Steve
Hey Nick, it s a sunny day in the Republic, and I just wanna say, my daily news broadcast about our highly advanced and very ethically responsible combat drones sure does seem to be raising a lot of questions already answered by the news broadcast.
Nick
Tsk tsk. So many people trying to stir trouble when there is Absolutely Nothing Wrong. Everyone should stop worrying and just check out these anime girl garters. Please pay no attention to that table.
I ll buy that for a dollar! Or for 8
6 of them.
So yes, this week we re covering the redundantly titled
86 -Eighty Six- or as I like to call it, Thigh Highs And War Crimes. The latest big deal light novel adaptation that is, mercifully, not a god damn isekai story for once.
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With
director Jordan Vogt-Roberts proved that he has a capable hand when it comes to
big franchise movies (“big” as in physically large, because King Kong is really big and also the thing we’re talking about in this story is big), which is probably one of the reasons why Sony was happy to hand him its long-in-the-works
Metal Gear Solid adaptation another reason being that Vogt-Roberts is a famously huge
Metal Gear fan, to the extent that he physically appeared as a heavily bearded wastelander in creator Hideo Kojima’s underrated
Death Stranding. Now, Legendary has similarly decided to hand him another huge license that he’s a fan of, with Netflix announcing on Twitter that Vogt-Roberts is going to direct a live-action adaptation of iconic robot anime series
Gundam Live-Action Movie is in the Works at Netflix – /Film slashfilm.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from slashfilm.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Guillermo del Toro’s
Pacific Rim and its sequel film are nonsensical smackdowns inspired by classic tokusatsu stories and giant-robot anime. They’re premised on an endless conflict between giant military-owned robots called Jaegers and equally enormous monsters called kaiju. Both movies featured paper-thin plots, designed to bring these two forces to blows.
Once the creatures and mecha are locked in combat, the films provide a fun spectacle filled with cheesy lines and campy
Power Rangers-esque villains. The films gleefully center on cliché action-movie lines like “Today we are cancelling the apocalypse.” Main characters can be sacrificed at a moment’s notice, as long as their deaths read as heroic.
Gundam-centric clothing store, STRICT-G and the Premium Bandai online outlet.
The items include
Iron-Blooded Orphans-themed T-shirts, hoodies, and other accessories like tote bags and pins. Rather than emblazon the merchandise with pictures of mecha or characters, the designs evoke the show more obliquely, through iconography and quotations. That could be a plus for a customer who prefers to keep their fandom a bit more low key.
For example, though most of the items in the line feature the stylized fleur-de-lis-like logo of Tekkadan, the main group in
Iron-Blooded Orphans, one hoodie design inspired by the character McGillis Fareed features nothing more than a candy-colored logo that says “Chocolate Guy.”