Mobile Suit Gundam

Like I know Bandai wants to sell toys and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but I don’t want the show to feel like it’s full of ads.

Exactly the concern I had. Build Fighters itself doesn't feel like that at all. Maybe it helps that you barely ever actually see any details of the characters working on their kits, or perhaps it's that their kits are all so thoroughly customized that they're often unrecognizable when compared to the original kit anyways (not that that stopped Bandai from selling kits for those customized versions, but I digress). Maybe it's just that I was having too much fun watching it to notice. Anyways, it felt to me more like a love-letter to the entire Gundam franchise than an ad for gunpla. The sequels (Build Fighters Try, Build Divers, Build Divers Re:Rise) I'm far less fond of; besides being poorly written there absolutely were times where it felt some of them were trying to push things like the card game that I just wasn't interested in.

G Gundam is weird. It certainly has its comedic moments but it doesn't feel like that's what it's usually aiming for. It feels more like a saturday morning cartoon. It's incredibly corny good fun, though sometimes it can get serious. Unlike Build Fighters it also has a good dub that a lot of people are very fond of, so if you watch this show you may want to try both audio tracks.

If Bandai makes a Nether Gundam kit I'm buying on day one.