Daily Gunpla Gundam News and Other since April 7th 2011
The Cabinet Office’s Central Disaster Prevention Council said Wednesday that a megaquake of magnitude-9 in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coasts and its ensuing tsunami could kill up to 323,000 people in 30 prefectures including Tokyo, with about 70 percent of the deaths tsunami-related. Malfunctioning water gates would cause 23,000 more deaths. The estimated … Read more
On April 3, Mobile Suit Gundam character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko appeared at a special edition of the live drawing event “Saibara Rieko no Jinsei Garyoku Taiketsu” (“Rieko Saibara’s Drawing Showdown”) hosted by Kaasan – Mom’s Life manga creator Rieko Saibara. Illustrations that Yoshihiko and other manga artists created at the event are being auctioned on … Read more
Akira’s Kaneda Bike Goes on Road Trip Throughout Japan: Info, Videos & POSTER Size Images! The only officially recognized replica of Shotaro Kaneda’s motorcycle from Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga and film is currently traveling across Japan. Shinji Tejima from the Showa Studio automobile repair shop spent seven years and approximately 10 million yen (about US$121,400) … Read more
1/1 Fist of the North Star Figure Sold for 3 Million Yen, Many Images & Info The life-size Fist of the North Star figure — that happens to be inlaid with 500,000 Swarovski crystals — received a final bid of 3 million yen (about US$39,000) in a December auction on the Yahoo! Japan website. The … Read more
G-News: AKB48 CD Single Cover Recreated with Gundam Models, No.18 Large Images For last year’s 14th All-Japan Ora-Zaku Contest, a team from the Real Robot Modelers collective recreated the all-female idol group AKB48’s “Iiwake Maybe” CD single cover — with Gundams. The team customized each Gundam to match each AKB48 member, from hair style down … Read more
A new Pokemon Center shop will open in Sendai City in Miyagi Prefecture this winter. The store will be built inside Sendai’s Aer skyscraper, the tallest building in the Tohoku region This will be the first Pokemon Center built in the Tohoku region, the northeastern part of Japan’s main island that was devastated by the … Read more