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“The Super Robot Wars GC Translation Project”

Posted in Fanworks, Getter Robo, Mazinger, Super Robots, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/04/30 by OnePixelJumpMan

All right. An old fashion translation patch. A group of people from /m/ alongside the guy from Oppai Missile Translations, the one who translated Mazinger Angels and Mazinger Angels Z, are working on a translation patch for Super Robot Wars GC, the first and only GameCube SRW game. As it stands, there aren’t any details other than that it’s being worked on and that you’ll have to do it through an emulator rather than somehow being able to append it directly to a copy of the disc. All the same, I’m always up for getting to play another SRW game.

Here’s the roster for the game (from Wiki):

  • Blue Comet SPT Layzner
  • Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God*
  • Heavy Metal L-Gaim*
  • J9 Trilogy:
    • Braiger*
    • Baxingar (debut)*
    • Sasuraiger (debut)
  • Metal Armor Dragonar
  • Mazinkaiser (OVA) (debut)*
  • Mirai Robo Daltanious
  • Mobile Suit Gundam*
    • Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
    • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
    • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
    • Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
    • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
  • Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo (OVA)
  • Saikyo Robo Daioja (debut)
  • Trider G7
  • Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh (debut)*

Ones with asterisks are the ones on the cover from what I can tell. I haven’t played any of the SRWs with the Shin vs. Neo story, so this has really got my hopes up because if it’s Shin vs. Neo…

Oh God, yes

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Super Robot Wars UX Trailer! Vocaloid has Robots?

Posted in Dancouga, Gundam, Mazinger, Super Robots with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/12/12 by OnePixelJumpMan

This is how I imagine it is at the Banpresto conference table: “2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation? That was like a week ago. It’s old news. It’s time for the next one.” And it is time for Super Robot Wars UX on 3DS.

It may not seem like a whole lot after the incredible animations we got from OG 2, but I like a few of the faces we’re seeing. I only can’t identify the second one and ninth. The lion face on number two makes me want to say Voltron/Go Lion, but I’m not sure. The rest of the video goes as follow:

  1. Aura Battler Dunbine
  2. Gundam SEED Destiny
  3. Macross Frontier
  4. Linebarrels of Iron
  5. Dancouga Nova
  6. Fafner in the Azure
  7. Demonbane
  8. Superior Defender Gundam Force
  9. Mazinkaiser SKL
  10. Vocaloid??
  11. Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer
  12. Heroman

The cast looks all right. I was one of the few people that was ok with Mazinkaiser SKL, so seeing it in Super Robot Wars is ok by me. Linebarrels of Iron started off ok, but it got really garbage as it went on. Hopefully, they’ll mute that and just let it have lasers and stuff. Oh, and if you visited it and read it, yes Demonbane was an eroge at one point. I really hope that doesn’t make it in considering the buxomness SRW sometimes dips into.

But the big weird one is Vocaloid. I’ve made jokes about not knowing what Vocaloid is, but this time I really mean it. Does Vocaloid have robots? It’s a voice synthesizer, right? Why, what? I’m legitimately lost on this one. I was once told that because Vocaloid doesn’t really have a story being a tool and not a story, everything is canon even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff. I guess someone was playing with it at Banpresto one day and they just went, “You know what? Super Robot. What the hell?” I guess it’s going to kick ass with the power of song. Maybe that’s why it’s Macross Frontier and not Macross 7 Dynamite.

(Thanks to Super Robot War Z for finding the video)

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Aim for Surpassing God or Devil of the Heavens! Mazin Lagann Buster!

Posted in Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, Mazinger, Super Robot Awesome, Super Robots, Videos with tags , , , , , on 2012/12/11 by OnePixelJumpMan

A little bit ago back in October, there was a new set Soul of Chogokin figure set of Gurren Lagann and Gunbuster. The best thing about these is that their parts were interchangeable with each other and with some older Chogokin figures, so you’d get awesome things like this.

Looks like the concept was in good hands because this Tamashii interview with Gurren Lagann animation director and key animator Akira Amemiya and another artist/designer for Bandai whose name I can’t translate to save my life shows that they’re interested in making a new figure and maybe a show based on that idea.

It’s a pretty good poster. A lot of the interview talks about design and and drawing, how drawing Gurren Lagann after so many years feels nostalgic, designing how Mazinger parts like the Scrander would be used, even at one point talking about a Mazinger Weapon Set. It’s really cool that this is getting considered because I’ve wanted a Gurren Lagann 70s style team up movie forever.

