Can't find the last volume online (and I don't have room for hardcover comics in my house lol), so I'm done with Gundam the Origin for now. The full color version of this comic looks gorgeous.
The prequel portion of the comic is pretty mid. All the lore and extra background stuff about UC0079 isn't really what I find exciting about the series.
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Deguin calls his son a Hitler ass:
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Love the "giant death robot as extension of the body" stuff:
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it'd be possible to make a good prequel, but i think yas just fundamentally doesn't really get gundam. maybe he needed to diverge more, as is it just pissed me off. though i am anime only, maybe the manga is different
the things that frustrated me the most were the way char seems to have been just born evil and just get pleasure from killing people, and the fact that he made kai a punk kid leading a gang. kai's just a loser who grows out of his cowardice, he's not breaking into military bases for fun!
though i don't want to be all negative, so here's a tweet. and i do like his art a lot
Yeah, retconning Char into the second coming of Light Yagami/Lelouch is really at odds with the intended messages of the OC and Zeta where Char's just some dumbass who happened to be the son of someone important, caught up in things waaaaay over his head and forced to make decisions he wasn't ready for until he eventually goes astray.
Casval just wanted a mommy girlfriend and maybe a twink boyfriend, too.
Casval's dream life is to have Lalah tuck him and Garma into bed together
god. amuro is there
Amuro is invited, but he's standing just outside the door, too nervous to come in
I can't judge Yasuhiko too hard until I've seen Venus Wars or Arion or something idk lol. The Doan movie was OK - nothing to write home about. I only saw the first minute or two of the Origin OVA when I decided I'll just wait until GGP gets to it lol. His art and design work is pretty fantastic, though.
A huge part of Gundam for me is watching these characters go through the trauma of losing their nuclear families (through war, death, estrangement, slavery, etc) and eventually seeing them grow by learning to form connections with others, forming different kinds of found families (not necessarily positive growth, and not necessarily positive found families lmao). I think Yasuhiko doesn't quite get this piece (maybe he had decent enough parents idk), and that's why his prequel versions of these characters don't quite hit the mark.