Despite being a Toonami kid, my history with Gundam is more recent rather than storied. Instead of watching Gundam Wing as a kid, I was watching Iron Blooded orphans in high school. Since then, I’ve gotten more into the franchise over time, especially over the course of this pandemic. I wanna sit down and take some time to talk about the ones I’ve watched.
At the time of writing, I’ve seen
Unlike the rest of the world, this pandemic has mostly been a time for me to step up my involvement with fighting games rather than take a step away from them. Being stuck at home meant I had access to a wired connection instead of dorm WiFi, so I’ve netplayed a lot over the course of the pandemic.
Most people took the absence of offline events as a hit to their motivation to play the genre.
Back in 2018, I saw 2 anime that would send me down a rather large rabbit hole much later: SSSS Gridman and Garo: Vanishing Line.
Those two shows are two of my favorite shows of all time. Gridman, with its wonderful characters and unmistakable “Saturday morning cartoon” vibes, and Garo, with its old school badass feeling and great familial character bonds. I loved those two shows and I still love them now.
