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Sunday, July 31, 2005
DESTINY promo video clips
Wings Of Words
Kimi Wa Boku Ni Niteiru
Vestige
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Pics of the MegaHouse booth from GA Graphic:
Haro Capsule: SEED DESTINY edition (July, 504 yen)
Real Posing Robot Aura Battle Dunbine: Dunbine (Sept., 5,040 yen)
Real Posing Robot Aura Battle Dunbine: Leprechaun (Sept., 5,040 yen)
SEED DESTINY: Petit Studio, Stage 2 (Sept., 472 yen)
Chesspiece Collection DX MS Gundam SEED DESTINY: Destiny's Intersection edition (onsale now, 504 yen)
The winners of the Zaku! Zaku!! Campaign contest from the ED credits of the most recent ep of SEED DESTINY.
Posted at Keppel Club's site, more story related to the Crossbone Gundam world is set to appear in the winter issue of Gundam Ace. It is currently under work and the manga is going to be done by Yuichi Hasegawa.
Friday, July 29, 2005
Sega Direct lists SEED DESTINY Suit CD Vol. 8: Lacus Clyne x Meer Campbell. It'll include "Quiet Night CE 73" plus another song and a drama written by SEED novelist Riu Goto. Sale date is September 22.
More new screencaps of Zeta II from ITmedia Games.
And we missed this English Asahi.com article 2 weeks back.
From Bandai Visual's site, Neo Lorrnoke quits his band and goes solo.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Oricon's daily singles ranking has Chemistry's "Wings Of Words" entering the charts at #2.
From Noda-ya's scan of the HG DOM Trooper info and supplemented with info from 2ch:
ZGMF-XX09T DOM (Dauntless Obliterator Magnificent) Trooper
JP536X Gigalauncher DR1 multiplex
MX2351 Solidus Fulgor
MA-X848HD strengthened-type beam saber
G14X31Z Screaming Nimbus
MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS
EX-EZ1200 EZ Wizard
Guests and events that are related to Gundam:
Ikeda Shuichi x Toru Furuya Talk Show & Autograph Session - Aug 21 (Sunday) at the Bandai Visual booth 11am and at the Kadokawa booth 12 noon.
SEED DESTINY Stage - Both days (Saturday 12 noon and Sunday 1pm). Hosted by Juichi Suwabe (Sting Oakley) and Megumi Toyoguchi (Miriallia Haww).
Guests are:
Both days - Akira Ishida (Athrun Zara), Kenichi Suzumura (Shinn Asuka), Maaya Sakamoto (Lunamaria Hawke).
Saturday - Rie Tanaka (Lacus Clyne / Meer Cambell)
Sunday - Soichiro Hoshi (Kira Yamato), Naomi Shindou (Cagalli Yula Atha)
Products available (not previously mentioned here)
Dengeki Hobby Magazine
Full Action Figure Huckebein MkII - 4500 yen
RGM-79SRC GM Kai High Mobility version - 13000 yen
Hobby Japan
1/100 Gundam Mk-III - 20000 yen
1/7 Shinn Asuka - 9000 yen
Kadokawa Shoten
Zeon Girl MS-09 Dom (normal version or sand color version) - each 7000 yen
GALUTION RX-78-2 Gundam, Prototype Gundam, G-3 Gundam - each 12000 yen
Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin telephon cards - 5000 yen (for all 4)
COSPA
Gundam coffee mugs - each 840 yen
Info regarding the Zeta movie from the latest issue of Gundam Ace, Nikkei Characters, and Zeta Gundam Historica.
- Conjunction with Lawson convenience stores, Zeta II Lovers tickets will be available as part of the Limited Edition Zeta Passport. They will go on sale September 1st.
- In the Zeta Historica interview, Akinori Endo revealed the subtitles of Zeta movies were made up by him back in May 1998 when he wrote the proposal for the movie.
- Wong Lee will appear in 2nd movie.
- Zeta Gundam Ace vol 2 will come out on October 26th.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
From Hobbynet, Gundam Collection Shop, and YesAsia.com:
HCM-Pro Destiny Gundam
HGUC Hazel Kai
MG Hyaku Shiki + ballute pack
MSiA Gabthley, 2
MSiA HiZack (Earth Fed), 2
MSiA Hambrabi, 2
EMSiA Char's Zaku II, 2
GFF Blue Destiny Unit 1/Unit 2 (lineart), 2
GFF Guncannon/Mass-produced (lineart), 2
They got the wallpaper page up.
