Super Robot Wars Z3 PV 1

It’s finally been announced. The third in what is probably the most prolific of Super Robot Wars sub-series. Super Robot Wars Z3 is here with quite the extensive cast list for just the first PV. I mean, freaking look at it:

• Getter Robo Armageddon
• Gundam (Original, Zeta, Wing: Endless Waltz, 00, Unicorn)
• Trider G7
• Macross Frontier
• The Big O
• Orguss
• GodMars
• Gurren Lagann
• Tetsujin-28
• Dai-Guard
• Dancougar Nova
• Shin Mazinger Z Shogeki Z Hen
• Code Geass
• Full Metal Panic
• Aim for the Top! Gunbuster
• Armor Trooper Votoms
• Rebuild of Evangelion
• Aquarion Evol

Yeah, that’s a big list. Not that Super Robot Wars isn’t known for having a metric ton of robot series that it pulls from, but this is only the first PV. It’s filled with a lot of mainstays and faces you’ve seen from SRWZ before. You have your Getter, your Mazinger, your Gundams upon Gundams, the old super and the old reals, and a few new faces both to the Z sub series and the overall series. Full Metal Panic! is coming up from W and the black sheep J, and while the original Z had Aquarion, Z3 is bringing EVOL and its ilk to the table. I look forward to banana punching and Andy finally getting to lead the helm.

Super Robot Wars Z3 will be coming out on April 10 2014 for Vita and PS3. That’s the signal for region free, so everyone get ready.

Aim for Surpassing God or Devil of the Heavens! Mazin Lagann Buster!

A 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.

Super Robot Awesome – Aim for the Top! Gunbuster: Catch a Battleship

If you’ve learned one thing from this little YouTube series, let it be that should never stab a super robot in the chest. It just puts you in their melee range.

Also, I wonder if this will start a fight over who did the crossed arms pose in a super robot first.

Episode 4 of Toppu o Nerae! Gunbuster.