Laura has been writing about anime for some time. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom DVD and Blu-ray versions sold around 130,000 copies in Japan. Despite declining home video sales, Seed Freedom's ...

Bandai is opening a new museum dedicated to its Mobile Suit Gundam plastic model kits on September 2, 2025 in Shizuoka, Japan. The museum will not only allow visitors to learn about everything Gunpla, ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

One of the fun parts of the finale for 'Gundam GQuuuuuuX' was the appearance of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam, and its “hyper ...

Gundam fans unite! The first ever store in the country for the popular anime figures from Japan just opened at the Fashion ...

Kite is a Japanese translator and avid gamer from Indonesia, Southeast Asia who learned the language mostly by playing Japanese games from the PS1 era. He primarily translates news about Japanese ...

The Japanese company, Bandai Namco Group, is thrilling anime fans around the world after creating a life-sized Gundum robot that stands at a whopping 59-feet tall. The enormous robot was unveiled ...

Long before the movies, the Transformers franchise began over four decades as a collaboration between Japanese toymakers and ...

Pre-orders for the “Moving Full Scale Gundam” will start taking reservations beginning on August 6th, with the plastic model retailing for around $25 USD to celebrate the upcoming giant recreation of ...

Japan is unique in many ways and the country’s creativity is never muted. Leaning into its signature properties, video games and anime, everyday life in Japan is somewhat influenced by these genres, ...

The publisher will formally release the puzzle set in November 2023. The bamboo craft edition will have some similarities to Gunpla model kits. The set will contain 2mm (0.08in)-thick bamboo runners ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Before I get to that though, for the connoisseurial nerds out ...