sarantine

gundam seed is the worst anime i've watched in my life. it has a hypnotic kind of awfulness that compels me to understand it further, like it's made of mist but if i stare at it long enough it will become solid. i've watched 100 fucking episodes of the damn thing and i thought i would leave it behind, but fukuda had to go and finish freedom. gundam seed movie real. so here we are. watching the compilations.

the genuinely shocking thing here is that they somehow made it more misogynistic, and they did it by removing the sai cucking scene. this defies reality in about six million ways, being that the sai cucking scene is truly one of the worst scenes you could make, but this change reframes the arc to be less about kira's massive protagonist cock and the aura of inadequacy all rival characters live inside to entirely about flay as a joker woman committing murder with her pussy, through kira. if that sounds like an exaggeration i assure you it isn't, the much discussed explicit sex scene is presented in montage with the desert battle, intercutting from kira's thrusting to firing to mechs exploding, to flay's post coital murder monologues talking like sephiroth. if they gave a guinness world record for hack shit, this scene would win.

the ultimate upshot is somehow this is a movie where kira does even less, is responsible for even less, and has even less moral struggle than in the show. this is saying a lot with how seed already protected its beloved protagonist at every turn from having to do anything that would make a television show compelling like make a decision or compromise his morals. it is the antithesis of art and maybe that's why i can't look away.