The misogynistic aspects of UC Gundam (0079, Zeta, CCA, etc) are very present but there is enough going on, or women have multiple roles in the narrative, that it is frustrating but ignorable. Victory is all the worst parts of that in a 51 episode anime that keeps killing female characters.
Not everyone feels as strongly as me, but one of my few pet peeves, one of the things that I cannot stomach in terms of "media's treatment of women" is regulating every woman to a mother or caregiver role, and obvious narrative punishments for those who do not engage with motherhood towards Uso.
I found it so egregious and infuriating that I knew if I didn't marathon Victory in two days that I would never finish it, and I did this for the sake of a friend and literary comparison and conversation. However, it's ass, and if this was the only Gundam I'd watch, I'd never touch another, lololol.
its so fucking gross, dogg. like, late zeta was more of a concentrated skeeve for me (how many gender essentialism speeches can we fit in a single arc?), but victory is just... nothing but. its nothing but! ...oh wait, sorry, thats unfair. They also made time for pedophilic rape as comedy. mb
That's powerful. It took me a full year to get through.
THANK YOU! Oh my god Victory Gundam doesn’t seem that bad at first but oh god it gets so awful the more you go into it. WHAT THE HELL WAS THE POINT OF THE SHRIKE TEAM? WHAT WAS KATEJINAS DEAL? THE EFF YOU MEAN THE BIKINI BABE DEATH SCENE OCCURS AT THE END OF THE SERIES???? Victory is trash