Giren Zabi idolized Adolf Hitler, and patterned his Spacenoid (though he used the term Newtype) superiority ideology after Hitler’s own doctrine of Aryan racial superiority. The Principality of Zeon is depicted in romanticized WW2 German likenesses, most notably through their uniforms and dress. As the Gundam franchise continues to flesh out and add works to the narrative of the ‘One Year War,’ the portrayal of the Principality of Zeon becomes progressively more the Germany of Hitler’s Reich.

One of the more recent of these installments is the manga Mobile Suit Gundam: the Gihren Assassination Plot, serialized in Gundam Ace magazine from 2007-2010. In this manga, the Gundam narrative draws further from the Hitler history and mythology, particularly “Operation Valkyrie:” an actual plan developed within Hitler’s military to assassinate him. Interestingly, a feature film based on this was released starring Tom Cruise in 2008.

From Wikipedia:

Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre) was an emergency continuity of government operations plan developed in Nazi Germany for the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to execute and implement in case of a general breakdown in civil order of the nation. Failure of the government to maintain control of civil affairs could be caused by the Allied bombing of German cities, or a rising of millions of foreign forced laborers working in German factories.

German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) officers General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, modified the plan with the intention of using it to take control of German cities, disarm the SS, and arrest the Nazi leadership once Hitler had been assassinated in the July 20 Plot. Hitler’s death (as opposed to his arrest) was required to free German soldiers from their oath of loyalty to him (Reichswehreid). After lengthy preparation, the plot was carried out in 1944, but failed.

Back to Gundam: After the One Year War, the Earth Federation Forces unearthed voluminous documents of the Principality/Side 3 in order to investigate how exactly the OYW wrapped up…

…and from these documents, the plan to assassinate Gihren Zabi was revealed.

Without going into the details of the narrative, let us look at what this premise – and its historical basis give us. Speaking for myself, it tells me that the Germans aren’t evil as a race, a nationality, or as a social group; and Zeon is the same. This narrows down the evil associated with the Second World War in our own history and the fictional OYW to a single source, or perhaps a few others.

This is personally significant to me because the romanticizing of Hitler’s Reich, the Wermacht and the SS, is actually quite attractive to me, and this extends to Zeon. This is to me, an authentic guilty pleasure. I feel guilty identifying with the bad guys; not that I actually relate to them, but I want to have their look, and their badass effect. This desire almost feels like an endorsement of their evil. This is where the guilt comes from.

I feel the same way with my affinity for Reinhard von Lohengramm and the Galactic Empire from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, that is also wholly evocative of Imperial Germany. The names themselves sound so awesome to me. It’s like it’s almost automatically GAR if your name is German. Gundam does a lot of the same for its Principality of Zeon:

As seen from the above image, the whole plan is wholly based on the historical “Operation Valkyrie.” The code names listed in the display are actual names of mythological Valkyries in Norse mythology (though perhaps Germanized). Why is this so attractive again? The ‘bad guys’ are often portrayed as machine-like though not really, often with amazing use of symbols and perhaps heraldry, disciplined and threatening. The ‘good guys’ in contrast are presented loose, collegial, scruffy, and sympathetic. It is the same with Legend of the Galactic Heroes as with Gundam.

See the Reich’s officers’ stately mien, compared to the Free Planets’ bunch of merry men. It’s not that the Free Planets’ characters are never cool, they’re just allowed to be goofy, making them sympathetic and relatable compared to the ‘Boring Germans in Space.’ However, I’m sure I’m not alone in this: I find the Reich to be wicked cool, and I watched the whole show rooting for them.

As seen from the image, you have your gritty and grimy Earth Federation soldier having a smoke with his rations – and interestingly the EFF characters at the foreground are most often front line personnel; contrasting with the aristocratic Zeon officer inspecting a wine cellar with at least one fawning sympathizer/collaborator, as characters with speaking lines among the Zeon are often officers (unless they are mooks about to get killed).

The image evokes slices of life from the OYW, as inspired by the European theater (of war) during WW2. The allies were scruffy and seemed rag-tag while fighting through Northern Europe (as depicted by films like Saving Private Ryan, or television mini-series such as Band of Brothers), and the Germans had their way with the treasures of the countries they occupied and lived like aristocrats (as depicted by films like Schindler’s List).

