Friday, November 10, 2006
my first review part 2
althrough personally i like SDF Macross a lot, i feel some parts could have done a bit better such as i felt some of the villans should look a bit more dynamic with a bit more impact (althrough i have no complain about the movie since some characters have been complete redone). i took notice when i watched and realised Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto is involved with character design of Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket and Top O Nerae (which known as Gunbuster or ???????!). i felt Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto have improved a lot at portraying character's feeling, the characters looked a lot smoother looking than what he done 7 years ago in SDF Macross.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket or just Gundam 0080 for short is released as a 6 episodes Original Video Animation (OVA). it is really a gundam version of the movie Hope and Glory and Empire of the Sun. Gundam 0080 descried a kid called Al who is a big fan of zeon mobile suit MS-06f Zaku and how he meet zeon soldier Barnie and how he learn how harsh a war can be through Barnie's death.
the series have sucessfully portrayed the down side of war, sorrow, and the feeling of nothing can be done to change the war. the characters' appearance and expression fits prefectly with their personality and role of the series. althrough the trend of SDF Macross character design is going in the same direction (a design with pretty looking guys and girls) you can also see a lot of change in Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto's design from SDF Macross, moving from a heroism shojo manga style pretty looking war hero and heroine design to a more mature design that truely captures character's feelings and emotions, which i felt was a huge leap forward.
Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto is also heavily involved in the illustration of gundam novels which includes, Mobile Suit Gundam Char Counter Attack: Beltorchika's Children, Mobile Suit Gundam F91 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.
Front Cover of Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel vol 1
in his latest work Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel, which descride a girl struggles to come to grips with her identity as she enrolls in a Federation school, as previously she was a Zeon, his style have gone to a popular early 90s shojo manga style with a lot of tone and detail, in what i think work great with the series.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket or just Gundam 0080 for short is released as a 6 episodes Original Video Animation (OVA). it is really a gundam version of the movie Hope and Glory and Empire of the Sun. Gundam 0080 descried a kid called Al who is a big fan of zeon mobile suit MS-06f Zaku and how he meet zeon soldier Barnie and how he learn how harsh a war can be through Barnie's death.
the series have sucessfully portrayed the down side of war, sorrow, and the feeling of nothing can be done to change the war. the characters' appearance and expression fits prefectly with their personality and role of the series. althrough the trend of SDF Macross character design is going in the same direction (a design with pretty looking guys and girls) you can also see a lot of change in Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto's design from SDF Macross, moving from a heroism shojo manga style pretty looking war hero and heroine design to a more mature design that truely captures character's feelings and emotions, which i felt was a huge leap forward.
Mr Haruhiko Mikimoto is also heavily involved in the illustration of gundam novels which includes, Mobile Suit Gundam Char Counter Attack: Beltorchika's Children, Mobile Suit Gundam F91 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.
Front Cover of Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel vol 1
in his latest work Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel, which descride a girl struggles to come to grips with her identity as she enrolls in a Federation school, as previously she was a Zeon, his style have gone to a popular early 90s shojo manga style with a lot of tone and detail, in what i think work great with the series.
# posted by viansiu @ 9:23 pm 
