Kieran Nolan » Manga http://blog.keyo.net ink, pixels, pushbuttons Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:20:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Black Ox Fighting Bot http://blog.keyo.net/2008/03/black-ox-fighting-bot/ http://blog.keyo.net/2008/03/black-ox-fighting-bot/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:53:12 +0000 kieran http://blog.keyo.net/?p=200 Just stumbled across this website from Japan all about robots and found the very impressive walking, fist throwing robot by Vstone called the Black Ox . It stands a mighty foot and a half high, has twenty articulation points and will lay waste to any miniature cityscape or opponent that stands in its way. The Black Ox is the nemesis of Gigantor, from a manga first published in 1956. It's great to see a fictional character brought to life like this, next step will be a full-scale model :)

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This week Masamune Shirow's Ghost In The Shell has been on my mind a lot, I've been rewatching a subtitled dvd of GITS 2 Innocence that I picked up in Sydney's Chinatown last January... I still can't help but be blown away by the it, the story / visuals every time, breathtaking. Then on Friday The Irish Times reviewed Innocence to coincide with the screening of an English dubbed version on limited cinema release locally. Also today while browsing the 3 for 30 euro section at Xtravision I spotted Vol's 1 and 2 of Stand Alone Complex, the GITS animated tv series, and a copy of the first movie (to replace the Divx copy I have) so I snatched them up... The movie dvd features a nice music video by Sly and Robbie, a Japanese ambient music meets dub type ting... Then there's the sequel of sorts to Innocence in novel form where Batou looks for his dog and in the process questions if he has a soul... and the Stand Alone Complex 'Gig 1' (first series) box set out mid Nov... and the Subtitled Gig 2 boxset out now... plenty of brain-hacking, net-jacking, cybercrime fighting, cyborg soul searching for the winter and beyond :D

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