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Iron Man anime is decent enough. It has the ZODIAC as the main villains and has a smokin' Japanese scientist as a sort of love interest (IIRC). The guy that plays Tony Stark is the same that plays Ali Al Saachez in Gundam 00, and he nails it. He's the best part of the show.

I finally got to properly watch Windaria.

Only one image can really express my feelings towards it.



It had been a long time since something got me in this mood.

Just leaving this here.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... me-trailer

Around an hour and twenty minutes or something. I'm not sure, actually, since I didn't keep track of time.

It's a mixed, really enormous mess. On one hand, it's consistent with the production values of the previous episodes; glorious mecha combat; introduces some of the best tracks in the show's entire soundtracks (and which are, in my opinion, heavily underused in it). But in a story-telling point of vi...

7 episodes, one hour each.

It was originally going to be six episodes, but after the critical disaster episode 4 was, they extended it and postponed all the following episodes to get everything better.

Still, outside of that episode, everything else is very, very awesome.

Holy shit, it's over!

Gundam Unicorn is OVER!

I mean, fuckin-finally.

Go watch it, guys. It's really, really awesome.

We also got them uncut :mrgreen: Although it only lasted until 2004-5, when the two main cartoon channels (Fox Kids and Cartoon Network) removed pretty much most of their then-current programming because of a mixture of things (bought by Disney, pressure from Catholic parents groups, loss of license...

I bought the DVDs they released here in Mexico some years ago, and they look great, but they have nothing on the remaster, if you ask me.

I think this warrants its own thread.

http://lesleysmusings.com/2014/05/16/vi ... me-series/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPyM9afQ-w

Viz Media is licensing Sailor Moon for a US release.