"You've never watched anime? You have to watch Akira!" Eh.... no. Before some idiot gets his panties in a wad and proves that I should block him for being an insofferable git, I can fairly say I've been hooked on some form of anime since at least the broadcast of Space Cruiser Yamato as "Star Blazers" in the early eighties, and in high school was swapping videotape copies to watch everything from Megazone 23 to Area 88 with no subtitles or dubs. Some of us with two VCR's were starting…
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OK. I cut my teeth on anime in the days when Robotech had barely broken out – actually earlier on Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets(aka Ninja Science Team Gatchaman) – when the only practical way for a kid to get a lot of movies was to trade tapes, blanks, or copies, with other people or pick up horribly overpriced laswedisks at the occasional con. Saw some offbeat stuff, including Megazone23 1&2, Urusei Yatsura, Iczer One, Bubblegum Crisis, Gundam, of course,Golgo13, the Area88 vids, Vampire…
Over at Wasteland and Sky, the “100 best anime [https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/2017/06/100-accessible-anime-guide-for-fans.html] ” series has come to an end. There are a lot of items new to me on the list. Of the ones I’m familiar with though, I generally agree. First – please, God, no for Attack on Titan. Yes, the quality of the animation is excellent, and it’s a big deal, but it’s such a dark, depressing mess embodying the worst of the zombie genre – though the monsters in question hav…
What do you get when you cross Gregory Benford’s Great Sky River [https://infogalactic.com/info/Great_Sky_River_(novel)]with a spaghetti western? Blame. A brief voiceover gives us the setting. In the far, *far* future where humanity lost the ability to communicate with the city it constructed, that they lived in, and so the city deemed them illegal residents, and began to exterminate humanity. Our story starts generations later.An aside. Yes. Given the word choice, I’m sure some people would l…
Bradford Walker has suggested we fork Star Wars, and then proceeded to suggest some other sources to look at – and said sources immediately tugged at some truly nostalgic memories. First – Yamato [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2017/04/my-life-in-fandom-alternatives-to-star_19.html] . While I’d had some exposure while visiting the grandparents via Boston channels to the giant-robot cartoons out of Japan, “Star Blazers”, as it was released in the states, was truly something else. Sure, the…