I have to say Flit Asuno is one of the most compelling characters in Gundam in my opinion, he arguably surpasses Char in terms of the complexity of his nature. He makes a convincing slide from kind, determined hero to cruel, obsessed fallen hero without becoming a complete monster, he's a good man w...

About the Lensman discussion, they did take quite a few liberties with the source material, such how Kim Kinnison receives his lens from dying Lensman would have killed him in the novels as a Lensman cannot transfer his lens to another person, the lens destroys itself upon the death of its user. Als...

The prequel novels Prelude To Foundation and Forward The Foundation focus on Seldon's past as he develops the science of Psychohistory, how he became a player within the political intrigues of Trantor, and more importantly, we are introduced to Hari's wife Dors Venabelli, who is every bit his equal ...

Great episode, Your rundown of the Foundation series was very concise and informative. For those looking for more classic space opera I found a free audio book version of Triplanetary, the first in the Lensman series. Like Foundation, it's also surprisingly hard Sci-Fi especially since it was writte...

From the "Things That Should Not Be" file,
http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2012/03/g ... undam.html

Honestly, this madness must stop!

In addition to the anime adaptation of the Mass Effect game series, Japan is attempting to promote the games themselves through what else, a manga! http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-02-27/mass-effect-rpg-franchise-explained-in-manga I must say lil' Tali and Liara in schoolgirl uniforms a...

This may be fitting for a potential Slaying The Sacred Cow segment, I ran across this article about Lou Dobbs accusing two films one of which is Hayao Miyazaki's The Secret World of Arriety of having a political agenda. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-02-22/fox-commentator-decries-arri...

Walking Gundam Using a Physics engine

http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2012/02/3 ... undam.html

It isn't easy making something the size of a building walk naturally.

When you brought up the Divx player it reminded me of the time my father and I went to Circuit City, who were the main backers of the technology at the time and a salesman tried to talk him into buying one. Now my father isn't a tech-savvy person, nor is he stupid he simply asked him a common sense ...

If anything, you'd think the Vulcans would be the most predominant members of Starfleet in terms of organizational makeup since they were first species humans had contact with officially and largely aided humanity's ascendancy post-World War III and the establishment of both the United Federation of...

Only Manga Entertainment haven't released anything in years aside from Redline in a few months, ADV films no longer operates under that name they split up the organization into smaller companies operating as separate entities. Anime Works seems to be part of the Media Blasters label. If there was a ...

Luna Titanium is manufactured in space where materials can be made stronger and lighter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_manufacturing Beam weapons hit with more penetrative force than kinetic weapons since more of the beam's energy is concentrated on a single point. Beam weapons exceed Luna Tita...

Ghost In The Shell Reeboks offered in Japan

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... d-in-japan

You too can have a pair of Tachikomas on your feet for the low,low price of $260!

http://www.allegiancemusical.com/video/ ... -star-wars

George Takei, (of Star Trek fame) has asked for a truce from both Star Wars and Star Trek fans for them to take up arms and fight a new, mutual menace... Twilight!

I have a new found respect for the man, he is made of win and awesome.

From the "People Need To Find Better Things To With Their Time" file, Conservatives say Astro Boy has a leftist communist agenda http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-12-05/hollywood-reporter/conservatives-say-cg-astro-boy-has-agenda Looking for subversive messages in a mediocre th...

That bit of convolution you posted leads absolutely nowhere Columbia Pictures and Sunrise are still run as separate entities and rights would to be negotiated between those companies if such a project were to even to be considered. The likely cost involved in securing the rights to a property that w...

I'm currently reading Neon Exodus Evangelion a more optimistic take on the series. Your mileage may very on this one admittedly the main character is a Marty Stu, unlike others of his ilk though, he has a likable personality and doesn't overshadow their of cast or the plot with his presence. He does...

A computer workstation that resembles a Mobile Suit cockpit.

http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2011/11/c ... -like.html

I have to disagree on Initial D not working well in manga form. Coming into the series from reading the manga first, the art captures the drama and tension in the moment of a race very well in some ways better than the anime version did though I blame that on the poor CGI used to animate the races b...