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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, after a while they kind of run out of excuses... and even then it's not until UC 0096 and the aftermath of the Laplace Incident in Unicorn that the Federation bothers even trying to arrest anyone from Anaheim. It still doesn't stick in the end. Not that that gimmick doesn't get used... it's just not until like 10,000 years later in the Regild Century and Correct Century with the likes of Cumpa Rusita and Gym Ghingham trying to foment conflict because they firmly believe humanity needs it to survive and advance. Anaheim... eech... Anaheim just decided to be greedy in the stupidest way possible by absorbing assets from the dissolved Zeonic and Zimmad, making them an independent division within the company, and then trying to pretend they know nothing about the huge amount of war materiel that keeps falling off the back of a space truck anytime there's some Zeon remnant with dreams of starting sh*t.
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    Detectives These Days Are Crazy! is... certainly something. It's the story of a down-on-his-luck, chain-smoking, middle-aged private detective who was once hailed as a genius in his high school years who has spent most of his career barely making ends meet thanks to a spectacular case of gifted kid burnout. His rotten luck is changed when an extremely bossy teenage girl barges into his office with a years-old flyer demanding to be taken on as a part-time employee because she dreams of becoming a detective herself... and because his agency is closest to her house, so she won't have to commute as far. It's quite entertaining so far. I'm looking forward to more.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    That just sounds like a side story about the Pegasus-class assault ships. Always and forever, the Trojan Horse's one trick is "have Gundam, will travel". 😜 WRT the UC, it is pretty funny in hindsight to consider that all the Federation needed to do to squash half or more of the Zeon uprisings was just police Anaheim better. They kept the conflicts going indefinitely by selling arms to both sides until SNRI snuck up and ate their lunch in the UC 100s.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    The Summer 2025 simulcast season has finally kicked off. Only a few shows have dropped first episodes so far... Rent a Girlfriend S4, Takopi's Original Sin, Detectives These Days Are Crazy!, and Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter. Less than zero interest in Simp Simulator 2K5... er... Rent a Girlfriend S4. Takopi's Original Sin's synopsis doesn't really inspire either. Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter is... well... let's just say the start of the series screams "Excuse plot". All of about two minutes are spent setting up the story's premise - the story's protagonist being a student who failed his government exam to become a sorcerer and is being quietly fobbed off on a nobleman's daughter as a private tutor - before it's off to the races. The promotional key art seems to suggest this will be a harem series, and the protagonist unthinkingly sexually harassing two different young girls in the first seven minutes is not exactly helping. I have a feeling this one is going to be excruciatingly dull.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    When all's said and done, the conflict between the Federation and Zeon actually lasted 43 years. The One Year War may have officially ended on New Year's Day UC 0080, but Sunrise's writers were so unwilling to let Zeon go and come up with a new antagonist faction that the Earth Federation is stuck fighting a seemingly neverending supply of Zeon remnants and splinter factions literally right up to the point that the Crossbone Vanguard takes over as the main antagonist in UC 0123. (Seriously, the last battle against a Zeon remnant is just a couple months before Cosmo Babylonia is founded.) Even then, Cosmo Babylonia's philosophy and goals are little different to Zeon's and the same is broadly true of their successors the Zanscare Empire. Even the Juptier Empire is essentially just Zeon with the social darwinism and contempt for life turned up to 11. I'd like to see them branch out and try something different with the UC timeline instead of just swapping out store-brand Zeon stand-ins. There's a few thousand years to play in before they run into the Correct Century and the Regild Century.
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    Nah, handle that SRW style and you'd have half a dozen episodes of Marie and Lana gushing over Bright for slapping some sense into Jeanne. 😆 In the light novel, his dad does show up... but not to slap him. Honestly, if we're talking UC... I'd like to see some capital emphasis New Development. We've seen too goddamn much of the One Year War in terms of do-overs, alterniverses, side stories, and such. The UC timeline has some war or other major conflict in the Earth Sphere every few years for three quarters of a century from UC 0079 all the way to UC 0153 and the ending of Victory Gundam. That balloons out to almost a century (93 years) if you count Crossbone Gundam's spinoffs about conflicts with/within the Jupiter Sphere which drag out into the UC 0170s. Depending on how canon they decide G-Saviour is, they potentially have a free run of hundreds or thousands of years before the next story in the chronology... lots of room to do something new.
