The Whitehawk

It’s been a while since I wrote about Anime, and it’s not because I haven’t felt like writing, it’s just because I haven’t really been watching Anime. I could bore you with “tedious” details of what I’ve learned from a few Web Design books I’ve been reading, but since some of you come here to know what I think of the latest Anime fixes, I will tell you about the new Gundam series called “double-O Gundam” that follows the current trend for God-based animes.

If you’ve followed the 2 most popular God Anime shows, Death Note and Code Geass, Double-O Gundam is the obvious choice for those who enjoyed the genre.

The story kicks off with a young boy, who we guess is the main character of the show in the middle of a battlefield, carrying a machine gun and running away and shooting at giant mechs killing everyone in the ruined city. A scenery very similar to the one found in Metal Gear Solid 4.

Rather than describing the rest of the two episodes, I’d rather just tell you what I thought of them. I think this Gundam got off to a good start. It has a nice, and rather calm, song for it’s intro and an ending that is well, a bit weird, for the theme of the Anime.

The character design is great, although one of the characters from the main team looks like a girl, in fact, if he was mute I’d say he was a girl, although I still have my doubts. The other characters seem a bit generic, though well suited to the type of Gundams they pilot. Oh! There’s a character called Hallelujah Baptism… I kid you not. And the name of the organization that our heroes belong to is called Celestial Being, and their aim is to bring “holy judgment” upon those who wage war. That’s where the “God theme” comes from.

The team consists mostly of teenagers, and the leader is a red-head woman (though she looks like a teenager) with very voluptuous curves. Personally I think that the show got off on a good start and has managed to bring something new to the franchise without losing some of the characteristics of it’s predecessors. You can expect me to follow this show on the blog as often as I watch it.

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