sean.zimmerit.moe
old Japanese subculture nonsense at zimmerit.moe | youtube @ZimmeritEX | zines and more at www.garagekit.club
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That makes a lot of sense!
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I'll allow it if we can call a 6-8 episode season a "cours lite."
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Mechtober 2021 Day 31: Elmedine | Dragon's Heaven
Dragon's Heaven is one of my favorite OVAs, and Kobayashi's spectacular designs are a huge part of that. Elmedine's oversized head, spindly limbs, and small frame are the perfect contast to Shaian, on top of being so cool on his own.
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This one will be digest sized again so shipping won’t be insane. Should hopefully get stocked by some shops up there though, too.
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Was over at my neighbors house a few months ago and he had a pristine early 2000s era Megatouch set up in his game room. Totally jealous.
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Even licensed the Zeta novels in the hopes it’d turn into a novel franchise! I never made the connection between the cover designs but that’s so obvious now that you’ve pointed it out.
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Yeah, Forever Winter definitely seems a bit inspired by ABZ.
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End of Eva… end of an era.
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If you're interested in grabbing a copy of this new collected volume, it seems to be sold out on a lot of Japanese sites. No clue if they're doing a reprint soon.
We have a few copies available over on garagekit.club and they'll ship from the US.
garagekit.club/products/aci...
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There isn't a lot about this series in English (probably because the books were impossible to get except via Modelkasten's site or at events) but I wrote about it on Zimmerit way back in 2016: www.zimmerit.moe/masahiro-ito...
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His model kits are also stunning, the texture and paintwork on these still blow my mind.
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What stands out to me most about Acid Bufferzone is the shapes and silhouettes of the characters and designs. They’re familiar, but different and a bit otherworldly. Not too surprising from the guy who designed Pyramid Head for the Silent Hill game series.
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On its face, Acid Bufferzone is a sort of art and model kit mash up that seems most similar to Kow Yokohama’s Maschinen Krieger but with a post-Soviet flair. That’s no untrue, but there’s a bigger focus on illustration work vs models here.
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And maybe I'm seeing patterns where they don't exist, but I wonder if the Nirasawa in the comic is named for Yasushi Nirasawa, the artist who was at one time Makoto Kobayashi's assistant (and who worked on the Dragon's Heaven OVA--which Osamu Kobayashi did mechanical designs for)
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Yeah, if we don’t preserve the oral history of the Cream Lemon Dispute of 1989 from those who were there then it could be lost forever
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Are you offering press passes for AnimeNJ?
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A tank heavily inspired by Makoto Kobayashi
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Did they give FREE samples by any chance