That's right folks. From the summer issue of Katsuji Club magazine, Harutoshi Fukui, author of Lorelei, Boukoku no Aegis, and Turn A Gundam novels, is currently working on a Gundam story which will later be serialized in Gundam Ace. In the interview, he was quoted, "Hopefully it can be animated for the 30th Anniversary in 2009."
The monthly Gundam power rankings in Gundam Ace.
Top 30 Male Characters
1) Kira Yamato - SEED DESTINY
2) Char Aznable - MSG/The Origin/Zeta
3) Athrun Zala - SEED DESTINY
4) Amuro Ray - MSG/The Origin/Zeta
5) Kamille Bidan - Zeta Gundam
6) Shinn Asuka - SEED DESTINY
7) Quattro Bageena - Zeta Gundam
8) Anavel Gato - 0083
9) Yzak Joule - SEED DESTINY
10) Sleggar Law - MSG/The Origin
11) Heine Westenfluss - SEED DESTINY
12) Ramba Ral - MSG/The Origin
13) Heero Yuy - Wing
14) Mu La Flaga - SEED
15) Shiro Amada - 08th MS Team
16) Garma Zabi - MSG/The Origin
17) Garrod Ran - Gundam X
18) Neo Ra Loanoke - SEED DESTINY
19) Bright Noa - MSG/The Origin/Zeta
20) Colonel Todaka - SEED DESTINY
21) Jerid Mesa - Zeta Gundam
22) Dearka Elthman - SEED DESTINY
23) Rey Za Burrel - SEED DESTINY
24) Uso Evin - V Gundam
25) Kou Uraki - 0083
26) Paptimus Scirocco - Zeta Gundam
27) Johnny Ridden - MSV
28) Loran Cehak - Turn A Gundam
29) Hennken Bekkener - Zeta Gundam
30) Arnold Neumann - SEED DESTINY
Top 30 Female Characters:
1) Lacus Clyne - SEED DESTINY
2) Lunamaria Hawke - SEED DESTINY
3) Sayla Mass - MSG/The Origin
4) Meyrin Hawke - SEED DESTINY
5) Cagalli Yula Athha - SEED DESTINY
6) Stellar Loussier - SEED DESTINY
7) Emma Sheen - Zeta Gundam
8) Haman Karn - Zeta Gundam/Portrait Of A Young Comet
9) Four Murasame - Zeta Gundam
10) Murrue Ramias - SEED DESTINY
11) Aina Sahalin - 08th MS Team
12) Tiffa Adill - Gundam X
13) Cima Garahau - 0083
14) Mirai Yashima - MSG/The Origin
15) Fllay Allstar - SEED
16) Matilda Ajan - MSG/The Origin
17) Elpeo Ple - Gundam ZZ
18) Miriallia Haw - SEED DESTINY
19) Dianna Sorel - Turn A Gundam
20) Crowley Hamon - MSG/The Origin
21) Natarle Badgiruel - SEED
22) Shiho Hahnenfuss - SEED DESTINY
23) Sara Zabiarov - Zeta Gundam
24) Reccoa Londe - Zeta Gundam
25) Roux Louka - Gundam ZZ
26) Chara Soon - Gundam ZZ
27) Katejina Loos - V Gundam
28) Yoon Sefan - SEED DESTINY
29) Christina Mackenzie - 0080
30) Aisha - SEED
Top 30 MS:
1) Freedom Gundam - SEED DESTINY
2) Strike Freedom Gundam - SEED DESTINY
3) Zeta Gundam - Zeta Gundam
4) Hyaku Shiki - Zeta Gundam
5) Destiny Gundam - SEED DESTINY
6) Nu Gundam - CCA
7) Qubeley - Zeta Gundam
8) Infinite Justice - SEED DESTINY
9) Zaku II - MSG/The Origin
10) Sazabi - CCA
11) Saviour Gundam - SEED DESTINY
12) Gundam - MSG/The Origin
13) Strike Gundam - SEED
14) Wing Gundam Zero - Wing: Endless Waltz
15) GOUF Ignited - SEED DESTINY
16) Gundam Mk-II - Zeta Gundam
17) Rick Dias - Zeta Gundam
18) Justice Gundam - SEED
19) Destroy Gundam - SEED DESTINY
20) Acguy - MSG/The Origin
21) Strike Rouge - SEED
22) Kämpfer - 0080
23) Asshimar - Zeta Gundam
24) DOM TROOPER - SEED DESTINY
25) Gaia Gundam - SEED DESTINY
26) Z'gok - MSG/The Origin
27) The O - Zeta Gundam
28) Dom - MSG/The Origin
29) Force Impulse Gundam - SEED DESTINY
30) Buster Gundam - SEED
Monday, July 25, 2005
Posted at Useless Plamoya-san's Diary, the next Gundam series following DESTINY is planned for Oct 2006. However, the next series will not be SEED series. The blog states the staff will be made up so it will completely go away from SEED. The same post mentions Zeta and SEED will be the bulk of future model kit releases until this new series airs.
