The Funnels of Love: The Fascination with Gundam’s Newtype Remote Beam...
I like funnels. I always have. To me they represent a great leap in technology to take advantage to the Newtype conceit in the Gundam Franchise. However, I am aware that some people simply do not...
View ArticleThe Third Impact, The Innovator/Newtype Future, and Grace O’Connor’s...
This post also serves as part of WRL’s episodic series of Macross Frontier; Episode 24 “True Beginnings.” The beginnings of the overarching narrative, at least from the point of view of the villainy...
View ArticleMobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 02 Unmasked
I have a personally important reservation about Mobile Suit Gundam UC 02, and it is important because it may change how I feel about the franchise in general. Without this reservation, I feel free to...
View ArticleThe Colonization of Space That Wasn’t: Gundam’s Universal Century as...
One of the most remarkable moments in the second episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn followed the meaningful conversation at a Sleeves officer’s dinner table. In that dinner conversation, Gundam...
View ArticleMoments of 2010: The Universal Century Joins the 21st Century By Celebrating...
I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ll probably repeat myself over and over: I like updates in anime shows. I like retellings and I like remakes. Why? It’s fundamental to why I like anime in the first...
View ArticleThe Possibility of Being SUPER (Robot) and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 03...
[click image to enlarge] Before anything else, I invite you to join me in offering sympathies to all the families affected by what could be the strongest earthquake that hit Japan. Yesterday an 8.9...
View ArticleMobile Suit Gundam Unicorn as a Eulogy for the Newtype
While the Universal Century continued with its wars and the involvement of Gundam in them via Gundam F91 (film), Crossbone Gundam (manga), and Victory Gundam (TV), for some fans such as myself the...
View ArticleSermon From The (Mobile) Suit: Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 04
In the previous installments of the Gundam Unicorn OVA I’ve lavished praise in its restraint in letting pilots talk in their mobile suits while fighting. The talking is a very Gundam thing to do,...
View ArticleThe Despair of Zeon At The Bottom of The Gravity Well–Mobile Suit Gundam...
Sieg Zeon! The sound of the war cry heard from Loni’s lips elicit a far, far different feeling from that of Gihren Zabi. How different? Gihren was rousing the troops and attempting to fill his enemies...
View ArticleThe Eternal Captain: Bright Noa in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 04
When I was still a Gundam skeptic, I could not get why Bright Noa had such a good reputation among mecha anime fans, if not general anime fans who had the sense to see and enjoy Universal Century...
View Article12 Moments of Anime 2011: Coffee With a Runaway Princess (Mobile Suit Gundam...
[Moment the Eleventh: Rider Crashes a Party (Fate/Zero)] There are two things that Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is very good at: mecha battles, and quiet moments of conversation. I’ve spilled a lot of...
View ArticleThe Greatest Time To Be a Gundam Fan
I am not wrong about this. Sure, I missed the first Newtype flashes of 1979, the Encounters in Space back when the Original Movie Trilogy aired. I even missed the greatest TV anime in the franchise:...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Possibility: What Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Does for the...
[Mobile Suit Unicorn 04: Sermon From The (Mobile) Suit; The Despair of Zeon At The Bottom of The Gravity Well; The Eternal Captain – Bright Noa; Coffee With a Runaway Princess] As a human being I put...
View ArticleWhen Fighting Isn’t Combat: Banagher Links Continues to Evangelize From The...
I’ve covered similar ground before, but I feel this bears renewed discussion. By the second episode, I was thrilled by Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn because I felt it did mobile suit combat as well as it...
View ArticleThe Most Complicated of Set Pieces: The Battle of The Stratosphere (The Third...
This is the framework, the formula – if you will, of the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn set piece battle: An operation is initiated – implying or overtly according to some level of planning. It’s met with...
View ArticleThe Third Impact, The Innovator/Newtype Future, and Grace O’Connor’s...
This post also serves as part of WRL’s episodic series of Macross Frontier; Episode 24 “True Beginnings.” The beginnings of the overarching narrative, at least from the point of view of the villainy...
View ArticleMobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 02 Unmasked
I have a personally important reservation about Mobile Suit Gundam UC 02, and it is important because it may change how I feel about the franchise in general. Without this reservation, I feel free to...
View ArticleThe Colonization of Space That Wasn’t: Gundam’s Universal Century as...
One of the most remarkable moments in the second episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn followed the meaningful conversation at a Sleeves officer’s dinner table. In that dinner conversation, Gundam...
View ArticleMoments of 2010: The Universal Century Joins the 21st Century By Celebrating...
I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ll probably repeat myself over and over: I like updates in anime shows. I like retellings and I like remakes. Why? It’s fundamental to why I like anime in the first...
View ArticleThe Possibility of Being SUPER (Robot) and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 03...
[click image to enlarge] Before anything else, I invite you to join me in offering sympathies to all the families affected by what could be the strongest earthquake that hit Japan. Yesterday an 8.9...
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