| 12:00am | Toward a Quantification of Love FOR ANIMU Part 1: The Re-watchability Ratio | | | | We know his love for Animu is OVER 9000 In this series of posts, We Remember Love would like to propose quantitative measures for rating anime in form similar to financial ratios used for evaluating the performance of stocks. These ratios are not to be taken as absolute measures of quality, but rather... | | |
| 12:00am | Someone’s Showing a Bit of Character: Faye Valentine | | | | “You know the first rule of combat? Shoot them before they shoot you.” Faye’s got the secret to surviving life figured out and it involves lying, cheating and stealing as much as you can from the other guy before he does it to you. She’s adept with her Glock 30 pistol, her... |
| 12:00am | LISTEN TO MY SONG! Vol 2: Battle of the Dancing Planets | | | | Here we have two versions of Planet Dance, which is the track that opened Fire Bomber’s first performance with Basara playing lead guitar and vocals in Macross 7 episode 01. Not coincidentally at all, In one of the first organized battles featuring Ozma’s Skull Squadron of the SMS in Macross... | | |
| 1:53pm | Undeniable Evidence that DBZ is Getting the HD Treatment from TOEI | | | | Sankaku Complex broke the news, but today I actually went to TOEI Animation Philippines and confirmed it. TOEI is producing Dragonball Z in High Definition. They no longer have the original cels or artwork, which means they are re-drawing on captured images from the existing videos. Some new art will... |
| 12:00am | The Day Has Come | | | | TODAY February 7, 2009 SOUTH ATARIA ISLAND, U. N. SPACY Space Battleship Super Dimension Fortress-1 christened Macross last January 19th launched from South Ataria Island in the Pacific Ocean, in response to an attack by unknown enemies presumed to be extraterrestrials. The Macross was also reported... |
| 12:00am | I GOT BREWED! Moyashimon surprised the hell out of me. | | | | I watched and finished Moyashimon fairly quick. It’s 11 episodes felt like nothing. Do I like it? Yes. If find it very entertaining and educational. Lbrevis and I have been talking about its possible use as audiovisual material in science education. My background is (was) in literature education... | | |
| 12:00am | Brilliance in Exposition: Martian Successor Nadesico Episode 05 | | | | I remember dropping an anime due to poor exposition (Yes To Aru Majutsu no Index, that would be you). I think about how different anime handle this feat: Xam’d reveals its world and context carefully and with mystery in a very satisfying way; RideBack feels like there are two separate anime... | | |
| 1:42am | LISTEN TO MY SONG! Vol. 1: Do You Remember My Charging Heart of Love | | | | Here at We Remember Love yours truly, the fanboy extrordinaire ghostlightning am always attempting to find ways to express my love for deculture. For the uninitiated, that means Macross! In my recent posts I may have given an impression that I’ve changed my colors and declared for the angst-ridden... | | |
| 12:00am | Before I Knew it, I Became a Gundam Fanboy | | | | In this post I reflect on some stardust memories. I was a mecha fan before I was an anime fan (if that’s even possible), but I’ve only become a fan of Gundam sometime after I started writing here in October of last year. It doesn’t mean that I love Macross less, there’s just... | | |
| 12:00am | TRUST YOU: Gundam 00 Gives Me and ED to Remember Love By | | | | The thing I find Important about OPs and EDs is how they make me feel about the show. For me a great OP makes me excited about the upcoming episode. I remember the OPs of the shows I grew up with - we’d really sing along in most likely poorly mimicked Japanese (CHAAA-LAAA HEAD CHA-LAAAA!!!).... | | |
| 4:49am | Congratulations: SDF-1 Macross | | | | According to the Macross timeline in the old Macross Compendium, the SDF-1 was christened ‘Macross’ on January, 2009. So I choose today to commemorate the christening: January 19th 2009 (THIS IS NOT CANON). Someday I will petition Mr. Kawamori to officially make January 19 the christening... |
| 12:00am | RideBack: Art, Politics, and Fanservice | | | | lelangir and ghostlightning GATTAI! RideBack appears to be an intriguing show, a visually pretty juxtaposition of art and politics, with mecha. ghostlightning: I loved the dance scene, the performance. The fluidity of the movements foreshadowed the goodness that will come later when the mecha comes... | | |
| 12:00am | Someone’s showing a bit of character: Setsuna F. Seiei (Gundam 00) | | | | There is a pretty strong opinion on how Setsuna F. Seiei fails. Hard. At the time the post was written I was more than less in agreement with it. Having said that, I rather enjoyed Setsuna’s character in season one, particularly with how he wanted to be a Gundam himself, and not just a pilot... | | |
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