Ginias Saharin

Infobox animanga character
name = Ginias Saharin
series = Mobile Suit Gundam


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voiced by = Sho Hayami (Japanese)
Lex Lang (English)
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age = 27
born = UC 0052
death = UC 0079
nationality = Principality of Zeon
relatives = Aina Saharin (sister)
divider = yes
aux1 name = Allegiance
aux1 = Principality of Zeon
aux2 name = Rank
aux2 = Rear Admiral Lower Half
aux3 name = Mobile weapons
aux3 = Apsalus III

nihongo|Rear Admiral Ginias Saharin|ギニアス・サハリン|Giniasu Saharin was a character in the anime OVA . "Saharin" is a Japanese transliteration of Sakhalin (サハリン). He is notable for being a character with very obvious mental illness.

tory

The eldest child of the Saharins, an influential upper-class Zeon family, Ginias was charged by the Sovereign Degwin Sodo Zabi to build a mobile weapon powerful enough to destroy the Earth Federation Forces military headquarters of Jaburo. Granted a secret military facility hidden inside of a mountain on the Tibetan plateau, Ginias began work on his dream project, the Apsalus mobile armor. However, Ginias was not given total operating freedom. Ginias was placed under the jurisdiction of Admiral Yuri Kellarny. Although Ginias used to be friends with Yuri, Ginias began to harbor a secret hatred of him because of his nonchalance and carefree attitude, especially towards the Apsalus project, which Yuri viewed as a mere tool to be used by real soldiers.

Ginias had a younger sister, Aina Saharin. The two siblings were always close and Ginias often pulled strings to have Aina assigned as the test pilot of his experimental units. Ginias also suffered from an unspecified medical ailment, for which he had to take an unspecified medication. His sister would always remind him to take it if it slipped his mind. Though he does have obvious mental illness, especially in the latter part of the OVA, it should be noted that the main reason behind his medication was for a physical ailment, rather than a psychological one. There is speculation that he may have suffered from Wilson's Disease.

After the Zeon lost Operation Odessa the Apsalus Project was ordered to be canceled. But Ginias still had work on the project continue, drugging the mechanics and researchers so they could work more frequently. Ginias began to see people as mere tools to be used to achieve his dream, the completion of the Apsalus, and he stopped taking his own medication, leading to detrimental effects on both his body and mind. Ginias' obsession with the Apsalus would prove to be his downfall. After murdering Admiral Kellarny to keep him from discovering his continued work, Ginias then murders the entire Apsalus development team so the newly completed Apsalus III would be his, and his alone.

Ginias and Aina go out in the Apsalus III to confront the Earth Federation Forces who had discovered the mountain research facility, but when Aina finally voices her objections to Ginias' underhanded tactics he shoots her, throwing her out of the Apsalus III's cockpit and nearly killing her. Through the combined efforts of Aina and Federation pilot Shiro Amada they are able to bring an end to Ginias' madness, crushing the cockpit of the Apsalus III with the fist of Shiro's Gundam Ez8, killing Ginias and destroying the monstrous Apsalus III.