Yes, like this, but with the above robots and made during a time when studios had money.

If it gets off the ground, you can be sure we’re going to be all over this.

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Koshiryoku Sunglasses! Mazinger and Devilman Anniversary Eyeware

Posted in Go Nagai, Mazinger, Super Robots, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/12/01 by OnePixelJumpMan

People make the weirdest things. Fan things aside, even professionals make the weirdest things. So how do I react when ANN posts a story about Japanese sunglasses company Optical Coolens making sunglasses with Kouji Kabuto/Akira Fudo sideburns and Devilman eye lines and wings for the 40th anniversary of Mazinger Z and Devilman?

(Images © Go Nagai, Dynamic Planning, and Optical Coolens. From the Coolens Facebook page)

I have to react with a new Christmas gift idea for myself. So if any of you reading this are thinking about what to get us, Coolens is taking preorders starting on Monday. Of course, I wouldn’t expect that of anyone out there. These things are going for some really high prices. The Mazinger ones will be $218 and the Devilman ones will be $291. That’s a serious bill for some novelty eyeware. I’m guessing they’ll be a limited run item since it’s for the anniversary.

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“Roundabout” by Nintendo Famicom. And like 1000 other things that made me fanboy out a bit.

Posted in Big O, Combattler V, Fall Anime Season 2012, G Gundam, Getter Robo, JoJo's Year, Mazinger, Robot Romance Trilogy, Super Robots, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/11/13 by OnePixelJumpMan

Remember when I said that I’d be totally cool with JoJo’s related songs being remixed into console soundcard tracks, Game Boy Shine on You Crazy Diamond and things like that, because of that Sega Genesis Roundabout? Yeah, that’s apparently already a thing.

YouTube user and musical artist Megaane, who I am linking because you need to listen to their channel now, has already been making chiptune versions of  JoJo’s related songs. Because I can’t just pick one, here’s the whole embedded playlist.

The 8-bit Smells Like Teen Spirit made me go look for a lighter.

Oh, but that’s not all. See, the JoJo’s thing is only fairly recent, but this guy’s been doing 8-bit mixes of all kinds of things, including this playlist of 164 giant robot themes. There’s a lot to sift through in there, including tons of Macross, like PLANET WAVES, lot of Gundam themes, and many favorite super robots. Now, that’s a big playlist, and I encourage you to click that link and go listen to them all, but here’s a few choice picks from me.

Sure Promise from The Big O

You Get to Burning from Martian Successor Nadesco

Theme of Combattler V

Tope! Duke Freed! from UFO Robo Grendizer

Flying in the Sky and Trust You Forever from G Gundam

And all the Getter Robo themes a man could want, including…

HEATS by Hironobu Kageyama from Getter Robo: Armageddon

I’m not going to lie. I might have to find and marry this guy. You can find his blog here.

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Discotek Media Licenses the Original 1972 Mazinger Z Television Show for 2013

Posted in Mazinger, Super Robot Awesome, Super Robots, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/10/06 by OnePixelJumpMan

Yeah, I’m not really sure either. According to this Cruchyroll article, Discotek Media has licensed the original Mazinger Z show to be released in 2013 according to this post on Discotek’s Facebook account. To quote:

Discotek Media: “Mazinger Z. Complete Series 1-92. We’re aiming for the end of 2013 for first box set.”

Completely out of nowhere, we’re getting the original Mazinger Z show in full on DVD in the states. It’ll be the first official true translation of this series and the first attempt at it since the localization Tranzor Z. We’ll actually be able to see reasonable subtitles and not things about crabsticks and Tall God Z.

This could go on for hours.

No, no more of that. Just honest to goodness old style Mazinger.

Everyone back there is getting that punch right in the face.

You’ll learn more as we learn more.

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Scans of Sayaka Yumi’s sweet as- I mean Mazinger Angels.

Posted in Go Nagai, Mazinger, Super Robots with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/10/05 by OnePixelJumpMan

So it turns out that we don’t know how time zones work and JoJo’s premiered a few hours ago, not a few hours from now. The response I’ve been able to gather so far is positive, so hopefully it’s going to be good when someone gets the chance to sub it. We’ll probably end up doing for that what we did for Aquarion EVOL and just talking about it every two episodes or so.

