Yeah, this is what I was asking. Not only is there different versions of Hathaway's story but there's also slightly different continuities within the anime itself -- like the TV series' proper vs their film trilogy adaptions. Not that the latter will probably matter much in this regard.
Okay I was totally wrong apparently, I guess I just gave up on keeping track of it and the announcement slipped under my nose.
" AND KILLED GARMA??? LIKE WHAT THE FUCK
Glad you're liking the series so far, a lot of people get turned off by the goofy art and miss out on a pretty great story. The series is overall pretty dark, especially in showing how much trauma Amuro ends up going through as a child soldier forced to fight. The ending in also really memorable, though I find most gundam series have similar stand out endings.Well, I finally reached the half way point of Gumdam 0079 and HOLY SHIT. SHIT'S GETTING DEEP.
Not gonna lie, at first I was like "am I really going to get invested? C'mon we know simping can only go so far" but DAMN is shit going good. I'm really enjoying it and there's so many fucking things going on? I'll just spoiler them incase somebody else is going to jump on the 0079 train cause damn thanks kiwi's im hooked and i've been binging like crazy.
I'm not going to be very chronological because god so much happened so this is my "autistic highlight reel"
- Ngl, I didn't expect to like Amuro at first. I was like "oh he's kind of whiney whatever" until Garma's wife fucking killed herself and Amuro got PTSD I was like HOLY SHIT??? MY SON??? Amuro damn man keep fighting the good fight.
- The whole part where Amuro saw his mom fucking HURT. Like the whole "you changed, my son would never do that" fucking STUNG.
- Ok lets be real the WHOLE Garma bit was fucking INSANE. I was sitting here ready for some funny rivalry shit between him and Char cuz that's the energy I felt at first. UNTIL CHAR REALLY WENT "blame it on your birth
- The whole part where Char is watching Garma's funeral and he's like "stupid rich kid" and drinking had me reeling. That was just WOW.
- I just got to the part where Amuro left white base and then he came back and shit today. That was w o w. AND THEN RUMBAL WAS LIKE "Hey kids watch this" LIT A BOMB AND JUMPED OUT THE OPENING OF THE WINDOW. D A M N.
- Bright being a dad and then that time he slapped Amuro was hysterical
- Amuro walking into Mirai's bra was hysterical.
- I'm really invested in the Sayla and Char thing going on. I have so many questions and I can't wait to get them answered.
Honestly the only character i'm kinda mixed on is Kai cause he's a little shithead but I mean i'm sure he'll come out fine. He is pretty funny here and there.
My personal reason for not reading the synopsis much anymore is that sometimes, it feels like it gives too much away. Not helped on MAL, there's the "MAL Rewrites" community that's going out of its way to rewrite synopses and they're so amateurishly wordy, it hurts to read them. So I just look at the title and poster(s) and go from there.
brave hero amuro chose a woman, zeon faggot Char chose a 14 year old.
I would wait on Origins for awhile. Without spoiling anything the Origin manga is a retelling of 0079 created by one of the animation directors and the main character designer for the original series and the OVAs (which where later edited to a 13 episode tv series) adapt a later flashback arc in said manga. I liked both well enough but I kind of preferred the manga since the anime could feel like it was mainly Char wank at times.
I quit after the first half, and only seen parts of the last episode to confirm my suspicions that those fucking 24 episodes were in the same goddamn arc, it's like the isekai version of the ship in Berserk.
He's not powerless, but he's not nearly as powerful as the forces he's dealing with/surrounded by. His One Weird Trick can get him information, but it doesn't empower him to implement that knowledge itself. Other than that, he's mostly just a reasonably fit dude who had some access to magic but has now blown out his circuits, and I think can sometimes access Sloth's spectral hands.
The first half can be a bit rocky and mecha in general haven't really done all that well lately outside the classic stuff everybody already watches. It gets better though, I personally find it pretty fun.
He hasn't done anything exceptional regarding physical feats you wouldn't expect from a fit 18 y/o, and they do a good job of setting up a backstory that he maintains a healthy body and worked out regularly before being isekai'd. Thomas brings up a good point that he's still relatively powerless all things considered especially compared to everyone around him. Maybe not so much anymore thanks to Beatrice..
There's apparently a short bit from the LN that didn't make it into the anime (might happen at the start of the next season) that puts that to rest.
I honestly don't know why anyone is surprised by this. It's one of those things that a lot of Hentai and near Hentai is written by women. A lot of times the more extreme it is the more likely it's a woman behind it. Porn for women, "Romance Novels," are the same in the West. No one should be surprised by this, even if it's usually not rape in them, just Surprise Sex You Didn't Want To Admit You Wanted but Bad Boy/Pirate/Prince/Secret Billionaire Handyman Knows You Need. Although if you told me Redo was someone doing a John Ringo and basically writing a male perspective Romance Novel I wouldn't doubt it.