Kickstarter...? Seriously?

i'm starting to run out of reasons why I shouldn't just put up an ad for, "I don't wanna work for the rest of my life, pay for that!"

Or those fiendish Mars Rays... oogly boogly boogly!! (has a Gundam series ever pushed "guys, we should just stay home" as hard as AGE seems to be?) Real world, though, I'm awaiting the end analysis of this mission. Mars is an interesting place and probably the most reasonable first destina...

Y'know, it's kinda funny. For all the talk about 00 being like Wing, AGE seems most apt to claim that title, what with it being the second Gundam AU to try and cram three UC TV shows and one movie into less than 50 episodes. As much antipathy as I have toward CE, at least those showrunners had the s...

Yeah, it's an expensive toy. Hey, good on 'em and I wish 'em luck, but don't expect this to go much farther. A technological sea change (if you will) requires some kind of advantage. Let's compare, for example, bullets vs. blasters. The only way blasters will ever become unambiguously advantageous i...

I'd like to see directors and writers leave their personal hobbyhorses at home. Listening to all the AGE discussion (that is, whether the Vagan deserve to die) and thinking back to SEED and 00 (especially S2), I was trying to figure out what exactly makes those shows so much less compelling to me th...

Flit's mom burned, pretty much right in front of us. Not exactly kiddy fare. At least, not unless the show intends to implicate the Inferior Race for the burning of all our righteous mothers. :) I guess to clear up what I was asking: SEED, Destiny, and 00 S2 are all fairly popular in Japan (or, at l...

If that game ever came here (being PSP, and Bamco, I'm sure it won't), I'd get it, even though I feel lukewarm towards the series. What makes for poor-to-meh television can make a pretty engaging game, if handled right. Customization (mecha and PCs?) would also be a big plus. :) As for the AGE numbe...

Gunbuster and Gurren Lagann are good. Best Gainax mecha efforts outside of Evangelion (which depends). Oh, and Patlabor . It's a real robot gem, if you don't need "Der Biggen Kriegen" to get your plot moving. Then there's Escaflowne , if you don't mind swords with your mecha. TV series is...

Nah, you're not alone. Beetleborgs didn't do it for me, either. That said, those latex panel suits (or whatever they're made of) were pretty damn boss. I wish more Sentai suits (like Akiba ) used that kind of slickness... without getting as ugly/beefy as the Power Rangers the Movie suits (gold star ...

I don't think it's any different from any other work of fiction, really. In many ways, it's just a function of realism. The vast majority of people, no matter their political affiliation or nationality, think they're doing the right thing. However, just because they think they're doing the right thi...

More Noa.

Wasn't all the pre-airing hate about the art style? Far as I can see, that's the absolute least of the show's problems. It has nothing to do with why I wasn't interested in the show (despite thinking Ebikawa's Gundam efforts were generally pretty spiff), and it doesn't seem to have anything to do wi...

The way I see it, any strains of multi-season continuity is a good thing for Power Rangers. Continuity strengthens fandom by giving them a sequence of events to order and details to discuss. I don't think there's any doubt that the MMPR through in Space arc was the strongest and most memorable of th...

Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl

I actually wanted to get this, back in 2009, but it was just too expensive. Now that the price has gone down, I was able to snap it up. Pretty impressed, actually.

Truthfully, I'm pretty curious. Sailor Moon was always pretty damn popular, on both sides of the ocean, and I've always been pretty curious about why. I missed out on a chance to get the old series boxset for cheap, but maybe this new series will give me some insight. Assuming, of course, that nothi...

Or, to put it another way, the GP02 was designed to be used by the Federation, with its shiny new space fleet and superior resources, not the bedraggled Zeon remnants. So far as the Federation is concerned, having a special unit wander on in, nuke something, and then wander on out while GMs do the c...

Regarding Kenji's question: I think you have the proportions reversed. Most of the published sources say the balance is more like 9 billion in space , with Earthnoids the minority, although as discussed in this recent thread there's a fair amount of evidence that it's initially closer to a fifty-fi...

Well, in that case, my bad.

Char might've mentioned it at some point. Maybe it gets mentioned every other episode of every UC series by every other character and I just don't remember.

Even if that is so, how is this apparent discrepancy resolved?

Y'know, that always struck me as pretty suspect, too. Logically speaking, is it even possible to shoot poor people into space faster than population growth? How much would such an effort even cost? If the rich have to foot the bill (even if every poor person they jettisoned into space had to pay it ...

Generally speaking, a free-floating canister in orbit (or torus, or hourglass, or whatever) isn't the best place to put a colony, but it is part and parcel of the O'Neill model that Gundam has followed since its inception. That is, complete with the solar power arrays and lunar mass drivers. It's ce...