This series is currently a bit of a tease and I am unsure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It almost seems as if Mika, Akihiro, and the rest of Tekkadan would really go full force against the Mobile Armour in an arena-like battle this episode, nevermind Macky and Isurugi against Vidar/Galli-Galli. Yet nope, Tekkadan is relegated to strategery once again this episode, thanks to an unanticipated safety precaution in the Gundam Frames, and Vidar instead leaves, delaying the face off against Macky for another time, but not without making his existence known to him. In fact the true final battle with the Mobile Armour will take place next week, alongside the results of its fallout.
Otaku Evolution Episode 81 – Otaku Evolution Christmas Grab Bag
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For those who’ve been following the show, my Christmas episodes are usually the videos I put the most effort into. This year, lacking a single, sufficiently Christmas-y anime to review itself, I decided to pick a few episodes of different anime that take place on and/or around Christmas. Lupin The Third, Case Closed, and Super Dimensional Fortress Macross are the subject of my holiday hand wringing. Don’t forget to check out the new Lucky Squid Studios commercial included!
Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 11 – MAGA
Before I allow you all to kick my ass for such an article title, that’s shorthand for:
Mobile
Armours’re
Great
Again
When was the last time a massive mobile suit/mobile armour in a Gundam series generated such a sense of ominous dread? I mean yeah, Build Fighters had the Giant Zaku, but nobody was gonna die from that; Gundam SEED Destiny had an alright thing going with the Destroy before it became a mass-produced grunt unit alongside other Earth Alliance MAs; Ein was only fine in the first season of this; and Gundam Age.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 10 – Demons on Mars
Just when I think the episode will play as one big gigantic battle on Mars where Tekkadan and Macky get one big bloody nose, the series drops on the lore. Then, in lieu of an omnipresent narrator aware of past history (the one heard these days in the prologue only goes so far as last week), we have the characters in the show world building for us again. It has been a while since it dropped some major points in the past during the Calamity War, so what occurs in this episode must be welcomed with open arms.
Otaku Evolution Episode 80 – Lupin III: The Columbus Files
Time to look at those robbery rascals, those lavish larcenists, the Lupin gang, with the TV special, 1999’s The Columbus Files (originally Love’s Da Capo: Fujiko’s Unlucky Days)! Honestly, it’s not Lupin III’s finest hour. Or Fujiko’s. Or director Shinichi Watanabe’s. To say the least!
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Dragon Momoko 1/60 PG Unicorn Gundam – Project Start & Initial Review
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The next in another long line of “screw it, I’ll build another Unicorn” is Dragon Momoko’s 1/60 Perfect Grade Unicorn Gundam. As a huge proponent of buying official Bandai kits wherever possible, you’re probably wondering why I’d bother with a standard bootleg Unicorn. Dragon Momoko’s Unicorn kit unlike the other Chinese copies out there in that comes redesigned with a plethora of added detail to the outer frame.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 09 – Tekkadan Into Darkness
Ugh, the scene I got this picture from invokes all sorts of dread for the upcoming future episodes. It bookends the episode, and we see a glimpse of what makes this Agnika Kaieru mean so much to Maccy. The political philosophy of this person is not only the foundation of the original Gjallarhorn, but one meant to create a way to maximize the happiness of the human condition. Unfortunately, this seems to also imply norms like child marriage and love with large enough age disparity can be made acceptable, given Almiria’s reaction after Maccy tells her this, as well as his response.
Otaku Evolution Episode 79 – Running Man (Neo Tokyo)
Yeah, yeah, it’s a really short episode. I have a lot to do this time of year, between regular episodes, the Christmas episode (now in production), and the end-of-year English dub review episode. So I thought I’d give myself a soft ball by only reviewing the Kawajiri part of Neo Tokyo, the Running Man portion! Shit, I didn’t even include a LSS commercial (gotta work on a new one for Christmas). Well, this one is pretty succinct and clever, so watch it, enjoy it, share it, and such.
Layman’s Gunpla Guide – Pre-Shading Tutorial
Have you ever looked at a finished kit and noticed that the paint has a bit of depth? That the edges have a subtle darkness to them? Well that’s the result of a very common technique in the modeling world known as pre-shading.
Pre-shading, at it’s simplest, is essentially a layer of darker paint under the top colour to make certain areas pop-out. Commonly used in model aircraft to highlight panel lines it’s been adopted on Gunpla for panel lines as well, or more often, shading around the outer edges of a piece.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 08 – Earthxit
As per a usual intense episode with a lot of emotionally-crippling losses at hand, we get a wound licking episode the following week. And as per usual Iron-Blooded Orphans, it always has something interesting to be had with all its characters. We’ve ANOTHER timeskip (one month since the last episode), and the next moves are still being planned by both sides. It’s a nice enough dynamic in showing a lengthy passage of time, whereas in earlier Gundam shows it would either be a pretty linear day-by-day endeavour (the original, SEED, G, etc.) or as a big dramatic impact by way of a large time gap (00, Age).