Well, shoot. I have always wanted to watch this series (and in bluray format), but the cost has always prevented me from pulling the trigger. I'm finally at a point in my life where I could semi-responsibly consider paying such ridiculous prices, but a quick look through the internet indicates that ...

My apologies. I didn't see that thread. It was news to me.

I was just in the Sunrise panel at Anime Expo. They announced that they're working with both Funimation and Sentai Filmworks to bring back the titles formerly distributed by Bandai Entertainment. They have no details as to which titles or a timeframe, but it's something at least. We may see Turn A G...

Well, I was afraid this would happen. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-08-31/bandai-entertainment-to-discontinue-home-video-manga-novel-sales Got a couple months left to purchase anything you might want, so you don't need to order everything right this minute. But all the same, make sure yo...

I'll be at AX for 3 days. Debating whether to take leave for Friday or Monday, can't do both and I won't be able to get there till about noon on Friday either way. This will be my first time going to AX. Being an Otakon veteran from when I used to live in Virginia I'm looking forward to see how you ...

Since we're on the topic of re-entry, what was up with the original Gundam's re-entry plastic wrap? How did it work and what happened to it (why don't future MS use it)? The idea was that somehow scientists created a material that was able to absorb enough heat and was light enough and thin enough ...

Brave Fencer Kirby, thank you very, very much for this thoughtful reply. It went a long way toward dispelling my concerns. BFK is indeed spot on. One of the things that brought this on was finding out that there's no term "escape limit zone" that I can find except in Gundam 00. I guess my...

Sorry to interrupt your comments about the series as you go along. I just now finished myself. I'll say more when you get the end. In short, it's the best ending to any of Tomino's series, and possibly one of the best anime endings I've ever seen. The epilogue montage in particular is extremely powe...

Pheonix012, I think you'll find that you enjoy the last 10 or so episodes the most. At least, that's how it was for me. The series really picked up for me toward the end. Yup. I now have 5 episodes left to go and the tension and excitement that was missing for much of the series has finally materia...

I, too, have begun to crank through Turn A Gundam as the last full length Gundam show that I haven't seen as well. Needless to say, it's been worth the watch. I'm not convinced yet that it's the best as so many seem to claim, but I have 10 episodes left to go so we'll see if my opinion changes once ...

Well, its certainly been refreshing to see someone come in and watch Destiny with a untainted perspective. I suspect everyone's comments began to color your experience slightly towards the end, but that's how it goes, and the discussion has been very fair. It's also made me feel sad all over again, ...

I was going to reply stating most of you are being too hard on Athrun, but Kirby beat me to it. The key thing that everyone forgets is that Athrun never had any particular loyalty to Orb outside Cagalli. In fact once Cagalli soundly betrayed him, he had no loyalty left other than his home, the PLANT...

There's certainly plenty to like about Macross 7. The only real thing that hurts it is the style, which is a significant departure from previous Macross shows. While Plus had a heavy focus on action and mech designs, Mac7 had a heavy emphasis on music and unusual characters. For people who liked the...

I guess enough of the long-time Gundam fans have stopped frequenting forums such as these and allowed discussions like this to take place without being drowned out in a chorus of zealots who yell at anyone who criticizes Zeta and tell them to go back to watching SEED Destiny. Depends a lot on what ...

As bad as the writing was at times, the main protagonists were actually likeable, and that's what makes the show worth watching. Like Zeta, the show was at its best once it got away from events centered solely around the Argama and showed how it fit within the broader events going on in the Earth Sp...

Well, this has certainly been an interesting topic. I, for one, have seen a lot of Zeta worshiping on various forums over the years and after reading Destiny_Gundam's first post, was expecting more of the same. It was refreshing to see a mostly candid and reasonable discussion of the series and surp...

One word: Kaworu. If this is just a remake and we're to believe that this has never happened before and won't happen again, why is it that every single time he opens his mouth in both movies, he says something about how 'this time' will be different*? I'll admit that until the last thirty seconds o...

I honestly don't find the evidence for Rebuild being a sequel rather than a remake at all convincing. I don't think about it when watching either movie (it honestly wouldn't have really occurred to me if people hadn't been freaking out about it when the 1.0 came out. If it turns out to be true, it'l...

Aircraft numbers are rarely skipped. The "gaps" are simply prototypes and testbed aircraft that never made it to full production. The reason for the giant gap between the F-22 and F-35 is due to F-35 actually being derived from the X-35, which followed the proper number sequencing for expe...

I recall an earlier topic where we determined that most larger ships had centrifugal gravity with a rotating cylinder inside the hull. Of course even those ships still had many areas that did not have gravity and it seems that some sort of magnetic or adhesive boots would be required. Details on thi...