T5W#377-Top 5 Moments from Mobile Suit Abridged Gundam Wing Episode 10

Well todays my 35^th birthday and its wild to think about the fact that I’ve reached my mid 30s and also how big of a part Anime continues to play in my life.  This genre, this blog, all of the good things that have come with them, my life wouldn’t be what it is without Japanese Anime or the Gundam Anime Corner or the friends I’ve met along the way.  Alright, enough sappiness.  What am I going to talk about in this Top 5 Wednesday that happens to fall on my birthday?  Well, how about we talk about Gundam?  And not just any Gundam.  Incase you missed it, the comedic geniuses from Operation Meatier have returned with a brand new episode of Mobile Suit Abridged Gundam Wing…after a near 2.5 year long wait (I only know that because they acknowledge it in the episode).  MSAGW has become one of my all time favorite Abridged series, up there with Team Four Stars Dragon Ball Z and Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.  It might be just a bit more special because of the fondness I hold for Gundam Wing while also learning to address its faults and laugh at how ridiculous it gets at times.  And let me tell ya, OPMeat hasn’t lost their touch, their sense of humor or their love for this series cause I was laughing a ton while watching this episode.  So, to celebrate their return and my birthday, on todays Top 5 Wednesday we’ll be looking at the Top 5 Moments from Mobile Suit Abridged Gundam Wing Episode 10.  It’s actually kind of rare I focus on one episode in particular for a Top 5, usually it’s looking back at a season, sets of movies, etc.  It’s a good first if that is the case.  Anyway, Commencing Mission.
 

Jujutsu Kaisen 0

Yuta Okkotsu lives with an unbearable weight on his shoulders, followed by a curse, that of his dead best friend, Rika.  The power this curse grants Yuta brings him to the attention of Satoru Gojo, who welcomes the troubled teen to Jujutsu High School.  Here, Yuta begins training alongside a trio of highly skilled First Year students as he seeks to control Rika’s power and perhaps break the curse on her.  Unfortunately, one of Jujutsu High’s former students is about to return to settle an old score.  Though only beginning his own journey, Yuta must confront the pain of his past to pave a way for his future.

Jujutsu Kaisen has quickly risen to become one of the most popular Anime of the new decade.  For me though, I’ve tried several times to get into it but just haven’t been able to.  Sure it looks pretty and the action is admittedly good but I cant get into the main trio of Itadori, Fushigoro and Kugisaki and their mentor, Gojo.  So it’s kind of funny that a movie that focuses on another set of characters I did like, plus a character that’s yet to make his appearance in the main series (to my knowledge) ends up proving to be the kind of experience I wanted from Jujutsu Kaisen to begin with.  This prequel film, which has gone on to become one of the most successful Anime film in history, has a better lead character than Itadori, gives viewers more time with fan favorites and, best of all, offers a thrilling, scary and emotionally charged stand alone story that requires very little knowledge of Jujutsu Kaisen to enjoy.
 

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

The sleepy town of Raccoon City is about to get a nasty surprise.  Returning home for the first time in years, Claire Redfield finds herself trapped as a viral outbreak ravages the small town, turning its denizens into hordes of the undead.  At the same time, a simple search and rescue mission finds Claire’s brother, Chris, and his S.T.A.R.S Alpha Team walking right into ground zero of where the nightmare began. With time running out before both are overrun, the Redfield siblings and a small group of survivors must band together to reunite and escape before its too late.

While it might be the most financially successful Video Game Movie franchise of all time, the Resident Evil films have never been anything but “meh” at best, terrible at worst.  Critics wrote them off as more dumb, visually overblown action fare and longtime fans of the franchise decried them for ignoring most of the original storyline from the games while pushing their favorite characters to the side in favor of the super powered but dull movie exclusive protagonist, Alice.  Well with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil saga finally over, the time has come to relaunch Resident Evil and properly this time.  Welcome to Raccoon City attempts to give franchise fans the experience they’ve longed for with the characters they adore.  Is this reboot what the film series should have been from the beginning?
 

The Resident Evil Retrospective Part 4-Beyond the Evil

Movie Adaptations of popular Video Games are nothing new to the world, they just generally aren’t considered great.  The past few years have seen exceptions to the rule with Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Mortal Kombat (2021) and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies becoming positively received blockbusters.  That wasn’t always the case. For each of those aforementioned success stories, there’s Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and every Uwe Boll movie ever made.  Given how popular the series had been upon release, it was inevitable that Resident Evil would get the big screen treatment.  Today, it holds a number of records in this regard including becoming the Video Game Movie with the most sequels and highest grossing Live Action Video Game franchise.  That’s amazing right?  Well…not really.

 

T5W#376-Top 5 Moments from the 2nd Resident Evil 4 Remake Story and Gameplay Trailers

We got a ton of big Video Game trailers and announcements last week from Silent Hill getting in on the big Remake craze to a bloody and epic new look at Final Fantasy XVI.  Arguably the biggest news that kind of pushed everything else to the side was Capcoms mind blowing presentation of not just a new trailer for Resident Evil 4 Remake but also gameplay footage too.  This has easily become my most anticipated game of 2023 (with Final Fantasy XVI up there too, damn that trailer looked nice if a bit intense).  Seeing as how I’ve been spending most of this month in the Resident Evil universe because of my RE Retrospective Special, I’m surprised I haven’t dedicated more time to RE themed Top 5s.  That changes today as for today’s Top 5 Wednesday I take a look at my Top 5 Moments from the 2^nd Resident Evil 4 Remake Story and Gameplay Trailers.  As the title implies, I’ll be looking at moments from both the new and more fleshed out story trailer and the accompanying gameplay presentation.  Let’s get to it.