Anyone who has been following me online for some time knows that Gundam has been a part of my life for a while. However, despite a sustained interest in the franchise for over 2 decades, due to a lack of easy access to the series for many years, along...

I’m not done with Tōsō (The Escape) just yet! Immediately after my first viewing of the film, I sat down with OG Analog Housou contributor and long-time friend Carter McKendry[1]He wrote one of the most popular articles on this blog!–who watched the film with me–for an off the cuff...

Adachi Masao is a dangerous dude. After making a bunch of funky films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, he joined the Japanese Red Army (JRA) in their effort to support the fight for Palestinian independence against Israel. This is of course putting it quite romantically, because the JRA was...