#Shizuoka Hobby Show

[mofffun]

Upcoming releases:

Jun 12 (Wed): Blu-ray vol.4 (ep37-50, bonus: post-finale g-rosso talk show, finale making-of)

Jun 12 (Wed): Chou Eiyuu Sai 2024 Blu-ray

Jun 16 (Sun): Dekaranger with Tonbo Ohger TTFC short

Jun 26 (Wed): Official Perfect Book by Hobby Japan (crew interviews/concept art) -> Bonus: Kuwagata & Kumonos photos

Jun 10 - Jun 30: Royal Treasures exhibition merch online sale

Jun 30 (Sun): Dekaranger with Tonbo Ohger making-of on TTFC

Jul 31 (Wed): Details of King-Ohger: Crowned (Details of Super Sentai series, omnibus of Uchusen suit photoshoots by Hobby Japan)

Sept 11 (Wed): Final Live Tour Blu-ray

Oct 9 (Wed): VS Donbros/Kyoryu Blu-ray

??? 2024: King-Ohger in Space (Dekaranger & Kyuranger crossover) TTFC short

Nov - Dec 2024: Ohger Calibur ME

May 2025: Boonboom VS King-Oh

TBA: 5 FLT talk shows (Shizuoka - Fukuoka) on TTFC

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[jadeazora]

Some pictures of upcoming model kits from the Shizuoka Hobby Show. (We've seen the Slowpokes, but the Pikachu, Groudon, and Shiny Rayquaza are new.

[micromanclub]

Further in Patrick Chan's analysis of the prototypes and concept art of Project M previewed at the Shizuoka Hobby Show we see a second Commander figure, which seems to share the body sculpt of Commander 1, but with a different helmet design and color scheme. We also see him riding a mechanical beast we will get to in the next post...

[leagueofgardens]

Where's All This Lore From, Anyway?

Do I kin Fumi? Maybe.

I've blogged about a fair bit of Assault Lily lore by now, and plan to blog about more, and it wouldn't hurt to explain where all this information actually comes from.

For some settings this would be straightforward, but for AL it isn't. You'll see why in a moment.

The Stories

The most obvious sources of Assault Lily lore are the stories themselves.

That is to say:

The anime, Assault Lily Bouquet (Fruits is incredibly silly and should probably be considered non-canon. Except for the episode where Riri and Yuyu hold a wedding ceremony. That one is canon.)

The gacha game, Assault Lily Last Bullet, which contains a bunch of visual novel-style stories. These stories are direct sequels to Assault Lily Bouquet.

Happy birthday, Kazuha.

The stage plays. As of this writing, there are 11 plays, along with several more of questionable canonicity (theatrical games of Werewolf that feature AL characters and such.)

The manga. There are two of these: League of Gardens -full bloom- is an adaptation of the League of Gardens stage play, and Secret Garden is a series of fluffy one-shots, some of which are explicitly non-canon.

The novels. There are four of these so far.

Now, the fun part is that these stories quite often contradict each other. Team Hitotsuyanagi, for example, comes into being in a different way in every story that shows it happening: you can see this for yourself just by watching Assault Lily Bouquet and then reading the translated portion of the Full Bloom manga. (Full Bloom has some major differences from the stage play it's based on, too.)

Contradictory events aside, the details of the setting sometimes change as well. For example, in the oldest stories Lilies couldn't take part in the Neunwelt Tactic unless they had awakened their Rare Skill, but this is no longer true.

Fans used to deal with this by interpreting each of the various stories as taking place in their own parallel universe, but then the stories started more directly referencing each other, making this difficult to do. It's a thorny and unresolved problem to this day, not helped by the lack of official statements on the matter.

Other Books

There are some Assault Lily books written in the style of guides, rather than stories.

The oldest of them, Assault Lily Setting Materials, was only ever published in print and I don't have access to it. It was reprinted recently but sold out within hours before I could order it.

There were a series of articles about AL posted on the website Dengeki Hobby Web in 2020-2021. Some of these were later also printed as a book, Mashima Moyu's Arsenal Workshop.

