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 Gundam Build Divers is the newest series in the Gundam franchise, and the latest installment of the Gundam Build sub-franchise though no direct connection has been established in canon yet. While the previous two series in the Build franchise took place in live arenas with real gunpla animated by Our main trio of characters for this season are: Riku Typical shonen protagonist, he's good at almost everything but has less common sense than a particularly naive potato. (May have superpowers) Pilots the 00 Diver, for which he sacrificed most of his Gunpla collection. Yuki The best friend and general know-it-all. Pilots the GM III Beam Master which he previously assembled for a contest and won because of course he did. Momo Tom-boyish classmate, gets into GBN because the boys did because it's a shonen series.  Pilots the Momokapool which contains another smaller Kapool. (Unconfirmed mid-season upgrade: fits inside larger Kapool)The show airs Tuesdays at 5.55PM (JST) and is later uploaded to the GundamInfo Youtube channel. Prologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zR55C33TLA Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7j_l6_lCs
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Apr 6, 2018 19:30
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Yo I heard there were hot guys with fox ears in this?
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Apr 6, 2018 20:14
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DisDisDis posted:Yo I heard there were hot guys with fox ears in this? it also has two oni dudes and this guy  
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Apr 6, 2018 20:31
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Wow. I'm gonna watch Gundam Build Divers!
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Apr 6, 2018 20:34
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i like the multiple homo adult men but it looks like the protags are obnoxious kids e: just watched the exchange that's like "with you we could win the nationals" "soccer's cool but there's something I want to do more" "what's that?" "play videogames" and I'm revising my opinion cuz that's funny
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Apr 6, 2018 23:19
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DisDisDis posted:i like the multiple homo adult men I feel it's only fair to make you aware of the non-zero chance that Magee is Nanami using a male avatar for GBN.  
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Apr 6, 2018 23:46
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i think it might be even more of a gunpla commercial than the previous seasons, which is really saying something.
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Apr 6, 2018 23:47
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think it might be even more of a gunpla commercial than the previous seasons, which is really saying something. It certainly gets the "let's build a Gunpla while talking about how cool building Gunpla is" right out there immediately, but both other seasons had that episode as well and in the first season the protagonist literally lived in a gunpla store, so there's a high bar to clear.
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Apr 6, 2018 23:52
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ActionZero posted:I feel it's only fair to make you aware of the non-zero chance that Magee is Nanami using a male avatar for GBN. i'm not sure how to feel
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Apr 6, 2018 23:57
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ActionZero posted:I feel it's only fair to make you aware of the non-zero chance that Magee is Nanami using a male avatar for GBN. that owns tbh
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Apr 7, 2018 00:01
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Look forward to my fanfic about a lesbian fujoshi couple that meet as camp gay man avatars in Gundam FighterZ Nexus Online
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Apr 7, 2018 00:09
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That said, aren't those pretty common/stereotypical 'cutesy' poses anyway?
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Apr 7, 2018 01:58
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I want to believe Nanami is secretly the cool high rank mentor.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:06
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chumbler posted:I want to believe Nanami is secretly the cool high rank mentor. It would be a really great twist and make it less annoying that someone who works as a clerk in a gunpla store/gunpla MMO lan cafe claims to not know poo poo about gunpla(because she's bullshitting to make the kids feel smarter).
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Apr 7, 2018 04:22
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it would also mean that instead of watching the shop she was playing a mmo the whole time, which is great
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Apr 7, 2018 04:23
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ActionZero posted:I feel it's only fair to make you aware of the non-zero chance that Magee is Nanami using a male avatar for GBN. This is cool and good
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Apr 7, 2018 16:04
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Kanos posted:It would be a really great twist and make it less annoying that someone who works as a clerk in a gunpla store/gunpla MMO lan cafe claims to not know poo poo about gunpla(because she's bullshitting to make the kids feel smarter). It’d be cool, but I know better than to hope.
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Apr 7, 2018 23:06
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chumbler posted:I want to believe Nanami is secretly the cool high rank mentor.  Plus we have people roleplaying animals and furries it's only normal for someone to have picked the opposite gender Pureauthor posted:That said, aren't those pretty common/stereotypical 'cutesy' poses anyway? If anything nanami leaving the store unattended for like an hour while the kids played to be the mentor is a bigger roadblock to the theory than their expressions being common on camp characters 
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Apr 7, 2018 23:46
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Cao Ni Ma posted:If anything nanami leaving the store unattended for like an hour while the kids played to be the mentor is a bigger roadblock to the theory than their expressions being common on camp characters She works in the Gundam Base Tokyo in the Diver -e- Magee calls himself Onee-san. Lurking Haro fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Apr 8, 2018 01:09
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If this is a world where a big incentive to make gunpla is that you can use them in a giant VR MMO, it would stand to reason that Whatever The Gunpla Company's Name Is In Divers would have paid community managers and it's conceivable that Nanami could work a dual job where she both sells physical gunpla and also promotes the MMO aspect of the hobby. Magee introduces himself as somebody who helps newbies.
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Apr 8, 2018 01:13
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According to the the TV guide in today's episode Momoka tries to get the boys to join soccer club again but they tell her to shove it and go on an item fetch quest with Sarah.
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Apr 10, 2018 09:02
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RillAkBea posted:According to the the TV guide in today's episode Momoka tries to get the boys to join soccer club again but they tell her to shove it and go on an item fetch quest with Sarah. Now I know why she will pilot a Kapool.
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Apr 10, 2018 09:22
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Well, there goes the Magee/Nanami theory. Guess Magee is just some dude.
