So much of Gundam GQuuuuuuX‘s riffing on the legacy of the 1979 original across its 12 episodes has been almost about a yearning sense of inevitability that it could only end in one way—a retread of what came before narratively, and a continuation of the cycle of conflict that has broadly defined the franchise at large and the Universal Century setting that GQuuuuuuX played with in particular. A lot happens in “That’s Why I,” the 12th and seemingly final episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX on its road to imagining that future—much of it grappling with that question about the inevitability of the show’s remixing and obsession with the events of the original Mobile Suit Gundam. The very act of Gundam being saved from premature cancellation and its spinning out into one of anime’s most enduring franchises almost belies that hope for peace: the hopeful end of the war in the original Gundam gives way to Zeta Gundam‘s setting where Earth has turned further totalitarian in its oppression of the colonies, sparking a resurgence of Zeon that climaxes in Char’s Counterattack.
Author: James Whitbrook
Published at: 2025-06-24 21:35:43
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