Gatopic tonight.
Gundams.
And that is what my wife calls any sort of giant robot.
Is that a Gundam?
She'll look at a transformer and say, look, it's a Gundam.
I have to explain to her every single time that, no,
that's not a Gundam.
But anyways, so yeah, growing up,
I watched anime as like ghosts in the show,
Outlaw Star, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha.
I think my first anime ever was Dragon Ball Z,
probably the first anime for the majority of anime lovers.
For many of them, yeah.
Yeah.
But there was one anime that I think like really captivated me.
And that was Gundam.
I remember as a kid like watching Gundam
and just being like so obsessed.
And I would sit down and actually draw out like,
how would someone go about making a real life Gundam?
And even though like I didn't really kind of put it together
at that moment, I think that's when kind of like the engineer
in me was kind of born was through the want of having
giant space battles with like giant robots, right?
I mean, it's so, it's so epic.
It's so awesome.
And then obviously, of course, the Netflix show
has recently come out.
If you haven't checked that out, I will admit the trailer to me
didn't seem that good.
And I'm not a huge fan of like the kind of the.
That's kind of par for the course for Netflix.
Yeah.
That is true.
We do crappy trailers and we don't advertise anything.
Yeah.
Like, hey, that show came out.
What is the show?
Like, that's like Netflix's thing.
And I don't understand that.
Like, why half the things on Netflix,
they don't even have a trailer.
Is it just because like they know they suck at making trailers
so they're like, we're not even to have a trailer.
Just watch it.
We could probably build an entire topic about the business
plan of Netflix and what their stated goals are
within the film and television industry
and kind of the good and bad that they have done for film
and television over the years.
But that's probably a separate topic.
Keep talking about what got this on your radar this week.
Yeah.
So I watched all of the show, the new Gundam show.
I did like it.
But then, you know, the algorithm in general,
the algorithm that controls our lives, kicked in.
And I got an ad.
Yeah.
It pushed something.
And it's an announcement.
Collab, Gundam, exciting, very excited.
What is the collab?
What's going on?
And then it was it was an announcement for a collab with Hatsune Miku.
Hatsune Miku.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Yeah, it is a epic Gundam crossover is what comic book
dot com is calling it.
The vocal order for those that don't know, Hatsune Miku is not really real.
Oh, she's very real to some people.
So some people she's a.
You just offended a lot of people like a Vtuber like.
It's it's interesting.
You've got to go do that.
But yeah, Hatsune Miku Mobile Suit Gundam is teaming up with Hatsune Miku
Miku for a Gundam Metaverse project.
We pulled this up for four people to look at because it's it's a thing.
But why? Why is it a thing?
Because Hatsune Miku is really popular.
We used to sell a bunch of her figures in the store in addition to the fact
that we sold gunplug, right?
So we sold Gundams, right?
Yeah.
She's really popular.
I mean, that's that's really it.
It's a Metaverse concert.
The anime franchise turns 45 in 2024.
And so Hatsune Miku agreed to help ring in the Big Birthday for Gundam
with a special concert and merch.
She has collided with a lot of people to including Magic the Gathering,
who has done secret layers.
No, no, no, she hasn't just done a secret layer drop.
She's done three, three secret layer drops.
Like.
I. Yes, I did.
I love secret layer.
I just got my last secret layer in from this one because I have a blue
green deck, love these cards.
I did. I bought the the first drop.
I bought the second drop.
And then the third drop, I was like, no, it's like, I'm not going to support this.
Why are there so many drops?
Um, I can't.
It's.
She's really popular, right?
Why shorts cards have done multiple Hatsune Miku sets.
She's just she's that popular of a character in the anime community.
And we're going to talk a little bit more about kind of anime in general later
on in the show. So stick around for that or check out the other video when we
release it on YouTube.
I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is very par for the course for
Japan, right?
There has always been a deep tie between pop stars and anime, right?
Which is how you end up with so many iconic like theme songs to anime
television shows is it's, you know, which pop star is big that year.
And I mean, Japan runs through pop stars faster than we do, right?
Like they'll get mega famous and then be gone in a couple of years, you know,
but that's it's I wish I could say this surprised me.
But when you were like, they're doing this, I was like, yeah, that that tracks.
It does. Yeah.
So it's it's on December 5th at 11 o'clock.
And then they're doing a second one on the ninth.
Are you going to watch it, Jay?
I don't know.
I really don't want to.
Here's what's going to happen.
They're going to do one.
It's going to go really, really well.
And they're, you know, they already have the second one.
You know, they already have a second one of a daily.
That's going to go really, really well.
And the next thing you know for like the next four weeks, all of December is
just going to be a Gundam concert every single week because they're just printing
money. That's what it is.
I mean, if you have three secret layer drops, I want to say what, like three or
four months in between, you're just printing money.
And I get it from a business point of view.
Like, yeah, print the money.
But like, not now when it comes to, I don't know, like, you want to keep your
Gundam pure.
Yeah.
It like, it's, I think it's cute.
I think I do think it's cute that it's like a concert because at first, like,
we didn't have any sort of like news.
It was just like, Hey, coming soon, some sort of collab.
And I was like, what?
But so it's, it's kind of cute that it's a concert.
Um, but I think there's like, when you start just doing the same thing over
and over and over and over again, like I said, I bought the first two drops,
secret layer.
I thought it was cool.
But then I saw the third drop and I was like, Oh my gosh, we're just going to
keep doing this.
If people keep buying it, it's just going to keep happening.
And now it's now it's Gundam.
Yeah.
Congratulations, Mobile Suit Gundam.
Now, I might, depending on what the merch looks like, I might buy the merch
because I'm a sucker for merch.
And it's very popular.
Again, it's Hatsune Miku, man.
It's super, super popular.
We sold some of those figures.
We sold Hatsune Miku stickers and Hatsune Miku, everything.
It doesn't.
Again, it doesn't surprise me.
I should say it did, but it really, really doesn't.
I'm sorry, man.
It's just weird.
Like she's she is like everywhere.
I have a co-worker of mine.
They went to where did they go?
She she actually performed at a concert.
It wasn't Burning Man, but it was something very similar to Burning Man.
And I think like a hologram of her came out.
Yep.
So I mean, I yeah, people are diehard fans of her.
I think I even read where one fan like married her in Japan or something.
Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.
Which like, you know, honestly, that's that's good.
Like we should all find the thing that we really, really enjoy and love in life.
Mine's giant robots without holographic pop singers, I guess.
But but to each their own, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I I hope people get joy out of it.
I hope people get joy out of it.
All right.
Well, let us know, Chad.
Let us know down in the comments what you all think about the Hatsune Miku Exugundum
crossover event.
It's coming. There's going to be a concert in December.
I'm sure it will be very, very silly.
So let us know what you think down in the comments below.
Let us know what you think down in the comments below.