Clotho Buer

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Clotho Buer (Japanese: Crot Buer and transliterated as Kuroto Bueru クロト・ブエル in the original Japanese version) is a character from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. He is voiced by Hiro Yuuki in the original Japanese version and by Ted Cole in the English dub.

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Clotho Buer, along with Shani Andras and Orga Sabnak, is one of the three "Living CPUs" assigned to operate the Earth Alliance's new Gundam mobile suits. As with his comrades, his personal data has been erased from the military's records. The talkative and quarrelsome Clotho is constantly arguing with his teammates, and he likes to shout out video game-inspired battle cries as he fights in his GAT-X370 Raider. Between missions he spends his time perfecting his shooting skills on a portable game system. Depending on the version of Gundam SEED seen, Clotho is killed during the Second Battle of Jachin Due either by Yzak Joule in the GAT-X102 Duel (original Gundam SEED), using the Buster's rifle or by Dearka Elsman in the GAT-X103 Buster ().

Trivia

Whenever he's off-duty, Clotho can usually been seen playing a portable game system called the "Great Wonder Swan XXX." The WonderSwan is an actual Japanese portable game system, so it's possible that this is supposed to be some far-future version of that system (though the graphics don't look much better than those of the current WonderSwan; perhaps Clotho's system is an antique).
Clotho's given name is perhaps derived from the name of Clotho, the Fate who spun the thread of life; his Japanese name, Crot, may simply be a mistranslation of this name. His surname may be derived from either the name of the demon Buer or the old name of Gelsenkirchen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [link]
In the original Gundam SEED, his death is an insider joke: Clotho is voiced by Hiro Yuki while his killer, Yzak Joule, is voiced by Seki Tomokazu, his bandmate in the seiyu quartet Weiss.

Notable Dialogue

Clotho Buer: What's the deal with you two anyway!? Why are you fighting so desperately!?
Athrun Zala: I want to ask you the same thing, what do you guys think your fighting for!?
Clotho Buer: Don't ask me, I don't really know. I hate losing, thats my only reason!
Athrun Zala: What!?
Clotho Buer: Not that I would ever lose!
(From Gundam SEED PHASE-49 "The Final Light")

External links

[living-cpu.net]

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