Gundam OO & Sangoku-Den Model Kit Challenge 2009 @ Sungei Wang Plaza, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
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The Great Model Kit Challenge that you抮e awaiting for has finally touch down again!!
Demonstrate your talent, get your gear ready, and prepare yourself for the 慓undam OO & Sangoku-Den Model Kit Challenge 2009 organised by Litt Tak Sdn Bhd.
Don抰 miss out this golden opportunity!
Limited Edition Gundam Model Kit!
Limited Edition Model Kit will be available for sale only in this challenge with super best deal! 1/100 MG Destiny Gundam (Clear color version), 1/100 MG Gundam RX78-2 ver.2 (Clear color version), and 1/144 HG OO-Raiser (Clear color version),.
Be sure to be at the Concourse Level of Sungei Wang Plaza to grab these special model kits!
The concept of the Principality of Zeon as a reference to World War II Nazi Germany is a fairly common idea in Gundam fandom, although judging from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, it probably wasn’t quite what Tomino was intending. While MS Gundam was something of an allegory for World War II, and there is the oft-quoted line by Degwin Zabi to his son Giren about him being “Hitler’s tail,” the similarities are subtle and more a reference to Germany’s role and actions in the war, than an actual portrayal of Nazi Germany itself.
Zeon, like Nazi Germany, was a relatively small country that achieved numerous early successes through the use of new tactics and the employment of new technology (mobile suits). The Federation, like the Allied forces, were originally not prepared to handle the new threat but after catching up technologically their superior manufacturing capabilities and larger numbers allowed them to achieve victory. Aside from these similarities, Tomino certainly wasn’t pushing the One Year War as WWII.
It wasn’t until 1989’s Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket that the Nazification of Zeon really began, with a significant portion of the Zeon aesthetic redesigned to take on a distinctly World War II Germanic style. Beyond just the uniforms, the Zeon mobile suits were significantly retconned to include touches like panzerfausts and Germanic names like Jager and Kampfer.
What makes this retconning interesting is the context in which Japanese otaku culture views the World War II-era Germany aesthetic and how much it differs from the Western perception. In the West we’ve been conditioned to associate Nazi designs and style with supreme evil, and as such, in western fiction that same style is often used when trying to establish a particular character or group as evil without having to actually explain why. It works because as we automatically associate those kind of images with evil, we automatically know that the fictional characters in question are evil, saving the writer the effort of having to establish any sort of motivations or unique characteristics. Its a cop-out used throughout movies, video games and comics because no one is going to complain about people vilifying Nazis, and rightly so.
Viewed from the Western perspective, one could easily assume that that was what the design team for War in the Pocket was trying to accomplish, but that is not the case. The difference is that while the Japanese are educated about the atrocities of the Axis powers in World War II (well, German atrocities in any case), Japanese culture does not have the same kind of ingrained response to Nazi imagery that we do in the West. As such, Japanese otaku culture is free to recognize just how cool the German military aesthetic is on purely visual terms, without experiencing the same attached emotional baggage that we in the west might. Thusly, it isn’t uncommon to see people dressed in full German uniforms at otaku events in Japan, no one in their right mind would dress up similarly in the West.
Bestselling Japanese singer Namie Amuro has created an animated music video for her new “Defend Love” single with another Amuro — Amuro Ray, the main character of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime franchise. The “Defend Love” video will ship in Japan on a bundled DVD extra with the new Past < Future album on December 16. Veteran voice actor Tohru Furuya (Sailor Moon, Kimagure Orange Road) is reprising his Amuro Ray role for the video.
HangPC, hang ni mmg rajin bagi info, sampai aku da tak mampu nak rate. klu aku rate suma info ko, mmg bankrap aku. tapi bergaul-mesra la ngan kitorang kat sini jugak ye. ke kitorang tak layak bergaul dengan otai?
Post time 5-5-2009 02:11 PM
