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>seriously out of all the people to drop the ball it has to be the ones actually making the story huh
anno is such a bizarre motherfucker. i think he's developed a love-hate relationship with gundam because he knows he can never dethrone it.
from his 1993 gundam "fan book":
Anno: No one was holding a funeral for anime so this doujinshi is me declaring “I will hold the funeral!”
Since [CCA], no one has managed to reset. No one has come back to life. Even V Gundam isn’t a rebirth. Everyone ended at [CCA] and is slowly floating around as ash. Above dead bodies, flying as ashes. No one realizes this, or they do and choose to close their eyes to this fact…
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With heavy stories like that, children can’t keep up and they end up abandoning it.
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Mr. Tomino can’t throw Lalah away, you know. It’s easy to say I’ll throw everything away but it’s hard to put into action. Especially since men are creatures of lingering affection. It’s extremely difficult to throw away things you saw as a child. Even if you’re told you have to. You have to throw away everything attached to your body and become stark naked in order to move forward.