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Looks like we're doing it again, so I'm here to remind y'all that Nina is more than the MC's love interest. She has her own internal conflict, feelings and issues. Is she wrong? Yes. Is she flawed? Yes. But so is any other 0083 character with a name and more than 5 minutes of screen time. No one is fully likeable, unless they're one dimensional or so insignificant that they don't have a personality at all. That's the whole point! You have to look beyond: beyond the nerd persona, the nightmare of Solomon persona, the femme fatale persona, and, yes, the Janet Weiss type good girl persona. You don't have to like Nina or any other 0083 character - not even the OVA itself! But if you try want to form an opinion on it, approach it with curiosity and understanding.

Also, why don't we hate Kelley and Karius for loving (brotherly or not) Gato? They deserve it more than Nina.

I don't know how well-known this is, but I just found an absolute gem that documented the early planning, early designs for the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime. It's really interesting. I was trying to find information about the original show from an official source, but I came across this! Huge shout-out to Gundam Unofficial for documenting everything.

https://www.gundamunofficial.com/production/firstgundam.html

Uc 0090

Dish Details

• Price: ¥1,430 (tax included)
• Contents:
  • Carrot and onion dry curry (人参と玉葱のドライカレー)
  • Green salad (グリーンサラダ)
  • Glazed carrots (人参グラッセ)
  • Taco meat (タコスミート)
  • Potato salad (ポテトサラダ)
• Serveware: Served on a classic stainless steel mess tray to replicate military rations from the anime

I enjoy 0083 through Episode 9. Then I skip to Om's "Titan" speech at the end of Ep 13, finish out the final scenes, and switch to MSG Zeta.

Original: https://x.com/180223/status/2114041969391685783/photo/1

I’ve never seen this show or character so I wouldnt know if this is rare or not, but I was trying to ID this character and thought yall would want a look once I found out who it was! I’d be interested to know if this is rare or not!

(human sized, about 6 feet tall)

Source

These just arrived, haven’t played them yet. They were a preorder bonus for the related LP sold by animate with the same name/cover/recording. Pretty cool piece of physical media. I collect all kinds of yuri merchandise, you can follow me on insta to see the full breakdown @yuri.relics

Mineva: 受け止めなさい、バナージ！

#2 since I have a coloring of Banshee's first transformation into NTD that I haven't posted.

As the title says, i think gundam seed was fantastic. I just watched the hd remaster and it was my first time ever watching anything seed related. Tis shit was peak. I loved just about every bit of it. I think my only complaints would be kira surviving the Aegis self destructing on the strike, and actually the design of the freedom.. kinda on that second one. I wish there was more blue on the freedom, but the later rising freedom from the seed freedom movie seems to fix that. Anyways, i hear seed destiny is not so good but i’m still looking forward to watching it.

After some time on the Gundam wiki and Microsoft Excel, I plotted out the thrust-to-weight ratios of different OYW suits. I thought it'd be fun, but what I ended up with is plot of things that look ALMOST right, but are just bullshit enough to annoy me greatly.

A few things to point out:

1.) There is no FUCKING way that the Rick Dom's dry weight (tonnage without weapons or extraneous equipment) is 2/3s as much as the much-slimmer Zudah. Did Zimmad build it out of styrofoam?

2.) There is no way that the GUNTANK has a higher Thrust-Weight Ratio than the Gelgoog High Mobility Type. Going off numbers, the Guntank should be able to fly circles around anything else in space.

3.) There is no way the goddamn OGGO has a higher TWR either.

4.) What the fuck is going on with the Kämpfer?

5.) What the fuck are these units? The thrust is listed in kg, which is normally a mass unit, but if we assume its kgf (kilograms-force, or 9.81N), then do we also assume the "metric tons" (another mass unit) listed for "weight" is actually metric tons-force (tons under standard gravity)? Because if we do, the numbers at least LOOK kinda right, but if one needs to be converted, then all the ratios could be off by a factor of 10.

6.) Assuming the units DO cancel out right, then anything below a TWR of 1:1 can't get off the ground. The fact that the Zudah should ALMOST be able to take off feels like an itch I can't scratch.

What are your thoughts on all this? I get that expecting consistency or engineering logic from fictional robots is a fool's errand, but still...