So I am less optimistic about this Gundam show the more I see it. I hope I'm wrong, I want to see the first episode movie, hopefully in theaters.

I'll start with the good. So far the production quality looks great, the scenery of space colonies are breath taking. To me, the second coolest thing about the Gundam franchise is the space colonies, it's such a cool science fiction topic and the Gundam universe is about characters coming from numerous space colonies, not just one or two. I absolutely love seeing the detail the trailer gives about the colony and I want to see more. Of course the coolest thing about the Gundam franchise is the mechs but ....

...now onto the bad. To each their own on what they like to see in mech designs, some like walking tanks like MechWarrior and some like more power suits like Armored Core and Gundam, I personally love them all. These mech designs in Gundam GQuux don't look very good once you see them in their full size and still pictures. The lead Gundam itself looks more like a Evangalion unit, and the Zakus (the soldier grunt mechs) look like fat sumos. This is one of the few Gundam shows that's a collab with Sunrise, who are the current holders of doing Gundam animations (and they do a great job) and the Studio Karah, who have done the Neon Genesis Evangalion movies. I'll be honest, I think the studio Karah are trying to hijack the show with these awful designs just to do damage to a competitive studio. There is a joke that the Gundam of the show looks like it's the original Gundam but it sucked on a sour lemon. Another annoying trend is that this is the third Gundam show in a row to have the main character be female. She doesn't look like "girl boss" but this is getting weird. What's also bizarre is that the show is an alternative history of the original continuity of Gundam. It plays on the bad guy faction of the original Gundam winning the war. What's odd is that Gundam is already a franchise filled with alternative continuities so now they're doing an alternative of the original? Makes a person's head spin.

I hope this is a good Gundam show but I hope that this doesn't set a new standard. At least I have the second Hathaway movie later this year for a good mech military thriller.