Review by Chris

June 20, 2003

Part 1: The Storm-calling School Festival

At the Nu School for Boys, student president Char talks over a videophone with Haman, the student president for the adjacent Zeta Academy for Girls. He tells her that he wants to connect both schools with a rainbow bridge for their upcoming festival. He nearly sees her naked as she takes a shower, but two Gundam Mk. II's cover her up with digital censor blocks. As preparations are made, the Alex Band practices with two Ples and Quess Paraya singing. Nearby, punk Haro watches Jerid and Scirocco play golf and The O play tennis. Char asks Principal Degwin about the preparations, but all Degwin cares about is watching girls and find out if there will be a Boy's and Girl's Social Club at the festival. At the Zeta Academy, Christina Mackenzie and Bernie Wiseman announce that only beautiful people can attend the social club. Haro returns to the Counterattack School and reports on the festival. Amuro and Kamille decide to crash the party and reveal the delinquent hiding in the elite school. As Char and Haman are about to enter the festival, the ghost of Lalah floats by with a beam saber in her head and frightens them. Amuro, Kamille and Judau set off from the Counterattack School with their gang and head to the elite Zeta and Nu schools. Christina accidentally hits Bernie with a bat while trying to get everyone to dance, and he spots the Counterattack gang. The Counterattack gang attacks and pelts the buildings with paint balls. Char confronts the Counterattack gang and tells them to leave, and Amuro begins to pee on him and chase him around. Judau crashes the stage and begins to sing terribly. Kamille breaks into the social club and interrupts the festival. Degwin tries to speak to Mineva, but Kamille pushes him aside and introduces himself. Lalah appears again, and Amuro shows Haman a picture of Char as a delinquent. Woody tries to speak to Mathilda, but Kamille knocks him aside and makes a cat face. Christina then smacks him with a bat, and Bernie announces that Psyco Gundam Mk. II and Zakrello may be the first couple. Lalah returns and shows Haman pictures of Char hanging out with her and kissing her. She then messes up his hair and puts sunglasses on him, revealing he was a delinquent. Kamille spins around and shoots out stars, destroying the social club. Char tries to hold up the bridge of love, but Amuro attacks the bridge and the Mk. II's holding Char up. Lalah shows Haman pictures of herself as a delinquent, so she tickles Char, which causes fall and the bridge to collapse. Afterwards, Char returns to his delinquent ways and joins the Counterattack gang in trashing a rich neighborhood.

It should be noted that this review only covers the first half of SD Gundam's Counterattack. This is perhaps one of the weirdest examples of SD Gundam so far. For this outing, the parody centers on the school festival, which is shown in many different anime series. This time, we see strange things like a punk Haro with a mohawk, a bucktoothed Zakrello and a Psyco Gundam in a dress. Also, this episode introduces new characters such as Christina and Bernie from Gundam 0080 and Quess from Char's Counterattack, thus covering all the classic Gundam series and movies from the 70's and 80's. While this episode is not as laugh out loud funny as previous installments, it's still enjoyable.

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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