Mobile Suit Gundam Eight - Ch. 1
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I am hooked and I like the fact that the aliens look straight out from the Getter Robo saga or similar to the Invaders from the Armageddon OVA where they'd just get bigger and bigger if the abominations chose to.
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Thanks for the chapter, wonder how this goes, seems to be some sorta time travel atleast
How did you get that from the first chapter?
Muv luv alternative is your answer. If you dont know what that is. Why are you here? You got homework todo young padawan.
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The 4 years before thing. I assume something is gonna happen for them to change the outcome, either time travel or a vision maybe. Who knows
A lot like Muv Luv alternative. now chapter 2 will decide which direction they will use, a time travel back to prevent the disaster or just telling the story about what happen in the past and relationship development between MC and heroine
but I think it'd be the latter because Gundam Eight don't seem to be planned to be a long story one and in this chapter it already hint that heroine already bear MC child so you can expect this to be like Muv Luv + Fafner in term of tone and story focus on relation between characters while they have to fight to survive
but I think it'd be the latter because Gundam Eight don't seem to be planned to be a long story one and in this chapter it already hint that heroine already bear MC child so you can expect this to be like Muv Luv + Fafner in term of tone and story focus on relation between characters while they have to fight to survive
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That's a bit of a stretch. The end scene is him flashing back in time to when he actually had an interaction with her. It's all in the prologue novella, which is likely resulting in the disconnect you're having here. It details what was going on four years prior and sets up how they all know one another.
All of this is built up in the prologue novella that I translated and released last month. There is no time travel, so people need to drop that logic real quick. As for whether this is planned to be a long story or not, given Kamoshida's interview, it's likely to be lengthy. He fleshed out an entirely new universe for this project, so it's not going to be something simple. He already jokes about how long the plot summaries are for each chapter.
Also, she's not pregnant with his child, it was part of a homework assignment, so you may want to re-read that section. That and the "name" for the kid is Turkish for the word "hope," so it's symbolic of their current plight. Given the type of classes they had in the prologue, they likely had the faux scenario of raising a child together.
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gundam, but pacific rim
To be fair about people thinking that she was pregnant, there was a panel the was zoomed in where the his hand and hers were on top of her stomach and the panel prior also gave that area a small glow effect. She’s probably not pregnant but what they have shown so far is not helping to dispel that assumption.
No, it seems more like the series starts with a flash forward, so we know the outcome, we know humanity will be extinct, that they'll fall in love, and he'll be the last gundam, dying to protect her. We know the ending, now we watch the story get there. How you can confuse a flash forward with time travel is beyond me, occum's razor my dude
Obviously very Muv Luv inspired, which is a good thing in my eyes. About the girl, i also thought this chapter was saying she was pregnant what with focusing on her belly when he's saying "all of you survive" and then them giving a name, but it could very well be a misdirection for those who haven't read the prologue. About people saying time travel, maybe, but i don't think the series would want to rip off Muv Luv even more than it already is lol. Very excited to read the rest though!
Her hand isn't flat against her stomach either. It's more of the nervous, un-sure stereotypical hand on top of hand anime stance. I could see if it were a flat hand, then maybe. Also, I feel that if she were, the artist would've shown her clutching it more in those tense situations following.
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Meiya best girl btw.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that initially assumed that 'homework' is this case wasn't some school assignment, but a little task they give each other. Like, "here's a homework for you, think of a name for our baby" kinda deal.
Like, yeah, you knew more of the novella and stuff, so you can say those for certain, but you can't really blame us for coming to the wrong conclusion regarding the baby thing and the time leap backwards thing, when all we've got to work with was what's seen in this chapter.
Hell, I didn't know the novella even existed until now.
You gotta admit, the way the panels are framed, combined with the blatant parallel with Muv-Luv Unlimited, does mislead the readers to the wrong conclusion.
