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[Mobile Suit Gundam] That’s right.

Kaynethkay @Kaynethkay Follow Recently, I’ve been seeing the term “colony drop” a lot, so I researched it and found out it’s quite an inhumane act of mass slaughter, which suddenly sparked my interest in the Universal Century. April 23, 2025, 23:47 – 56,000 views Kaynethkay @Kaynethkay Follow I’ve heard that Gundam represents war and that both sides have their reasons… but isn’t it already ethically a “loss” if you drop a colony…? (A super heated tweet a day later) April 24, 2025, 0:09 – 28,000 views

1: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx189

They are dropping colonies after massacring the same space immigrants, so the points are doubled.

2: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx22

It’s bizarre that the federation is still continuing the war even after all that.

3: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx116

I think it’s unreasonable to play soldier with Zeon.

4: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx37

The discussion about whether to recognize independence or not has turned into a matter of unforgivable actions.

5: Japan Otaku Reviews

Actually, I’ve secured the agreement of the residents and I’m dropping the colony.

6: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx14

But in the play, it seems like everyone doesn’t really care that much, so probably in the Universal Century, human life is very cheap.

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It’s not surprising that the Zeon aliens are more disliked from the other side, but I wonder why it just gets brushed off.

9: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx8

What do you mean Sydney was blown away!

10: Japan Otaku Reviews

The cause of the war is the oppression of the federation.

In order to unleash the anger of justice, we need Zeon to commit heinous acts.

12: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

Conversely, if Zeon hadn’t dropped the colonies, it would just end with the Federation being terrible for not allowing independence.

13: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx72

The Federation believes that justice is not right, but the Zeon thinks that evil is right.

14: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx13

Before the colony drop, Zeon killed the colony residents, resulting in half of humanity’s death, which is one of the most heinous acts in the series, all done in about six months.

15: Japan Otaku Reviews

“Just killing hundreds of millions of people to raise the sea level by a mere 10 meters, and saying it’s a purification of Zeon—those federal bastards have no compassion at all!”

16: Japan Otaku Reviews

The original Gundam… you should watch it…!

17: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx8

It’s alright because we have already exterminated all the anti-Zion space immigrants, so there is no one left to criticize us.

18: Japan Otaku Reviews

The root cause is simply too many people!! Since the Earth has its limits, let’s go to space!! That’s it.

There are too many people on Earth, so it would be better if the number decreases somewhat, according to the decision.

19: Japan Otaku Reviews

I don’t know much about Gundam either, but the enemies called the Zeon army used bombs to drop on people’s homes and killed a lot of people, right? That’s what’s called colony dropping, isn’t it?

20: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx6

I wonder if the colony side thinks of the frontier side as if they’re the representatives of space immigrants.

21: Japan Otaku Reviews

I understand.

Rather than dropping it, I will land it.

22: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx14

It’s amazing that they call it the Republic of Zeon and then get away with it.

23: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

Due to oppression, all we can do is secretly prepare a massive fleet and new weapons that could turn the entire Federation against us…!

24: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx9

I have recently come to think that the establishment of a unified government on Earth is such an incredible achievement compared to reality, and that the Federation is truly remarkable.

27: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

It seems that humanity is suffering some terrible damage, but if they are a force resisting the enemy ◯◯, then that means they are heroes, right?

It tends to be that way, as examples of anti-American and anti-Israel terrorism show us.

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Even if it’s a setting for half of humanity dying, isn’t it a bit too much? No one among the staff at that time tried to stop it.

29: Japan Otaku Reviews

Not me.

Asakura said to do it.

I didn’t know.

It’s nothing to worry about…

30: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

They discriminate against victims of colony destruction as refugees and forcibly push them into poorly conditioned foreign troops.

31: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

Humans on Earth are so noisy just because the sea level has risen by a meter…

32: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

I think the design of the first generation, like Musai’s bridge and Zaku’s, represents villains in a typical villainous way, so it feels like both sides have their own rationale.

