The Weekly Stuff #426 – Gundam Build Divers Review & Discussion

<p>After a bit of a break from the giant fighting robots, we’re diving back into Gundam this week, jumping all the way down to the bottom of the barrel to review 2018’s <i>Gundam Build Divers. </i>Capitalizing on the <i>Sword Art Online</i>-inspired <i>Isekai </i>craze of the 2010s, <i>Gundam Build Divers </i>takes the Gunpla action out of the real world and into a very boring virtual reality, without really understanding what makes <i>Isekai </i>shows or the prior <i>Build Fighters </i>series fun in the first place. With amazingly low stakes, wildly inconsistent world building, nary an interesting character in sight, and a final arc that goes from zero to bananas in record time (and not in a good way), <i>Gundam Build Divers </i>is the nadir of animated <i>Gundam. </i>And before eviscerating this terrible series, Sean also talks about playing <i>Horizon: Forbidden West, </i>and Jonathan discusses catching up on recent happenings in <i>Genshin Impact. </i></p><p><strong>Time Chart:</strong></p><p>Intro & Stuff: 0:00:00 – 0:26:39</p><p>Gundam Build Divers: 0:26:39 – 2:31:44</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQBqje0qmCVn0WkCXJzckaA"><strong>Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://anchor.fm/weeklysuitgundam"><strong>Subscribe to the WEEKLY SUIT GUNDAM Podcast!</strong></a></p><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wgtc-radio-we-got-this-covered/id535584943"><strong>Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in Apple Podcasts!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanLack"><strong>Follow Jonathan Lack on Twitter!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SeanTheChapman"><strong>Follow Sean Chapman on Twitter!</strong></a></p><p> </p>