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Season 10 Halfway Q&A Part 2 (Patreon)

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2024-09-14 16:50:26
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Ooo-oh we're half way there! Livin' on another batch of great questions! This time we're talking about our process, where Victory excels and where it fails, ideas for mixing up the cast, thoughts on the show's place in the Universal Century, Cronicle's backstory, and much more!

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Nanopocalypse

One million thanks for including my question! I was nervous that it was going to receive a "well, DUH" answer if included at all because I already had the sense (even as a new listener) you guys are experiencing each Gundam title at face value, as it was presented while airing, as much as possible. I was merely curious what the response would be and I am over the moon with what I got. I think even without additional knowledge, the anime still achieves what it's trying to do with Cronicle in that he is both a mirror held up to some of OG Char's weaknesses and a perfect foil to Üso's precociousness and purity (despite having to kill). To me, he is one of the most interesting masked aces in Gundam by being insecure, immature (but superficially refined, which is what Katejina is initially drawn to) and increasingly corrupt in order to survive in the dog-eat-dog environment of Zanscare/BESPA, with the added absurdity of his #1 enemy being a child. I'm also convinced Cronicle is Tomino's burned out way of expressing "you want another Char? Too bad, you get this asshole instead!" Although now that Katejina is doing his bidding in a very dramatic manner, we might have ourselves the first (and really only) Charcouple.

Mark Simmons

The notion of Tomino as "an old man trying to understand young women" reminds me of the uncanny fact that, from Kikka onwards, the fiery blonde or red-headed heroines in his stories tend to be the same age as his beloved second daughter at that point in time. Since he doesn't have any sons, we can't apply the same theory to the male heroes - probably they're all just proxies for Tomino himself (apparently that's why they all have November birthdays).

Jalekok

Aside from some of the first volumes of the novels like Zeta and CCA releasing prior to the anime and influencing the way readers/watchers understood the stories, the novels have affected the tv series since Zeta. In the tv and movie versions of First Gundam (0079) Amuro is 15 but in Zeta (0087) Amuro's official age is 24. Initial Yasuhiko character designs had Amuro's age in Zeta being 22. This is because Tomino changed Amuro's age to be in the middle from his tv/movie age, 15, and his novel age, 18. This reasoning is in the pre-show Tomino memo. So Zeta is not a sequel to any of the three versions of First Gundam in particular but to "First Gundam" in general, including the novels.

Jeffrey M Heimann

I forgot these question and answer episodes were happening so this has been a fantastic surprise!

Bret M Anderson

On the note of Gundam and female protagonists, I saw an interview recently with Tatsuyuki Nagai for Iron Blooded Orphans and, if the translation was correct, apparently Bandai suggested a female lead as an option to pursue all the way back in 2011-ish. Of course, the show went another route and it was another decade before a Gundam series would follow through, but it's interesting how long Sunrise has been trying for it.