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Ah, good old Hobby Japan and their nutso variations.

No kidding, fortunately the soundtrack should be out in Japan this month (saw it on CD Japan a few months ago) Oh, I'm just about to press play on the Manga dvd, one thing to note is that I only got one disc this time. No idea if the other territories will be the same though. Ok, seen it all, I won't do a detailed review because I don't want to spoil any of it but the long and the short of it is; Dear lord, please let there be more Karas! This is up there with Gurren Lagann and Eureka Seven as modern classic, who says all modern anime is crap!

I should get the dvd today (at work at the mo), anticipation.. not.. fun...

This seems to be the only bit worth quoting, "They're planning to release a GL-related full-feature animation project within the following two years."

Watched no.2 last night, a much more satifying episode from beginning to end and the info burst at the start was very welcome. And great music, as expected from Kenji Kawai.

Yes it is, its about 27cm to the tip of it's pointy backpack thing and comes with a 9.5cm fully articulated (natch) Zero G frame Aestavalis inside. And Toysdaily is rubbish, I use this site for getting Asian toys news now, http://www.toyskingdom.com.hk/forum/forumd...id=5&page=1

Those look sweet, Megahouse takes an early lead in Mospeada Idol!

Damnit, I missed it! Did anyone save the trailer?

I think that Gainax could get away with remaking the whole series if they went down the opposite path of Simon's power corrupting him and leading up to the finish we saw at the start of episode 1. Kinda like an RPG with two endings, people like those, right?

Is what I said, only I couldn't remember the specifics... I thought it looked like the RX-78 because it had squared shoulders, beam sabers in the position of first Gundam and a familiar looking head crest/torso. I've only watched it once though and haven't gone back to get a good look at it yet.

The dvd releases are very simple, there's part one and part two. That's all there is to it.

Well the animantion is certainly very pretty (the op is just gorgeous) but watching it I kinda felt like the guys at the display, "who the hell are these guys and what are they trying to prove!". A lot of mysterious characters spouting lines that obviously indicate their involvement without actually giving anything anyway and a typical "I can't lose to you!" moment which will no doubt result in a bitter rivalary that Setsuna just shrugs off. And what was the Gundam at the start, kinda looked like our old friend the RX-78. My theory (assuming it's not just Dynames and I didn't recognize it as such) is that it's the missing model no. If anyone remembers then, Exia is -1, dynames is -2 but Kryios is -4 and Virtue -5 or something. Actually I can't remember now but I do recall there being a gap in the model numbers. I think the misisng number might have been -4 even.

They certainly kept quiet on that Ni Nu, it's practically ready to go.

I'm not expecting perfect transform, even at MG quality the scale doesn't give enough room to work with.

Ooh, Hi Nu, impressive.

I hope they remove the recap epsiode, I don;t need that taking up space on the disc.

It's nowhere near as big as a similarily priced SOC though, only 20cm tall. I have no doubt that Bandai will do one I just have no idea when. That theory does make a lot of sense, partly because it would explain why Simon stepped down. I.e. he felt he had no choice and did it in order to stop his spiral power from spinning out of control. Plus going through all of that and still losing your love can't have been fun.

Yay's been waiting on that.

Not a bad ending at all but I do wonder why they even bothered with Boota's evolution after watching that and equally why they complete srcibbled out the intro to episode one. I wonder if that will just be removed for the dvd release. Gunbuster still wins the best ending ever award imo.

Yeah, I might have been off by a day or two but it's listed for the 2somethingth of Oct here in the UK as well, can't wait. This is a great year for anime.

It's out on dvd in 20 days, I'll wait.

I'm hoping for something with the emphasis more on drama then flashy action this time, the fact that the trailers seem to have showm more of the characters then the Gundams is a good indication to me.

No spoilers this time, pleaseeee?

Yeah, it is a surprise, yet another company enters the Gokin market and it looks a pretty solid (albeit pricey @ $135) entry. I'll get one (money permitting, natch) but only if nothing else is announced before then.

This has been discussed on ToyboxDX already and Matt Alt says it's just someone's wild guess work/wish list.