I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising at all that the OYW should draw so much from WW2, as evil is so easily identifiable while the fashion of the ‘enemies’ are so impressive. I don’t think it’s in the creators’ (to permit myself some Doylian speculation) best interests to model evil after the Japanese part of WW2’s Axis of Evil. So yes, Germany for Zeon; Gihren Zabi for Adolf Hitler; Operation Valkyrie for the Gihren Assassination Plan. As I read more into the manga, I’ll find out if the use of Operation Valkyrie is a matter of direct inspiration by the plotters, and not simply a thematic consistency on the part of the narrative.

Bonus Images:

Bad guys look cool and I find myself rooting for them sometimes (or often). How do I rid myself of this guilt? I don’t really; I don’t do a good job of rationalizing away the fact that I don’t necessarily endorse the views, behavior, and acts of the bad guys. Unfortunately for me this is such a big part of my viewing and reading experience, and part of my hobby in general. Sometimes, even if it doesn’t really work, I look at images like this one and try to be at peace:

D’awww

But no, it doesn’t really work. What can you do?

Further Reading

Nazi Chic in other anime: Strike Witches (2DT 06/26/2010)

War is Hell, but it may be just all a matter of historical correction [->]

Char Aznable is another guilty plearsure [->]

Perhaps an extreme source of guilt for liking Gundam villains (Kaioshin 09/12/2009)

The Guilty Pleasures series of posts here on We Remember Love [->]

In the previous installments of the Gundam Unicorn OVA I’ve lavished praise in its restraint in letting pilots talk in their mobile suits while fighting. The talking is a very Gundam thing to do, wherein the combatants debate, argue, and lecture each other self-righteously. It is ridiculous. I ridicule it. But it is part of what makes Gundam what it is, and I love Gundam more than I fancy myself as a patron of the arts.

Still, I prefer not to craft battle scenes around a moral/political debate with lots of shouting by teenagers, and Banagher dished out enough shouting, semonizing, imploring, pleading, and whining to fill nine thousandths of a Gundam SEED episode. But is this necessarily bad in itself? Or, is it a poor execution of a craft with its own tradition?

Swords are symbolic of the wills of the combatants. The battle is of wills, and what makes the will strong is the righteousness of the character, the belief in his rightness — or the right to prevail. The fight scene both symbolically expresses these wills and at the same time spells it out by having the characters (in)formally state their arguments. These are punctuated by blows, thrusts, slashes, and hacks.

The tradition of this kind of cinema must probably be long, but I am no film scholar. I do know that if there’s anything that Gundam follows or is influenced by, or remembers love for, it is the Star Wars saga. Consider the following scenes:

1. Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back

2. Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader & Emperor Palpatine, The Return of the Jedi

3. Obi-wan Kenobi vs. Anakin Skywalker, The Revenge of the Sith

All three scenes exemplify the tradition. Vader was doing PR for the Empire and recruiting Luke in Episode V (“Search your feelings, you know it to be true!”), Luke Skywalker was attempting to redeem Vader in Episode VI (“There is still good in you!”), and Obi-wan was attempting the same in Episode III (“You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!”). Gundam took this tradition along with the Jedi/Newtype powers and the beam sabers and ran with it.

The thing with being in a Mobile Suit, the distance between the combatants is exaggerated, and in addition to this, one doesn’t necessarily see the face of one’s adversary. Just like how it is to have a heated argument over the phone, it is a lot easier to shout a lot. Add this to the youth of the combatants (younger than Luke Skywalker), then you get a lot more angry shouting, a lot more emotion… kind of like how the younger, angstier Anakin Skywalker differs from the smooth, robotic Darth Vader in the debates. In Gundam Unicorn 04, Banagher sheathes his weapons in front of his enemy just as Luke does against Vader in Episode VI.

The story of Star Wars is fairly simpler than that of Gundam. In Gundam the subject of the debate is the righteousness of the respective causes, the evils and wrongness of the respective factions, the self-identity and self-actualization of the pilots (“I’m a tool of war!” “This is all I have!”), and the wrongness of fighting, killing, and war itself (“You’ll just continue the cycle of hate and revenge!”).

