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 Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:10 am
I never really thought about it much but now I am.
I think you might be right. Plus he's kinda tanned and has dark brown hair. I mean, you never really know who his real parents are so that might be a possiblity.
And then, when he meets you know who, he can speak with him who obviously isn't Japanese. So, he must know English from somewhere, right?
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:48 pm
If they claim his nationality is Japanese. Then why argue it. He's japanese. Nuff said.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:04 pm
And how is someone who grew up on a space colony American?
Egads, when you think about it, only Wufei makes one iota of sense. gonk
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:09 am
I read somewhere a while back that they aren't really "Nationalities" because all of the pilots were born in space.
The gundam pilots wouldn't be Japanese, American, Latino, Arab... etc, etc... merely of that descent due to their parents' origins. I think Wufei is the only clear cut one, perhaps Quatre too, because people of those nationalities immigrated to the colonies. With the other 3 pilots we do have a bit of a toss up simply because we have never seen any of their parents.
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Preventer Void Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:32 pm
Well, to be fair, one major historical point in After Colony is that the Alliance gave control of the space colonies to the nations that built them, and from that point on they were treated like colonies were during the 18th and 19th century.
Therefore, each colony could probably be said to have a "nationality"; Duo's home colony may have people from all over, but it's probably predominantly American.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:20 pm
Laluna_Wulf If they claim his nationality is Japanese. Then why argue it. He's japanese. Nuff said. I agree. The writers know what they are talking about. Besides *Geek alert* all you need is two people with the gene for blue eyes to get blue eyes. So possibly somewhere WAY back in Heero's ancestory, there was at least one (hopefully two) people with the gene for blue eyes, but he could be so much Japanese that it's impossible to put a percentage on it. *End Geek Alert* Oh, and just as a random side note, all the official information for Trowa does not give an origin. We don't know what nationality he is.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:38 am
Preventer Void Well, to be fair, one major historical point in After Colony is that the Alliance gave control of the space colonies to the nations that built them, and from that point on they were treated like colonies were during the 18th and 19th century. Therefore, each colony could probably be said to have a "nationality"; Duo's home colony may have people from all over, but it's probably predominantly American. ' Link to your info source pretty please? I hold faith in you I just want to read your sources ^_^
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:49 am
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Preventer Void Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:18 am
yeh i think it's good to assume that heero is mostly japanese
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:32 am
Preventer Void Well, to be fair, one major historical point in After Colony is that the Alliance gave control of the space colonies to the nations that built them, and from that point on they were treated like colonies were during the 18th and 19th century. Therefore, each colony could probably be said to have a "nationality"; Duo's home colony may have people from all over, but it's probably predominantly American. Hey Preventer Void you got me thinking about the whole timeline area, and in thinking about the timeline I figured out an answer how Heero can be Japanese and have blue eyes. So here it is... In the AC area living on the space colonies, it was VERY uncommon for women to give birth to a child; that is why 29 out of 30 children in Quatre's family were test-tube babies. And seeing as test-tube children were the main way to have off spring in the colonies many parents did it, because child birth was to straining on the mother and child. (i.e assume death as a worse case scenario) And even in today’s studies of future test-tube children, they say parents can pick and choose what their child shall have. Be it brown, green, blue, red (albino people) or even the rare violet eye colors, or make the child’s hair color to be white blonde to the darkest of black. Now take today’s findings and speed it up to the After Colony area, every parent could choose what their child would look like as long as it was a test tube baby. Even when you compare Quatre to his family members that we as viewers see, he is very fair skinned and haired. BUT he was a natural born child. (For more information read Gundam Wing Episode Zero it’s the back grounds of all the pilots.) So we can assume his parents carried the recessive genes and in nature's natural way that is what he was blessed with. For timeline information go here: http://www.gundamofficial.com/www_ac/gw/timeline/index.html#
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Preventer Void Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:46 am
The "designer babies" explanation is possible, but personally I'd prefer not to consider it since at that point we start treading into Gundam Seed territory, and the last thing we need is more people trying to explain Heero's amazing abilities as him being a Coordinator.
Besides, to be perfectly technical, all they say is that Heero's nationality is Japanese; they don't say anything about his ethnicity. There's a very important difference:
Nationality = The status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization.
Ethnicity = Ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association.
Therefore, it's entirely possible for someone with Western features to be of Japanese nationality; all they have to do is be born in Japan or one of its holdings.
Of course, it's generally assumed that Heero is Japanese in ethnicity too, since so far a majority of Gundam's lead heroes are...
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:05 pm
Preventer Void The "designer babies" explanation is possible, but personally I'd prefer not to consider it since at that point we start treading into Gundam Seed territory, and the last thing we need is more people trying to explain Heero's amazing abilities as him being a Coordinator. Besides, to be perfectly technical, all they say is that Heero's nationality is Japanese; they don't say anything about his ethnicity. There's a very important difference: Nationality = The status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization. Ethnicity = Ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association. Therefore, it's entirely possible for someone with Western features to be of Japanese nationality; all they have to do is be born in Japan or one of its holdings. Of course, it's generally assumed that Heero is Japanese in ethnicity too, since so far a majority of Gundam's lead heroes are... I say he's ethnically Japanese, but that the animators just don't care to portray the race accurately. I mean, Sailormoon has blonde hair and blue eyes from dark-haired, Japanese parents - how do you rationalize that? And don't even get me started on green-haired characters from Fushigi Yugi. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:08 pm
P.S. But if we absolutlely have to prove that Heero's Japanese, then yes, it is possible for a Japanese person to be born with blue eyes from brown-eyed parents. It's been known to happen before, and there are scientific explanations for it: it could be a genetic anomoly or a surfacing gene from distant western ancestors.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:59 am
The creators have even been interviewed about this in like Animerica and Newtype... apparently, it was just a thing. Heero is Japanese, that's it. And they don't know why he has blue eyes. They just wanted to make him bishounen or something. *shrugs*
Poor Heero. Everyone's always picking on him for how he looks. *chuckle*
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