| 4:30pm | All Points Bulletin: Banished from the Internet | | | | If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on an APB drop us a line via email or Twitter. Hisui’s picks:Banagher Links Golf 2012 Edition Gundamn examines the penultimate episode of Gundam Unicorn that is filled with mecha, monologues, and mutinies. All the key staples of Gundam. In a nice... | | |
| 9:02am | Attitudes about Otaku Inside Japan | | | | One question I'm asked sometimes is, how do Japanese feel about otaku? Originally a semi-formal way to say "you" or "your family" -- my Japanese mother-in-law might say to our neighbor, お宅の子はよく勉強し ますね otaku no ko wa yoku benkyo shimasu ne, meaning "your child sure seems to... | | |
| 12:30am | The April 2013 Line-Up | | | | This is one of those months where most of the news I remember is related to the new season of anime, like what titles are simulcasting and what Sentai Filmworks has decided to grab up (practically) sight unseen. In this new digital world, if your are not licensing things almost immediately, you’re... | | |
| 4:52pm | Attack on Titan is the Mobile Suit Gundam of Shounen Fighting Manga and Anime | | | | Attack on Titan, the manga and now anime about a world where humans live in walled cities for fear of being eaten by nigh-invulnerable giants, is an interesting and unique title in that it goes against the grain of shounen action series and their conventions, especially when it comes to heroics. In... | | |
| 4:30pm | Point of Entry: Gundam the Origin | | | | On April 7, 1979 a show debuted on the Nagoya Broadcasting Network that would that would change the mecha genre forever. 34 years later Mobile Suit Gundam would inspire a dozen TV shows, several movies and miniseries, dozens of novels and comics, and a plethora of toys and video games. So the question... | | |
| 4:30pm | All Points Bulletin: Darth Vadar’s Short Political Career | | | | If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on an APB drop us a line via email or Twitter. Hisui’s picks:What do Eminem, Hulk Hogan, and Twiggy All Have in Common? A nice chart of some of the One Piece characters and the real life people their designs are based on. Federally Mandated Nerd... | | |
| 10:34am | The Sunday Post and Stacking the Shelves– Crazy Days | | | | The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba of The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a weekly meme where we can share news of the week and highlight new books received. What a crazy week! Bombings, earthquakes, explosions, entire cities in lockdown! I hope all of you are... | | |
| 4:08am | Kakumeiki Valvrave – First Impressions | | | | Kakumeiki Valvrave has quite the pedigree, with Sunrise producing this new mecha anime and Okouchi Ichiro handling the writing. As far as Sunrise goes, there has been quite a history with mecha anime that gives Kakumeiki Valvrave more credibility and interest than most. With that being said, can this... | | |
| 4:30pm | Ongoing Investigations: Case #211 | | | | I did not realize until recently that Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn episode 6 came out. The bloom has really fallen of that rose. When the first few volumes of Gundam Unicorn came out everyone was talking about it for a few days leading up to its release. It was an event. Now I see more talk about the... | | |
| 5:24am | Valvrave the Liberator 01 |  | | | All hail Valvrave! What, you think I would blog anything else but THE A++ mecha show of the season?Summary:Every show needs a good eating competitionIn the year 71 of the True Calendar with the completion of the Dyson Sphere, mankind has successfully colonized space with 70% of the population moving... | | |
| 11:35am | Cool Products Monday, April 8, 2013 | | | | For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. You can view all new J-List products by clicking this link. Today's New & Restocked Items Dengeki Hime May 2013J-List customers love the awesome variety... | | |
| 2:51am | Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVA 06 | | | | A new Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn came out a month ago, and of course I completely missed it because episodes come out once every half a year to a year. In this latest installment, the search for Laplace's Box continues, while Full Frontal and the Sleeves occupy the Nahel Argama which leads to tensions... | | |
| 1:09am | Gundam 00- Rebirth | | | | In the final confrontation between Setsuna and Ribbons, the 00-Raiser is heavily damaged by Ribbons and the other Innovators; however, assistance from the other Meisters evens the odds. In the ensuing chaos, Allelujah/Hallelujah and Lockon respectively kill Hilling and Revive while Ribbons and Setsuna... | | |
| 8:16pm | Spring 2013 – Season Preview | | | | The Spring 2013 anime season already upon us with an extensive array of new and returning anime debuting over the next couple weeks. As with every season prior, this season preview is a complete and thorough glimpse at all the anime airing over the next three months, and paired together with my thoughts... | | |
| 5:07pm | Flexibility of Ingredients in Giant Robot Anime | | | | On the recent Anime World Order podcast there was an e-mail from a listener lamenting the lack of “real mecha anime.” The AWO guys (Clarissa was absent) concurred with his view, and said that, while they understand the argument that elements they don’t enjoy in current shows were... | | |
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