Ugh, finally! Zeonic released more Thunderbolt. Moar Agguy l

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>>13798835
A new volume got translated already? I was expecting it to be translated in 6 months or later. Thanks for the link.

>>13798835
acguy is a poorman's z'gok

>>13798968
MSV-R Johnny Ridden actually gives the Acguy a use beyond Bearguys. Apparently it's been fluffed as being a superbly quiet and stealthy suit that is quite mobile.

You could have fooled me with legs and arms like those.

>>13799012
>Apparently it's been fluffed as being a superbly quiet and stealthy suit that is quite mobile.
>i have never seen 0079

Love how they resemble old real world deep sea diving suits.

>>13798835
I saw a pretty young girl pilot introduced in this volume.
>...
She's going to die fucking horribly.
This author does not allow women to go unharmed at-fucking-all in his stories.

She's probably going to die boiling to death in her flooded suit red-lining at the bottom of the sea or something like that.

I just can't help but feel that this author has really, really strong feelings about what "war" stories should have (women dying, cripples, war suicide missions and existentialsm, angry hotshots looking for blood, etc.), and he just can't stop making us have more and more of it regardless of if we want it.

>>13799063

Boiling to death at the bottom of the sea? Uh... don't you mean crushed to death?

>>13799012
Acguy's ALWAYS been the stealth bomber of the sea m8

>>13799154
Pretty much. It's just that when you go up against the fucking Gundam, you're puppy chow. In the Gundam Senki RPG book, they go on about how the Acguy runs extremely cool, so it's really hard to pick up on sensors when it's underwater. That's how that one got the drop on Karen Joshua on 08th MS Team and ripped her Ground Gundam's head off. It's supposed to be super good for ambushes or just listening.

>>13799017
>>13799154
Remember when they raided Jaburo base with that stealth team of Acguys and Char was like "KEK IMMA JOIN YOU FELLOWS WITH MY BRIGHT RED Z'GOK."?

>>13799149
No, I meant what I said. That sort of death is essentially too PAINLESS for this author.

He loves killing women in morbid, tragic fashions (the cute medic girl in the first arc finale of the Thunderbolt getting blasted to death got out easy, honestly).

I meant that this author is the sort of guy who would make the new girl:
>do something brash and stupid and easily preventable
>get fucked over for it and her MS breaks, crushing her pride
>she floats to the bottom of the sea at a depth no one can get to her
>her MS begins to crack and let in water while its reactor is also runaway overheating from previous damage (which is strongly implied to be her fault)
>she begins to drown and boil to death while also her MS begins to crumble at whatever silly depth its at
While that sounds remarkably contrived, it just came to me as the exact something the author would do the second he said she had an underwater MS.

>>13799215

Except all that sorta happens to Io in the next volume and a chick saves him... lol

>>13798835
>wrist machineguns
but why? don't they have megaparticle cannons on their palms?

>>13799259
they can have either a machine gun or a mega particle gun in one arm while the other one always has rocket launcher

>>13799259
This is a Zeon remnant force, so they have to make do with what they have. The megaparticle cannon variants are probably rare now

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Oh god, it really is a Ball underneath

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>>13799288

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Char's only appearance

>>13799288
>>13799305
>all the jokes on B-Gundam
>finally Ball become true Gundam

It's not really a Ball underneath. THe description of the cockpit block says that it's a "ball type". Because it's the first of it's kind it's also an escape pod.

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BEST GIRL

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>>13799352
OH GOD MY DICK

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>polygamy is now a meme in Gundam

>>13799309
They retconned Char's Zaku? Again? The Origin wasn't enough?

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Ground Type Gundams

>>13799445
It's just the Mangaka's interpretation of stuff in the universe. He does whatever he wants really

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>>13799447
I'm surprised that they actually put one of them in that G-Fighter

>>13799447
>>13799457
>Ground Gundam
>inside a G-Fighter
>used in space
Very smart, Feddies.

>>13799447
Oooh. I like the Patlabor-style articulated bunny-ears antennas.