But anyone who inspected those Star Wars clips and has seen this episode (and perhaps a lot more Gundam) must ask: Why is there SO MUCH MORE talking and lecturing in Gundam? It has to do with money. It is far more difficult and expensive to animate 8 minutes of fast-paced fighting than it is to film stuntmen in a green room. One must also consider that in the Star Wars sequels and especially with the prequels, there was a whole lot more money to go around. The light saber battle in Episode 04 is by far the simplest and the weakest in the saga, while Episode 03 made sure the proportion of talk vs. actual swordplay heavily favors the action.

Thus, dramatic pauses in the action for debating, haranguing, lecturing, whining, begging, etc. become welcome narrative devices in anime. Just look at shounen fighting shows and the sheer amount of dialogue that happens between adversaries. These involve describing attacks before they’re launched, how clever the counterattack was, the damage/power felt withstanding the attack, etc. Do I like this? No. But I accept this, and what Unicorn 04 did because I am a fan of anime.

But what about Macross, who has a whole lot less of this kind of thing? Well, yes, the Macross franchise indulges this a lot less albeit in general the duels are much shorter. The action is a lot more 1 vs. many. And when Gundam does 1 vs. many as shown in this episode, the chatter on the tactical net makes a lot more sense and is actually welcome (“It’s like a war museum out here. They (Zeon) sure have guts attacking us with those ancient suits!”). Also, let us not forget the remarkable subtlety in Unicorn episodes 01, 02, and 03!

It’s like this: Gundam Unicorn was always going to unleash this on us viewers. It was an inevitability. What it didn’t want to do was to  inflict it without setting things up, without providing enough great action in the first half, and without providing Banagher exposure to a whole range of different perspectives. The authority figures, from captains to more experienced pilots took time to listen to Banagher and gave their respective pieces in poignant and thoughtful ways: Deguze, Otto, Marida, Zinnerman, Frontal. Banagher was indulged as if he were an adult, a conceit common in Gundam (one need only look at episode 05 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE to see this dynamic at work – Grudek and Emily).

All of what Banagher witnessed and heard from both sides of the conflict convinced him to act as neutral as possible, that his role, and that of the Gundam Unicorn, was not to tip the scales in favor of either the Federation or (Neo) Zeon, but to stop the conflict itself. Thus Banagher begins to arrive at the antagonistic dynamics of the Universal Century narrative.

Gundam Pilots/Heroes vs. Anaheim Electronics… Banagher Links/Vist Foundation want to end conflict while Anaheim Electronics want to perpetuate conflict (good for business). Federation vs. Zeon… Feddies want to quell terrorism, stop megalomaniacs, and punish those who dropped the colonies on Earth. Zeon want to remove the yoke of Earth upon the Spacenoids, and punish those who humiliated them. We used to see only the Spacenoid vs. Earthnoid struggle, represented by Zeon and the Earth Federation respectively, but now this show is explicitly articulating that there is a true villain, in the form of a war profiteer.

Is this not interesting? You can’t reason with those who have so much to carry, souls weighed down, etc. But one can remove those who powerfully perpetuate this hate in order to profit from it. This is how the story will go forward. Banagher has failed reasoning with soldiers in the thick of battle. He went into the battle with no intention to fight at all. Gundam Unicorn 04 didn’t quite show combatants arguing and talking during their duel. Banagher was never in a duel. When the time came for him to make it a fight, he did not, and could not do so. Banagher was not in a fight this episode.

This show punished Banagher for trying, but edifies him at the same time. He got himself worked into a full head of steam, all-powered up after prevailing over Suberoa Zinnerman, but all this came to nothing with his ineffectual showing in the battle. He really saved NO ONE… DESPITE HIS NEWTYPE MAGIC.

