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Reconguista in G Episode 01 Review

Episode 01, "The Mysterious Mobile Suit"

*****SPOILERS*****

Synopsis: Long after the Universal Century calendar passed, the Regild Century calendar marked the years. In RC 1014, a group of Capital Guard Academy’s cadets experience space for the first time, training to use large robots called Mobile Suits as they travel the orbital space elevator. There, one of the cadets, Bellri Zenam, takes action against an attacking space pirate in a strange mobile suit a passenger named Raraiya Monday reacts to. Bellri and other cadets, with the help of their instructor Dellensen Samatar, manage to subdue the enemy mobile suit and capture it and its pilot, a beautiful girl named Aida Rayhunton. Aida calls the mobile suit the G-Self, and is shocked when Bellri is capable of accessing its cockpit. read more

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Batman Eternal #25 Review

 

Hush taunts, Harper vaunts, and Bard plays commandant in this twenty-fifth chapter of DC Comics’ weekly Batman affair. With Alfred hospitalized and the city in chaos, our Caped Crusader makes a bold move, but his emotional state causes him to slip up. Meanwhile, Julia discovers how frustrating playing Bruce’s operator is, Tim and Jason come this close to bonding, and Babs is confused as to why her father hasn’t been cleared yet. The Bat-Family is gathering in Gotham, but is Hush too many steps ahead by now? read more

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Batman Eternal #24 Review

 

Spoiler makes jumps, Cluemaster’s a chump, and Batman’s in a slump in this thrilling twenty-fourth installment of DC’s weekly Batman tale. Behind the scenes of Hush’s master plan we see the rest of the C-listers work their magic to escalate the disaster, but one plucky purple pubescent stuns her super bad dad as well as me in her efforts to derail his part in the greater scheme at work. Am I really reading a comic with Stephanie Brown in it and actually enjoying her in it? Wha? How is that a thing? read more

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Batman Eternal #23 Review

What’s new, pussy cat? Woah, woah, wh–oh, you’re dead.

 

Selina’s feeling shitty, failed to save a kitty, born to rule the city, and things aren’t looking pretty, all in this twenty second entry in DC’s weekly Bat-epic, which sees The Architect’s inadvertent (?) victory, Jason Bard making his next move, and Selina crawling through a quarter mile of poo-smelling foulness I can’t even imagine. (Maybe I just don’t want to.) Nguyen is full-on Nguyen with his uniquely stylized art and it’s almost like I’m reading Heart of Hush again. Well, actually I have been rereading that recently, coincidentally. read more

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Super Happy Magic: A Record Of Interaction

Michael Fitz-Gibbon <penguintruth@gmail.com> Sun, Jan 6, 2008 at 5:14 AM
To: zac@animenewsnetwork.com

Hello,

I’m Michael Fitz-Gibbon, a recent graduate of Central Connecticut State University, and avid Japanese animation fan. I majored in English with a minor in Creative Writing in college and am eager to put my writing talents to use, and believe that writing reviews for Anime News Network may be one way to do this. I am at the disposal of the ANN staff if necessary, as I am currently writing short stories and poetry, hoping to be published, but otherwise have time to watch and review media. I would appreciate the opportunity to review anime for ANN, as I have been a long time visitor to the site and a member of the forum (as penguintruth). Anime News Network has been a favorite anime website of mine for a long time and is undoubtedly the finest source of anime news on the web, and it would be a great privilege to be part of the effort to maintain its standard of reporting and reviewing. read more

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Dragon Ball Kai – DROPPED BALL Z

Pissing away all of the good will it built…

When I started churning out episodes of Otaku Evolution, my anime review video project, on a weekly basis, I fell behind doing text reviews for this site. The biggest victim of that wasn’t the reviews I always intended to start on Terror in Resonance or my occasional review of anime classics, but my weekly Dragon Ball Kai reviews. I’d reviewed over 100 episodes of Toei’s "manga cut" version of DBZ, from its shaky early days, to the highs of its Freeza and Artificial Human/Cell arc, to it’s current plot line involving Babidi and Majin Buu. By now, I’ve fallen so far behind, it would take quite an effort to catch up, but with a little elbow grease I could revive my Dragon Ball Kai reviews, right? I mean, it was Kai that restored my interest in the DB franchise back when news of its debut broke! It’s become an insistution of my blog, so why not? read more

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Batman Eternal #22 Review

 

Gotham’s pickin’ up bad vibrations, buildings are getting excitations, Julia has a shocked sensation, and Hush is feeling such elation in this twenty-second installment of DC’s weekly Batman yarn. The crazed suited terror, The Architect is back to his old "Got to destroy Gotham landmarks for my dishonored family’s honor!" using what is essentially the Patlabor: The Movie scheme. Julia is shocked and dismayed that Bruce Wayne is, in fact, the vigilante called The Bat-Man, and Hush does another "stepping out of the shadows" thing that makes me think he’s just desperate to ape Batman’s style at this point. What’s next, the Hush Signal? read more

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