There’s a lot more context here than I thought there might be considering the fact that a lot of the non-Russian aspects of the Russo-German war tend to get overlooked by historians, but I am starting to understand the frankly baffling conflation made between Jews and Communists given the aforementioned Elders of Zion…

They’re kind of an All-Stars version of the Axis powers. Ghiren specifically is very much inspired by the personage of Adolf Hitler, from his use of the Zeon Flag as being very....Reichsbanner-esque, to the references to “the chosen race” of spacenoids. Meanwhile, the overall sentiment of Zeon and its reasons for…

Depending on the writer and the authorial intent of the work, especially if set in UC, I’d actually say that Zeon more accurately reflects the Empire of Japan once surface similarities to Nazi Germany are done away with. The One Year War ends in series of island hopping maneuvers with the Federation taking one…

I mean sure, just ignore the entirely twisted Oedipal thing going on between Mega bat-gimp and Talia. Honestly this movie just irritates me as much as the rest of the stuff that takes place in the new little universe they’ve got going on. All of these stories are so heavily truncated that they lack emotional depth…