Anime Expo ‘08: biggest ever!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

This year’s Anime Expo in LA certainly racked up the numbers– over 100,000 attendees walked through its gates every day. In all, 43,000 individuals came to downtown Los Angeles for this year’s convention, up from last year’s 41,000.
In fact, so many folks came that the event organizers have decided to return to LA next year [...]

An Olympic tribute, Gundam style

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Lots of Gundam-related stuff in the news lately. This time it’s about a mall in Japan that has set up a 13-foot tall statue of an RX-78-2 Mobile Suit Gundam robot inside its walls.
The promotional stunt was meant to show support for Japanese Olympic marathoner Mizuki Noguchi, who won gold in ‘04 in Athens [...]