The cover isn’t final, but the announcement is! Discotek Media, the people who license all the cool, old anime, live action Japanese movies and also that one box of GCCX, have announced that they’re bringing over Shin Mazinger over sometime in 2015. You can now get a full on copy of the first real foray into classic super robot territory in years. More support means that we may actually see a Shin Great Mazinger one day. I know I’m delusional, but super robots!
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Discotek Media Licenses Shin Mazinger for 2015!
Posted in Anime Seasons, Mazinger, Spring 2014, Super Robots, Text Articles with tags Discotek Media, Kouji Kabuto, Mazinger Z, Shin Mazinger, Shin Mazinger Licensed for 2015, Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen on 2014/06/16 by OnePixelJumpManCome, Invincible Robots! Tamashii Nations Event 2013 Chogokin Line Up feat. a Special Guest!
Posted in Getter Robo, Mazinger, Robot Romance Trilogy, Super Robot Awesome, Super Robots, Text Articles with tags Bandai, GaoGaiGar Soul of Chogokin, Hello Kitty Soul of Chogokin, Kantam Robo Super Robot Chogokin, Mazinkaiser Super Robot Chogokin, Shin Getter 1 Super Robot Chogokin, Soul of Chogokin, Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Soul of Chogokin, Super Robot Chogokin, Super Robot Figures, Tamashii Nations Event 2013, Trider G7 Soul of Chogokin, YF-30 Chronos Soul of Chogokin on 2013/11/01 by OnePixelJumpManThe Tamashii Nations Event is ready to go, and robot figures are ready to be shown off. Making a big show is Bandai with their Soul of Chogokin and Super Robot Chogokin lines with a long list of figures. In the Soul of Chogokin line, there’s the new adjustable display bases displayed using Combattler, Votoms, Daimos, Daltanious, and Godmars, and we’ve got a new GaoGaiGar, the 2199 version of Space Battleship Yamato, the Macross 30 YF-30 Chronos, Hello Kitty, and Trider G7. In the Super Robot Chogokin line, we’ve got the very excellent OVA style Mazinkaiser and Shin Getter 1 with the totally sweet rocket punch and Stoner Sunshine accessories you can see above, and the real star of the show:
Super Robot Chogokin Kantam Robo from the show within a show of the same name from Crayon Shin-chan. Of all the robots in the world, Kantam is getting his figure in one of the strongest figure lines there is. I know it would be really hard to do, and you might not even want it for a display figure, but I’d love it if they have the pilot that is the miniature Kantam Robo be removable from the figure. That is an awesome place to go for a new robot figure, but I shouldn’t be too surprised. Kantam Robo does have it’s own full fledged OP after all.
(Thanks to the news from Collection DX and Taghobby.)
Aim for Surpassing God or Devil of the Heavens! Mazin Lagann Buster!
Posted in Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, Mazinger, Super Robot Awesome, Super Robots, Videos with tags Aim for the Top Gunbuster, Akira Amemiya, Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, Mazinger Z, Soul of Chogokin on 2012/12/11 by OnePixelJumpManA little bit ago back in October, there was a new set Soul of Chogokin figure set of Gurren Lagann and Gunbuster. The best thing about these is that their parts were interchangeable with each other and with some older Chogokin figures, so you’d get awesome things like this.
Looks like the concept was in good hands because this Tamashii interview with Gurren Lagann animation director and key animator Akira Amemiya and another artist/designer for Bandai whose name I can’t translate to save my life shows that they’re interested in making a new figure and maybe a show based on that idea.
It’s a pretty good poster. A lot of the interview talks about design and and drawing, how drawing Gurren Lagann after so many years feels nostalgic, designing how Mazinger parts like the Scrander would be used, even at one point talking about a Mazinger Weapon Set. It’s really cool that this is getting considered because I’ve wanted a Gurren Lagann 70s style team up movie forever.
Yes, like this, but with the above robots and made during a time when studios had money.
If it gets off the ground, you can be sure we’re going to be all over this.