Everyone should watch Episode 00. It's self-contained, no reason not to. It's a right and proper send-off for a seiyuu legend.

Blockio: I did enjoy the 0079 movies more, so it's entirely possible IBO isn't my thing, but other Gundam works might be. Besides, if anything, my central complaint with IBO's darkness would be that it's not taken all that seriously for my liking, not that it's there. (Unless you meant that it's on...

Watched the first four and a half? five? episodes of IBO. You have to watch a little further to realize this show is about following The villains. Or at best, not the ones who are the least wrong, and thus are destined to lose. It's kind of like if we were following Jerid Messa in Zeta Gundam; maki...

Digimon Ghost Game which is at least so far not a another retread of Adventure . And it has some teeth to its narrative, unlike Xros Wars . The entire Mummymon affair gave me deja vu for Dynazenon and 02 simultaneously. On a different note, Digimon as a premise has kind of struggled with " Ok ...

Lupin III part VI There's an episode 00 to this entry, didn't know why until I watched it. This is Kiyoshi Kobayashi 's send off, his final entry as Jigen. The last of the original 1971 cast -- 50 years he's voiced this character, hot damn. Nothing extravagant, just an episode of Jigen toying with ...

#4 includes some of the most cynical, soulless shit ever in the series, particularly the CG fight scenes and fanservice (of both the sexual and narrative variety) but also has some of the most striking bits of raw expression since EoE , and the last 20-25 minutes are basically golden even if almost...

3.0+1.0: " Five minutes until phase 2 of N1 rocket attachment resumes ." Me: Well that's an on-the-nose-name for a rocket booster, but ok-- Little later... https://i.ibb.co/QKygChs/image.png Me: Oh, you literally meant N1s. Fly me to the Moon indeed. -o-; FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan



In the grim darkness of 21st century children's educational programming, there is only cringe.

No accounting for taste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kE9bSjpRAw&ab_channel=Craftsdwarf But then again, most of the shows I was watching when I was 12, and remember fondly, aren't great either. Or at least, not as great as those memories would have me believe. On the Transformer references, ...

Oh, is there a new Godzilla anime? The irony being, this is the first TV anime in the franchise's history to give Godzilla center-billing, and yet he's not the focus. He's really a side character here to attract attention for a high concept premise the writer wants to explore. For anyone interested...

Watch out, the techno-babble goes to warp speed about halfway through, and it's nigh impossible to keep up with. Unlike the usual Star Trek technobabble, the talk here was written by someone who has a grasp of real science and it shows. Oh I fully agree, the solution to the crisis was never just &q...

I recently watched Godzilla Singular Point on Netflix. I’m just a few episodes in, so I haven’t covered the whole thing yet. Watch out, the techno-babble goes to warp speed about halfway through, and it's nigh impossible to keep up with. Godzilla also becomes a side character throughout the whole t...

Some days ago, I caught the ninth episode of Zeta Gundam and I will just say the obvious about the intro to Wong Lee: He's such a bitch! :irked: Meh, he's 25. A lot still are at that age. And Kamille did need the **** kicked out of him, levelled him out. Kind of what you want with someone levelling...

I generally like Mondays, but now I have new episodes of Higehiro Not going to lie, that show's premise seems trashy as heck to me. Readying a synopsis didn't really change that impression; sounded like someone trying to justify said trashiness. "No no no, but wait, he's just a Father figure t...

I enjoyed the series, but I wouldn't say it's perfect; well worth watching, though. I took a couple of episodes to get really comfortable with the visual style, but then the animation really is something. The film I found a disappointment in comparison - still good, but things to criticise in the p...

I heard a lot of this was straightened out in the TV series adaptation, but I haven't gone back to check. I'll also offer that even with the CGI funniness I still liked Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO , particularly that pattern of getting a grueling assignment, pulling a victory seemly against all odds...

I mean, the fights in Unicorn are gorgeous on a technical level, peak Gundam really, even if the stakes aren't always clear.

Apparently it isn’t good enough to just focus on the trials and tribulations of the athletes and their rivals to carry the show like the 90s instalments did; now there’s depressing things like war and poverty thrown in, and conspiracies involving terrorist bombings with underworld bosses (working a...

Log Horizon S3 Eh, I think this season is a casualty to COVID-chan. Animation was never a strong suit of this series, but now it's really just a constant slow-pan across a series of still images, like Shougeki No Soma in its later seasons. It also feels like it takes longer for anything of substanc...

Re:ZERO, season 2 - So Garfiel was placated because Subaru mentioned his mommy; turns out he hates mother trauma as much as he hates Mondays. This took me completely by surprise. Was this fact ever alluded to in any of the last 15 episodes? I don't think they hint at this directly, so much as hint ...