BW Media Spotlight

Don’t tell me what’s “made for me” because I don’t care. Go over the history of this site and you’ll find things allegedly made for me that doesn’t fit my tastes. You’ll also find stuff made for people of different ages, genders (before the current culture nonsense), countries, cultures, and “races” (it’s all “human race” to me) that I totally get into. I don’t demand that something be changed to be “for me” because if I already like it, what’s the point?

Take for example Magic Knights Rayearth. I was introduced to CLAMP’s series through fandubs of the anime and went on to get official dubs as well as the manga. Yeah, there’s romance and girly things, but there’s also cool magic battles with giant mecha, and I’m usually down for that. You’ll find reviews of the manga when it was published by Mixxzine, as well as the officially hosted series in a previous Saturday Night Showcase thanks to TMS’s official YouTube channel. That series came out in 1994 and I rather enjoy it.

Because even Japan isn’t safe from the remake virus, a new version of the manga adaptation has recently come out. This new Magic Knights Rayearth has the same characters, a cleaner animation style because computers were used instead of out-of-use cels, and a somewhat different attitude I’ll get into after you’ve joined me in watching it. I’ll also tell you how I think it compares to the original. Crunchyroll’s  YouTube channel has two episodes of the new version, but since I only posted the first one of the original series (accidentally twice over this site’s run), I’ll keep that trend going here. They use YouTube’s multiple audio tracks, so you can watch the same video in Japanese with English closed caption subtitles or in English language dub. I also recommend keeping the captions to spot the differences, but I’m going to be bringing that one up as well. Enjoy.

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