Gundamaniac

Zyuan down at A “home look” on Gunplas and GFF is giving away his super robot war R-Gun powered kotobukiya kit. he is even kind enough to make sure you won’t need to pay for shipping as he’d be paying for that as well.

folks interested might want to check out his post for the rules and where to send their entries.

I remember blogging about this a while back, wonder why I can’t find the post anymore, must have been lost during my first hacking incident. in any case check out this wooden gundam. (warning keep away from high humidity and termites). ^^ knew about it for a while now, but thought it was a limited edition gundam. in any case it is available at Yesasia for a measly US$665.99. ^^;

also Check out the limited edition Setsuna figure for US$359.99. “Boku wa Takai!”

Two Anime films has been submitted to be considered for oscar nominations. Sword and the Stranger and Sky Crawlers. news below quoted via Anime News Network. images from Girls Entertainment Network. also blogged at La Ventana de Saouri.

Two anime films, Mamoru Oshii and Production I.G’s The Sky Crawlers and Masahiro Ando and BONES’ Sword of the Stranger, are among the 14 films submitted this year for the three possible nomination slots in the Best Animated Feature category of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscars awards. The two films are competing with Bolt, Delgo, Dragon Hunters, Fly Me to the Moon, Igor, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $9.99, The Tale of Despereaux, Waltz With Bashir, WALL-E, and Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! The academy allows up to three nominations in this category if more than eight films are submitted; had there been 16 or more films submitted, the academy would have allowed up to five nominations. The academy will announce the Oscar nominations on January 22.
Sony Pictures acquired the rights to release The Sky Crawlers military romance film (pictured at right) in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. Bandai Entertainment gave the Sword of the Stranger samurai action film (pictured at left) a limited Los Angeles and New York City run in July, which qualified the film for possible Oscar consideration. The only Japanese film to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar in the category’s seven-year history was Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in 2002.

movie poster spotted on Danny’s site Via Akaa.
an American production of the Osamu Tezuka classic, Tetsuwan Atom aka Astro Boy

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An incredible Shin Musha mod. just one of the entries of the Singapore Bakuc. Check out this page here to see the other entries. thanks to Un1ver5e for posting it on Danny’s member news.
There was a Bakuc event here in the Philippines as well, unfortunately wasn’t able to cover it. did anyone from the Philippine blogging community covered the event?