penguintruth's Anime
take a look at penguintruth's MangaThese lucky anime titles have been viewed in their entirety by yours truly.
| Seen all▲▼ | Rating▲▼ | Comment▲▼ |
| Megazone 23 (OAV) | Decent | |
| Megazone 23 Part II (OAV) | Decent | |
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) | Very good | A unique take on the "school story", with a comedic science fiction slant that is reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in its wit and irony. Haruhi is energetic and refreshing, and narration by sardonic Kyon is hilarious. TMoHS (or SHnY) is worth most of the praise and popularity it recieves. |
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV 2009 renewal) | Decent | |
| Metropolis (movie) | Excellent | Has that future-retro feel of Tezuka's classics with some unique visuals. https://vimeo.com/107776503 |
| Michiko & Hatchin (TV) | Excellent | |
| Mobile Fighter G Gundam (TV) | Decent | G Gundam takes some of the sensibilities of the Gundam franchise and turns them on their ear, injecting many aspects of the martial arts and "super robot" show. The result? Bizzare, tongue-in-cheek, high-octane action, fun. What's more, of all Gundam shows, it has the most fleshed out love story. You'll want to hit things with your fists by the end, with the power of the Undefeated of the East. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam (TV) | Masterpiece | Yoshiyuki Tomino revolutionized the "real robot" branch of mecha with this 43-episode toy commercial/war drama. As it is with its age and purpose in the industry, the show is clearly dated and full of oddities of both the visual and directional, but it's still clearly a very mature take on the mecha genre and can be very gripping at times. "Mecha of the week" gets tiresome, but the movie trilogy fixes this. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam - The Movie Trilogy | Masterpiece | The original story of Mobile Suit Gundam, focused. A mandatory watch. I: https://youtu.be/z4QwA_nOQVY II (A): https://youtu.be/MHqjepVORj8 II (B): https://youtu.be/EAwUHmKCba0 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (TV) | Bad (dub), Decent (sub) | (I'm not going to review the two seasons as two series. This will just be part one of two of the full review.) Gundam 00 is a fairly decent Gundam series that breaths some fresh air into the franchise, even with some overuse of certain Gundam tropes. What really did the trick was some of the toying with said tropes, like the introduction of giant orbital space elevators as solar antennas. Another being the use of GN particles as the Applied Phlebotinum. Mechanical designs were excellent, animation was mostly fair, and Kenji Kawai's soundtrack was remarkable, even haunting. (continued) |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season (TV) | Decent | (part 2) Gundam 00 has a lot of creative ideas, though they aren't always executed well. The first season wastes entirely too much time establishing certain things it could have done in shorter time while failing to set up plot elements that it would have benefitted from establishing for the second season. The second season uses the O-Raiser plot device too often to solve combat situations. The end came off as a bit anti-climactic, but the movie should resolve some loose threads. Otherwise, it has its merits in character development and in several highlight scenes I won't get into. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OAV) | Good (dub), Excellent (sub) | Of all the many Gundam productions over the years, this is probably the best written of them. Instead of being about ace pilots, psychics, giant battles, and masked men, this small little slice of the One Year War revolves around a boy's youthful enthusiasm for a war he knows little about, a war he sees as a game. Instead of many meaningless deaths, the few deaths here mean everything. Well worth the six episode run. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (OAV) | Bad | It's hard to tolerate the muddled, over-the-top nonsense in this over-long OVA that should just be subtitled, "The Federation Fails At Everything Ever". Depicting the Federation as corrupt is one thing, but for some reason, a group of soldiers who can build giant warships and humanoid-shaped battle machines are also incredibly, embarrassingly, stunningly incompetent. Not to mention, it's a chore to sit through the romance subplot, which devolves into a hacky, tacked-on triangle between Kou, Nina Purpleton, and Anaval Gato (a cardboard version of Char Aznable). The conspiracy plotline? Nearly incomprehensible drivel. The only, I repeat, only, reason to ever watch this pile of garbage is for the action, even even some of that leaves something to be desired. This is by far the weakest of the UC Gundam OVAs. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (movie) | Decent | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (TV) | Awful | What happens when you take an awful director, an awful character designer, an awful mechanical designer, and awful writers, and ask them to make a Gundam series? You get Gundam SEED. Generic, cookie-cutter designs for both characters and mecha, overly derivative story elements/ideas, unlikeable characters, bizzare plot choices, and mediocre voice talent and music do not make for any kind of a good series. Avoid this if possible. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (TV) | Worst ever | Even worse than the original SEED program, a feat I didn't think was possible. The number of clip episodes would make even the fans of the original SEED blush in embarrassment. The "main character" gets brushed off in favor for returning characters from the original SEED, even so far to be completely removed as a force in the conclusion of the show. Although, to be fair, the "main character" has so little personality, and what little he does is unlikeable, that it doesn't really matter, but it's clear this show suffers from awful writing and a lack of clear intent by the writers or director. What's more is that the conclusion is merely recycled from the series before it. It had some potential in the first six or seven episodes, and every once in a while there was a glimmer of hope it would break free of its struggle to regain its clarity, but in the end it's a jumbled mess and nothing but a valentine to the main protagonist of the first SEED series, Kira Yamato. One can only hope that Fukuda never works again on a Gundam production. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (ONA) | Good | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (ONA 2) | Good | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (movie) | Very good | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam UC (OAV) | Excellent | http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gundam-uc/volume-01 |