Of course, I don’t know. By the way, he is an enemy character of “Zeta Gundam”, the second Gundam series. (If you are not interested in it, please go through it.)
Zeta Gundam is a sequel to the First Gundam and is set 7 years after the First Gundam, so I won’t spoil the whole story for you.
This Gundam Space Century series has many different characters. Starting with Amuro Ray, there is Shah Aznable, Haman Khan, Mineva Zabi, and many others.
Probably the most popular one is definitely Shah Aznable (as I recall, there was a popularity contest on an NHK program). I remember that Paptimus Scirocco was far below him at that time.
I remember that Paptimus Sirocco was far below him in the poll because he was always treated as a villain. He was an officer on the enemy side. And he is an incomprehensible character who has been living a recluse-like life for a long time, going to Jupiter’s sphere in a huge ship to search for resources.
What he thought is that he suddenly returns to the Earth’s sphere, but his purpose is not clear, even from the scene in which he appears.
However, since he refers to himself as a “witness of history,” it becomes clear that he is not aiming to seize hegemony like Jamitov Hyman, whose life is hostile to the protagonist’s side, or to revive Zeon like Haman Khan, or to revolutionize humanity through new types like Captain Quattro (Shah Aznable). It gradually becomes clear.
He is a recluse, but a genius designer of state-of-the-art mobile suits (battle robots) in a huge exploration ship, and a Newtype who surpasses Sha in combat.
He is also a new type who surpasses Shah in combat. He is a member of the Titans and eventually assassinates Jamitov, the leader of the Titans, and takes control of the Titans’ army. From there, as he appears in more and more scenes, his purpose becomes clearer.
He is full of wise words.
I don’t want to take history in the wrong direction.
I’m going to change the world, and it might as well be you, Recoa.
What could a philistine who can only pull the legs of a genius do? Only a handful of geniuses have run the world.
“Tiny interference will only lead to the destruction of the world, boy.
It is hopeless to ask people to have character,” etc., etc., etc., etc. His words were a parade of charming phrases that tickled the heart of any ambitious child.
At the same time, he is also a genius in the way he treats women, such as being able to give (actually, to use) them the comfort as women that Recoa (who betrays Eugo) could not find in Captain Quattro.
As a naive child at the time, I didn’t understand why Paptimus Sirocco was treated as a villain, and in Gundam debates with my friends, I was on the side of the defenders, saying I liked only one of them. Of course, he was on the enemy side of the main characters, so Paptimus Sirocco was always treated as a villain by Camille (the main character) and others, who said to me, “You don’t understand.
“You don’t understand, Sirocco plays at war.
As the viewer grows older, he is a rare villain. But that didn’t change the fact that I liked him.
He is not trying to stop wars by dropping colonies on the earth, making it uninhabitable, and forcing people to evolve into new types, but he is acting only out of his desire not to take history in the wrong direction.
In the history of mankind, we have advocated new ideas, science and technology, and human innovations to improve the world, which in turn have led to many conflicts, which we have overcome.
As we see in the world today, the world has not become peaceful, and even now, a lot of blood is spilled and many children are dying at an early age.
No matter how much it is for the sake of human evolution, I feel that the sacrifice is too great. If more blood must be shed in the future for more human evolution, it must be a wrong history.
And the amazing thing about Paptimus Sirocco is that he said he was going to change history in the right direction in a different way than Jamitov and the Shah, that is, through the power of women.
He said (though he may not have meant it) that “women” are the key to human evolution. Men may be beings who do not know how to treat women as objects, just as Recore, on his deathbed, scattered about shouting, “Men only know how to play with women or use them.
He treated women as “objects”. That is the proper history of mankind as it should be. That may be why, in a way, he attracted me more than Shah Aznable, who was aiming for a Destroyer-like reformation of the world.
Gundam says that humans (those who live on the earth), whose souls are drawn by the earth’s gravity, cannot overcome the evolutionary singularity of humanity without awakening to the Newtype (new human race). In other words, he is saying that peace for mankind will never come. In a sense, it is a tragic story of giving up on humanity today.
The beauty of Zeta Gundam is that it is wrapped up in the package of entertainment as an animation for children, but in fact it contains many literary issues, such as the harshness of the real world and the depth of human karma.
And it not only raises these issues, but also tries to present various possibilities for solving them. In other words, it is not just a robot animation, but also a children’s literature of the royal road, like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.
The character of Paptimus Sirocco is not a childish Amuro or Camille, but an adult, a realist and a mature Newtype in a sense, showing a moderate way of human transformation (although he dies tragically in the end). To be honest, I am still heavily influenced by him in writing my novels.
Incidentally, until now, I have liked and bought Gunpla (plastic models of mobile suits), but the only one I have been able to complete is this Ji-O (which seems to mean “God’s Will”) that Paptimus Scirocco rides.
See you soon!