Another book, Assault Lily Setting Materials: Special Feature on Radgrid, was published digitally. This book contains a few pages about every member of Team Hitotsuyanagi and is our main source of information on their families.

There are a few others, but these are the most important.

The Doll Pamphlets

"Kaede is a well-rounded and rational person whose only shortcoming is her obsession with cute girls." — Kaede's doll pamphlet

Most of the dolls come with info sheets. Although only one page long, front and back, these are absolutely packed with lore.

There's a little problem: in what is kind of an ongoing theme for Assault Lily, a lot of the info on them wildly contradicts everything written and shown elsewhere.

Tazusa's pamphlet, for example, claims that she was born in Tokyo (newer sources say she was born in Shizuoka,) that her mother is dead (newer sources say her mother's identity and whereabouts are unknown,) that Takamatsu Shiera negotiated with GEHENA to have her released (newer sources say Legion Rossweisse broke her out of a GEHENA lab,) and strongly implies that she has a crush on Yuyu (there are close to zero signs of this being the case anywhere else.)

The Special Feature on Radgrid repeats a lot of the character info found here, and I think that book probably exists in order to clean the lore up and make it cohere to the newer stories. Some CHARM and miscellaneous setting information is still only found in the doll pamphlets though, as well as much of what we know about some characters who aren't part of Team Hitotsuyanagi.

Lily's Time

The Assault Lily YouTube channel hosts occasional "Lily's Time" streams every month or two on average. The main host is Akao Hikaru, Riri's voice actress, along with various guests. Obanazawa Kenei, the original creator of Assault Lily, is often a guest. Each stream has a topic, sometimes one or two of the characters, sometimes one of the Gardens, and sometimes entirely different subjects like the IRL Assault Lily live concerts.

These streams have a tendency to just repeat info that's already been mentioned elsewhere, but they've told us new stuff, like that only Lilies are capable of seeing magie, from time to time. They've also "canonized" some dubious info from the doll pamphlets.

Fumi's Twitter Account

Last but definitely not least, we come to the most unique source of Assault Lily lore: Futagawa Fumi's Twitter account. (Sorry Elon, I refuse to call the website "X".)

Fumi has been tweeting since February 2013, seven months before the first-ever Assault Lily product (the original 1/12 scale Yuyu doll) was released. She's made nearly 16,000 tweets over the course of the decade since. Many of those tweets are to advertise AL goods and things like events in the gacha game, but on certain days, Fumi will log on around midnight Japan time and invite her followers to tweet questions about Assault Lily with a hashtag that translates to "Please tell me, Fumi-chan!"

She'll then answer those questions as she sees fit. Occasionally, she also launches into explanations of AL lore on her own initiative, such as when she told us about the top seven legions at Herensuge Girls' Academy.

An early tweet by Fumi. The Google translation is reasonably close to the mark.

And there you have it. Compared to a lot of settings, Assault Lily's lore is kind of a mess, but personally, I find it fun to piece together.

I don't cite sources for info I write about because it would make my posts twice as long and twice as difficult to write, but you can find most of the same stuff on the Assault Lily Wiki, which does have citations.

If you're curious about the provenance of anything specific, feel free to send me an ask about it.

[gonagaiworld]

Il terzo capitolo del manga Mazinger Destroying Hell di Go Nagai e Kazumi Hoshi è online La versione stampata del primo capitolo sarà distribuita al 61º Shizuoka Hobby Show. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/il-terzo-capitolo-del-manga-mazinger-destroying-hell-di-go-nagai-e-kazumi-hoshi-e-online/?feed_id=364709&_unique_id=6450252f3f42c #HengokunoMazinger #MazingaZ #MazingerDestroyingHell #MazingerZ #ダイナミック企画 #破獄のマジンガー

[moonlightrisingz]

Shizuoka Hobby Show 2024 | One of the biggest in Japan! [4K]

[ultrajaphunter]

The worlds biggest plastic model show! - Shizuoka Hobby show 2024!

