I’m not an expert but I think he loves her.

Quick thoughts:

• Natsuko looked so beautiful in the hot spring
• how the heck did Luke’s towel stayed on him during his battle with the void??!
• I was expecting Natsuko to draw a shield for Luke, not a Gundam
• I love the Gundam reference as much as Luke loves Natsuko

Well of course the run time keeps getting longer. This is a TV series, not a movie.

And, of course Natsuko’s version of the Tale Of Perishing is way off course from the original: Unio lives, Destiny is very different, and also lives.

But if retellings have to be a little different, then key elements in the story also have to be the same.

Are the writers setting Natsuko up for an ultimate tragedy?

Or is she going to forge Tales Of Not Perishing from this world?

A little alarming that the Voids copied the God Soldier beam, complete with waving maw teeth, from episode 1’s Nausicaa reference.

Yes, of course you can lose the head and an arm off of a Gundam. It’s just a humanoid tank, after all, and the pilot sits in the middle of the torso.

And of course now we have an answer to: Which is stronger, God Soldier Beam, or Gundam Beam Gun?

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