Continuing to imagineer the Gundam RedLegger, and threw myself a hurdle I didn't need.  A couple years ago, B-Club had a series of resin Gundam bust kits (as linked in a previous post) and I was particularly interested in the one for the GP04 Gerbera.  While Gundam fans know that the GP04 eventually became the Gerbera Tetra in 0083, the bust design ( Read more... )

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Windows supports just over 3800 kanji (Japanese ideographic characters--the majority of their writing system).

The Revoltech Evangelion EVA Unit action figures are 1/570 scale, the same as some of Revell/Revell-Germany's ship models, including:

* Bismark/Tirpitz
* Queen Mary
* Titanic
* USS Saratoga (postwar, pre-nuclear power, aircraft carrier)
* King George V
* Prince of Wales...

( I'll Probably Never Go There, But... )

For the last few days, my Windows 7 Pro has lost its East Asian Language Support. Which means, among a few things, I can't translate the titles of dozens of anime soundtrack songs I have loaded onto WinAmp. The foreign characters display fine on Internet Explorer and other programs, but not on internal Win7 functions like directories and ( Read more... )

Today, I came to the end of a very long and drawn out process in an attempt to acquire something that had some otaku significance but still hadn't made it to America.

Space Gundam V, the South Korean knockoff anime based around the Valkyrie fighter from Macross. Somebody made a torrent available a few months ago, and I got to download it in ( Read more... )

From Today's All Things Considered.

( Trailer For The Upcoming Macross F: A Farewell To Wings Movie )