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Keroro Gunso News Compendium - Oct. 2018

I said I was gonna do something like this so here goes. Some of these bits and pieces have already been posted around on tumblr back when they were first revealed but I figured I’d put stuff in one place. Manga News:

Last month’s chapter from Shonen Ace, #277 “Kururu + Mutsumi,” is now available on ComicWalker. It will be available until November 25th in United States time.

This month’s chapter (available on ComicWalker in November) continues the duos arc and features Alisa and Nebula. (Source) 

Merchandise News (Non-UC Related):

The next set of items in the Animega merch line, this month featuring Tamama and Momoka, was released today. The next set, yet to be revealed, is still slated for a November release. 

Some Keroro-themed New Year’s cards were also unveiled this month.

This isn’t exactly merchandise, but I’ll count it anyway...another Keroro pachinko machine was released this month, and the game features some gorgeous new artwork...and what I believe is new animated footage in the old anime’s style! You can watch some gameplay here (there’s a few other YouTube videos showing footage as well).

Collab News:

This month saw the release of some really nice tribute art featuring a crossover between Keroro’s 20th anniversary and Street Fighter’s 30th drawn by Yoshizaki himself. Yoshizaki has drawn art for Street Fighter in the past, plus parodied it in the Keroro manga occasionally. Is this hinting that Giroro is going to be leaked for Smash Bros?

The “World Manga Senbatsu” contest hosted by Manga Kingdom Tosa is collaborating with Keroro to release cute little 4komas every month until the contest’s end, the first of which has gone up already.

And finally, the big bombshell of the month...

Keroro Spirits: Kerororobo UC News:

This week, at the Tamashii Nations event for showcasing figures by Bandai, that Kerororobo merchandise line that’s been teased since late last year was finally fully unveiled. You can view the introduction video, which is officially subbed in English, here. The figures are set to go up for preorder in January and release in May.

This link here compiles virtually all information released at the event, including the VOD of the 45-minute panel that aired yesterday (more on that below. The link has collected various pictures from the event revealing the Tamama, Giroro, and Garuru , mechs and shows a chart detailing the mechs’ three modes (Normal, Ultra Cool, and Dangerous) along with the Flying Saucer that can come detached from the mech.

The 45-minute special panel from last night (which is embedded in the above link, though there is no English transcript so it is not much worth your time unless you know Japanese) unfortunately did not contain any new information that is not already present on that page, though they did spend some time discussing moments in Keroro history such as Kumiko Watanabe’s audition for the role of Keroro and the production of the old Keropla series of figures. At the very end it was hinted at (again) that there would be more of something coming next year, the “true” (my word, not theirs :P) 20th anniversary of Keroro (as 1999 was the beginning of the manga’s serialization) and the 15th anniversary of the anime, which means it’s also the 5th anniversary of the Flash anime (not that they mentioned that one). Whew, that’s a lot of anniversaries. So it looks like no animated project this year, but I’m still holding on for next year...

Also, the brand-new spinoff manga “Super Keroro Gunso UC (Ultra Cool)’s Fierce Fight! The Great Kerororobo Operation!” began serialization this month in Shonen Ace. Unfortunately we probably won’t see anything of it outside of the one or two pages that were previewed in those couple of videos until it (hopefully) goes up next month on ComicWalker, but the large diorama displayed in the event apparently depicts a scenario from it, and a few story details were revealed in the panel (such as the fact that the battle eventually extends from Antarctica into space).

[tamamatango]

Heads Up

For those that are interested, the special live stage event discussing more details about the future of Keroro (focused on the Kerororobo UC project) goes live in about 8 hours (12:00 AM PST/3:00 AM EST for those in the US). These are the details for the event directly from the official site for Tamashii Nation (this is indeed from the official English translation of the site, as machine-like and vague as it is):

“This year "Sergeant Keroro" birth 20th anniversary!

From October 26 "Keroro sergeant" to show more excitement, such as "Super Keroro Gunso UC (Ultra Cool) Fierce Battle! Keroro Robo Battle Battle" starts a new series on "Monthly Shonen Ace"!

We invite you to Kumiko Watanabe who plays Sergeant Keroro and everyone involved in the production of the work and hold a peculiar stage to deliver the 20th anniversary and the first public information of the new series work information & new product ! You might even be able to hear episodes of dubbing at that time ...!

Performer

· Kumiko Watanabe (Sergeant Keroro)

· Hiroyuki Watanabe (KADOKAWA Corporation)

· Katsumi Mochizuki (NAMCO BANDAI Pictures)

· Tsutomu Noguchi (BANDAI SPIRITS Co., Ltd.)”

You can view the livestream here - it does not appear to be locked by country. I will be up for the livestream cries in EST and will try to provide some coverage about the last month or so in Keroro news, mostly about the latest manga chapters, some merchandising, and of course the Kerororobo project (including any new information we hear about during the event), within the next couple of days.