Gundam

On October 1, 2020, Gundam Factory Yokohama will debut a 60-foot tall humanoid robot.A YouTube video, posted earlier this month, shows the progress.Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it looks like construction on the robot is still on schedule.Since January, construction has been underway on a huge Gundam robot—a popular fictional robot…

You won’t have to visit Japan to see a life-size Gundam statue in the months ahead, although you may still have to book a lengthy trip. Our Engadget Chinese colleagues report that Bandai Namco will debut an 18-meter (about 59ft) Freedom Gundam statue at the LaLaport Mall in Jinqiao, Shanghai,…

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Brian Ashcraft Published 4 days ago: June 22, 2020 at 7:00 pm - In a country with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Gundam stores, it was only a matter of time before an official Kamen Rider store opened in Japan. On July 1, the Kamen Rider Store Tokyo will begin serving customers.…

posted on 2020-06-21 22:10 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda The official website for Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Han'yō no Yasha Hime), the new anime spinoff of Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha series, revealed on Monday that the fall anime will air on the YTV/NTV network on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. JST (4:30 a.m.…

Screenshot: Namco Bandai If you’ve ever been to an arcade in Japan, you’ve probably seen Wani Wani Panic. It’s similar to Whac-A-Mole, but with alligators, and is a mainstay of Japanese game centres. (Whac-A-Mole was invented in Japan and licensed to Bandai in 1977.)Originally released in Japan in 1989, Wani…

Photo: Cameron Baird, Red Bull Content Pool After posting a tweet that both mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and peddled in racist tropes, former Evo champion Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez has been banned from several fighting game events. This includes an indefinite suspension from Capcom-related tournaments. Ramirez has always…

Episode delayed from May 8 due to COVID-19 The official website for Mashin Eiyūden Wataru Shichi Tamashii no Ryūjinmaru (Seven-Souled Ryūjinmaru), anime studio Sunrise and Bandai Spirits' Tamashii Nations toy brand's new project in the franchise, revealed on Friday that the series will resume with episode 3 on the Bandai…

Maysa Talerd, 31, an entrepreneur wears her own design of the Stormtrooper face shield (Reuters)Bangkok: A single mother in Thailand is doing brisk business out of face shields with characters from cartoons, games and sci-fi movies, hoping to cash in and promote safety for children as her country emerges from…

Statues commemorating racists are coming down. Isn’t it a beautiful sight? After years of ‘sanctioned’ and ‘proper’ campaigning which by establishment design achieved nothing but ‘polite’ deferral and bureaucratic quagmire, statues which a just society would have never put up in the first place are now coming down, one way…