In just a couple of hours and change. Exciting!! Haven't streamed in quite a while. To manage expectations - I'll screen a couple of related goodies first, then the "main" feature - that'll probably be at around 9:30pm ET. I'll see if I can loop/repeat the program as well.

Galaxy Express 999, or as I like to call it “Maetel’s Interplanetary Assassination Hit List,” is a long watch but so very, very worth it. Matsumoto’s very strong stance on the importance of man over machine shines through clearly, and is a departure from other works of the time.

RX-78-2 GUNDAM: NOW AND THEN I really love the classic look of the Gundam, so I wanted to understand all its differences compared to the modern interpretation of the RX-78-2. And there's no better way to learn something well than to teach others! #gundam #mobilesuitgundam #rx-78-2

First morning in Tokyo this trip, and I’ve already had an adventure… at around 6:45 AM, I was getting coffee from a vending machine, and a German/Japanese guy (very drunk), came up and started talking to me. We ended up going for a walk, and he bought me a beer. Nice guy!

I worked with Discotek when they first started putting out these releases to create a Leiji Matsumoto Bible to ensure that all of the terms would be consistent between the manga and anime releases No other company ever asked me to do that. It showed how much they cared. I have mad respect for them

surprised it took this long for a publisher to try this with a 'real' series. next we'll see a series with an AI-created original Japanese dub. you folks would not BELIEVE how much the production companies want to do this. they want to never hire actors SO bad!! ok maybe you WOULD believe it ☹️

NEW BLOG POST!! Shun and Fritz meeet up with one of Fritz's first-ever coaches! Can they help him keep his struggling art museum open? Also, Mizuho continues to search for Shun... #AshitaEFreeKick #あしたへフリーキック j9hardserenade.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/t...

Gender-affirming care saves lives

OK, this came up again on YouTube, and I can't resist posting it. Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) done by a fan in the style of Mobile Fighter G-Gundam. The more you know, the funnier it is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSL...

Everyone sees the Budweiser in the Itano Circus near the end of the Macross Movie... but no one talks about the Tako-Hai.

Happy Birthday to quartet november! #gundam #ガンダム

Either Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness" or John Carpenter's "The Stars My Destination." Maybe J. Michael Straczynski and Ron Howard's "Lensman" movie.

I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

It is this item. Mysterious!! Anyway, it's scanned in and looking quite intriguing. If you dont want to put up with the burdens of live twitch, I will be posting it to the Internet Archive and Youtube shortly after the broadcast, so you can just watch this space. 😆 bsky.app/profile/mike...

Hey, folks-- myself and @terebifunhouse.bsky.social found a cool old anime artifact that we don't think a lot of people have seen lately. Come join us on my twitch channel on Friday at 9:00 PM ET to check it out! twitch.tv/mike_toole 📺

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.

Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites. I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect

I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.

I said I was going to have this out in August, and then I just kind of sat on it since then. Anyway, here's a translation of an essay from 1999 that a very small group of people might find (somewhat) interesting.

Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.

Say what you will, she managed to resolve two cases simultaneously!

"It is extraordinary for the Pentagon to directly threaten a sitting member of Congress with investigation. Until Donald Trump’s second presidency, the institution in charge of the US military had usually strived to appear apolitical." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner" This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.

Good morning

Review #300: Galactic Patrol Lensman! After 15 years I finally have reached 300 "traditional" reviews!! To celebrate I cover the second of Kodansha & MK Company's infamous anime adaptations of the Lensman series. Until 2024 this was impossible to watch in full... but was it worth all the trouble?

Solid list... the only thing I really quibble with is that I'd put Rogue One a few spots lower.

Count your blessings. @theonion.com

Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing

Super Robot Wars Y DLC 1: That's no double-necked guitar.

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

Finally catching up and watching this episode and for those who are only experiencing Ranma through the new anime, I hope you know that he used to be *worse*, that they actually toned him down from how he was in the manga and original anime

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

If you liked (or were confused by) Angel’s Egg, you could do worse than my book on Mamoru Oshii’s films. The publisher has it for a decent price right now. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

HAPPY LABOR THANSKGIVING DAY!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhF...

HAPPY LABOR THANKSGIVING DAY!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhF...

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 15 Lies and Silence Those Women Longed for the Touch of Others' Lips, and thus Invited Their Kisses.

How’s it going on the other site?

NEW BLOG POST!! Shun and Fritz travel to Italy, where Fritz says that a friend is about to get married... but for a friend, he seems awfully hostile! What's the REAL story? Also, Mizuho decides to find Shun... but can she? #AshitaEFreeKick #あしたへフリーキック j9hardserenade.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...

THE CHILD and THE SOLDIER will return in ANGEL’S EGG 2: ANGEL’S OMURCE

Just got back from seeing Angel's Egg... for the first time since, like, 1987 or so. What a masterful film! And my friends, who'd never heard of it before and aren't terribly into anime, loved it as well!