Quatre inhales. Quatre exhales. Quatre inhales. Quatre exhales.

    It’s a scene that lasts about ten seconds and yet it’s totally conquered the fans. I mean, you can’t go a day on Cartoon Network without seeing it… They use it for the Toonami commercials, they use it for the Gundam Wing commercials… And yet we all scramble to the television to watch Quatre breathe!

    I’m not knocking it here. I sat there the other day all hyped up to watch Quatre breathe! (Okay, I was hyped from Sailor Moon S and the fact that I was watching Reboot after so many years, but that’s besides the point!)

    My mom was in the other room and I kept going, “Qua

    tre’s gonna breathe! Quatre’s gonna breathe!”

    And then he did…

    Ahh. Amazing how much hold that boy’s got on the series, eh?

    The pilots all have their signature style and one tiny thing they do that makes us all giddy… But no one has quite the hold that Quatre does in that breathing scene! Why, we’ve all dubbed it “The Breathing Episode” after that tiny little act of commonplace functioning that excites us so! I don’t think you’ll ever see anything that shows quite as much love for something so simple. (“Oh boy! The ‘Duo Eats Burritos’ Episode is on today!” You think they ever wrote an episode like that, but just never figured out how to tackle it properly?) (Actually, I saw a Dragon Ball episode like that once, but nobody believes me…)

    Anyway, what do all the other pilots have? Heero has those spandex and that amazingly original grunt of “Relena”. But does he have a “Heero Grunts Relena!” Episode? Wufei demeans women. But does he have a “Wufei’s Mad at the Chicks Again!” Episode? Trowa has that hair. Someday, perhaps, we’ll see a “Trowa has a GOOD Hair Day for Once in His Lifetime!” Episode… Duo has his sense of humour. I love that episode where he says something about the God of Death being back, but he needs to take a nap first, but I’ve never heard of the “God of Death is Back!” Episode…

    Nope, they haven’t got anything on Quatre’s breathing!

    Sure, this is a short little ramble, but Quatre captured our hearts with ten seconds of breathing. Just sit back and take a deep breath and try not to cough from air pollution.

    Is your breathing as spellbinding as Quatre’s?

    I know mine isn’t unless the hepa filter isn’t turned on…