What we're using is Big Eyes Small Mouth (aka BESM), a system designed to (in theory) let you recreate basically any kind of anime. In practice, though, there's a lot of potential for abuse and game-breaking, and it often comes down to house rules to patch the holes left behind by the creators and p...

And now we continue. I'm aware it's been a while; I got lazy and took my sweet time summarizing the last adventure, especially considering the third adventure is this coming weekend. But things to pick up and get more interesting this time around. --- Picking up from just about where we left off las...

Since the title of the next episode is "Knights and Dragon", I'm willing to bet it's the last episode of the season.

Halfway through the episode, my reaction to what happened to the Prince:

"What a profoundly stupid man."

Actually, that's how Wing's openings always were. For most of the run, both sequences used footage taken from the show and only switched to the higher quality animation before the theme song changeover (for JC) or before the end of the show (for RE).

I will say, I really appreciate that Dietrich has been an actual character with actual development; it seems like in any other show, the dude who panicked and got mech-jacked in the first couple of episodes would be nothing but a one-note joke character but he's actually shown real growth. But yeah,...

Well, not much response but I might as well post the first summary and see if it draws some attention. Anyway, before we begin, here's the Dramatis Personae: Erika Kadoya - My character. A Japanese-American girl with a cheerful personality, sunny outlook, and desire to be everybody's friend. She tak...

Also, have the Perfect Strike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awut635AL_s

EDIT: Damn you Yazi!

It makes sense that a fair bit of time is passing; just consider the fact that about five episodes ago we had the mech get stolen by the bad guys, and then this week it's been reverse-engineered and developed into an army of hundreds, if not more, mass-produced new units, new elite units for people ...

The open beta for Gundam Versus is currently up for download on the Playstation Store, but the beta doesn't start until the weekend. Better to grab it now while you have the opportunity.

I liked the fighting this episode, but the fact that this new enemy faction is just monolithically and almost cartoonishly evil makes them a little hard to take seriously.

So a few weeks ago my brother started running a Magical Girl RPG inspired by his recently getting into more modern MG anime like Madoka Magica. Would people actually be interested in reading the recap summaries of the game, or is that not in peoples' wheelhouses around here?

Here's what Nightingale did in Maxi Boost:

a: Mega Beam Rifle
Moving a during Burst: Funnels (Deploy)
CSa: Mega Beam Rifle (Spread)
b: Beam Tomahawk
2b: Shield Missiles
CSb: Psycho Doga Assist
ab: Funnels
ac: Mega Beam Rifle (Gerobi)/Mega Particle Cannons (Spread)
bc: Beam Tomahawk

Maxi is getting Raider as well as the Phantom Gundam from Crossbone Gundam Ghost. I think it's already been confirmed that the Phantom is coming to Versus.

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm being hyper-critical of this show, I really do want to like it but I'm not going to ignore its flaws. There are aspects I like, but at the moment the problems are weighing pretty heavily on it.

The thing about this show is that Ernesti and his fanboying along with the mechs make it a interesting show to watch. How does Ernie geeking out over the robots make the show interesting? The idea of him bringing in concepts that are hundreds of years in advance thanks to his being a robot fanboy i...

Honest question, am I the only one who's sick of the whole "Fangirl completely shuts down when Ernie isn't around" thing? It's not really funny, it's not really cute or endearing, it just kind of makes her look creepy and pathetic.

While I think that's a good cast with plenty of talent, you just couldn't pay me to care about Seed anymore.

Same day as the US!

...Too bad I'm gonna be at an anime con that weekend and will miss the inaugural session of #GundamNationVersus. Assuming SBR has one.