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Tag Archives: Gall Force

Dirty Pair (1987): Who Cares If They’re Only Kids! Playing War Games Warrants a Firing Squad?!

07 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews

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Dirty Pair, Gall Force, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Nozomi Cover Art - Dirty Pair OAV Series

Nozomi Cover Art – Dirty Pair OAV Series

I’m starting to think that nostalgia has given Dirty Pair, particularly the OAVs, a better reputation than it deserves. Fair Warning: Episodes 3 – 6[1] aren’t particularly good truth be told.

Episode 4 Who Cares If They’re Only Kids! Playing War Games Warrants a Firing Squad?! is the second relatively poor episode in this run, and it suffers from a number of problems. Continue reading →

Two-Mix: White Reflection

25 Sunday Dec 2016

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, Music Reviews, reviews

≈ 4 Comments

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Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force, Kiki's Delivery Service, music, Vision of Escaflowne

In her reply here to my questions re the Sunshine Blogger Award, Inrosegalaxy included this intriguing music video by Two-Mix for their 1997 single White Reflection. Before I comment on it, here’s the video itself:

Continue reading →

Sunshine Blogger Award 2016

24 Saturday Dec 2016

Posted by John Samuel in anime

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anime, board games, Gall Force, games, Hibike! Euphonium, Kimagure Orange Road, Kimi no Na wa, Robotech, Rocket Girls, Sound! Euphonium, Your Name

sunshine-blogger-awardI’m surfacing after an intense but successful project[1] and finally noticing some blogger awards that have come my way. These are basically a fun way to prompt posts with a bit of a Q&A format, so here goes.

The first order of business is to thank the lovely Artemis over at Otaku Lounge.

The “rules”[2] here are basically: Continue reading →

Ten Little Gall Force (1988)

15 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews

≈ 4 Comments

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Gall Force

Anime has a time honoured tradition of omakes, or extras. These are usually short pieces bundled with releases or broadcast after episodes such as the Kero-chan checks of Card Captor Sakura fame.

There are omake, there are omake, and then there is Ten Little Gall Force. Continue reading →

Anime Question of the Day: Anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by John Samuel in anime

≈ 2 Comments

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AKB0048, Anime Question of the Day, Gall Force

I signed up for ask.fm recently, and it’s certainly been a useful distraction when I’m on the bus or otherwise bored. One thing that I quite like is that this fellow is posing an “Anime Question of the Day”. My response today is long enough to be better presented as a post here[1]. Continue reading →

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