Hope and Courage have made the 1% chance of an English release into 100%. Yes, it's true--GaoGaiGar has been licensed for DVD in the United States by the Brave Men and Women at Media Blasters. So far, not many details are known (well, I personally might know a thing or two, but I really can't talk about them yet) but we do know that the expected release date for the first disk will be 8/29/2006. A very agressive date, true; but I know that GaoGaiGar is in truly good hands with Media Blasters (who has reciently announced Voltron /GoLion /Dairugger XV and Tekkaman Blade not to long before that). I give my most heartfelt congrats to them and, of course, to one particular member of their crew who has fought long and hard for this day. As I said, I know this project will be in good hands. Please give them your support!

So anyway, as new info appears, I'll try to keep everyone out there updated. It is a good time for Brave fans, and for super robot fans who might want to give GaGaGa a try with this release.

03/27/2006

Let's News:

Hello all, and it's been a while. But GaGaGa lives on, so let's get started with some news updates GaoGaiGar FINAL -Grand Glorious Gathering- finished a while ago and as expected was only a slicing-and-dicing of the OVA show with some TV footage and some additions of Betterman Lamia (from Betterman). Also, some nekid-ness was 'cleaned-up' for broadcast. It did well enough apprently to help drive some more sales of the Yuusha shows poping up in nice clean DVD form and to promote the re-release of the original GaGaGa TV show on DVD (in a nice spiffy box).

On 3/26/2006 the Grand Glorious Gathering Box set was released. It came in 2 flavors: Regular Ddition, or Deluxe Edition, the primary difference being that the Deluxe came with 3 nice looking 'action figures' of GaoGaiGar, GaiFighGar, and Genesic. The DVD's themselves consisted of 4 disks: 3 disks containing 4 episods each of GaGaGa: GGG, and a new super special 'Disk Z'. This is the kicker. Disk Z, in addition to having the normal 'Off Record' bits with the cast and crew, is notes on 'Yuusha Oh GaoGaiGar: Project Z'--a new sidestory in the ever-continuing saga. Currently it is not 100% determined if this is going to be a TV show or some other form of media, but it does show that we aren't getting another Grand Glorious Gathering type of story. Instead owners of the DVD are given glimpses of completely new material that takes place after GaGaGa FINAL.
For those that are interested, here are a couple pictures I found on the interweb (I do not own said set, but seeing this, I might soon have too).

GaGaGa Project Z Pic 1
GaGaGa Project Z Pic 2

Thus, some notes before I do my best to post mini-translated images. The new GaoGaiGar is named 'GaoGaiGo-' which I fully expect to become 'GaoGaiGor' when written in English. It's base unit is known as Kakuseijin GaiGou (Gai, using the same character as Gai's name). Anyone who has seen Betterman, will instantly notice the name and similarietes with good reason--this new unit is a co-operative venture between Akamatsu Industries and GGG. Our new unit is, as per typical Akamatsu robitics specs, a dual mode type (like the original Kakuseijins) with both and Accept mode and an Active mode. It will also require two pilots with Head Diver capabilities. Watchers of FINAL (or viewers of the second pic) will note who the two child-pilots are. Viewers of Betterman who were left ever so slightly confused by the ending can see that Lamia is still kicking which a whole new crew of Sominium users.
With all of this information, I'm more apt to think that we're getting some sort of OVA/TV show, which we all hope can live up to the greatness that GaGaGa has thus presented us. I will be keeping my eyes open and alert for more info as time goes on.