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Apr 10, 2018 10:22
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Lurking Haro posted:Now I know why she will pilot a Kapool. Pretty sure it's actually a Capule (the ZZ unit) and not a Kapool (the Turn-A unit) after checking since the sonic cannon on the waist has the filled in ribbing more typical of the formers design than the latters. Now, some lineart and models, especially earlier stuff does mix and match that detail, but it's always different in detail shots during the shows that I recall. As is the other distinguishing feature between the two, the "skirt" just below the cannon; which always has holes in a Capule and is always solid on a Kapool. That's missing in this re-design though, so it's academic. That said, it could just be personal detail changes on the builders behalf and still meant to be a Kapool. The Kapool got more focus and is the more beloved after all. More importantly, is the mini unit it can disgorge modeled after a Haro? Or does it's size, shade and lack of detail just make it look like one? tsob fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Apr 10, 2018 10:25
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tsob posted:Pretty sure it's actually a Capule (the ZZ unit) and not a Kapool (the Turn-A unit) after checking since the sonic cannon on the waist has the filled in ribbing more typical of the formers design than the latters. Now, some lineart and models, especially earlier stuff does mix and match that detail, but it's always different in detail shots during the shows that I recall. As is the other distinguishing feature between the two, the "skirt" just below the cannon; which always has holes in a Capule and is always solid on a Kapool. That's missing in this re-design though, so it's academic. Yeah the Capule is from a crap show, while the Kapool is from one of Gundam's best, so I do hope it's the latter. I'm digging the MMO aesthetic and avatars. 00 Diver looks nicer than the original 00, too. (Though I kind of wish Riku used the Sword Impulse Gundam as a base instead)
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Apr 10, 2018 10:40
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I keep staring at the MC and all I see is a brown haired Mika with actual life in his eyes. The hair is just really similar. Magee being Nanami would also own bones. Here is hoping this season will not fall into the one trick battle pony the last one did which made me stop watching eventually.
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Apr 10, 2018 11:24
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Okay, I'm beginning to feel this. The show is wearing its love for the franchise on its sleeve completely in a way that Try completely forgot - I loving lost it at the Harry Ord pajamas - and the battle choreography is very promising considering we've only had a couple of baby introduction battles.
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Apr 10, 2018 11:53
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Yeah, that was a pretty deece fight. Not an all-time series great, but reassuringly solid. Shows they can make Trans-Am look good, too, which is pretty important (and means that Riku’s trump card will still allow for more interesting and varied action than Build Knuckle or Jigen Haoh spam).
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Apr 10, 2018 11:58
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This show is making me wish there was an actual MMO that used RF-enabled gunpla as avatars, it'd give me an incentive to start collecting them again. Oh no. 
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Apr 10, 2018 13:58
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Bloody Pom posted:This show is making me wish there was an actual MMO that used RF-enabled gunpla as avatars, it'd give me an incentive to start collecting them again. i think you will find that a) gundams are the coolest thing ever created and b) buying gunpla means that you can own a real* gundam! *buy more gunpla
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Apr 10, 2018 14:40
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Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Gunpla $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Apr 10, 2018 15:38
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my dude have you heard about star citizen
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Apr 10, 2018 15:40
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I enjoyed this episode for the most part, but I'm having trouble understanding the stakes during the fight. If that robot arm had hit Yukki and Sarah what would actually have happened? Similarly why would the ogre guy stop his final attack? It feels like the show forgets none of it's real during the fights in a way that comes off kind of dumb.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:16
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Who knows how the Dive tech fully works, maybe they would have felt some of the force of the arm hit their avatar, since they can feel the ground and smell flowers, or apparently even eat (Magee mentioning picnics and Do-ji faking a stomach ache). Don't think about things any harder than the show does, just relax and enjoy your nostalgia bath.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:37
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I can see you dropping your items if you ‘die’, which would really suck considering they were on a giant fetch quest.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:29
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Darth Walrus posted:I can see you dropping your items if you ‘die’, which would really suck considering they were on a giant fetch quest.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:32
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I mean, really, harsh death/destruction penalties in MMOs are nothing new. Imagine if they’d been taking a shiny new cruiser for a spin in EVE and ended up in lowsec.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:37
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Droyer posted:I enjoyed this episode for the most part, but I'm having trouble understanding the stakes during the fight. If that robot arm had hit Yukki and Sarah what would actually have happened? Similarly why would the ogre guy stop his final attack? It feels like the show forgets none of it's real during the fights in a way that comes off kind of dumb. Taking things absolutely seriously to the point of destruction even when they're not life or death was a running theme in GBF. I'm pretty sure the show isn't worried about the technicals and just wants you to get wrapped up in the imagery of a giant robot arm about to smash two kids. If you absolutely need an explanation, the Diver avatars can obviously be damaged or "killed", otherwise they wouldn't have given a poo poo when Riku accidentally dropped them; whether or not there's death penalties involved is conjectural, but given that Magee got extremely huffy at Fat Oni for trying to PK the newbies in episode 1 and was legitimately worried it would cause them to quit, I'd bet there are. Using this as a basis, Riku didn't want to see his friends get smashed by a giant robot arm. As for Oni dude, he is portrayed as an honorable guy looking for good fights to get stronger(we're introduced to him literally responding to a 3v1 callout) and didn't see any purpose in beating up on an already defeated opponent and seeing Sarah throw herself in front of him made him stop and think about it for a second.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:19
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Kanos posted:Taking things absolutely seriously to the point of destruction even when they're not life or death was a running theme in GBF. I'm pretty sure the show isn't worried about the technicals and just wants you to get wrapped up in the imagery of a giant robot arm about to smash two kids. I think Sarah was the most important (though not the only) factor there - his e-honour couldn’t handle having to squish a newbie on foot with a tiny little girl avatar.
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If there aren't any Zeta Gundam jokes with Sarah then I'm personally going to call up President John Gundam myself and have this show cancelled.
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