Kenny's Mechtober art. A few originals mixed in with old old robot anime stuff. Originals at [Click here] Photo - |
The world of Gundam is ridiculously large. Besides the official series and high profile manga like Crossbone Gundam and The Origin, there are also the lesser known manga works like Double Fake and Moon Crisis. In what could be considered another tier under those are these short manga works. These are a little bit different from doujinshi, as they are not self published, but published under established companies like Kodansha and Ichijinsha.(formerly Studio DNA) Often the stories in these shorts are run as side content in magazines like Gundam Ace, or are collected as anthologies like the one pictured. Some of them are in fact doujinshis which have been redrawn or touched up by the artists,... Photo - |
Psycommu is realOh boy. We have Psycommu now. Original video from Neil Degrasse Tyson's page. [Click here] Status - |
Across the Gundam franchise, there are multiple scenes of characters dying mid sentence, having fans wondering what they were trying to say. Gundam SEED had one of these instances explained by director Fukuda in an interview. Right before Clotho Buer dies, he starts with 僕はね...(boku wa ne / You know what? I...) In the English dub, this is changed to "I'm gonna... I'm gonna..." There are a couple of things lost in translation. Firstly, Clotho's manner seems like he's trying to explain himself or start a conversation. Secondly, Clotho is a character who usually refers to himself as 俺(ore) which is a more rough form in Japanese. Only in this scene does he use 僕(boku) which is a more... Photo - |
Gyrozetter mechaMecha designs from Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter, a 2012 arcade game by Square Enix. A majority of designs in this series are based on real life Japanese car models. Photo - |
Oyoge! Tayaki-kun, by Shimon Masato This was the first ever number one song by an anime singer. The song first appeared accompanied by a short animation on a children's television programme, Hirake! Ponkikki, in 1975. As soon as it aired, it struck a chord with many adults, including disgruntled salarymen who sympathised with the character. Fuji Television started getting inundated with requests for a record release and spoke to the record company which owned the music rights for the show, Canyon Records(later Pony Canyon). The original singer, Ikuta Keitaro, had unfortunately signed a contract with a rival record company, and thus a new version of the song was recorded with Shimon Masato ... Photo - |
ガンダムチャンネルSo, we now have the offical Gundam youtube channel. Separate from the existing Gundam.info channel, this channel will now be where they put up series episodes. Currently episode 1 and 2 from a whole bunch of series are up for free viewing, but for some reason the episodes have all been split into halves. [Click here] Photo - |
Japanese Gundam fans once again demonstrate questionable taste in waifus. Source: [Click here] Photo - |
Here's an old story about the ending theme to the first Gundam movie. Takajin Yashiki was a singer who had been in the music industry for 10 years. Unfortunately it looked like his career wasn't going anywhere, and his director reportedly went to the head of King Records, crying and on his knees, begging for Yashiki to be given another chance to release a record. King Records had one condition for him - that he sing the theme song for some upcoming cartoon movie. Back at the start of the 80's anime wasn't where it is today. Being told to sing the theme song to a cartoon was viewed as an embarressment in the music industry, and it wasn't until Mari Iijima's stellar performance in Macross th... Photo - |
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Moriguchi Hiroko will be releasing an album of Gundam song covers for the franchise's 40th anniversary. Besides new recordings of a couple of favourites Eternal Wind (F91), Mizu no Hoshi he Ai wo Komete (Zeta) the new tracks are Ai Senshi(0079) Meguriai (0079) Zeta Toki wo Koete (Z) Beyond the Time (CCA) Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite (08th MS Team) Just Communication (Wing) Freesia (IBO) Re: I am (UC ep 6) And the bonus track will be Sora no Kanata de (Origin) [Click here] Photo - |
Japanese game companies 3rd quarter reporting season reviewTrying our hand at gaming articles. Thought looking at video game companies from a different perspective might yield some new insights, so here's a look at some game company financial reports from the last month and a bit. [Click here] |
December 24, 2020
2020 was not a great year, but you’re probably well aware of that. It was a year that many of us struggled to get through, and saw the world adapting to a new normal in record breaking time. For us here at New Game Plus, we were unable to film out of our studio space at RMIT due to the pandemic. However, thanks to the ingenuity of our team, we were able to quickly and easily adapt the show to work recording from our homes. Up until we’d filmed our Game of the Year episode, we hadn’t filmed a television show in the same space together in over 9 months. Even amongst the un...
November 30, 2020
The pivotal final month of Saturday online events for CouchWarriors League 2020 has delivered a barrage of top-flight competition, with three games having concluded their ranking seasons so far. The l...
November 11, 2020
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November 9, 2020
This strange, abbreviated but intense 14-event season of CouchWarriors League SFV came to a head on Saturday with the final CWL Online for the year. Doubled ranking points meant stakes were high, with...
November 2, 2020
Another weekend has passed, and the last CWL Online event for the month is in the books. With only one more event left on the schedule for each game, October represented the last real chance for any n...
November 2, 2020
This weekend gave the Australian fighting game community a bittersweet taste of what 2020 might have held, were we not forced to spend most of it at home. For the first time since summer, the CouchWar...
November 2, 2020
The 2020 CouchWarriors League is well onto the home stretch, and halfway through October competition we can really see who is pulling ahead among the top contenders for each game. Both the Street Fi...
October 8, 2020
Things have been heating up in Australia’s fighting game community all month, and it’s not just good spring weather. Tournament registrations are up, prize pools have been raised, and even in emba...
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