Comments on: Notes on G’s Girls

By: Mokinokaro

Mokinokaro — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:56:54 +0000

I’ve always seen Rain as the Japanese representative.

Domon really is a representative of the colonies (early on) and Earth (later.) He’s not really tied to any country on purpose.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:46:58 +0000

In a way, G is one of the few things I wish I had been able to see when I was a child too, actually. I really enjoyed watching it as an adult, but I think I would’ve enjoyed it more unconsciously when I was younger.

I think the completely out-there Gundam designs are of the show’s real strengths. In fact, its very outlandishness really insulates it from a lot of fan criticism – compare the flak that a lot of AU Gundam gets for ‘just’ reworking UC stories. That’s not the kind of mud you can easily throw at G.

I guess we’ll just have to agree to differ on Rain and Allenby.

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:42:40 +0000

Haha… I remember G Gundam! [Insert 4 months late text]

They had some pretty crazy gundams on that show; Cobra gundam, nether gundam, that one that looked like a fish gundam…
Nevertheless, I LOVED THAT SHOW when I was a kid. I was like, what, in fourth or fifth grade back then? Wowza.

And yeah I had a total girl crush on Allenby >___

Oh, and, going along with what Crusader said:
Allenby > Rain 4ever.
And of course,
Domon x Allenby… 4ever.
Rain can go be a hoe somewhere in her suctioned G suit. Even if she is pretty… And skanky

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:48:34 +0000

I think the final touch is the very existence of the ‘Equipped with boat and heat oars’ option.

By: adaywithoutme

adaywithoutme — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:41:52 +0000

I wish I could comment intelligently upon this… unfortunately my soul withered way back at the Viking Gundam.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:35:30 +0000

@ Dorian Cornelius Jasper: The evolution element is inventive. The only place I can recall something similar offhand is in Char’s Counter Attack (not exactly supers, I suppose, and not especially hotblooded), with Char hoping to force humanity’s evolution forwards by speeding up the colonisation of space.

@ Michael: Definitely runs on hotblood, yes. I recommend giving it a try – it’s a very amiable story.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:40:04 +0000

I have heard that G Gundam was one of the funniest and most facetious Gundam series ever created. It ran on hot-blood, right? Having said that, I never have watched it as yet. So many series to watch, so little time.

Having my love of love power, however . . . hmm, this calls for a download.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:06:45 +0000

Well, Gurren Lagann definitely didn’t separate the Power of Love from Spiral Energy, mostly because of the way they thought up the concept of Spiral Energy in the first place.

Long before TTGL, hotblooded anime (robot shows included) generally drew upon a general “fighting spirit,” or less commonly, the power of love, as a source of if not concrete power then at least personal, emotional strength.

Somewhere in their brainstorming, Gainax tied these two ideas together under the idea of “the power of evolution,” Spiral Energy, the explanation of which is found in the series itself. I do suspect the romance aspect, throughout the whole of the series, is generally subordinate to the overall themes and ideas unique (for the most part) to TTGL.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:51:55 +0000

True, the difference stems from a contrast between their underlying theme. I suppose G placed ‘passing on the torch’ as a secondary theme, culminating with Master Asia’s words in the forty-fifth episode: ‘Now you are truly the King of Hearts’ (or something like that). I can’t really remember how TTGL handled its romance and how sharply (if at all) it distinguished between LOVE POWER and Spiral Energy, though I’d suggest Nia is a (future-)classic Unattainable Girl.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:16:57 +0000

Well, G Gundam had the love power thing going on, while Gurren Lagann had a slightly different underlying theme to separate itself from the hotblooded anime of generations past.

That is, the theme of the passing of time and handing off the torch to new generations.

A bit unromantic, perhaps, but true to itself.