>>13799462
G-Fighter was being used as a scout or a bomber

>>13799352
Marked for death and you know it

>>13799242
The new gundam gets destroyed already?

>>13799063
Women don't belong in combat

>>13799352
>Aqua Guncannon
Just pick a damn Aqua GM.

>>13799563
Oh Good, Wufeianon is back.

>>13799565
But that's not a Guncannon.

>>13799063
>I just can't help but feel that this author has really, really strong feelings about what "war" stories should have
He is just a fascist
> The battle between the Federation and Zeon was a battle between democracy and a dictatorship, but I don’t think there is that much difference between the two. When someone says that democracy is wonderful or that an authoritarian government is better, what criteria are they using? There’s an Arab quote that goes “A dictator is better than no government at all.”
http://otakumode.com/news/52fc76ef80cd488c6b00068f/Interview-with-Mobile-Suit-Gundam-Thunderbolt-Author-Yasuo-Ohtagaki-3-3

>>13799573
I'm not sure that's wholly fair to the author, in the next sentence he says (quoting from that article) " right now, as I’m able to draw this manga, I feel that though the Japanese government right now is not perfect, it’s still great." Given that Japan is at least nominally a parliamentary democracy, he seems too complimentary of it to be a dyed in the wool fascist, again at least going off that article.

>>13799573
Even Shirow was not dumb enough to think that having tanks rolling through your city full of cops and soldiers who are read to shoot into the crowds is fun IRL...

>>13798835
Mangaka has intoduced so many things in a single volume than a whole arc from early chapters.

So in next few chapters there will be cock-tease but no sex scene despite drawing lots of rape scenes in Front Mission :Dog style Dog life.

I would had really liked this manga more if wasn't "OYW&Zeeks" rehash #858.

Mechanical designs are crisp and sharp and Atlas Gundam is really weird, something out fof a shmup.

Anyway, kudos to Zeonic scanlations for their work.

>>13799215
Considering that his manga essentially have manly men doing manly things, I can't say it's too surprising.

>>13799788
With any luck, he could go further into UC (ala Climax UC), but I don't expect it to happen at all.
>something out fof a shmup.
There is a fan drawing that compiles many of the Core Fighters, drawn and lined up in a way to make it seem like they are from shmups. It's pretty neat.

>>13798835
Thank you OP, for the link, and good work for Zeonic on this.

That Akguy pursuit part was amazing, some time since I don't see a fight, involving Akguys in a gundam manga, so well done.

I also, personally, glad to see an author representing the earth in such shitty situation in the post war. Enormous ecological impacts, remnants going willy nilly, soldiers deserting to become marauders, polygamy, astonishing poverty, separatists and independence movements on earth, people, in the brink of desperation, joining the ranks of a fanatic religious sect, and the E.F trying the most to hold their shit together.

It really give that sensation of real impact, result from the war, that other gundam works try to give but don't have much succeed.

>>13799825

He's one of the few artists who actually depicts the world in a realistic way. The flooding of Malaysian cities as a result of the colony drop was a perfect touch as well. I think other stories forget that the war took place on many fronts on Earth and thus give up their attempts at drawing decay and devastation.

>will never get animated

So Archer references Gundam and now deacky references Archer? Works for me.

>>13800622
What?

>>13800634

The side story has two lines from Archer in it: "Holy shitsnacks!" a la Pam and then "Rampage!" a la Archer

cool

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The South Seas Sect having that weird mix of Zeon and Federation suits reminds me of when the South Koreans got their hands on T-80s from the Russians in exchange for paying off their debt. They have a weird mix of West and Eastern inspired designs in their inventory

Seems like a good manga so far. I just hope he doesn't fizzle out in the end...

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>>13799352

>>13802837
No spoilers!! :(

>>13802837
>>13802841
Volume 6 scans are out already?

>>13803000

Came out months ago. Volume 7 was just released not that long ago.

According to Zeonic's twitter, he's got two more chapters left and V6 is out.

