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Manga Review: Men Who Created Gundam

I’d heard about the manga The Men Who Created Gundam a while ago from an article on TVTropes – and later had heard that the manga had been licensed by Denpa, though I found it was only available in a physical release, so that ended up serving as something of a hold-up on my picking up the series. However, at long last I’ve picked up up the omnibus release of the series.

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Anime Review: Freedom

By all rights, an anime OVA series made for the anniversary of Cup Noodle feels like it should be bad. However, while Katsuhiro Otomo didn’t write Freedom, the fact that he got involved enough to get into character and mechanical designs should be a sign that this show could actually be pretty good. It turns out that not only is it good, but it’s good enough that I’d consider this something of a hidden gem.

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Anime Explorations Episode 26: Garden of Sinners (Pt. 1-3)

This time we discuss the first 3 films in the Garden of Sinners series of movies, which are available for streaming on Crunchyroll.

Anime Explorations Episode 26: Garden of Sinners (Pt. 1-3)

This time we discuss the first 3 films in the Garden of Sinners series of movies, which are available for streaming on Crunchyroll. Next time we’re watching Animal Treasure Island, which is available for streaming on the Internet Archive, and which also received a physical release from Discotek Media.

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My Quick Thoughts on Watching Motorsport

For the longest time, my appreciation for motorsport was through the perspective of video games – I’ve played plenty of racing games, from Gran Turismo and Rad Racer, and enjoyed them immensely. However, when it came to watching motorsport on TV – I never got into it. This past year, out of a desire to get caught up with some former Giant Bomb people (like Drew Scanlon), I started watching the Shift+F1 Podcast and watching more car races as they’ve been available, and want to give my thoughts on some of what I’ve watched.

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So far, for the Fall 2024 season, I’ve only dropped one show so far – and that was How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer. The short version for that is this – I was interested in the show as a sort of gender-fluid BL-lite series. Not quite full on BL, but a series that could play with the tropes in interesting ways. However, the second episode felt a lot like it was relying a lot on “No Homo” jokes – to enough of a point that I basically went “Nah” – and I decided to drop it and pick up a proper BL anime later. So, How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer does not get a recommend from me.

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Anime Review: Betterman

Betterman was an anime series I watched a fair amount of on TechTV back when TechTV was a thing and it showed anime, before it became the G4 network. At the time I hadn’t heard about GaoGaiGar, and I didn’t have any form of DVR (and never got around to programming the VCR to tape it when it was on), so I never caught the whole show. However, at long last, in 2024, I have finally watched the show in its entirety and can give my thoughts – finishing it not long after Halloween.

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