Was watching this video clip this morning after tweaking my Twitter settings.
Even though this video was many months old (timestamped on 9th July 2009), I still find it relevant on the fact that Japanese subculture is gaining traction (steadily) in many places around the world, even including Australia and New Zealand. I’ve seen a few around in Auckland for the past few years despite our incredible low ratio of 3000:1.
Have a look and you’ll be amazed. Especially how the otaku specialist said something about otaku gained a bad image after a psychopath killer went on a rampage to kidnap young girls. And then killed and dumped them into a river. The killer was an otaku fanatic…. 0.0.
Also, check out the massive Gundam cosplay video at 5:19!!^o^
Now that it’s done in Hong Kong… We now have one in Taiwan!
That’s what my little birdie told me after it showed me this link from Sunrise.
Tracing back to the Taiwan’s link, it’s said the Gundam Unicorn’s release is on 6th March 2010! Not only that they will be a massive nation-wide sales of Blue Ray/DVDs on the market for this 12 year-old franchise. It’s available in Mandarin languages as well. (Huh, go figure. :) )
According to the Taiwan’s site, they originally had plans for its advance screening, supposedly held on 26th Feb 2010. However, it’s been revised and extended till the first week of March so many Taiwanese fans will get the better spectacle of fun on that day such lucky draws to get into its promotional DVDs stand, special booking and toy collection, etc, etc
Is this for real? I couldn’t believe this! After waiting patiently for several weeks since the New Year’s, they’re not going to deliver this?!?
How on earth could New Zealand cinemas decide not to have nation-wide release of this film? I was so looking forward to its Australasia release.
BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED?!?
Why? Could it really be that bad when Imagi had it screened overseas that they had to turn it down? Because it wouldn’t produce enough considerable amount of profit for SkyCity and Hoyts cinemas? It’s just doomed to be super time-waster for cinema goers, as they thought it was?
This is definitely not that cool. And I was really hoping that things would have worked out.
Ever thought about running a toy business of your own? Does that ever come to anyone’s mind that this is a business that they could do, even though it may sound uncommon to you?
No matter what your varied opinions are on how this type of business could (or should) work, there’s one person who demonstrated her major love affair in this tin-toy business. And it’s an Australian Chinese celebrity, Claudia Chan Shaw, who’s definitely loving her robot toys like none other you can imagine! All of her toys ranging all the way to the 50s classic like characters from Lost in Space. And she also takes a great fancy with Japanese toys too, including Astro Boy!^^
Image sourced from Sydney Morning Herald
I was left amazed of how this OZ celebrity could run a toy collectable business in this industry, when the fact is that her actual profession is working in the fashion industry, making boutique knitwear for women! And she’s also running a toy business that any guy (like myself^^) would love to spend their entire life working on?
For there’s a lot of money to be made in this industry. Crazy lots.
It’s time for me to building my collection so one day I’ll end up having a closet as big as hers!
Just thought I wanted to share you guys with this.
Recognise some of these characters?
Heihachi Mishima
Robin Mask
Mr Satan
And what do they all have in common?
Well…. One thing. They’ll voiced by this one great Japanese voice actor who’s been with the anime industry as far back one could remember much from the 80s.
Daisuke Gori is his name. He was 57 years just before he died from committing suicide and lay dead on the road. Police do not how it was end-resulted like that but they said they were some visible signs of self-harm before he took his own life.
What a great shame. He’s done so much for the anime industry for a long time especially in DragonBall and Tekken series.
It’s interesting to note that he used to work on a couple of voice casting projects on previous mecha series ie Gundam and Patlabor.
It’s good to know.
But it was tragic for his life to be ended like that…. There’s so much for him to contribute further. So much potential. A lot of anime and gaming industry fans will surely miss him…
At least that’s what I thought after I finished reading this tweet post by one of prominent American “celebrity”, Tony Dyson (the man who invented R2D2).
Robots are showing off their best dance groves they’ve ever done in front of the live audience!! Apparently, it’s part of Sony’s showcase to inform the public how incredibly “talented” robots can be if you train them to dance just like back-up Britney dancers would do. ^^
It’s been a little while. I have promised that I’ve decided to move my blog to a new domain name by the 8th of this month. And I’m glad it’s certainly achieved! And I’m glad the migration plans is over and I hope I won’t be seeing myself doing this again in the near future.
What you noticed is that I’ve renamed the domain to www.generationmech.com. Not generationmechjournal.com anymore. Sounds a lot better I reckon. Couldn’t believe that it took me almost 9 months to figure out why my old domain name never took off.
Now all I need now is to tidy up my blogs post quickly and hope we can put everything’s into perspective what my new anime blog domain is going to represent moving forward!
It’ll have to be discussed on my next blog posts to think about.
After watching the previous trailers, I went on to uncover further scoop trailers on the cast and crew behind the production.
After reading this from offical Gundam Unicorn page, I went ahead and found the footage video of the voice cast interviews.
They’re certainly very energetic and enthusiastic young bunch! All looking hyped-up for the movie Spring release!
The Japanese UC Voice Cast Crew – Part 1
The Japanese UC Voice Cast Crew – Part 2
BTW, these footage videos are pretty old BTW, dated like back in August when I was away on Europe holidays. The interviews come into two parts. Each ran for about 5 – 6 minutes long. Why didn’t the author just record the entire thing into one stream… I have no idea. But that’s no longer relevant as long as they’re available to view online.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with any subtitles. You might as well enjoy the whole thing while you’re here. Maybe good for those who wish to brush up their Japanese language without the need of subtitles? ;-)
After rushing back from work yesterday, I went online to check out more Gundam Unicorn movie trailers since my last post.
And… Sure enough! Here they are. ^^
Ready to impress online crowd of Gundam aficionados all over the world!
First trailer is the promo on Gundam Unicorn, how the story has finally come to the final chapter after 30 years since Universal Century came into existence. Whilst the second trailer is more of a teaser trailer of some sort. Both of them come with the subtitles on, if you turn on their caption son the right side of the control panel.
A week so ago, Sunrise made a big announcement that they’re planning to bring Gundam Unicorn into the big screen at the world premiere in Hong Kong on 6th Feb 2010 (in three days time).
Several online (and offline) comic and manga publishers throughout the Asian region are keeping a keen eye on that, especially with helping out the ticket sales. Expecting that it’s going to be massive on the day of its worldwide release.
This is so fantastic! After watching the trailer (short version) below, I feel so looking forward to book a plane ticket to HK and stay there for overnight accommodation to just watch the film.
All that effort for 2 hour+ film! (Yeah I wish)
Crazy. I know. But at least, I won’t be only one who’s that excited to look into this!!!^^
