It was pretty good, though i think it could have been a bit longer. Some of the time scale things were kind of wonky. For example, Quatre said something like "It'd take 5 days to catch up with the Gundam carrier", but then catches up to it that night or something weird.
Dekim and Mariemaia reminded me of Haman and Mineva, though Dekim wasn't nearly as much of a babe as Haman was.
Seriously:
Dekim was pretty good as the villain, and his final scenes were great.
The flashbacks were pretty interesting, though I dunno. I can't help but feel they should have been in the main series. That said, they were appreciated none-the-less.
It's amazing how much better quality the animation was. I mean, I know it's silly to compare an OVA to a TV series, especially since the OVA is two more years recent. But there are some moments I'd genuinely consider to be mecha porn.
The redesigns were pretty good, I thought. Sandrock with a Cloak, althought it was brief, was pretty cool. Not sure why they recolored Heavyarms green though, even in the flashbacks. Are we to infer that it was always supposed to be green? Not that big a deal though.
I was hoping they'd go a different rout with Wu Fei. Play up the remorse he felt for killing pretty much the coolest person in the original show, but they took it somewhat differently.
Trowa was pretty awesome, and Duo got some shining moments and was a bro.
I'm so glad they fixed Relena finally. Her moment when she was like "oh yeah, my ideas on pacifism are pretty wrong" was nice.
Would have liked to have seen more Zechs. It seems in EW, he's entered the "Quatro" phase of being a Char clone, which worked. His character development was something like OYW Char > CCA Char > Z Cha...I mean Quatro, and I think it worked pretty well. Still he felt under utilized.
In terms of rankings, I think I'll just stick this with the rest of GW, since it's pretty similar in tone and was really just the finale of that anyway.
Next up: Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop...
I mean, After Wars Gundam X.
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