Telling people to start Gundam with 08th MS Team instead of Gundam (1979) is like telling someone to start with Solo: A Star Wars Story instead of Star Wars (1977). It's sicko shit and it needs to stop.
I wish mecha anime wasn’t as niche as it was because this scene was one of the best moments I’ve had in a theater this year, and this has been an incredible year.
books upon books of political science and history explaining the rise of right-wing extremism through secular trends in employment, decades of organization, ongoing persistence of bigotry, the collapse of associational life that get totally ignored in favor of this nerd folktale
Note how the game is played: the US bombing another country without provocation and killing over 3000, including 130+ children at a girls school, is evidence we need to further ballon the pentagon budget. The house always wins.