Until that time, keep yourself occupied with a little of Go Nagai’s sexy times because the recently opened Oppai-Missile Translations is scanlating Mazinger Angels, a re-imagining of Mazinger Z where Sayaka Yumi, Jun Hono and Hikaru Makiba fight off the forces threatening Japan as a Charlie’s Angels like team but with super robots instead of whatever that show had. They even have a Bosley to answer to and get assignment from.

It’s also totally hot. Sayaka is fully introduced with a panty shot and then proceeds to beat up a guy in such a way that she gets another panty shot. No I’m not putting that up on here. But don’t be put off. The manga still has that great robot fun. This first chapter has the girls fighting Baron Ashura who is two separate people this time.

Introducing Baron As and Baroness Hura.

And every Angel gets their own special breast missile based on the rocket punch of the series they came from.

Ultimate Boobie Barrage!

Yeah, I’m also a little weirded out by the idea of tits with drills, spinning knife drills, and axes in them, but robot fun is robot fun. If you’re into that goofy, not to serious, somewhat but not overly sexualized stuff that crazy Go Nagai does, Mazinger Angels may just be up your alley.

Oh, yeah, Diana A, show off that ass. That’s i- I need to stop writing this now.

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Happy Birthday Go Nagai!

Posted in Go Nagai, Mazinger, Super Robots, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/09/06 by OnePixelJumpMan

Today is the birthday of the man we all owe so much too when it comes to the robot genre, the magical girl genre, the… well, anime and manga in general. Go Nagai turned 67 today, so let’s take a little time to honor the man.

Young Go Nagai

Such an innocent face for the man who would go on to write Kekko Kamen.

We personally have a large amount of affection for Go Nagai and his company Dynamic Pro. If it wasn’t for him, anime would be a very different thing. Maoh Dante and Devilman were his first big contributions. It was violent, controversial, scary, and very influential for manga authors for years to come. They really opened up this idea that extreme violence can be shown in manga no matter how much the PTA wants to boycot your nonsensical demons that wear no pants.

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

No. Pants. Either of them.

Then we have Cutie Honey. While it’s not the first ever magical girl story, it created a lot of the magical girl staples you see in modern works. Transformation sequences, powers by costume, lesbian overtones and many other things, maybe most importantly that Girly doesn’t mean weak.

Pink is Power.

Now, as sexy as Devilman and Cutie Honey are, Mazinger Z has a special place in our hearts and a very wide range of influence. Tetsujin-28 started the “Big Robot Super Hero” genre, but Mazinger helped define giant robot tropes that we’ve been using since. Mazinger Z was the first giant robot machine to be piloted from a cockpit and not by remote or it just being autonomous. Mazinger grew into Great, Grendizer, Kaiser, but that little seed blossomed into more than just a series. It blossomed into the modern robot genre

Oh fuck yes.

Someone, somewhere is totally fucked.

I know, I know, it’s what you’ve heard about Go Nagai every time he’s ever been brought up, but it’s his birthday and we wanted to show our respects since we can’t send him a cake. It not much, but Happy Birthday, Go Nagai!

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Mazinger Z, now with sound!

Posted in Go Nagai, Mazinger, Super Robots with tags , , , , , , , , , on 2012/08/17 by OnePixelJumpMan

So, you know about the recent Mazinger Z DX Soul of Chogokin figure?

Image from the official DX Soul of Chogokin Mazinger Z site, so please give them all the credit.

Yeah, I’m not a figure collector and I think that’s one sexy beast. It’s the first Chogokin figure to feature light up and sound, including for the “Pilder On!” sequence, light up eyes for Photon Beam, light up fins with exchangeable translucent plates so you can see Breast Fire in action, Drill Missiles in the arms with exchangeable arms for a firing pose, joints for Rocket Punch, and, honestly, it’s just good looking in general.

It’s so good that Soul of Chogokin did an interview with Go Nagai getting his thoughts on Mazinger Z from creation until now and how the figures have grown with the franchise. Even now he continues to look to the future of figurines, lamenting the serious cost that a one meter figure would have. But back in the day, the light up and sounds were too much, so maybe one day, one day, we can all have a little waist high Mazinger.

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Super Robot Awesome – Great Mazinger: Last Stand! Great’s Final Attack!

Posted in Mazinger, Super Robot Awesome, Super Robots, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/06/22 by OnePixelJumpMan

Always pay attention to the boomerang, and remember that Tetsuya Tsurugi is a man who does not stay down.

Mazinkaiser vs. The Great General of Darkness.

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