April 5, 2025

47 thoughts on “Tohru Furuya Retires?, a HORRIBLE Gunpla Deal, New Crossbone Manga, Figures, and More [Gundam News]”

  2. coloring is mandatory for other gunpla brands ?
    nope. i have motor nuclear kits. in era kits and many other mecha kits that are not from bandai.
    most of the other mecha companys are having way more colorseperation in their kits then bandai,
    bandai is the one with overpriced kits whit almost no color (there was a time when bandai made great kits but the time is over)
    most of the new brands are even having small painted parts on their kits. because its not hard to do that for a company…

    bandai is lazy

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  3. Ngl im just gonna wait for some bootleg RFV Zakus. If i gotta spend that much for one kit that needs glue and paint, as well as the possibility of needing to buy two to get both then i ain't buying them.

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  16. Considering how deep Tohru Furuya is in hot water, combined with his old age, retiring is the last option he had left. So I have a very endearing #question for you all: Who should be the perfect replacement VA for Amuro Ray, not helping the fact we are having another Side-F related anime work coming in the holidays as a major drive for the new VA?

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  19. Man… I remember when these kinds of videos were full of gundam kits… Nowadays it is full of, don't know, some kind of merchandise that just makes garbage in drawers

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  20. I imagine Furuya has a few roles already in the can or contracts signed, so we may see a trickle of media with him in it over the next year or two.

    Frankly though I think he should properly retire. He confessed to some REALLY messed up stuff, and hearing his voice now gives me an uneasy feeling.

    Amuro and Gundam can live on without him.

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  24. I was in tokyo gundam base yesterday. Shelves were pretty much empty on everything , I was there for iron blooded orphans, hg kits , and only saw kimaris and Hugo that it ! It's pretty boring. No stock at all.

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  26. Well I was excited for the vengance suits until now, fuck that. I'm legally blind I have enough trouble putting the suits together as snap together pieces, I can't do all this shit. That sucks I really wanted these, not happening. I'm not sure I want the Solarii or the Gundam EX anymore thanks to this.

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  28. Making the RFV Zakus require glue and paint (particularly for the junkyard versions) is the best choice in my opinion, at least if they've put in the effort to make these added details look right:

    So for instance LeShawn's junkyard Zaku has that left arm shield that's just a thin plate with some tank treads welded to it. If those tank treads were molded into the plate, there could be no undercuts under the treads and the plate might even have to have hollow voids behind them. If they attached them with snap-fit pegs they would probably show on the back side of the plate. Molding the treads as separate parts and then simply gluing them on would offer the best representation of this detail.
    This is even more true for finer details like the chains strung around the exterior of the lower leg – if those were injection-molded into the surface of a new set of lower leg parts, there would be no under-cut, it wouldn't look very good. If they were injection-molded as separate parts to be attached to the surface of the standard RFV Zaku leg parts, they'd be very thin and delicate, if they made them snap-fit, people would likely break them while attaching them. (Plus they would have to retool the leg parts to be able to attach them…) For the size of these chains it would make far more sense to make them out of metal, either actual metal chains to be strung around by the modeler, or photo-etch approximations of chains to be bent into shape. From the look of them I'd guess they're metal chains, but I'm not sure. But that gets us into the realm of multimedia kits and makes snap-fit for those parts impractical.

    As for paint, there's a fair bit of color variation between the different Red Wolves machines, color boundaries that don't match the existing part boundaries, and in the junkyard machines there's more variation in each individual machine, reflecting how the Zaku was cobbled together from different Zaku parts. These particular machines also need a fair bit of fine detail and weathering in their coloring to look like the machines they represent. It's probably not worth pressing another set of leg and arm parts to get that subtle color mismatch between the left and right sides of LeShawn's junkyard machine, and painting is really the most viable solution to the weathering and paint wear effects. (Even Solari's Red Wolves machine, while the kit is pretty color-accurate, really doesn't look right without a fair bit of weathering IMO. The brown just comes across too bright and flat.)

    This is still Gundam but it's a version of it that's more challenging to get right. I really think it would have compromised the quality of the model if they'd made it build like a typical Gundam kit. If it really is 6000 yen for a single model, though, personally I'd agree that's too much. If it's for two kits I think that might be OK. Still more than I'd like to pay honestly, but it's a price I'd potentially be willing to go for.

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  31. tbh, the RFV would benefit from weathering to look accurate anyway so having to paint a few parts is not that much of a jump. it's not like an 80s kit that you have to paint and glue. how many camouflage kits are there that you have to sticker the camo pattern on

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  33. With Furuya voicing Amuro in the UC Engage video you have to keep in mind that vocal recordings are one of the first steps in production, they are usually done months or even years ahead of time. They are voicing along rough story boards or animatics so that the animation which takes waaaay longer have a chance to animate around the vocal performances. So theres agood chance that the scandal didnt come out when Furuya worked on that project.

    Would be very surprised if they let him do anything else but thats also Sunrise, Toei already sacced him from One Piece, Conan and Dragonball all works hes been with for a long time (He was the voice of Yamcha afterall). He might be harder to replace as the voice of Amuro the flagship character of their flagship product, but I honestly don't want to see or hear him in new releases ever again, not after what hes done.

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  44. FYI, HGUC ReBawoo (a P-Bandai kit) has parts that required cement. Same as Yonem Kirk's Zaku Sniper, while MG FA Gundam (MSV version, not Thunderbolt) comes with double sided tape to attach some parts of its armor. So this RFV kit is nothing new.

    For scale modelers using glue and paint is just as expected and natural step as cutting the parts from the runner. We may get used to snapfit in gunpla but believe it or not, in grand scale of modeling world, snapfit is still an anomaly and not the norm. Many oldschool modeler still look at snapfit kits with disdain because of poor quality snapfit kits in the past.

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  45. NGL the best thing about your videos is just getting to the reading material part and seeing how many of these magazines are still alive and kicking unlike when you see how many have died on this side

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  47. Those Zaku kits have a place holder for this Friday’s preorders and after reading the description, it says it includes two models plus waterslides and extra parts. So for instance the chubs/ kale set includes both of their Zakus plus additional parts to make silari’s unidentified unit. So from that it seams those parts will work on her Zaku if you got one separately to make her unidentified unit or use the parts for customization on one of the included Zaku kits plus you get waterslides. So basically sounds like two full kits, waterslides and extra parts for the existing solari model

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