Live (taped) from a secluded Antarctic base’s officer’s club, it’s my review of the final movie in the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy! Featuring state-of-the-art animation techniques (lol) and all-star cast of nobodies! I talk a bit about Newtypes, call out Sayla Mass for her lack of awareness, show a mess of clips from the Gundam franchise, all of which I had to shorten frustratingly, and actually utilize more than two sound effects! So strap into your mobile suits and step onto the launch platform, it’s time to finish off the One Year War!
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Otaku Evolution Episode 90 – Tenchi Muyo! OVA 2
Anime’s favorite harem returns in six more episodes of Tenchi Muyo!, an OVA increasingly about one character (Washu), and also increasingly not about Tenchi whatsoever. There truly is no need for Tenchi when you’ve got the Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe, a cute little bundle of trouble house guest, a hive mind creature, a robot clone, a octopus-bearded jerk, and a whole lot of inbred royalty! Oh, and I guess the boy in question occasionally does something.
Otaku Evolution Episode 89 – Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey
What do you get when you take the writer of Kino’s Journey, the director of Metropolis, and the characters of Leiji Matsumoto? You get an honestly good Captain Herlock… er, Harlock series with only a few annoying eccentricities. Sounds like a low bar? Well, yeah, I guess if you judge it compared to Harlock Saga, it is, but it’s actually just good on its own. Though I guess with it not being available, you may have to… pirate it.
Otaku Evolution Episode 88 – Babel II (OVA)
Based on a Mitsuteru Yokoyama manga, but not lucky enough to get adapted by Yasuhiro Imagawa, the four-part Babel II (that’s Babel The Second) OVA has all the ass-pulling superpowers and sudden giant robot appearances you get from Giant Robo, but without the thematic or character-driven gravitas. Which means that while it is compellingly weird, it’s a bit of a trifle. It was still fun to review, though!
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Otaku Evolution Episode 87 – Gungrave
A tale of mob crime, torn loyalties, bitter betrayals, and giant zombie monsters and the bullets that vanquish them, Gungrave is actually a video-game based anime and a work of Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow. After Trigun but before Blood Battle… Blockade Battlefront… you know, that show with the awesome premise that is hugely disappointing. I hope you enjoy my first 26 episode anime review in a while!
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Otaku Evolution Episode 86 – The Tokyo Project
The Tokyo Project is, well, mostly just like dozens of other 80s and early 90s anime OVAs with more action than personality, kind of just going through the motions for most of its hour run. At least, it is until that bizarrely scifi final act where the characters take on a walking tank! It’ll have you screaming, “Snake? SNNNAAAAAAAAKE!”
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Otaku Evolution Episode 85 – The Gokusen
The Gokusen is about Kumiko Yamaguchi, a new teacher at Shiroken Academy, a high school for troubled boys. Her class is full of delinquents and ne’er do wells, underachievers that can be violent, even bordering on psychotic. Boy are they in for a lesson, though, because teacher isn’t some wilting flower, she’s the ojou of a yakuza family, and she takes her job seriously, even if she isn’t always! The question is, can she keep her students and the school staff from discovering her criminal background? Why does a yakuza princess even WANT to teach?
Otaku Evolution Episode 84 – Dominion Tank Police
In this episode, I take a look at the four part OVA, Dominion Tank Police, that features what seems like the inevitable future of American police militaritization (Japan will just go the Patlabor route)! But is this send up of 80s hyperviolence a social satire or just a parody that identifies with its captors? I hope to sparse the mixed messages from this old “classic” I first saw on Sci-Fi Channel’s Saturday Anime block.
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Otaku Evolution Episode 83 – Birth
It’s another year, and it’s time for the first brand new episode of Otaku Evolution of 2017! In this video, I look at the 1984 sci-fi-action-comedy-curiosity, Birth! It was once released by Streamline Pictures as Planet Busters, but the version I’m reviewing is from the more accurate ADV release from the early aughts. It’s a really strange feature that boasts of talents like Hideaki Anno and Joe Hisaishi, but besides some interesting visuals, it’s a whole lot of nothing!
Otaku Evolution Episode 82 – Year End English Dub Review III
It’s the last episode of the year as I look at the English dubs of the anime I’ve covered since the mid season episode. I examine dubs by Funimation, Manga Entertainment, Animaze, Central Park Media, ADV, and others! Which will I praise? Which will I burn? And what’s the deal with that refrigerator, how did that close seemingly on its own (shut up is how)? It’s time to wrap things up for a while, and stay tuned for more in the new year.
Oh, also, there’s a bit at the end.
English dubs covered in this episode: