• Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    27 days ago

    yeah why did he make kai a greaser punk? kai is just kind of a loser who isn’t immediately willing to throw himself into battle but grows up when he has no other choice. he wasn’t leading a gang and forcing amuro to help him break into military bases

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      27 days ago

      I’m pretty sure when he designed the character he had the punk Kai in mind (talks like a delinquent, longish hair for a schoolboy), but didn’t absorb the more interesting one we got on the screen (slacker-type, really a coward that only talks tough but grows beyond that). He was doing the comic in the 2000s, though!! How could he not see the character we got in the show after 20+ years?