To contrast with my most recent review heres me unabashedly shitting on something without giving it a real chance. Because I gave it a chance once and it tore it up in my face. I briefly mentioned in my Chars Counterattack review that this manga Chars Deleted Affair also know as C.D.A. is complete and utter tripe. Not worth anyones time let alone mine and yet I read the whole thing and feel like a worse a person for it. The reason I have it at a 2 instead of a 1 though is because it allowed me to pause and appreciate some elements of the first core saga of Gundam that I really never stopped to appreciate before reading this an element many people probably dislike even. That element is the timeskip and how Gundam uses it. This manga inserts itself in the 8 year span between the original Gundam TV anime and the Zeta Gundam TV anime and sets itself up as being the media that explains Chars relationship with Haman how Haman became who she was in Zeta and ZZ what Char did in those years and ultimately why the two are at odds with each other come their reunion in Zeta and all of the explanations suck. Haman was just a cute schoolgirl until Char cucked her for the twentieth time on the Axis Colony and she became the Joker for women that image of her and Char dressed all nice you briefly see in Zeta was a real image and not some shit she made up in her head which is what I took it as. I saw it as her desire her want to be with Char but him ultimately not being ready for companionship so soon after Lalahs demise but no this is a real thing that happened in an incredibly boring multi volume arc. Oh what did Char do on the Axis? He had sex at one point which is so opposed to how I perceived his character at this stage in Gundam and to not cause continuity errors the woman he had sex with dies almost immediately after. The worst part is that these awful expansions on the series arent even the main course theyre fluff. The meat of the manga is watching a bunch of old men debate fictional space politics like a wannabe Legend of the Galactic Heroes except with NONE of the fun prose or interesting characterization or its about these other original female characters all of which look like bottom of the barrel bait for filthy otaku to cream their pants over. I dont know where all these 5 foot nothing bright coloured hair Zeon soldiers came from and I dont know where exactly they went after this manga maybe they all died but beyond the fact that theyre also dreadfully written I just hate that they look the way they do. This isnt some I hate women schtick I genuinely dislike the fact that they have these poppy kinda punky designs when thats Quess thing. Quess is a rebellious teenager thats why she has the bright blue hair and floats through space with no space suit. I would say Who are these people but I dont care enough about any of them. Now you could say that Im being a bit of an ass with this review just kind of throwing shade at this manga with no real backing points but youre just gonna have to trust me. Avoid this awful manga read something else ANYTHING else. This manga is around half the length of Gundam The Origin go read that instead. This manga is TWICE THE LENGTH of Beltorchikas Children GO READ THAT INSTEAD. And if you couldnt tell I wont be reading this mangas sequel which is a reimagining? of Zeta Gundam titled ZETA DEFINE. Has the same bad art and will probably stick to the poor characterization and development of characters we already know. Ive already heard that they changed Kamilles introduction and bafflingly added extra justification to him fighting the Titans its like the writer didnt get his character. tldr dont read this.