Game was awful at launch and it took years of patches + an expansion to end up in a somewhat acceptable state

Yeaaaah… the pool of possible returning characters is uh… kinda small…

In this house, we stan Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Chainsawman is unironically this generations Evangelion. My man’s goated with the sauce, and he has decent politics (which, to be fair, every author his editor publishes has like baseline decent politics so I’m gonna credit Shuhei Lin for cultivating that environment)

If you’re looking for more of Director Oshiyama’s work, he’s also did an anime original magical girl show called Flip-Flappers, if you want to check out more of his animation

I think UC Gundam is weighed down too much by the weight of Charmuro to do much more than this show did.

To be fair, it kinda is a small miracle we got this show in the first place, and that the show succeeded in addressing Lalah’s fate by re-centering it on her place in the universe quite literally (even if that success came at the expense of, I dunno, a cohesive independent story)… I’ll take it.

Amuro VA

Probably keeping him around for Hathaway 2, which just got announced. Bleh. And I was looking forward to that movie too.

Guilty as charged

(I’m halfway thru ZZ now lol)

Damn, I’ve never been more owned

This show’s writing is basically the same as your average fanfiction

I mean, it’s a fix-fic to unfridge Lalah Sune and create a timeline where Char doesn’t become an asshole

As Liberallia Bull proved, you just need the right people in power!

Don’t slander my man, he didn’t say that, he just said that Char can’t be placed in power, and my dude obviously watched Char’s Counter-Attack cos he’s right.

Besides, Chairwoman Artesia Zum Deikun and Premier Ramba Ral will lead the People’s Principality of Zeon to Fully Automated Newtype Luxury Space Mobile Suit Communism under the watchful guidance of Challia Bull’s Space K.G.B. Newtype Corp.

(Ok real talk, I need a Gundam Double QuuuuuuX just for all The Man in the High Castle alt history stuff, because now I need to know if Sayla libs it up as badly as Minerva does in the main timeline, how much of a menace Scirocco becomes, the fate of the Plu’s… there’s still so much left to explore past once we get past Char and Lalah. Ironically, this universe where Zeon “won” has the best shot at the Earth Sphere becoming socialist!)

Also, Mr. Sex Pest shows up in a VA cameo. Not too surprising tbh, but still awkward.

Char and Lalah’s original VA’s returning: Based, good.

Amuro’s VA returning:

I was hoping they’d take the opportunity to recast him but I guess that’s asking too much of Bandai execs.

The best thing about the show is probably that it got a lot of people to go back and rewatch the original, I’m glad you enjoyed it

The original term came from Adorno, but there in theory it’s just a boring term for people subject to a post-mass communications era, and a theoretical exploration of the kind of social changes that can be expected to come about from that. The important idea that sorta carries over is of a kind of ego-less “New Type” of human being capable of new forms of social relations.

Tomino using Newtype ideology in the original show was him using a flashy sci-fi allegory to depict historical materialism- everyone who goes to space will eventually become a Newtype, because human material conditions have changed and that in turn forces humans to adapt, but then the Zabi family takes that idea and debases it for their own political ends. “Everyone” instead becomes “the chosen few”, and fascism is reborn.

A Newtype’s superpower isn’t in being ubermensch, but in having an increased capacity for understanding and empathy. The idea is that they’re the harbingers of a Communist future, where people are better able to understand and work together towards common goals, and the recurring tragedy of U.C. Gundam is that that future keeps being thwarted by Newtypes being held back by the ideologies of the Oldtypes, whether that’s the Earth Federations capitalist liberalism or Zeon’s fascism.

But also, you started getting awfully eugenics-y around there, Machu.

Er, I think the intent is more feminist here than anything fashy.

Gets Kissinger, misses Trump

You win some you lose some