Kotobukiya is having a second go at releasing the second HMM Z-Knight, Marine Kaiser. As you may recall this was formerly cancelled, but now they have not only brought it back but implied a possible third Knight!

    Koto has finally revealed the completed version of their HMM Death Stinger! The kit is looking fantastic with excellent details. The standard version, found on sites like AmiAmi, Koto Direct, etc. will contain a faded color version seen below. You can view the official page here. At this time it has NOT been announced to contain the pilot figures. The kit retails at 14,800 Yen.

    A second anime-accurate version is being released through Kotobukiya Direct only, priced at 19,224 Yen. The differences are vast and we'll list them all below.
    - Anime Accurate Colors (Bright blue - red armor)
    - Optional gold and silver plated parts (nails, gun ring, etc.)
    - Sitting, Standing Hiltz Figures (sitting figure not released with Psycho Genosaurer)
    - Ambient Figure
    - 5cm Blade Liger Figure

    We've added a new fan site to our listing, the Zoids Aethenaeum! This website is run by Falcarius, the largest contributor of translated materials to the English speaking community. It contains a lot of archived reference information, including the DHM / HJM archive from Zoids Poison.

    Unfortunately we've had to bump quite a few sites down on the activity list, and a few have even been removed for broken links. If you know of other Zoids sites, active or not, or even have a site of your own that you'd like linked here, please let us know!

    Nothing like a new Wonder Festival to pull us from perpetual laziness! Well, two weeks late, but you get the idea. We're back to post a couple small updates and catalog the news! Some sections like articles and games are falling behind; we hope to fix that here before too long but the Material Hunters access issue has yet to be resolved without losing game data. I'll try and figure that out some other time.

    Moving on, first we have an update from Chaotic Century manga! The final half of the first chapter in Volume 13. This includes pages 17 and up, sorry it's not more noticeable on the page!

    Also updated is the Zoids Zi Manga! We still haven't found a conclusion for the horrible Dark Spiner, but this is the final chapter of Book 1! What will come next, before the end of this book? Book 1 was the only one we had extras of, so the quality may drop slightly for Book 2 and 3 since we can't butcher them for scans!

    Mentioned above, Wonderfest happened late July! With it came some awesome announcements, including prototypes seen of the HMM Death Stinger! The post linked there is also one that contains a rotating 360 view, much like the Murasame Liger had! An overall review was posted by Zoikino. They have an excellent assortment of photos, including those of the custom works presented at the event.

    Another awesome announcement is the upcoming Zoids Aggressive 'Hayate Liger!' Prototypes were seen with many more images accessible here. A release date is not yet known.

    At Wonderfest they also included a little baggy! Of course, it's not for mass sale but it's still a really interesting little extra. Always nice to see small things like that!

    Kotobukiya has announced a huge number of re-releases. Not that there are too many, but this is the longest our pre-order table has been in a LONG time! Rejoice! In August we have the HMM Shadow Fox and Zero Panzer. In September we have the HMM Geno Breaker Raven, Zero Jager (CAS only), Schneider (CAS and full kit), and Lightning Saix. In October we've added the HMM Berserk Furher, Zero Jager (Full kit), and Geno Saurer Raven.

    We've added a page to the Zoids Material Hunters game section that includes some basic gameplay. This is very much a WIP and currently is only covering basic menu info. Half of which we haven't gotten to yet. We hope it can be useful later on.

    More importantly though it tells users from the US how to play the game. Normally we don't do this, but for region locked, limited lifetime games (most Zoids mobile games lasted a year or less) we figured it doesn't hurt. English players can even pay and support the game to earn Zoids Gold. We'd like to ask, though, if anyone uses this guide to sign up, to maybe send us any beginner achievements not in the current list? We missed these and can't get them without restarting the game, which would mean losing a lot of progress.

    Kotobukiya has finally posted color photos for the new 1/100 Murasame Liger! This line has been officially dubbed the "Zoids Aggressive" series, based upon the renewed articulation and aggressive pose possibilities of the figures. The Liger is also up for pre-order on a number of sites.

    For those who wish to import the Zoid through a deputy servic, Kotobukiya Direct is issuing a limited edition stand and stickers that are available for direct orders only. These will not be present in the AmiAmi shipments, nor any other stores' shipments.

    Along with this news we have our first look at the Blu-Ray Edition Murasame Liger. Rather than to go with the clear color versions, like earlier box sets, it is cast in a more anime-specific green color. We've never had an anime-accurate Murasame release so this is quite interesting!

    Dengeki Hobby Magazine has released their final publication. They will no longer be releasing print media but will instead be switching to an online-only format. In their last issue they previewed a concept image of the Masterpiece Zoids Saber Tiger, which will be theoretically possible as an additional armor using the Shield Liger base.

    The Zoids Index has been mostly empty for a long, long time. We've made a couple of minor updates today, mostly adding pages for the Konig Wolf variations. We've also updated the Energy Liger with a color variations table. Color variations will include things like optional game colors, unnamed-unofficial variations, etc. We are aware some are missing. Like the rest of the site we only add what we personally verify, so some colors are ommitted until such a time that we can personally verify that the colors are accurate.

    Zoids Zi in the manga section has updated with the rest of the chapter! You can view it in the manga section. The manga reader should link to the most recent page.

    Zoids New Century Zero has been updated in the anime section with four new episode summaries. These include blu-ray quality screencaps and brief descriptions of the episode. These episodes have no deleted scenes.

    A review has been added for the HMM Empire Command Wolf LC. This review was done after I had inkwashed the kit, so be aware that it's not like this out of the box.

    Two reviews have also been added for the Zoids Fuzors 'Special Edition' Command Wolf Holotech and the Zoids Gameboy Color Command Wolf (Red Version.) The GBC Wuf is listed under Limited Edition kits.

    The three remaining Matrix BLOX have also been added! I'm not 100% sure if I have the connector parts necessary to turn them into Matrix Dragon at this time but it's something I'm interested in trying in the future.