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Frustratingly predictable – The Federation pilots are wiped out like hapless fodder within moments of deployment, virtually annihilated without putting up any real fight. The ensuing battle between the newest veteran pilot and her Zeon counterpart ends in a stalemate. This might have worked if it led to a twist—but of course, it doesn’t.

As usual, the Gundam doesn’t just tip the balance—it flips the entire table. What could have been a tense skirmish between green Federation recruits and a handful of Zeon veterans turns into a one-sided slaughter, completely devoid of meaningful tactics. The Zeon, as always, seem hopelessly incapable of countering a Gundam that ... slices and blasts its way through any opposition. Character development is illusionary; it’s just a toilet paper-thin veil of investment time that gets shredded the moment the Gundam enters the scene. Pilot who's depressed that his family was killed? Nah, he'll die right away to a tacky and annoying main character.

Is that fun? No, it’s not.

The plot adds little to the previous storyline about the doctor, functioning mostly as a subplot of a subplot.

On the positive side, the art is gorgeous, the character designs are strong, and the voice acting and sound design are top-tier—just like the previous entry. Unfortunately, these strengths are like lip gloss for a pig. Wasted on things that structurally could have been easily better. Perhaps its just easier to write battle plots with a handful of one dimensional characters.

BLUF; Art is excellent, music is good, characters are interesting, plot could be better - and the series comes with its usual annoying flaws.

Do you ever wish you could escape the repetitive scenes of Gundam's eviscerating helpless Zakus? I sure wish I could. Although this movie does a FAR better job than most Gundam series do, it still makes a point to show how one sided Gundam engagements are. Either the Feddies are meat fed to Zeon aces, or the Zeon get melted by the Gundam - as classic now as it was 50 years ago. 6/10

Character plots; there's a load of loose ends by ... end of the story, but otherwise, I really found the characters to be compelling, even the disposable ones are given character even with a few seconds in passing. I love it a lot. This is how stories should be - humanizing everyone with even seconds of screen time. 8/10

The art is equally as impressive - the eyes, the colors, the angles... just everything about it is great. 9/10

Music-wise - sometimes I felt like the sound scheme was a bit too edgy, like shouting if "IF YA HEAR MY JAZZ YA GONNA DIE". Cool your jets edge lord. Sometimes the BGM is distracting in bad ways, so I'd give that a 6/10.

Overall, I'd call this artwork worth your time, especially if you love gundam. 7/10!

So i dont bore you to death with the usual essay-typed review, here's my (probably unpopular) opinion.

The first sell of the story is that the character uniforms are reminiscent of german/british gets up in WWII, and the obvious Kettenkrad motor bike for another. So there's an obvious appeal to the wehraboo's community we all know exists. Yet not once do they address that back story of this. What happened to thier unit? What happened to thier home? None of this is looked at while they absently look through vacant cities. I'd obviously be a bit disturbed if literally everything just died and vanish around me.

The ... second glaring issue is that these cities lack any clear concept of thier destruction - theres no bones, there's no damage. The downed aircraft in the first episode lets you on to think there will be more to talk about, yet this totally abandoned. Where is the immersion?

Character wise, they're pretty standard minus a few quirks. Chito is an idiot and if i worked with her, i'd question is she's even a bit slow. She's like 16 years old if not older, and cant figure out why noise echos in a metal box. People say "trust", but in episode one, CHITO POINTS A GUN AT HER AND ROBS HER FRIEND FOR A CHOCOLATE BAR. At that point, i'd say no, I am done. Good-bye. This clings to the back of my mind for the rest of the story. How could you ever trust someone like that again?

So wrapping it up, the story feels numb, uninviting, and contradictory. Its not terrible, but in my opinion, its not that good.

After pondering on Dragon Dentist, i decided i try to share my mindset as to why this Anime could have been better. Beware of spoilers.

First, being in the military i found it interesting that the story had a strong basis for men of war, combat, and so forth yet it was WRONG on an epic scale.

