Zoids Wild: King of Blast is nearing release! We've had a lot of screenshots, including the box art, as well as gameplay videos. Another screenie here. The game is scheduled to be released on February 28th, for 6,458 Yen!

    Famitsu posted an article going over some screenshots and the added armor. It seems each Zoid has several different color schemes, with most of the main cast so far included in the game. It also seems that the game names a number of color variations, but not all. So far we have variations like Wild Liger Blade, Raptor Forest, Fang Tiger Blaze, and Death Rex Origin.

    A free trial of the game is now available in the Nintendo store, and the game is also available to purchase for pre-loading. It's also worth checking out the official website which has updated quite a bit (WARNING: Flashing videos in the background.)

- Wild Liger: Evil Armor

    The game will come with a pre-order bonus of the Wild Liger "Evil Armor." This is the armor specifically (see the bottom left image) and does not include the kit, so you'll need to purchase a typical Wild Liger to use it. TakaraTomy posted a nice picture here and a video of the kit here. The Famitsu Article listed earlier also shows off the Evil Armor in game, along with what appears to be box art.

    Like most early purchase benefits, the Evil Armor is "while supplies last." This means that you may or may not receive it when buying the game. There was also a gameplay video floating around, but it was pulled, likely due to the inclusion of Spideath and its pilot, which weren't officially announced at the time. Amazon has already announced that their listing may not come with the armor, even though it lists it in the name. This is likely true for all stores.

- King of Blast Trailer

Free Trial Version: Gameplay

- Zoids Wild Special

    On January 5th, in place of the Zoids Wild weekly episode, they aired a special. This special had guest stars from Sky Peace, a popular youtube channel in Japan, and the artists for the third opening of the Zoids Wild anime. The set included a full lineup of 2018 Zoids Wild Kits displayed in the background, along with a Battle Card Hunter arcade console in the background.

    The special consisted almost entirely of clip replays. A segment dedicated to Wild Blasts from the show, and a second segment replaying clips from the episode that goes over Penne's history. They also showed off the Wild Liger Sky Peace Edition (more info below) and a clip of King of Blast, the upcoming game for Nintendo Switch. This showed off two new colors for the Death Rex, a purple, and the Death Rex Origin. It also showed off the Fang Tiger Blaze, a blue variant.

    On January 12th, Zoids Wild aired with a brand new opening. Sky Flight, by the group Sky Peace. Their single is already showing up for pre-order, with a release date of March 6th. Following the trend as earlier Wild singles, there are several different versions, which we'll go over below. They all contain Sky Flight as the first track, but the remaining tracks vary depending on the edition.

    The Wild Liger (Sky Peace Special Edition) seems to be primarily stickers, but with the photos, it's a little hard to make out all the details. This picture was shown off during the Zoids Wild Special that aired on January 5th.

Sky Flight: Perfect Production Limited Edition
    Price: 4,500 Yen
    Bonuses:
        - ZW01 Wild Liger (Sky Peace Special Edition) (Model Kit)
        - 1 Trading Card (Randomly selected from 7)
    CD Track List:
        - 01. Sky Flight
        - 02. シャルル
        - 03. オタパリダンシン (Party Remix)


Sky Flight: First Press Limited Edition
    Price: 2,500 Yen
    Bonuses:
        - DVD
        - 1 Trading Card (Randomly selected from 7)
    CD Track List:
        - 01. Sky Flight
        - 02. スタートダッシュ (Thank you Remix)
        - 03. Sky Flight (Instrumental)
    DVD Contents:
        01.「Sky Flight」Music Video
        02.「Sky Flight」Music Video メイキング映像 (Making Of)
        03.「Sky Flight」ジャケット撮影　メイキング映像 (Cover Photo Making Of)
        04.「Dream Stage Welcome in SkyPeaceisen Party Time」オフショットロードムービー (Off Shot Road Movie)


Sky Flight: Normal Edition
    Price: 1,500 Yen
    Bonuses:
        - 1 Trading Card (Randomly selected from 7)*
    CD Track List:
        - 01. Sky Flight
        - 02. 証明
        - 03. 世界一幸せな2人へ
    Note: There are 2 versions of the Normal Edition, for the same price. One is a first press limited edition. It's possible that this one comes with a card, but the 'normal' normal edition does not.

    Animareal posted an amazing poster, which was also featured in December issue of CoroCoro Comic. Excellent shots of these appeared on the official twitter accounts, showing off the different models used in the poster. Some additional photos, including wonderful outdoor shots, were posted by the modeler, SigemikanZ on Twitter.

