20th Anniversary of Universal Century

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Do you know the relationship about UC (Universal Century) in Mobile Suit Gundam and CE (Cosmic Era) in Gundam Seed? My brother said that SEED was made to celebrate 20-years UC. Here’s the list:

<!–[if !supportLists]–>1. <!–[endif]–>Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala, best friends who become enemies, Amuro Ray and Char Aznable. Quite exotic, huh? The difference only Kira-Athrun remain best friends until the end, but Amuro-Char remain best rival until the end.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>2. <!–[endif]–>Strike, almost the same as RX-78. The difference is Strike has PS Armor and be embedded with some unique weapons.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>3. <!–[endif]–>ZAKUs. GINNs. I’ve eliminated most of them in SRW World, though…

<!–[if !supportLists]–>4. <!–[endif]–>The legged ship Archangel is similar to Mobile Ship Argama. The difference is the commander of Archangel is Marryu, a WOMAN—with some helpers from Heliopolis, but captain of Argama-La Kairam-White Base is a MAN, Bright Noah.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>5. <!–[endif]–>Bad tempered boy Shinn Asuka and hot headed youngster Camille Vidan (Camille, Kamiru, Kamiyu. I don’t know which one is true, though) are much alike. The difference? Of course! Shinn remains an ENEMY to our main character Kira Yamato, but Camille doesn’t. Oh, by the way, their love stories ended with sadness too. Shinn’s Stellar Lousier is killed by Kira. Four Murasame is also killed.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>6. <!–[endif]–>By the way, about Four and Stellar… both are not merely humans. Stellar Lousier is Extended Natural (an experiment—similar to a puppet), and Four Murasame is Murasame’s experiment (artificial newtype).

<!–[if !supportLists]–>7. <!–[endif]–>And about experiment… Elpi Puru (Ple), Puru Two from UC and Raww Le Krueze, Rey Za Burrel from SEED are CLONES. Yare yare…

<!–[if !supportLists]–>8. <!–[endif]–>Z storyline is full of sadness, much like SEED. Kira always has nightmare from the very beginning, so does Camille.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>9. <!–[endif]–>Impulse-Strike Freedom’s wings are as THE SAME as Usso’s V2! The difference is those bright wings in SEED can’t become weapons. But in Victory Gundam, Usso can destroy any enemy with it.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>10. <!–[endif]–>HARO!!! Haro, a strange-floaty-annoying-round-thing made by Athrun for Lacus… Very unlucky I don’t recall there’s a green Haro in SEED, haha, or else Amuro will ask Athrun if it could NAVIGATE a gundam or not (and Usso’s Haro will make fun of Pink Haro). I wonder if Gundam 00 came to SRW, is there a family reunion between Haros?
(Green Haro is made by Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam) and later being adjusted to navigate Victory Gundam by Usso Ewin, Pink one is made by Athrun Zala (SEED) for Lacus but fortunately it is only a toy, someone in Gundam 00 creates Orange Haro for Lockon Stratos to navigate his Dynames, and there’s Psyco Black Haro in Gundam 00 owned by Nena Trinity) Great, it’ll be a true family reunion (Pink-Orange-Green-Black). If Athrun knows Haro can be used as Gundam navigator, he’ll scream in horror.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>11. <!–[endif]–>Coordinator – Newtype. Whew… those who modify human genes easily… Kira is ultimate coordinator, and Amuro / Camille is Lv 6(??) newtype.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>12. <!–[endif]–>Spirits who ‘annoy’ in every SEED endings (I mean… Fllay and Stellar who ‘float’ to encourage our main character in the end) are almost the same as spirits who encourages Judau in ZZ story (I mean… err… Lalah Sune, Four Murasame, Elpi Puru, and Camille—hey, Camille hasn’t died yet! He acts like a broken puppet, though, because his mind crippled in last battle in Z story)

<!–[if !supportLists]–>13. <!–[endif]–>Dragoon system (Providence, Strike Freedom) and Funnel (Nu Gundam, Sazabi, Quebeley) err… may be Bits from X Gundam (Karis’s Vertigo)! No comment. They are both the most powerful weapons in earth—and I love those!

<!–[if !supportLists]–>14. <!–[endif]–>There are many battleships/transport ships in SEED, and in UC too. SEED have Archangel, Kusanagi, Eternal as three alliances ships. UC have White Base (MS Gundam), Argama (Z and ZZ), La Kairam (Char Counter Attack). Most SEED’s ships have a woman as commanders (remember Lacus, Marryu, and commander of Minerva?) but UC ships have only a great captain—Bright Noah—to command those cool battleships. Awesome, Bright! Of course Rin Horse Jr is counted among those UC ships, but it’s from V, many years after the first MS Gundam.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>15. <!–[endif]–>Moon…. Ergh…. Moonbase in SEED and in X Gundam are alike.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>16. <!–[endif]–>Gundam’s true villains always have same method to destroy everything they want. DROP THINGS. Drop colonies (UC ), drop Libra+Peacemillion (Wing), drop Junius Seven (SEED Destiny). What’s wrong with those guys? Aren’t there some cooler methods than dropping huge floaty things on earth??

<!–[if !supportLists]–>17. <!–[endif]–>Two sides who cannot accept each other. Earth Alliance and Zion. OMNI and ZAFT. AEUG and Titans (err). Zanscare and League Millitia.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>18. <!–[endif]–>Char wants to make newtypes as super humans who rule earth (CCA), Patrick Zala wants to make coordinators as the ruler of earth (SEED).

<!–[if !supportLists]–>19. <!–[endif]–>Kou’s GP3 + Dendrobium is THE SAME as METEOR units!! Huge things filled with weapons! Hurray! I love Dendrobium, but when I see the RIGHT SIZE (not chibi like SRW, the Dendrobium I saw in SRW games are all chibi, GP3 is very BIG at its size), I point some differences. Dendrobium IS much LARGER than METEOR units!