>>13803000
http://excnn.com/manga-raw/11261-kidou-senshi-gundam-thunderbolt-zhezhegggg-ggggggg-01.html

>>13802971
Then fucking leave

>>13799215

Surprisingly, in his Front Mission manga, only the female pilot survives. But yes, I unironically enjoy tragic and painful death. The death of a woman is an erotic act.

>>13803288
RIP guncannon

You were too good for this world

>>13803288
>Pacific Rim reference

>>13803288
That guncannon looks right out of armored core

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Those guys fukcing know how to hide that they are zeon remnants.

>>13803275
>only the female pilot survives
But she gets raped, doesn't she?

>>13803908

Not really. She has sex with the protagonist, the pilot named the 'Sheep Herder'. That's consensual, though.

I'm certainly not against depictions of rape, however. I mean, you have horny and angry men in a high-pressure situation. Throw in an attractive woman, and it's like throwing steak to starving dogs.

Shit happens, you know?

Supposedly Volume 6 will be released tonight or tomorrow

>>13799443
This fucker survived? Holy shit, how the fuck did that pod make it through the atmosphere, hell how did it make it from the Thunderbolt sector to Earth?

>>13807218
Probably the same way Daryl got to earth, but Sean got split up or quit the remnants

>>13804462
Anyone even scanlating front mission dsdl or it is good as dead?

>>13804462
True, I guess.
>Not really. She has sex with the protagonist, the pilot named the 'Sheep Herder'. That's consensual, though.
Oh, well that's pretty fair then. Pretty nice reward, given the bleak tone.

>>13807629
Got halfway through, but is dead now.

Volume 6 is out
http://www.mediafire.com/download/z91707dzmm9wj0g/%5BZeonicScanlations%5D_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_Thunderbolt_%5BVolume06%5D.zip

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>>13808176
On a goddamn roll
Good shit, deacky

>>13808176
cool.

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>>13808176
Jesus Christ, I understand making a reference to 0079, but a whole damn battle copy-pasted?
And Big Zam too? Talk about pandering.

As someone who's never read manga before can one of you guys point me in a direction to find a place to start a not bad translation of thunderbolt?

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>>13803561
>That guncannon looks right out of armored core
Atlas looks like straight out of AC 4/FA era with oversized weapons from V/VD era.
And the shape of Atlas' tri-barrel railgun looks a lot like Python railgun from Last Raven, just bigger and longer

>>13808176
>All this GM massacre

Seriously how come EF held itself against zeek in 1st place?

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Dem feels right here, Io sure got good taste in women.

>>13809058
By having so many GM and Balls.

>>13809109
>>13802841
>>13799352
She's kinda crazy

>>13807629

The last arc is the longest, and it's arguably the main story. The ending is really weird, though. Like, the actual ending is fine. The epilogue is strange and somewhat disturbing.

>>13809174
the best girl you can get is slightly crazy, makes your relationship thrilling

>>13808270
>>13808900
Three-pronged railguns are a very silly idea.

>>13809194
>The epilogue is strange and somewhat disturbing.

And we will nver know what happened. Damm!

Even a brief summary will do at this point.

>>13809144
But still Zeon had fuck huge armors who would eat entire squadren with ease.
Hmm.. that explains the yet another super prototype OYW side stories.

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>>13809174

>Io isnt sanest person around
>Having Bianca around him really made him look like a normal human being
>Both loves music
>Both being badass Ace pilot

How can this ship get any better ?

also whats up With Cornelius with his dart ?

>>13809174
Well he isn't exactly planning to retire to a farm larger than three by nine foot either.

>>13809554

Cornelius is a childhood friend of Io (and Claudia). Something tells me he has a crush on him and is insanely jealous that someone else has his attention. Back during the thunderbolt sector battles, Cornelius was always around him and relied on him (whether it be for tissues or music). So when he was gone, he kinda had a falling out. Now that he's back and no longer the center of his world, he's kinda miffed. Taking it out on darts and scoring a bullseye haha

>>13809554
He's jealous.

