Category Archives: Tuesday Review
Spy x Family x Where is the Plot?
Spy x Family is one of the better and more popular anime produced in 2022. It’s funny, heart-warming, and tells the tale of a most unusual family and their most unusual secrets. That said, it has its share of issues, … Continue reading
The Moral Question of Narvik
Once again, my Norwegian mother got me to watch a Norwegian film on Netflix. This one, if I understand correctly, is a historical film, telling a very real story in connection with the Battles of Narvik during World War II, … Continue reading
Arcane is a Masterful Work
I was determined, for quite some time, to wait and write this review until at least after season two had aired. Well over a year and change later, my patience has finally run out. That’s the downside with some of … Continue reading
Series Review: Keeper Origins, by JA Andrews
One may have noticed that it’s been quite some time since I reviewed anything other than anime. There are reasons for this, but the lack of book reviews, in particular, has been because I have been working my way through The … Continue reading
Iron-Blooded Orphans: A Gundam Tragedy
And here we finish off my Gundam-themed Mecha March. I produced quite a bit more than I expected. In the last month, in addition to a few commentaries, comparisons, insights, and theories, I have reviewed several installments of the Gundam … Continue reading
SD Gundam Force: Gundam for the Kiddies!
The peaceful land of Neotopia, where humans and robots live in peace, is invaded by the evil, extra-dimensional forces of the Dark Axis. The only hope for this utopia lies in the SDG, the Super Dimensional Guard, led by their … Continue reading
G Gundam: An Anime-ted Video Game
I’ve compared other Gundam related titles to Romeo and Juliet, an opera, and even the Bible, but I would have to say that what Mobile Fighter G Gundam most reminds me of is a video game come to animated life. Here, the … Continue reading
Gundam 00: Gundam’s Religious Text
People worship many things in many ways. Some devote themselves entirely to ideals and ideologies, to the good of their people or to the way of the warrior. Others invoke the name of God, a name that is so very … Continue reading
The Operatic Saga of Gundam Seed
The Gundam franchise is entirely about mecha, sci-fi warfare on Earth and in space, and such subjects of philosophy as war and the human condition, with an ever-increasing number of repeated tropes, such as a masked antagonist, or the spherical … Continue reading
The 8th MS Team: Gundam’s Romeo and Juliet
Some shows will remain great forever, and some eventually need to be given a little leeway due to the times in which they were made, or how one particular aspect was mishandled slightly. This is one of the latter, I … Continue reading
Merlin's Musings 