In Dengeki Hobby Magazine's coverage of the press conference, it was announced that the series will launch in full force with apps, a game for the nintendo switch, merchandise, arcades, etc. So we can expect tons of Zoids products to come!

    Now that all that's out of the way, we're going to divert into the site updates now. We'll post new updates at the top of the page in their own announcement, but we'll leave this post on the front page below if need be. Anyway, moving on. First, an update of the Zoids Field of Rebellion manga, with chapter 3! As usual, translations are generously donated by Falcarius~

    Second, we've been working hard over the past 2 weeks to bring our Zoids: Field of Rebellion guide up to date. We've still got some news to work on, but for the time being the guide should include all up-to-date information, aside from the stamps and a couple things that are still missing. We've also introduced sortable tables, so you can now better choose which Zoids you want by organizing them by HP, attack power, search range, etc.

     We still have a lot of work to do in expanding this section, but we encourage all new ZOIDS fans to check out this mobile game and show the franchise their support!

    The updated FOR section also includes the Zoids section being brought fully up to date. This is short-lived, though! They've announced two possible Zoids to be added to the game in March, including the Gojulas CA, the same design that was featured in the Zoids Concept Art Books.

    Although this event is nearly over, the Gojulas the Ogre event also has excellent prizes. We recommend anyone joining the game to jump in on it! The News page in the FOR section has been updated to include the February 14th announcements, which are still relevant until tomorrow.

    Finally, we've added a new link to the top of the model kits page for Zoids Instructions. We'll be slowly amassing instructions to each figure as we go along, and at times we'll even have bounties out for instructions we don't yet have! These are currently closed, but keep your eyes peeled and we'll update the front page when they're open again. In the mean time, enjoy our current collection for any of your Zoid building needs!

    Speaking of grand returns, we've added a new fansite link, Zoids GC. This is a blog owned by Stompy, featuring his original CGI Zoids including the well known Blitz Panther. I bet a ton of people remember these animations from years ago, and it's fantastic to see this modeler making a return to the Zoids fandom! The new work looks great (one of which has been submitted to fanart > artwork!) and the effects used in each image are fantastic.

    Finally time to update again! Just as a heads up, we recently checked our contact address and realized there were some old old messages. If you still need to get in contact with us, please resend the messages, and we'll be sure to answer as soon as we can~

    Moving on, we've uploaded the story section of Zoids Official Fan Book to the Books section. This includes a very rough translation, so please expect mistakes. For those who are curious as to what the books are like, though, it may give some insight~ We're still working on the profiles and such.

    Next up, we've added Zoids: Field of Rebellion to the Manga Section. We had uploaded the first chapter a while ago, but forgot to properly link it in the section. Now, chapter 2 is up! We haven't had time to update the sound effects, but for now it contains text translations courtesy of Falcarius~

    Speaking of Field of Rebellion, as we mentioned earlier, we've set up a page for that. We've done some updating for pilots, including story translations courtesy of Falcarius~ We still need to bring the pilot list and Zoids up to date, but we've brought the battle guide up to date, at least.

    We've also removed the former Announcements page for now. It is painfully out of date, and we're slowly working on breaking the previous updates up into a more functional navigation. We'll be categorizing news updates by date now, instead of per-post or all on one page, since this kinds rather long and ridiculous. For now we've updated with the most recent batch of updates, which are valid until the 28th.

    We missed so much news. The Storm Sworder has officially released, and now the Sturm Tyrann is up for pre-order, along with the Sturm Unit! The Tyrann, sold outside of Kotobukiya stores, includes the base frame and the CAS armor only. It does not include any basic Berserk Furher armor, aside from what's absolutely necessary. It goes for 12,000 Yen Retail~

    Kotobukiya has also posted a preview of the Tyrann on a turn table, showing off the beautiful armor and detail of this Zoid.

    The armor was initially excluded, according to Kotobukiya, for the absurd box sizes that it created. However, if you're interested in a red Furher, you can always order through Kotobukiya Direct. Ordering through this route will allow you to get the Kotobukiya Exclusive basic armor and the CAS armor, both in the red color scheme. This sells for a 15,984 Yen.

