Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Robotech Archive VOL 1 TPB

 

TITLE-Robotech Archives vol 1 The Macross Saga Volume 1 TPB

SOURCE-Titan Books

I am horrible about thinking "Oh I want to read this book or this comic" and now that I order all them online I go order it and the 2 days to 2 weeks later it arrives I toss it on the need to read pile and years later might read it.

The above TPB is an example. I had gotten a few issues of Comico's Robotech Macross Saga run,read them and wanted more. Looked and this Titan TPB that covered the Graphic Novel and first 11 or so issues of the run was cheap. Like 8 bucks with shipping cheap. Ordered it. It came in a week later. Got put on the Need to Read pile and sat and sat.

Then recently had a day where I had to drive people to two doctor appointments. Waiting rooms are always noisy. So I will put on a podcast and sit there read. Got almost this entire tpb read that day. So the  next few nights during dinner I would eat and read.

The story? It is pretty much the first 11 or so episodes of Robotech. Few minor changes to dialog. The art really in some issues looks like they traced the cels. Other times you can tell it was drawn by hand but looks so much like the cels it feels odd. The coloring for this era stands out. It looks so much better than the colors on a DC or Marvel book from this time. And what time frame am I talking about? 1985 IIRC. 

If you have never experiences the Macross saga part of Robotech this is a great way to do it. And it is faster than watching the show. I got 11 issues and the GN read in less time than it would take me to watch 4 episodes.

Now I am bias,I love Robotech and really love the Macross saga. Which  made this collection perfect for me.

Robotech Archive Macross Saga vol 1 gets a B+

Thursday, October 22, 2015

31 Days of Horror 2015 Day 22 Blade Anime series

Blade Anime
Source-Sony Pictures DVD

A few years back on G4 they showed 4 different Marvel comic Anime tv series. Each was 12 episodes long. I am not sure why I didn't watch them when they came out. While I am not a huge anime fan I have enjoyed some of it. And I really liked the Witchblade anime show.

Over the past 2 years I keep finding the 2 disc sets of these Marvel anime tv shows cheap at Dollar General.About 2 weeks ago I was at DG grabbing snacks. Saw they had dropped the price on the Blade anime to $7. I didn't feel like paying that much. But on my way home I saw there was a garage sale near my home. I stopped looked around thinking it was gonna be a bust. Then the husband tells his wife "Go inside get those dvds we bought for the grand kids and they wouldn't watch them cause they said they were too old." She went in and came back out with Thundercats season 1 vol 1 andBl this Blade set. The Blade set was still sealed and they only wanted a buck for it so I took a chance.

In this series Blade is over in the far east. And facing all the different types of vampires that are parts of the various Asian cultures.Which makes for some neat and new vampires for Blade to fight. Deacon Frost is brought back as the lead villain. And at least to me it feels like this anime is set in the same continuity as the first live action film.

Over all the series is decent. The story is nothing special,pretty sure Warren Ellis had something to do with it.But the animation  more than makes up for how average the story is. Done by Madhouse,one of the best anime studios,the animation looks really good for a made for TV show.

One weird quirk about this set I noticed was when you first start the show the audio is in Japanese and the English subtitles are turned on. Cause of my hearing damage I normally keep the subtitles on when watching a film,even if it is in English.And because that first viewing I was more listening to the show than watching it I turned on the English audio. Then I started noticing the English audio and the English subtitles do not match up that often.When I watched the show again today I paid more attention and the subtitles seem to tell the story much better than the English audio.

Blade Anime series gets a C-.