This is a red-blooded Soviet mech. Say something nice about it!
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>>29579Patlabor 2 is honestly my favorite mecha anime and my second-favorite oshii
So! I generally think Hathaway's Flash has to be understood as extremely a companion piece to Char's Counterattack. I mean, this is almost tautological, right. Obviously a work that is the most directly next in chronological order should be considered at least majorly a companion piece! However, I mean this as in, Tomino was probably writing this as he was directing Char's Counterattack. The story of Hathaway (rather than Char), then, is a story started in Zeta, sure, but ultimately a story that is told in the dual novel series of CCA-Hathaway. This unity of attitudes permeates both works, in that both CCA and Hathaway are written during the falling-apart of the Warsaw Pact, and in the wake of the failure of the Japan's Leftist struggles. There is a palpable despair of Fukuyaman End of History that seeps through both works. In that way, I feel similarly towards Hathaway's Flash as I do CCA. It's a work that is a Marxist tearing his heart out, and I can't help but to sympathize. The movies do a good enough job at adapting the novels, and unless the changes in the third movie is egregious, I don't think I'll hate it, despite it technically being a non-Tomino Gundam work.
Char Aznable never could have dropped the Axis because of who won the Cold War, but we have to create a world where that's conceivable. Mafty could never win, but we have to create a world where that's conceivable.