33: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

It’s true that both sides have their reasons, and I often hear similar things, but in Gundam, the opposing factions tend to be the ones committing horrific acts.

34: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

It’s scary that I’ve been doing Zion is beautiful for over 10 years now.

36: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx9

The setting in which most of the population has been migrated to space, combined with the fact that the Zeon declared war rather unilaterally and the population was halved within a week, leads to the conclusion that nearly all those who were killed were space immigrants…?

38: Japan Otaku Reviews

Surprisingly, there are situations where one-sided wars can start due to power balance and if you win, it’s like the official army wins, which seems to deceive people in a way.

39: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx6

It’s amazing that Zeon is already attacking a colony in the first episode.

41: Japan Otaku Reviews

Gundam is clearly a super robot, and Zeon is an evil empire.

42: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

We must not forget that the one-week war, in which the colony drop occurred, was an extinction war that utilized all types of ABC weapons.

45: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

Despite being under oppression, Zabi was able to prepare such a military power.

…Isn’t the poverty of the Side 3 residents mainly due to this military expenditure?

46: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx6

They killed the residents inside to drop the colony, right?

47: Japan Otaku Reviews

Jinneman: “Well, the Federation is quite something…”

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Let’s use poison gas!

50: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

There were also those who tried to nuke Side 6, which is neutral.

51: Japan Otaku Reviews

If we had fallen to Jaburo, the war would have ended right away, right?

Isn’t it because the Federation resisted for no reason that it got disconnected?

52: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

It’s crazy that they dropped it with the residents inside, instead of using an unmanned colony during construction.

53: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx14

Inject poison gas into the colonies that sided with the Federation!

Drop one of the colonies that massacred the residents towards the Federal Army’s headquarters to conduct a man-made meteor strike!

The settled colony in eastern Australia and the four sides are devastated! Half of the total population has died!

Humanity was terrified by the actions of the Zeon aliens…

54: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx10

The Daikun era may have been good, but the Zabi era is clearly an evil empire.

55: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

I provided false information to the execution unit of the poison gas to carry out a massacre!

It’s seriously crazy.

56: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx11

Look at the sinister design of Zoom City.

There’s no way that those guys living in a place like that are righteous…

59: Japan Otaku Reviews

Well, since it was created in an earlier era, it’s only natural that it has a slightly dated feel.

61: Japan Otaku Reviews

Mr. Zabi’s top man, Mr. Gihren, is someone who originally wants to reduce the population…

I wanted to reduce it to a number that can be governed within the realm of the human intellect.

62: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx5

This is a war, so the reasoning that both sides are at fault is only used to overlook the faults of the camp in power and to sweep things under the rug, which is problematic.

63: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

Isn’t there any nice asteroid that doesn’t have to be a colony? Space is vast, right?

64: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx12

The possibility of wiping out all the inhabitants to drop the colony is more ethically concerning in modern times than actually dropping the colony itself.

65: Japan Otaku Reviews

It’s definitely a fusion of the evils of the Japanese Empire and the Nazis.

66: Japan Otaku Reviews

As a whole, they are some dangerous totalitarian guys, aren’t they, from start to finish?

67: Japan Otaku Reviews

On the other hand, X humanitarianly dropped the colony while the people inside were still alive.

69: Japan Otaku Reviews

The Federation is also killing all the inhabitants of the colonies, so it’s safe.

70: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

The depiction of colony residents leading up to the colony drop in the origin anime is quite tragic.

71: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx7

The Federation is creating new weapons in a neutral colony, and the Zeon are attacking it, so from the very first episode, both sides have no regard for the rules…

72: Japan Otaku Reviews

The idea that Zeon dropped colonies and massacred humanity is a retcon, after all.

75: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

Even though we’re advocating for space immigration independence.

It’s quite realistic how the opposing faction easily kills off the same space immigrants.

77: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

An unprecedented folly in history where half of humanity died within a week (most of which was due to preemptive nuclear attacks by Zeon on other colonies).

