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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)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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