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    Maybe, maybe not... but considering how live action anime adaptations usually do, nobody is going to go into one banking on getting a sequel green-lit. Even One Piece, the 800lb gorilla of shounen anime, played it safe by opting to make each live action season a single complete story arc from the manga so that the story wouldn't be left hanging if Netflix didn't renew it for another season.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    There are loads and loads of crossovers between Gundam and other mecha anime... that's pretty much the entire Super Robot Wars game series in a nutshell. That other series was never popular enough to be included, AFAIK, but plenty of others have already done. If they really wanted the shortest-possible story... all they need to do is do a SEED spinoff where Kira isn't feeling angsty. He's the Godmode Sue. The minute he gets serious the fight is OVER.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Even in the absolute best-case scenario that the Akira movie were made by an Akira superfan with enough clout to keep the execs at bay, it's likely that much of the original story and setting would end up on the cutting room floor in the name of trying to fit every iconic moment from the source material into a 90 minute film. It was missing most of what makes Ghost in the Shell iconic, interesting, or in any way memorable. It was watered down into a fairly generic cyberpunk movie that takes some loose inspiration from Ghost in the Shell while omitting most of the characters, set pieces, and settings. Now, in all fairness, that's not necessarily the adaptation's fault... that's how she's addressed by everyone in every version of Ghost in the Shell and they just did a crummy job of working it into the live action adaptation by trying to make it significant.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    From what I've seen, there's still plenty of demand for Crossbone Gundam among the UC fans. It's pretty much the #1 most-requested adaptation whenever anyone mentions what they should do with the UC next. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, of course, is a mostly dry well to the point that they're doing a prequel to the movie to explain a fairly trivial background event because that's all they can think of.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Yet here we are, talking about it. 😆 Given that several news outlets that interviewed Stealth director Rob Cohen reported that he cited Macross as an inspiration for the film we can tentatively toss it on the pile of awful anime adaptations too. It makes for an excellent example of what happens when a creative tries to rework an anime title for "western sensibilities" and ultimately ends up removing everything that made the original enjoyable or distinctive in the first place. It's a safe bet a similar fate would have befallen Akira, had Warner Bros not finally given up on it and let the license expire. Just imagine... Akira, but Neo Tokyo is never named and is filmed in Toronto, the biker gangs aren't present at all, the Akira Project is instead being run by terrorists or Evil Russians because the military can't be vilified, Kaneda's played by Daniel Radcliffe with a spray-on tan and 30 minute subplot devoted to explaining he was adopted by Japanese immigrants, and Tetsuo's played by Chris Pratt or Jack Black because casting one of them is practically mandatory right now.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, there are two... Doom (2005) and Doom: Annihilation (2019). The first one was supposed to be an adaptation of Doom 3, but ultimately deviated from it so much in development that by the time it went into production it was essentially a totally unrelated work that was just borrowing the Doom name. The second one was a very loose adaptation of Doom 3 on a hilariously tiny budget that was still bordering on in-name-only status. A deep sense of foreboding is the appropriate reaction to the announcement of a Hollywood anime adaptation. Reasons vary, as you'd expect. The most commonly given reasons come down to trying to broaden the appeal of the movie. Anime may be more mainstream now than it was even ten years ago, but it's still not something that's widely accepted. Premises get made more generic and "accessible", plots are streamlined and simplified, potentially controversial characters and situations wind up removed, and so on. By the time they're done cutting and streamlining and simplifying they've often removed most of the original work's personality. Then, of course, they sometimes have to make concessions for casting decisions too. For instance, Ghost in the Shell cast Scarlett Johansson for her star power and ability to fill out a catsuit... then had to essentially center the entire plot on deflecting accusations of racism and whitewashing for casting a white woman to play a Japanese woman living and working in Japan. If the studios had their way with Akira, it's likely the only thing left of the original when the dust settled would've been Kaneda's iconic bike. They kind of already did... like twenty years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_(film) It's basically Macross Plus with the serial numbers filed off.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Probably inadvisable. There's a reason one of the five main types of Irish folk song is "The fae are back on their bullsh*t and I got bamboozled". 🤣 Seems like it'd be in poor taste to name a resort ship meant for tourism after a magical island that you can't leave without recreating the "He chose poorly" scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doubly so if the scholars are correct and Emhain is an cognate of what's now called Avalon in Arthurian mythos. Avalon isn't a place of bounty for living souls to visit, it's a place for the dead and dying and not somewhere people generally come back from. Then again, naming a resort ship with an underground factory after a beautiful seaside town in a kingdom ruled by underground by a power-hungry technocrat is a bit on the nose too.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    I'd argue that One Piece is proof that it is possible for there to be such thing as a western anime adaptation that respects the source material. It's very much the exception that tests the rule that western anime adaptations are awful. Of course, it was always going to have issues because One Piece is so incredibly weird that there were always going to have to be some significant compromises to make it work with living actors. About the best we can reasonably hope for from Hollywood is something like Alita: Battle Angel which plays fast and loose with the original story in order to essentially speedrun the most iconic moments in a single two-hour span. You only get that if there are superfans involved, though. The far more likely fate is a western "creative" trying to give their own new interpretation of the work and turning it into a dumpster fire that proves they missed the point completely. Akira would probably have ended up a generic sci-fi monster movie like what they did to Doom twice.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, I searched on both the likely romanizations and the kana string itself for quite a while. Not a string with a lot of plausible results, though... unless Ukyo Kodachi is really into tapas. Emhain Abhlach (pronounced Ah-win) is certainly an alternative, though not one I'm sure fits the story... or the kana if we're being honest. It is a mythical island paradise... but in keeping with the usual themes of magical and otherworldly locales in Irish mythology and folklore, it's one of those places where Time Works Differently and You Can't Go Home Again. Emhain Abhlach is your standard Land of Plenty and Ease where mortal wealth is so abundant to have lost all value, with abundant food and water that needs no human labor to cultivate or maintain, and of course a population of... how can we put this politely?... "welcoming" women. The catch being that, when you leave, you discover that you've been gone for hundreds of years and will instantly age those hundreds of years the minute you get off the boat. It doesn't seem to have any meaningful connection to the tropically-themed ocean resort ship in Macross the Ride. That's the one I hit on as a likely suspect. Evna is a beautiful town near the Nonestic Sea in the Land of Ev, which is under the corrupt influence of a malevolent industrial capitalist autocrat (the Nome King) who rules his domain through an industrial monopoly, treats his own people as borderline slave labor, and actively conspires to oppress people in other lands. The resort ship Evna belongs to the Macross Galaxy fleet, and has a Galaxy corporation secret factory in its sublevels, meaning it's a beautiful seaside community ruled from underground by malevolent industrial capitalist autocrats (the cyber-nobles) who treat their own people as slave labor and want to oppress other nations similarly. Some commentary from Kodachi would be nice.
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