Zoids HMM Liger Zero Review
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Zoids HMM Liger Zero Review

I’ve been looking to get into the HMM Zoids series for awhile now. It feels wrong to be lusting over Zoids when I still haven’t picked up any of Bandai’s Macross models. Though Macross may be the far superior franchise I can’t help but be sucked in by the nostalgia of days spent watching Zoids on Toonami. It’s a weird thing to build a model, based off a show, that was based off a toy they were trying to sell. Somewhere there’s a Japanese executive laughing like Dr. Claw. I’m sure all the Zoids fans are scoffing at me calling them toys. The original Zoids product line may have technically counted as models but they’re nothing compared to the HMM line. read more

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Gunpla and Model Reviews

Here’s a list of the Gunpla and other model reviews I’ve done, either here on Otaku Revolution or for other folks like Gundam Guy. These are sorted (roughly) by publication date, not kit release date.

2020


Perfect Grade Unleashed RX-78-2 Gundam


MGEX Unicorn – A review and model retrospective

2019


Kotobukiya Ace Combat 1/144 X-02S and XFA-27 Model Review


BSC 1/35 Zeta Gundam Bust Short Review


Steel Legend Metal Build 1/100 Kshatriya Review


Nillson Works PG Astray Grayscale Review


Max Factory PLAMAX 1/20 Macross VF-1 Super/Strike Gerwalk Valkyrie – Dry Fit Review read more

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Batman Eternal #42 Review

Pictured: A thing that does not happen until the next issue.

 

Bluebird attacks, Hatter’s back on the rack, Batman gives a smack, and Steph fades to black in this forty-second (don’t panic) issue of DC’s weekly Batman hootenanny. We discover that Mrs. Brown has awful taste in decor, vigilante action is harder than it looks, Batman’s had enough of his rogues piling on, and Tim’s pity party isn’t bullet proof. Bluebird’s action debut is a comedy of errors… or is it action of errors? Whatever it was, it was still very awesome. Who can keep track of all those pouches? Not me. read more

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Cross Ange Episode 16 – Interspecies Intramurals

Well finally the show is getting somewhere. After two episodes of world building and exposition, Salamandinay gets a chance to shine as a character instead of be this enlightened figure of wonder. So what does that mean for the audience? It means it is time for a bonding episode! A DRAGON Princess dedicated to the fall of Embryo! A disenchanted former Princess cum Paramail pilot! Now unencumbered by the necessity of explaining what the shit is going on, they can now move forward to an ever greater union through competitive sports battles spanning from tennis to Twister! read more

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Penguin Truth Recommends – Lupin III

My Lupin III Recommendations:

– Lupin III (TV) (the "Green Jacket series") (available from Discotek)
– Lupin III (Part II) (TV) (the "Red Jacket series") (formerly available by Pioneer)
– Secret (Mystery) of Mamo (Theatrical Movie) (available from Discotek)
– Castle of Cagliostro (Theatrical Movie) (available from Discotek)
– Fuma Conspiracy/Plot of the Fuma Clan (OVA) (available from Discotek)
– Hemingway Papers (TV Special) (available from Discotek)
– Memory of the Walther P-38/"Island of Assassins" (TV Special) (formerly available from Funimation)
– Dead or Alive (Theatrical Movie) (formerly available from Funimation)
– $1 Money Wars/"Missed By A Dollar" (TV Special) (formerly available from Funimation)
– Alcatraz Connection (TV Special)
– Episode 0: First Contact (TV Special) (available from Discotek)
– Operation: Return the Treasure (TV Special)
– Stolen Lupin (TV Special)
– The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (TV) (available from Funimation)
– Daisuke Jigen’s Gravestone (available SOON from Discotek) read more

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Batman Eternal #41 Review

Hey, Tim… Tim… uh, you got a little something on your face…

A bird of blue debuts, nanomachines imbue, the Bat-Family looks screwed, and Steph gets out-kung-fu’d in this forty-first entry in DC’s ongoing weekly Batman parade. We finally see what that final push that makes Harper Batman’s newest partner is. We get the inclusion of yet another Batman rogue (who I should have seen coming), the comradarie and contentions both between Tim Drake, Barbara Gordon, and Jason Todd, and Harper’s fateful decision. What we don’t see, however, is Batman! Eh, it’s all right, we’ve seen a lot of him lately. read more

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Gundam: The Origin I English Dub PV and Cast

CAST: 

Casval Rem Deikun:  Karen Strassman
Artesia Som Deikun:  Maggie O’Connor
Degwin Sodo Zabi: Marc Thompson
Gihren Zabi: Liam O’Brien
Sasro Zabi: Braeden Fox
Dozle Zabi: Bob Johnson
Kycilia Zabi: Wendee Lee
Ramba Ral:  Kirk Thornton
Crowley Hamon: Amanda Shuckman
Zeon Zum Deikun: Marc Diraison
Astraia Tor Deikun: Veronica Taylor
Jimba Ral:  Doug Stone
Char Aznable:  Keith Silverstein

 

 

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Cross Ange Episode 15 – How to Drain your DRAGON

Note: Well unfortunately my other venue is no longer available to me so if you haven’t found out yet, this is where you can capture my Cross Ange stuff until the end (plus anything else  I feel like talking about in terms of anime or animation)!

Ange and Not-Kira make a DRAGON Porno

Well after the lull that was last week’s episode we kinda pick things back up with the full-on formal introduction to the DRAGON Princess. Salamandinay, the strangely awesome mouthful of name they call said DRAGON Princess then proceeds to info dump for most of the episode about the world of DRAGONs. Turns out a prediction I made to myself a few eps back came true, as DRAGONs are used in Ange’s world to power the Light of Mana, and that all those DRAGON attacks throughout the first half actually had some rhyme and reason behind them. Neat I guess. read more

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Completed Model: Kotobukiya’s White Glint from Armored Core For Answer
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Completed Model: Kotobukiya’s White Glint from Armored Core For Answer

Practice makes perfect, and well, I haven’t been practicing. 2014 was a rather dry year. I finished a couple kits early in the year but between my Caged Unicorn at the end of May and this White Glint I didn’t even touch my airbrush. Unfortunately that caused me to re-learn some past lessons and produce a project that wasn’t all it should’ve been.

I started painting this kit back in November and, for the most part, things went well. Unfortunately I was expecting an easy November and December which instead became the busiest part of the year for me. Start and stop builds never seem to work out for me. There’s always a sense of “Hey, I already procrastinated, what’s a bit more?” For 2015 I’ll try to get any painted builds done before Halloween rolls around. read more

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Batman Eternal #40 Review

Batman plays in the snow, Selina’s car blows (up), there’s something Warren knows, and Corrigan makes Maxie glow in this fortieth issue of DC’s weekly Batman series. Even though the direction the story has taken is a major improvement, I still can’t help feeling the writers are dragging their feet here and there to fill in 52 weeks of content. They really could have combined most of what happened from this issue and the last one into one issue that was just a couple of pages longer, if at that. But this could just me being impatient while waiting for the big reveal of who’s behind it all (Lincoln March). read more

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