Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Urdr-Hunt (Watching Every Gundam)

 

"It's better than SEED Freedom." - Hayley
"So is being punched in the face a few times." - Tokusatsu subtitler and friend of the show Makh 

It goes without saying at this point that Bandai Namco will do everything in its power to fumble its myriad high profile works of fiction, but this release is at least funny.

See, Urdr Hunt was originally a series of sidestory missions in an Iron Blooded Orphans mobile phone game. With that particular digital casino shuttering its doors, the various animated cutscenes have been redrawn, re-edited and compiled together with new footage as a final definitive version. This results in a film which is a spiritual successor to F91 (an entire television show's worth of story rammed into 90 minutes; the final scene involves people rotating in space), those Gundam SEED Astray 5 minute shorts included on the Stargazer DVD (weird, irrelevant and mostly a highlight reel of select action setpieces) and Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower (is an incomplete story).

This is still more dignity than they gave Love Live: School Idol Festival 2. 

The UFO 50 Post

 

I decided at the start of 2025 to limit computer game purchases as much as possible. We've got a wedding on April 25, 2026 to plan for and it's time to adjust budgets. There's been Tokyo Xtreme Racing while it was in Early Access as something to explore when complete and we work out where to place all our steering wheels. Dragon Quest I+2 HD for a final, sort of definitive version to save for extreme health crashouts. Super Robot Wars Y and Tetris the Grandmaster 4: Absolute Eye for obvious, moral imperative reasons. It's been an easy limit to maintain because not only have I simply been exchanging game time for more exercise and music practice, but because I bought UFO 50 as well.

Did I Even Do Anything Besides Watch Gundam In 2025?

 2025 was less a year about changes and more about settling into the drastic changes 2024 brought. While our wedding is still not for a few more months, in terms of how we live our lives we've effectively been married since October 2024 and to a degree still in a honeymoon phase of our relationship. There's enough room in our little apartment to pursue our hobbies separately but we both simply don't want to do anything unless the other is right next to us. Thus, we've mostly pursued activities which can be undertaken on the couch in the main room, often involving the large TV or a cheap Bunnings foldable table in front of said large TV. Let's run down those activities!

Hobby 1: Crying