Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #58
Will the vampire conspiracy defeat mankind? Can the youngest group of mecha-mercenaries from Mars escape the clutches of the evil corporation? Why is the water goddess Aqua so annoying?
Is this the next Gundam? Cross Ange trailer
Cross Ange is a new mecha anime from Sunrise. That’s the team responsible for mecha hits like Gundam, Code Geass and Vlavrave. Mitsui Fukuda, Gundam SEED director, is the creative director on the project.
If you happened to notice the pilot’s armour was odd; a mix of protective shell and knickers then you’d be right.…
With 95m of wire you can make a Gundam
This Gundam was created by carefully bending 95m of stainless steel wire. The result is a 1/100 RX-78-2 Gundam model.
Via The Wonder.…
Gundam diorama: After Air Strikes
There’s no doubting the quality around this Gundam diorama. We can see from the photo that it’s called “After Air Strikes”. However, it was shared on a pin board that does not seem to favour attribution so finding out the creator will take a little bit more research.…
Gundam & Figma stop motion battle
File this video under “if you have the models – you might as well do something with them” in the stop motion sub-section.
Counter 656 says this video took around 3,000 pictures to film.…
When Pikachu found a Gundam
What would happen when everyone’s favourite electric rat found a Gundam suit, wings, guns and all to play around with?
Okay, imagine for a minute that the suit was Pikachu sized.…
LEGO fuses Evangelion and Gundam
This creation mixes Evangelion and Gundam styles together.
I say that up front because I didn’t twig from the title “EVA Gundam”. I heard the music and though to myself – wait, no, that’s the wrong mecha.…
Beez Entertainment to close?
“BEEZ no longer exists” says a post on the French site Forum Gundam after Google Translate has had a bash at the text.
Sadly, this could be true – the news that Bandai Entertainment would shutter all new anime broke this week.…
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files movie review
Armored Trooper VOTOMS is an anime series with a long history; 52 TV episodes that started in 1983, plenty of movies and games. VOTOMS is a mecha fighting series – but unlike Gundam the mecha are not giant space robots, they’re suits about 4 metres tall, they’re about as “man size” as powered fighting suits are likely to be.…
Summer time lapse of a life-sized Gundam
Anime heroes tend to come and go. Sure, the likes of Bleach, Dragonball Z or even Pokemon have been around for years – but compare that to Batman or Superman.
Compare those to the likes of the Phantom or the Shadow.…
