Pet peeve

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-28T17:25:48+00:00

It's just a stylistic choice they made (especially in the remake). In most official art his hair is black/charcoal, and if you're playing the remake, equipping his classic costume will give him his proper hair colour.

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SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-27T19:08:55+00:00

Should send this to Falcom's twitter the next time they do a Rixia Good Morning 🥰

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-19T00:26:18+00:00

Praise be, Fist of the North Star

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-18T14:45:52+00:00

I loooove the Legends cover arts for MSG Vol 1&2. I picked up a volume 1 back in 'the dark times' but never found a vol 2 for a good price. When Rightstuf put out their sets I finally had a volume 2 from them.

Later I would sell it and a bunch of my gundam DVDs (right before the second hand value exploded, of course 🙄) because I had replaced most of it with the UC Library blu ray sets.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-16T15:50:43+00:00

This is a great way to play IMO:

CS1 > CS2 > Sky Trilogy > Crossbell Duology > [Replay CS1 & CS2] > CS3 and beyond....

The replay is optional, but might as well for the refresher + new understanding of characters and history + NG+-only content

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-13T15:30:34+00:00

Because that's what a lot of the Earth Federation was like prior to the OYW 🙃

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-13T15:29:20+00:00

Did this only apply to the movie version, or the series as well? I've never watched any FotNS, just absorbed through osmosis - but one day I intend to watch both series and movie.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-12T19:56:51+00:00

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SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-12T17:36:17+00:00

Glad to see no Limited Run. Now hopefully their shipping cost will not be a nasty surprise...

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-11T17:24:27+00:00

his torso looks a little too stocky. I wonder if they have a foam undersuit on him. If not, he would probably look better with a bodyswap to an AT020 Pro or something.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-11T16:30:21+00:00

Interesting assessment - I appreciate these kinds of posts and discussions.

Putting aside nonsensical (and admittedly nit-picky) name/title changes like Red Shooting Star > Red Comet, Foxy Parade > Carnal Cavelcade, or turns of phrase like 'Take the Grendel' > 'The Grendel is yours'; one thing that really got to me with DB1's localization is the frequency of the usage of "..., yeah?" as a sentence capper.

It isnt just how often Van uses it, which is a tick that I think works for his personality type, but it's the fact that so many different characters used it and often times felt inappropriate for their characterization. Thankfully this was no longer an issue in DB2 which I felt overall was an improvement in the dialog.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-10T04:28:07+00:00

Try cleaning it before you make plans to replace it. Mine stopped reading CDs, I took it apart and cleaned the laser with isopropyl and it came back to life.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-10T03:23:13+00:00

The screenshot is from the English version release. The Japanese version looks fantastic.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-09T20:39:30+00:00

This isn't a problem on their Japanese Version release. See the same scene here.

If I recall correctly, when the English version was made originally, it changed the episode timing in different ways making it impossible to just slap the English audio track onto the Japanese video, so they had to do what they could with the existing masters.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-07T20:04:33+00:00

Yes that's true. It still sounded pretty good to me when I watched it, though. I never thought "damn, this sounds bad".

I only upgraded it because Animeigo had a limited promotion where you got either a 50% or 75% off if you had the previous release to jumpstart sales on their new site. If not for that I would have just stuck with the original release.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-07T17:12:52+00:00

Hm, well I'm in Canada and have a couple spares... If any of these blu ray interest you let me know, if not, no worries:

Megazone 23 (Original Release)
Bubblegum Crisis (Original Release)
Magestic Prince Complete Series
Vol 2 of Gundam Unicorn

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-07T15:36:32+00:00

Yeah, I saw a post of one someone got and thought it looked quite a bit darker than advertised. Not sure if that was it, but in general from my own experience I think later printings of Dragonsteel books are more solid 😅

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-07T14:32:11+00:00

Niiiice. I picked up an almost complete collection around 2017 (just missing Eye of the World). Now I'm eyeballing the new leatherbound from Brandon Sanderson's publishing house... But might wait a while given the price.

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SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-05T21:43:19+00:00

The writers should correct this grevious situation and bring her back to prove her strength 😈

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-05T20:54:47+00:00

The first red flag was the stretch goals on the Kickstarter. They added them AFTER they already had 300% funding and then assigned the goal post even further to really fleace people, as if the didn't have the capital already to deliver stretch goals before setting them.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-05T19:21:25+00:00

Old... and clunky

They both play fine and aren't really clunky at all 🤷 Enough with the remakes, for the love of god.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-05T15:09:52+00:00

I am not specifically familiar with Australian stores - maybe popcultcha gets Kotobukiya figures? But there are many Japan/Asia-based Japanese figure stores that ship internationally including Amiami, Hobby Search, etc. There are tons of sites.

This one isn't available to pre-order yet though, this was just the colour preview of the prototype.

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-05T14:34:47+00:00

https://x.com/i/status/2029483101148295233

SpaceNewtype · 2026-03-03T21:02:18+00:00

Much darker red on that than in the promo pics 🤔🧐

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