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GQuuuuuux Is A Delight And I’m Going to Talk About It
[major spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux throughout.] I had so much fun with GQuuuuuux that I genuinely cannot tell if it was objectively good or not. A…
Beyond the Mobius Loop: A Look at ALC Encounter
Recently, a short Gundam film called ALC Encounter was released. It’s kind of an oddball film, released as a promotion and currently, as far as I’m aware, only…
My Mobile Suit Movie Adventure
Recently, the original Mobile Suit Gundam trilogy movies werere-released in theaters. Unfortunately for me, I live somewhere… remote, to say the least, and none of these movies were…
How Do You Hold A Moonbeam In Your Hands
[Warning for spoilers throughout.] I don’t know what my favorite Gundam is, and that is entirely because Turn A Gundam seems to be completely unable to be pinned…
Yuri Lesson #4: The Influence of Revolutionary Girl Utena on Yuri
Last week, I talked about Sailor Moon and also delved a bit into Revolutionary Girl Utena. Today I want to go into it a bit more. Revolutionary Girl…
Yuri Lesson #3: The Influence of Sailor Moon on Yuri
Today, Sailor Moon is often seen as the “quintessential” 90s anime, but it (and the manga that birthed it) also had an enormous influence on the yuri genre.…
Yuri Lesson #2: Yuri of Absence
You may have heard of the phrase “yuri of absence”, perhaps used in a meme or jokey way. This term was coined by yuri writer Iori Miyazawa to…
Yuri Lesson #1: Genre vs. Vibe
Welcome to Pike’s All Girls Yuri School. Today we’re talking about Yuri as a Genre vs. Yuri as a Vibe. Yuri as a genre is when something is…
Qualia the Purple
I just finished reading this manga. It’s… a lot of things. It’s about a girl who who sees people as robots, and how she seems doomed to die.…
On the Yuri in G-Witch
[Post was originally written in January, 2024.] I’ve been wanting to do a little writeup on this for a while but now that talk about Gay Mecha is…
Ganota no Onna, or, Char Aznable Truly Is A Lesbian Icon
A while back I read the manga “Ganota no Onna“, which is about a woman who is a Gundam otaku and is particularly obsessed with Char and all…