Both characters face terrible consequences if they give into the machine for Loran creating immeasurable destruction with the moonlight butterfly, and for Banagher giving in to the NTD and potentially killing friends, as he did with Gilboa. Banagher can kill a grunt by grazing him with his beam-rifle. It’s you or them.īut characters like Loran or Banagher are not the common soldier. Characters like Marida, Daguza and Zimmerman all espouse their reason for fighting those entering a weapon of war have to be prepared to take life. UC doesn’t look down on killing your opponents in fact its glorifies the ace pilot and the common soldier, something Fukui has been known for since his WWII what-if novel ‘Lorelei’, or his contemporary military thriller ‘Aegis’. I think its precisely due to these god-mechs that Banagher and Loran wield that the writers go for the pacifistic characters.
#Banagher links gundam nt series#
Turn A Gundam is a fantastic series in which the main character kills only one character in the entire-run (compared to Banagher’s six kills thus far) I’m also not a fan of the pacifistic pilot, and yet I’d argue that some of the best Gundam series have this convention. I am not a fan of this convention, but it is an important one in Gundam. In the previous post I’ve spoken about the tension between the pacifistic lead character who happens to pilot the most powerful weapon in the show, and how Gundam Unicorn is the best example of this. Will she be the first and only Cyber Newtype who will know happiness in life? It’s too early to say, but we know she didn’t die here, and I thought she was clearly doomed before the credits rolled. It was he, with his courage and conviction that reached into the heart and past the tortured mind of Ple 12. He dragged the Banshee back in the Garuda’s hangar, where Zinnerman was. The important thing he did was be that possibility. It was a powerful warrior taming a magical beast is more analogous – but it didn’t resolve this way either.īanagher didn’t turn Marida back. It would’ve been a better fight than what we saw between Uraki Kou and Anavel Gato in Stardust Memory, but no, it wasn’t a fight.
The most powerful Gundams could’ve really fought, but didn’t. With this she went back to save Marida, because Zinnerman and her must never fight.Īnd thus we see Gundams grapple with each other anew. He told her as much, how he heard her, and that he knew – what his power and presence was for.
He was able to disengage himself from Marida’s confused and angry attacks from the Banshee and caught Mineva in another fine example of the romantic mid-air catches in robot anime.
Mineva performed one of the most powerful leaps of faith in anime here.Īnd as Bright predicted, because Banagher is a Newtype, he heard her call. But what really made it real for Banagher was when Mineva (having rejected Riddhe’s offer of a life of compromise), threw herself into the air, falling fast and straight to the ground, feeling the massive pull of the Earth’s gravity – called out his name. What’s important to note here, and in this episode Banagher identifies and accepts his purpose as the pilot of the Beast of Possibility – is that he’s here to save the people who choose to fight.īright Noa gives him confidence, as the pilot that the Gundam chose. He was in a battle, but he wasn’t in it to fight. Just as in episode 04, Banagher wasn’t fighting. I find it hardly surprising that Gundam has taken this and ran with it, scaling up using mobile suits and their communications systems. Star Wars is probably the most important work in this tradition as far as Gundam is concerned: Vader attempts to convert Luke into the Dark Side in The Empire Strikes Back, while Luke attempts to convert Vader back in the Light Side in Return of the Jedi. One of these things is the moral debate that often happens while the participants are in actual combat.Ĭinematic duels, particularly sword fights take advantage of the proximity and pauses between passes to stage debates and/or exchanges of wit.
#Banagher links gundam nt free#
By the second episode, I was thrilled by Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn because I felt it did mobile suit combat as well as it possibly could get, and this meant being free from many of the complaints I (and other viewers) have about Gundam and robot shows. I’ve covered similar ground before, but I feel this bears renewed discussion.
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