Like many in the Gundam community, I have never finished Turn A Gundam, not from a lack of trying mind you. Over the last eight or so years I have tried to watch it two separate times and only made it a few episodes in. Yes I am a pleb. However I decided to give Tomino’s last gift of Gundam another shot. (I don’t recognize G-Reko, Fight Me)

I have decided to do this every 10 episodes and, well, here we are.

One of the things I actually liked about Turn A, in concept, was that Tomino had originally wanted to make the protagonist a female pilot. Sunrise was like “Oh, Hell No” and Tomino was all like “Gurl, I do what I want”. Needless to say Sunrise got their way technically. Tomino created Loran Cehack, the most gender neutral Gundam protagonist ever. I say this because not only do many people in the show take him for a girl regularly, but he also goes under cover in drag.

He’s totally a dude.

This brings my to what I like to call Tomino’s War On Loran’s Junk. It only happens twice, but this poor dude gets his junk attacked by knee into fish toy into junk. Then he smashes the boys by landing hard on a plane. Just watch like the first four episodes.

All jokes aside, Turn A suffers from what I like to call the “Man In The High Castle Syndrome”. In its simplest of forms, it means that the setting is way more interesting than any of the characters. That being said, at 10 episodes there isn’t a ton of development pushed into anyone yet. But fan art gets hella pushed.

Drawn by Flick-Float

Damn, he sure is pretty.

Also this guy is a Bee.

Harry Wants To Smash

Overall, I don’t feel really driven to continue for Loran, but more to see how a pre-industrialized world deals with a civilization of humans from the moon with dope ass moon tech. Think like pre-WW1 people fighting Celestial Being. The designs are growing on me but I am still really turned off by most of them.

Laura is best girl, Sochie is worst girl, fight me.

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