Bringing her back the uh, way she is later is of course another of Tomino's crimes. Least interesting take on weird cyber newtype brainwashing in the show. Though maybe the one that most inspired later people to take it in fetish directions.

I'm rewatching Zeta right now with Jamie, and was surprised to learn that Rosamia actually first shows up near the beginning of the show. She's the episodic baddie the episode Amuro and Char reunite!

[metroid] i give the people more samstrong

The Saint Young Men gags about Buddha obsessing over one credit clears in STGs as a simulation of escaping Samsara further validated the particular meditative state I feel when I'm playing shmups at my very best.

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM is a show with incredibly solid messaging discipline on the following three points:

-War is Hell
-Robots are sick
-Never trust anybody over 30