#kitazume

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Haman and Natalie.

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Here's 'Char' not thinking or caring about his sister🙄.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Episode 8):

Mobile Suit Zeta Define(Chapter 15);

Mobile Suit Z-Gundam Game:

Illustration by Hiroyuki Kitazume:

Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack Beltorchika's Children:

Mobile Suit Gundam High-Streamer:

If you have any media literacy you would have noticed that these moments are put in deliberately and not by accident. 'Char' doesn't have a photo in his keep of anyone else other than his sister. Why do you think that is?

'Char' seldom mentions either of his parents, yet their shadows loom over him and just because a character doesn't outright state something to the audience in an obvious way doesn't mean that said character doesn't care about X,Y and Z.

If Gundam fans actually read/ watched the source material with their eyes and brains open and not with their own narcissistic self projections or endless memes then we wouldn't have this problem of media literacy being so dogshit.

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If you've read the first Gundam novel and Char's Deleted Affair you might notice that Margaret Ring Blair and Natalie Bianchi share similarities in personality.

Margaret (Gundam Mobile Suit Vol 2 Escalation):

Natalie (Char's Deleted Affair Vol 12) :

Kitazume incorporates novel Char's sudden desire to have a child with Margaret into Char's Deleted Affair with Natalie. Except this time it's a more natural and seamless progression whereby Char and Natalie conceive by accident.

Margaret (Gundam Mobile Suit Vol 2 Escalation):

Margaret (Gundam Mobile Suit Vol 3 Confrontation) :

Natalie (Char's Deleted Affair Vol 14):

I only used a couple of snippets from the novel and manga to illustrate the similarities between the two and to paint a general idea of what Kitazume wanted to portray. It's better to read the whole novel and the manga to get the general idea.

In my opinion this debunks those silly criticisms i occasionally see about CDA that Char getting his love interest pregnant is out of character or contrived when in reality Kitazume knew what he was doing when he took this small thing Tomino put in the novel and developed it further

And lastly when i read Beltorchika's Children it clicked for me when Beltorchika gets pregnant with Amuro's child and mentions that this will give him an advantage over Char. It somehow fits thematically.

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Char Aznable, Natalie Bianchi, Haman Karn.