As far as I'm concerned 0083 isn't needed for the role it tries to play and pretty much everything in it could arguably already be found in existing stories. Both Zeta and ZZ dealt with the Zeon remnants for instance. If it had tried to actually fit in more and not offered such annoying characters ...

Update for Pizal Wald.

Alos, Kratos nailed it with the name. Run the two halves together and pronounce them like a normal English speaker would. You'll see how the romanization conveys the same reference as the katakana. "Lemonpeople" :P Yes, I understand the point. What I was trying to point out is that it see...

Of course there's nothing I can do about official translations, but I can still laugh about it. The point is, I can't imagine that the fine publication L(emon) People was ever referred to verbally as anything but "エル ピープル" until American fans dug up the tidbit on the character's name being...

Chris wrote:Sound out the pronunciation of L People -> Elpeo Ple and you'll see how it works.

"eru pi pu ru"

ydawg314 wrote:ms design wise: I loved all the zeon ms ...but... why were the gms teal?

Not exactly breaking new ground there...

So I saw a couple of things earlier that made me think. Nowadays we know the Nahel Argama as, well, the Nahel Argama in English, but it's one of those names where every once in a while in the past before it was officially translated you'd see somebody render it differently - usually involving a comb...

The guillotine. Destroying major cities. You know, the usual signs of being not-nice people.

So I try to improve my crappy Japanese skills by looking up obscure Gundam information in my free time - it's what led to my turtle tattoo discovery, after all. Here's a couple of recent things I found interesting, one more than the other: (1) I saw the beloved crappy magician that attempted to ente...

I think this whole Newtype/Jedi metaphor thing has been misunderstood from the start, whether intentionally or not I don't know because let's try this AGAIN : Why get annoyed at a newtype doing newtype things in a Gundam show with newtypes? You don't watch A New Hope and thunder "BS!" at t...

Also, Karen Traviss? The author who, in SW fan circles, is known for her works containing fanfiction-grade worship of Boba Fett and the Mandalorians? Am I remembering this person right? Cause if so, you'll forgive me if it amuses me to see her calling out other fans on hero worship. Bravo. Your who...

I'm not seeing it. Zeon's philosophy wasn't that Newtypes could do no wrong, just that they were the supposed next stage of human evolution. And we've seen Newtypes doing wrong on many occasions (along with their AU counterparts). CCA Char and Scirocco spring to mind. And on the whole they're prett...

Art for Wales Ingleshard.

schwarz ritter wrote:...my beloved Karen Traviss...

Well, there's your problem right there.

If you had to guess, what do you think the average age of the group was? I knew a guy in high school about ten years ago that would say he liked anime, but by "anime" he meant "whatever Adult Swim is showing at the moment" and never really ventured beyond that. I knew people in c...

Art for LTJG Irene Kawamura.

Let's see if anybody notices this.

Hmm, that seems familiar, and yet...

This is sort of vague but I'm re-reading the Getter Robo manga and I dusted off SRW:MX a couple of days ago and it's made me feel all hot blooded: I'd like to see somebody run another Super Robot Wars RPG like the one we had briefly back in '06. It died last time because the GM wandered off, but I t...

Voice of dissent time! . . . In regards to what Fritz was saying early on, I personally am not a fan of "Newtype hax" because it often ends up being the only way anything gets accomplished in UC series. I think the Star Wars comparison is flawed, because Jedi are not the only people who g...

Newtype Hax is more like "Newtype Plot Hax": its Plot Armor, Plot Convenience. That's it. As much as I would like to like the concept of Newtypes, I think its full of fail and gives crap characters like Banagher the spot light. There aren't enough characters like Kou or Shiro, people with...