Fashion Figure INC is unlike any organization you’ve ever heard of. The brainchild of the elusive, artistic savant Reggieknow (who we’ve profiled before), FFINC has arguably the world’s most unique business model: they make dope ass gear for your action figures, and they will style them the hell out. If you’ve ever, absolutely, 100%, no […]
That title above either gives you goosebumps like that revelation scene in Fight Club, or you just couldn’t care less (because you clearly don’t know what we’re talking about). There’s really no room for middle ground here. At the beginning of the year we posted the first trailer for Space Battleship Yamato, and this here’s […]
What do you get when you mix one of the greatest albums of all time (and Rolling Stone‘s #1 album of the 80’s) with one of the best anime series of all time? Why, Gundam Calling of course. Sure this mobile suit may not be able to hold the bottom end down like Simonon, but […]
This is one of those examples of when a music video perfectly illustrates the vibe of a song. Not much to explain here — Noisia & Mayhem’s drum & bass anthem over an anime video of an alien ship wrecking shop of Earth. There is very little to not like about the previous sentence…
In what is easily my happiest moment of fanboy geekdom since discovering that Space Battleship Yamato (aka Starblazers) movie, it was leaked this week that David Fincher is in the works to make a real to life Gaiking movie. As if that wasn’t enough, the film is being used as a launching pad to start […]
For many Americans, their introduction to Japanese anime came via the epic Star Blazers series in the 80s, known as Space Battleship Yamato in Japan and the rest of the world. Premiering a couple years before Robotech, Star Blazers was eons ahead of its American counterparts (have they ever caught up?), telling an opera in […]
I know saying you love Takashi Murakami is like saying you like Wes Anderson or Radiohead, but I really love Murakami. I remember when my friend gave me a Buddhafingers candy bar to munch on and we went to see the Murakami retrospective at MOCA, and I nearly lost my marbles. I was already an […]