When Anime Past Meets Present

I was chatting with somebody on ANN about the sales of Gundam 00 falling short of those of Code Geass and Gundam Seed, and it got me thinking again about the nature of Japan’s anime fans.  I came up with a formula to try to explain how Otaku view themselves and how different series sit with them in terms of whether they are desirable purchases or not.  I call it the Otaku Scoring Card Ratio and in this instance I use it with Code Geass and Gundam 00. Continue reading ‘Why Gundam 00 Doesn’t Sell As Well As Code Geass’

So I’m doing my usually browsing of some of the really bad blogs to see if they’ve come up with any new material or anything worth mentioning really, when I came across THIS post on THAT anime blog. Continue reading ‘Guess What? It’s Still Not Funny’

Okay, apparently some people who have only seen Gundam Seed and Gundam 00 have taken it upon themselves to suggest that characters never die in ANY Gundam series in relation to the events of Gundam 00 Episode 17.  Now, this is just pure and utter bull and I can’t even begin to comprehend why people open their mouths sometimes and continue to generalize single ill-conceived character events across the enter spectrum of the Gundam universe.  This is just incredibly easy to debunk.  So all I’ll do is post a  few videos inside of some character deaths in Victory Gundam, Zeta and the Original, quite possible the bloodiest series in the franchises history. Continue reading ‘Debunking Yet Another Gundam Myth’

People who aren’t up to the often hard-boiled dead serious approach of Gundam 00 may want to try this more light hearted Manga.  Basically it’s about a military school in Canada (Hooray!) where the Earth Federation is preparing new recruits… Continue reading ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole Du Ciel’