I think the funniest thing out of Elliot is that… I only remember them saying “Philabieldia” exactly once.

100% real. Spotted in Philly airport this afternoon.

ARE YOU KIDDING IS THIS REAL

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Can we all just take a moment to admire the Masami Ozone artwork featured at the end of episodes 3 and 4 of Giant Robo? Absolutely gorgeous.

they're finally going to continue his story...

me: *goes to family dinner* some woman i've never seen in my life:

wooooooo now you can listen to me yap about Turn A Gundam for FREE

my youtube channel of speedrun and ps1 vods somehow slid across 1k subs 🎉 I keep telling myself I should make actual youtube videos about ps1 games, even wrote a script and recorded some bits for an edited PIP 001 video a few months back but so little time 😩

Recently went through Yokoyama's adaptation of Suikoden and was struck by how much of the cast was represented in Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still. For those interested, I put together a quick reference chart comparing the original manga incarnations with their OVA counterparts!

10 minutes after eating Taco Bell

Now that Big Fire Frequency, our new patron-exclusive series on Giant Robo, has kicked off, we’re releasing our Moonrace Wireless back catalogue on the free feed! This week, dear friend @szkinart.net stops by to talk about episode 11 of ∀ Gundam!

One Punch Man (2015-20XX)

Asuka Langley Soryu: "In short, things expand when warmed, and contract when cooled." Meanwhile, Alberto the Shockwave:

For @scrmbl.com, I wrote about Lunar: Silver Star Story, and why its anime cutscenes still rule to this day

Second announcement today: OSG is going to cover the new Ghost in the Shell series by Science Saru! Look forward to short, weekly reviews of the episodes the weekend after they air in addition to our standard schedule!

Alberto sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Alberto reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

As mentioned near the end of the episode, character design and animator Akihiko Yamashita did a number of new Giant Robo illustrations in 2022 for the 30th Anniversary Book and his time with Studio Ghibli is amusingly evident

Heat got ya down? Why not cool off with a dose of Big Fire Frequency? This week, @thaliarchus.bsky.social and @russelllatshaw.bsky.social stop by to talk about ep. 4 of Giant Robo! Hear the gang gush about the gobsmackingly gorgeous animation, among many other things! Become a patron to listen!

no one: still no one: yoshiyuki tomino:

Late to this wanzerfest, but get into it! ko-fi.com/giantrobotfm

If you want to read more about Front Mission, @giantrobotfm.bsky.social just published their Front Mission zine (with a cover by me!). You can buy digital and physical copies on their ko-fi: ko-fi.com/giantrobotfm

Hey folks! Sorry for the extended break, but we've got a brand new piece coming out tomorrow on Renaissance Josei! Meanwhile, our $5+ Patrons can read it right now: www.patreon.com/MeganD/posts...

New on Zimmerit, a translated interview from 1995 featuring Yoshitaka Amano and Kow Yokoyama from the book FRONT MISSION IN HUFFMAN. Huge thanks to @giantrobotfm.bsky.social for sharing this with us. Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/kow-yokoyama...

Robot models from Robot Battle V by Kow Yokoyama, built by Makoto Kobayashi in 1985.

in fairness to this horse, they kept their composure better in the presence of sayla than ramba ral did

oh my god what is going on with sayla's horse

If you want to see Amuro Ray on a cross, you can go to the book preview on Bookwalker and scroll eight images to the left, over to page 5. I am not joking. (Please imagine seeing this in person at the Yasuhiko art exhibit with no warning and having your brain simply stop processing.)

You could not make something like Project A-ko today, not because of any of the risque material, but because everyone wants to protect their intellectual property. From Yuji Moriyama's commentary track:

Fun fact: In ep. 1 of Gundam: The Origin Zeon Zum Deikun refers to his inner circle as "disciplines" and makes an allusion to Golgotha. Framing Deikun as a Christ-like figure is a very YAS move, considering he wrote and illustrated a manga about his life.

Origins producers fly out to Itano's isolated cabin to ask him to do one last job. Itano reads the script and puts aside his axe that is composed of dozens of smaller, independently guided remote axes

Fun fact: Yasuhiko and Okawara weren't the only Gundam "old-timers" to return to work on Origin. Ichirō Itano, of "Itano Circus fame," was brought on to oversee the opening scene of ep. 1, which thrusts viewers into the chaos of the Battle of Loum.

So you land your mecha, dive into your custom car, and take off again. And they make an #anime commercial of it because even after almost half a century you're still one of the coolest and most conflicted charas ever created.

Fun fact: Before production on the Gundam Origin OVA kicked off, the team was selected to produce an “Auris Char’s Custom” car commercial for Toyota. Osamu Taniguchi (producer) did the storyboards, D.I.D. did the CG, and Hiroyuki Nishimura did the character designs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjZ...

As always, the fellas over at GRFM just put in insane work. Love it!!!

What an Abbot and Costello routine might look like in the Universal Century: Abbot: Which Zabi was murdered in his car? Costello: Sasro. Abbot: Is he the Big Bro? Costello: No, that's Gihren. Abbot: No, I meant the Braw Bro. Costello: Huh? Abbot: The GRABRO!

Fun fact: Takashi Imanishi established D.I.D, “Sunrise’s top CG team” in 1994, which he ran until late 2016. For better or worse, he was an early advocate of computer graphics at Sunrise and pushed for its use. See: IGLOO.

Rambling about Giant Robo? Me? Perish the thought.

Fun fact: Yasuhiko’s role would change a lot over the course of Origin’s production, but at the beginning he took on the role of ‘Chief Director.’ He oversaw “main character designs and storyboards” and approved mech design, CG modeling, and background art.

sorry about the self congratulatory posting but: feels pretty exciting to open a Variety daily and see a bunch of features I did alongside articles by @ryangaur.bsky.social and @rafaelmotamayor.bsky.social. busy week!

I always say something along the lines of “you don’t want to miss this one” about the GRFM zines but you ABSOLUTELY FOR REALS do not want to miss this one

This cover goes so fucking hard

School's out for the summer, and you know what that means: TIME FOR A STATE MACHINE! If you missed tonight's presentation, don't worry, we've organized all our announcements in a helpful thread. Just click and scroll!

Starting in 5 minutes!!! www.twitch.tv/pmctrilogy

Reminder: Stephen and PMC will be convening in-person TONIGHT at 7 pm EDT for the next State Machine stream! We'll be covering: ✅Hathaway Coverage ✅Big Fire Frequency ✅Gunbuster Fan Magazine ✅Zine Cover Art (and artist behind it!) ✅And lots more! We hope you can join us!

if you're a prospective listener and haven't necessarily wanted to jump into the middle of our year of Gundam coverage, this is a really good first episode!

Fun fact: Tomioka knew exactly who to approach to handle scripting on Origin, one of the masterminds behind Operation Meteor, Katsuyuki Sumisawa. The two of them had worked together before on Gundam Wing (1995-96), Endless Waltz (1997), and InuYasha (2000-2004).