I can’t believe we went through all that build up just to off Gihren the same way Tarantino offed Hitler in Inglorious Bastards lmao.
One of the recurring themes in Gundam, as a franchise, has been about how the new world keeps getting strangled stillborn by those clinging to the old world, by the Oldtypes who keep forcing Newtypes into the pre-existing power structures and status quo, who insist on weaponising their abilities. That’s kinda here in full force, complete with Chekov’s guns and all. Kycillia’s the usual fascist nonsense, but the show did a pretty good job of explaining it’s allure through Nyaan’s story- though it does make me sad to see home girl fall for it and pull the trigger on the Space WMD. Challia’s perspective, at least, is grounded in his own personal trauma from having stared into the cold, unfeeling void of space- the closest to heroic we’re going to get, he bequeaths on to Machu the freedom to act to prevent mass death. Beard Man is getting up there in favourite UC characters now.
(Khara you’re not slick making the most queer coded guy in the show say that line. Subtext is for cowards, y’all better gimme sloppy Char x Challia make-out sesh by the finale)
Next week:
I usually really dislike mecha with drones, but something about Challia’s being wired makes them work for me.
It would be a really funny twist if our mystery blond who is covering his eyes turned out to be a wormholed inferior Char clone instead of the real deal, someone like Full Frontal or Milliardo Peacecraft.
being wired
I think a bunch of OC Gundam mecha like the Zeong have them
our mystery blond who is covering his eyes
Guy somehow manages to dip just before shit hits the fan, it’s definitely him lol
That animatic sequence with Challia is either a Gunbuster reference (wouldn’t be the first in this series), a cost-cutting measure for some crazy stuff coming up in the last two episodes, or (most likely) both.
Nyaan and the Gyans take down some Big Zams was a pretty dope sequence. Kycillia grooming Nyaan into a psychic gun is reminding me a lot of Zeta Gundam - I could see one of our leads having a similar fate to Kamille at the end of this (assuming we don’t get a giant magic space explosion for the ending).
Edit: This Lalah fan art is funny. 時が見える, indeed.
What’s the bottom left one in the picture? A bootleg?
Yep, Mobile Force Gungal
Edit: Then, for funsies, clockwise it’s: Red Garlic Teriyaki Burger, Gundam vs Hello Kitty, Toyota Auris, idk probably some horse gambling thing, Mobile Suit Gundam-san
Huh, it’s Japanese. I expected Korean.
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That animatic sequence with Challia is either a Gunbuster reference (wouldn’t be the first in this series), a cost-cutting measure for some crazy stuff coming up in the last two episodes, or (most likely) both.
All of the above + Eva reference lol
Nyaan and the Gyans
Best band name lol. Hottest act this side of Side 6!
Zeta Gundam
Knowing Khara they’ve given our leads Chekov’s guns just for them to subvert expectations and have them not go off. Instead Nyaan will turn into a car or something. (Enokido did write Utena after all)
Knowing Khara they’ve given our leads Chekov’s guns just for them to subvert expectations and have them not go off. Instead Nyaan will turn into a car or something. (Enokido did write Utena after all)
That’d be pretty fitting with the ED, tbh lol
The weapon itself was a shock to me. What did that actually do? It didn’t just destroy A Baoa Qu; it will have consequences. But what?
With how short this show is going to be, we’ll probably never know.
Kycilia’s handling of Gihren was masterful. She’s also Char in CCA-maxxing, but it’s always like that with the Zeons.
The parallels in both Macchu and Nyaan getting guns gifted to them, one given a push, and the other “do what you want” is interesting.
Challia Bull is amazing, as most people who have seen G-Spam Gundam agree.
The introduction of seasonal Anime around 2007 had terrible consequences in the world of anime.
The parallels in both Macchu and Nyaan getting guns gifted to them, one given a push, and the other “do what you want” is interesting.
Resonates a lot with themes in the older shows about how the younger generations need to be given agency to decide their path toward the future.
The introduction of seasonal Anime around 2007 had terrible consequences in the world of anime.
The only shows that’ll get an extended run will be the popular battle shonens of the moment lol
The only shows that’ll get an extended run will be the popular battle shonens of the moment lol
and like, the slightly competent romcoms.
What did that actually do? It didn’t just destroy A Baoa Qu; it will have consequences. But what?
It looks like it’s a black hole gun- Nyaan opened a hole in spacetime and gravity + the energy released did it’s thing? It wasn’t clear if there were other effects tho, I dunno if half of A Baoa Qu got teleported to another universe or what.
The introduction of seasonal Anime around 2007 had terrible consequences in the world of anime.
As always, the problem comes back to capitalism.
People will try and tell you Zeon isn’t a stand-in for Imperial Japan as they launch yet another surprise attack lmao
Is it really Pearl Harbour if you’re attacking yourself tho?
OG Zeon definitely was an interrogation of Imperial Japan mixed with a larger critique of fascism, that said in GQX it’s become this stand-in for Cold War era American hegemony (complete with doomsday weapons) that’s sadly still relevant, while Side 6 represents Japan’s place as a defacto colony, imo
It’s more that it’s presented as a crime to attack things without declarations of war. Japan only declared war on a few countries, yet launched attacks all over the place. It was pretty much just France when they invaded Indochina/Vietnam and Britain the day after Pearl Harbor when they invaded Singapore and Malaya. China and Korea had been at war for years without Japan actually declaring war (“Why is your country in the way of our army?”). Places like the Philippines were attacked as part of the operation at Pearl Harbor.
I don’t think the US or Soviets ever launched direct attacks at each other during the Cold War, did they? There were proxy attacks, but never anything direct?
Oh yeah that’s fair, Zeon definitely has that war criminal vibe to them.
I think in this case it’s more a what-if scenario of if the Cold War went hot. Iirc The Man in the High Castle (which this show is kinda blatantly cribbing off)
spoiler
ends with Nazi Germany planning on launching a nuclear first strike on Imperial Japan
