As for Robotech and Power Rangers, those worked precisely because they were the trailblazers. Don't stop there, Arbiter: Why were they trailblazers? You can't just dump something new out there and automatically cause a sensation. However they did it, Robotech and Power Rangers were trailblazers bec...

I'm sorry but a thousand times no. None of Gundam series deserves the Robotech treatment, least of all poor X. Considering how well received it is by the western fans who've actually seen it, it could have done very well on Toonami back in the day with faithful adaption if only it had been giving t...

It's not a particularly happy topic. I remember when that Zeta boxset was announced, back from before I preordered anything or had the Internet at my disposal. I managed to snag my own box from Best Buy, paid full price (which I probably shouldn't have, considering how I had virtually no income). It...

Oh, man, a Japanese-style release of Turn-A Gundam? I'm not sure my newfound sense of tightwadicity can handle ten or twelve $60+ DVDs...

It's probably also worth noting that Sid Vicious palled around with a swastika on his shirt.

Does it mean anything? Who knows? Even if John Simon Ritchie wasn't dead, he probably couldn't tell you.

Y'know, if I wanted to keep my balls, I wouldn't call a Tuareg "cowardly" to his face. Or a Georgian. Or a Kosovar. Or an Afghan, for that matter...

Generally speaking, sure, short wars and guerrilla wars aren't the pictures of glory, I suppose.

Think of it in terms of the intended audience: Older children and younger teenagers. Angsty people, by nature. These characters were designed to be identified with and related to, and so they're designed thus. Besides, while Japanese society is more structured than we Westerners (especially American...

Could be Reccoa is a big stand out in the series, but you also have Fa justifying her loony selfish actions to other crew members throughout the series. Well, yeah, that'd be Fa's approach from her perspective. I don't think anyone in Zeta qualifies as "Tomino's Standard Bearer," who serv...

In fairness to Mr. Tomino, does anyone really "resolve" their issues with the opposite sex? Sure, time and experience has given me more insight into "how" or "what" women do, but when it comes to "why," there are some things I'm just as clueless about now as w...

It would be interesting to, one day, compare and contrast Char vs. Full Frontal. I can't shake this feeling that Full Frontal (besides being fanwank) was an attempt to see what Char would be like without all of that obsessive baggage ... It's really been this way, ever since he first embarked on his...

Calling it now, 'cuz you guys just know it'll be officially romanized as "Banshee NOLLN."

If you're hoping that Tomino's novels continue the path that his MSG trilogy started, then you're about to be disappointed. From what I understand, each of these novel sets are basically standalone, deviating from the TV show in whatever way seemed fitting at the time, from the substitution of the H...

Man, that's two seasons with nothing that particularly interests me. That is to say, nothing I'd spend actual money on...

That kinda sucks.

Nintendo's been thrown around a lot, and I definitely agree that Disney (or anyone) would prefer to buy a company with such talent under the hood. However, Nintendo's only been in the red for one year, so far. Its state would have to deteriorate much more before it'd be willing to give such huge chu...

There's definitely a "doujin-ish" element to the new Eva movies, from the simplification of Asuka (to a mere tsundere, which I always considered her somewhat above) to catears suddenly being front-and-center, to Shinji x Rei, a grossly expanded Kaworu x Shinji subplot, less subtlety in gen...

LoGH is definitely one of my favorite anime and favorite space operas. It's got its rough spots and its conceits, and the Gaiden series really aren't all that hot (compared to the main series), but it's one of the best shows in Japan. At some point, once a week, I'll pick a season and just turn it o...

Oh, boy, here we go again!

Spoiler

"Gee, Kaworu, you're such a nice guy! I really like you a lot! I think this is the beginning of a bee-yoo-tiful friendship!"

Well sometimes you just naturally fall out of things. In your case it seems pretty organic so you might want to just let it happen. There's plenty of great forms of entertainment out there that isn't anime. Oh, it's not as though I'm unwilling to accept this. I'd just rather it not happen. I'm sure...

so the "little girls and military hardware" thing continues, i see looking forward to winter's resident moeblob military hardware girl series to be about anthropomorphized MREs Hey, don't joke about that. I can totally imagine My Lieutenant-nii-chan Will Mistake Me For C-Rats and Eat Me b...

I'll admit, I wasn't expecting much, but it's rather disappointing to go through a list and come out finding nothing interesting.

Okay, except You Can (Not) Redo, but I knew that was coming for awhile...