I first watched Mobile Suit Gundam: Stardust Memory when I was in High School, a little after 9/11. The story worked for me at that time, when all the Gundam I’d seen had been the Gundam compilation films and Char’s Counterattack. Since then I’ve seen considerably more Gundam (including Zeta Gundam) since then.
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A lot of fanservice anime tends to be gross. Maybe it’s because the fanservice comes through sexual slapstick of the “Whoops I fell and groped you or looked up your skirt” variety. Or it comes through battle damage of the “Female character gets their top shredded in combat and now their boobs are hanging out” variety. Or it’s of the “Male lead openly sexually harasses female characters variety.” Perhaps that’s why the fanservice that comes up in We Never Learn feels like a breath of fresh air.
Read moreWell, you’ve just finished watching Evangelion on Netflix, and you’re wondering what to watch after this. I have a few recommendations here for you. The video is fairly spoiler-light so if you’re making your way through the show now, you should be fine.
Lists of all the works I recommend below the cut/further down, with affiliate links for Amazon and the Crunchyroll Store, and streaming links, where available. Buying anything through affiliate links helps to support the show.
There are works of anime and manga which view feudal Japan with a less than critical eye. Dororo is not one of those works. The original manga by Osamu Tezuka was a work that, while more than a little cartoonish (as this was ’60s Tezuka), looked on the realities of Japan leading into the Warring States period with a critical eye. The 2019 anime adaptation of the work keeps a similar appraisal of the period.
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We see how the various members of Earth Fleet Tenku have fared after their world are restored.
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We finally bring down Nevanlinna.
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Just put Huey Lewis on repeat for this episode.
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Nevanlinna presses her attack.
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System Nevanlinna prepares to remake the three Earths, and we only have 5 turns to stop it!
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Dessler finally goes down, leaving only the Gardim.
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We continue our attack against Dessler directly.
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Earth Fleet Tenku presses the attack against the Gamillans.
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We begin our battle with Dessler, before being interrupted.
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This week I’m taking a look at a cooking anime series from last year – Today’s Menu for Emiya Family.
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Good news! Lieutenant Yuki Mori is alive! Bad news, Dessler is back!
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Only Black Noir remains.
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The Emperor of Darkness goes down.
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We focus our attention on the Emperor of Darkness.
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We meet our true enemies – Black Noir and the Emperor of Darkness
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We have our final battle with the Great General of Darkness
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Leonard and Embryo get their just desserts.
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At last, we take the fight directly to Embryo and Leonard Testarossa.
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Another of Embryo’s Generals goes down this episode.
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The first of the two Amalgam sub-bosses go down.
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