PEOPLE / 2 WORKS

Akiko Yajima

Also credited as 矢島晶子 · Akiko Ogasawara (小笠原晶子) · 高菜ゆか · Aki Uechi (うえちあき)

Movies 1998Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless WaltzYoshiyuki Tomino

This movie is... fine. There are three types of the anime movies based on TV shows - summary, retelling, direct sequel. And this is a sequel, which kinda ruins the end of the TV show. Endless Waltz is the story about how the peace that had dawned on humanity only lasts for a year before war starts again. Then at the end of the movie peace has dawned again, but this time for real, and we're sure of it. Why are they more sure the second time having very recent evidence that peace is fragile? It's very unclear. That's one of 3 major plot holes in this movie but I won't dwell on the others. At the end of the day this is mostly fan service and mostly succeeds on that front. Our protagonists return to save humanity but this time with a bigger animation budget. Excluding one very, very bad instance of CGI the movie looks and sounds great. It suffers a little from a distinct lack of Gundams in the first half of a Gundam movie but eventually we get a big climatic fight. Much of the movie is about politics but that suffers for those politics being pretty paper-thin. It mostly boils down to people arguing over who should be in charge and if war does in fact suck or not. At the end of the day this is a fine capstone to a fine Gundam series, and seeing it on the big screen was nice, the current transfer is quite good.

anime · 1998

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

TV 1995Mobile Suit Gundam WingHajime Yatate

anime · 1995

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

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PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Akio Ujiie

Also credited as 氏家章雄

TV 2019The Quintessential QuintupletsNegi Haruba

anime · 2019

The Quintessential Quintuplets

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Mike O'Leary

TV 2024BodkinJez Scharf

TV · 2024

Bodkin

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Seth MacFarlane

Movies 2014A Million Ways to Die in the WestSeth MacFarlane

Movies · 2014

A Million Ways to Die in the West

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Stephen Moss

Books 2014Fear the SkyStephen Moss

So this is kind of a hard book to review. The writing was not great. At times it reminded me of some of the very dry classic works of sci-fi like say Rama. However it is different from those as Moss wants to inject humanity into the cast, it just doesn't always work and the prose is a bit rough. Based on other reviews I'm very happy that I listened to this book. I didn't have to worry about commas and the narration was very good. Now, why am I rating this five stars? Well, this is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. The plot has a very simple, understandable hook and boy does Moss run with it. The book moves very fast but has a lot to cover. I found the science involved pretty believable and my suspension of disbelieve was never threatened. While the core concept is very strong (alien agents preparing the earth for invasion by neutralizing the world's nuclear arsenal) Moss improves on it when fleshing out the details. I hope the next book as a more aggressive editor because this story is great and deserves it. I'm looking forward to it.

Books · 2014

Fear the Sky

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Vasudhorn Piyaromna

Also credited as วสุธร ปิยารมณ์

Movies 2017Bad GeniusNattawut Poonpiriya

Movies · 2017

Bad Genius