The animation is amazing throughout though, from the characters to the mobile suit combat. Considering that the first movie is pretty faithful to the novel, I am bracing myself for the third movie’s inevitable conclusion. The movie ends on an uplifting note and it will be interesting to see how the other two novels are adapted, especially the end of the third. So the combat while fast, feels very weighty and the weapons are scary and potent with it.Īgain, the sound design in this whole section is amazing and really should be heard in a theater, if at all possible. These are also very big mobile suits, approaching twice the size of traditional and older designs. The Penelope is a massive and strange mobile suit. The big payoff in all this is the final fight between the Penelope and Mafty’s new Xi Gundam, both of which are equipped with Minovsky Flight systems and can travel at insane speeds within the atmosphere. Once the commotion has died down, one of the Mafty pilots is captured and Hathaway manages to slink away, to undertake his real mission.

The sound design for how it flies is also fascinating, as is the overall sound design for all the mobile suit combat. It really stands out, as it is meant to, as the technology behind it is pretty weird. The latest Federation prototype mobile suit using a Minovsky Flight system. We also get introduced to the Penelope at this point.

Federation mobile suits brazenly ignore the civilian population, and you get to see much of the resultant combat from ground level, which is definitely a novel approach for Gundam. It’s not long until Mafty forces turn up in the middle of the night and all hell breaks loose. With Hathaway and the passengers safe, the inquiry over the hostage situation begins and it’s clear that the Federation is after the leader of Mafty, the elusive Mafty Navue Erin.

So it’s no wonder that an organization like Mafty has started to challenge that. It’s clear that since the events of Char’s Counterattack and even Gundam Unicorn, the Federation has become increasingly corrupt. In doing so Hathaway receives the thanks of the Federation and is put up in a swanky hotel. The new Messer mobile suit used by Mafty.

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