Mobile Suit Gundam Eight - Vol. 2 Ch. 5.3

[MangaDex]

 

[leley2108]

What? She died? Then the one from the first chapter is who? I'm fricking confused 😕

 

[DarkShadowBlaze00]

There is still hope, with how the first chapter is set up the girl we see should be her. So hopefully she get revived somehow.

 

[AlphraLoust]

I'm not really engaged with the premise given that it's yet another "enhanced human supremacy dilemma" story, which is pretty overdone in the Gundam franchise. With Mari's apparent death though, I'm truly curious as to who or what the girl from the start of the story is.
Also given how far along their relative timeline the story takes place, I wouldn't be surprised if the universe had medical nanomachines a la Gundam 00, and she'll be placed in a restoration chamber for some period of time.

All that said, I don't understand why the governing bodies didn't merely cover up the existence of "Eights" or introduce them as a Space-Exploration spec model of the existing 7th gen, so as to ease potential tensions. Did they not have a protocol established through the introduction of previous generations of humanity? Was there never dissent between previous generations of humanity? What makes this scenario any different aside from the space expidition?

 

[TheWritingWriter]

I don't think she dies here. nevertheless the attempt itself is enough the eights need to warrant violent actions

also according to the scanlators twitter post, the series is going on hiatus until the end of April

 

[shrike]

Aw this is stupid. All this is stupid.

But. I'm digging it.

 

[Mathias]

OK, this is unexpected and now adds a lot of questions.
Also shame we didn't see Naomi going full John Wick...

 

[deackychu]

I don't think she dies here. nevertheless the attempt itself is enough the eights need to warrant violent actions

also according to the scanlators twitter post, the series is going on hiatus until the end of April

Hiatus may have been a bit much, but it's just not showing up until next month's issue (the typical break all titles cycle through).

 

[WonderingSFaiz]

The one from chapter one is a clone ain't she

 

[Yoshida_Ch]

Is it gonna reveal she's a clone or have a twin sister?

 

[moGinsanity]

place your bets
clone
unmentioned twin sister
revived through NANOMACHINES

 

[Mathias]

place your bets
clone
unmentioned twin sister
revived through NANOMACHINES

Woul rather have nanomachines than the other two. The first two feel turbo lame.

 

[Bams7]

Come on, there's still hope. We see her alive on ch 1

 

[profklausschwab]

Probably not dead yet somehow

 

[Ventus98]

I'm not going lie the story interesting but this plot of 7s hating 8s just because the people wanted stronger soldiers is dumb cause that argument can be same from the 6s so looking at the argument as a whole it kind of fall short and should be instead putting their anger towards the one's who did this and not a generation (am I understanding this correctly or am I wrong cause idk)

 

[Cashini]

sad mc gf rip sad tragic story dont know can mc back in time again like previous chapter stopping Marianella doing peace speech

 

[MRPANDOPOOL]

Man, I wonder how that hyper-focused scientist is feeling now. His abrupt and very public revelation has proven to be the spark that has lit this fire, even if one could say that it was clearly inevitable.

 

[camaku]

7 sentiment grows deeper than '8s can't reproduce'. It's the loss of jobs and destruction of the general 7 lifestyle that grew heavy resentment. This point was simply mentioned in passing and the author did a horrible job of showing the full reason why 7s loathe 8s.

It's somewhat understandable in the shoes of a 7 if you've just been told that 8s are the future and have experienced your friends, family, and you community lose their job to 8s.

Another weak point is the presentation of 8s in general. The only 8s we know of is our main cast, but "3%" of the population are 8s. Pretty small overall, but substantial if all of them are generally congregated to the Atlantis - no wonder the 7s at the Atlantis are riled up. It really gives us a one-sided view of the 8s - that they're all the good guys and not a single 8 has growing resentment towards 7s.