While information posted at Useless Plamoya-san's Diary have been reliable in the past, take this news with some grain of salt.
HCM Pro Zeta Gundam - currently under works.
ZGMF-XX09T DOM TROOPER - developed by Clyne faction's factory. Hilda, Mars, and Herbert (pilots of DOM) specialize in trinity attack (aka something similar to the Jet Stream Attack).
PSP Gundam Battle Tactics - Controls will be similar to PS2 Lost War Chronicles and will include an optional cockpit view.
DESTINY Spoilers
Ep 42 - "Freedom and Justice" - Orb is being pushed back by ZAFT's attack. Cagalli barely manages to hold against Destiny. Right when she was about to be shot down, Strike Freedom drops from the heaven with Infinite Justice...
Ep 43 - "Voice of Counter" - Athrun, piloting the Infinite Justice, comes to aid Kira. Athrun asks Shinn, "What do you really desire?" In the middle of the battle, Djibril plots an escape with group of traitors.
Ep 44 - "Two Lacus" - In response to Cagalli's speech, PLANT counters with Meer's speech. However, Lacus finally appears saying she is the real one. While the world is in chaos, both Dullindal and Djibril make their next move.
Famitsu.com has list of games tenatively scheduled for Xbox360. Among the 45 titles, Bandai has Mobile Suit Gundam and Banpresto has Super Robot Taisen listed. The titles were revealed at Microsoft's event "Xbox Summit 2005" in Tokyo on July 25th.
UPDATED
More links related to this news:
Game Watch - Here it mentions, a FPS game looking like BF1942-ish with some form of network support. The game will come out next year and Bandai plans to have footage for Tokyo Game Show 2005 this September.
IGN.com - Here, it mentions this will be a FPS Zeta-related game.
Nikkei news and Dengeki Online put up similar articles as well. However no mention of Zeta.
Stay tuned to see which universe this game will be.
The official SEED DESTINY site now has new character and mechanics info. It also added a small column by Yuichi Nomura (SEED/DESTINY screenplay) and added synopsis for episode 36-38.
New mechanics:
Euclid - Enormous MA manufactured by the Earth Alliance forces. Unlike the Zamza-Zah or Gells-Ghe, it lacks limbs, making it more like the Moebius in construction. Equipped with huge beam cannons, a large number were deployed to defend Heaven's Base.
Akatsuki - An mobile suit embodying Orb's ideas, left by Uzumi Nara Athha to his daughter Cagalli. The armor of its shining, gold body has a special coating applied and its defense specifications make it their banner MS.
New characters:
Hilda Harken, Mars Simeon, Herbert Von Reinhardt - A trio of Dom Trooper pilots belonging to the Clyne faction. With the lone female, Hilda, as the heart, they pilot their heavyweight Doms skillfully, lashing out with the Trinity Attack.
MS IGLOO site has info up for the upcoming DVD 3 and also announced DVD 1 and 2 will be again available for reservation.
Zeta movie site has now info and cover for Heirs To The Stars DVD.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Info from 2ch has Heirs To The Stars ranking #14 during the July 16-17 weekend. Still showing in 33 theaters, its total box office gross is 816 million yen.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Victor Entertainment Animation Network announces something that had been rumored for the past several days on Japanese boards: DESTINY Phase 40's insert song, "Honoo No Tobira" ("Door Of Flame", "Blazing Opening", among other possible English renditions), by FictionJunction Yuuka comes out on September 22nd.
Those who are in love with Hisashi Hirai's creation can now buy his 2 volume art book starting August 30th. The first book, tenatively titled "The World of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED", is priced at 2000 yen covering his works from SEED, Infinite Ryvius, and s-CRY-ed.
DiscStation has the DVD cover of the Heirs To The Stars, where Amuro, Kamille, and Char glare at you.
Friday, July 22, 2005
At Bandai Visual's site.
New characters on the True Odyssey official site:
Astona - An authority on the G System and Gavenger's pal. Generally good-natured though he hides away alone in the laboratory when doing researching.
