Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It has been a while since I have posted something about anime (blame my non-fiction writing for that), but, before I can get back to the usual coverage, there is a couple of good news for fellow anime fans.First of…
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November is, as always, the Nano-month par excellence -even though there are now NaNo-camps during the year, November remains the month when writing is about. So, here I am, trying to fill my daily quota and hopefully meeting the 50k…
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You remember Gundam, right? (You have to, if you follow this blog.) Well, at 2018 Anime Expo, one of the biggest anime conventions in the world held in Los Angeles in July, they made THE announcement. It is official. Gundam…
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If you are like me, and writing is part of your full-time job and/or takes up all your free time, you might well regularly shop around for applications/software/tools that make your life eas(ier). Over the years I’ve found and tested…
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I have extensively posted about the international online poll NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, launched on occasion of the 40th anniversary of Gundam franchise. Just last week (on 5.5.2018), the TV announced the much-awaited results. And here they are:…
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I’m a long-term fan of speculative fiction graphic novels (Bilal, just to name one among many) and, if you are too, there is one you can’t possibly miss: Mooncop. This is what the book’s blurb says: “The lunar colony is slowly…
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Last month I announced that, on occasion of the 40th anniversary of Gundam franchise, NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, launched an online poll project titled “All Gundam Big Voting 40th” asking everybody to select their favourite series, characters, mobile suits and songs: the voting…
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While we wait for next year (2019 is going to be the 40th anniversary of Gundam) a few news about the franchise. First of all, this article –New ‘Gundam’ Anime Reveals Its 2018 Release Date – gives updates on the…
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If there’s something I really look forward to is to watch the OVA rendition of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN (機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN), a series created by Sunrise based on the volumes V to VII of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s manga. This…
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… would be to visit the brand-new Gundam in Odaiba, unveiled on September 2017. If you are -as I am – a Gundam fan, you’d know that Odaiba used to host a life-sized replica of Amuro Ray’s original Mobil Suit Gundam 1979….
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