SUDA51's Recent Blog Entries

• S.I.C. Takumi-Damashii: Kikaider

  This is Kikaider, yet another of Mr. Ishimori's many masterpieces.

  Kikaider is a story of the suffering of a young man named Jiro, whose body is a machine. ("Kikai" means "Machine" in Japanese.)
  "Kamen Rider"'s machine properties were added to his body during his life; Kikaider, however, has been a machine from the beginning.
  "Kikaider" is the story of how Jiro attempts to live a human life despite having a machine body.

  SUDA51

  April 21, 2009
• CROWS×WORST AKITA HARUMICHI DESIGNS: KENJI HAMAOKA SPECIALIZED

  This is Boya Harumichi from "CROWS".
  This figure arrived this week. This particular figure is only attainable if you order it from a catalog that comes packaged in a game magazine.
  You can see that Boya Harumichi is wearing a T-shirt from "Super Radical Gag Family", a manga serialized in Shonen Champion Magazine.

  There are actually many limited edition Boya Harumichi figures like this. I'll have to show you some more later.
  SUDA51

  

  April 21, 2009
• Aura Battler Dunbine

  "Aura Battler Dunbine" is another of "Gundam" creator Mr. Tomino's famous works.

  The Aura Battler is a strategic weapon of Byston Well, an alternate world hidden from human perception.

  The story behind it is fascinating -- far too fascinating to explain in a simple blog post.

  Suffice it to say that at one point partway through the story, the setting switches to our human world.

  The city of Dublin, Ireland figures very significantly into the story.

  April 14, 2009