Gundam Unicorn Long PV Released (I’ve Got You Covered)

It turns out the rumours were true and that there was indeed a new PV for Gundam Unicorn released on the Japanese PSN today.  Somebody was kind enough to upload it to youtube in HD and so here it is:

I wonder if when the time comes I’m going to be the only one following this

Cast In The Name of God, Gundam F91 Ye Guilty (Now Apologize To John Williams Already)

Normally I have nothing but good things to say about the Gundam franchise, be it about it’s music, it’s mecha, it’s animation or it’s vision of the future, but today I’m going to hit it up a bit about something I’ve always found extremely irksome about one of it’s entries…namely Gundam F91.  This might actually be something that most people aren’t aware of or perhaps not, but the nerve it has in labelling it’s music as an Original Soundtrack when it’s clearly not visited me again last night while I was playing a G Generation game with my friend.  

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait (March Mecha Madness For 2010?)

All good things come to an end

The latter half of 2009 has left me mecha starved with only a couple of titles (Basquash which was a huge disappointment and the awesome but alone Shin Mazinger), but 2010 is already looking up with the announcement of a new Votoms OVA (that makes 2 very recently with Pailsen Files in 2007) to finish off the story once and for all right around the same time as Gundam Unicorn is set to debut.  The way things are going it’s looking like 2010 is already going to be more active than 2009 as far as my blogging is concerned.  

The 08th MS Team Should Not Hold Gundam Back (A Few Reason Why People Need To Stop Asking For More Of It)

It’s Time To Let It Go People

After reading the latest demand for more 08th MS Team on Animesuki today, I figured I might as well just finally say it.  The answer to the question why they don’t make more 08th MS Team, and a further look at how their have in fact been tons of real robot grunt warfare type stories since 08th MS Team with of course some opinion added into the mix.  And yes this well feature some of my particular brand of angry and I’ll mention why a little in the actual text.

Gundam Antagonists And Sexual Deviancy (Do They Go Hand In Hand?)

The top right corner features the image in question that has sparked some pretty interesting discussion

A lot of people have expressed surprise and even shock at this picture of Alejandro and Ribbons hugging that has been inserted into the special edition volumes of Gundam 00 and with it a new layer on top of an implied gay relationship between the two main series villains.  It sort of doesn’t come as a surprise given how they talked to each other, but then while discussing this idea with a friend I started to think more about it and realized that maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise in general.  As I looked back on the history of Gundam Villains I’ve started to notice in them what appeared to be at least one or more tendency’s towards a sexually deviant fetish or impulse, along with a tendency towards the sociopathy that most Gundam villains have been known to suffer from to a degree.  Consider the following that I came up with and maybe have a thought about it yourself and whether it is just sheer coincidence, me thinking to hard about it, or a clear and consistant pattern in building the personality of a Gundam Villains:

Note that this article will be posted on both Animehistory and We Remember Love

I Think I’ve Finally Found My Dream Wedding Scenario

I’ve punted around a lot of crazy ideas for what kind of wedding I would like to have in my time, but I think this lucky bride and groom have already had the best wedding that could ever be possible:

Not exactly a traditional Japanese wedding is it?

The couple naming their daughter Sayla kind of reminds me of all of those old school Star Wars fans naming their kids Luke, Leia and Obi-Wan around the time The Phantom Menace came out.  Holy cultural icon Gundam!

More Big News Everyone (The Horn Blowing Continues)

And we get a trailer

Wow the show is brand new and yet is already making me feel nostalgic.  I’m really liking how the character designs look when animated too.  Simply amazing so far.

Big News Everyone! (Gundam Unicorn Finally Blows It’s Horn And We Get A Cast Listing)

Who is Full Frontal?  Find Out By Watching Gundam Unicorn (Hint: His voice may sound familiar)

Obviously people know that Gundam Unicorn is my most anticipated upcoming series this year, so the moment some real news broke about it I just had to be there to get the scoopu.  Here’s our cast for Gundam Unicorn:

Kaioshin’s Greed (899 More Turns To Victory And An Ode To The Greatest Gundam Strategy Game Of Them All)

Uncle Gihren Wants Me

It’s definitely been a while since I’ve written anything and the reason is actually two-fold.  One is that I feel I’ve recently accomplished my primary goal for going into blogging in the first place and have been looking for a new course to pursue in what I am going to be talking about in the future or rather how I’m going to be doing it.  It’s probably going to be a LOT more light hearted, that’s all I can say for now.  Two, and also the reason for why I haven’t actually done something so simple yet,  is that I’ve gotten myself hooked on the Gundam strategy game Gihren’s Greed: Axis No Kyoui V for the PS2.  For a leadership scale strategy game fan like me (as well as a devoted fan of Gundam) it was pretty much a given that I was going to get addicted only to end up spending all of my time on it instead of writing something here.  So powerful is the addiction that I had actually planned on writing about the game a couple of weeks ago, but haven’t actually been able to pull myself away from it long enough to write even this one simple paragraph.  “Just one more territory to conquer”, “Oh I’ll just finish researching this custom Gouf type MS and then call it an evening”, “Oh I can invade Torrington now?  Might as well go for it!”…..it’s like the game is perfectly paced so that whenever you accomplish one major feat the next one is just starting up.  It really gives the feeling of a never ending war constantly demanding a leaders full attention on literally all fronts. 

Ever wonder what it’s like to feel the strain of limited resources?  Having to make the decision between scrounging out just a little more capital for the war effort, but risk losing popular support and law tilted aces in the process?  Having to choose between using that last 2,000 capital this turn to fund a public speech to increase morale and the chances of victory in the next battle or using it to build a few more high tier mobile suits?  How about sacrificing a valuable ace to keep another enemy ace at bay?  This game will have you considering some of the tough choices of a war time leader before long. 

Requiem For Gundam 0081 The Animation (Consolation Prizes For All)

So according to ANN the disappointment many of us felt upon hearing that Gundam 0081 was “just a PS3 game” may become somewhat alleviated depending on people’s priorities as it’s no longer just anything anymore.  That’s right, like most Gundam media it’s getting it’s own side story tie-in manga series in Gundam Ace.  Pretty good news to wake up too.  There’s also a another sidestory that debuted and this one is to the original series and told from Kai Shiden’s perspective (you can see it on the cover just to the centre left and directly above Kira there) instead of Amuro’s, which could also prove interesting.  This is it I think, the deluge of Gundam products for the 30th anniversary is finally underway this month following the completion of the Gundam statue so if you’re into celebrating I say begin the festivities.  For those that aren’t you might want to get out of the way lol.  This is already starting to make the Big Bang Project look like a small undertaking and

Man I love this picture, it’s just the perfect lead out every time.