Rifa - An engineering apprentice who assists Astona at Diggins Rock. Bright & energetic, she's a popular girl there.
A Haro's Puyopuyo promo video can be seen by clicking on Haro's mouth at the official site.
Large shots at Gundamer.com.
IGN stuck up a new article about in-game footage from the upcoming PS3 MS Gundam game, with videos.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Akatsuki - Its backpack can separate and transform into a fighter.
Euclid - The MA that appeared in Phase-38. Can be used both on Earth and in space. Size front-to-back is 30 meters.
The three Dom pilots:
Hilda Harken - Michiko Neya
Mars Simeon - Junichi Suwabe
Herbert Von Reinhardt - Taiten Kusunoki
Early mag info from 2ch announces the following:
MG Hyaku Shiki + ballute pack set (no plating, September, 3,990 yen)
HCM-Pro Destiny Gundam (September, 2,100 yen)
Chara Hobby 2005 limited merchandise (August 20-21)
PG Gundam Mk II (extra finish version, 30,000 yen)
HGUC Gundam + EX Gundam trailer (extra finish version, 5,000 yen)
MG Wing Zero (extra finish version, 8,000 yen)
EX Dopp (camoflauge colors, 4,200 yen)
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
MS In Action!! Syndrome put up photo reports of K Fes 2005, which contains pics of the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice MSiA's.
They also put up one for Tokyo Toy Show 2005, though there's no pics of the newer figures. Dearka's Blaze Zaku Phantom is described as grey with verniers on the legs and chest ducts which are yellow on the insides. The GFF Z Movies Set comes with a Zeta Gundam, Gundam Mk II, and Hyaku Shiki with the Z and Mk II also being metallic coating versions.
Tamashii Web also put up a page for the MSiA Windam (mass-produced).
The contents of the premiere issue of Side B, Bandai's in-store videogame promotional magazine, can be seen online in PDF form. Gundam-relevant features include:
Gundam: True Odyssey
Gundam SEED DESTINY: Generation Of C.E.
Giren's Greed PSP
Haro's Puyopuyo
Miscellaneous plamo stuff (including DESTINY kits and HGUC Hazel Kai lineart)
Bandai Visual has put up additional R2 DVD info for Zeta I and MS IGLOO.
Zeta I Limited Edition version's special disk is scheduled to contain 50 minutes worth of interview with Tomino and Gackt along with behind the scenes work.
MS IGLOO 3 will include a boxcase that can hold volume 1 through 3.
Monday, July 18, 2005
HK limited Z MSiA
Coinciding with Heirs To The Stars' theatrical presentation in Hong Kong on July 30th, a black, special edition Z Gundam MSiA is being offered to theatergoers as well as the clear version HGUC Gundam Mk II.
Post at 2chan BBS is reporting the upcoming PS2 game has been delayed until Aug 25th. No official announcement has been made by Bandai at the moment.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
A Gunpla photo report from Kodansha Super Character Festival 2005 can be seen at Choukantan Gunpla. Pics of the 1/100 Destiny Gundam, Strike Freedom, PG Strike Rouge, HG Gouf Ignited mass-produced, and Dom Trooper.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Comic-Con Bandai Panel report
Via TheCapt1701 at Animeondvd.com's forums. Some Gundam-relevant material to be seen.
ITmedia put up couple Gundam-related news.
Zeta II - Lovers
The first article includes 4 more new screenshots (Zeta with Shiki, Sara, Reccoa, and badly damaged Argama). The article included a brief synopsis of the movie, which mentioned the following events;
- Meeting between Kamille and Four
- Kamille going back to Space and his new MS Zeta Gundam
- Titans' colony drop and terrorist bombing on Moon cities.
- Assassination of Blex
- Scirocco gaining power/influence
- Entry of Axis
Zeta II will be 98 minutes long.
Bandai Musuem's "Operation V Cockpit Reproduction" report
The second article by ITmedia Games highlights the opening of the 1/1 Corefighter cockpit at Bandai Musuem and the renewal of the G-Base shop. Much of the photos related to the cockpit and G-Base are in the 2nd page of the article.
Except for the Secret Elements page, all the content on the official site is now up. Various promotional campaigns are to be held, including the nationwide "Premium Dogfight 2005 Banpresto Cup", the first official tournament of its kind for the Gundam Vs. series of games.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
IGN reports from Comic-Con that Bandai announced that they'll be bringing over Gundam: True Odyssey this Winter. Good news for stateside Gundam fans who wanted something a little different from the standard Gundam action/fighting fare.
Edit: IGN put up an official preview article as well.
