If you've been online at all in the past twelve hours you're no doubt aware that Gundam 00 ("double O") has been announced as the next televised Gundam anime, slated to air in TBS's coveted Saturday evening prime time slot starting this October. ANN and other news outlets will no doubt be covering this exhaustively over the coming weeks and months, but today I want to bring up an issue near and dear to the hearts of bishoujo fans: the character designs. While the fifteen second clip viewable on the official site shows us more variety and appeal in the male cast than Hirai Hisaishi has produced in his entire career (yeah, I went there), how does 00 designer Kouga Yun (Wikipedia), famous for her bishounen work on Loveless, draw women? The answer can be found in the pages of her mid-90's manga, Gestalt - cover images below:
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