From high tech trains and science museums to arcades and Akihabara, Tokyo is a nerd haven. One of the most prominent ways geekery manifests itself in Japan’s capital city though, surprisingly, is in food. During my trip to the Kanto region this summer during Japan’s Obon holiday, I visited an […]
The Pacific Rim Trailer Is Two Parts Gundam With A Dash of Evangelion And a Hint of RahXephon
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZcqwvQbas] Hollywood is finally getting hip to the giant robot craze. Next year’s Pacific Rim will join last year’s Real Steel – and I suppose the Transformer series – in the budding giant robot genre. Of course, fans of Japanese anime have been long familiar with giant robots. And Pacific Rim seems […]