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It's sad that you had to quit 2 days after I subscribed but I understand. Well at least I can marathon rest of your videos. Legend of the Galactic Heroes comparison videos you did are some of my favourite youtube content I've seen recently. Thank you for all your work and I wish best of luck to you sir!

"why must every Gundam romance be terrible"
It comes with the territory, I'm afraid.

"Speaking of which, I've noticed Seed seems to have a "remaster" that makes significant visual changes. Which version would you recommend?"
Truthfully, I haven’t actually seen the remastered version of Seed. One of the things Gundam Seed was heavily criticized for was an over-reliance on flashbacks and stock footage. I’ve heard that the remaster cuts down on that and adds some extra scenes. I did download a few episodes of the remaster to check out my favorite parts of the show. I feel that certain changes made, particularly when it comes to music, were questionable. And I was never bothered all that much by the flashbacks and stock footage in the first place. I’m sure you know about all those Star Wars fans who passionately believe that the theatrical releases are the only proper versions of the original trilogy. While I would like to watch the remaster one day, the original will always be the “true” version for me. However, for a first-time viewer, I think the remaster is the way to go.

"I've cut off my YouTube channel for the time being, due to a variety of factors, so I'll probably be a bit slower trucking through the rest of Gundam without the hard deadline to produce videos. Still, I very much plan to complete the franchise; I enjoy "projects" like this."
I can't imagine all the pressure you're under, with the end of the semester approaching and your video release schedule. Well, no matter what you decide to do regarding your channel, we've always got MAL.

On a different note, have fun with the "best" Gundam.

Suppose watching 300+ episodes of Gintama probably conditioned you enough to Japanese tone reading. On the other hand to Yamada, there’s the Monogatari series, which only really could work with Japanese. Maybe Nichijou too but I haven’t seen that yet.

Yeah, Jessica's new design is pretty good for her.

FOR THE ORIGINAL. I'd want to keep up with it currently so I'm going sub there. Though I might be tempted to hear the dub on certain episodes. Similar for Full Metal Panic, which I'm caught up with now in sub, despite the fact that the dub is having all the major character voices return, including ones who don't voice act much anymore. The only shows this season I am watching dub are Tokyo Ghoul Re, HeroAca S3, and Hinamtasuri because Funimation got simuldubs for them. The first two at the same time as the Japanese. Hinamatsuri is a few weeks off, but I'm watching that one in dub as well. For comedy's sake reading tone is easier for me if a show is dubbed.
Similar reason why I could only see myself liking a show like Yamada-kun in anime form in dub, because the gimmick of the show is specifically enhanced with voice acting as opposed to text, and made much clearer to an English speaker when you hear the voice actors change tones during body swapping. Thankfully Funimation has it.

Also, watching the LotGH reboot, I don't remember a brief moment of an intense car chase in the original (there might've been, I forget), but here, there was, when Yang was getting Jessica Edwards out of where the President's speech was being given. The latter events with soldiers arriving DID happen, but I forgot about the short car chase. I'll defend a lot about IG's modern production design but....yeah....Julian's new design is easily the worst one.

Haha, that's a good way of putting it.

I was referring more to the conflict at large. Even, say, Mobile Suit Gundam (and Seed as well) starts off centering around a bunch of kids who were caught up in the war and are simply trying to survive. They might be fighting out of necessity, but most of their comrades are not. In fact, I can't think of any war anime in which the opposing sides hate each other more than Gundam Seed.

Yes I just watched your update video

I hope the wind takes you far my friend to bountiful opportunities.

So how was the movie?

Sweet. Personally it’s one of the high points of the MCU, and a real testament to the 10 years of universe building they had.

I’d seen every movie except Black Panther, but aside from Black Panther being King of Wakanda (which I already knew) and Bucky apparently being there I wasn’t lost.
Some unexpected choices, bold decisions and a welcome focus. No spoilers but hope you like it! Let me know whatcha think.

On a different note, how caught up are you on the MCU?

Yeah, I've seen those clips. The animation is kind of choppy, but the game had to obviously be scaled down in many ways in order to fit into the package of an anime series. Other friends who have played the game say the storytelling is kind of rushed so far too. Still, if the story itself really is there, I'd be happy, because the relevance and the message of the story itself is what really has cemented P5 as one of the defining Japanese games of this generation.

Hey, did you ever check out LolaLink's videos on the psychology of the characters and themes in Persona 5? They're really pretty insightful, and her way of talking actually reminds me a bit of yours in your reviews. Just as a sample, here's the one on Morgana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_X3Fy1Ax-c
And here's the one on Ann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoZ6_hydeY

I'm still checking out the rest of them even as I'm typing this - she has some for P4 too.

"Ah. Guess I might as well do the movie when I get to that point then (sorry, I guess I could've looked that up myself)."
No worries. AniDB is the place to go if you want technical or fansub info on anime.