Thus, before we all get worked up with how all this sermonizing from within the suit, remember how this episode showed that it failed. I would personally be more put off should Banagher have succeeded.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 04 Post Series

1. Sermon From The (Mobile) Suit [You are reading this now]
2. The Despair of Zeon
3. The Eternal Captain: Bright Noa

Giren Zabi idolized Adolf Hitler, and patterned his Spacenoid (though he used the term Newtype) superiority ideology after Hitler’s own doctrine of Aryan racial superiority. The Principality of Zeon is depicted in romanticized WW2 German likenesses, most notably through their uniforms and dress. As the Gundam franchise continues to flesh out and add works to the narrative of the ‘One Year War,’ the portrayal of the Principality of Zeon becomes progressively more the Germany of Hitler’s Reich.

One of the more recent of these installments is the manga Mobile Suit Gundam: the Gihren Assassination Plot, serialized in Gundam Ace magazine from 2007-2010. In this manga, the Gundam narrative draws further from the Hitler history and mythology, particularly “Operation Valkyrie:” an actual plan developed within Hitler’s military to assassinate him. Interestingly, a feature film based on this was released starring Tom Cruise in 2008.

From Wikipedia:

Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre) was an emergency continuity of government operations plan developed in Nazi Germany for the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to execute and implement in case of a general breakdown in civil order of the nation. Failure of the government to maintain control of civil affairs could be caused by the Allied bombing of German cities, or a rising of millions of foreign forced laborers working in German factories.

German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) officers General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, modified the plan with the intention of using it to take control of German cities, disarm the SS, and arrest the Nazi leadership once Hitler had been assassinated in the July 20 Plot. Hitler’s death (as opposed to his arrest) was required to free German soldiers from their oath of loyalty to him (Reichswehreid). After lengthy preparation, the plot was carried out in 1944, but failed.

Back to Gundam: After the One Year War, the Earth Federation Forces unearthed voluminous documents of the Principality/Side 3 in order to investigate how exactly the OYW wrapped up…

…and from these documents, the plan to assassinate Gihren Zabi was revealed.

Without going into the details of the narrative, let us look at what this premise – and its historical basis give us. Speaking for myself, it tells me that the Germans aren’t evil as a race, a nationality, or as a social group; and Zeon is the same. This narrows down the evil associated with the Second World War in our own history and the fictional OYW to a single source, or perhaps a few others.

This is personally significant to me because the romanticizing of Hitler’s Reich, the Wermacht and the SS, is actually quite attractive to me, and this extends to Zeon. This is to me, an authentic guilty pleasure. I feel guilty identifying with the bad guys; not that I actually relate to them, but I want to have their look, and their badass effect. This desire almost feels like an endorsement of their evil. This is where the guilt comes from.

I feel the same way with my affinity for Reinhard von Lohengramm and the Galactic Empire from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, that is also wholly evocative of Imperial Germany. The names themselves sound so awesome to me. It’s like it’s almost automatically GAR if your name is German. Gundam does a lot of the same for its Principality of Zeon:

As seen from the above image, the whole plan is wholly based on the historical “Operation Valkyrie.” The code names listed in the display are actual names of mythological Valkyries in Norse mythology (though perhaps Germanized). Why is this so attractive again? The ‘bad guys’ are often portrayed as machine-like though not really, often with amazing use of symbols and perhaps heraldry, disciplined and threatening. The ‘good guys’ in contrast are presented loose, collegial, scruffy, and sympathetic. It is the same with Legend of the Galactic Heroes as with Gundam.

See the Reich’s officers’ stately mien, compared to the Free Planets’ bunch of merry men. It’s not that the Free Planets’ characters are never cool, they’re just allowed to be goofy, making them sympathetic and relatable compared to the ‘Boring Germans in Space.’ However, I’m sure I’m not alone in this: I find the Reich to be wicked cool, and I watched the whole show rooting for them.

As seen from the image, you have your gritty and grimy Earth Federation soldier having a smoke with his rations – and interestingly the EFF characters at the foreground are most often front line personnel; contrasting with the aristocratic Zeon officer inspecting a wine cellar with at least one fawning sympathizer/collaborator, as characters with speaking lines among the Zeon are often officers (unless they are mooks about to get killed).

The image evokes slices of life from the OYW, as inspired by the European theater (of war) during WW2. The allies were scruffy and seemed rag-tag while fighting through Northern Europe (as depicted by films like Saving Private Ryan, or television mini-series such as Band of Brothers), and the Germans had their way with the treasures of the countries they occupied and lived like aristocrats (as depicted by films like Schindler’s List).

