Pretty sure three years is a tradition, but I couldn’t think of 12 great blogging moments for CCY’s ongoing 12 days of Christmas project this year. Fortunately, ghostlightning gave me an out by suggesting I do what he’s doing, with moments in anime instead. Even more fortunately, CCY decided to make his 12 moments this year about pretty much whatever.
The question is, can I find 12 awesome things that my true love, cartoons, gave to me this year?
Well, here’s one, and it just about makes up for any shortcomings anywhere else.
That's not the only thing amazing about this.
This year, since my own 30th anniversary of life coincided with Gundam‘s, I finally took in the original, in movie form. While I’d failed at the series, and hated most of the modern Gundam creations, this one slew me. There really are a lot of moments here, and many have had their meaning memefied into oblivion. But while “mistakes of youth” and the Don Johnson suit cement Char’s place in the Pantheon of Awesome Villains, and the Brightslap sums up the “grimdark + hilarity” recipe that makes Gundam, Char on a covered wagon is an unstoppable force of madness. It’s a universe of its own, a confusing singularity of ridiculousness that should have offended me (Planet Texas? Really?) but really just had me on the rewind button for a good ten minutes.
This post makes me regret that I enforced a 2009-only rule in my series…
Again, Char never drives. He either rides a horse or let someone else drive for him~
LOL I made a non-2009 list for things like this. Just make one too! ^_^
CHAR RIDES! yeah if I’d have limited to that I really wouldn’t have managed 12 really good things to put in there. Not that the year sucked, I just watched a lot more non-current stuff thanks to the Gundam anniversary and an increased DVD budget.
This is by far the greatest picture I have seen all year.
I wish I could say it’d get better, but at least as far as the screencaps it’s all downhill from that one…
Hey otou-san, something bothers me about the skinny suit in the back. He doesn’t look like he’s inside the covered wagon. Where the hell is he standing?
What, does he have a problem with Char’s wagoneering? This simply won’t do. Maybe he died in the OYW, but it’d be more satisfying if the Red Comet brought justice to him personally.
he actually hitched a ride with his skateboard.