1. If there's one thing good about the anime Fushigi Yuugi, its that everyone in the whole freaking show died. The only good love story is one where there're a copious amount of deaths. Here, only the two main characters live. Granted, it would have been better if they died too, but since the anime was authored by an albino woman one could speculate that she did not want to make it all tragic.

2. That's why the best anime director of all time is Yoshiyuki Tomino. a lot of ignorant morons in the Philippines know him as the producer of that overrated super-robot show Voltes V (yes, I called Voltes V overrated, sue me). In reality, his real contribution to the anime world is not that piece of shit Voltes V but the biggest mecha series of all time, Gundam. Oh yes, now there's a mecha show so innovative that it's been called the StarTrek of Japan.

Gundam's perfection comes not from its scifi roots. It comes in the fact that it explores the tragic nature of human life in times of war. Cliche maybe, but when the show first came out hearing of these themes in a mecha anime was unheard of. Now i can hear the Voltes V fanboys saying that Voltes V and Combattler V came before Gundam. True. But Voltes V and Combattler V did not really come off as war stories. They were generic robot shows where evil aliens invaded the Earth and some big-ass robot repels the aliens. They weren;t about fighting wars, they were about repelling aliens.

Now Gundam was about humans fighting against each other, humans with their own ideals. None of these ideals stand more correct than the other. In the end, these ideological struggles boiling down to whoever had more power, not moral authority. Voltes V never had that. The aliens were evil, period. Prince Zardos was misunderstood, but he was still clearly in the wrong. One could not say that of the Zeon forces in the War in the Pocket, nor the AEUG freedom fighters from Zeta Gundam who through no fault of their own severed ties from the Earth Federation.

Still, there's one thing that made Gundam, and Tomino, a true master of the anime art. The show had love subplots, but they would all end with tragedy. In the original Gundam 0078, lead character Amuro Ray kills his own love interest because she happened to be fighting for the other side, not because she was evil. Z Gundam's Kamille Bidan watched each and every woman he evere cared for die before his eyes: his mother, and two pilots who turned out to be working for the enemy. His childhood friend survived, but if love stories have taught us anything childhood pals don't count. Besides, he did not really like her romantically. She was actually a nuisance pilot who was useful only for trashing her mobile suit. Hell, all the female characters in Z Gundam except Kamille's childhood pal died.

Tomino made a lot of anime in his lifetime, in nearly all of them the shows ended in mass genocides of the lead characters. Hence, he earned the nickname "Kill 'em all Tomino." For that I consider him an anime god. What's more realistic than death?