    If you're interested in the CP unit for your Lavender Furher, you can always get the Sturm Unit on its own. This includes the basic offwhite and red color scheme, but doesn't come with the base Zoid. It's armor only. This retails for 5,800 Yen.

    Finally, there's an obscene amount of rereleases coming up! If you've missed any of these excellent HMM kits, be sure to pick them up!

    We're still working on organizing our old projects and figuring out where everything was at, so site updates will be relatively small in the mean time. Steady as they go.

    For now we've finished adding the rest of the pages for Vol. 13 of the Chaotic Century manga. This includes the conclusion to the battle against the Red Schneider and Deep Blue Jager!

    We've also added the remaining Concept sketches to the Chaotic Century anime page. This concludes the full size scans that we have, but there are still a few smaller, lower quality concepts that will go up when we have the time to organize them. New concepts include: (Zoids) Blade Liger, Command Wolf, Gordos, Iron Kong, Lightning Saix, Molga, Pteras, Rev Raptor, Shield Liger, Ultrasaurus, Ultrasaurus with Gravity Cannon. (Central Characters) Van. (Side Characters) Various. (Environment) Imperial Flag (2nd image), Imperial Ring. (Organoids) Various.

    What? An update? No ... It couldn't be-

    Long story short I switched harddrives a few months ago, which sorely set me back on projects that became completely disorganized while moving some stuff around. Plus work, lack of free time, and personal projects related to other stuff. I apologize for the radio silence!

    The last time we updated (7... months... ago- Ahem.) I'd started a project for the Smack Zoids! B-Part series. These were concepts published in DHM about various stages of Zoid development that applied some story basis to formerly known conceptual images. I've published the second part of that article, and probably one of the more demanded, the Geneology of Liger Zoids! ... Actually when I say the next part, I should probably clarify that right now these aren't done in order. I'm going to backtrack a bit and see if I can get the earlier parts up later.

    I've also added a few more Zoids to the Bonds of Steel Zoids library. This is under Mobile Games for those who don't remember. I want to get this section finished but it's going to take some doing, and in the mean time the Zoids page is a total mess. Apologies again! I'll properly format everything once all of the Zoids are in.

    And finally I've added a review for the Zoids Aggressive Murasame Liger! I gotta say, the ZA series has been fantastic so far. I hope to someday get reviews for the others as the weather permits.

    SO, this is all old news, but here we go anyway! On September 26th TakaraTomy posted a Zoids Teaser website with some high detail diaroma images by Animareal and music by Michiru. This lead to a lot of speculation, and long story short -- it's a new mobile game scheduled to hit this winter! You can view the main site here for the most concentrated collection of data.

    We've seen a lot about this so far, and I'm going to try to organize a proper page for it soon. In the mean time there's at least one gameplay footage video along with quite a few other random promos. You can follow the Zoids_PR Twitter for more updates on this project. There are lots of neat little clips.



    Gameplay:
    The game is designed as a MOBA, in other words go capture the enemy base! What we've seen from gameplay videos implies that you'll have several Zoids on the field, controlling one while the rest are likely bots. You'll be fighting on a field to defeat enemies, which can likely be done by defeating their Commander unit.

    Weapons seem to have a decent amount of variation. Zoids have several weapons and attacks, which each have their own experience or levels, ammunition, energy, etc. There are already quite a few Zoids seen in the gameplay videos but as they're all pre-release videos some things may be subject to change.

    Pre-Registration:
    They're going to have pre-registration stretch goals, based on how many people register through Line, Twitter, or E-mail. The goals are as following!

    -1-49,999: 50 Zoids Gold
    - 50,000: +50 Zoids Gold
    -70,000: +One App-original Weapon
    -100,000: +100 Zoids Gold
    -150,000: +100 Zoids Gold
    -200,000: Second Stretch Goal Campaign

    We'll try to bring you more information after there's a proper page set up for the game~