Have no familiarity with original Gridman, but have found this show to be a lot of fun. 9 episodes in, kinda sad that its almost over!

I'd argue the Beck the Great RX3 from The Big O straddles the line between real and super robot... and was basically a joke in-series that got one-shotted because it tried a super robot combiner sequence against a combat pragmatist who was having NONE of that sh*t (and spent their lengthy combinati...

On the negative side, there were WAY too many generals on the Buff Clan side. All of them are overconfident, all of them under estimate the Solo ship, and most of them die within the episode they were introduced in. I swear one of them looked like a hippie, but I can barely remember anyone else. Wh...

I'm a big Ideon fan, going back 15+ years at this point, but won't deny that the show has its flaws. I'm a bit softer on it than Chris is, I think the first 10 or episodes are a real slog, but things pick up quite a bit after that with the occasional down note. No questions asked, Mobile Suit Gundam...

The first half was intriguing but the show started to lose me with the revelations about Hiro's and Zero Two's past. For me that was one of the best parts of the show. I really liked their backstory and where they ended up going with it, if anything it helped cover up some of their more notable fla...

^ Actually I get more of a Gurren Lagann vibe from it, although since Trigger was involved in the show it isn't all that surprising as they had a hand on all three shows. If anything some of the criticism I've seen online is that too many similar themes or plot points or showing up in their works. A...

9 episodes in. I'm torn. Design-wise, the series is amazing. Things look gorgeous throughout. The mecha design reminds me a lot of Star Driver, whose mecha design was really strong, probably not much of a surprise since I hear they have the same designer. The Klaxosaurs are interesting as well. Love...

Congrats and good luck with the retirement! Being in a position where I do an absurdly large amount of travel for work, listening to podcasts is one of the ways I help keep myself sane during all the long drives and plane rides I'm on. While I admittingly listen a lot more to other podcasts on subje...

will we get more mobile suit toilets??? I hope so also I noticed Tomino likes redheads and this probably came up in the 90s with characters like Cecily(f91), Hime(Brain Powered) and Aids (Reconguista). Oh, it was certainly well before that; Sheryl Formosa (Ideon), Marvel Frozen (Dunbine), Gaw Ha Le...

I'm torn, I enjoyed both seasons quite a lot and especially liked the ending with Lelouch dying. Seeing that retconned wouldn't make me happy. Still, they wouldn't do it without him. I'm not completely opposed to sequels several years after the fact (Eureka Seven AO for example I didn't find anywher...

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I can't remember where I heard it, but I thought that the third movie was something like 2/3 to 3/4 reanimated footage? Just off the top of my head, many of the key scenes including Dren's death, Amuro's meeting with Lalah, Amuro's dad falling down the stairs, Char and Sayla's reunion in Texas colon...

one last thing: King Gainer is the only one in my Tomino watch list that has a dub. is it good or should i just stick to the original Japanese? King Gainer's dub is decent. Not amazing, but I can't really think of any major complaints. Certainly better than Brain Powered. Also, although its not rea...

he holds Kubrick as his primary influence Interesting to know, and probably not much of a surprise given that he has 2 pretty blatant references to this shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey - https://rambambashi.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/planets.jpg ; from near the end of The Ideon: Be Invoked and at th...

I rewatched the show within the last year or so (yet forgot to list it in my prior post, goes to show how forgettable it is); I view it as quite the mess; its not that the overall concept is bad, but like much of Tomino's later works he's trying to put way too many things in the show and doesn't rea...

I think the order I saw his non-Gundam stuff was Dunbine, Ideon, L-Gaim, King Gainer, Xabungle, Dunbine OVAs, Zambot. Of those you have left, Turn A is the best, one of his best overall works. Victory is a trainwreck (but in a good way IMHO). ZZ is one of the weaker Gundam works, especially in the f...

I've always wanted to get into it because I was a big fan of L-Gaim and find Nagano's design work and world building really unique and interesting. I saw the movie many years ago, and have read a few chapters of the manga but its been quite a long time. Hopefully at some point I'll be able to get in...

At least on the episode titles, they have often made some notable changes on those rather than using the most accurate translation. In Zeta I recall "To the Earth Sphere" becoming simply "To Earth", "Day of the Colony Drop" becoming "Colony Drop". MS Gundam ha...

In case people want a sneak peak at what the ZZ Blu Ray volume 1 packaging looks like, including a few sample photos of the video quality.

http://imgur.com/a/MdJJR

Gundam X volume 1 has also arrived but haven't gotten a chance to look through that much yet.

Part of me is excited for it if only because it is a chance to do G-Reco in better fashion and make some improvements upon a show that was beautiful to look at but had major flaws with pacing, characters and exposition. Yet part of me thinks the compressed nature of it will make it all the more conf...