"These aren't gay enough!" - Hayley on Amuro's shorts.
"Glad Amuro's finally coming out of the closet." - Hayley on the Gundam's redebut.
"It's so cool how every fight with the Gundam is just a horror movie now."- Hayley, Mobile Suit Gundam Episode 33, "Farewell in Side Six".
This may be the only time in media history I'm okay with a remake.
"We're flashing back to a single scene so many times I swear the Kira/Athrun Double K.O. is going to show up any second now." - Hayley
I've been thinking about Reconguista in G again. ∀ Gundam was about boiling Gundam as a franchise down to certain ideas (defining and reclaiming our humanity, how this requires empathy, being at least a little gay) while ditching the usual signifiers. G-reco was the opposite: a show comprised entirely of Gundamist signifiers with no meaning attached. If you fixate on the form of Gundam but not the meaning then what you shall wind up with is shallow nonsense. The founding father of the franchise leaving one last warning to all who continue to follow him.
Naturally, the lesson Bandai Namco learned from that was to make Gundam Unicorn 2.
"LESBIAN!" - Hayley, excitedly pointing at Kudelia who's pondering whether a single kiss from someone means you should marry them.
Hayley: "I could punt ED2's baby Mika."
Me: "He'd double tap you before he hits the ground."
Hayley: "He'd still make a funny squeak when he hits that ground though."
"I can't believe Takaki grew up to become a man." - Hayley, episode 50.
It's the one your gym junkie friend who always works out in a Vegeta tank top has seen and likes.