    Death Rex: Link, Link
    Gannontoise: Link, Link, Link
    Grachiosaurus:
    Kabtor: Link, Link
    Scorpear: Link, Link
    Wild Liger: Link, Link, Link
    Group Shots: Link, Link,

    During November ~ December there was a Z Cap Campaign, where buyers who purchased more than 3,000 yen worth of products at select stores would receive a set of stickers, with either Supreme Yellow (transparent) or Death Metal Silver caps. The stickers were for the Wild Liger (seen here on enterpuraizu's twitter), Death Rex, and Grachiosaurus. This campaign is now over.

    This month, starting on January 15th, there's a new campaign. It's coupled with CoroCoro Comic, where users who bring in a ticket sold with CoroCoro February 2019 issue can exchange the ticket for a set of Fang Tiger blades, the Twin Fang. This is to make the Fang Liger, a Zoid that has already appeared in the comics and arcade game. You can see some images from CoroCoro here.

    The ticket also covers a set of Supreme Gold caps, which are a solid gold color.

Twin Fang & Z Cap Video

    Over the last month or so, Wendy's held a campaign where patrons could receive some Zoids Related items. This was primarily geared towards the First Kitchen Stickers and was limited to Japan. There were other benefits, however, ranging from smokey fries to a Zoids Wild fast food paper bag. It's amazing to see Zoids branching out into such promotions again! Zoids Official even posted a nice dinner photo with Wild Liger and Gannontoise~

- First Kitchen Stickers

    These special stickers included decals for the Wild Liger, with four different sets. The sheets also included small stickers of the Zoid characters themselves. A good example can be seen here. Some people have posted photos of the stickers actually applied to the Zoids, which can be seen here, here, and here. You can see a shot of all four sets, along with the bag which had Wild Liger on one side and Gilraptor on the other side here. The stickers included a QR code that could be scanned to enter a lottery for the First Kitchen Colored Papers (below.)

- First Kitchen Colored Paper

    By buying the relevant meals, buyers would receive a sticker sheet. The QR codes on those sheets could be scanned to enter a lottery for Zoids Wild colored paper with images of the characters and a First Kitchen logo. There were quite a few of these, so we'll link to the full size images below.
    Arashi, Drake, Gyoza, Onigiri, Penne

    There are quite a few new things for the anime, including new renders posted online, new opening/ending, etc. For now, let's go over the anime renders posted on the Zoids twitters! Spoilers ahead!

    In the character category, we have images for Rayu, Gyoza's little sister. Then Truffle, the pilot of the Stegosage and final member of Death Metal's main four.

    Next up is Soufflé, who along with her brother cared for a Raptor Forest type, affectionately known as Rain. Soufflé is actually played by Shoko Nakagawa, who is the artist for Zoids Wild's ending theme, Blue Moon.

    Next we have Hermit Mushi (Mushi meaning insect), an old Zoid master claiming to be 500 years old! This old man was responsible for teaching not only Bacon, but Gallagher as well. Arashi goes to learn from this master, but has doubts upon realizing he's mostly just an old pervert. One that his Wild Liger can't catch, but nevertheless! He is played by Kappei Yamaguchi.

    We also have one of Gallagher's lacky, Shallot, who is often at Gallagher's side. Here's Foie Gras as well, one of Death Metal's elite four and pilot of the Knuckle Kong. He's played by Rikiya Koyama, and has a lot to do with Penne's mysterious past.

    Last but not least, we have a render of Salt, pilot of the Hunter Wolf who first started showing up in a serious capacity last episode. Salt will be voiced by Yuma Uchida.

    Also not sure where to put this, but TakaraTomy posted some silly cartoon Zoids around the holidays. Link, Link, Link, Link, Link

- Zoid Anime Renders

    We've gotten tons of anime renders for the Zoids, so we'll just roll through them in somewhat chronological order. Knuckle Kong, Sauce's Kabtor, Gusock, Gusock's Wild Blast, Death Rex's Wild Blast, Stegosage, Catalga's Wild Blast, and finally Hunter Wolf's Wild Blast.

- Concept Art

    A new concept art has been posted for the Triceradogos, showing off both its bone and armored form. The concept art showed a sleeker, more streamlined armor design, with very little of the bone frill still showing on the armorless form.

