He's been switching occupations at different hospitals one after another, to go look for her, and finally he meets her again at the Sei-Katorea General Hospital. In the first translated edition, Schodt opted to render the name as "Sha Aznable," partly to make it look less like the singer’s name. On this account, scriptwriter Kenichi Matsuzaki originally dubbed them "Tominovsky" particles, which would have been far more obvious - but the ‘to’ was cut off to make them sound more Russian. But Char’s name comes from someone entirely different - the name is based on Charles Aznavour, a superstar dubbed the "Frank Sinatra of France," who wrote about 1,300 songs, sold a hundred million records and had a career lasting nearly eighty years. Perhaps it was Char’s worrying sense of humour, as Quattro Bajeena looks very like a smutty joke, when you remember that B’s and V’s in Japanese are interchangeable.

There are more obvious resonances between the Gundam film Char’s Counter Attack and the similarly-named Empire Strikes Back. For Gundam fans, Endless Waltz is the name of the last story in the Gundam Wing timeline, which asks if humans are doomed to fight forever. Are there any good manga that are similar to the beginning of Girls of the Wilds when the MC calls her a monster, or how he has to keep supporting his little brother and sister? That wouldn’t be so surprising, except that Gundam ZZ was broadcast two years before the Akira film opened, suggesting someone was already a fan of the manga by Katsuhiro Otomo. Io Fleming is one of the two main combatants in Gundam Thunderbolt, a manga by Yasuo Ohtakagi adapted into two anime films. Anime News Network. Crunchyroll. Ken Innes IV. "Anime Profile: Night Shift Nurses". Lawrence P. Raffel. "Monsters At Play: Night Shift Nurses Review".

Yakin Byōto 2: A young elite doctor Souichiro Kuwabara couldn't forget his feelings towards Ren Nanase, whom he had fallen in love with back in his training days. His final concerts were in Japan, in Tokyo and Osaka just days before his death. But in Japan, Endless Waltz was a controversial novel just a few years ealier. It didn’t stop the novel becoming a live-action film in 1995, directed by Koji Wakamatsu. It might have amused the late Honor Blackman; her character in the Bond film Goldfinger had an even less subtle name which I’m too shy to mention. Outside Gundam, there’s Fullmetal Alchemist and Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, which do have thematic links if you think about it. It might seem comically inappropriate to have a space opera anti-hero named after a singer - at least until you think of the rival franchise Macross, after which anything goes. Stardust Memories was a 1980 comedy by Woody Allen, and its title certainly seems to have inspired the name of Stardust Memory, the 1991-2 Gundam video series. The best-known one. Char Aznable, undoubtedly the most iconic character in the entire Gundam franchise, was substantially inspired by a historic character, the "Red Baron" fighter ace of World War I, aka Manfred von Richtofen.

When I covered Gundam ZZ for nurse hentai this blog, I noted that the show’s main character Judau Ashta gave off Akira vibes; he’s part of a delinquent teenage gang, and sports a red jacket. Actually, as some sharp-eyed fans have pointed out, Akira characters Kaneda and Tetsuo both seemingly cameo as extras in Gundam ZZ. Eventually she dons a regal dress that, fans noted, looks very like the dress that Audrey Hepburn’s Princess wears at the start of the 1953 classic Roman Holiday. But it was partly due to a specific scene in Roman Holiday where Hepburn’s character has a memorable haircut to stay incognito. Perhaps Hepburn was ahead of her time in refusing to play a Japanese character. However, she would surely have been light years more convincing in the role than Mickey Rooney’s infamous performance in a later Hepburn vehicle, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. 7: Relena - Audrey Hepburn. He was very disappointed after what he had witnessed to the point where he ends up losing his mind and going insane-(both mentally and sexually). Actually, there’s a point to this reference - in later life, Camille suffered from mental health problems, and spent her last three decades in an asylum.