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By the Seats of Their Pants…
Air racing, at least with heavier craft, has been with us almost as long as aircraft themselves.

Whether it be about speed, […]

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Lightning Strikes Twice
The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (Magnificent Lightning Bolt) was a Pusher aircraft design devised by the Japanese Navy at the end of WWII, in t […]

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Two is better than one?
[Spoiler Alert]

In the sequel to Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the Andromeda class ships represent the way in which the United Nations Cosmo Force has […]

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Broken Promises, Renewed Hopes.
Remaking anything is a bit of a risk.

Remaking one of the seminal moments of any point in history is fraught with real danger.

Remaking something […]

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Rain from an Iron Sky.
Wunderwaffe…
The Wonder Weapons that would save the dying Third Reich which in 1943 was forced onto a slow, brutal re-guard which would not end for another […]

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 “like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.” – Kenneth Arnold, 1947
Flying Saucers…

The modern phenomena of UFOs and “flying saucers” can be traced more or less […]

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The Ghost is the Machine…
Kotobukiya is a strange beast in the Japanese model world.

As you will know if you have read several of my reviews, I’ve been interested in the history […]

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The Breadth of the Cosmos
KOS-MOS is one of the characters within the Monolith Soft line of Xenosaga games, which have been running on and off since the first Playstation 2 trilogy […]

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“It is a hard thing to spend time teaching a young man to kill, as it inflames all his emotions. Then, what do we do in peace time, when such energy cannot by entirely contained […]

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It’s a Fair Cop, Guvnor…
The principle of Mobile Police Patlabor is simple, and deceptively so.

In the ‘near future’ of 1998 (well, the series was begun as an OAV in the late […]

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Lighter than Dream…
I’ve long been fascinated by airships, and not just because I both like and fear flight in general, but because of the slender window of time in which these […]

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Steampunk? A Frail Term with which to Describe Laputa…
Imagine a New Years Eve, at the end of the 1980s in Sheffield…

Anime had, after a few shaky starts, begun to gain some […]

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Amazing Maser… What’s a Maser?
We all know about lasers – and I don’t just mean in the pop culture sense.

They have become so commonplace, and so mundane that my spirit level […]

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Flash, Bang, Fizzle…
We are all well aware that the JSDF in the Showa Godzilla films were about as useful as a chocolate teapot, yet I doubt the films would have had the fun that […]

Figure-Rise Bust: Makina Nakajima by Bandai
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All Rise!
As I suggested in part one, Bandai’s development arm has been working on blending its toy and model lines for some time – over […]

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Sonic Attack
Music has always been a part of the Macross saga, with its initial love triangle featured the character of Lynn Minmei, whose music became central to both the […]

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Daisaku Kusama
Ginrei
Shikoutaihou Taisoh
Alberto the Impacter

Crush Them Now, Giant Robo!
This release (which seems to be projected well into 2017, and will seemingly include […]

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Daisaku Kusama
Ginrei
Shikoutaihou Taisoh
Alberto the Impacter

It Figures…
I can recall to the day, September 19, 1978 when I first became aware of that interesting arm of the […]

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Foundations
The Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files OAV fits into the Armored Trooper Votoms canon just after the 1988 OVA movie Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition and a […]

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Under(scope)dogs….
To blatantly nick from Cac himself…

“As readers of this site probably already know, Cacophanus tends to cover toys and I do kits. However, this time a […]