
The same enigmatic chainsaw carver who previously sculpted Nagi-sama and Hatsune Miku from blocks of wood has turned his hand to creating a wooden idol of Mio, with quite spectacular results.
“Jason-san” in action:
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These disturbingly shaped pears are not, as might be thought, grotesque natural simulacra…
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The first Gundam themed wedding event, which was organised by T&G for gundam fans has gone ahead without hitch. The lucky couple were chosen out of a substantial pool of nearly 500 hopeful Gundam fan couples.
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The full size Gundam currently ensconced at Odaiba in Tokyo has just opened to the public, and as a result a flood of additional photographs and videos has appeared, with a variety of interesting closeups and low-angle shots adding to the wealth of imagery already available.
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Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人28号, Iron Man #28, usually known in the US as Gigantor) is set to be permanently immortalised in Kobe as a 18m life size statue, and is nearing completion.
The statue, which will have it’s final base at Wakamatsu Park, was planned to be finished in August, but has now been pushed back to the end of September, with its official unveiling is due in October.
It can be seen in more detail below:
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As per its design specification, the titanic 1:1 Gundam recently erected in Odaiba has had its lights activated, making for an astonishing night-time spectacle, images of which can be seen below.
Several videos of the now fully completed life-sized Gundam have also gone online in recent days as the number of visitors to the site grows in anticipation of the planned July 11 unveiling, and these too make interesting viewing.
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The 1/1 scale statue of the Gundam RX-78-2 being built in Odaiba as part of Mobile Suit Gundam’s 30th anniversary celebrations now appears to be complete in all but name, as this extensive photoshoot of the famed mecha shows in glorious detail:
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Construction of the lifesize Gundam model due for exhibition soon is well underway, and even partially completed the machine presents a monstrous spectacle sure to excite small children, Gundam enthusiasts, and of course Japanese men.
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Bandai has declared its intent to create a freestanding, full scale Gundam for the Gundam 30th anniversary celebrations. The giant robot will stand 18m tall, and is set to be publically exhibited in July.
The Gundam in question is the RX-78-2 Gundam, the iconic mecha from the first series.
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As if statues groping ladies and perverts staring up the skirts of statues weren’t enough, here we see more infamy involving stony sex, more explicit than previously.
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This interesting Nico video shows a mysterious man in a hockey mask carving (chainsawing ?) a wooden replica of Kannagi’s Nagi-sama, or more specifically the wooden statute Jin carved of the second-hand goddess from which she sprang back to life.
Not content with just one statue, the masked creator went on to make a second idol of Nagi, and last of all sculpted what might very well be his masterwork, a leek-bearing likeness of beloved Vocaloid virtual idol Hatsune Miku.
He calls these creations “Mokkoroids”, from Mokkou, meaning wooden (nendo means clay).
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A three meter tall bronze statute of a mobile suit from the perennially popular Mobile Suit Gundam series was erected in production studio Sunrise hometown of Kami-igusa earlier this year.
It has since shown signs of becoming a symbol of the city, with fans flocking to photograph it and even instigating plans to build more mecha statutes in order to construct a “Gundam Road”.
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