78: Japan Otaku Reviews

The X world is a bit too dangerous…

79: Japan Otaku Reviews

Throughout the Universal Century, too many things are dropping on Earth from time to time.

81: Japan Otaku Reviews

It’s barbaric to drop a colony.

Let’s throw in Genesis and Requiem.

82: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

It would be good to shoot the solar ray toward the Earth.

83: Japan Otaku Reviews

I think it would be understandable for the Zeon soldiers to be scolded more if they were sneaking around in the colony.

84: Japan Otaku Reviews

If you drop it once, the reputation stays the same no matter how many times you drop it afterwards, so it might be fine to drop it more and more.

89: Japan Otaku Reviews

There are mixed opinions on this.

92: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

It’s not that I killed all the inhabitants just to drop the colony or anything like that.

95: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

It’s been only three years since the war, and even now, we aren’t on the side of the Federation; we’ve been beaten up by the Federation soldiers.

It’s not that the Federation is unpopular, but rather that there are no anti-Zeon sentiments.

97: Japan Otaku Reviews

If we seize the colony and turn it into a weapon, the residents will resent us.

We need to eradicate it from the root to prevent future troubles.

100: Japan Otaku Reviews

I can’t remember the exact setting, but there was definitely something about launching nuclear strikes on a colony to establish side control.

101: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

Did you think Seema would put everyone to sleep with sleeping gas and transport them out of the colony?

Or were you planning to let me die in the colony drop without suffering while I slept?

103: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx8

In any case, the impact as a hook for the story is tremendous.

105: Japan Otaku Reviews

America that dropped the nuclear bomb is just.

107: Japan Otaku Reviews

Is it correct to say that Ghiren was the one who led the colony drop?

109: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

Giren believes that nothing can be done without reducing the population.

In the first place, it feels like reducing the number of uncooperative external sides is being done under the guise of a just cause.

110: Japan Otaku Reviews

Let’s launch a suitable island or rocket to hit the colony as retaliation.

111: Japan Otaku Reviews

It can’t be helped; saying that 5 billion people died is just not believable.

I wonder how people interpret “Even the Zeon in Gundam has its own righteousness.”

112: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

The warriors of Zeon are amazing because they can justify the deaths of countless civilians for the sake of their cause, saying it is also for the greater good.

113: Japan Otaku Reviews

Half of them are already dead, so who cares… just drop it!

114: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

Taking the wrong actions for the right reasons.

116: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

I’m not interested in the director Gundam of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam.

118: Japan Otaku Reviews

Well… if I can’t be a good kid, isn’t there no need for me in humanity, Earth, or even the universe…?

119: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx2

Well, we also instructed that the gas to be injected into the colony was to be a sleeping gas, so it was probably changed to poison gas on the site without authorization. That’s terrible! The executing unit is guilty of war crimes!

120: Japan Otaku Reviews

I understand that the cause lies with the federation, right?

But it’s excessive.

121: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

Fundamentally, we must not forget that the ideology of superiority held by Zeon is not about space immigrants evolving and being superior, but rather that Side 3 has evolved and is superior.

The people on the other side are monkeys.

122: Japan Otaku Reviews

If immigrants were to declare independence on their own, it’s only natural to get angry.

It’s the property of Colony Earth, so it’s theft.

123: Japan Otaku Reviews

Even among the Zeon soldiers, there were people who thought that dropping colonies was just too much, right?

124: Japan Otaku Reviews

The depiction of the colony falling has been there from the beginning, but the intention of it being dropped is a later addition.

128: Japan Otaku Reviews

Isn’t it lame that they’ve gone that far and still can’t win?

131: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

Well, it’s quite common in history for someone who looks like a warrior to be committing massacres seamlessly.

132: Japan Otaku Reviews

I feel like for quite a while, everyone wasn’t really paying attention to the narration about half of the population dying.

