Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway – The Sorcery of Nymph Circe Review

The next Hathaway movie adaptation has arrived and to my surprise it’s kept quite close to the novel in that it’s far more character focused than action focused, leading to something of a divide in the Gundam fanbase as to whether or not it’s good, whether there’s “too much talking” or other such stuff. To me, personally? I liked it, but then I knew what I was (most likely) getting from these things given Tomino’s source novels, and all the introspective scenes will really pay off in the finale… whenever that ends up materialising! Anyway, let’s take a look…

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Freedom Review

This one has been a long time coming, and I’m not just talking about the two decades it took to get made, I mean the year or so it’s taken for it to get a legal release here in the UK… The second Hathaway film made it to UK streaming in just a few months! (more on that next time…) Well, anyway, here it is at last, and on 4K Blu-ray no less, so I can finally say… it was alright. Definitely felt like an epilogue rather than a continuation, which is fine as a final movie to cap things off, like Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (technically an OVA but still…) rather than a weird but still enjoyable third act like 00: Awakening of a Trailblazer. So let’s take a look at it and cap off the Cosmic Era timeline, which is an odd thing to say after all this time…

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Super Robot Wars Y (PS5) Review

When I finished Super Robot Wars 30, all 100+ hours of it, I was so burnt out from the experience I wondered that if they did announce another one whether I’d bother or not… silly really, because a few years later SRW Y is announced, and able to be brought legally in the UK no less, so of course I was in, DLC season pass and all. So what’s it like? It’s like the other 4 SRW games I’ve reviewed on the site but with slight UI changes, a new mechanic that’s a lot like existing mechanics, and some new featured series. Review done. … Oh okay, fine, I’ll go into more detail then…

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Jujutsu Kaisen – Culling Game Arc (Episodes 48 – 59), My Hero Academia: Vigilantes – Season 2 and My Hero Academia: You’re Next! Reviews

Another trio of “mini-reviews” of things I sadly missed out of giving proper time to over the past few months, this time a trio of anime! Admittedly as much as I enjoyed the eye candy that was Jujutsu Kaisen’s Culling Game season I doubt my overall review would’ve been that much longer really, given it’s all-action approach…

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam Overall Review

Time for another “I don’t really do these anymore but since I’ve done them for all of the other Gundam series I don’t want to break the streak now we’re near the end” Overall Review, this time for the decidedly un-Gundam-like Mobile Fighter G Gundam. If you’re in the mood for a bit of over-the-top silliness and martial art film tropes then G Gundam is for you, but if you’re looking for a “real robot” war story like most Gundam shows you’ve picked the wrong one. Let’s take a quick overall look then, shall we?

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Episodes 40 – 49) Review

G Gundam comes to its rather spectacular end with its final 10 episodes. We find out the truth behind “Schwarz Bruder” (as if the name wasn’t obvious enough), we see the finals, then the um, battle royal after the finals and then the actual final of the Gundam Fight (what a confusing tournament it is!) and the Devil Gundam is once again defeated and once again returns to be taken out again… or is it?! Let’s take a look!

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Episodes 26 – 39) Review

The next lot of G Gundam episodes are a bit of a let down overall. After a fun and crazy story arc last time the show reverts to a “of the week” format again, with different adversaries for Domon to take down each week and even a rematch with his Shuffle Alliance pals with each getting an episode for a rematch. It’s not bad per say, but it did feel like the show was breaking out of the convention and stretching out a bit, only to snap right back. Let’s take a look!

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