>>13802841
>All these tats
>Black thong
Now all the Zeeks will think Fed girls are sluts

Is Bianca a Lieutenant Junior Grade or an Ensign? She's referred to as both by two different characters this volume

>>13811588
sounds like she received a promotion before the mission

>>13809554
Skinny Sex scene when?

The new PV of Gundam Thunderbolt episode 2 was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdxTLrTsCBw

>>13811588

She's an Ensign. Where did I call her a Lieutenant JG? Odd that I messed that up as I'm usually on point with ranks.

>>13812403
>>13812403
Thanks.

What's Bianca's full name?

>>13812571
Carlyle.

>>13812583

I may go back and revise that spelling as "Carlisle" since that is a street name near where I live (pronounced the same)

>>13812403
So how many chapters they cramming in?

>>13812628
It seems like it will be 1 volume an episode.

so stupid question and probably not the best place to ask but would anyone be willing to link me to downloads of the other volumes? I havn't read thunderbolt at all but i'd like to.

>>13812632
So no Bianca at all, never to be animated?

>>13812640
The ONA is going to be all of the Space arc.

>>13812655
Source ?

since from the pv we had or what ive seen from it is basicly it gonna end with Full armor gundam VS Psycho zaku, but if they are releasing both the Space arc on 4 episode and Earth arc on idk how many episode since its isnt over yet, this could be THE BEST GUNDAM could offer us in for a while now

>>13812637
Actually would anyone be able to provide just volumes 3 and 1? the links on zeonic are not working.

>>13812403

>ALL OF MY YESSS

>>13812698
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4o90i2mmznin4/Thunderbolt

The links on my site work. Me be on your end. Grab them from the news page and not others.

>>13812735
I appreciate you greatly friend

>>13812640
If the series gains enough attention, they might do a second season. Thunderbolt seems to be like an experiment for Sunrise

>>13812746

>This series succeds
>More Io clones to replace heero clones
>Yasuo ohtagaki got hired to make another Gundam series/OVA/ONA

is it just me or yasuo is basicly kill em all tomino 2.0 ? cos if its that he can take all the gundam franchise for all i care

>>13809554
>>13802841
... alright, my interests have been piqued. What machine does she use?

If all that comes with a decent mobile suit too I may finally get around to reading it.

>>13812818
Thunderbolt is still ongoing

>>13812835
Read the thread >>13799352

>>13812839
I see. I stopped for the ass, I suppose that tells me what my real priorities are.

Still don't really know what it does, but I can pretty well guess.

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>>13809657

>Foreshadowing your own cucking

>>13812860
It's a Guncannon with Torpedos. She does pretty well with them. I think it's kind of neat how this arc is focused on amphibious combat. It's happened a few times in Gundam history, but not a whole lot

>>13812910
Yea thunderbolt aquatics are something else, they look intimidating as all hell, and we haven't even seen a Hygogg yet, I'm also loving the focus on the different types of munitions and weapons.

This is really getting better as it goes along

>>13808900
jesus fuck kit when bandai!>>13808270

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>>13798835
i still can't believe they actually genuinely managed to make the accguy look good

>>13813285


to small imo

>>13813285
Acguy always looked good. Sure, not -as- good as the other aquatic MS, but still.

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>>13813313
i kind of wish it was the standard gundam ms size

>>13813323
About 20% smaller than >>13813285 would be ideal.

>>13813323
>>13813333
i always laugh when i see art of 60ft zakus and gms hiding behind buildings or trying to sneak up on other ms

>>13799154
>>13799182
>>13799203
I remember when I was playing through UC 0081 on the Fed side and I kept failing that one naval base mission where you have to keep the Zeeks from getting over the line and I kept losing but I didn't know why. Turns out that Acguys in that game don't show up on your radar or map unless they've been severely damaged and the bastards kept running over the line.

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Honestly, the person who has it bad right now is Professor Karla following the horrific incident with the beam saber vaporizing her comrades...

>>13813731
Deacon did your digital vol 5 come with the mecha lineart booklet?

Vol 7 soon?