I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising at all that the OYW should draw so much from WW2, as evil is so easily identifiable while the fashion of the ‘enemies’ are so impressive. I don’t think it’s in the creators’ (to permit myself some Doylian speculation) best interests to model evil after the Japanese part of WW2’s Axis of Evil. So yes, Germany for Zeon; Gihren Zabi for Adolf Hitler; Operation Valkyrie for the Gihren Assassination Plan. As I read more into the manga, I’ll find out if the use of Operation Valkyrie is a matter of direct inspiration by the plotters, and not simply a thematic consistency on the part of the narrative.

Bonus Images:

Bad guys look cool and I find myself rooting for them sometimes (or often). How do I rid myself of this guilt? I don’t really; I don’t do a good job of rationalizing away the fact that I don’t necessarily endorse the views, behavior, and acts of the bad guys. Unfortunately for me this is such a big part of my viewing and reading experience, and part of my hobby in general. Sometimes, even if it doesn’t really work, I look at images like this one and try to be at peace:

D’awww

But no, it doesn’t really work. What can you do?

Further Reading

Nazi Chic in other anime: Strike Witches (2DT 06/26/2010)

War is Hell, but it may be just all a matter of historical correction [->]

Char Aznable is another guilty plearsure [->]

Perhaps an extreme source of guilt for liking Gundam villains (Kaioshin 09/12/2009)

The Guilty Pleasures series of posts here on We Remember Love [->]

In the previous installments of the Gundam Unicorn OVA I’ve lavished praise in its restraint in letting pilots talk in their mobile suits while fighting. The talking is a very Gundam thing to do, wherein the combatants debate, argue, and lecture each other self-righteously. It is ridiculous. I ridicule it. But it is part of what makes Gundam what it is, and I love Gundam more than I fancy myself as a patron of the arts.

Still, I prefer not to craft battle scenes around a moral/political debate with lots of shouting by teenagers, and Banagher dished out enough shouting, semonizing, imploring, pleading, and whining to fill nine thousandths of a Gundam SEED episode. But is this necessarily bad in itself? Or, is it a poor execution of a craft with its own tradition?

Swords are symbolic of the wills of the combatants. The battle is of wills, and what makes the will strong is the righteousness of the character, the belief in his rightness — or the right to prevail. The fight scene both symbolically expresses these wills and at the same time spells it out by having the characters (in)formally state their arguments. These are punctuated by blows, thrusts, slashes, and hacks.

The tradition of this kind of cinema must probably be long, but I am no film scholar. I do know that if there’s anything that Gundam follows or is influenced by, or remembers love for, it is the Star Wars saga. Consider the following scenes:

1. Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back

2. Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader & Emperor Palpatine, The Return of the Jedi

3. Obi-wan Kenobi vs. Anakin Skywalker, The Revenge of the Sith

All three scenes exemplify the tradition. Vader was doing PR for the Empire and recruiting Luke in Episode V (“Search your feelings, you know it to be true!”), Luke Skywalker was attempting to redeem Vader in Episode VI (“There is still good in you!”), and Obi-wan was attempting the same in Episode III (“You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!”). Gundam took this tradition along with the Jedi/Newtype powers and the beam sabers and ran with it.

The thing with being in a Mobile Suit, the distance between the combatants is exaggerated, and in addition to this, one doesn’t necessarily see the face of one’s adversary. Just like how it is to have a heated argument over the phone, it is a lot easier to shout a lot. Add this to the youth of the combatants (younger than Luke Skywalker), then you get a lot more angry shouting, a lot more emotion… kind of like how the younger, angstier Anakin Skywalker differs from the smooth, robotic Darth Vader in the debates. In Gundam Unicorn 04, Banagher sheathes his weapons in front of his enemy just as Luke does against Vader in Episode VI.

The story of Star Wars is fairly simpler than that of Gundam. In Gundam the subject of the debate is the righteousness of the respective causes, the evils and wrongness of the respective factions, the self-identity and self-actualization of the pilots (“I’m a tool of war!” “This is all I have!”), and the wrongness of fighting, killing, and war itself (“You’ll just continue the cycle of hate and revenge!”).

