If you grew up in New England you might remember a show called Force Five. In it, each day a separate Japanese cartoon would play inspiring a bunch of Masshole kids to become wicked influenced by Giant Robots. These proto-anime shows included Gai King and Starvengers, but Mondays belonged to Planet Robot Danguard Ace. Well […]
13
May
Die cast metal homage to the classic Japanese giant robot
13
Dec
Limited edition Gundam MS-06J ZAKUII figure gets his skulls
It is a thing of rare beauty when the giant robot playing nerd of my youth is able to sit down and break bread with the Japan-thread obsessed nerd of of my current life, but such is the case today. Perhaps the most famous giant robot collection of all, Gundam, has released a collaborative robot […]
12
Dec
From Japanese art to the appreciation of well shaped derrières
The second installment of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series focuses on the Top 10 Books of 2011, including photo-heavy coffee table books, research tomes and literature. From the history of menswear staples to Japanese art to modernist architecture to the appreciation of the well shaped derrière, there were a multitude of books published covering […]
28
Feb
Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada connect the dots
In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]
10
Nov
A lot like Italian Spiderman, except this show actually existed. I love how they manage to incorporate a giant robot into Spiderman. Well done, Japan. That seems totally natural. All you need now is to give Spidey a troublemaking chimp sidekick and you’d be completely manga-fied…
