is especially egregious with it. He's supposed to be a mysterious character but he remains so mysterious that he feels flat. So much of the show spent portraying him as being the dude that can see colors until the ending where his plans are revealed, not the reasons behind them though. Ok so he wants to save Lalah and make her happy, why? I guess we'll never know.

I can't really say that Machu got much of any motivations that was interesting. No I don't want Machu to come from a war torn background wanting to have justice, but her becoming a intergalactic criminal should have more behind it than going through a rebellious phase. Maybe it could've been fixed if the show had better pacing and a bit more time. Although theres a bunch of other things that added time can go to that it might not fix it.

A thing I've seen people critize is the references. I don't feel like they're bad because of course a certain person would be metioned, they still exist in the universe. I do think the show leans on it too much for world building, because outside of call-backs, it doesn't really exist. The references in itself is fine to me, I have no problem with fan service and it makes sense in context of the world.

Another positive of the show would be the animation and overall presentation. The visuals are beautiful and are amazing. I think it has a little to much bloom but that's more of a problem that I have with modern anime. The mech fights look meh, it feels like they took actions figure and mashed them together to mimick actually fighting. I'm not sure if that's because of the cgi or how they decided to animate it. Even Gundam 0079 has better mech fights to me.

I don't reccomend the show at all. idc if she's a jelly fish or Nyaan is there.