I actually think the Teiwaz episodes are mostly fine. Some of the thematic sentimentality feels a bit artificial but the character interactions and setting establishment are fairly grounded. The real problem is that it culminates in the drama with Akihiro's brother, which is arbitrary and demands un...

Yeah, I actually don't think Crossbone's ever going to have an anime (or at least not until Dust is over?) due to how much exposure the kits have already had. Was just throwing an agreeable alternative out there. Perhaps Gundam Sentinel has a better chance? It's honestly so light on characterization...

I've watched December Sky recently and I think I genuinely hate this adaptation. While it did lead me to reading the manga, which I actually do quite enjoy on its own terms (i.e. not as part of Sunrise continuity), I think that the anime is an atonal mess that can only claim effectiveness based on s...

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to shame anybody into pretending that they liked her all along. But as a bleeding heart, I suppose that I'd feel better if people at least knew what happened so that they can decide whether a joke at her expense would be appropriate to their sensibilities. I can't stop that...

Maybe they'll pull an Ozma on us. THAT was a troll. The odds of survival are closer to Michel's than Ozma's. Unless Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa hijack the studio, he's dead . *enters thread tepidly* Um... Chiaki Morosawa died only three months ago from heart disease. I know that this knowledg...

(I assume your Dustman name is a reference to the Dr. Cossack Robot Master; and if so, as a fellow Mega Man fan, I wonder if this advertising technique would be like, for better or for worse, advertising Mighty No.9 with the Dr. Wily Stage 1 music from Mega Man 2.) Yes! Mega Man 4 is my favorite ga...

No, it's a pretty deliberate homage. Irrefutably. All you need is to watch the two back to back to see the callbacks. It was done this way because Williams Street knows that part of Wing's success and the acquisition of further programming is tied to the initial advertising. While there aren't likel...

Uhhhh... I think you're really getting bogged down in minutiae and this isn't the direction I was interested in taking. I'm going to bring this discussion back into proportion by clarifying that I am not arguing about the accuracy of narration but instead my perception of a dichotomy between expecta...

Despite the too-broad line about "the galaxy is troubled," I thought the Toonami promo for Wing was fairly accurate in terms of the pacing of the actual show. I'm sorry, I don't think I'm wrong about this. While I do think that the promo captures the bombast of the Ikeda-directed first ha...

It's strange. I somewhat have an opposite feeling about IBO. I've been rewatching it myself to get worked up for the second season and I feel a bit better about it. I don't have different opinions about the series on an intellectual level but I am at least warming to it emotionally. It's been awfull...

There are some things I'd like to add while they're on my mind. To start with, none of this means that I'm calling G-Reco inherently superior or equivalent to Turn A Gundam. It is my opinion that Turn A is Tomino's greatest and final masterpiece. That show had so many incredible contributors and its...

Last month was kind of horrible. No more screwing around, I guess. I'll just spit out the ever so elusive subtext to this show that I keep hinting at. Not gonna be thorough. First of all, it's not fair to compare G-Reco to Turn A Gundam because most of Tomino's recent work has been an expansion on t...

Ehhh... I wanted some time before wording out an argument because I've been kind of depressed and unmotivated but whatever, I'll try my hand at an immediate statement. The length of the series appears to be the main issue being raised so I'll quickly get down some thoughts about that. I also don't t...

If you could give me perhaps till the end of the week, I'll try and craft out my rebuttal. There's much about Tomino's post-Victory and 21st century storytelling that is overlooked or dismissed and I'd like to address them in roper detail. There's a lot of ground to cover so I'll need to make time f...

Man, the new material with Lino was amazing. I love how much the division between Char's identities has continued to blur with this development. The initial origin for the mask was disappointingly low key so this has been the best surprise to come out of the adaptation thus far. The way the subplot ...

Well I don't know. A New Translation is more than that because despite being an alternate conclusion the Gryps/Axis conflict, it still ended in a way that foreshadows CCA and has since been absorbed into mainline continuity - in the same "all of the above" way that applies to the TV and mo...

Y'know, after catching up on the manga... is it alright for me to say that this jumped the shark? I assumed that the South Seas Alliance arc was going to be a small scale separatist movement and that the whole thing would be guerrilla skirmishes but this is a whole new major war set before 0083! I m...

To the first point, I'm sorry to say that I'm not following the course that this branch of the discussion has taken. Our perspectives on children are evidently based on our levels of personal involvement. I initially did not want to divulge this publicly as I didn't want to feel like I was weaponizi...

Children are, sadly, often times stupid. Some are and some aren't. For me, this discussion isn't actually about Unicorn. Accordingly, I'll disregard the other half of this statement. As for this part about children, I don't believe what you're saying to be entirely accurate. We should never mistake...

Have I struck a nerve? I'm not going to continue this in public. What we have is a collision of subjective thought and I fear that further provocation runs the risk of competitive posturing. What you've said has indeed struck a nerve and I wish to resolve this amicably but I can't do so without mak...