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Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Spring Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 19] (ani.social)

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It's time for the seasonal OP/ED roundup! I want to hear about your favorite OPs and EDs for the season (alternatively, your least favorites!). If you are looking for a collection of them all for this season, you can find almost all of them at the link below:

Collection of almost all OP and EDs for the Spring season

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 days ago

This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine.

Speaking as someone whose prior experience with Gundam has been limited to series not part of the main continuity (Wing, part of SEED and I think the first few episodes of X, none of it recently) and a summary or two I read back in the day . . . it is dense enough that I was having a bit of trouble with some terminology that was thrown around in the first episode. The second, ironically, was somewhat easier to follow despite being a lot more lore-steeped, because while it also dumped a fair amount of terminology without proper explanation, it was stuff related to the brief history/political summaries I'd read before, rather than the nuts and bolts of mecha combat. I haven't gotten to the third ep. yet.

Overall, I would rate it as more difficult for someone coming in cold to follow than Your Forma, despite the latter having been deliberately decapitated. I suspect that I would have dropped this if I hadn't had those half-remembered old summaries of the Universal Century to fall back on.