<!–[if !supportLists]–>20. <!–[endif]–>Quatro Bajeena’s (or Char, they’re same person anyway) Hyaku Shiki Kai and Cagalli Yula Attha’s Akatsuki! They have gold coating armors! Cool!

<!–[if !supportLists]–>21. <!–[endif]–>Quatro Bajeena (Char. He is him) is mentoring Camille in Z, and Athrun is mentoring Shinn. Hm…

<!–[if !supportLists]–>22. <!–[endif]–>Morgan Raete from SEED and Anaheim Electronics are the Gundam factories. Both of them are led by women, though.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>23. <!–[endif]–>Hmm… The three DOM troopers in UC world is similar to THREE DOM TROOPERS in GSD (Lacus’s special forces, I think?) I’ve been bored killing those three DOM maniacs in SRW so I don’t want to SEE them again.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>23. <!–[endif]–>Hmm… The three DOM troopers in UC world is similar to THREE DOM TROOPERS in GSD (Lacus’s special forces, I think?) I’ve been bored killing those three DOM maniacs in SRW so I don’t want to SEE them again.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>24. <!–[endif]–>And the last. Gundam stories are full of blonde haired guys with masks. From UC, there is Char Aznable (MS Gundam), Milliard Peacecraft or Zechs Marquise (Gundam Wing), Raww Le Krueze (Gundam SEED), and Neo Loanorke or Mwu La Fllaga (Gundam SEED Destiny). Don’t ask me why Gundam creators love to create those guys…

 

Buncha to do!

Hip hip hooray! The National Exam was already over, so I can focus on my unfinished projects! Let’s see… there are many projects I have to finish before I enter the university… (and I don’t think I can finish ALL of them in one time -_-)

Kristian’s Project comes first, The ‘Ultima Weapon: Extreme War’. It’s a turn-based strategy game with flash player, and (as you can guess) I’m his damn good illustrator. I’ve been working about it since December last year and I haven’t finished making the mechs’ animation. Well, the story is about a young cyborg named Czech Radzimierz who is struggling about his role as a killing machine. It’s a bloody game, though, I made the storyline and I think a mecha-story without anyone killed is boring. So I made err… every bosses killed, include Valentina Lambert, Czech’s ‘very first girl friend’. The background story is in 2244, where Vladislav Colony wants to take over APRIL, a rich man-made-land in Pacific by plotting the first president and replace by Vladislav’s doll. The main mech which Czech pilotted is Chrnos.

Next to come is my own project with RPG Maker2003. It’s Tale of Forde, also I’ve been making it for 1 year and I didn’t even finish half of it!! Well, ehm… it’s quite difficult because I don’t have any comrade to finish the program, so I need to depend on myself.

Next is my new comic, ‘Song of Niebelunge’, novel ‘Eternal Rain’ (since I was in 2^nd grade Junior High School Student, that means 4 years ago-_-), editing ‘Frozen Memories’ (I think it’s finished, but when I read it once again, I need to edit some scenes), another turn-based-strategy game which comes in mind yesterday, and many more. Gee, I have so many ideas and stories to be told but I don’t have time to do them in one time! Haha…

Next is my friend, Ona’s project, but since I don’t meet her often, I can skip it for now (^^)(v). And the last is my little brother SHOT THEM UP game and I really want to be his illustrator (since I’ve made buncha characters without story)^^. It’ll be great!

 

Gundam 00

Gundam 00 is copyright of Sunrise.inc,2007,Japan I’ve watched all 25 episodes of Gundam 00 since the beginning and I still don’t know what ‘they’ are up to. What the heck Aolia’s true motives is? Why did he create Celestial Being from unwanted people (like the victim of war, ex-soldier, Innovator, and ex-Super-Soldier) and is his motive only to eradicate war–or there’s something hidden? What was up in Jupiter… and that professor’s meaning about Aolia before his death? Did the creator only made Louise and Saji as unimportant characters? Were Maesters alive? Geez… there are many to think about, but I suspect: 1. Maesters are still alive. We can see Tieria’s clone (0_o) at the end of episode 25 (the purple haired guy with maroon eyes and Lockon’s hairstyle) He might be Tieria himself. I noticed that Graham and Ali Al Sashez are still alive, so why wouldn’t Setsuna and the other Maesters? The ones who absolutely died are Christina, Litchy, the doctor with sunglasses in Celestial Being, Johann and Michael Trinity from Throne. The others? Who knows? 2. I suspect Nena will be one of the new generation Maester… 3. Saji was working in space and I suspect he’ll become somewhat-important-character in episode 26-50 4. The most important: Livonze (or Ribbons, I don’t know which one is true) is the true villain, along with his Innovators (the ones who can hack into Veda System like Tieria and Nena–> both are suspicious, nee~~) There are still many questions we cannot answer now… so I cannot wait!! NB: For those who don’t watch Gundam 00…. Gundam 00 is really **** if you think the heroes will be heroes, you won’t get that in this Gundam. All the Maesters are ‘killed’. There are many bloodsheds and the creator shows some events in the world (religion’s war in Ireland and some in Middle East) But it’s my fav movie since I love bloodsheds (evil grin)–ehm, kidding. Well, these 25 episodes are only prelude. Not the main theme. We’re forced to think about Setsuna’s words from letter he sent to Marina Ismail (FYI: He denied the existence of God, since he lost many of his friends and family in battle of Middle East and Lockon’s death, but the world is still very evil.) He asked us why there must be wars in the world. Why are there evil humans with their evil actions. Why there are many conflicts… etc. And he asked Marina, the Princess of Azadistan, to find the answer. So do we.