I had a dream that I went to a video rental store (???) and they had a gundam manga where everything was the same except the entire cast was cambrian creatures (?????)
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I LOVE HOW THEY ANIMATE THE MK II AS EFFEMINATE AS THEY CAN, WHEN FA IS PILOTING💚🤣💚💚💚💚💚💚
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I just finished reading the manga "Ganota no Onna", which is about a woman who is a Gundam otaku and is particularly obsessed with Char and all his red mobile suits.
Originally I read it because alas I Know What It's Like To Be That Girl, but it ended up having a surprising amount of yuri undertones, which I was NOT expecting.
To be clear, it's all played for jokes. It's not actually yuri, and the main character spends a lot of her time crushing on a dude (who hates Gundam). But there are a LOT of instances where the female characters suddenly end up in lesbian situations.
Multiple characters are also explicitly referred to as lesbians, either by other characters or by the narrative itself.
At one point, they even come out and say that all the Gundam fangirls in this comic... seem to like girls.
As I said, this is all largely played for humor, but there are some parts where there genuinely seems to be something going on between some of the women. The main character has some sort of tsundere thing going on with another woman (Makabe, shown below) and this goes on throughout basically the entire manga:
This is all deeply fascinating to me because an ongoing joke in English speaking Gundam fandom is that Char Aznable is some sort of lesbian icon to whom even many sapphics aren't immune, and I'm obsessed with the fact that this manga may be saying that is the case in Japan as well.
As for the comic itself, it's fun and worth a read if you like Gundam because there are multiple very funny Gundam references and jokes, and several Gundam characters make genderswapped cameo appearances. The ending is very abrupt and IMO kind of weird, but the rest was fun and while I would not call it yuri, you can absolutely ship some of the girls together since it really is very heavy on that.
Mostly I can't get over the fact that this entire manga seems to be joking about Char Aznable being an Unexpected Lesbian Icon because it's just funny to me how deeply universal that is.
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i spent several weeks thinking sd gundam force zero was just like, a really REALLY cool girl character design
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Obscure Anime of The Day:
Gundam vs Hello Kitty
Aired: 2019
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Mecha, SciFi
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Not sure about a background yet but these two have their color! Also, I wanted to rough sketch a gundam head~
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