Category Archives: Retroblogging

Design a Macross Patch Competition – The Winners

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: June 10, 2010

Voting has concluded and we thank you all for your votes. All the designs were nicely done and a worthy reflection of their creators’ love for all things Macross. While we had originally intended to pick only one, due to how close the votes were between the top two, Crusader has decided to have both [...]

Also posted in Macross Zero, SDF Macross | 3 Responses

Kare Kano episodes 08 and 09 – Maho’s Shoujo Junta

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: June 9, 2010

Two different episodes this time, one introspective regarding Yukino and Arima, one focusing on the external events around them. We start off with a story of a day off together told by each of the characters, going through how they spend their time together, its awkward and sweet moments, and then the way that each [...]

Also posted in Kare Kano | 20 Responses

EO’s Fighting Ships – Some Favorite OTPs, Successful and Otherwise

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: June 4, 2010

Cheering on your OTP. The excitement! The drama! The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat! Going between blogs and Twitter exalting one’s favorite couple and denouncing any challengers! To see the fans of thine enemies brought low, or to accept the bitterness of a sunken ship! Truly, there are few thrills like rooting [...]

Also posted in Anime, Editorial, Gundam, Honey and Clover, Inuyasha Kanketsuhen, Macross 7, Sora no Manimani, True Tears | 74 Responses

Design a Macross Patch Competition – Voting

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: June 3, 2010

We’ve received entries for the Macross patch competition and the time has come to vote. Five very nice designs were submitted, and now it’s time to choose. Vote for your favorite in the poll, and at this time next week we will announce the winning design. The designer will receive the actual patch as their [...]

Also posted in SDF Macross | 15 Responses

Kare Kano episode 07 – Row, Row Fight the Power!

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: June 2, 2010

Too epic to be included with another episode, this week’s post will chronicle the showdown with the Hokuei teachers in episode 07, an episode that inspired full on RAGE HAET which gave way to BURNING PASSION and MANLY TEARS OF ADMIRATION. Exam results come back, and Yukino and Arima’s scores have dropped somewhat (though still [...]

Also posted in Kare Kano | 16 Responses

Kare Kano episodes 05 and 06 – His and Her First Dates

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: May 26, 2010

The run up to the Sports Festival was an exhausting and stressful time for Yukino and Arima, with the two of them barely able to see each other. Through it all, and all their responsibilities as club and committee members, they do manage to have a few nice moments together. And as the days before [...]

Also posted in Kare Kano | 28 Responses

Gundam Wing 01-05: They call them the Specials…

By Crusader | Published: May 18, 2010

Behold Hippie Char. Seeing as how I lost my VOTOMS and I might not get it for a couple weeks depending on how slow mail gets here I might as well do something else in the mean time. It’s been over a decade since Gundam Wing aired on Cartoon Network and I think that for [...]

Also posted in Gundam | 68 Responses

Kare Kano episodes 03 and 04 – Behold the Hideki Anno Shoujo!

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: May 12, 2010

(credit for the post title to Vig the Otagal, from a comment in the first Kare Kano post.) Episode 03, ‘His Circumstances’, is definitely a departure from the way things were done in the previous two episodes. Arima’s past and family situation are explained after a visit to Yukino’s brings up bad memories and starts [...]

Also posted in Kare Kano | 32 Responses

Design a Macross Patch Competition

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: May 12, 2010

Crusader has a proposition for you. Much like the Crusaders of old, our blogger is engaging in some commerce while fighting in distant lands. He can get custom patches made in his current location, and here’s where you come in. Design an approximately 4 inch/10.16cm diameter Macross patch and submit your design to us. The [...]

Also posted in Macross 7, Macross Frontier, Macross Plus, Macross Zero, SDF Macross | 7 Responses

Kare Kano episodes 01 and 02 – As deceiving as a low down…dirty…deceiver

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: May 5, 2010

After some intense voting that ending in a draw with 171 votes each, Kare Kano and GTO will both be blogged. Kare Kano won the dice roll and is up first, and what a pair of first episodes. The writing is great, the background music appropriate, and the visuals have an interesting use of motion [...]

Also posted in Kare Kano | 40 Responses