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Oldschool Kotobukiya garage kit of Shaian and Elmedine from the OVA Dragon’s Heaven.

#dragonsheaven #makoto kobayashi #ova #anime #garage kit

Dragonball and Dragon Quest telephone cards illustrated by Akira Toriyama for Weekly Shonen Jump.

#akira toriyama #dragonball #dragon quest #shonen jump #phone card

Over on Zimmerit.moe I wrote a little bit about an obscure promotional video from the mid-‘80s created for a never-released MSX2 game based on a doujin parody, Pony Metal U-Gaim.

Read about it here: http://bit.ly/ugaim

#ugaim #msx #anime #1980s #l-gaim #creamy mami

Subaru’s 1987 Tokyo Motor Show pamphlet.

#subaru #tokyo motor show #1987 #japan #cars

8-Bit Anime: Cruise Chaser Blassty on Zimmerit.moe

Released in 1986, Cruise Chaser Blassty was an anime-inspired role-playing game developed by Square and released for Japanese PCs. Predating Final Fantasy, Blassty featured pseudo-3D dungeons, giant robots, and animation produced in conjunction with the animation studio Sunrise (Mobile Suit Gundam).

#blassty #squaresoft #gundam #anime #hironobu sakaguchi #1986 #1980s #japan #video games #mecha #pc98

Interview with Bubblegum Crisis Creator Toshimichi Suzuki

#bubblegum crisis #bubblegum crash #japan #ova #1980s #cyberpunk #artmic #kenichi sonoda #toshimichi suzuki

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Written by Toshio Okada and Yasuhiro Takeda in 1983, this translated article reveals the haphazard, amateur production of the anime short that made history.