(THE POTTED LID) Mecha Marathon – Aldnoah.Zero

Aldnoah.Zero takes the common archetypes of the Gundam franchise--teenaged mecha pilots, a military ship transporting civilians/refugees, indestructible giant mecha, and (my personal favorite) aristocracy in space--and makes them into something new with the help of the world building. This is not the year 2014 we know, though it shows as many similarities as it does differences. There…

Anime Central Prep List

Anime Central is this weekend! This will be my first time attending, and I am super excited. In preparation, I decided to exclusively watch anime the month and a half prior. Here is a list of all the shows I watched and a super-brief impression on each. Longer discussions about each will come out when I…

Review: Alnoah.Zero

Synopsis: Fifteen years after Heaven's Fall, Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia visits Earth as a sign of goodwill between the empire of Vers and the remnants of Earth civilization. Her assassination sparks a war between the Earth and the Orbital Knights, warrior nobles of Vers who descend upon the Earth in their castles to lay siege…

Impressions: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Aldnoah.Zero

I started a few shows this week, but before I finish them, allow me to give you my initial impressions for the sake of content. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt I watched the first four episodes and the entire time I felt "meh." The characters besides Kimmy did not have the depth of character to break free…