The Zoids Chaotic Century manga directory has been updated with Volume 8 of the official Manga. This includes scans of both chapters. Soon we'll be renewing progress on the Zoids EX stories as well, as we still have two extras that need to be finished up!

    A review has been added for the Kotobukiya Liger Zero kit! This review has a much warmer color to the photos than usual because it was necessary to capture the true off-white coffee colors of the Liger. It would also degrade quality quite a bit for us to lighten them so we hope the tones are not bothersome!

    Right now the review does not include box scans. I'll get right to work on that and have it done by the next update, coming up in just a few days. It does however include some of the first three CP kits released for Liger Zero! Including the chrome claws/teeth and caps as well as the pearl version armor. It does not include the black chrome parts which were sold after I acquired mine (before Koto was boxing sets of CP parts).

    Kotobukiya will be rereleasing four of the older kits in December! This includes Cannon Tortoise, Dark Horn Harry Special, Great Sabre, and Naomi's Gun Sniper. That brings the total pre-order count (by AmiAmi prices) up to 32,050 Yen for December, so prioritize carefully!

    We'll be changing up the Media Box a bit soon, seperating the video media into series and having seperate pages for soundtracks and commercials. At the moment we've moved the Chaotic Century media onto a seperate page. With this move we've taken down the two eye catches we had before (Shield Liger and Command Wolf IS) and added a whole bunch of others. Shield Liger and Command Wolf will be re-added when we get them ripped in a larger format.

    It seems Kotobukiya has announced that Z-Knights will be released in 2014. This is both a good and a bad thing, as the Zoids related series shall continue, but it is not so great if they stop doing animal mechs, which are what defines Zoids. There are already so many human mecha out there I do not see the need to add another to distract from one of the only active animal mecha. Hopefully we will continue to see animal-based HMM designs.

    The Zoids New Century Zero manga has been linked in the Manga directory. At this point in time it contains just Part One, but we'll be scanning in the other parts and working on them over the next few weeks.

    I'm also aware that quite a few people have been waiting for the rest of the Chaotic Century manga volumes. I just wanted to say that I have not forgotten! We have two or three more volumes scanned and prepped for uploading they just have to be properly formated. Expect to see those soon! The Ueyama continuation extras will also resume progress before too long!

    In similar news it also means that the Zoids Original Story section has been brought fully up to date! The profiles for the other stories have also been added, as well as the completed Command Wolf RGC page. Once again these translations were provided by Falcarius and we're extremely thankful for their effort towards providing free translations to the English-speaking Zoids community.

    Falcarius over at Phenotype's Zoids Forum has graciously allowed us to host some of their translations of official Zoids content on this site. This starts off with the TakaraTomy online web stories have been completed! You'll recall that these parallel the fourth installment of the Concept Books, sharing all of the images and the same general story. This area also includes the profiles that were posted on the final chapter of the website.

    Kotobukiya has announced that they will now be mixing their sales activity with Zoids Original, and that Zoids Original kits will be sold through Kotobukiya's store. While this is not a Japan wide release it is still a step in the right direction towards better availability!

    Don't forget that the Photo Contest on the TakaraTomy site ends on October 15th!

    On the Koto news front the HMM Iguan as well as the MSS Great Sabre have been released! We're updating our sales links below. September Zoids have been removed and the Zoids Original Geno Ritter is being properly placed as an October release, expected Mid October.

    Three new wallpapers have been added to the Fan Art section. They feature the Empire Deck's box art, a Zoids Zi artboard, and the Gun Sniper Leena box art, all in two different sizes. If you are interested in seeing wallpapers in other sizes feel free to let us know!

    The Iron Bible page has had a new revamp. Now the page has embedded videos from our Youtube channel of all of the video footage on the DVD, except for the two commercials which will be updated soon. You can see the full promotional video, the added scenes, and all of the Zoid profiles there.

    A review has been added for the Fuzors Energy Liger!

    A review has been added for the HMM Gun Sniper Linnon/Leena Special.

    Two links have been added to the Links page. One is for the ShoPro site which has a lot of cool information and static images of the 3D models used in the show. The other is a Web Archive link to the old Zoids Web Comic page, in case anyone was ever wondering what it looked like!

    In similar news we've added a link to Phenotype Zoids Forum on the Fan Sites page. This forum is still active, even after all these years. The site has since gone down and the archived model kit photos moved to a flickr account that is linked in the sites description. The Fan Sites section has also added an Activity: marker added before every website's description, to display at a glance if the website is still active.

    You'll notice a new layout when you visit today. We decided to change the old one for a number of reasons. Namely that the last layout was becoming broken after just one or two sub directories, forcing us to create hundreds of duplicate files for it to run correctly, even though it was set up nearly the same as this one. Second, because we've been told by multiple visitors that the previous layout was too wide for their screen resolutions, so we've opted for a layout that is thinner by about 150 pixels (it was only the very right being cut off for most people.)

    We hope that the new layout doesn't bother too many people. Layout designed by Hanyoutai and coded by Vyrr.

    With the new layout we have also changed the Models page. We have removed kits from the list that do not have proper reviews to reduce clutter and will add them back as they are photographed and documented. The new layout for that page uses images for quicker clicking at a glance, and a cleaner overall look.

    The Zoids MSS site has added box art for the Shield Liger MK-II, Sinker, and the new Great Sabre, which has just been released.

    A new installment of the Zoids Original Story has been added, continuing the battle between the Geno Ritter and the Shield Liger. You can view the Japanese version of the story online here.

    A section has been added to the card games area for Zoids Scramble. This includes Scramble Volumes 2 and 3, with lists that have the full sized card images. The lists are mostly incomplete at this point in time but they still have some cool images.

    The Zoids Battle Card Game checklist has been updated. There aren't a ton of cards added, but at least two from all sets aside from Volume 6. The entire Starter Deck checklist has been completed with the addition of the Empire set.

    In addition to the checklist we have updated the Battle Card Game section with the Empire Starter Deck review. This includes box scans, photos of the included figures, and a checklist of all cards that are found in it. The checklist is just there for quick visual reference, they are the same for every starter box.

    There has been a major update to the Zoids Fan Sites section. At least 20 links have been added to some of the cool Zoids pages found around the web. New links are highlighted with a green border around the image. Many of these sites are still active, even if some have stopped updating. It is definitely worth a look!

    If you've been contemplating working on the Anthology project October would be a good month to get everything wrapped up in. There has been mention that the project submission deadline may be sometime during November.