I must have watched this movie over 50 times already, but this

Btw, would it be wrong to say that Gundam and Macross have the best space fights in all forms of visual media?

I don't mean to seem pretentious but nothing I've seen in theaters, much less TV, have had space combat as good as those 2 franchises. Especially Awakening of the Trailblazer. While largely a beamspam circus, it was a fantastic beamspam circus.

Maybe I haven't seen enough shows or films.

>>14548791
What about Star Wars?

>>14548719
He's no longer the autistic child back in S1, anon.

>>14548791
Well, Gundam OVAs or movies always have good animation.

>>14552732
>>14548719
Setsuna's laugh is the miracle of the universe

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>>14552698
Not him, but Star Wars has always treated space fighters like fighter jets (i.e. yawing in space, constant thrust but no constant acceleration, etc) That always bothered me. They are visually impressive, but Star Wars has no respect for physics within a zero gravity vacuum, and the writer behind the technical aspects of the universe have made no effort to try to justify it in universe with Star Wars-specific pseudo science. It's especially bothersome when most, if not all, of the starfighters double as atmospheric and space fighters while having no aerodynamic properties that complement the former and make no changes to their behavior for the latter.

Mind you, Macross is guilty of some of those things too, but at least it tries to convince the viewer that they took it into consideration by putting maneuvering thrusters all over the variable fighters and occasionally shows them in action to remind the viewer that they are indeed there doing their job while itano has them evading missile circuses. It still tends to get acceleration in a zero g vacuum wrong.

Gundam is by far one of, if not THE most, accurate portrayal of space combat in soft-scifi thanks to the AMBAC concept and the fact that most shows, even the lower budget episodes, tend to show it in action in some form. Mobile suits always show a momentary bright flash of thrust to achieve the cruising speed needed, and the thrusters remain active in a much smaller capacity, and when the suit needs to decelerate, they will actually show the MS throw it's limbs forward to point the verniers in the right direction so that they can burst out in defiance of the current direction to decelerate. (Full Burnern gets me HARD in that regard.)

Mind you, I'm not asking for a 100% accurate portrayal of space physics in my science fiction; I just want a sci-fi franchise to make an effort, and out of the three, Gundam's almost always made the biggest effort.

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>>14548791
what a joke

>barbatos_YEEEEAAART.webm

>>14555934
I haven't watched IBO but I haven't heard good things.

>>14555934
IBO is not UC, when we say Gundam, we generally mean UC. The other pseudo-super robot shit is besides the point.

>>14556058
Epik

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>>14556070
He's not wrong. Elitism aside, generally speaking, if someone is talking about Gundam on /m/ and isn't specifying a series or setting, it's usually appropriate to assume that UC is the subject of discussion.