>>13813739

No, I had to purchase the hard copy version of that in order to scan the art for my website and MAHQ. The extras aren't usually available in digital format. They don't even include the back cover art in the digital versions either, which sucks since they have lineart on them :/

I'm working on Vol.7 but this is probably going to be the toughest volume in terms of complexity of dialogue at certain points. I'd love to have this out tonight or tomorrow, but that may be pushing it a little haha. Plus there's that song in the first chapter. I hate the songs in this series...

>>13813758
any chance you release the booklet?

>>13813764

I was thinking about it, but I usually reserve the mechanical expositions and such for the site. There's nothing terribly interesting in his notes for the MS designs and what not though.

>>13813775
do it, we love Thunderbolt here

Side note: can anyone tell me if that is actually sanskrit in the manga or is the artist just writing jibberish?

>>13812818
>is it just me or yasuo is basicly kill em all tomino 2.0 ?

Not even close.

Yo Deacky I greatly appreciate and greatly prefer you using your vacation time on the Thunderbolt volumes but when do you think you'll have the time to do that second chapter of Blue Destiny?

Thanks for the release.

>Surfing GMs.

Nice.

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>>13808176
What the heck is it with all the consecutive flashbacks? Mobile Suit Gundam: Memento?

Ohtagaki isn't even hiding it.

>>13798835
hi
any link for the previous volume scan ?

>>13798835
Maybe one day the asshole will finish Rebellion or Beltorchika's Children instead of Starting on everything that comes out and finishing nothing.

>>13817371

Dude, the story is told in media res on purpose. It's a narrative trick, showing how they got to this point.

>>13817491
It's a narrative gimmick.

>>13817499

Same thing.

>>13817410
Read the thread you mongoloid. It's not that far up from your own post

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>>13798835
More agguguy?

>>13817468
He's the Professor Calamitous of mecha manga scanlators, I've gotten used to his nonsense by now.

>>13817468
Looks like he did a lot of catching up if you ask me. Besides, he released volume 1 of beltorchika, which has some art changes and dialogue tweeks from his ace releases.

Funny how you try being a dick to him here on /m/, balofo, but it doesn't work. It's evident.

>>13817468
Look man I wish we'd get more Crossbone Ghost and stuff but I'm not picking a thread over which two volumes of Thunderbolt have been released with a third in progress to express that feeling in

>>13817599
No one will ever be satisfied. They'll always have a problem with "free shit" being slow.

>>13817637
At least they could pick their battles better though golly

>>13817544
thank you

>>13817468
Maybe one day you'll doing something for free for the benefit of some prick on an image board to bitch about.

Or you can fuck off, feel free to do either you piece of shit

>>13818052
This. I wish pricks like him would actually help the scanlators put stuff out instead of just bitch about it. It's hard work, and these guys take time out of their lives so faggots like us can read comics about imaginary robots.

>>13818052
You do realize he isn't generally well liked on /m/. He starts a trillion projects and never finishes any.

>>13821286
Again, pick your battles, this really isn't the thread to make that complaint in

Considering the history of Gundam manga groups since that group formed, he's the only one that lasted. How many people picked up Crossbone and dropped? Can't say I've seen anyone else doing this stuff for over ten years. Nozaku is the only other person that I"ve seen do thing. If someone is so pissed off about how slow he is and how he drops projects, why don't they just work on it? I don't recall there being any law with illegal work like this that says once someone starts something it's hands off. Oh wait, I know why: cuz no one else wants to translate Gundam. never have and never will

>>13822318
Do you know how quickly I'd start doing it If i could read Japanese? I'd translate all kinds of shit

>>13822404
In all the years that people have said that, they could be doing just that by now. Yet they aren't.

>>13822318
There's also Nozaku, though.

>>13822443
Did you not read my post? I said Nozaku.

>>13822470
Oh, my bad. In terms of recent non-Nozaku/Deacon projects, only the Turn A Gundam by Akiman got one, so yeah.

>>13822496

And Deacon provided them with the scans for it. If he was willing to do that, I'm sure he'd probably give up stuff for others to do as well.