BCC 2 Match #3 - KOS-MOS vs. Android 18 (Xenosaga vs. DBZ)

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Alright everybody, welcome in to another matchup for BCC Month 2 (in collaboration w/ MechG) pitting the hottest Video Game female characters and the hottest Anime female characters. MechG here filling for Stillmattic. He is on duty for the Black Friday craze today, but that's ok for as the old saying goes "the show must go on." Behind the scenes, I give a lot of praise for Stillmattic for coming up with these brilliant attention-grabbing intros dating back to our first collaboration of Bleach Fantasy, but since he's not here, I will do my best to give you guys an intro of a lifetime. So, what do we got here? We got two bad@$$ females, but here's the catch: they're not human, they are machines! Well hold on let's not get carried away here, one used to be a human before she became an android then she reverted back to human and another who's a full-on robotic weapon, but is able to develop human personality. Still you don't want to try and mess with these two. They may be attractive by looks, but if you feel them physically, they are made of metal and stainless steel and they will terminate you in sight! In the red corner, we got KOS-MOS from Xenosaga and Android 18 from DBZ. As usual: Story, Personality, and Appeal will play a part in who wins. So, to all of you who grew up in the late 90s-early 00s, this will be a trip down memory lane as I'm sure both these franchises played big parts in our childhood. Verdict will be provided by yours truly. Let's Geaux!

Story (KOS-MOS)

In the midst of playing through Xenosaga Episode I so I might spoil myself here just a little bit and it doesn’t help that the story written on the Wiki is NOT POSTED! ;( So anyway, KOS-MOS was first created by Vector Industries scientist, Kevin Winnicot. During her development stage in the year, T.C. 4765, an accident occurred in a Vector research facility that booted KOS-MOS prematurely, killing Kevin and most of the members of Vector’s 2^nd Division Team. Among the members who survived were Shion Uzumaki and Allen Ridgeley, who were able to mantle the completion of the KOS-MOS and put it for testing onboard the Woglinde. After testing, the Gnosis arrived and attacked the ship to retrieve the Zohar Emulator, activating KOS-MOS. She was able to fend off the Gnosis with ease, but killed off Lieutenant Virgil on friendly fire. The Woglinde was eventually destroyed and KOS-MOS drifted into space, eventually finding the Elsa and convincing Captain Matthews to bring Shion, Allen, and Commander Cherenkov, the Woglinde survivors on board the Elsa en route to the Kukai Foundation. During a Gnosis attack on the Elsa, KOS-MOS started to go beyond her capabilities, developing her “Blue-Eyed” persona and annihilating an entire fleet of Gnosis. I’m sure there’s more detail to KOS-MOS’s role in the late scenes of Episode I and in Episode II and III, but I think this is enough information to show her importance in the series. 

Story (Android 18)

Prior to becoming Android 18, she was named Lazuli and, alongside her twin brother Lapis (Android 17) and both were delinquents. It wouldn't be long before they became acquainted with Dr. Gero where he kidnapped them and restructure their bodies as Androids. Android 18, alongside Androids 16 & 17, were then by Dr. Gero (killed him afterwards) in attempts to fight off the Saiyans. They've displayed incredibly durability, agility, and overall are fearless fighting machines with their main objective to kill the Saiyans. Android 18 was the first to fight Vegeta and she clearly isn't a pushover as she almost broke him. A new threat, however, emerged, in the name of Cell as his purpose was to absorb the Androids, make their powers his, and challenge the human race. Just as Android 18 was handling the Saiyans, she now has become the victim herself as Cell absorb her ~ leading to the much-anticipated Cell vs. Goku matchup. 18 was revived (human) and soon wedded Krillin (lucky bastard) where they have one daughter named Marron. There's much more to her character, but I believe that her story was more important during the Cell arc.

Personality (KOS-MOS)

Well considering KOS-MOS is indeed a weapon intended to destroy the Gnosis, it’s a given she’s emotionless as she adheres to logic, probability, and putting her mission above all else. She can be quite difficult to manage at times whenever she puts logic and probability first (because we all know F*CK LOGIC). However as the Xenosaga series plays on, she develops a more human side when her eyes turn from red to blue, thus creating “Blue-Eyed KOS-MOS” where she devotes herself to protect Shion at all costs whenever she’s in danger.

Personality (Android 18)

Android 18 is cool, calm, and collected. A striking point about 18 is her sarcasm towards other characters in the series. Despite now being human, she displays sensibility such as towards Android 17 (her brother turned enemy). She's pretty much as level-headed as you can get and with her wedded to Krillin, she now has peacefully started a family (Krillin is such a lucky @$$ piece of sh*t bastard).

Appeal (Android 18)

Android 18, next to Bulma, are the hotties in DBZ. I mean, something about her is just so hot ~ the way she appears so cool & confident wherever she goes, the fact that she's a blonde (with blue eyes no less), and the fact that she's one Android you'd want to pork (F U Krillin). She's just a badass that nothing disturbs her and if it does, she'll just kick @$$ & take names. Android 18 is the ideal women with bothe strength & sarcasm. Krillin, once again, is a lucky bastard.

Appeal (KOS-MOS)

Out of all the hot video game female characters on the list of every expert, KOS-MOS is probably the most overlooked attractive heroine and that’s what makes her so underrated. I found her attractive back in the day as a kid watching my cousin play Xenosaga. 13 years later, she still looks really good for her time and she beats out most female characters in today’s video games in my opinion. Not to mention, she’s a bad@$$ weapon that has a lot of cool @$$ arsenal under her belt. Even though she’s more appealing in Episode II and III, especially in Episode III, nothing beats her original concept design in the first Xenosaga game.

Verdict

And the winner is...

Talk about female RoboCop vs. female Terminator. No question, I love these two characters. Both Xenosaga and DBZ are childhood gems in my past, well DBZ in particular made a bigger impact in my childhood (well it’s canon law DBZ played a big part in everyone’s childhood). But for me in this verdict, I gotta give this matchup to KOS-MOS. However, I won’t deny the impact Android 18 made in the Android and Cell Games Saga, but once you hit that “Krillin ceiling (also the Yamcha ceiling)”, falling in love and wedding the character who got owned the most out of all the Z Warriors in the DBZ story arc, you can consider yourself I-R-R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T after that. With KOS-MOS, as much as Xenosaga II and III sucked in some people’s eyes, she has consistently made an impact beginning back to the first game. She’s out there, still kicking Gnosis @$$, taking names, protecting Shion and the rest of the party at all costs, it’s too bad the series discontinued. For me, I know everyone wants to go for the blondie like 18, but I personally find KOS-MOS a lot more appealing, from face to body, not to mention her Blue-Eyed persona gives her a more cute and adorable look and her Red-Eyed persona gives her the look of bad@$$ery, but she is a lot more beautiful with the Blue-Eyed persona. Sorry DBZ fans. 

So who do you think won? KOS-MOS from Xenosaga or Android 18 from DBZ? Comment below and let us know. Stillmattic will  to deliver your regularly scheduled FARRTs on this blog once he gets back. As for me, I'm going to go back to my blog on trueraiderlaker.blogspot.com and I'll be ready to post up a quick recap of tonight's Lakers game vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves and set up Q-by-Q, Halftime, and Full Recap post for Sunday's Raider game vs. the St. Louis Rams. As usual, look forward to BCC 2 match-ups on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Next week's series of BCC match-ups will be decided by the man, the myth, and the legend himself, Stillmattic. Until then, you all stay classy now. Videogame Babes lead 2-1 against Anime Cuties.