- Zoid Wild New Opening

    On January 12th, Zoids Wild aired with a brand new opening! This opening is Sky Flight, by Sky Peace, a popular youtube channel in Japan. This is their second single, with CD releases coming up soon! We've posted about that above. Congratulations to Sky Peace!

- Zoid Wild New Ending

    It's not just a new opening that aired on January 12th. The new ending, Speed Up by the Taiwanese boy band "noovy" aired last week as well! An article from Music News notes that Speed Up is their first anime tie-in song, an exciting new development in their career. To celebrate this new step, the band members went out and purchased some Zoids Wild kits; their first Zoids in years~ It's an exciting quarter for the two groups to gain some more recognition.

- Other Music News

    Jaejoong's hit song "Defiance", the second opening for Zoids Wild topped the charts for JAPAN Hot Animation's Top 10, with a significant distance between it and the second place song. Preorders for those singles came out quite a while ago.

- Twitter Icons

    Zoids Official posted a few icons for people to use around twitter~ The icons include: Arashi, Bacon, Death Metal, Drake, Gallagher, Gyoza, Ikadzuchi, Onigiri, Penne, and Sanratan.

- Blu-Ray Volume 1 Release & Benefits

    Volume 1 of the Zoids Wild Blu-Ray set has released, and along with it, some additional products have been revealed. These are benefits from purchasing either a single volume or a full set from specific stores. For now, in this tweet you can see the bonuses that come standard with the Blu-ray. The book is short, only a few pages, but includes character profiles, etc. You can see images of everything included, including the discs here.

    Full set bonuses mean ordering the entire set in one purchase.

Amazon:

    - Volume 1 Bonus: Round Badge
    - Full Series Purchase Bonus: Canvas Tote Bag (Image unavailable)

Animaru:
    - Volumes 1 ~ 5 Scene Postcards (Featuring anime screenshots)
    - Full Series Purchase Bonus: Wild Liger Original T-Shirt

- New Wallpaper

    A little while ago, the official Anime site held a vote for your favorite character and Zoid, with the two winners getting a special wallpaper. The Zoids ranked from 1st ~ 5th: Wild Liger, Fang Tiger, Death Rex, Catalga, and Gannontoise. The characters ranked: Arashi, Bacon, Penne, Gallagher, with Drake and Sanraton tied for 5th. Voters would be able to receive prizes, with 1 person receiving an autographed blu-ray (Vol. 1) and 5 other voters receiving a signed copy of the Zoids Wild manga (Vol. 1). The resulting wallpaper can be seen on the page.

    A brand new arcade game, known as Zoids Wild Battle Card Hunter has been announced! This game will be launching on January 24th at various arcades. The game will have a collectable card game tied into its functionality, with over 60 cards ready to launch alongside the game. There's a ton of screenshots, including some from mantan-web, and Hobby Japan. The Official Website has the most comprehensive information, including a ton of card images. We'll try to cover all the details below.

- Game Functionality

    Battle Card Hunter is first and foremost an arcade game. You can get 1 play for 100 yen (tax included). A single game is estimated to be about 8 minutes long, and the game is designed for a single player. You start the game by opening an "Adventure Map". Here you'll see information on the different battle stages and locations, and can select one of them to start a Zoid Battle.

    When entering battle mode you can select 3 Zoid Cards and challenge the enemy team's 3 Zoids, using a primary and two support Zoids. You can modify your game strategy using various Support Cards. Occasionally a boss battle will appear, as well as the game's original legendary subspecies of certain Zoids, adding some surprise to the gameplay. Battle appears to depend on how quickly you can adjust the buttons and levers to make your attacking and defending moves more successful. As expected, there's a Wild Blast gauge that fills up throughout battle.

    When the battle is over, you enter a Zoids Card Excavation Mode. Here you'll see a display of hidden Zoids, along with an excavation radar. When you unearth a particular Zoid, it's distributed as a physical trading card, which you can use in the next battle via QR code.

- Card Game Tie-In

    Over 60 cards have been prepared for the launch of the game. Not only do these tie into the gameplay, but are physical, collectable items earned by playing the game. Quite a few were already shown in online sales after an early access gameplay exhibit held last month. The cards come in five rarities: Wild Rare, Super Rare, Rare, Normal, and Secret Rare. The Secret Rare supposedly uses concept art by Tokuyama Mitsutoshi, one of the creators of Zoids. The cards also include a Team Point (beside the rarity marker). When your team reaches a value of 15 ~ 20 points, you'll receive additional bonuses!

