Earth Fleet Tenku gets back up to speed, as they prepare for a new daring plan.
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We deal with what we’re doing with our prisoners and reunite with the other half of our forces.
Read moreWe finish off the Invaders and the mission.
Read moreWe continue to press the attack against the Jupiter Empire.
Read moreYoshiyuki Tomino has something of a reputation as an anime director, for multiple reasons. Tomino has a reputation for being full of himself. His interviews about Brainpowerd in Animerica magazine demonstrate this. Anyone who has gone to an anime con and asked a Japanese guest who worked with him for a “Tomino story” can attest to this. Tomino also has a reputation for his absolute ruthlessness for killing off characters in his work. The normal examples of this are Zeta Gundam, the last half of ZZ Gundam, and Char’s Counterattack. However, the work that started Tomino down this road was Space Runaway Ideon. (Pronounced E-day-on).
Read moreThe Invaders make their presence known, and the Gamillans react in a manner that I didn’t quite anticipate.
Read moreWe continue our push to finish off the Jupiter Empire forces before moving on to the Gamillans.
Read moreWe run into the Gamillan, Neo Zeon, Jupiter Empire alliance.
Read moreThe Yamato’s lance has downtime between sorties – and scheming is afoot among the Gamillan forces (again).
Read moreOne of my guilty pleasures is the Dynasty Warriors games. They’re fun, engaging, somewhat mindless hack-and-slash games. However, they are not without their faults. There comes a point where you’ve put the Yellow Turban Rebellion down enough times that you just can’t play through it anymore. Thus the appeal of the other takes on the concept from within Koei and without. Such is the case with Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star.
Read moreThis past year, as part of my weekend anime viewings with my parents, we watched all of My Hero Academia over the course of a few months. As I watched the show, something struck me. Deku and his struggles with mastering One For All are a really good metaphor for my experiences with Autism.
Read moreWe finish off the remnants of the three fleets before moving on.
Read moreThings escalate with the involvement of the Gardim.
Read moreThe battle continues to get a little more complicated.
Read moreThe Yamato fleet finds themselves in between a rock and a hard place.
Read moreIf you’d read my review of Area 88, you may recall that I gushed over the gorgeously depicted dogfights in that show. Since then I’ve been looking for something that scratched that itch. Not necessarily with the amount of grit that Area 88 did – but still, something that had exciting, tense fighter dogfights. The Winter 2018 anime season brought me the thing that I’d been waiting for. Specifically, it brought me The Magnificent Kotobuki, from the writer and director of Shirobako and Girls Und Panzer. Now, the series had some difficulty taking off for some fans because of the stylistic choices the director made. However, once it got airborne, in my view The Magnificent Kotobuki became a fantastic action anime.
Read moreIn my review last week of the first Boogiepop Omnibus, I talked about this year’s Boogiepop anime series. Since I recorded that episode, I’ve finished watching the series, and have some thoughts of the show.
Read moreIn the wake of sudden transhumanism, the Yamato fleet puts together its plan of attack.
Read moreWe finish off this second group of enemies, and one of the characters tries something really stupid.
Read moreAnother group of enemies shows up, unlike any we’ve seen thus far.
Read moreWe take down the Carrier group in what is clearly a very short mission and totally won’t dump another group of enemies on us.
Read moreThe Yamato runs into a Gamillan Carrier group.
Read moreEarth Fleet Tenku is running into more resistance, so they need to draw off some heat, so the fleet splits up, with the protagonist sticking with the Yamato.
Read moreWe wrap up the special mission and get ready for another split.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
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