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zimmerit.moeRide on, Lonely Soldier Boy: The Production History of MospeadaOn the anniversary of Mospeada’s TV premiere, we take a look at the unusual production history behind one of the more iconic shows to come out of the gunpla boom.

A long time in the making, I polished up a long piece I've been writing about the production history of Mospeada to celebrate the TV debut (43 years ago today! of this unique and beloved mecha series. Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/ride-on-lone...

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Resharing here for those who might have missed this announcement from earlier in October. Peow2 will be releasing the english edition of Phantom Core by Yasushi Nirasawa in the spring of 2027. Production is currently underway!

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Michel Dinel

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Finally drawing something worthwhile 😌

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RGG

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3 May

Not even justice-- #Battletech #Dougram

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New kit coming soon.

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@noinktechnique.bsky.social

Los Angeles folks! Next month I'll be at Brain Dead's CYBERCON talking about the history of garage kits and the hobby's influence on Japanese subculture and media. This will be my first time opening for Godzilla. More details and tickets here: wearebraindead.com/pages/cybercon

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Oh, and we'll be launching @peow.bsky.social's translation of Yasushi Nirasawa's CREATURE CORE book!

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grav tank "jupitris g92" for an upcoming setting! #mecha #tank

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BitchPrince Irina

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Zimmerit’s Demon Zine Shinjuku (by @spaceleech.bsky.social) has been reprinted and is available now! It’s the perfect ‘zine for the season. Trick or treat yourself here: garagekit.club/products/dem...

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zimmerit.moeReading Evil: A Short Review of On the Set of Resident Evil 2: The TV CommercialNorman England’s new book documents the production of George Romero’s Resident Evil 2 commercial from 1997.

New on Zimmerit.moe, @spaceleech.bsky.social looks at "On the Set of Resident Evil 2: The TV Commercial" by @normancengland.bsky.social. Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/resident-evi...

New on Zimmerit.moe, @spaceleech.bsky.social looks at "On the Set of Resident Evil 2: The TV Commercial" by @normancengland.bsky.social. Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/resident-evi...

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The Koba-Kondoh Document is back in stock. Check out this great trailer @spaceleech.bsky.social made for us and if you haven't, grab a copy at garagekit.club/products/kob...

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simeoncogswell.comSimeon Cogswell | PortfolioBook layout and typographic design, asset creation, and branding all oriented towards geeks, nerds, dorks, and their specialized needs. I understand good design and what is appealing to the culture, s...

‼️INCOMING LICENSE💥 Jyoshikohei by Jiro Matsumoto. Giant high school girl mechs rule the dimensional battlefield, but they drive their middle-aged male pilots insane. Takigawa’s job? Brutally hunt down the ones that go rogue. Coming 2027, 3 new omnibus editions from Peow2

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The Count of S 🇧🇲🖼️✍️

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They match a lil more now

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Sim Cogswell

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My first post? My books are currently open for new clients. If you have a RPG or board game and you need graphic design or layout drop me a line. SimeonCogswell.com #graphicdesign #ttrpg #booklayout #roleplayinggames

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

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D&D in Japan: The big mid-90s push. The bunkobon format of the three-volume Rules Cyclopedia, localized in both text and artwork style. It sought to reclaim some of the ground lost to Lodoss and Sword World - complete with D&D in the arcades with Capcom to promote the Mystara setting.

kaisgk.comtutorial: pinning parts together(if the drill's spinning then i'm pinning!) So you've prepped a garage kit and now you're ready to assemble it. One by one, you painstakingly glue those dozens of tiny parts together, taking a minute to carefully align each one. Just as you're putting on the final touches, though, disaster strikes! You accidentally knock your hand into the figure! It falls down!

This is a really good guide on how to pin your kits! Highly recommended if you’re building resin.

Kai's Garage Kits@kaisgk.bsky.social

tutorial: how to pin the parts of a resin kit

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The very odd phrasing of this announcement makes me wonder if it’s an iffy translation or there’s some strange legal situation where the movie as a product (or physical product) cannot be sold. Like, streaming is okay but no blurays or if this just means the characters and music can be used.

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Alex Connolly ▞

Great news. The starfighters from plucky kitchen-sink sci-fi game Angels Fall First are now available for 3D printing. Info: cults3d.com/en/users/ser...

I always advocate for folks to avoid recast kits, but I'm still utterly fascinated by the weird ones. Like this, a resin copy of a plastic Imai kit that has extensive instructions in English including a random suggestion that women not use CA glue zip kicker on fake nails (??)

@alexjaybrady.bsky.social

Most recast kits just have a photocopy of the instructions and a color photo pasted on the box so I appreciate that some effort went into this... but at the same time, the original kit is cheap and not at all hard to find. Absolute headscratcher.