    You'll receive the Wild Liger as your first game card. There are two main types of cards, Zoid Cards and Battle Support Cards. Zoid Cards are the zoids that you use in battle. The ecology of the Zoid is written on the Commentary Log Card. Battle Support Cards change certain aspects of battle in your favor.

    There are also two types of "Log Cards", which include "Commentary Log Cards" and "Adventure Log Cards." Adventure Log Cards include information about the world of Zoids Wild.

    There are already two limited edition cards that've been revealed. The Fang Liger, a limited from CoroCoro Comic (February issue), and the Wild Liger Evil, which is bundled with the Nintendo Switch game "King of Blast."

- Adventure Guide

    Additional products such as the Card Album Adventure Guide have been developed to support the game. This is a card album specifically for organizing your Zoid cards, providing a sense of completeness to those who wish to collect all that they can.

    You can get additional treasure maps to piece together using the Treasure Decription Refills, which will be distributed at over-the-counter campaigns and events. These clear sheets overlay across the maps on the cards, marking a small symbol in a specific area. You can compare this location with the Adventure Map in the arcade game, obtaining special items as you go.

- Sebuca Card

    A limited edition Sebuca card is being released for 500 yen, featuring an image of the Wild Liger. Playing with this card provides a lot of additional benefits. For one thing, you'll be able to make your own avatar, selecting the sex and appearance of your character, including different clothes and hairstyles.

    Second, the progress of your adventure can be recorded, allowing you to easily resume progress. There may also be additional enemies to face in certain locations. You'll also be able to record the (Kizuna?) level of your Zoids. The higher their level, the more power is released with their Wild Blast.

    Lastly, when playing with Sebuca cards, you may receive additional Treasure Maps. These can be used to uncover additional items in the game.

- Starter Set

    Aside from buying the Adventure Guide, you can also buy a Starter Set for 900 yen, which comes with a limited edition Sebuca card along with three limited edition Zoid cards (Scorpear, Gannontoise, Triceradogos), all Freedom Group Versions. You'll also get one refill for your Adventure Guide. If you have this set you can jump right into Battle Card Hunter.

- Commercials

    The game was revealed with a commercial, featuring RAMAR. There's a good reason that this may sound familiar; they're the artists of Wild Flowers, the original opening for Zoids Chaotic Century / Guardian Force.

    We have some new commercials! All embedded below. The Hunter Wolf commercial's diaroma was shown before the commercial itself, in this tweet from Zoids Official. They also posted the diaroma setup for the Grachiosaurus commercial, along with the colosseum, which if I'm not mistaken is also shared with the Wild Liger commercial.

- Old Commercials

    TakaraTomy have posted some other commercials. Some of the very old ones. These are worth a mention just for nostalgia's sake! Megatopros and Gorem.

    On December 14th, TakaraTomy published a video called ZOIDS WILD Eastern Front. This dark, gritty promotional video took a lot of people by surprise, and is worth a watch. It's part of Zoids Wild Battle Wars, which refers specifically to a series of diaroma style images created using customs of the Zoids Wild line.

    The video was directed by Taguchi Kiyotaka, who has worked on a wide variety of series. Two major players of the Tomy team during the NJR Days, Yutaka Tajime and Takashi Nakase were credited as planners for the video. Shuu Katayama, the current figurehead of Zoids Wild even made an appearance, voicing "Soldier B."

    During the holidays, CoroCoro published a video in which they made a beautifully crafted chocolate Death Rex! Though the incredible beast was not long for this world.

    TakaraTomy is holding its first Zoids Wild custom contest for residents of Japan, from January 31st ~ February 28th. Participants can create customs, then take either photo or video of their creation through the ZFX feature of the Zoids Wild app. They can then submit them to twitter under one of three hashtags: One for children, one for parent/child teams, and a general division for adults. Some of the prizes are simple, like additional ZFX Effects, and some left entirely ambiguous. More details will be announced later.

    Please note that this contest is for residents of Japan only, although there is no limit to the number of entries a person can post. Entries are expected to be new photos, not previously published ones. Winners will receive a notice via SNS. Prizes are expected to be sent out mid-April 2019.

Employee Only Custom Contest

    Around the same time as this announcement it was revealed that TakaraTomy had their own employee custom contest, where participants and their families could create custom creations to be displayed in the building. Preceded only by this adorable Christmas Death Rex. They've posted so many creations (and continue to add more) that I'm not sure where to begin. So, link spam.