Sony Music Online Japan has an audio clip of Hitomi Takahashi's second single, "evergreen".
Animeondvd.com put up details for the first volume of the individual Zeta DVD releases. The running time seems to indicate 10 episodes per volume.
ITmedia Games has a nice write-up with photos covering the opening ceremonies of Suntory Museum's Gundam exhibit in Osaka. Yoshiyuki Tomino, new Bandai president Kazunori Ueno (once known as the Chief Gundam Officer), and Sunrise president Takayuki Yoshii were on hand for the ribbon cutting.
On display were various works on three themes expounded on in Gundam: war, evolution, and life. Featured works, in the order shown in the article: "Breathe Upon The Universe" (the hyped work featuring a 1/1 scale Core Fighter as its centerpiece), Yasuyuki Nishio's "crash Sayla Mass" (a 10-meter tall display based on the Gundam character with a cockpit in its torso), Makoto Aida's "Zaku (War Picture RETURNS Extra Edition)" (a painting of a battle scene with many Zaku II's), Motohiko Odani's "A Heart Full Of Love" (a photo of a female Federal Forces officer as the image of Miroku Bosatsu sitting inbetween two piles of corpses), and Horan Yokohama's "Final Defense Line 'A Baoa Qu'" (a work of calligraphy in the form of the A Baoa Qu fortress).
In the "evolution" corner, you can find the Newtype Technology Lab. Inside is the "Psyco Communicator System" exhibit, in which you can have your own personal Newtype experience, though not before undergoing ESP testing. Electrodes are attached to the back of two participants' heads, with one trying to send thoughts and the other receiving them. The receiver is blindfolded and made to navigate through the hanging styrofoam. Presumably, a Newtype can make it through unscathed.
After that: Koki Tanaka's "Pikipikiin (Theatrical Edition)" (some kind of abstract art suspended from the ceiling), Hisashi Tenayoya's "RX-78-2 Kabukimono 2005 Version" (a rendition of the RX-78-2 with a dragon), Horan Yokoyama's "Cosmic Glow" (calligraphy of the conversation between Amuro & Lalah in the MS Gundam episode of the same name), Yokoyama's "Zeong Paint Brush" and "Gundam Paint Brush" (modelled on the Zeong's head and the RX-78's Hyper Bazooka, respectively), Taro Shinoda's "Space Camp Site" (fresh moss inside a pseudo-space colony environment lit with LED's to produce oxygen via photosynthesis), and "Breathe In The Universe" (basically a silhouette of Lalah Sune).
Following those is a set of displays with the theme "From Gundam": Naohiro Ukawa's "768936352dimensionalofTHEWAR" (a composition made of 50 layers of cell drawings to create a 3D effect) and Hideyasu Moto's "Love Warrior G With Friends" (a cutesy image of anthropomorphic RX-78 body parts standing around).
Limited edition items from the event (all sold only on the grounds, no phone or net orders):
Clear version HGUC Gunpla
1/16 Core Fighter maquette replica - 298,000 yen. 50 made for the first round of production. Separately sold large case (transparent acrylic box + wooden stage) for 40,000 yen. Deliveries are made at the end of December as the item is build-to-order.
Core Fighter mousepad (1,200 yen)
Core Fighter marking seals (3 types, 1,200 yen)
Postcards (various kinds, 150 ~ 1,500 yen)
Cookies (2 kinds, 700 yen)
Cellphone screencuts (1,000 yen)
Commemoration plates (250 yen)
Notebooks (1,000 yen)
Posters (1,000 yen)
Chibi Gihren gets his own update on the official site's Character page.
You know the drill: Site opens. Nothing there yet.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Reports from 2ch state that the August issue of Bandai Visual's Beat Magazine announced the DVD release of the first Zeta Gundam film. It comes with a deluxe case and a special disc, contents not yet known. Price is 6,300 yen, runtime 95 minutes, and the sale date is October 28th, the day before the second movie hits theaters.
Up over here. As usual for new game sites, not much up for now.
Oricon's weekly singles ranking has Savage Genius' "Take a chance." as #26.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Victor Entertainment Animation Network has RealAudio clips up of See-Saw's "Kimi Wa Boku Ni Niteiru" and "Seijaku Wa Headphone No Naka".
Monday, July 11, 2005
Hobby Shop Kasare lists the HGUC Hazel as coming out in September.
Couple sites got updated.
SEED DESTINY site updated their mechanics, characters, and story sections.
MS IGLOO site got a slightly newer look and added a QTVR of Erich Kruger.
