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[NastyNate]

I don't know if this was posted but we all know unicorn comes out oct 30th on psn and sometime in November on Blueray, but I noticed via http://store.bandai-ent.com/ProductDeta ... E&CartID=1 that the date is actually Novemer 12 2010 to be exact for the Blueray release. It is also $10 more than the first volume. Ouch, but I will pay what ever it takes to be honest.

[Some Kind of Robot]

A pretty sweet 30th anniversary gunpla hobby bag from PORTER and B Jirushi Yoshida with a matching black limited edition RX-78-1.
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/09/09/ ... undam-set/

[jcncasval76]

In anticipation of the release of Gundam Double O movie "A Wakening of the Trailblazer", Gundam Cafe, which opened in Akihabara in mid April this year is running a special corresponding campaign. For a limited period of time, special menu items and souvenirs related to characters from the movie are offered.

http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/09/ ... movie.html

[Some Kind of Robot]

Japan gets another Gundam phone. As impractical It may be (with smart phones being the norm nowadays) it'll be soo cool to have one! I wonder just out of curiosity how well it'll sell if someone was crazy enough *COUGH, COUGH, AT&T, WHEEZE* to put this on the American market. Do I smell a petition? Well anyways here's the link.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/13/vi ... bot-phone/

[jabman025]

Soul G gundam concert to return this September

http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/09/ ... ember.html

[Koshernova]

Yay I has news! Well, not exactly Gundam related, but related to some guests that have been on the show...

California Police Issues Warning to Parents about Pedobear.

Not making it up: http://gawker.com/5636011/stupid-califo ... e=true&s=i

[Furious Rodimus]

1/3000 DYRL Macross toy due soon.
http://www.collectiondx.com/news_item/0 ... _dyrl_type

[Flame-X]

Linkin Park Rock Album to Bundle Gundam Plastic Model

Warner Music Japan has announced on Wednesday that the American rock band Linkin Park is contributing a theme song for Bandai Namco Games' Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. arcade game. In addition, a deluxe box of the band's newest album, A Thousand Suns, will bundle a limited-edition Gundam plastic model ("Gunpla") in Japan on November 24.
This is the first time that a video game from the Gundam franchise has featured a song from a Western musical artist.

The album's Gunpla 30th Anniversary Edition will include a HGUC 1/144 RX-78GP01Fb Gundam GP01Fb Full Vernian "Linkin Park Edition" plastic model kit. According to their official Japanese website, the members of the band are big fans of the Gundam robot anime franchise, and they designed the custom color scheme of the model. The Gunpla Edition will feature special box art with the band members and the Gundam design.

[Soul Bro Ryu]

Looks like FROM Software & Capcom are producing "Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor" for XBox 360 Kinect, as just revealed just minutes ago from Kotaku at the Tokyo Game Show Microsoft Keynote, covering it live. The world in the game is one "without computers" and appears to have a WWII visual motif despite taking place in 2082. Sounds interesting...

Details from Kotaku TGS Microsoft Keynote Feed:
http://kotaku.com/5639214/microsofts-to ... ynote-live
Article: http://kotaku.com/5639336/steel-battali ... r/gallery/
Trailer: http://kotaku.com/5639355/steel-battali ... -york-city

[Vent Noir]

Crunchyroll adds Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector

[Some Kind of Robot]

Linkin Park Rock Album to Bundle Gundam Plastic Model

Warner Music Japan has announced on Wednesday that the American rock band Linkin Park is contributing a theme song for Bandai Namco Games' Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. arcade game. In addition, a deluxe box of the band's newest album, A Thousand Suns, will bundle a limited-edition Gundam plastic model ("Gunpla") in Japan on November 24.
This is the first time that a video game from the Gundam franchise has featured a song from a Western musical artist.

The album's Gunpla 30th Anniversary Edition will include a HGUC 1/144 RX-78GP01Fb Gundam GP01Fb Full Vernian "Linkin Park Edition" plastic model kit. According to their official Japanese website, the members of the band are big fans of the Gundam robot anime franchise, and they designed the custom color scheme of the model. The Gunpla Edition will feature special box art with the band members and the Gundam design.

Somewhere in the world right now, someone's making a Linkin Park AMV. LOLS

[Furious Rodimus]

For Soul Bro: Voltron concept art. Any hope for a live action movie? We will see,
http://io9.com/5640197/form-blazing-swo ... bot-mayhem

[jabman025]

in the category of too damn crazy to be fake

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith to sing theme song for the live action Space Battleship Yamato

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... mato-theme

[Dollow]

Gundam Character Designer Draws Char

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko in Action

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko joined Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970, where he designed characters for the 1971 anime series Sasurai no Taiyou. He later storyboarded Space Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the United States) and created character designs for the 1979 television anime Mobile Suit Gundam. Yasuhiko continues to work on the Gundam franchise to this day; he illustrated the novel series that inspired the new original video anime (OVA) series Mobile Suit Gundam UC. He is also credited with numerous manga, including retellings of the tales of Jesus, Joan of Arc (Joan), and Leon Trotsky (Niji-iro no Trotsky), as well as the ongoing manga Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.

Manga translator and Japanese in Mangaland author Marc Bernabé produced this video as part of his Masters of Manga website and video series.

This is really cool to see artwork come to life as YAS draws it. for anyone who wants to see how to draw Char.

Retailer Lists Ghost in the Shell: SAC Movie Blu-ray

Anime and manga retailer Right Stuf is currently listing three Blu-ray Disc releases for animated titles within the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex franchise. The three releases are the television movie Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society and the compilation videos Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Individual Eleven and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man. All three are scheduled to be released on December 7 with a suggested retail price of US$34.98.

[Vent Noir]

Gundam iPhone/iPod touch apps shown at Tokyo Game Show

[Furious Rodimus]

You all knew it would happen. Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-1 ... ors/704846

[Dollow]

Itochu to Put Ishinomori Manga on N. American iPhones

The Saturday edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) paper reported that Itochu Corporation will release Japanese manga on mobile devices in the United States and Canada. In particular, it will start releasing 30 manga, such as Kamen Rider and Cyborg 009, from manga pioneer Shotaro Ishinomori on the Apple iPhone in October. The service will then add works from Harlequin Comics for a total of 100 titles by next spring. The first chapter of each title will be free, and the subsequent chapters will be US$1.00 each.

Ishinomori conceived of several popular classics, including Harmagedon and The Skull Man. Many of his works have been adapted into live-action and animated projects. Nikkei had reported last November that a work by Ishinomori will be adapted into a live-action and computer-graphics film in Hollywood in 2012.
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[Vent Noir]

Linkin Park Gundam game OP streamed

[Doven]

New Gundam Wing novel has been confirmed. There is a post in the fourms about it, I just thought I would put one up here so you guys might talk about it.

http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... m-ace.html

[jcncasval76]

Big news from The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the parent company of the Anime Expo convention: CEO Michael Lattanzio has stepped down (leaving on good terms to pursue other projects). Detail is enclosed in the link below.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... o-michael-
lattanzio-steps-down

Personally, I have been wanting to go to the Anime Expo but don't know how to get there, so I hope this change would not affect their practices in the near future.