Outline
The Musha Gundam series is the longest running SD Gundam series, lasting over 15 years.
Since the series is set in the Warring States period, use of katakana is avoided and kanji is used heavily. With exception of Musha Senki and Musha Generation, names of characters, items, and places usually makes no literal sense unless you read it, similar to Mondegreen. For example, '頑駄無' is pronounced 'Gan Da Mu', or 'Gundam'.
Apart from Musha Generation and the Tekki Musha(鉄機武者), all the Mushas from Musha Gundam series are not viewed as mechanical robots. They portrayed as living beings that grow and mature similar to humans. Furthering this, often relationships between mecha in the main series are turned into family ties. For example, the Musha versions of Psyco and Pscyco Mk II are rendered as brothers.
Themes of heritage, duty and honor run strongly through Musha Gundam. Many motifs are frequently revisited, such as a central hero aided by four others. These heroes will often receive powers, armours and ranks handed down by predecessor similar teams. Later Musha Gundam works would also introduce characters passed over for the ranks of the central heroes. These characters would ultimately come to respect the heroes as superior candidates or destroy themselves through their own ambition.
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“The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I am fooling only myself when I say my mother exists now only in the photograph on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on in everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was, and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
—Hope Edelman (20th century)
“A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)