The majority of soldiers in warfare do not have murderous intent, so the fact that entire military units where completely annihilated due to this idea that most soldiers harbor this intent is ridiculous. Most people have no wish to kill the enemy. Those troops cowering with tears in thier ... eyes are simply cowards and the fact that they survive over everyone else makes me wonder what the directors where trying to say.

Storywise - There is a lot unsaid. What are dragons? Why does the dragon favor one army over the other? What stops dentists from living normal lives on earth? Are dentists immortal aside from mortal death? There was a good hour and a half to elaborate more on this, or otherwise contribute more to the story. A huge contradiction i did notice within the story was that Bell didn't shoot in the end because he knew that Blanco who had killed him would shoot him, thus the cavity would kill him. Inaction is still an action, and Bell did something with the intent that Blanco
would die consequently. That is murderous intent on Bells behalf.

Artwork - I did enjoy the vivid animation and very clean artwork. It is top tier for modern anime. Full points in that category. The archetecture was beautiful and the warscenes and military applications where well done. The mushi where interesting and what they contributed in style lent towards the story notion of their detachment from conventional life.

That said, i feel this was more of a rant, but as a review and feedback i hope this was helpful and interesting to read. Thank you.

Story: Throughout the beginning of Inuyasha the plot was great with its constant fast pace and creativity but as it progressed it fell into a plain cycle. after reaching around episodes near the 70's the filler episodes take over. Naraku escapes repeatedly while the group loses just about every shard they collect. not until the end are the shards finally taken care of. Dont get me wrong though, the story really is enjoyable.

Art: the art was decent but didn't seem to have much flair to it. the forests scenes and medows where well done and had plenty of color along with the well done desolate ... landscapes and mountains. aside from that there was little deviation to mix it up. with 150+ episodes the same scenery, no matter how good, eventually becomes dull.

Sound: the sound was OK but not great. just as the episodes became duller, so did the music. with every scene, you could begin to predict that same repetitve music that played over and over. towards the last 60 episodes theres was little to no unique pieces of music added.

Character: the character development was good in the thought put into them but once again, the flaw that always hit was the lack of development. sango and mirokus romance never seemed to progress and inuyasha and kagome never seemed to get any closer. also despite the large group of protagonists, no significant characters ever died throughout the anime either, not counting the antagonists. kikyo was already dead with to start. to finish this part, that "sit boy" joke that was funny just became old as it went on, if i was inuyasha i wouldn't have put up with such a childish leash as kagome used it for.

Overall: 6/10 - after the original charm of a fresh and well designed anime started to wear off into a repetive and dull series where it became more of a chore to complete the series than actually to enjoy it. the beginning of the series i would give a 9/10 but the innability to further develop such as the amount of piontless fillers, lack of character development, and lack of new music really killed the story.

Gundam seed wasn't one the best series in my opinion. the character development was decent but lacked anything deep or insightful. the main character named kira wasn't the best choice to act as a saint like warrior. He moaned and groaned about fighting throughout the story while everyone else accepted it.

the combat dynamics was exaggerated but somewhat enjoyable. the main gundams or the "prototypes" acted as a "shinigami of gundams" where they wreaked death to any ship unarmed with gundams or top-of-the-line defenses. in large scale warfare when both side had powerfull figurehead gundams like the justice and liberty vs. prototype gundams (x3) each ... side demolished the standard mobile suites like stepping on ants. there was also parts where they repeated the same scene just to fill the combat which realy detracts from the quality.

the music was decent but not anything less or more than standard, there wasnt much flair or energy contributed to the story by it. the art was good where it contrasted from deserts, space, woodland, and urban areas and was semi-colorfull.

overall the setup was straightforward and good but the quality didnt seem to match that of other series. i liked the space combat which is usually left out and the use of space fleets. overall in general quality and enjoyment, i give it a 7/10