S.W.A.T. Review: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

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The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful.

Listen – First impressions of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt from Sunrise. It is streaming on Gundam.info.

S.W.A.T. Reviews: Fall 2015

Follow us directlyon Stitcher, or on iTunes

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful.

These are the first batch from the new season and now we’ve broken them into (helpful?) categories:

Sentence: Free to Go

Listen – First impressions of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-blooded Orphans from Sunrise. It is streaming on Daisuki, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Gundaminfo, and Funimation.

Listen – First impressions of One-Punch Man from MADHOUSE. It is streaming on Hulu, Daisuki, and VIZ.

Listen – First impressions of Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note from Signal.MD. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Magical Somera-chan from Seven. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of The Perfect Insider from A-1 Pictures. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Sentence: On Parole

Listen – First impressions of Comet Lucifer from 8-bit. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Young Black Jack from Tezuka Productions. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Concrete Revolutio from BONES. It is streaming on Daisuki and Funimation.

Listen – First impressions of Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation from Troyca. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Sentence: Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away the Key

Listen – First impressions of Heavy Object from J.C. Staff. It is streaming on Hulu and Funimation.

Listen – First impressions of Attack on Titan Junior High from Production I.G. It is streaming on Hulu and Funimation.

Listen – First impressions of Kagewani from Tomovies It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Gundam Reconguista in G: We Are With Hell

hisui_icon_4040 Has anyone else noticed some extra in the subtext in the ending of Gundam Reconguista in G? They probably have but I have not seen a lot of discussion about it so I felt it was worth bringing it up. I was discussing the song with Carl Li from Ogiue Maniax and he mentioned that it was probably partially just written to have a song with the name of the show in the lyrics. He is almost certainly correct with that assessment. Tomino really does love to throw the name of the show into the opening and closing. But that is not all that is going on here.

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