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Another Mazinkaizer SKL Update

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:17:53 +0000

And here’s another confirmed facts that people in other part of the world are dead keen for Mazinkaizer SKL OVA series as well.

Here’s the translated text (in English)

A new Mazinkaiser is coming! Reinterpretations of the classics by Go Nagai. It’s greatly anticipated to be a great show. The latest incarnation of the most powerful of the robots Mazinkaiser SKL. A contraction came as the word ‘SKL’ probably means “skull”. Note the skull instead of death Pilder emblem on the chest of the giant steel. In short, a disreputable kind without the huge shark teeth sword to put on the back.

The new OVA series was announced with a scoop of Hobby Japan Magazine # 6, on sale this month. No details on the project has yet revealed, but an official site is configured to receive future press releases and extras. The author Go Nagai’s Dynamic Planning and also reveal the next serializing a novel based on the new series, to be published in the magazine Dengeki Hobby ASCII Media Works, and a new manga will be offered on the official website of the magazine Comic Gekkin Shu 2 subsidiary of Bandai Visual Emotion.

Well the SKL part makes somewhat sense. Just wandering if somebody else in the Mazinkaizer community could disprove that?

Source: ComicsBlog

Gundam Unicorn: Blue Ray/DVD for sales

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:40:57 +0000

Hey everyone,

It’s been insanely ages since I’ve done any updates to Generation Mech blog, other than highly-rumored Gaiking movie that’s due to come out in 2012. Been spending weeks on trying to apply for my work visa and new passport from my native home country of Malaysia… And boy! They sure don’t get any easier at all! Certainly taking up a huge proportion of my time.

And now that my contract work just completed last week, I now have a plenty of time to catch up what’s been missing for the past 2-3 weeks in the world of Generation Mech blog.

Back to this!

Now I heard that Gundam Unicorn OVA series is now out on sale online back in mid March. But it’s sold only exclusive via Amazon! It’s selling for a retail price of USD $40.00. I’d say it’s not a bad price for Volume 1. (Each volume is one episode. The OVA series said to have about 6 episodes).

Would love to pay for it. But just not sure about the crazy shipping fee Amazon proposes. (which works out something like $30 – $40 and it takes around 2-3 weeks before it arrives at non-American soils.)

So if you’re keen to get this copy while it’s still out with them, check out the link with them.

Source: Japanator.com

Tetsujin 28 gets to appear on Tokyo’s NTT Ad

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:40:40 +0000

Speaking of Tetsujin 28 statue on my last post, Japan’s mobile phone telecommunications provider, NTT Docomo, not long ago aired their new TV commercial, featuring Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28 (Gigantor in English).

Basically, the main attraction behind this is to grant the computer users the ability to gain remote control on any movable vehicles or devices using NT Docomo’s wireless data communications adaptor (via USB port).

And when they mean any, they literally do mean ANY.

And what better way to give their latest telecommunication gadgets the ultimate test is to use an 18-foot giant robot as the prime example to show off its power capabilities.

After reviewing their website, I had a quick browse. By passing all their nifty Flash player presentations (just like any other ordinary company websites’ that wish to show off their media content) explaining about their latest telecommunications invention, I found several downloadable wallpaper images of the Tetsujin 28 (select link 05 on the main page).

These images are 1024 x 768. There are larger ones as well you can try ie 1280 x 1024 and 1680 x 1050, if you have a bigger LCD screen with bigger resolutions. So those are sure nice to have.

There’s also this wicked screensaver you load onto your computer once downloaded (which I downloaded and tested it). And what it shows you is the computer prompt screen that loads some OS code and after a few seconds, you’ll see number of blueprint images of Tetsujin 28 appearing on the right half of the screen.

For a telecommunications provider to come up with a design like this and little or no relation to Japan’s anime industry, they sure deserve the big pin-ups for great media works such as these. Good on them for making such effort!

Source: ANN.com, NTDocomo