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Surprisingly the "cuteness" of the robots in Superior Defender Gundam Force isn't annoying me as much as I expected. Maybe it is because I am weak when exposed to cute things. It's as if they knew Kawaiii is my Kryptonite!

The only way to watch this show is to realize that this was the beginning / test phase vehicle for the CGI techniques employed in later gundam series. And then there's the underground dark humor and parody aspects. For example, the samurai gundam Bakunetsumaru, when he's about to do his special attack (2 swords) he circles his katanas together forming Twin Circles of light. I was rather shocked because those look like the twin circles of light from the twin drive effect in Gundam 00 Season 2.

In the latest episode, the boy falls down a hill and lands near a huge crystal sticking up of the ground. Then 2 mud balls (like snowballs but with people inside) roll down the hill and end up one on either side of the crystal, it was 100% phallic, I was laughing so hard I started choking and crying. I don't know how the hell they have this stuff in a kiddie cartoon, let alone the "power up" scenes and the "combine" scenes which I am expecting to get more and more ... um well. Lol.

I've been working on updating it for the past like hour. xD

So, Superior Defender Gundam Force has nothing to do with Universal Century. I guess that one must be Super Deformed (SD) Gundam Mk 1 - 4. After seeing the first 6 episodes of SD Gundam Force I must admit to being surprised. The animation was early CGI so some movements are choppy but the US writing side of the US Japan collaboration managed to sneak in some really funny stuff in there. Below are 3 notable examples just in the first 2 episodes.

"I love the smell of concrete in the morning" - parody from Apocalypse Now
"I'm a robot doctor, not a miracle worker!" - ripoff from Bones McCoy of Star Trek
And my favorite, I could hardly contain myself from sniggering "Can I touch it?" ... "Ooh, it feels warm" - ok ok, so I have a dirty mind.

The rest of the series (other than the dark humor here and there) seems fairly predictable, they managed to make the gundams look cute, too bad I can't say the same about the humans. Looks like I'll have to get the rest of the DVDs from Netflix since it's only about 3 episodes per disk.

Aria season 1 was ok. Season 2 was better and Season 3 was masterpiece. Don't marathon it, just do a few episodes a day. Given your personality type if you try to marathon it you will sleep. See, I told you so!

I will save Barefoot Gen for after thanksgiving. If I can find it. Is it Netflixable?

Hahaha!

Sorry somehow, I misinterpreted your previous comment and ended thinking that you were from Germany. I have not been quite into the news lately, but things went down in the states for quite some time now, hearing what you say it's even worse than I had imagined. I can perfectly understand what you say, since it has been like that around here since forever. The unemployment statistics haven't been so low since the early eighties. I know many people that went looking for a new life somewhere else, but Portuguese people by nature is a traveller people so, it's always happening. The guys in powers sure do some very poor decisions sometimes. I miss watching the news on television, I haven't done so due to work related reasons these days, but from that point of view is better if I keep myself far from the television, those type of news just makes us feel worse and the only thing that we can actually do is a simple "vote", which can still be significant but we can't avoid thinking of it as a "tiny" thing.

Learning languages is a very good thing, I'd like to go further into Japanese one day, but I'm a lazy guy. The other day I heard of a guy who learned the language, or became fluent at it in like, two years or so, that's pretty convincing. I may go and do something someday.

That Galaxy Express on crunchyroll subject pisses me off. I mean, why must Live-Evil stop doing it just because of Crunchyroll? In first place, they may have licensed it, but that didn't meant that Live-evil had to drop the project, because they had a international audience and the group Live-Evil also has non US staff with them. Second, can we really call "Licensed anime" to something uploaded on a streaming site with no plans of releasing it in any physical format? Bah, damn them.
My thing is that, if you are outside of the US you can't watch the content of the site, so when Live-evil stopped galaxy Express it meant, no Galaxy Express to people outside the US. I hate watching streaming stuff, except the occasional short clips at youtube of course, but I could watch the stuff at crunchyroll i wouldn't be so mad about it.

Sometime ago, I would watch some average weekly anime like say, "Shuffle!" and forgettable shows like it, just to ocupy my time, but since actually there are so much goldies being uploaded, I can't have the luxury of watching every average/ok anime there is. Take for example "The Book Of Bantorra" in this season, the series looks fine, it has some good ingredients to make a successful anime in some fields, but I felt it didn't had it, that special thing to take my time, so I eventually dropped it. regardless I ended watching some 6 series this season, so it wasn't that weak as I was expecting. I watched the first episode of Inuyasha, but I'll postpone that one and marathon it when it's finished. I'm a Rumiko Takahashi fan, so it's obligation for me.
And despite nowadays being so much golden anime uploaded around, there are some fansubs doing some older works of valour, like Dougram, Zillion and Heavy Metal L-Gaim, in this case they are frequent ongoing stuff, not like the the forever ongoing projects of Live-evil. So even if I watch few modern weekly anime, I still have my hands full with anime, and the best, old anime. :D

Cheers,
Rob.

Heidi was a huge success around here in the past, it aired somewhere in late 70s and wet with several reruns through the 80s, it had the impact of, say, similar with something like what Dragonball had in the 90s. Even today everybody remembers it, well at least people with 25+ years.

I've also seen those Heidi rips around. It's from a butchered version released around here in these later years, when i say butchered I mean it, because there are like only 40 something episodes in it. So I would love to watch a proper version of it one of these days. I also don't trust the translations very much. But on the other side, i have checked Marco and Live-Evil's version of Marco (10.000 leagues in search of mother) to check on the translation and the old portuguese translation is pretty decent, but I still would like to see a decent release of Heidi.
Minor Ja Nai started working on Heidi, but they are one of those fansubs that picks some oldies but are likely to not finish them, unfortunately. They made it to the 4th episode, maybe someday we can see another release of Heidi from them.

Cutey Honey is a personal favorite. I have to thank Sailor Spork to bring me the opportunity to watch it even if they have stalled the project unfortunately. I can't get enough of that opening, I love it. I love lots of 70s openings, but Cutey Honey opening iis certainly on of the best.

One that reminds me greatly of Cutey honey opening is Bia (Majokko Meg-chan) opening. I think it's the other way around though because I watched Bia as a kid and only watched Cutey Honey when Sailor Spork released it.

The style is pretty similar. take a look.
Cutey Honey OP
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The Portuguese opening of Bia is so lovely.
Bia OP
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If someone would also bring Bia again, that would be awesome too.
Yeah, Bia was a "guitly pleasure" of mine back then as Cutey Honey is nowadays.

I've skimmed through those other new OVAs and the Live-Action, in fact i have them on my HDD to watch one day. But I am so attached to the first series that I don't even think on ruining my image of Cutey Honey.

Cheers,
Rob.

Bakemonogatari's episode 13 is out!!! The quality is so-so and Senjougahara only shows up for around one minute but even so the episode it's quite good.

This game will get you back in, trust me xD!

It's a little bit old and I really do not have to watch sad things on anime anymore, since THE saddest are happening here in my country as we "speak".