Entries tagged as ‘gundam 00’
Wednesday 31st December, 2008 · 12 Comments

We can come away from a good action sequence saying more than ‘wow’ or alternatively ‘it left me cold’. So, for example, in one of Legend of the Galactic Heroes’s side-stories it’s extremely fitting that a certain character dies with the loss of his right arm just before the revelation that he was less of a dangerous Machiavel than he had seemed. That revelation would have felt different if he had lost his left arm instead, or for that matter if he had died with all his limbs attached. (more…)
Categories: fanboy
Tagged: action, gundam, gundam 00, legend of the galactic heroes goes in every field after all, star wars, twelve days of christmas 08
Tuesday 13th May, 2008 · 20 Comments

From one red-haired Karen to the next, then. I’ve wanted to write about The 08th MS Team for a while, in the way that one aspires to a difficult accomplishment: it’s hard to write about something which is generally so well-regarded. By way of experiment I tried watching the whole thing last Sunday, in suitably tropical conditions with the sun beating down on my windows like The Sun beating down on Gordon Brown whenever he screws up. I still don’t know if I’m up to the task, but at least I had a fun day off. (Spoilers, of course.)
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Categories: fanboy
Tagged: gundam, gundam 00, the 08th MS team
Monday 24th March, 2008 · 5 Comments

So Kimikiss departs on the 01:36 am Steam Train of Storytelling, while I’m left standing on the Foggy Platform of Real Life, manfully adjusting my Starched Collar of Essay-Composition and emitting stiff-upper-lipped Throat-Clearings of ‘I’m not crying’.¹ I suppose writing a blog entry about it is akin to listening to the departing rattle of the rolling stock and smelling the soot on the air. To quickly jump between transport metaphors, I’m also sad to see CCY standing at the wheel of the Yuumi x Kouichi liner, having honourably overseen the evacuation of all the passengers, disappearing beneath the waves but never deserting his ’ship. (Hooray for doujins, eh? Eh?)
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Categories: review
Tagged: gundam 00, kimikiss, sniping
Sunday 23rd March, 2008 · 5 Comments

Christ has died,

Christ is risen,

Christ will come again.
A very happy Easter to you. [And apologies if your browser doesn't support the thorn in the title.]

WordPress.com’s Global Tagcloud yesterday evening.
‘Anime’ is uncannily well positioned.
Categories: fanboy
Tagged: easter, gimmick, gundam, gundam 00, irreverence, nausicaa of the valley of the wind, neon genesis evangelion
Four Gundam Bishies
Monday 17th December, 2007 · 5 Comments
Aaand . . . pose!
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Four Gundam Bishies,
Three Empty Paragraphs,
Two Heroes Dueling
And a Bloodstained Euphie. (more…)
Categories: fanboy · running commentary
Tagged: gundam, gundam 00, twelve days of christmas 07