In celebration of Gundam’s 30th Anniversery UNIQLO has some new shirts being introduced into there line. The best part of it all? They all cost 1.500円 each! Seriously…I’m going to buy all of them if I can! You can check out the rest of the shirts here.
My favorite one is the DOM one….so good, so good.
Ishizaki Toshio or better known as Sushio is a talented Japanese animator affiliated with the studio Gainax. Dating back to 1995, Sushio is known for his action and effect scenes which he is a praised and popularize by.
After graduating from Yoyogi Animation Gakuin, he got his start at Gainax working on Evangelion. Afterwards Sushio moved on to Mahoromatic where he became an animation director for the first time. That same year he entered into theatrical animation working on such titles as One Piece, Sakura Taisen, and Magical Girl Doremi. He can be seen being attached to many works associated with the director Mamoru Hosoda’s movies. Later on he became a character designer for Engage Planet Kiss Dum.
Sushio also lists Yo Yoshinari, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Hisashi Mori, and others animators as his influences, and has publicly mentioned that Yo Yoshinari has influences the most especially.
Sushio also is part of a doujin circle called Henkeidou or Strong Man Shrine, where they make publications of their work.
Here are some of his works from ANN:
Ashita no Nadja (TV) : Key Animation (OP)
Digimon Tamers (TV) : Key Animation
Engage Planet Kiss Dum (TV) : Character Design
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone (movie) : Key Animation
FLCL (OAV) : Key Animation
Gunbuster 2 (OAV) : Storyboard (Ep 6), Mechanical animation director (Ep. 1, 5)
Gurren Lagann (TV) : Animation director (Ep 15), Eyecatch Illustration (Ep 15), Key Animation (Ep 7, 8, 15, 24, 27)
His and Her Circumstances (TV) : Key Animation
Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren (movie segment) : Key Animation
Mahoromatic – Automatic Maiden (TV) : Animation director (ep 4), Key Animation
Mushi-Shi (TV) : Key Animation (ep 16)
Ojamajo Doremi (TV) : Key Animation
Ojamajo Doremi DOKKAAN! (TV) : Key Animation (ep 40)
One Piece (TV) : Key Animation
One Piece: Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima (movie 6) : Animation director
Overman King Gainer (TV) : Key Animation (ep 14)
Sakura Wars: The Movie : Animation director
Steamboy (movie) : Key Animation
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Ragan-hen (movie) : Key Animation
For more information you can drop by his Japanese Wiki which shows alot more!
If there are some animators your would like to have information on, please leave a comment!
Artstorm is releasing a new series of mechs called ES Gokin (Alloy). The new series consist of old-school robot heroes and making miniature versions of them. Though this isn’t the first of the series, Artstorm recently announced that triad of Getter Robo are going to be released! Date for Getter-1 is scheduled for October and the rest of the two will be due in November. Getter-1 will run about 4,343円, where as the other two will be 3,439円 each. I personally like Getter-2. Why? Because drills are awesome.
Another Saber Lily you ask? Why yes please! This time Alter is releasing a 1/8 Saber Lily, which I find more elegant than the GSC’s Distant Avalon version. The pose is more peaceful and gentle on this version if that’s your preference. The figure will run about 7,410円 which is a bit less than Distant Avalon. Hobby Search now has it up for pre-order.
OH. MY. GUNDAM. I think an emergency trip to Japan is in order! Been following this for a couple of months now and am now in a pinch. Should I go to Japan or head down to San Diego for Comic-con? Decisions, decisions.
The Gundam will only be up from July 11th to August 25th. Yep, it’s going to be only for little under two months. Not sure if it will appear anywhere after that, but if it doesn’t, I’m going. I think I just shed a tear…
You can check out more pictures via Mr. Danny Choo and punynari at there blogs!
Being a big fan of Panson Works, a friend introduced to me a new line of characters in collaboration with Toei, Nintea. These cute ninjas are the latest merchandise line to come from the same people who have been revamping the Kinnikuman and Gegege no Kitaro into cute and stream-line vinyl figures. The nonsensical story of the Nintea revolves around ninjas that enjoy drinking tea and working hard for their employer. What they do for their boss is anybody’s guess.
As of right now, Nintea promotional items can only be found in Japan at the “Toei Animation X Panson Works Shop” which is currently touring around Tokyo and online at the Toei Online Shop which I doubt ships internationally. The physcial shops are temporary establishments that are held in department stores for a limited time and then moved to another location. The merchandise for Nintea consist of handbags, keychains, shirt and other cool knick-knacks. You can see what they have to offer as well as other Panson Works items here. For more information about Nintea, you can visit Toei’s press release.
I was lucky enough to procure on single item through a friend. I wish they would start making figures like they did with the Shonen Jump 50th anniversery figures like they did with Luffy from my previous post. A friend of mine was able to take a picture of all the Nintea products she had. Enjoy the photos!
Cell phone straps.
Tea Time is POWWWWAAAA~!
Something for the bags? Seriously…I think I’m blind. It’s a key cover.
Thanks Enna!
Passion Pictures has done it once again by animating an amazing commercial! Premiered during this weeks E3 expo. Harmonix showed off their latest promo piece for the popular game with a Beatles addition coming soon. Passion Pictures is most notably known for their work on the Gorillaz music videos and other commercials. Love the caricatures of the band by Robert Valley. Awesome!
A practice run on a character Clockwork Machina developed (little robot girl; Mari) a while ago. I was side tracking a little bit also.
Degenki Online has pictures of the lastest prize goods that are set to be released this fall at your local UFO catchers in Japan. You can probably order some of these at the usual online outlets once released, or you can just make a trip to Japan and try your skill at catching one of these prizes!
Some awesome Poogies from MonHan.
Docodemo Pumpkins!
I’m more interested in the Real Figures of Ami and Taiga.
Puchi Miku.
Gold Experience Requiem from Jojo’s Vento Aureo arc.
Panson Works X One Piece key and phone straps! That’s definitely on my want list!
I found this the most appealing of the prized goods. There’s no description but it seems to be Cyborg 009 figures designed by the urban vinyl artist Kaijin.
Here’s the rest of the team.
You can catch the rest of the images here from the event.
