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So I finished the Origin manga last week. The final volume was great, and a good end to a great adaptation. This manga really sort of ignited a passion for 0079 era I never really thought I had, but now I am much more interested in the One Year War, the history of the Zabis, e.t.c.

The only real problems I had with the manga were two things, which both came from the last two volumes funny enough. The bigger one was that whole segment with Sayla getting captured by Zeon and the head guys keeping the grunts from raping her, and when she revealed she was Artesia, oh now they respect her. I know it's realistic for stuff like that to happen, but seriously, there were no women in that entire cout de tat group at all to protect her or say something? It was just kind of out of place and demeaning, and didn't really show Zeon in an equal light to the federation. Gundam has done a good job of showing both sides as equally just and evil in their desires and how they achieve them, but in the context of this manga, Zeon looks a lot worse then the Federation.

The other is Char blowing off Kycilia's head, leading to an asinine chain reaction blowing up the fearsome Dolos. Although that came from the original show, but the author not taking time to change the scenario like he did for a lot of others was weird to me.

The 3 sidestories at the back of the book were interesting. The two after the OYW were okay at best, but I took a very deep interest in the one set in 0057. Granted, the scenario seemed kinda contrived, but it was interesting to see even further into the past of what the relationship between the Zabis and Zeon Deikun was. Degwin being head of the Zeon academy prior to Dozle in the Origin was an extra tiny bit of lore that caught my eye, but the Zabis standing up for Deikun when the investigators came was the highlight for me. Also, seeing more Sasaro Zabi is always fun since he's never around.