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Mordred first appeared in Code Geass R2’s OP animation instantly reminded me one sumo-sized Gundam. The bulkiness, shape and most importantly weapon are pretty much identical. Mordred was a red version of Virtue. I won’t be surprised if there’s another Knightmare Frame hidden underneath those armor ala Nadleeh.

Can you plagiarize yourself?

Then came Tristan with its Fortress Mode. To be fair, there have been many other mech capable of transforming into an aircraft so the idea isn’t exactly new. However, thanks to Mordred looking a lot like Virtue, it’s only natural to compare Tristan with Kyrios.

But hey, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Sunrise have been recycling their mech designs, right? After all, the Gundam series have been going on for decades with many very similar looking mobile suits appearing over and over again. Take Gundam Seed Destiny, for example. Gouf’s made a comeback, the DOM trio also appeared and let’s not forget Hyaku Shiki Akatsuki.

If you’ve watched Gundam 00 and episode 7 of R2, you might notice someone familiar. So similar in fact, there’s a chance that they are the same person. If G00 and R2 were set in the same universe, you might think that G00 is set in the future of R2. But now, there is proof that G00 might have actually happened in the past of R2.

Shirin Bakhtiar left Marina Ismail’s side at the end of Gundam 00 season 1, and here in R2 we find out where she went after that.

Shirin, more than 20 years after leaving Marina Ismail’s side…

Celestial Being must have somehow brought upon the rise of Britannia, and V.V. might have been a victim of their intervention (or a victim of Ali al-Saachez). Somehow he came with back the power of the gods and had Charles become his accomplice to take revenge on Celestial Being and eventually to overthrow even the gods.

You might be wondering whatever happened to the GN Drives and all those technology that was seen in G00 and that it doesn’t fit in with what we’re seeing in Code Geass. R2 seems to be taking a step backwards in term of technology, but that is not necessary true. The Avalon and the float system are superior to any single warship and flight technology available in Gundam 00.

As for why Gundam and the GN drives are no longer being used, don’t forget that no one actually knows how to build them outside Celestial Being. The GN-X drives were given to the various nations and they have not been able to reverse engineer them, so it’s possible that the solar furnace technology was lost.

Not to mention, given Charles memory altering Geass, he might have wiped out the world’s memory of Celestial Being, Gundam and MS’s for the purpose of his own world conquest. Another faction with Gundam going against him is the last thing he would want.

So Charles and V.V. took out Celestial Being, colonized Japan so that they wouldn’t suddenly produce even more Gundam, brainwashed the world and is having fun messing around with his kids while he continues to plot against the heavens.

Yup, it all makes perfect sense now.

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Chances are before any of you started watching anime, you were or used to be entertained by “regular” cartoon shows, such as those from Disney and Warner Bros. I used to love shows such as Duck Tales (which still ROCKS btw), Ghost Busters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and much, much more.

If you’re like me, you’ll probably find some this to be a trip down memory lane, and even realize that you’ve watched something which you didn’t even knew you watched. Heck I didn’t know I watched Legend of Zelda and Dungeons & Dragons until after watching this YouTube video showcasing cartoon openings from the 80’s

While I can’t name every series shown in the video above, I can more or less recall and name all of the openings from this 90’s cartoon openings except a couple.

You can really see that Disney classics are truly timeless and are still good to watch even now… Most of them, anyway. No wonder Osamu Tezuka took his inspirations from Disney.

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Less than 24 hours after saying that I wouldn’t buy the Hatsune Miku nendoroid from J-List, I broke down and bought not only 1, but 3 of them, effectively leaving one single unit left in stock. No, I didn’t go nuts and all will be explained in a while.

J-List only listed 7 units in their stock and HLJ was supposed to get the new stock as well. But I didn’t really want to leave everything up to chance since they still had not listed it up so I shot HLJ an email earlier today asking them about it. This was their reply:

Hi,

Sorry to inform you that the second batch of the item had already been sold out. You will have to look for the item elsewhere.

Thanks for writing!

That effectively leaves J-List as the only other place I know to get Muki’s nendoroid and it actually went down to 3 units this afternoon but when I checked again right before I placed my order it went back to 4. Someone probably canceled their order or something.

Since I would be going off to Australia from the 28th of this month until the 6th of May, I was going to have the nendoroid shipped to Dyna’s place instead. When I told him about it over the phone he suddenly decided that he wanted one, too. And another friend of ours also wanted one, which is how we ended up with 3 I would put all the blame on that YouTube video in my previous post for this.

The nendoroids should arrive by next week, that means I can just pick it up from Dyna once I’m back from the land down under.

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Been looking for a Hatsune Miku nendoroid figure since I saw this video on YouTube about a week ago:

The bad news was Hatsune Miku’s nendoroid figure was already sold out and I could not find it anywhere at all. The damn thing sold over 50,000 units even during the pre-order period. That’s a huge amount! And since it was released at the very beginning of the month, I really didn’t have much hope of getting one anytime soon.

But a couple of days ago Shingo posted that Goodsmile had released a new batch of the nendoroid and were on its way to some of the online stores as well. I actually spent the last couple of days refreshing pages at J-List and HLJ, hoping to see signs of the new stock up for sale. And today it FINALLY appeared on J-List.

I’m not sure if Goodsmile actually bumped up the price, but J-List is currently selling it for $52.00. It’s quite obvious that they J-List always bump up the price a little, but unless the actual item really increased its price, they really bumped it up high this time. HLJ is listing their Miku Nendoroid for ~$28.00, which is almost half the price being listed in J-List.

At first, I was really about to jump on the offer, even if it did cost more, but after a little more thinking I came to the conclusion that if J-List really did decide to sell it at nearly 2x the original price for more profit, it might not be very worth it for me. Even if I do want a Miku nendoroid, I’m still not so obsessed that I’m willing to fork out double so I’m just going to take a chance and wait for HLJ to receive their supply. Hopefully, the price stays the same (2,857 Yen). Might even decide to pick up 2 of it, although if it doesn’t show up over the next couple of days, I think I’ll probably end up getting one from J-List after all.

But for those who can’t wait and not willing to take the chance (it did sold out incredibly fast the first time), you can hop over to J-List now and get one right now. They listed only 7 units in their stock, although I’m kinda skeptical about it.

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The video seems to be missing its last 15 seconds, but it’s still something worth watching:

The video was uploaded back in 2006 and was just brought to my attention a few hours ago by Carbunkid. I still think that RO was and is still the best MMORPG around, and so do the majority of my old guild.

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