Mekton GM: I think of the 80s as the golden age because of lots of different factors that all coalesced together. First there was the maturing of the audience and the marketing aimed at them. Kids who watched anime in the 70s kept watching in the 80s as teens, and the writing matured to keep them fe...

They're finally doing what they should have done after the series ended, so it seems plenty bright to me. My only worry is that the original writing staff doesn't seem to be around any more, so new stories will be written by others with less real-world experience. That can make a huge difference. As...

Swordbits: The way I heard it, the CG ATs were not Takahashi's idea, but rather a commandment from Bandai during the making of Pailsen Files. The animation staff didn't want to do it--like us, they believed 2D would have much better results. But Bandai went CG with Gundam to make the making of toys ...

I didn't get any more of the novel translated other than that one key moment, since I knew it was the most important. There is a *little* more about the space-baby-Chirico flashback in Pailsen Files and Phantom Arc, at least enough to piece together what Pailsen actually saw. The only detail we don'...

I haven't played SRW games per se, but I've lost many hours to their PS1 equivalents and three editions of Another Century's Episode on the PS2. They're fun in a kind of dream-team way, but they have little or nothing to contribute to the source stories. As far as the ATs mixing it up with other mec...

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