Gundam 00 — Episode 15
This is one predictable episode. I mean, the title “Broken Wings” pretty much spoils any element of suspense that Sunrise’s scriptwriters can possibly muster, assuming they try at all.
So yeah, the Gundams all get owned in a spectacular fashion, clearing the way for newer and better Gundams to take over the mess. G00, like most recent Gundams, is really just a series of 25-minute weekly commercials promoting Gunpla.
Also, Liu Mei in se-ra-fuku. :O
Episode Summary
The HRL chose Taklamakan for the location of the military exercise because it has information that terrorists are planning to attack its enriched uranium facility there, ergo Celestial Being has to go there to stop the terrorists. This utterly makes no sense because the combined might of the entire world’s armies is going to be there, and I don’t think there are any terrorists stupid enough to mount an attack under such circumstances.
Nevertheless, we have three mobile suits and three cute little trucks conducting a head-on suicide attack while the entire world’s armies try hard to act blind and pretend to not notice. As storyline goes, this is as contrived a plot as it gets. Any more and we will have to invent a new word to describe it.
And what’s even stupider is that Celestial Being actually takes the bait and sends four measly Gundams to destroy a small group of terrorists in the middle of a desert crawling with nearly one thousand Union, AEU and HRL mobile suits. I mean, seriously? I’m sure HRL would’ve taken care of the terrorists on their own if they realized that the Gundams weren’t going to show up after all.
If only Virtue could fly
Allelujah didn’t do much
Lockon should watch his back around Graham…
So anyway, the Gundams all get pwned after this. Kyrios is captured by the HRL, Virtue by the AEU and Dynames by the Union. Exia almost fell to the French thanks to Ali’s new mobile armor, but a timely deus ex machina intervention by one of those new Throne Gundams saves Setsuna’s day.
Enact is backwards compatible with a Solar Conflict relic
God is here
Screencaps
Whiny bitch
Obligatory airtime
Kyrios and Dynames mating
The new bitch
“They should really keep me informed beforehand about these traps.”
“Hold steady damn it!”
Dynames cheating on Kyrios with a Realdo
“We totally didn’t notice this huge row of Tierens as we rushed into this obvious trap.”
“Nope, didn’t notice these either.”
Man, Realdos look lame
“If my calculations are correct, we should be completely pwned by now.”
Is that her school uniform?
GN bazooka in burst mode
The perfect desert camouflage
“I will make you a man.” Actual quotation
The design makes no sense
By the way, Mendoi-Conclave’s episode 14 is super delayed because we are still finishing up the karaoke effects. Personally I don’t really care that much about karaoke, but I’m not the one making the decisions. It should be out soon together with episode 15. (Our new tracker is here.)
Probably.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
..and btw virtue could fly, cant it? guess not under those circumstances.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
those union MS are actually Realdos…
January 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I believe Cosplayers, like Seiyuus, become stars of their own 300 years into the future. Wang Liumei could be a professional cosplayer, thus explaining her frequent change of costumes. Those costumes that she wore, could possibly characters of anime 300 years ahead.
Dynames looked like he’s going down on Graham’s Flag.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Indeed pink was considered to be the best desert camo by the renowned SAS. Now if only the AEU still had those gentlemen around, as a matter of fact whatever happened to the elite commandos in all the major powers?
January 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
BladeOfNether: Fixed.
0ne: WTF.
Crusader: That was just an excuse for a show of gay pride.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
wow when the series started finally making sense, they have the meisters actually fall for this trap.
January 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
So you mean Kyrios, Virtue and Dynames all got captured?
Wow I expect all of them to have new technology soon…..
January 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Why did I have a feeling that the Agrissa would be a Mobile Armor?
January 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I want to drop the series as I read your post.
=.= Sumeragi can only talk but cannot do much. Gundam 00 is kinda illogical in terms of war tactics.
4 VS the world. —> should use guerrilla tactic instead of fighting head-on. those who play RTS or Turn-base strategy game should know this the best.
January 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Sigh yet another blocked designed to do nothing but complain about Gundam 00. How many does that make, 4? 5?
January 20th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Sumeragi is a strategist from the start. And seriously, the 3 Gundams are already captured?
January 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
It appears as though that the Agrissa is just an extension to make the mobile unit look like a mobile armour. Correct me if the details are wrong.
And apparently there’s even a optional pack for Dynames to attach to Kyrios.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Sigh. Yet another comment designed to do nothing but complain about the way I blog. How many does that make, 40? 50?
I call it as I see it. Some episodes are just plain bad.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Did you miss the obvious part that these “Meisters” are way too overconfident in the abilities of their gundams? Ofcourse they were going to rush into an obvious trap. Sumeragi’s true talents are her two huge assets, nowhere near her head.
But yeah, I just liked the episode because the Gundams were getting their asses kicked by fodder. haha
January 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
They pretty much knew it was a trap lol
January 20th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
It’s basically identical to the way Jason Miao and a whole slew of other blogs on 00 are written so I wouldn’t really say I’m complaining about the way you blog in particular. I’m more concerned that a person who will be subbing this episode protests to hate it. I certainly hope those feelings won’t come through when you are translating it.
January 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
It appears that Gundam 00 Ep. 14 is going to be released soon after a week’s delay. For those who have been waiting for Menclave’s episodes, they have stated in their main site that there’s one more step to the release of Menclave’s version of the episode: Quality Checks.
BTW, in reply to the commenter of Comment 19, I’m pretty sure that you didn’t state a name in your reply, do you? BTW it’s up to DarkMirage’s own way to describe about the episodes. No one can change or refrain his words.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
arent any of these guys really paying any attention on the dialogs and script? up there somewhere i saw a post complaining on why the meisters attacked head-on even if its a trap. well if you know what the “declared” intentions of CB really is its quite logical for the meisters to throw their lives for the sake of the “cause”.
actually uniting the world and ending war is the “declared” intention of CB and they are doing it even if it means that the whole world will get mad at them and unite just to defeat them, eventho they died atleast they united the world?
and guerilla tactics hmmmmm… i guess he sure knows what he’s saying…
January 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
sumeragi knew it was a trap right so that means evrything was intentional????
the pilots dont decide on who they go against right coz vader shud approve it first????
January 20th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Kaioshin Sama:
I have never said that I hate G00. Please don’t misrepresent my views.
Why would I bother to translate something I hate? Do you realize how much effort it takes? My translation for G00 is the most accurate out of the three groups and I don’t see how my opinions of the episode can affect what the words really mean.
Criticism != hate, and G00 needs a lot of the former.
smoker:
Celestial Being is not stupid because they fought against overwhelming odds. They are stupid because they fought for nothing. The whole thing had nothing to do with eradicating wars.
All they wanted to do was to stop those terrorists, because the destruction of the uranium facility would’ve led to a global crisis that might create further conflicts.
But the problem is: No one, other than the HRL and CB, knew beforehand that those terrorists were going to attack. Therefore, from the viewpoint of the world who was told that the whole thing was just a military exercise, CB had no obligation to be there.
If CB had not interfered, no one would have found out otherwise, because HRL would’ve been forced to stop the terrorists themselves or risk being covered up by radiation from their own nuclear stockpile.
See the stupidity? I blame the scriptwriters.
And god damn it, it’s Veda, not Vader. They aren’t even pronounced the same way in Japanese. I swear Shinsen changed it just to be different.