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Now I don't mean to be down on all dubbed anime, and I especially don't mean to be down on the VAs themselves as I don't think the issue is them personally, but I'm currently watching Lazarus dubbed on C4, it's the first dubbed show I've watched in years and it reminds me why I never willfully...

And I see Kier has come out with some predictably spineless crap about the danger of Iran possessing nuclear weapons and not a word of condemnation for the actual biligerants here. This is his Iraq moment isn't it? Some made up nonsense about Iran "being days away" or whatever from having nukes...

Well there you have it, the supposedly isolationist anti interventionist president Trump has just let Israel suck the US into a war against Iran. Netanyahu has played America like a goddamn fiddle. I'm sure this will definitely make the middle east and the world as a whole a safer place, just...

Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy (I don't think there are specific spoilers in this review, but maybe still avoid reading if you haven't already watched) Before having only seen Unicorn and a smattering of Wing (watched through glazed and confused young eyes) I decided to finally watch Gundam...

What looks dreadful? I don't doubt that they were struggling with a limited budget and constraints. But I've watched film 1 and 2 now and I honestly have no idea what you found dreadful to look at. There's so many genuinely lovely little touches in it. Conversely I can say I found much of the...

I'm currently making my way through the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy and thoroughly enjoying it. It's obviously a condensation of a longer series so as is usual with these kind of things the flow of the films can be a bit weird in how seamlessly and ceaselessly The White Base seems...

So Faye Valentine and Rei from Eva's Japanese VA's openly xenobic blog post was a bit disappointing, wasn't it? I mean I'm sure Japan does have its fair share of obnoxious tourists, and I'm sure the rice shortage is having a mildly traumatic effect on poor ol Hayashibara's noodle. But it's just...

Leave The World Behind I mainly decided to give this a try due to the strong cast, and I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Its audiovisual aesthetic is really not my cup of tea it has to be said, it's very modern in ways I mostly dislike with obnoxious flashy camera work and...

The Killer (David Fincher) Didn't enjoy this much. I get it's meant to be a satire of insipid hitman revenge type movies, but it's the sort of satire that veers so close to what it's meant to be sending up, so I just felt like I was watching an exceptionally boring, poorly written, hitman film...

Not to keep ragging on ol Gurren Lagan but something else I've been thinking is how relatively uninvolved the actual mecha aspects of the show were. I'm no expert on mecha shows, but I'm guessing it's probably because it draws much of its influence so the less realistic varieties of robot anime...

@ayase Thanks! I so personally agree with you about dissenting voices and opinions always being welcome in threads and fodder for discussion. I'll try to remember there are others who also feel the same about this, and chime in whenever I can! The current political cultural landscape certainly...

Good thread that, thanks I'd hadn't read any of it before! I'm kind of glad I didn't participate in it and bring the enthusiastic tone of it down with my more negative views, but it's great to read some very different perspectives and analysis of the show from my own!

Hey @ayase it's good to hear from you and sorry for my delayed response. I just wanted to echo Rui in saying that I do really hope you'll post more again at some point, whenever you're feeling in the mood to. I always really enjoy reading your posts here a great deal, and I've always been...

Yeah absolutely, we're all living in and shaped by capitalism, to some extent, and I don't think there's many out there who don't struggle with some sort of compulsion to consume a bit too much. Maybe it is also something in human nature too, as Gurren Lagann suggests. It doesn't mean you can't...

Gurren Lagann If Gurren Lagann was a real person, it'd probably be Donald Trump. That's a pretty damning thing to say, I know, but I really think it sums up a lot of what I dislike about TTGL. Like the American president, TTGL is bold, brash and colourful, it's ambitious too. But it's also...

I didn't know how TTGL was generally received in anime community, I had the impression it was considered a stone cold classic, which I suppose it is to some people, but it's good to know I'm not the only person who really didn't get on with it. I'll try and write a review today, so check that...

Gurren Lagann ep.24 I'm pretty pleased I've only got a few more eps to go until I've finished this. I've really found this show an absolute slog to get through, which might sound strange for a show that basically never takes its foot off the pedal in breathlessly whizzing along in a blur of...

Great thread! It's nice to get the rough idea of the geography of members here. I imagine the forum is probably spread pretty evenly all about the UK. I think we've got some Americans too, and we used to have an Italian guy who that was into making pastries, I wonder what happened to him, he was...

Wait what there's a new Watanabe show this season!? Hyped! This is news to me, I had no idea this was coming! Maybe I should temper my expectations though as I thought Terror In Resonance was merely ok at the time, and on revisiting it more recently discovered that I think it's actually pretty...

Hmm interesting, I take it the Scoopers invading aliens thing is a pretty obvious commentary on cultural appropriation or commercialisation or something? I might check it out. It's not really what I was envisioning or was hankering after though. I guess I wanted something deeper and more geeky...