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St1ka does good stuff.
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Is this what they meant by "GirlPla"?
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Now he's canon, maybe they can do a Missing Link version? I always thought that Studio mold looked more like him.
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Which streamers, out of curiosity?
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I was just wondering if a translation of Unicorn was out there a couple days ago...
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I'm so glad to see it reviewed so charitably after some of the terrible things I have seen said by others about it who seemed to somehow take offense at its mere harmless existence. It's really a quaint little thing that deserved another volume released.
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Results inconclusive but so far it seems easier to upload directly on BlueSky. PinkSky makes it more Instagram like in some ways, and adds some features but doesn't seem suited for my needs so far.
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He can seat a Microman rider in his backpack, too! XD
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I did a slight modification for a Micro Change. Just a few stickers 😅 bsky.app/profile/tygo...
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and then MicroChange as the magazine changed into TV Anime Magazine.
Anyway, I remain diplomatically open to pooling resources and info. I don't think it would be fruitful to discuss off-topic matters we are clearly not aligned on, but would like to suggest resuming open exchange of archival data.
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attempt to reprint them in a magazine for several chapters went largely unobserved by even the Japanese fandom, ironically enough), I believe it contains a lot of noteworthy content and was followed by the only manga adaptation of New Microman (which seems the most serious of the Showa era series)
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Microman Fan Club newsletter, which Moritou illustrated and wrote some content for.
2B) Note: the Bouken Oh manga also notably covers a lot of toy character identities skipped over by Moritou such as the 1975 M11X and M12X members among others. While it hasn't been ever fully reprinted (and one
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Robotman, Punch Robo, and Black Tiger. It's quite a fun finish, even with Shintaku's art and storytelling (much of the manga actually proudly solicited and used reader stories, for better or worse) not being on the same level as Moritou. 2A) I believe more is also detailed about Death King in the
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2) Death King has a pretty big multi-chapter story arc at the end of the Shintaku's Bouken Oh Microman manga. Which is mentioned briefly in Igarashi's Takara SF Compendium, but I do have scans of the final several chapters of. The final battle of the manga run is a showdown between him, GodFighter
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1B note) The Microman Rescue capsules contain miniature figures that may be intended as a way to bridge the scales, as if to say "this little guy is what your figure is when he goes to pilot a Servo Machine", if not explicitly.
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1A note) the Kabaya MicroChange kits also have two unique transforming gun-vehicles that are also clearly a rescaling with miniature cockpits, but it's admittedly unclear if they should count or are just Kabaya's own derivative products.
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1) Only toy to break the 1/1 scale: verifiably false. While they can be played with in that scale, the Rescue Servo Machine vehicles are clearly in the same scale format as Death King, including miniature pilots and precede him a full year. These vehicles are depicted in various media as full-sized.
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truth about the history of the line is where my passion remains. You are most welcome to block this account if you would rather not reconcile, but otherwise I wish to correct a couple of things you have claimed in this thread...
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I know we last left off on a bad note, and I apologize if I got more than a bit triggered over our ideological differences (fwiw, I have come around to your side on the matter of AI translations, but I digress). I am writing this to extend a tentative olive branch, because accuracy and
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You would think they could have bonded over their taste in china tea sets.
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But yeah, I can't not think of Dumas watching Gundam these days. I really feel Char's arc was at least slightly patterned after our good Count.
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*laughs in Johji Nakata*
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Desslar+Darth Vader+Edmond Dantes XD
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I should note that this also addressed one of Ishiguro's own biggest regrets about the cuts. He wanted to show what was going on with the Gamilas side more and g8ve them more depth. They also had to cut the return trip in both versions, but the 2199 movie fills that in some. :)
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And yeah, the original was truly incredible. I was put out initially by the way the CG ships move in 2199 in particular at first, it's a huge change from the ponderous, heavy feeling of hand-drawn behemoths inching their way into the depths of deep space. But it does find its own voice and style.
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much about the people of Gamilas as it is about the Yamato.
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I can see that. I absolutely love Ishiguro's directing of the original, and it still amazes me. 2199 really does a great job though of exploring that space and making the Gamilas Empire and the environs feel so much more deeply fleshed out while respecting the original. In many ways, 2199 is as
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Ah, I was thinking of that one in the back of my head...makes sense. Kobayashi's art direction really wowed me in 2202. I don't like what I have read about the guy, but love his art.
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what they wanted, but I didn't like the directing style. Fortunately 3199 Rebel hasn't had that issue. The
writing by Fukui (main plot for everything except 2199) has been quite interesting in any case, and interesting to compare with his work on Unicorn.
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While 2202 is a new story using the broad strokes and themes of the movie to give a less faithful, riskier interpretation exploring the previously unused potential of the premise. Since it's very different and pretty over the top, the purists particularly seem to loathe it. 2205 seems to be more
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alternative take on the original movie, rather than the old TV series own alternate take and expansion on it. 2202 is meant to also deliberately open up new directions for the story, even as it roughly follows the broad strokes of the past work. 2199 is a good and well researched remake and update