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Mobile Fighter G Gundam is such a disconnected show from the Gundam franchise as a whole. It takes place outside of Gundam's main Universal Century timeline, there's very little in regards to the political war drama the franchise is known for, the whole thing is a shonen tournament arc, and some of the mecha designs are downright goofy. And yet the show really hits all of Gundam's other strides as well as possible: great story, awesome animation, a soundtrack you can cheer to, and a roster of characters with stupid names that will grow on you by the end.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam follows 20 year ... old Domon Kasshu, who represents Neo Japan in the 13th Gundam Fight. Domon is an aggressive young man, who starts off as a distant loner who kicks some dude's ass, then jumps in his Shining Gundam to kick the ass of the Gundam piloted by the guy whose ass he just kicked 5 minutes ago. Domon really shines as he grows his relationships with his newfound friends, family, a few mentor figures, some stupid toddler characters that only exist because every Gundam show needs a group of little kids, and a romantic love interest he tries so hard not to say that he loves her throughout the whole 49 episode series.

While the best animation in the show is reused transformations and techniques, the overall animation of every fight is some grade-a mecha goodness, and the backgrounds of every shot are very detailed and beautiful. As this show is a tournament of Gundams, the idea of every country making a Gundam based on their culture is such a fun concept, even if it does get a little silly sometimes (looking at you, Nether Gundam).

Mobile Fighter G Gundam is the kind of show you put on when you just need a show where a robot in a fish suit gets beaten up by a Gundam with dragon heads for hands. When people erroneously say that "mecha is just a genre about robots, not characters", they probably watched this show on Toonami and thought that this was the norm. And if they watched it 25 years ago, then they probably forgot how good everything in the show is. Give this a watch if you want to get into mecha, want another Shonen anime in your life, or if you just want to see some heads explode with a Shining Finger.

Gal☆Cleaning! is a comedy romance manga about a young man who runs a cleaning service while in high school. After cleaning a particularly bad room for his classmate, he soon learns his family is evicted from his apartment and he has to move in with the slob classmate. A fairly simple premise, that can only exist in a comedy romance manga.

I read this expecting the 10 chapter manga to be 10 chapters long. It is not. They hit you with the Chapter 8.5. It's short and simple. Then 8.6. 8.7. Chapter 8.8 and 8.9. Then, Chapter 8.91. All the way to Chapter 8.99. And really ... the entirety of Chapter 8, with all of its added bonus chapters is insane. A figurative neck snap to readers. I really can't say anymore, you have to read Gal☆Cleaning! yourself to truly understand what I mean. It is the Neon Genesis Evangelion of Cleaning based gyaru manga.