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just gonna spend awhile vibrating waiting for news of Promare coming to blu-ray and/or streaming
We’re introduced to several new mechs in Episode 10. Most notable is the Guren Mk-II, which Zero gives Kallen to pilot. In Japanese ‘guren’ roughly translates to ‘crimson-colored lotus,’ hence its bright red color.
This one was all CLAMP, though. Notice the sharp angles and lean bodies. Additionally, this illustration falls right in line with eighteenth-century portraiture. Just look at Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s Marie Antoinette and her Children (1787), as a point of comparison.
Noriaki Akitaya and his team of animators use the semiotics of Japanese childhood—sunflowers, cicadas, Mt. Fuji—in the opening montage to signify Lelouch’s idyllic youth with Suzaku.
You keep thinking Gundam Wing is going to sober up and it just ain't going to happen.