Summary

Before I begin this review, I would like to apologize for the long delay in writing this review. Watching a lot Gundam 00 is all to blame. It’s been a while since I last published the review for the second movie, “Lovers”. I was hoping to post them once a month from each other after the review for “Heirs of the Stars”, but that didn’t happen…

But now that I’ve gotten most of 00 is out of the way, I’ve decided to wrap up Zeta Gundam by reviewing the final movie in the Zeta Trilogy: Love is the Pulse of the Stars.

Review

The final movie takes place where the second one left off: with the introduction of Haman Karn… The future of Neo Zeon. This is better than “Lovers”; the previous movie had a particular theme involving a Male and a Female characters, namely Kamille and Four Murasame. Now that a few key characters are in their respectful places (refraining from spoiling the actual story thus far), the final battle begins.

The crew of the Argama (Kamille, Emma, Quattro (Char), Wong, and Bright) arrives to greet Haman Karn, who wants to revive the Principality of Zeon-or Neo Zeon (*insert political mumbo-jumbo here*). Char is surprised to see a little girl on board the very same ship. It’s little Mineva Zabi, grand-daughter (?) of Dozle Zabi (from the first Mobile Suit Gundam), and is destined to lead the Zabi family out of oppression from the Federations (says Haman—blah, blah, blah…).

Char does not like what he sees, so he threatens Haman by pulling her by the collar–until the guards apprehend the Argama crew and sends them to the brig. (Around this time, Kamille is in Emo mode and engages in a fist fight with Char). Meanwhile, the crew plans their escape by tricking the enemy soldiers into their cell and stealing their normal suits (space suits) and hightails it out of there.

After everyone has made it back safely on the Argama, the rest of the story from here on out is nothing but fighting. It’s the best part of the series! There’s the usual interaction between the spy Sarah Rabimov and Paptimus Scirocco, and Kamille and Jerid—which finally comes to a thrilling conclusion. There’s even lot of betrayal to go around involving members of AEUG and Axis to fill in the rest of the movie that’s a hoot (especially when it involves Katz Kobayashi).

Thoughts

Taking so long with this review, you’d think this review would be longer, but there’s just way too much to spoil: you are in a surprise when it comes to seeing a not-so long-running character gets “removed” from the story.

I really enjoyed watching the Zeta Movie Trilogy. It was a good way to start a new Gundam series for me having not viewed all of the original Zeta Gundam TV series, especially after taking a long break from anything Gundam for 4 years. Like the Mobile Suit Gundam (0079) Movie Trilogy, it is an abridged version of the original Zeta TV, just like with Dragonball Kai-with all the fillers removed here and there.

With that said, I do plan on watching the original 45+ episodes of the TV series to see the differences between the movies. (I also noticed that there were a couple of missing scenes, like yet another Bright Slap moment). The only thing I didn’t like about the Trilogy was the soundtrack; I’m not a big fan of Gackt (no offense to Gackt fans)…

Either way, it was fun seeing the gang from the One Year War somewhat reunited, along with new characters. There’s more where that came from from the Universal Century: next is ZZ Gundam, which takes place immediately after the end of Zeta. Let’s see how that turns out.

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