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It seems like all of the sci-fi series of the 80s are all combined together into one, big homogeneous ball of angsty boys falling in love with blue haired girls & killing other people in the name of a just cause. We're talking megazone 23, Macross, L-Gaim, Yamato, Harlock, Votoms, Cool Cool Bye, Cosmo Police Justy, and even more. These are all as close to being the same exact story as you can get without direct copyright infringement.

What does Mobile Suit Gundam bring to the table? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Well.. at least MSG has an explanation for how these children are able to fight ... adult soldiers with decades of military combat experience without dying. (new type)

If MSG is yet another run-of-the-mill sci-fi 80s anime, then surely the reason Gundam is so popular must be because of one of the sequels, right? While that may be true, Zeta Gundam is not that sequel.

MSZG regurgitates the same formula as its predecessor. The main protagonist's parents are just another pair of Gundam designers and the initial character arc tragedy is the murder of one of these parents. There is no attempt whatsoever to change up the character dynamics. This is the same show as MSG, but somehow worse. I stopped at episode 3 and as it was teasing episode 4, the only woman fighter pilot we have seen so far is immediately reduced to "that person who is dumb enough to believe she is fighting on the right side but also.. will she become the main character's love interest???" At that point it was time to put MSZG back to bed.

On top of the copycat characters, the pacing is STILL incredibly slow. Story ideas are
constantly repeated. We have to hear the main character's mom is held hostage communicated in dialogue between 10 different characters over 5 minutes. Just show the bad guys, show the mom as a hostage, and show key character's reactions and you're done. That's a quarter of the episode reduced to a minute.

This is something you can skip. Hell, even if you were transported back in time to the 80s and wanted to watch some anime.. It's not worth it. Just read the Gundam wiki about the events or watch a 15 minute youtube video summarizing the plot and flip the tv to something else. Unless you need some noise to help you fall asleep.

The psychedelic visuals and the smooth transitions between art styles were surprisingly interesting for this era of anime. The watercolor aesthetic especially stood out to me and for the most part was the only reason I kept watching.

Story-wise it was difficult to see what kind of ideas were presented. My interpretation morphed as the film progressed. Initially, it seemed as though I was supposed to believe that "clean and pure women", in mostly a sexual way (i.e. virgins and post-marital sex ONLY), is what is morally correct and is a woman's obligation to god and men. That being sexually abused by a man exploiting his ... power can make even an honest, hard-working, "man's man" of your husband neglect you now that you are "ruined".

Later on, in seems that in some ways I can see the attempt was to go for a brain shattering take that, huh, maybe sex shouldn't be so taboo, and religious superstitions are detrimental to society's progress. That, hey!! Women are cool and forward thinkers. see this person in the painting of the french revolution??? that's a woman you see there!!

But c'mon.. Jeanne's only motivations were to either please her abusive husband so he could stop being sad, fuck satan for magical powers, and to get revenge on everyone who exploited her except for her husband and satan. Which I.. I don't understand?

Jeanne never had any inherent power and was beholden to some other person to do anything.

By the end of it my interpretation became: Women should be allowed to be horny and have sex whenever they want, just like the men do. in fact, if women were allowed this honor, then they can lead revolutions. With one condition: only men can enable their horny-ness; they still live to serve men.....?????????

This is backed up by many different interactions between characters.

- First, the sexual abuse by the lord triggers the appearance of Satan, the physical embodiment of her libido. now she lusts for Satan because she wants to help her husband get over the fact she isn't a virgin anymore and has a wife with sexual trauma. Satan will give her power as long as they smash. Satan is just manipulating her into having sex with him. Satan is the guy that would use the blockchain to get sexual consent.

- The page asks witch-version Jeanne to give him a potion that turns the lord's wife horny for him because he wants to have sex with her. This is unrequited love, stalker shit.

- The villager women talking to the lord and his posse about Jeanne, the witch, say things like "oh, my husband wants it every night even though I think we can't afford more kids.. and I also get lonely sometimes". -- I don't really want this, but I will fabricate a reason to also become guilty so it's not all on my husband.

- When Jean visits Jeanne to convince her to stop being a witch and team up with the lord, it's so he can "woe is me. please take me back.. i haven't had sex in years" and just thrust himself upon her, but also if she doesn't then he will be executed. this is just classic abuser tactics. he ends up getting mad when she's being executed which causes him to get murdered and now everyone sees him as a martyr even though he was complete ass the entire time.

Look, with all that said I want to be clear that I am not saying people shouldn't be allowed to be horny. Anyone can be as horny as they want (to an extent). But this standard exists to establish a mutual agreement between people, not so that people are enabled to manipulate others now that god won't see their targets as sinful if successful manipulation occurs.