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Five Star Stories Volume 15 advertisement

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「ゴジラ総選挙2017」 Godzilla General Election 2017: 

Popular monster selected by 10,000 people TOP 20

01 Mothra モスラ

02 King Ghidorah キングギドラ

03 Rodan ラドン

04 Minilla ミニラ  

05 Showa Mechagodzilla メカゴジラ（旧）

06 Anguirus アンギラス

07 Mecha King Ghidorah メカキングギドラ

08 Baby Godzilla ベビーゴジラ

09 Giganガイガン

10 Hedorah ヘドラ

11 Biollante ビオランテ

12 Kiryu 3 式機龍  

13 Super Mechagodzilla スーパーメカゴジラ

14 Jet Jaguar ジェットジャガー

15 Kaiser Ghidorah カイザーギドラ

16 Baragon バラゴン

17 Destroyah デストロイア

18 Varan バラン

19 Godzillasaurus ゴジラザウルス

20 Battra バトラ

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Your love of Giant Robo brings warmth to my Heart. I'm half your age and I would never b able to get my friends to watch it. At least there's one or two other people out there who like the same things as me.

People just won’t watch it because it’s called “Giant Robo” and just looks plain silly on the surface.  The silliness really is only on the surface, though, and the actual show has an amazing depth to it.  I’ve yet to get someone to actually sit down and watch it who didn’t love it.   

The direction alone should be being studied in animation classes around the world.  Take the show’s key theme of “The Beautiful Night”.  For the heroes it means a night that is brightly lit and free from fear of the future, despite what may have been done in the past to get there.  For the villains it means a true night, blanketed in fear and darkness, but free from the hypocrisy of the current age. 

And this theme is being constantly reflected in the animation itself:

Every single one of those images could fuel an entire essay on the characters and locations depicted and what their position within the light and shadow says about them and the wider plot.

The fact that Giant Robo doesn’t rank in the top of every single “greatest anime” list is a testament to how criminally underrated the show is.  If I didn’t get this point across in my initial recommendation post, let me reiterate:  YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH GIANT ROBO (The Day The Earth Stood Still.  GR: Giant Robo is different and bad).

Also…if you’re half my age…this show came out before you were born.  I feel extra old now XD

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Couldn’t say it better

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Sexy Ultra Gal fan art off twitter thanks to Davecat for pointing them out. 

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Complete raw scans of Yutaka Izubuchi’s first volume of Rune Masquer.  If you enjoy the ornate and grandiose mecha and world of Five Star Stories, you will like this. 

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Password is “nereid”

Rune Masquer is Izubuchi’s heart and soul poured onto paper, taking his designs and ideas from Panzer World Galient and refining them into a more extravagant vision, much like how Mamoru Nagano transformed his ideas from L-Gaim into FSS (Also like FSS, Rune Masquer received quite a few legendary kits sculpted by Work Shop Cast, one of the most well-known Garage Kit companies known for their FSS sculpts).  Originally serialized in Comic Ryu magazine in the late 80s, this manga was unfortunately cancelled in the early 90s for unknown reasons. Sadly, only one volume of Rune Masquer ever published, back in 1991.  Izubuchi announced plans to continue this manga around 2010, but other than a reissue of the original volume 1 with a different jacket and a digitally colored version of the same first volume split into three parts, he never followed up on his promise.

This was much more time-consuming of a project than I originally expected.  Much gratitude to those who take their time to consistently create scans, I had no idea how much work any of you guys had to go through until I tried it out myself.  

If anyone wants to translate this, you have my blessing. 

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In memorial to the man that brought Godzilla to life and gave him personality, Haruo Nakajima 01/01/1929-08/07/2017

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Tsuburaya and Ultraman 50th tribute

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Lego Mortar Headds

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MUGI Reウルトラ Ultra monster redesigns

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Love to find the original or a better scan, it would make great Five Star Stories wallpaper.  

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Fatima General Election time on twitter again, vote for your favorite FSS Fatima with #ファティマ総選挙2017 #fss_jp

The last few years Megaera has taken #1 by a landslide, You can also comment here with your favorite. 

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More cute Shin Godzilla fan art and gag comics 

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Fan mash up of Gundams to look more like Mortar Headds

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Not sure what the hell is going on here, but it is big. 

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Gothicmade returning to the theaters at the end of the month. Funny thing is I will be in Japan when it is happening, but just as a layover in Narita International Airport. 

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Various fan art featuring the Space Ninja Baltan Seijin. 

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3D Mortar Headd renderings from  Digital-FSS Blogspot