yellowlightman

The depressing thing is that plenty of times people actually do care.

I'm thinking Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Nights for starters as they both support wide screen and we have a widescreen TV downstairs (an SD one), so I'm curious to see how they look. The problem with Saturn games is that a lot of them are still pretty expensive, relatively speaking so I don't know how many I'll be rushing out to get. Plus I have a collection of Saturn games back in the US (but no system, as I sold it before coming here ironically enough).

MS Igloo is probably the best UC Gundam sequel since uh, CCA? It's amazingly good, and basically a shining example of what Gundam sequels should be.

If they can't get the funding together to make a half-decent animated movie, they wouldn't be able to swing it for a live-action one.

So I was walking home the other night and noticed something strange sitting in the gutter of the street-- A white Sega Saturn. Brought it home, it booted up fine. Bought a cheap 100yen game to test enough and sure enough it works fine. It isn't the cleanest one I've seen, but it cleaned up okay and it's hard to argue with the price. Now just to figure out what games to pick up for it...

Hardcore fighting game players use arcade sticks, so I'm not sure you can pull that card.

I was a lot more bothered by Smith's dog dying in I Am Legend than his death at the end.

Except that Mospeada is owned by an entirely different company, so it's a pretty big jump in logic to assume Mospeada will see a live action project as well.

Just found some transforming bike designs in an insert in B-Club Magazine #116. The series (comic? i think) is called All Terrain Command GONFALON and looks like it was written/created by Hideki Kakinuma (MOSPEADA, Gall Force) with mechanical designs by Junichi Akutu (Bubbegum Crisis, Macross II). Most of the designs look like they're three-wheelers. I'd supply pictures, but no scanner here.

No wonder you guys were fighting so hard against Prop 8.

BGC pacing so... eight stand alone episodes in a single movie? The 2040 designs (aside from the re used hard suits) were painful. You mean this? http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/ringo.html It was just a PR short, not an actual movie. Edit: New update: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-...ke-image-posted

The idea behind it is that it's a prototype of the actual MOSPEADA, albeit one that's non transformable. The actual design work is being done by Aramaki, so I guess it's about as official as you could hope for.

Not to mention background illustrations by people who have absolutely no sense of perspective or proportion. It looks like a Flash game, albeit a high resolution one.

I would have a bit more confidence in the project if they weren't doing it with a small time Singaporean animation company that looks to have one, maybe two, films under it's belt. Something tells me this probably won't get out of pre-production, but if it does there sure isn't much to inspire confidence that it'll actually be remotely good. Edit: Whats the deal with ANN requiring people to log in to view this news story?

I listened to the album a couple times, no Dr. Pepper for me as that offer is only good in the US. Chinese Democracy sounds like a Use Your Illusion III that Axl's been working on for the last 15 years. It's listenable and some part are actually pretty great, but it's not amazing and obviously can't hold a candle to the original efforts by GnR.

I really wish they had gone with a Tezuka-style for the characters. As it is, they look like the same character designs in every other 3D CG movie and they're painfully boring.

Uh, no, they probably got him to come back with money. But that sure is a whimsical spin to put on the over-commercialized industry we're talking about.

I would be more interested in Gundam Vs. Gundam if I hadn't gotten burned out on the arcade game months ago... Plus, playing the Vs. games with anything but an arcade stick has never felt right to me. That said, they announced a new arcade revision recently so I'm sure a new PSP version will follow.

Well, it wasn't as overt in MSG, but there are some definite parallels. A blitzkrieg using superior technology and new tactics, turning into a protracted war where the other wise eventually brings it's full production capabilities to bear and slowly crushes an overspread enemy on multiple fronts. One thing I really loved about Igloo was the more subtle allusions to WW2 Germany. Specifically the bizarre experimental weapon developments and especially the episode with the kids being forced into service in the final days of the war.

Kind of disappointed that Mikimoto's manga is going to focus on Minmay, rather than a lesser known character or an entirely new character/setting.

Wow, that sketch looks waaaaaay better than the 3D model.

Although pretty much every Gundam sequel since 0080 has worked to lay on the WW2 aesthetic, Igloo really takes it to the extreme. The first Igloo series especially, as there were numerous parallels drawn between Zeon and Germany (and not just visually).

This is hilarious. There are multiple threads here with people complaining about Hollywood ruining these Japanese "classics" and about how terrible Hollywood is, but the moment someone dares to criticize Glorious Nippon you guys get butthurt and call me a racist and say I'm "generalizing." P.S. Roger, kaiju and tokusatsu movies don't count as "good" movies.

Wow. Way to overreact. You might want to check your Japanophilia at the door, because what I said is the truth. While Japan has an impressive film history, it's gone down the toilet in the last 15-20 years due to a variety of reasons. Too much time is spent trying to imitate Hollywood blockbusters and what you end up with is a lot of derivative garbage that looks like it's trying to be a big budget film but without the budget, actors who can't act and commercial film releases that look like TV shows. Also, I'm not sure how Japan = the world, but again I guess that's the Japanophilia talking. For the handful of notable films that get noticed in the west, most of what comes out here is terrible and could barely pass as made-for-TV level in the US. There's also a relation here with the lack of movie goers, as seeing movies in theaters is not a popular activity here. That means less theaters that can play movies, less money made for domestic movies and a focus spent on trying to imitate all the western films that do come out here and blow away the domestic competition. If the industry tried playing to their strengths and not trying to imitate Hollywood it might be a different story. Anyways, consider yourselves educated. So yeah, the Robotech movie will no doubt suck but Hollywood at least has the potential for turning out a decent film (even if the odds are highly unlikely), the Japanese film industry in it's current state does not. As for the remark about me being racist, some of my favorite films are Japanese and if I was so racist would I have moved to the damn country? So you can kindly kiss my ass on that one.

Boring in 2005... Still boring five years later. Kudos Ford.