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A retelling of an early sci-fi manga, Towards the Terra is the textbook case of an excellent idea ruined by poor execution. Set in the distant future where humanity is forced to migrate to other planets due to environmental degradation content to live under the Superior Domination System. However the existence of human beings withContinue reading “Towards the Terra(2007)”

Set in the backdrop of the One Year War between Zeon and the Earth Federation; this series depicts the participation of the 8th MS Team under Ensign Shiro Amada as they push the Zeon forces who had dropped onto Earth at the tail of the Origin from Ukraine deep into Asia.But the young officer isContinue reading “Mobile Suit Gundam:The 08th MS Team(1996)”

Soul Eater is an interesting anime set on the lines of DGray Man but with a more lighthearted take on the battle between good and evil. Lord Death sets up an academy to train  both Grim Reapers(Meisters) and Weapons.  The anime follows the struggles of Meister Maka Albarn and her partner Soul Eater Evans. WhileContinue reading “Soul Eater”

What happens when a Objectivist salaryman who denies the existence of God, is forced with evidence of His presence ? Bayesianism would suggest that he would have to revise his posteriors. But when he mocks Being X (as he calls God) as being the crutch of the weak, he is cast into a world filledContinue reading “The Saga of Tanya The Evil(2017)”

Set on a nominally neutral space colony in the midst of the war between Earth and the Principality of Zeon, War in the Pocket does is a poignant tale a young boy being forced to grow up when faced with war. The short 6 episode OVA series was in my opinion more successful in conveyingContinue reading “A Touching Tragedy: Mobile Suit Gundam 080 War in the Pocket”

BSY 2202 is glorious let down from the standards its predecessors set. Suffering from insufferable characters, a meandering plot and plenty of scenes which reek of stupidity. The only upside to this series is that it does further the plot and sets up things for the next one (2205 I think ) The fanatic MongoloidContinue reading “Battleship Yamato 2202(2017)”

A retelling of the classic Yamato series which blazed the path for mecha anime like Mobile Suit Gundam and Macross, this series depicts the desperate voyage of the eponymous spaceship across the galaxies in search of hope in Iscandar after the earth is devastated by the Space Nazi Gamillan Empire. Under the leadership of AdmiralContinue reading “Space Blazers: Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012)”

A peculiar blend between mecha, fantasy and romance, RahXephon is a beautiful anime that suffers from what I call “art-film”ness. The plot is so layered and the lore so thick that Tolkien would be proud. Our protagonist Ayato Kamina lives a rather pedestrian life as a would-be artist living with his scientist mother until anContinue reading “RahXephon(2002)”

Its the rare anime which can be successfully adopted from a video game, but thus is what Nightow’s Gungrave does. A intriguing mixture of crime and fantasy , Gungrave is I think partly a homage to the buddy movies of the 90s such as Bad Boys as well as to gangster films like Scarface. ButContinue reading “Gungrave(2003)”

An unusual mech where the sci-fi part takes a front seat vis a vis the much battles, Zegapain starts off as a formulaic mech similar to Code Geass, but turns into a layer sci-fi. The protagonist Kyo’s life is thrown into dissaray when he gets a hot new girl Shizuno to act in the advertContinue reading “Zegapain(2008)”