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!
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
Cross Ange Episode 14 – Turn ∀nge
Note: Because of some strange circumstances on other, my original venue for Cross Ange episode reviews is no longer accessible to me. Until shit gets straightened up, this is the home of any and all future episode reviews.
[Unfortunately this is the most interesting shot in the entire episode]
Feelings are mixed about this episode. On the one hand, Ange and Not-Kira really need some downtime to work on those feelings they have for one another. On the other, there is nothing much spectacular or interesting once the not-quite-startling revelation how a big war messed up der world with the Ragnamails, and that they’re in Tokyo/the Misurugi Empire 500 or so years after the fact. You’d think a revelation like that would have been held with much more importance and be dealt with in the most impacting way possible, bearing the crux of the drama within the 25 minutes of episode airtime. Here it is exposited to us with all the force of a sales representative who lives to be procedurally polite, even if she is only an AI.
Batman Eternal #39 Review
Subtle.
Riddler drops some hints, Batman might need a splint, and we see the death of print in this thirty-eighth canto in DC’s weekly Batman epic. The past few issues have been a really bumpy ride, with some unaddressed avenues in the storyline and some truly disgustingly terrible art. We saw how bastardized Bane could get, spent more time with that loser Jason Bard then I’d care to, and were thrown into the temple of Selina Kyle, who doesn’t jump rooftops anymore, preferring to stand around being boring, barking orders to gangland cronies. So, will this issue bring us back to the nanomachine virus, Jim Gordon’s situation, and the rise of Harper Row as Bluebird? Well… uh… no. But we do get the glaringly obvious references that should help us decipher the dastardly figure behind all this chaos! Because I totally hadn’t figured it out a long time ago, right? Well, at least we get The Riddler. The art’s not bad, either. Most of the time.
Neontaster’s Best of 2014
Year-end posts are hard. I watched somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 new shows this year, many of them wildly different from one another, so how does one create a top 10 list that has any kind of logic or consistency? Since I don’t really know the answer to that, I figured I would simply list the 10 shows that I had the most fun watching this year. This was actually a pretty stacked year for me, and there are at least five or six other shows I could have easily stuck on here, but I think I have less to say about them.
