Tag: Gundam Build Fighters

All Points Bulletin: Berserk Guacamole

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narutaki_icon_4040 Kate’s picks:

  • McMario
    The ultimate team-up: McDonald’s putting Mario toys in Happy Meals.
  • Final Fantasy: Disney Damsels
    Nice looking roster, I think we need a Final Fantasy Tactics game with Disney characters, don’t you?
  • Help the Creator of Fresh Guacamole
    I hope you’ve seen this Oscar-nominated short, it not check it out now! The creator is hoping to fund his next film through their online store. The next short will also feature creative food!

hisui_icon_4040 Alain’s picks:

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narutaki_icon_4040 Because I laughed.

All Points Bulletin: Lucky Frog Syndrome

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hisui_icon_4040 Alain’s picks:

  • Musical Stockholm Syndrome
    A look at how pop music worms its way into our brains. As someone who used to know a woman who would play the same song on loop for HOURS to get it out of her head this video has a “special” place in my heart.
    You could extend this thought exercise to anime openings and closings too if you wanted to.
  • The Hidden Treasure Trove of Great Female Characters in Games
    There is a little thought about genre that has a metric ton of good to great female characters. Also how we might be asking the wrong questions when we ask why medium X can’t make good female characters. There are not a lot of answers here but a look of good places to start thinking differently.
  • One Lucky Frog
    As someone who has always been a fan of Mine Yoshizaki’s art this picture of Rinko Iori, Aki Hinata, and Keroro  is a real treat.

narutaki_icon_4040 Kate’s picks:

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hisui_icon_4040 I decided to go with an original design from Mine Yoshizaki this time:

Ramba Ral: The Man, The Myth, The Mustache

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(This post contains spoilers for
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin)

narutaki_icon_4040 Truly anytime would be good to talk about Captain Ramba Ral, but we felt particularly compelled recently. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin collected vol. 3 retells his story in glorious detail. Gundam Build Fighters features Ral in parody as a Gunpla enthusiast and mentor. And to top it all off it is “Movember,” certainly Ral’s moustache is worth celebrating during this time!

hisui_icon_4040 “This is no Zaku Boy! No Zaku!”

Without a doubt that is Ramba Ral’s most famous catch phrase. But if that meme was all there was to him he would not be the iconic character he is today. While there is always a Char clone in almost every Gundam TV series after the original Ramba Ral has lesser but still rather pervasive legacy. We see characters like Andrew Waltfeld, Suberoa Zinnerman, and Sergei Smirnov in the franchise trying to capture some of that lightening in a bottle that was the original. A likeable enemy commander who forms a bond with the protagonist which makes their later confrontation all the more painful and dramatic. Characters who echo like this through the ages always come from primally powerful personalities that stay with audiences when they go on to make their own projectors.

Ramba Ral is one of those characters who ingrains himself onto your psyche.

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