GNX... Yuck... that thing looks more suitable for Code Geass...


I still wish Tiera was a girl. She would have been so lovely.

Anyway, I've just finished 0079 novel during the past week while my internet was dead. It's quite a good read, although it's apparent that Tomino isn't the greatest writer in the world as I felt that there were several areas that could have been better elaborated.
Here are some parts which I found worth-mentioning:
1. Amuro kicked the bucket in a Tomino-esque way... One minute he was kicking Zeonic butts and a second later he got gunned down by a random grunt. But such greatness Amuro's powers became the moment he died, that he managed to influence every main character in the novel to fight for his dreams in creating a future for newtypes.
2. Char started off brightly, but towards the end his character became unfocused. From someone who was hell bent on achieving his aims by hook or by crook, he simply turned into a simple minded 'hero' towards the end. Pfffhhhh...
3. No Zeong...

No Z'Gok...

No Gelgoog

All Char got apart from his kickass Zaku was a Rick Dom, and in fact he did so much shittier in the Dom. At least he managed to kick ass in his Red Zaku.
And where was the invasion of Jaburo? I want aquatic Zeon suits !!! I want Z'Goks !!
4. Lalah got reduced to a simple character that was killed off within 2 chapters. Her Elmeth was brought down far too easily. In the anime she died because she wanted to stop Amuro from fighting with Char, but in the novel she died like every other pilot.
And her influence towards Amuro and Char's rivalry wasn't as great as the anime. Char seemed to get over her quite quickly when he got hooked up with Kycilla's secretary called Margaret (something like that); while Amuro had Sayla all over his mind. Even if Amuro did think of Lalah sometimes but it was more like a regret over killing a fellow newtype than the actual spiritual connection in the anime.
5. Gihren = f**king badass

Stupid death though... such as badass antagonist but got killed so easily towards the end.
6. No Guntank for Hayato... this time round he got the same Guncannon as Kai. Both Kai and Hayato became powerful pilots, and even Kai developed newtype powers towards the end.
7. Zeon was actually the winner in the end. EFSF's entire space armada got wiped out, while the fall of Zabi meant that Char gained control of Zeon and if things were to go as planned, he had Amuro's blessing to create a new empire for newtypes; hence fulfilling Zeon Deikum's aspirations.
8. No Gouf

Ramba Ral was reduced to a secret police sheriff instead of a kickass pilot. And no Gyan too... M'quve was just a simple commander without piloting any suits.
9. Amuro "banged" Sayla... Pretty much more than once I presume.
10. No Kycilla headshot... damn it. Char killed her by dropping her to the ground when she was standing on his Rick Dom's palm. Talk about crappy deaths.
11. There's a second pilot who used the Elmeth... another newtype called Kusko. Again, she got too emotionally involved with Amuro and got killed too. Her role wasn't that important anyway... just another pilot in Kycilla's newtype corps who was under Char's command. Speaking of which, Char's best friend in the novel should probably be Chalia who piloted the BrawBro... both of them had the same frequency of thoughts, kinda like soul mates.
This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Mar 1 2008, 09:41 PM