Disclaimer: No, this entry has nothing to do with yesterday’s passage of gay marriage in New York. Its just a coinkidink. Mazikaiser SKL is totally metal, like the most metal show in the last ten years. So its no surprise that several months ago when the character designs were first release, you had a rather [...]
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Hello all my six readers that are no longer around. This won’t be much of an entry as much as it is an update. Three years in the making now. Man, was not expecting this project to take so damn long but a string of headache inducing circumstances occurred. Regardless, the dark deed is finally [...]
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AMV Hell 5 was recently released and it really got me pump to finish a similar project I been working on for almost two years now. I am aiming for at least an hour long and taking into account the opening and credits, its roughly 60% finish. I will be devoting a lot of time [...]
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So this quiz has been floating around the web for a while. Basically its a quiz where you are given 20 minutes to try and recognize 101 anime openings. Its pretty fun for what it is. I decided to make my own and make it mecha centric, it isn’t nearly as big but the average [...]
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Well 4kids does it again! Coming up with the most convoluted ways of solving a nonexistent problem, so what has 4kids done in their infinite wisdom? They gave Mr. Popo the Jynx treatment, which means they turned him from black to blue. Technical wise this is my worst AMV to date, but its kinda fitting [...]
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A particular character archetype in the mech genre is well know as the “whiny” or reluctant pilot, and a common reaction to this type of character is that of annoyance, frustration and anger. But for some reason while this characters may be the kryptonite that will make many stop watching a show, I seem to [...]
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A MD(Most Dangerous) AMV editor, UTF, recently got around to finishing Gunbuster. And it left him with the spirit of the 80s that drove him to make this amv. Which in turn made me nostalgic for a time and place I never experienced. So I made an AMV. What you have above is an attempt [...]
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While I may still be green as a mecha nerd, I feel confident enough in my mecha knowledge to discuss giant robot shows. Something I am not so confident in talking about is Spaghetti Westerns, a film genre I have recently become a fan of. GunxSword taking inspiration from this genre is what makes it [...]
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Two things I have come to associate when the name Go Nagai is mentioned, manga pages with characters that have strange faces and characters with over the top personalities. The latter is very much enforce by animated productions inspired by his works such as Mazinkaiser, Re: Cutie Honey, Kotetsushin Jeeg and most recently Shin Mazinger. [...]
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There are two big sub genres of mecha anime out there. The Super Robot and Real Robot. IGPX in my book is one of the most, if not the realest of the real robot shows out there. What makes IGPX keep it so real? First look at the traditional super robots. They fight using yoyos [...]
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