Why is there a person in the Mark 2?

>>15571800

It's clearly the unit's Fatima.

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>>15571800

>>15571824
Huh. Didn't expect a Metropolis reference.

>>15571807
>>15571815
>>15571824
I am so confused right now.

>>15571837
It's an idea that Nagano used in Five Star Stories, which I assume wasn't fully realized in his L-Gaim works.

>>15571844
How was it used in FFS?

>>15571865

Acts as co-pilot for the Mortar Headd, here's a more detailed explanation

http://www.gearsonline.net/series/fivestarstories/fatimas/

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>>15571844
Yeah, Fatima were a canon part of L-Gaim's universe for awhile, but never got brought up in the show. I guess it's one of the ideas Tomino nixed while filtering Nagano's plot ideas and shit. Thing is, by that point, all the designs were finalized- which is why the Fatima still make occasional cameos in the animation.

I hope the artbooks Nagano did, which have his unfiltered version of the story, get translated one day. It's apparently even more proto-FSS than the show already was.

>>15571800
It's a fatima.

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>>15571883
They're already in English

>>15571929
Mega link?

>>15571929
Well shit, the more you know! Got a mega then, friend?

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>>15571950
These are just scans taken from mandarake. The original text is in Japanese

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>>15571952
I meant English

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>>15571950
Not technically scans, but this ought to work:

https://the-bang-doll.tumblr.com/post/150478701124/this-artbook-is-legendary-published-in-1984

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>>15572281
And for some reason the most important page wasn't included.

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God damn it give us some blurays already Japan

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>>15572289
Shows up in a FSS artbook

>>15572318
The text, not the art ya dummy. The text describes one of the biggest plot points of FSS.

>>15572281
Well shit, that's pretty cool. Hope it gets scanned some day.