While you're not wrong, it is still frustrating to those that want them. Hell, I'm still watiing for them to release A Series of Unfortunate Events on physical media. It's too good a show to be stuck on such shitty streaming quality.
I know what you mean. Considering how Sunrise is literally going in the Spaceballs Instant Cassette route with Hathaway's Flash, a home video release is inevitable. I have a feeling if that be the case, Rightstuf will be the distributor, as they are with 00 and NT.
Well... It's becoming more obvious why Sunrise/Legendary want the Live-Action Gundam to go directly to Netflix: 『機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ』の公開日が5月21日に変更。新型コロナウイルス感染症拡大による影響を受け The release date of Hathaway's Flash has been moved to May 21st due the spread of new coronavirus infections. ...also, maybe it's not such a good idea to let the franchise's creator say publically that he is going to "destroy" his competetion at the box office. Gundam Creator Vows To Destroy Demon Slayer And Evangelion Tomino just LoL-Tomino'd himself on that one.
Meanwhile with no word on its domestic US release, the wait continues anyway... Same for Rebuild 3.0+1.0.
I really don't like the Freedom. It's trying too hard to be cool and just comes across as kind of ugly. Though it could be worse, they could've made a statue of the Strike Freedom.
I still feel like it goes without saying "FREEDOM" Gundam in China is an oxymoron. "They never get the eyes right.." - Hellboy. That's always been my greivance with Freedom's design, every other iteration of it in plastic, they eyes and face look terrible. That and the shoulder armor design, the Okawara curve and sudden angular lines of its silhouette..... The Freedom was overpowered but it felt like a natural escalation of the Cosmic Era Arms Race, but Strike Freedom is an overkill abomination wrapped in grandiose excess and plot armor. ....*Stares at MG Freedom 2.0, Justice RM, and Providence RM in the backlog.
The Strike Freedom feels like more and more shit was added to it non-stop until someone took Okawara's pen away. the gold frame, the dragoons, the unbalanced colours that draw even more attention to the contrasting design elements, it's genuinely as if a child designed a Gundam with no sense of restraint or elegance.
The Freedom, Strike or otherwise, just bothers me on a meta level. SEED is already a conglomeration of various elements from previous Gundam series, and the Freedom Gundam sticks out as something of a Wing Zero Custom analogue with its wings, dual beam cannons, and general overpowered-ness. The Strike Freedom just makes things even more obnoxious by adding elements of the Hi Nu, V2, and Hyaku Shiki into a gaudy abomination. The whole thing just stinks of trying too hard whilst lacking the imagination to pull it off.
lol! I hate to break it to you, but original MSG is consistently in the top most popular watched shows on Netflix in Japan. Char's Counterattack is stuck in the "currently trending" category as well. While SEED has faded drastically from memory here. It was super popular with a generation but that generation has come and gone. The original is an evergreen. Outside of model kits, I'd say that easily 90% (if not more) of released Gundam merchandise in Japan is related to the original series/movie trilogy. Shirts, pencils and stationary, stuff you find at convenience stores, etc.
I have nothing against machines with wings so long as their form and function are balanced. I designed one for myself after all. Nonetheless... You pretty much summarize almost everything I hated with SEED's vapid escalation in terms of how it tries to encapsulate 20-50 years of Universal Century technology (MSG to F91) in one season. The Strike Freedom represents that all for the sake of propping up the "most popular" and equally unlikeable character in Gundam history. LIES! Filthy stinking Lies!! MR RAL! is still the best character. Second only to Bright Noa's slapping hand.