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Ian (F) Martin

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Since it comes out in just over one week, I should probably talk a bit more about my book. Despite the subtitle, it’s very much talking about both music and cycling in Japan for most of the time, though it’s something a bit different from a guide to those things.

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Alex Jay Brady

I did NOT give Artstorm Games permission to use my ekranoplan design in , but seeing the old girl shredding warships and launching MIGS is kinda hard ngl Shame they didnt bother to ask or pay me smh. Thanks to KTGirlGaming for the clip #ModernWarships

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ModernWarships by ArtStorm Games used my atomic ekranoplan design without permission or so much as buying me dinner, cmon guys don't do me dirty like this, cut me a cheque I'm broke! #Modernwarships #ArtStormGames

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@retroanimechris.bsky.social

We are getting ready for a long week bc it's NYCC time! It's our second time tabling at this show and we're kinda excited about it.

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MAD ANGLER PRESS

After a years long search for a copy, Mad Angler Press would like to formally introduce a 4K/HD scan of GUNSIGHT Phase 0, a text that is a cornerstone as to how we understand Mobile Suit Gundam's lore today. To view the text, please visit below:

The computer image is from Hiroshi Sasaki's Texture-X, a CD-ROM that Gainax published (during their big CD-ROM phase) with a variety of images and textures he created. Sasaki did background art and served as art director for titles like Roujin Z, Gunbuster, and the never-made Gainax film Route 20.

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archive.orgHiroshi Sasaki's Texture-XCD-ROM containing texture files created by GAINAX's Hiroshi Sasaki in a variety of formats and sizes.Original product listing from GAINAX's website:Straight from the Art Department! It's an upgrade to...

You can find the CD-ROM on Internet Archive: archive.org/details/text... It has some great images and textures on it. Worth checking out.

Screenwriter Sukehiro Tomita has said that Mospeada's "loser/underdog" atmosphere was a part of the original pitch by Kakinuma and Aramaki. It certainly helped to set the series apart from its peers. (Psst, you can read that interview with Tomita on our Patreon www.patreon.com/cw/zimmerit)

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Episode 1: "Earth sucks and all my friends are dead!"

Also, in regards to all those unused mecha designs. That they were rescued and cataloged at all is thanks to the efforts of Roger Harkavy. Had he not figured that out, they'd likely have disappeared forever. You can find some of those materials in Udon's ROBOTECH Visual Archives books.

Plenty of acclaimed series faced early cancellations (Gundam, Macross) but Mospeada feels like the most tantalizing "what if" scenario, had the longer series run followed through. Huge amounts of unused designs were being sketched throughout the series' run.

Easily my GOTY 2025.

Alex Connolly ▞@alexconnolly.bsky.social

-40% for the Vectrex apocalypse simulator Utopia Must Fall. It's @sean.zimmerit.moe-approved, so you know it's good. store.steampowered.com/app/2849680/...

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Our latest original resin kit is option parts for building a Smartgun similar to something you may have seen in some ‘80s Gundam manga. Multi-media kit, meaning it comes with brass parts and vinyl hose.

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Brandon Sheffield

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

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For the upcoming release of Creature Core, we're putting together a Nirasawa zine that we'll be giving away for free Send fanart, memorabilia pics, stories, or a message about what made you a fan, we'll cram in as much as we can into the zine. Send to readermail@peowstudio.com, deadline Oct 30!

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don't you DARE come at me saying "City Hunter" instead of the actual Japanese name, Shiti Hanta

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Sometimes, this is helpful to let you readily distinguish who to stay away from. There was a quite sharp zeitgeist differential between people who would say "My Hero Academia" and people who would INSIST on "Boku no Hero Academia" that I understood why separate anime con panels were needed for each.

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Mamoru Nagano writing and drawing about Gundam

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Giant Robot FM

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DRUM ROLL, PLEASE! Fan Magazine No. 8 will be about Zone of the Enders (1st game and Idolo)! @shoebill.moe, @syzygy-city.bsky.social, @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social, BellvonArtsy, @riderstrike.bsky.social, @pmctrilogy.bsky.social, and @sadmilk.bsky.social are returning to make another kick ass zine!!!

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Tim Popelier Tankhead text typer

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Finally got my hands on these classics. Worth it for the Yuki Kaida cover illustrations alone.

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XENOFAUNA

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2 Aug

Resharing my Patlabor painting to celebrate today's announcement that @discotekmedia.bsky.social is bringing Patlabor on Television back into print, so all of y'all be sure to go buy it when it drops because it is the best.

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