Mamerto Adan

As a weapon collector, I know the feel of receiving a brand-new hardware and handling it. To have that coveted piece in your hand, be it a pocket knife or an air gun is an amazing and exhilarating feeling. It makes you want to take it to work, or in the range to see how it goes. Aside from weapons collection, I also do martial arts for fitness, though I spar lightly to test what we learned. For me, training is never complete without sparring or pressure testing.

For some reason, the mecha anime world loves to give us emotionally and mentally troubled lead characters. Shinji Ikari would come to mind once a troubled pilot was mentioned, at least, to modern anime fans. But way before Hideaki Anno channeled his depression to Shinji, we were getting troubled pilots already, particularly in the Gundam world. Again, the original Gundam strived to reduce the mecha anime to realistic levels. And this included giving us flawed characters.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex was a beloved dinosaur of the Jurassic Park films, even though it tried to murder our human actors many times. But on the third Jurassic Park film, another giant beast was about to replace the Tyrant Lizard King. In real life, there are other therapods that beat T-Rex in terms of size. But for some observers, the discrepancies weren’t exactly enough to truly dwarf T-Rex.