these plastic figures may well be one of Japan's most remarkable commercial phenomena. We recently toured the two most sacred spots in Gunpla geekdom: Gundam Base Tokyo, a tourist attraction in ...

As result of this, anime fans outside of Japan took to the Ez8 in surprisingly large numbers, which is partly why we got a Gundam Universe figure before a Robot Damashii one. Released this ...

Unarmed, the figure appeared more shaky than usual. Abe does not belong to the generation of passionate fans of the Gundam series, which began airing in 1979, and largely ignored the robot in the ...