Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky Discussion (2025)

Stark700

Fun stuff. The quality seems to better compared to the OVAs. That jazz music ringing in my ears still..

SleepingBear79

I was pretty disappointed in the added scenes though. The episodic format left me thinking one thing, and this version another. I did appreciate the prototype zeong..zaku thing though, if only on screen for a moment.

Thunderbolt really drives home the realities of the war and reminds that the franchise is not solely about the glorification of killing machines. Io points this out a couple of times, and looks down, literally, on the young new recruits that salute the gundam and take selfies with it before going straight to their deaths in the coming battle.

Thievery

Other than that, nothing to add.

Roy_Focker

SleepingBear79 said:
Thunderbolt really drives home the realities of the war and reminds that the franchise is not solely about the glorification of killing machines.

Rikuson1

Rob

Karla on the beach tho!

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jnw93

tofei

Wow those young pilots are really just kids, very young meatbags for cannon fodder. Having watched some other Gundam series before I shouldn't have been surprised anymore but it still got me there. >_< Also with the intentional severing of the last of his limbs. o_O

6/10

You see there's no need to wonder where your god is,
Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy.

deg

Haytin

Zero_Vi_Britania

Noice

The animation was really good, didn't care for the character models at first but they grew on me over time. I really hated the jazz but the music Daryl played was awesome. I had a preconceived opinion prior to watching that I would not like it. Having watched it now I did not hate it but I also did not like it.
It had good mech fights so that's probably the only thing I'll give it props for. Oh and also daryls music choice was A1.

5/10

Phaetons_Folly

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The film is cool, the cruelty and barbarian of the war, in two men in different army trying to kill the other with their mobile suits. Two men differentes, in personality and body, and the past timeline too!! and all to end in this bloody space battlefield, arround Side 4!!!
In this hour we can enjoy/watch/tear the worst of any war, the worst of the humanity!!!
The music, pride!!!

7/10 (impact me more the series ;) )

Effulgence

6/10

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Venom900

Nothing new or different with the movie but still a amazing rewatch of a real piece of art.

MrLegitimacy

laughterjones

peetza said:
The one word that kept running through my mind was simply, "SAVAGE." This was a seriously gnarly Gundam, I've got to put Io right up there with Mikazuki on my list of all time greatest Gundam pilots.

This was excellent. Savage is a great word for it. Those snipers were blasting feddie pilots like it was nothing. Very powerful. Liked how we got what seemed to be another newtype piloting a Gundam outside of the main characters.

Visuals were great. Some scenes were choppy, but had coherence to it. Excellent film. I haven't seen the OVAs.

lihle808

Still makes me sad that Daryl had to be amputated to win against Flemming, Claudia's death and Karla's craziness still hurts. On the flip side neither Flemming or Daryl died, and so their fated battle begins again. But Damn did Daryl wanted to kill Flemming, I would too since he is a cocky bastard.

The other people are sympathized with was the children who all died in that battle. Anyways still a good story and the animation along with the jazzy flow music.

7/10.

Rei_III

Typically one of those entertainment things parading as "mature" stuff and loved by US / West peoples.

Enjoyment: 2/5
Score: 5/10

Brandon2149

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People saying they did not care for the characters obviously haven't seen too much Gundam. Tomino and co don't love their characters and treat them accordingly. There is a lot of anguish and suffering, and there is no payoff, no resurrection skills or power of return. War is hell, that's it. And no, it's not a Western thing like some pedantic commenters here say. It's pure Japanese. They experienced war as hell first hand even though the younger generations might have forgotten it (or never been taught it should I say).

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