133: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx4

“I can only say that it’s because it was portrayed that way, but when I think, ‘But the Federation… the Federation is also terrible…!’ it makes me wonder why they give Zeon a certain level of legitimacy in their depiction.”

134: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx10

It’s really sad for Shima, so no.

135: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx3

It’s really terrible that even if the one who drops the colony wins, life in the colony hasn’t improved because they’re still poor.

It is established in the official history that Zeon is poor.

136: Japan Otaku Reviews

Until we dropped the colony, there were so many people that we were at the level of building colonies in space and abandoning people.

140: Japan Otaku Reviews

Humanity was frightened by its own actions as it was reduced to half due to war.

Hearing only that doesn’t explain that one side was unilaterally committing genocide.

141: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx5

In other words, when I think about it now, it’s pretty crazy to think that a country that is doing something so obviously like a parody of Nazi Germany is actually considered just!

145: Japan Otaku Reviews

The federation has been expelling people into space for decades, squeezing heavy taxes from space immigrants and resources, and steadily building up hatred.

As a result, it turns out that neither side is good or evil, since it brought everything related to the colony drop to a head in one go.

146: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

Of course, there will be narration that says humanity was frightened.

150: Japan Otaku Reviews

Unfortunately, there are colonies where caveman-level monkeys live… Right, Moon Moon?

152: Japan Otaku Reviews

Is Asakura part of the Gihren faction or the Kyshiria faction?

Isn’t the position we’re in quite something?

154: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

It was supposed to end with destroying Jaburo by crashing a colony into it, but there was a hell of a resistance.

155: Japan Otaku Reviews

When watching the first one, tired soldiers from the war appear from time to time.

156: Japan Otaku Reviews

The United States considers it just to drop incendiary bombs on cities inhabited by civilians and to annihilate everyone with nuclear weapons, as it has the righteous cause of defeating the evil Japanese Empire.

158: Japan Otaku Reviews

As expected, 3 billion people wasn’t enough.

If you’re aiming for the victory of justice, you must kill over 9 billion.

161: Japan Otaku Reviews

I didn’t understand the scale of Australia, so the level of damage was on par with just dropping nuclear bombs on the British operation.

162: Japan Otaku Reviews

Colony drop?

Is it the fire of the Megid that was unleashed by God?

167: Japan Otaku Reviews

There are still countries today that say they are only retaliating for the killing of civilians…

169: Japan Otaku Reviews

It’s understood that Zeon is bad, but isn’t it also true that only a handful of people in Zeon were directly involved in the colony drops?

170: Japan Otaku Reviews

Compared to other colonies, Side 3 has mysteriously strong military power.

173: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx10

It’s a bit scary that there are people who have distorted the setting to think that Zeon is so beautifully brainwashed that they intentionally haven’t dropped any colonies or haven’t caused half of humanity to go extinct, almost like real conspiracy theorists.

174: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

I thought the Earth was rich and came here, but it seems different and there are bugs, so I just want to go back to space quickly.

177: Japan Otaku Reviews

I’ve never seen anyone say that Zeon is justice.

It seems that there are many people who like Zeon’s characters and MS.

178: Japan Otaku Reviews

Half of the total population passed away in six months…

181: Japan Otaku Reviews

Unleash the anger of justice, Gundam!

187: Japan Otaku Reviews

But you know, the Federation is doing similar things against Granada with the Zeek Axe, so it’s not like only Zeon is executing crazy strategies.

189: Japan Otaku Reviews

Isn’t Sydney worth more than the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the colony?

190: Japan Otaku Reviews

If Australia had been hit that hard, a nuclear winter would likely occur.

191: Japan Otaku Reviews

The colony is being exploited! Self-reliance! → I understand.

Turning other colonies and their residents into mass weapons → not good

194: Japan Otaku ReviewsYeahx1

When I watched the series without touching the original, I got the impression that they were dropping colonies and other things left and right, but once I saw the original, it was so bad that I thought their sense of ethics became really loose right from the start.

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