Archive for the ‘Mecha’ Category
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
From the same folks who've brought you Gode Geass direct downloads, Gundam00fan.com offers direct downloads for both the original season 1 and current running season 2 of Gundam 00. I've just got hold of the first episode myself and can't wait to get an early sneak peek of it. Hit ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Fans of old school anime would definitely remember this series back in the 80s, Gatchaman, better known as G-Force, the American version released here. Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman as it was known in Japan, is one of the more successful Hensin Super Sentai-type series that spawned many other five-hero team series ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Via Gizmodo
Naoki Maru of Kyoto, Japan may have built one of the more impressive control devices for a robot. Using what he calls a "master-slave" technology built onto a harness, the mechanism captures the movement of the pilot and transmits it to the robot via bluetooth and replicates the movement. ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Can't get enough of the Eva mania at your work place ? Impress your otaku work buddies with this pair of Evangelion inspired flash drives. On sale from 27 September, they come in 2Gb capacities and are priced at 3,980 yen each. After googling around I came across this chibi ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Hobby Chara 2008 was held over the last weekend. Here are the coverage from various different sites:
Chara Hobby Official Site (Japanese)
DannyChoo's Gundam Coverage, Mecha Coverage, Figurine Coverage (loads of mouth watering pics)
Akiba Hobby (more on figurine coverage)
Mimibokuro Diary
Hinatatiki
Mainchi News Coverage
Post Channel Blog (too bad some of the shots were blurry)
Akiba ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Long time premier Gundam source Gunota Headlines is finally calling it wraps after almost 5 years citing time as a major factor for the closure. Gunota has been my main source of fresh Gundam news for as long as I can remember since they were one of the earliest around ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Pixar's latest animated feature, Wall-E, is set in the distant future where Earth has been abandoned by mankind after years of waste generated reached an alarming level and could no longer sustain life. Buy N Large, megacorporation that controls almost every economy on Earth, hatched a plan to offer a ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Super Robot War has some scans of the August issue of Hobby Japan Magazine. What's interesting here is that the new Gundam Seravee, successor to Virtue of Gundam 00 has what appears to be a head on its backpack. If you haven't caught on to Gundam 00, the original Virtue ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
A little Caramelldansen to brighten your Monday ! Almost the entire cast from Gundam 00 is featured in this video of them performing Caramelldansen. What's Caramelldanse? See for yourself :P
Here are their appearance in order:
1. Lockon Stratos & Setsuna F. Seiei
2. Allelujah Haptism & Tieria Erde
3. Christina Sierra & Feldt ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I've uploaded the first set of the shots taken of my RX-178. Lighting still isn't too good in some of these shots but there are still some decent close ups. I'll continue to experiment with the photography and upload more photos as I get better results. If the results are ...
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