|
|
Gundam Wing Rant
02-04-01
I wrote this thing on the bus yesterday, (02/03/01) so it doesn't quite flow. (I also added bits in brackets. ^_^) And yes, I know I'm obsessed, yes, there are about four or five Gundam Wing entries in my diary already, and yes, I know they just don't quite belong here. *sweatdrops* I'm am thinking of making a Gundam Wing rant page, honest... ^_~ Oh, and I also wrote this becasue I read all the quotes and the synopsis for Endless Waltz, which can be found here: http://www.gundamwing.org/ew/index.html.
Anyway here's my little rant.
Why are all (or at least all that I've seen) the wars and fights in anime fought by children?
So at age 15 (the series) you have 5 boys fighting a loosing war and forcing them to kill stuff. I mean what kind of irriparible damage is that doing to them?? At 17 (Endless Waltz) Wufei should be graduating from High School with Honors ('cause we KNOW he has the determination,) not running around and and declaring that justice must be done, yada, yada, yada, that deaths of soldiers must be advenged, and generally acting quite unstable. (The guy has issues... gee, maybe it has something to do with having to fight a war at 15, hum?? Amoung other things...) The war also does damage to the rest of them as well... lessee Trowa, well there isn't much to say about Trowa, 'cause if the guy was raised by Merchs, he was already screwed though the default of not having a mother and a family etc. I can't help but to think that Maxwell is still playing toy soldiers instead of real war, or maybe he's just so used to playing the survival game, (being a street kid,) that it just doesn't effect him at all. Then there's Quatre, who was raised to be a prince of sorts, and led a sheltered life. Which explains his appologizing when he kills and stuff. (Oh, and that's only in the Japanese version. They cut out the appologizing when they made the English dub. *makes face.*) He comes across as the most well adjusted one of the bunch in that he seems to know responibility and seems to know what he's fighting for. He's very genuine. And well, he likes his tea, and probably likes Trowa too, but, well, he's a prince who apparently has a whole lotta sisters, so he's allowed. I can't help but to think that he's going to suffer later on in life because of the trama that the war is putting him through, just because of the fact he does things with his heart. But who knows? (Marie's added note - Nevermind, I just watched episode 21. Quatre just snapped and went insane. Even though I didn't see it coming, I *just* proved my own point!)
Lastly there's Heero, who I'm very proud of actually. The kid was taken from his parents at a very young age, and taught to be a trained assasian, (now what kind of damage is THAT gonna do to a kid?) He actually recovers somewhat by Endless Waltz. He was actually trying to recover by killing himself several times during the series (hey, it sounds demented, but it's true. Solve the problem real easy...), but he couldn't, *I* think, because he was trained to stay alive. (And that's gotta suck, huh? ^_^) In Endless Waltz by asking Wufei how many more people he was going to have to kill showed that he obviously didn't want to have any part of the fighting anymore. And then there's the part where he goes to shoot what's-her-face (Trieze's daughter), at the end of the last OVA, realised that his gun was out of bullets and went "I don't have to kill anymore," and promptly passed out. :) I was proud of him. (Now he's out of a job though....)
In the end, I don't even know why the boys were sent to fight in several zillion dollars worth of equipment in the *first* place. (Reid says it's becasue they are more flexible at that age.) If it were today's world, adults wouldn't even let fifteen year old boys anywhere near that kind of thing. Heck, kids arn't even allowed to get licences until they're 16!
And thus ends my rant. That's it! ^_^
~Marie