People ask why anime or what makes it popular. Just ask yourself why, then why again when you create an answer. My answer was that it’s surreal and unworldly. Anime is able to pull things off that you can’t do in live action or television, while not looking silly or B movie like. Style and the fact that an anime doesn’t have to explain itself like science fiction. Two other aspects that seperates anime from other media is the strong focus on music. Looking at day time and evening shows, there’s little music and it plays a very small role if there is. The second, is how often you see characters on roof tops or very high structures. Being symbolic, random, and giving an epic feel makes up for the lack of plot focus. Because anime is animation, almost any type of movie or show that has people can be animated. More variety and more soul.

The video game Tales of Vesperia will feature work from the anime company Production IG, but it hasn’t been announced what consoles it’ll be for. The official site had Xbox 360 in the meta tags. Ooops.

Senko no Ronde is a budget Xbox 360 game, 2D gaming with 3D aspects. It’s basically a spin on Sega’s old Virtual On arcade series. Ubisoft released the original Senko no Ronde in the US. Now, Sega not long ago announced Senko no Ronde Rev. X for early 2008. In Japan, it’ll go for 2940 yen (roughly $27 USD) and will likely include a few more twists to add more to what is described bellow.

 In Senko no Ronde, you have an armor (life bar, but you’re able to fly with it empty), Overdrive (for a while, you fight and survive better), and charge gauge (for special attacks). Depending on the character, they may be able to unleash their more unique attacks with less charge than others. B.O.S.S. Stock is another part you keep track of, a couple times during a match you can transform into a much larger and deadly form, which is basically a boss form. Further to complicate the upper area of the screen, round scores and a time counter.

 With the mech, you have other things to control and keep tabs on.  Dashing (you’re a mech, not a ship) and rings around your area showing barriers and weapon controlling. Your barrier rings will not work the same if dashing.

Cuilan is likely one of the more known characters, as he even has own shotacon manga called Space Cum Boy. He’s a thin small boy with fanboys, as he’s often confused for a girl. The sequal will of course bring new flashy characters. Perhaps later an anime will come of it.

Turn A Gundam, an old 1999 Gundam anime that has never landed anywhere other than Japan. If you ask a veteran of the series, they would likely say that the older series of the franshise have better plot, development, and greatly likeable characters. Just look at Loran Cehack, the main character is wide eyed character full of life. Turn A Gundam is also one of the last Gundam directed works of Yoshiyuki Tomino, so because of that, many fans may say that the franchise should have ended at this series.

 It’s unlikely Bandai will ever publish it, same with Gundam ZZ, Gundam V, Gundam X, and the other OVA’s, manga, or moives. They’re old, fanboys already watched them, won’t likely sell well in the US, and some even didn’t appeal well to Japan’s audiences, for example, one had more human like mech designs. Gundam is fairly known, but not that popular. With Gundam Seed’s poor CG animation, poor dubbing, Hisashi Hirai character designs, and emo characters that lead to awkward animated .gif images, it only hurts.

Maybe Turn A Gundam wasn’t lisenced because of the nude swim part in the first episode.