[mitsue-n]

SOL (@mokeidaisukisol)さんをチェックしよう https://twitter.com/mokeidaisukisol?s=09

The work of the author of the diorama last year and this year.

20,05,2019

[hobbylinkjapan]

The 2018 Shizuoka Hobby Show starts today, and we’ve got new surprises from Bandai’s booth, including Figure-rise Standard Naruto and Sasuka, along with a Dragon Ball x Bandai Spirits Bulma with a transforming bike!

More Figure-rise Standard Kits from Bandai at HLJ

[112on2]

Hasegawa Kawasaki KR 250 - First pictures from Shizuoka Hobby Show

Hasegawa Kawasaki KR 250 – First pictures from Shizuoka Hobby Show

Well this is the return of 112on2. What a better first new post than some news from Japan? I think we couldn’t find better way to come back. Special post with a special bike, the Hasegawa Kawasaki KR 250 kit! Like we did in past and as we can’t even get to Japan if we wanted, we show you here a photo report from a well known modeler from our community. Our special reporter in Japan, Eiji Toyoda,…

[retronauts]

Gaming computers of Japan: The Sharp MZ series

Sharp’s MZ series was among the very first personal computers released in Japan. Launching in 1978, Sharp largely patterned it after Commodore’s PET 2001, one of the first personal computers period. Just like the PET, the MZ series was an all-in-one package, with an integrated monitor, keyboard, and tape-based data recorder. Also like the PET, it required you to lift the entire chassis away from…

[timetochaing]

♡ It’s A Small World ♡

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Virtual On corner @ Shizuoka Hobby Show 2012 ]

[micromanclub]

A new "Microman"-based project, code named "Project M" was announced by Takara Tomy at the Shizuoka Hobby Show earlier this Spring. Microman Enthusiast Patrick Chan compiled many, many images and analyzed the images hidden in the teaser promo on the Facebook MicroFans Group a while back, and the findings were pretty interesting!

We'll share soon some of Patrick's findings (and just a couple of our own conclusions) here in anticipation of the bigger reeveals expected in late July, the month of Microman's 50th anniversary, ahead of the planned Autumn project launch. Be sure to check out his albums on Facebook if you are able!

While still in very early prototype sculpt phase, a number of pre-articulated maquettes, internal armatures, and partially sculpted figures and mecha were revealed along with a lot of the design concepts, mostly flashed through on video. The new figure format, apparently geared towards the 1:18 premium action figure collectors of toylines for adult hobbyists (such as Acid Rain) features a hard SF feel and an innovative articulated collarbone /shoulder structure and will be 10.5 centimeters tall:

A number of unique figures were identified with familiar Microman-based names:

We'll give each a look thanks to Patrick's detailed sorting of the images. The above equipment appear from the concepts and sculpts to be unique backpacks for each figure class, possibly also usable as shields, and possibly with folding dashwings or similar functions.

Also of note was one piece of unidentified concept art we believe is the new redesign of Robotman:

In the following posts to come we'll go over each of the figure classes and the two mecha that were revealed scuplts of so far.

Much mystery remains, including whether we will see the usage of clear parts, chrome, and bright colors hat old fans associate with the series or not. But in the meantime, it's exciting to see Microman is still very much alive again, regardless of what form it ends up taking, or who it is ultimately geared towards. Stay tuned!

[daiconarchives]

DAICON III spaceship (Shizuoka Hobby Show 2015)

[toku-action-figure-news]

Figure-Rise STANDARD Kamen Rider BLACK, W FangJoker and Skull physical models shown

While yesterday's Shizuoka Hobby Show may not have revealed any new entries in Figure-Rise STANDARD's Kamen Rider line, the model kit event did feature a display of almost all retail releases from the line so far -- and also included the upcoming BLACK, W FangJoker and Skull figures; giving us our first physical look at them outside of CGI models.

Figure-Rise STANDARD Kamen Rider Black, W FangJoker and Skull are all to release at general retail for 3,520 Yen; in June, July and September respectively.