But anyone who inspected those Star Wars clips and has seen this episode (and perhaps a lot more Gundam) must ask: Why is there SO MUCH MORE talking and lecturing in Gundam? It has to do with money. It is far more difficult and expensive to animate 8 minutes of fast-paced fighting than it is to film stuntmen in a green room. One must also consider that in the Star Wars sequels and especially with the prequels, there was a whole lot more money to go around. The light saber battle in Episode 04 is by far the simplest and the weakest in the saga, while Episode 03 made sure the proportion of talk vs. actual swordplay heavily favors the action.

Thus, dramatic pauses in the action for debating, haranguing, lecturing, whining, begging, etc. become welcome narrative devices in anime. Just look at shounen fighting shows and the sheer amount of dialogue that happens between adversaries. These involve describing attacks before they’re launched, how clever the counterattack was, the damage/power felt withstanding the attack, etc. Do I like this? No. But I accept this, and what Unicorn 04 did because I am a fan of anime.

But what about Macross, who has a whole lot less of this kind of thing? Well, yes, the Macross franchise indulges this a lot less albeit in general the duels are much shorter. The action is a lot more 1 vs. many. And when Gundam does 1 vs. many as shown in this episode, the chatter on the tactical net makes a lot more sense and is actually welcome (“It’s like a war museum out here. They (Zeon) sure have guts attacking us with those ancient suits!”). Also, let us not forget the remarkable subtlety in Unicorn episodes 01, 02, and 03!

It’s like this: Gundam Unicorn was always going to unleash this on us viewers. It was an inevitability. What it didn’t want to do was to  inflict it without setting things up, without providing enough great action in the first half, and without providing Banagher exposure to a whole range of different perspectives. The authority figures, from captains to more experienced pilots took time to listen to Banagher and gave their respective pieces in poignant and thoughtful ways: Deguze, Otto, Marida, Zinnerman, Frontal. Banagher was indulged as if he were an adult, a conceit common in Gundam (one need only look at episode 05 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE to see this dynamic at work – Grudek and Emily).

All of what Banagher witnessed and heard from both sides of the conflict convinced him to act as neutral as possible, that his role, and that of the Gundam Unicorn, was not to tip the scales in favor of either the Federation or (Neo) Zeon, but to stop the conflict itself. Thus Banagher begins to arrive at the antagonistic dynamics of the Universal Century narrative.

Gundam Pilots/Heroes vs. Anaheim Electronics… Banagher Links/Vist Foundation want to end conflict while Anaheim Electronics want to perpetuate conflict (good for business). Federation vs. Zeon… Feddies want to quell terrorism, stop megalomaniacs, and punish those who dropped the colonies on Earth. Zeon want to remove the yoke of Earth upon the Spacenoids, and punish those who humiliated them. We used to see only the Spacenoid vs. Earthnoid struggle, represented by Zeon and the Earth Federation respectively, but now this show is explicitly articulating that there is a true villain, in the form of a war profiteer.

Is this not interesting? You can’t reason with those who have so much to carry, souls weighed down, etc. But one can remove those who powerfully perpetuate this hate in order to profit from it. This is how the story will go forward. Banagher has failed reasoning with soldiers in the thick of battle. He went into the battle with no intention to fight at all. Gundam Unicorn 04 didn’t quite show combatants arguing and talking during their duel. Banagher was never in a duel. When the time came for him to make it a fight, he did not, and could not do so. Banagher was not in a fight this episode.

This show punished Banagher for trying, but edifies him at the same time. He got himself worked into a full head of steam, all-powered up after prevailing over Suberoa Zinnerman, but all this came to nothing with his ineffectual showing in the battle. He really saved NO ONE… DESPITE HIS NEWTYPE MAGIC.

Thus, before we all get worked up with how all this sermonizing from within the suit, remember how this episode showed that it failed. I would personally be more put off should Banagher have succeeded.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 04 Post Series

1. Sermon From The (Mobile) Suit [You are reading this now]
2. The Despair of Zeon
3. The Eternal Captain: Bright Noa