Gundam

Neon Genesis Evangelion Rewatch is a series of essays where Willow Maclay will be covering the streaming release of Hideaki Anno’s landmark anime show. We’re all doomed. That’s the prediction at least, with explicit assurances of what will happen if we don’t …

Yasuhiro Imagawa never wanted to reinvent Gundam. But that was exactly the task Sunrise had given him along with the directorship of Mobile Fighter G-Gundam. For 15 years, every previous Gundam show took place in the same timelinethe Universal Centuryand sha…

Hello, and welcome to my new monthly(ish) column about language and linguistics in science fiction and fantasy! My name is Conni (CD) Covington, and I have MAs in both German and linguistics. I wrote my linguistics thesis on the effect of usage frequency on v…

E3 has officially ended. Unfortunately, I wasnt able to attend, but I thought Id share my thoughts on the games that Im most excited for from the yearly spectacle. This list is in no particular order and feel free to let me know what youre most excited for in…

Timeloop games, in which players try to find their way out of a cycling series of events, are enjoying something of a renaissance. It's as if the industry were caught in a Groundhog Day scenario devoted to the creation of Groundhog Days. Last week's E3 announ…

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN Advent of the Red Comet - Episode 8 - The Principality of Zeon Declares Its Independence

Rock band KANA-BOON announced on their website on Thursday that because they have not been able to get in contact with the band's bassist Yma Meshida (pictured second from the left) since June 5, that his family has contacted the police to start an investigat…

Japan is pulling out all the stops for next year's Summer Olympics being held in Tokyo. Aside from all the festivities that usually come with an Olympic Celebration, the country is even going so far as to launch a "Gundam Satellite" into outer space, housing …

A translation of Sakurai's latest feature in Famitsu has come in. This is column #581 from Sakurai, and he discusses how Smash Bros. was ranked as the #1 most-played video game by CoroCoro. Check out various tidbits from the feature below, as translated by Pu…

Like past Electronic Entertainment Expos, E3 2019 is all about megaton game reveals and announcements. Titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal, Marvels Avengers, and Watch Dogs Legion, dominated headlines. While these games certainl…