SUITS YOU SIR!

I love this hoverplane. What a design, it can only be Japanese!

My photo note says Mobile Suit Gundam from 1979.

I wish I'd been into Japanese Manga and toys back then age 18 but I wasn't.

Were you?

ULYSSES'S SAUCER

 

This old tin and plastic saucer toy looks fun. There could be something missing on the top. Seen on Todocollecion it was described as Ulysses 31, which has been mentioned before on MC but a show I never saw. Did you like it readers, the show?

AKIRA: TETSUO MONSTER PRODUCTION DRAWING

About 15 years ago I acquired a whole genuine envelope full of Studio production drawings from the film Akira released in 1988.

I bought them at the NEC memorabilia event for my old toy stall at toy fairs and my Ebay shop at the time.

They were quite beautiful things, each one initialed by the artist or studio and you could see the animation process clearly as each drawing was a tiny movement on from the last.

Over the years I've sold on these drawings to collectors and I have just one left for posterity.

This one.

At first it appears to be basically a green object inside white clouds.

Having had a handful of the other drawings in this sequence its actually a pipe coil emerging from a foaming sea.

Its most likely the scene in Akira where Tetsuo becomes a huge mechanical globe with pipe-like tentacles churning up the waters in Tokyo Bay.

In the scene Tetsuo battles the Espers and my last drawing is probably this particular scene I've taken as a screengrab.

You can see the entire scene in this short clip on You Tube and the above still is around 1 minute 52 seconds in.

Have you any Akira merchandise or collectables?

Have you seen the film? Do you think it was important?