Shows You Should Be Watching
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The other modern gateway. In 2307, three centuries after fossil fuels ran out, solar power is distributed by three orbital elevators, and a fourth force has appeared: Celestial Being, a private army that declares it will end all war by…
The TV recut of the Unicorn saga. Same story, same Banagher and the Unicorn Gundam, recut from the seven OVAs into twenty two broadcast episodes with a new opening and some expanded footage. If the films are the definitive edition,…
The Universal Century’s crown jewel. Three years after Char’s rebellion, a teenager named Banagher Links catches a mysterious girl falling from the sky and finds himself inside the Unicorn Gundam, a machine locked to his DNA and hunted by every…
Gundam with the fantasy stripped out. On a Mars where child soldiers are company property, a pack of orphans raises a rebellion under Orga Itsuka, while Mikazuki, the boy who follows him without hesitation, turns the ancient Gundam Barbatos into…
The Gundam that owned after school TV in 1995. Five teenage pilots are dropped from space colonies to wage war against the Earth Alliance, each with his own Gundam, his own damage, and no adult supervision worth the name. Heero…
The direct sequel, set two years later. Shinn Asuka, a survivor who lost his family in the last war, is now the ace of ZAFT’s new force, and the peace he defends starts cracking the moment the show begins. Kira…
The Gundam series that pulled a whole new generation into the franchise. Kira Yamato, a student coordinator with hidden genius, is dragged into war when his neutral colony is attacked, forced to pilot the Strike against his childhood friend Athrun…
In the city of Judoh, after the mob was driven out, a special unit keeps the peace with a secret weapon: J, a seven foot android in a trench coat and hat who is polite, stubborn, and stronger than a…
Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai turned into a 26-episode anime, and somehow it works. The setup is the same as the 1954 film: a rice village robbed every harvest by mechanized bandits hires seven hungry samurai to fight back. What the anime…
This is the Chris Harris footage that got him the Top Gear job. Before the BBC came calling, Harris was hooning hypercars on YouTube with a camera crew and zero interest in press-release journalism. The Mercedes C63 AMG “Experiment” where…