Kirbs • they/them • 23 • 🇵🇭I had the GUND-ARM.INC song stuck in my head for over three days one time. I’m just gonna post about anime, probably mostly Gundam.
The only reason I want to get my friends to watch the UC saga is so I can sit in silence with someone as we watch the CCA credits after experiencing the entire Chamuro saga.
I still remember laughing and then crying after finishing this movie for the first time. Like, yeah haha funny that Char's final moments are admitting he has mommy issues and was using his subordinate from 14 years ago to cope with that but also it's such a beautiful capstone to the Newtype theme.
Despite how painful and agonizing it is for Char to admit this to Amuro, a fellow Newtype who felt a deeper connection with Lalah than Char could hope for, it's something he finally manages to do. Such a deep-seated confession to a man whose fate's been entwined with his own since the moment they met gave way to a world-altering miracle. The true power of human understanding is strong enough to rip entire celestial objects from the burden of Earth's gravity well. A miracle strong enough to save billions and all they did was finally bear each other's souls completely. How can you not love such a perfect ending for Gundam's worst divorce couple.
ALSO THE ENDING CREDITS GO SO HARD IT'S SUCH A GOOD SONG
you've all forgotten your roots anyway here's bulma waking up surrounded by garbage and then immediately chugging a warm beer she picked up off the floor
Had shower thoughts about IBO in a hotel bathroom so I need to have a quick rant about all the dipshits who hate season 2 because they think Orga “just got stupid” or whatever the fuck.
So I decided to make a compilation of all the adults that tried to deceive/use/betray Tekkadan throughout the show
(Note: i didn’t include Nobliss Gordon because I forgot and the app only lets you include 10 images. Also including McGillis because he’s an adult even tho I consider him an Iron Blooded Orphan (but that’s a rant for another time))
Like, is it REALLY that much of a surprise for an orphan child soldier who gets involved with the mob at 16 to want to financially set his family for life by taking the shortest avenue possible? Growing up, he never met a single adult who didn’t view him as sub-human trash or a literal tool, other than Nadi (the mechanic). His first actual role model was a fucking mobster that commanded a ship full of wives. It’s an absolute wonder he lasted as long as he did as an interplanetary political figure.
In his experience, adults will always try to take advantage of him and his family because that’s just how the world works. It’s only a matter of time before the next adult that works with them will try to screw them over and get them killed. He wants to protect those he loves, and to an orphaned child soldier, the only way people won’t fuck with you is if you’re the literal King of Mars.
This poor kid had the weight of an entire family resting on his shoulders and the pressure to give Mika a place he belongs. AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING AT SIXTEEN BECAUSE MY BIGGEST CONCERNS WERE OVERWATCH COSMETICS AND AO3 FICS (I know he’s 18 in season 2 but that mfer did not have the chance to mature between the rapidly expanding Tekkadan responsibilities and the Half-metal trade moving to Teiwaz and, by extension, them).
Also, it’s made painfully obvious that Biscuit fulfills a crucial part in Tekkadan’s decision making. He’s the voice in Orga’s head that tells him he’s going too far or he’s forgetting the rest of the family. It makes his death and the inertia they build towards the fatal endgame all the more tragic.
I’m sure there’s other reasons people dislike season 2, but this is, by far, the point I’ve seen stressed the most when people sight their preference of season 1. I, personally, LOVE season 2 BECAUSE of Orga’s failures. He and Mika easily take the spot of my favorite shonen protagonists because it’s so easy to be swept up in the genre of being the scrappy underdogs that always come out on top by sheer force of will and a LOT of luck. But this is the first Shonen I’ve seen that ends with the protagonists getting utterly fucked because of their inability to not push on and move forward. In a way, it feels like a subversion of the genre and it makes it so much more gripping.
But that’s just my two cents. I’m not denying that Orga is an imbecile, by the way. Look, he says it right here.