Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Among the 45 or so Gundam franchises, there is one, less known the mainstream series, which is really worth watching: Gundam Unicorn. Gundam Unicorn takes place in Universal Century (the official Gundam timeline, just to be clear), in UC 0096….
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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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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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… 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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This is post number 4 in the Gundam Multiverse, and it will be devoted to exploring in more detail the amazing Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム), which is the original anime from where the whole franchise began. As such, it’s fundamental to…
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It is possible that, albeit you might not be a anime / manga fan, you would have still heard something about a series called Gundam (or Gandamu, as in its Japanese transliteration): and with a reason. If there’s anything comparable to the…
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Astrophysics has to make sense, especially in a SF book. When designing your fictional worlds you need to make sure things can survive on their own, short of creating an alternate physical universe – and I won’t even start imagining how difficult…
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