Story: Without a doubt, V Gundam is the saddest Gundam story to date. And before anything else is said, I think it’s worth a mention to say that a lot of people die, and most of the time for no good reason at all. That aside, I have to say I really loved the storyline. However, some of the story arcs in the middle could have been left out, and the story would still be intact; a lot of the time during said arcs I found myself wondering why the characters were doing what they were doing. There’s not a lot of narrative glue to stick the parts together, and to keep one interested during some of the low parts. But, overall it’s a nice story, with an emphasis on death, and at least during the last arc, a huge emphasis on the beauty of life.

Art: Very good. V Gundam uses a very simple art style to convey the characters and the Mobile Suits; which is both good and bad. Most of the Suits are very similar to each other, and are very rarely any unique. Characters however, look very nice, and some are just too cool for words, while others are just meh. Battles are everything you would expect from a mecha show, and although somewhat exaggerated at times (or almost all of the time), they’re mostly very good. The simple style works here to make the art very nice looking even today.

Sound: Not much to say here. There’s an excellent cast of actors working on the voices, and the mecha sounds are great, but nothing really stands out in this category.

Characters: We’ve got a cast of mostly children and women, with the main villain and one of the main characters being male. The rest of the male cast are either lesser characters or very old men. I can’t quite remember why the cast is like it is, but it brings a fresh look on what might be a stale storyline. It also has the effect of removing almost all romantic involvement between the main characters. There’s a peace-loving-battle-scarred boy, a princess girl, and a group of what seem to be orphaned children. Interaction between them is what really pushes the story along. Without a doubt, Oliver and Captain Gomez were my favorite characters, both of which received little screen time, but both of whom were very central to the story.

Overall: No where near as good as First Gundam, V Gundam is nonetheless a very nice looking, anime featuring a somewhat lacking storyline that’ll get your emotions running if you’re not prepared for it. Definitely recommended if you’ve seen the other UC animes, however, the story is completely separate from the main meta-plot.

My review from MAL.

As you may or may not know, I’ve always hated the fact that the tag/category cloud doesn’t work on my theme. I’ve been screwing around with the CSS to see if I could fix it, but to no avail. So, I thought I would just make my own

I made a new Text/HTML widget and made a simple tag cloud. It’s not the best way to do it, but it’s good for me now. The only problem I can see with it now is the formula used for text size. It’s currently base 12px with an increase of [number of posts]% for each category. It’s not the way that the real widget does it, but it’s a quick fix. I’ll be messing around with this a little more to perfect it, but I’m very content with this for now.

First comic in a long, long time that has made me laugh out loud.

Now making a new avatar…

Edit: Can’t see it You’ll have to Right Click > View Image in Firefox to see the whole thing. Sorry about that.

Concept: MA Puts you in the shoes of MechWarrior Valen, and pits you against the evil enemy faction AMS. During your campaign against these traitors, you’ll fight mostly in large mecha (with a third-person view), but you have the abilty to leave it at any time. Should you do so, however, one shot and you’re dead. Some missions have you in your Battle Armor (a personal armor, a lot smaller than a mecha), which has very low combat abilities, high jumping capabilities, and the skill of being able to latch onto walls (to scale them) and enemies (to hack them). And some missions (only a few) even force you to fight without any type of armor, and only a “pilot bomb” as armament.

Before each new area, there is normally a short (but sweet) cutscene, and the whole game features a great voice over (No text dialog whatsoever).

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This is a serious post, besides the word Geekdom. I’m not really sure what the correct term is, but as a geek myself, I’d like to share the three main areas in which being one has hindered my Christian life.

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Story: The main story is split up into two main arcs (from 1-27, and 28-36). While the second arc might not seem very necessary to the story itself, it closes up the loose ends left behind from certain character relationships. The story is very fluid, pretty deep, and all around well-planned. It’s unique, and I never found myself wondering, “Now why are they doing this again?” like in other animes. The anime has a starting point and an ending point, with very little fluff in the middle. Every episode has its purpose, and it’s basically very well thought out.

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Although my Anime plate is rather full at the moment with Macross 7 and Frontier (trying to watch them all before Ace Frontier comes out on the PSP), and V Gundam and 00 Gundam (want to watch the latter before I crack out the import 00 DS game), I couldn’t resist sneaking a small peek at this anime. Mospeada is the third anime used in the Robotech mesh, but I finally got my hands on the original subbed version, before it was even considered for RT. I’ve only watched the first episode, but I thought I’d share my thought on it here.

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After having been absent for a while, I’m back with a small update on my programming. Remember back when I wrote about a program that extracts RapidShare links from a site? Well, after cleaning out my Python folder from one tutorial to another, and cleaning out my Downloads folder (by deleting extracted Rars), I emptied my recycle bin… Along with my program. So, I busted my butt to write it again, but this time using wxPython, and this time in its own separate folder. Here are my results for the RSLF (RapidShare Link Finder) v. 1.01

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After what seems like a thousand years, I’m back with a new post. This time to cover the promised Robotech/Macross post. It’s not really a versus match, it’s just more of a side by side comparison. Macross is a Japanese anime released a while back (early 80s, I think), and Robotech is the American adaptation of that anime. The problem is how they adapted it, and that’s what we’re going to discuss here.

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I recently have gotten back into playing my DS, and with some new games on the way, I’m really excited. Especially these:

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