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He started making garage kits and now works for Kaiyodo, [1] a Japanese company that specialises in anime-related figurines. Bome's work has proved sufficiently popular and successful for Kaiyodo to release a Monsieur Bome Collection , including figures from such popular anime and video games as GunBuster , Full Metal Panic , Dead or Alive ...
Japanese garage kits are often anime figures depicting popular characters. [2] Another major subject is "Kaiju" monsters such as Godzilla, [5] and they may also include subjects such as mecha and science fiction spaceships. [6] Garage kits can be as simple as a one piece figure, or as complex as kits with well over one hundred parts.
Tekkonkinkreet (Japanese: 鉄コン筋クリート, Hepburn: Tekkonkinkurīto), [a] also known as Black & White, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto, originally serialized from 1993 to 1994 in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits.
In 1978, the original 21 figurines were released, and just three years later, the Precious Moments Collectors' Club grew to more than 400,000 members. So what are these figurines worth today, and ...
[ch. 18,26,29] They are equipped with a "High-Fever Object Compression Anti-Aircraft Gun" on their left arm called Prometheus (プロメテウス, Purometeusu), which fires white-hot projectiles of 3,000 °C (5,430 °F) at 4 kilometres per second (8,900 mph), and a "Super Vibration Claw" called Nemea (ネメア) mounted on their right arm.
Maneki-neko with motorized arm beckons customers to buy lottery tickets in Tokyo, Japan. The maneki-neko (招き猫, lit. ' beckoning cat ') is a common Japanese figurine which is often believed to bring good luck to the owner.
A white cross-shaped bandage symbol denotes pain. [D 3]: 55 In older manga, eyes pop out to symbolize pain, as shown in Dragon Ball. [citation needed] Thick black lines around the character may indicate trembling due to anger, shock or astonishment. [5] [D 3]: 107 This is usually accompanied by a rigid pose or super deformed styling.
Bandai Namco Pictures Inc. [a], also known as BN Pictures and BNP, is a Japanese animation studio. It is a spinoff of Sunrise, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Filmworks which is owned by Bandai Namco Holdings. The company was formed as a part of the medium-term management plan of Bandai Namco Holdings on restructuring itself.