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Laplace’s Box? No, The Cursed Treasure is More Like The Black History: Mobile...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 34] This was one hell of an episode. I’m going to get to the good stuff soon enough, but I need to get past some really annoying things first: The battle is terribly done. Now,...
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Lost Sons in Space: Happy Fathers Day Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 36 (Gundam...
[Mobile Suit Gundam 35] The Gundam Franchise is notable for its teenage pilots. This almost always means problems with the father. From the very first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam back in 1979, Amuro...
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 37: Behind The Propaganda
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 36] Kio gets captured, ends up looking like Lord Ezelcant’s dead son Romy, and is treated like a guest in Vagan. Ezelcant lets Kio immerse himself in the Vagan context in the...
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Dead Girlfriends as Plot Devices: Yurin & Lu x The Asuno Boys Mobile Suit...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 37] Today I speculate on the consequences of Kio’s puppy love affair with Lu while contrasting it with the similarly tragic and death-filled affair of Flit with Yurin when Flit...
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Schenberg Was Dead, Zeon Was Dead, Ezelcant is Dying, But Their Post-Human...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 38] No Patrick Zala? No. He’s no visionary. He’s just a butthurt hater. Zeon Zum Deikum proclaimed that from among the Spacenoids a new type of human will emerge, suited for...
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What Gundam Amounts To: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 40
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 39] Mobile Suit Gundam AGE showed me many things, and is still showing more – things I did not expect it to do or pull off – but more importantly, and perhaps most importantly,...
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Everything That Doesn’t Involve Kio’s Insufferable H4XX0RZ is Still Awesome:...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 40] My worst fears continue to be confirmed as Kio tears through the Vagan-held Luna Base lopping off MS heads with precise shooting, for the sake of not killing; then lecture...
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The Failure of a Mecha Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 42
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 41] Rightly or wrongly what I value most in a robot anime is the robot action, relative to its age and milieu. There are exceptions such as Mobile Suit Z Gundam, which was a...
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“Amazing! Triple Gundam! Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 43 Indeed Have Three Gundams,...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 42] The highlight here is not that there were three Gundams. Ever since the very first Alternative Universe series (Mobile Fighter G Gundam) we’ve been treated to multiple...
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Zeheart Galette! Light For Our Prayers! Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 44
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 43] Zeheart confronted Ezelcant with the truth, and Ezelcant owned up to his madness! Then he asked Zeheart to follow him anyway – to “become the light for humanity”— that is,...
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Bendy Beam Hell: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 45 is a Video Game Episode with an...
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 44] I often read critics pan films by using/making the observation “like a video game,” as if video game action sequences aren’t proven methods of delivering a high level of...
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The Clusterfukc of Conflict at the End of AGEs of War: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 46
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 45] As with the tradition of Gundam shows, the final battle becomes a mess of conflicts as factions turn on each other. The Earth Federation isn’t immune to this, with the...
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 47: Kio The Burst of Infinite Mercy
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 46] Seric dies, not fighting, but plotted as the maturity flag for Capt. Natora Einus. His machine is damaged enough to remain in the path of the Diva’s main gun, and Natora...
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Gundam AGE 48 Remembers the Show I Loved For Almost a Year Now
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 47] No. I’m not saying this makes up for the entire Kio arc. Also, there’s one more episode for it to all go to waste. But, for 20 or so minutes, I was reminded of the show I...
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Finale: The Worst is Over
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 48] Thank you everyone for following my coverage of the show. I didn’t think it was possible for me to complete a year-long episodic coverage in a consistent, timely manner....
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