Friday Animé Sampler: Samples A-Go-Go

Fridays are for fun, and because I missed last week's Friday Animé Sampler, I thought I'd make up for it today by doing an authentic sampler.

It's honestly been a while since I had time to sit down and watch some animé (I'm in law school!).



From Gundam Seed, and Gundam Seed: Destiny, Athrun Zala - friend of Kira Yamato, the hero of the series, Athrun is actually fighting against Kira in the original series, after having pledged never to go to war. That changed, however, when the Earth military killed his mother in a brutal nuclear strike on an orbiting space colony. That attack sparked the war Kira gets involved with in Gundam Seed. When Kira kills one of Athrun's friends in a battle (in self-defence), Athrun goes a little nuts, rams Kira's Gundam with his own, and hits the self-destruct - ejecting just in time to save himself. Later, though, they make up. Gundam is like that.



From GitS:SAC, Aramaki. He's the head honcho of Section 9, and probably one of the most formidable minds in fiction. The two lessons you take away from GitS:SAC are typically, don't mess with the Major, and BTW, don't mess with Aramaki either. A strict sense of honor, a sharp mind, the unswerving loyalty of a group of largely amoral cyborgs, Aramaki's got a lot going for him, and he can get the dirt on just about anyone.



From Naruto, Sakura. Naruto has a crush on her, she has a crush on Sasuke, and Sasuke has a crush on... well... killing his brother. Long story. Reeta's consistently frustrated by the fact that she seems so much weaker than the other two members of her team, but immediately following this picture (from ep 103), she turns around and rips the mast out of the floor of the boat, and uses it to swat five or six bad guys. Heretofore unknown legendary strength. Probably a +4 modifier on D&D stats at least. Also arguably the most intelligent member of her team.

And for you old schoolers out there.



Here's a Destroid from Robotech. I used to have one of these as a kid. I believe it's an "Excalibur". Unfortunately, they're not as mobile or as useful as a Veritech Fighter, but just look at the size of those guns. This was one of several models used by FASA when they did their "Battletech" series. They were then sued by the makers of Robotech, and were forced to come up with some new designs of their own. (I believe the Vulture and MadCat models are also modified Robotech robots. See them here.)