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)

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

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.

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)

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

It’s from Ultraman I think

This means that some time in the indeterminate future we might get the actual One Lego Piece.

True, as usual the problem is the internet lol

Philip K. Dick is a great author, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is probably his best work, iirc Man in the High Castle’s ending was a bit anti-climatic but I need to reread the book now too lol

I’ve been sailing the high seas and torrenting the eps off of Nyaa.si

You can legally watch it on Amazon prime I think but as much as I want to support studio Khara I want to give money to Jeff Bezos less

I’ve been enjoying things a lot more with Shuji gone.

Y’knoooow, valid. His absence makes screentime for all the messy fictional politics I like Gundam for.

Right, like everyone confused about Machu/Shuji kinda need to see this ep for the exact kind of Newtype weirdness we’re working with (although imo the scene with Challia this ep really did a lot to flesh out Machu and Shuji’s relationship through inference, like imagine living most of your life with your parent not understanding your emotional wants or needs and then suddenly finding the one cute guy in the universe who could literally read your mind), but at the same time I think it’s completely reasonable to expect a show to stand on it’s own and explain weirdness like that as part of the story and not off-screen that storytelling duty to past franchise entries. It kinda is what it is at this point tho

Also, she’s probably had to watch G-Savior a few dozen times.

A fate worse than death.

Beyond the Time

No shot that they don’t use it as an insert song in the finale

“then everyone space magic exploded the end”

I mean, that’s basically CCA and Unicorn/Narrative lol, so if anything it’ll be kinda par for the course.

Tsurumaki seems to be building up to something rather intentionally tho, so we’ll see.

We’re probably going to be stuck with Black color scheme Evil Rival/Deuteragonist Gundams from now on due to Unicorn lol

Shirozu

I legit couldn’t tell it was him at first, and had to have social media point it out. Kinda obvious in retrospect because he’s doing the Origins death glare.

Grand Admiral Thrawn was a DEI hire, so no big loss for ol’ Sheev there probably.

The Zeta score playing was the best kind of fanservice

I feel like we’re moving towards a classic Tomino style conflict with a bunch of factions ricocheting off each other.

Challia inheriting Char’s will is probably the best part of the show, and the MC’s getting split between the different Zeon factions too just to drive home the toxic yuri (Shuji’s probably on earth lol)

Braw Bro with a little dude that pops out

the little dude is the ki ke roga! (edit: oh man the word filter)

It also looks like we’re going back to the alternate UC 0079 next episode. Seems like elements of CCA are being brought in like with Gundam X’s alternate UC.

Yeah next ep looks like they’ll go over the remaining flashback stuff from the movie that didn’t make ep 2 due to time, although I do wonder what else they’ll put into the episode since that footage was only about 15 more mins of runtime.

Requiem for Vengeance

That was such an awful show lol. I trust Tsurumaki enough tho, so far he’s really hammered home how much both Zeon and the Federation suck. Although I’m getting anxious about if the AEUG/Mafty/Space Maoist analogue faction is going to show up tho.

Is it just weird bonding from the psychic space high they get while doing space murder?

It’s this, and the director kinda compressing a lot of legacy franchise tropes together into one character. The girls are kinda projecting a lot onto him (Freedom for Machu and Security/Companionship for Nyaan) whereas bro’s more interested in tagging and his haunted gundam- that said, I’m not sure it’s thaaaaaat unrealistic for teenage girls to develop love triangle drama from what amounts to their first crush.

I expected him to get fridged to drive the plot forward but him literally peacing out is way funnier