Gquuuuuux is making me crave more Gundam but I don't know what to watch next... Maybe I should finally finish Origin. I only watched to the Lalah scenes... (I've read the whole manga already.) I was watching 00 but I dropped it. Maybe I'll try Wing...
#Gundam #Gquuuuuux #MobileSuitGundam #mecha #anime #GundamTheOrigin #Gundam00 #GundamWing
At first, I assumed Lalah had green eyes because anime characters often have unrealistic eye colors, but according to Tomino, she's meant to be mixed-race.
"Her real eyes were emerald-green and hinted at an ancestry more complex than that of most Asians."
That's a quote from Awakening, the first Gundam novel he wrote.
Sometimes I will see Lalah on lists of Black anime characters and there is always some loser getting mad about it, going, "She's Indian, not Black!" It is true she is (usually) from India, but she can be Black, too. Her exact heritage has never been consistent anyway... In this book she is a spacenoid from Loum. Later Tomino made up a different backstory for her in Lalah's Secret Rendezvous, and she is from Delhi, India. In Gundam the Origin she is also an earthnoid from India, but her family is from Mumbai. In For the Barrel her mother is from Nepal, and in Char's Daily Life her father is Japanese.
#Lalah #Gundam #MobileSuitGundam #FirstGundam #anime #GundamTheOrigin
I don't understand the way Gundam fans talk about "canon." I saw someone say once that you shouldn't watch the original Zeta anime, or ZZ or CCA, because the New Translation movies "decanonized" them...
And then there were people claiming Bandai "decanonized" Sulemio. They get engaged in episode 1 and are married in the finale! It doesn't matter what Bandai says, that doesn't alter what's in the show. And the endless arguing over whether Origin is a different "timeline" or not is so annoying, too.
When I was in middle school I wasn't really into fandoms, but I was fascinated by Roman mythology. There's a million different versions of those stories. No one ever tries to sort those into "timelines." Imagine if someone said, "Virgil wanted the Aeneid burned on his deathbed so it's not canon and you should skip it." That's what all this nonsense sounds like to me...
When a series goes on as long as Gundam has, people will re-interpret it in different ways. It's like a fairy tale. It's all imaginary so there is no one "true" version. I think some people forget how to play pretend properly when they grow up. They treat fiction like history (or theology?) instead of art.
#canon #fandom #Gundam #Sulemio #ZetaGundam #MobileSuitZetaGundam #GundamTheOrigin #GWitch #WitchFromMercury #mecha #fandoms
Anda, Planeta anuncia que va a publicar Gundam The Origin en España...
A ver que edición hace, porque me regalaron hace un par de navidades el primer tomo en tapa dura en inglés y prefiero de lejos esta versión.
(que queda hasta respetable en una estantería)
Recently I realized Tomino put lots of Hindu and Buddhist themes into Gundam, but I haven't seen anyone talk about this. I guess that makes sense, since it's not like the average English-speaker knows much about either religion. Hell, I only know a tiny bit myself, but it's enough to notice certain things.
And there's also the Origin and Aum Shinrikyo connection. That's a whole 'nother big thing that people never discuss, even though Origin makes way more sense as a story/remake when you realize what Yasuhiko was responding to.
I'm just thinking out loud right now, but when I have time, I do want to write about this stuff with more detail. Gundam has so much spiritual and cultural stuff going on that often gets "lost in translation" for fans outside of Asia like myself... It's quite interesting to learn about. Adds a deeper level.
#Gundam #MobileSuitGundam #FirstGundam #CCA #GundamTheOrigin #Hinduism #Buddhism #AumShinrikyo #religion
Katsuyuki Sumisawa is my favorite Sailor Moon Writer.
https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2024/11/katsuyuki-sumisawa-is-my-favorite.html
#Anime #SailorMoon #SailorMercury #AmiMizuno #MizunoAmi #YuYuHakushu #GarlicJR #OldAnime #ObscureAnime #CuteyHoneyFlash #CuteyHoneyF #CorrectorYui #Macross7 #GundamWing #GundamTheOrigin #Inyuasha #Yashahime
I want to give Lalah a hug.
In the manga she had more of a bitter expression*, they changed it to a smile here which is even more painful in some ways. Reminds me of Kamille's "all we can do is kill others" face.
*I would post a comparison but her manga design is horribly whitewashed and I can't stand it. Thankfully they let her be brown in the anime version.
In First Gundam she is an orphan but here she has a big family. You could call it a contradiction, but personally I reconcile it by headcanoning her as an adoptee.
#Lalah #Gundam #MobileSuitGundam #GundamTheOrigin #FirstGundam #Anime
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