We Remember Love

[Episode 11 "Toys in the Attic"] As incredible this pair of episodes were in my re-viewing them, I was pretty much left scratching my head, “Vicious sure is one silly douche of a villain isn’t he?” I then thought that … Continue reading →

[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Episode 8] As opposed to previous episodes, a whole lot of stuff happened here. I won’t get into all of it in this post, but I think a breakdown is useful at this point: Wolf flies … Continue reading →

Vinland Saga feels like the story is really just beginning, and yet it’s hard to imagine how it’ll outdo its prologue. The prologue is roughly half of the available chapters and it presented an incredibly compelling story that interestingly can … Continue reading →

Is obvious but I fall for it anyway. I’ll live. I’ve this thing for historical fiction (e.g. The Masters of Rome; series of novels by Colleen McCullough) , or fiction that presents itself as some kind of historical record (e.g. … Continue reading →

I had a lot of fun reading bitmap’s THE RELIGION OF LOVE IN 2D: ROOTS OF MODERN OTAKU COURTSHIP, from his wonderfully titled blog Remember XVI. It compares the otaku’s 2-D complex with the romance of chivalric courtship, where the … Continue reading →

No lie. The GN-001 Gundam Exia is still one of my favorite mobile suit designs. This isn’t just nostalgia for my Gateway Gundam show, but really I loved the very humanoid silhouette it has, primed for the close quarters battle … Continue reading →

I’m going to do things a lot different this year. I’m actually going to post these babies 12 days straight leading up to Christmas. These are my thoughts in verse on 12 moments that I remember love for this generous … Continue reading →

[First Moment: Mazinkaiser Enters The Battlefield] Our next moment is from another giant robot show; similar to the anachrnonisms of Mazinkaiser SKL of using medieval melee weapons and fighting styles in an age of technological giant robots. Every new installment, … Continue reading →

[Second Moment: Broken Blade Traded For Giant Ninja Star] Yes, she’s in middle school. I think more than anything in the many things going on in Wandering Son, I enjoyed watching Saorin get thwarted and act out her bitterness … Continue reading →

[Third Moment: Saorin Says The Darnedest Things (Wandering Son)] Madoka’s family is nontraditional; subverting the inherited order of having the Husband/Father act as breadwinner while the Wife/Mother keeps house and raises the children. This constructed order is taken apart and … Continue reading →

[Fourth Moment: Madoka's Mom Tells It How it Is] Girls, moé, nudity, in that order so it seems. Growing up around an extended family that is outright matriarchal (think Summer Wars) I had no problems orbiting around a female locus … Continue reading →

[Fifth Moment: Hanasaku Iroha and How to Make Boys Watch Cheesy Chick Media] There are notable displays of manliness this year: Banagher Links beats up the captain of the Grancieres, and lectures him on his own righteousness in Mobile Suit … Continue reading →

It’s going to be a very rough Christmas for the residents of Cagayan de Oro City, a beautiful destination along the northern coast of Mindanao, the second large island in the Philippines. Yesterday December 17, 2011 floods caused by the … Continue reading →

Largan has a crush on Millie, and Woolf believes that he should always get with the hottest female on the ship. Rightfully so, because he’s the Alpha Wolf. The story here is how Grodek gains support from a wealthy Tycoon … Continue reading →

[Sixth Moment: Daikichi Takes The Highest Road and Portrays a Manliest Display of Manliness (Usagi Drop)] The second season of Kaiji was a coronary threat every week. If you followed it week by week you know very well what I … Continue reading →

[Seventh Moment: Kaiji Killed Me Every Week] The Survival Strategy recurring scene is my favorite moment in Mawaru Penguindrum because it succeeded and failed at the same objective, and that this failure only adds to the awesomeness of the whole. … Continue reading →

[Eighth Moment: Welcome to Rock & Roll Survival Strategy (Mawaru Penguindrum)] The race was great, yes, yes. What was interesting to me, and this is what I think made the race so great, was how the whole thing happened as … Continue reading →

[Moment the Ninth: Roboworld Trolled Into An Heroism (Redline)] The ambiguity is put to rest about the resolution of Macross Frontier’s infamous love triangle. This alone is enough to make it one of the moments of the year. But there’s … Continue reading →

[Tenth Moment: 12 Moments of Anime 2011: Bye Bye Sheryl (Macross Frontier Sayonara no Tsubasa)] Everybody’s talking about the Banquet of Kings, and rightfully so. That moment was amazingly powerful. However I prefer to remember love for Rider’s first real … Continue reading →

[Moment the Eleventh: Rider Crashes a Party (Fate/Zero)] There are two things that Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is very good at: mecha battles, and quiet moments of conversation. I’ve spilled a lot of virtual ink over the former, and a … Continue reading →

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