Week in Review: One Piece Ice Cream, Titan Toys and Gundam Manga
Plus the latest on Shonen Jump’s video game brawler!
Gundam
without Gundam – The
Gundam
franchise has seen about five thousand incarnations in various forms, but the newest adaptation is a bit different: a manga series called
Apartment
of Gundam,
set to debut in Shonen
Sunday 5, that tells the tale of Gundam pilots when they are off the clock. Here’s hoping for lots of conversations about Earth Federation vs. Zeon company softball games.
Attack
on Wallets – By this point it’s no exaggeration to call Attack
On Titan the
biggest hit of the anime season and Japanese toy companies are
jumping on the giant-sized bandwagon, offering a slew of
really cool merchandise.
From cute Nendoroids to
detailed
Figmas and
Colossal
Titans
a-go-go, it’s a good time to be a fan of all things monstrous and
cannibalistic.
Star Struck – If you didn’t know, Shonen Jump and Namco Bandai are releasing crossover brawler J-Stars
Victory Vs., and
now we can get a taste of what the game will look like with the
first
gameplay preview video.
Luffy? Check. Toriko? Yup. Naruto? You betcha! EVERYONE is in this
game, and we can’t wait to get our shonen-loving hands on it.
Monkey
D. Tasty – The
folks who run Japanese KFC
restaurants
are crazy geniuses and their newest promotion will delight the ranks
of wanna-be pirate kings around Japan. With the purchase of certain
meals, visitors to KFC
will
receive one of three custom One
Piece ice cream makers, which are basically freezable
buckets decorated with Luffy, Chopper and the Straw Hat crew. At long last, you’ll actually be able to shiver your timbers.