Anime Capsules: Life Is Too Short To Watch Any More Voltron Force.

So it’s the usual U.S. robot cartoons — a good episode of Transformers and a really irritating episode of Voltron that made me think twice about watching the next one — plus I started plowing through the Tiger & Bunny episodes I haven’t seen yet, ending with a big turning point that’s got me charged up to start through the next few. But the big one this week is the dramatic return of Utena director Kunihiko Ikuhara, the premiere of Mawaru Penguindrum. Thoughts on all of the above below.

Anime Capsules: Eye Beams, Claws, Lasers, Grappling Hooks, Robots, And More.

Man, this week it started getting warmer and I spent a whole lot of time snoozing my days away, lethargic, unwilling to move. Thankfully I spent a lot of this past Sunday watching the middle third of the recently completed (in its home nation of Japan) X-Men anime series and catching up on the two 1980′s throwback robot cartoons, so I’ve got those to talk about.

Anime Capsules: Or More Like Two Robot Cartoon Capsules With A Side of Anime.

I was seriously planning on watching some more anime this week, but my sleep schedule’s still way off, so it wound up being two flashback robot cartoons and the first of several episodes of Tiger & Bunny I needed to get caught up on. And of the lot, I’d say the past week’s Transformers Prime was the best, even if I’d like one particular member of its human cast to get squished. Thoughts on the remainder of the Voltron Force pilot three-parter, the return of MECH to TF Prime, and a month-plus-old anime half hour below …

Anime Capsules: Two 80′s Revivals That Start With V.

In the absence of new Doctor Who to write about, I’ve decided to write up some short bits on whatever anime and cartoons I’ve watched throughout the week. Mind you, this past week I’ve mostly been working and trying to catch up on my sleep (and I’ve got one more episode of Robotech to get caught up on as of this writing), but I’ve made the time to catch a couple of things worth talking about: two 2011 efforts spinning out of robot animation of the 1980′s that start with the letter V. One’s the first episode of a kids’ show airing on NickToons, and the other is a direct-to-video one-shot bit of nostalgia that’s never gonna see the light of day here in the States. More’s the pity in the latter case, but given poor sales of the original TV series three times over in the U.S., I understand why.

Vlog 05.14.2011 – Where to Begin Anew?

This is up a day late, but I’m posting it “on” the fourteenth just to keep things neat and tidy on the blog. It’s an impromptu topic, and it’s Robotech again, because talking about Robotech is easy for me. I just turn on the camera and the words fly out of my head. This time it’s about how we’re getting another round of 1980s toy and animation property relaunches and Robotech isn’t one of them. It’s also about how the approaches of these two relaunches could be applied to Robotech. I’m certain I’ve talked about how to relaunch Robotech before — dig around in the YouTube archives, I’m sure it’s in there — but I think I’ve got some slightly different angles this time out.

I can’t for the life of me remember what else I wanted to say here this week. I’m certain I wanted to talk about some anime, but since then I’ve finished watching The Macross Saga, watched Sentinels again (one of the triggers for the thoughts above), and watched Neil Gaiman’s episode of Doctor Who (about which more in a few short hours).

On the blog this week: thoughts on “The Doctor’s Wife” early Sunday morning, and then on the weekdays Rick, Lisa, and Minmei’s love triangle spins its wheels as our valiant Robotech defenders smack down Khyron’s Zentraedi rebels through the waning months of 2013. It’s the last full week of The Macross Saga in Robotech, In Brief.