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[Neonivek]

Ok Yu-Gi-Oh I see what you are doing here

So the female lead hears the previously defeated villain's plan to basically construct a deck based around just defeating his.

So she bursts into the villains layer with plans to stop him and challenges him to a duel on the spot.

I am just going to write this BEFORE I know how it ends.

But this could actually be pretty interesting. I mean we haven't seen too much of her dueling style but she is supposed to be on par or about as skilled as our male lead. As well the fact that she actually takes a proactive approach and protects the male lead without him even knowing of it means that she is currently being treated as a character rather than a prop.

And it isn't like the series has lacked strong female characters.

Some go on show, impress me!

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Ok that was fast

She... never duels. A completely separate male character who never existed before this episode waltzes in and duels INSTEAD of her... refuses to let her duel even after she insists that she should be the one dueling and that he is interfering... and he says he is doing so to "protect her from being hurt" while the other characters call him the Knight saving the princess

Thank goodness I didn't make the mistake of actually becoming invested in her character... could you imagine that? Ohh wait I kind of was... the set up was good.

Though I was sort of hoping this series would have been... better... I shouldn't be praising Vanguard but yeah Vanguard is better then this.

[Andres]

Should've warned you that all I remember Tea for is friendship speeches....

[Neonivek]

Should've warned you that all I remember Tea for is friendship speeches....

Hey Tea technically won all her duels and all her challenges.

[Kansa]

Yuzu does actually improve a lot later on, she gets her own story arc and starts winning a lot more duels.

[Neonivek]

Yuzu does actually improve a lot later on, she gets her own story arc and starts winning a lot more duels.

I am glad since this "Go back to the kitchen" moment gave me horrible Lunar flashbacks.

Though female leads getting their own story arc isn't uncommon (heck it isn't too uncommon for them to have a connection to the main plot while our hero has none). Them being the solution to their own story arc though is much more rare.

[Kansa]

Actually I think I used the wrong words sorry, its a character arc for her and not a story arc really. She gets her own rival in a couple more episodes and then she starts training to be able to beat her.

[Neonivek]

Actually I think I used the wrong words sorry, its a character arc for her and not a story arc really. She gets her own rival in a couple more episodes and then she starts training to be able to beat her.

Ok let me see... She is a female which means her rival is definitely female... and I am guessing they are rivals out of pettiness.

[Kansa]

Nope, she loses a duel against her and realises she isn't strong enough to protect people. She finds a mentor and starts training to be able to do so.

[Neonivek]

Nope, she loses a duel against her and realises she isn't strong enough to protect people. She finds a mentor and starts training to be able to do so.

WOW! that is a VAST improvement over Gundam Build Fighters Try where they are basically rivals for no reason then someone told them to be (and then later because they both like the same guy)

Ok I have some hope for this series. Maybe it will pull something really neat like she beats a previous arc's main villain... or actually faces off against the show's main villain (Which to date I believe only Alexis has ever done... and only in one arc... and I believe she loses off screen)

[Nightscar982]

I want to try watch the whole gundam series in release order, but it seems WAY too big to tackle, esp. with the time I have :L
Any idea on the best place to start/what I should avoid?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Here you go, enjoy.

More/less helpfully: I've only watched the first series and half of Zeta (I'm kinda dragging my feet here, I know) so I can't offer much advice. Sorry.

[Flying Dice]

I want to try watch the whole gundam series in release order, but it seems WAY too big to tackle, esp. with the time I have :L
Any idea on the best place to start/what I should avoid?

Avoid SEED and SEED Destiny. Other than that, it's largely down to your specific preferences re: animation quality/age, type of plot, &c. 08th MS Team, G Gundam, and Gundam Wing would be a decent range of series to start with if you don't mind not going in strict chronological order for the UC shows.

[Nightscar982]

Seed is one of the few onesI  have heard of, why should I avoid that?

[Furtuka]

Basically uh it was designed to draw in new audiences by appealing to the most common denominator through lots of gratuitous stuff and soap opera writing, and has a lot of plotholes and misuse of setting details as a result. SEED itself is kinda below-good to mediocre, but SEED Destiny is considered the worst Gundam ever made.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, you can get away with watching SEED if you don't mind lazy writing. SEED Destiny, though... that's worse than gouging out your own eyes.