Mexican film mastermind Guillermo del Toro has taken the one of the most popular Japanese themes and made into a massive Hollywood blockbuster. How about that for multicultural? Guillermo del Toro’s latest movie is called Pacific Rim which was previously teased at Comicon; now the studio has released an official trailer for it in HD goodness. It tells us a lot about the film and sets the tone… Pacific Rim… [ Read More... ]
Originally released for arcades in 1989, Strider, also known as Strider Hiryu in Japan, become one of Capcom’s early hits. A year later it was ported to the Sega Genesis and became a hit there too. Although multiple systems received a port of Strider, the Sega Genesis port became the most beloved. It was a pretty damn good port too only entirely outdone years later when an arcade … [ Read More... ]
Konami posted a video on their youtube channel showing the process of constructing the life size bust of Zone of the Enders’ Jehuty. It starts off as a big white block of what appears to be styrophone and ends up a glorious mecha statue. The statue was erected in Akihabara district in Tokyo to celebrate the release of the Zone of the Enders HD Collection as part of an … [ Read More... ]
Today, Konami erected a statue of Jehuty in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. This is of course to celebrate the release of Zone of the Enders HD Collection which is due out from Konami and Kojima Productions on October 30, 2012. The statue can be found on top of the Shimura Musen Building in Tokyo, Japan.
Here some pictures of Jehuty’s bust, before the statue has gone up…
The … [ Read More... ]