Welp, if last episode was a basically an 80's Tomino episode of Mobile Suit Gundam, this episode is straight out of 90's Gainax... right down to the egregious fanservice. Bleh...
Also, I was joking about the problematic polycule with the Space Ghost of Char Aznable I didn't think they'd actually go for it lmao
speculation
If Machu and Nyaan are the Amuro and Char of this love triangle (Shuji being Lalah makes waaaay more sense in retrospect) then we can add toxic Yuri to the genre tags here, it's been kinda amazing seeing the ED make both more and less sense as the show goes on
(that visual storytelling through blocking tho)
A lot of people are going to draw comparisons to FLCL here for the first half, and yeah I see it. Teenage angst isn't what interests me in the show though, it's the political commentary: here's hoping Tsurumaki can connect the dots successfully to make the personal political (as I suspect is his intention), but also I get nervous when a character like Nyaan gets depicted in this way since I'm reflexively expecting The Swerve: I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how it plays out tho.
Next week: we assassinate a fascist!
Sure, but that's part of being of a kira-kira'ed out Renfield, no? Lol don't mind me, I'm just being a cranky old man apparently.
Listen if I'm being honest I don't know what the fuck "kira-kira'ed out Renfield" means
Lol no worries.
Renfield was Dracula's servant. Kind of an empty brainwashed slave with no will of his own.
Kira-Kira is that mental dimension place they go into when they're vibing with the gundams' psycho tech. It seems to kind of bliss them out.
I'm saying the dude doesn't really have any personality beyond being some blissed out Gundam slave.
Thanks for the explanation.
Maybe he's repressing the space ghost of Char by staying blissed out 24/7. We don't really know where he came from or how he got the Gundam Char disappeared in yet, do we?
No, we don't. That's as good a guess as any; Either the Gundam is possessed or Shuji's got multiple personalities or something. And given this is Gundam....🤷
We just got a possessed Gundam last series
I mean, the white Gundam appeared to answer to Nyaan, so maybe they're not possessed, they're just alive. lol.
Oops! All Possessed Gundams!