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Model Kits Official Zoids Wild   2019-01-08 03:00:00

    CoroCoro has continued its habit of posting last minute drawings from the manga artist on their website. This was skipped over for the special, understandably, but there are plenty of others! Let's see... Gallagher and his Death Rex, Gannontoise Wild Bike Version, our team dressed up in Death Rex Costumes, Death Rex eating some zoids cookies, Gallagher not pulling off the Zoid plushie nearly as well as Caviar, Salt and Hunter Wolf, Christmas Liger & Rex, Arashi, A fancy Death Metal Catalga, and finally a nice game of jenga~

    The second volume of the Zoids Wild manga released on December 29th, 2018. It includes Chapters 1 ~ 8, the short "Arashi and Liger" that featured in the Awakened Wild Liger's booklet, and a Zoids Wild special from CoroCoro Comic that included talk about the model kits. The book also had some of the images that've been featured on the CoroCoro site as part of the last minute drawing campaign. A teaser page for Chapter 9 was also posted on twitter.

    We've got a few more Wild related images. Starting with a new cosplay by AnimaReal, of Emperor Gallagher! There are two versions. The standard version and the background version for phone resolutions. We also have a Wild Blast reference for Bacon. Last but not least, we have a new drawing for Episode 14 on the CoroCoro website!

    With Episode 14 of Zoids Wild we got a new opening and ending theme song! Quite exciting, as it implies the series has a decent number of episodes left to go. Of course, we kind of guessed that from the lack of Death Metal Zoids that've gotten an episode so far. The opening, "Defiance" by Jae Joong takes on a whole new tone for the series. Battles and imagery that are starting to look more serious and a little reminescent of Zoids Genesis.

    The new ending, "blue moon" by Shoko Nakagawa offsets that serious tone by giving us a look into some casual hangout time between the main characters. Who can draw the Wild Liger best?

    The Zoids Wild App section (Under Games > Mobile Games) has received a decent sized update. This'll help members get started on the game, but we still have a lot of work to do!

    Zoids Section: A Zoids section has been added and includes some of the earlier colors you'll see in the game. Most don't have stats right now and we don't have a section set aside for the Lumberjack Zoids yet.

    Missions Section: A missions page has been added for most of the starting missions. This list includes the Japanese names so that you can find the exact mission you're looking for.

    Introduction Section: The introduction section includes all of the tutorial segments at the beginning of the game. Read this first if you're confused about how to play.

    Story Section: The story section so far is just the opening story bits, but we'll be turning this into a full story translation/walkthrough as we progress through the game. Please be advised that the translations are rough guesses based on Google Translate, but it should get the point across.

    I've added a concept art page to the Zoids Anime > Zoids Wild section. This will include all of the concept art posted to the official twitter accounts, @Zoids_Official and @Anime_ZoidsWild. Everything from rough sketches to general earlier design concepts for the model kits.

    A new page has been added to our side bar under Encyclopedia. A Zoids name list! This will include the English and Japanese versions of Zoids names as well as some of the common phrases needed to accurately search Yahoo Japan/etc. A HUGE thanks to Maiasa Liger, who generously donated the PSD they made! This is linked at the top of the page for reference.

    With this update we've also extended the Zoids Index list, which now includes a more complete list of Zoids and variations. Spelling errors have also been fixed.

    The Buying Zoids article has been completely revamped (and renamed to more accurately represent its intention). The page now includes a comprehensive comparison of popular buying services, such as Celga, Buyee, From Japan, etc. This includes comparisons of fees, a list of the free and extended storage time limits, etc. There are also new stores added, such as Mercari, Suruga-ya, etc. Please read the descriptions before using these stores because they include possible cons. I'm in the process of testing a couple of these services for myself, but everything on the list has come recommended by other Zoiders!

- 1st Edition Zoids Article

    The 1st Edition Zoids Article has been updated to include most of the Genesis Zoids. I haven't had a chance to check for Fuzors cards. If there's any items missing from the list, please send us an E-mail! I'll be glad to add it if you can provide a picture of the box showing the sticker.

    When the Zoids Wild kits started to release, CoroCoro began releasing limited items through a silver peel raffle. This is basically a card like a scratch off (don't scratch it-) that you peel off with sticky tape. If you get the right combo of kanji/words, you can submit the ticket for a chance to win the item. Unfortunately this is mostly limited to Japan residents, but in case anyone out there has friends in Japan that are willing to submit the ticket for them, we've included a guide on how to win!

    You can find this article listed under Model Kit articles, in our newly revamped articles section! Some articles are still painfully out of date, but we'll address that eventually.