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ガンダムの収集家・翻訳者。ガンダムの事に関する事をつぶやいてます。日本語が下手なので、先に謝っちゃいます。 A gay, jock-type that collects/translates all things Gundam! Discord: http://discord.gg/j2Fa227xsq
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Kinda sad I'll never get to experience the Gundam Next Future Pavilion. They really went all out for the story and experience for the exhibit. Pictured here: Yumeshima Terminal (the ground station for the orbital elevator) and Star Jaburo (orbital elevator space station built in geostationary orbit)

7,000 titles. It was worse than anyone imagined. The fan spreadsheet is only at 1700 titles. God knows what unknowns are missing.

So, I don't know what MangaDex's long game is here, but adding this little forced agreement to uploads isn't really going to solve anything? You either force groups to "lie" to get their material up, thus passing the blame onto them, or you just shut down and stop all scan uploads going forward.

500+ chapters lost in the recent Mangadex DCMA purge. Yikes. Some titles of mine gone: Gundam F90/F90FF/Rust Horizon/Glory of Losers/Beltorchika's Children/Gundam X Under the Moonlight/X Astray/Delta Astray/Destiny the Edge/Twilight Axis

A look at some of the Gunpla from the Shizuoka Hobby show. Kicking it off, the PG Unleashed Nu Gundam. 66,000 yen and drops January 2026.

When you actually present MS to scale against a mobile armor, they really are comically large.

◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ SILHOUETTE FORMULA 91 RETRANSLATION ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ I went back and retranslated this (it really needed it) and threw in the prologue from the original serialization as well as the original ending. Here's to hoping people enjoy the new version! mangadex.org/title/322c45...

◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ THE BLUE DESTINY VOLUME.08 ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ With volume nine done on Patreon, eight goes up! The series is now complete! Expect volume nine later on down the line. Another backlog done. mangadex.org/chapter/8fb1...

Working on one short story a month by Fukui is probably far more daunting than translating an entire Gundam novel. Not only do I feel out of my element (despite this being fun/interesting), I'm conducting way more research on things than ever before (and yet retaining nothing!). Sampling below:

I swear to God (Gundam), Bandai will never have uniform spellings for character names, EVER. I don't know why this bugs me so much, but given that this *IS* a game, it seems to be a classic pattern of left hand not talking to the right.

◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ G_WITCH: VANADIS HEART CHAPTER.15 ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ We're back after a lengthy hiatus! mangadex.org/chapter/c290...

If there's one thing I don't get about Vanadis, it's the background art. We're in "North America," so why is the mangaka digitizing a view from the Canton Tower in China? 0_o Makes me wonder if all the BG art is paid stock photos for manipulation or just random Google finds.

Throwing this out there again since YouTube autosubs don't work very well: I have a 100 min Gundam video I needed timed (SRT for YouTube), but I don't have the time to dedicate to it. I'm willing to offer compensation if someone can dummy up some sub timings for me.

Jesus, khara... that ending to episode four. WTAF

F90 Cluster is digging deep with the old school lore yet again, and it only just clicked. The Jupiter Phantom faction they mention in it is drawn from an old MSV90 entry from Comic Bombom back in the day featuring the Valiant (or Variant) Gundam. zeonic-republic.net?p=7822

◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ MOON GUNDAM VOL.14 ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ The forces of Londo Bell and Neo Zeon violently collide across the Antarctic wasteland. Into this chaos storms the Red Pole, the formidable elite unit of Luio & Co., launching a ruthless assault on the base harboring Mineva. mangadex.org/chapter/c1ef...

I laughed harder than I should have at this.

I'm wondering if Kamoshida is going to be diving into some wild numerical symbolism in Gundam Eight. Tomino did this with Metatron (314) and the subsequent naming of things in the novel, and both 2030 and 258 bring up some crazy theory/history online about things. Wishful thinking, probably, but...

Vanadis has been off for so long, it's sixty pages this month. We've got new characters and a new Gundam! Meet the Nion! This suit is also getting the HG treatment and will be shown off at the Shizuoka Hobby Show next month.

Here it is! The debut details for Gundam Eight!

Early details for Gundam Eight: Artwork by Shuei Takagi (Code Fairy manga) Stage is said to be Koureki 2030 (We'll see if there's a reading for this in the actual magazine) There's already an HG planned for the main mecha: Gundam Girieus (or Jirius/Giuris/whatever spelling)

The cover of this month's Gundam Ace has been unveiled. Gundam Eight is finally debuting, Vanadis Heart returns, we've got an interview with Fukui, a poster by Mikimoto, etc.

Called it again. BC Vol.4 is now delayed three months to the end of August instead of May. So, in reality, expect this in either November or early 2026 😅