It really did in the theater. Gotta admit, I was complaining about how the sound was too low in Infinity War in Japan, but this movie had the sound at 11, holy crap. Theater was really funny though, a ton of high school girls there to see harry potter, and a million obvious Gundam fans. There was the typical merch to buy as well with every movie in Japan, but they were also selling gunpla kits of the Narrative Gundam and others, tons of people came in the theater with them lol. I did not grab any NT kits cause I wanted to see the movie first but there were some cool moments for our favorite Jesta's again. Biggest gripe was the main antagonist or the one who they went against mainly was about as typical anime "You can tell im the bad guy cause look at my not standard hair in the military and creepy way of talking~" A big step down from the gravitas that Full Frontal had, stupid name aside.
Was also fun seeing scenes from Zeta, ZZ, and Char's counter attack thrown in, they even remade a small snippit of Zeta, then did the old clips after it which was super weird. In general there were a few parts for not super important things that screamed (BUDGET) or at least it was easier to see on a massive screen. In general though it looked great throughout.
Don't want to spoil anything though til you guys see it. I can't wait for the reactions at that final battle lol.
Also the Hathaway teaser at the end wasn't anything special. Just a person on a beach, then reveals it to be Hathaway, and see a very, VERY cheap underside (like looking up from its legs) of the Xi flying over the ocean before ascending to the clouds.
