GameSetWatch features an interesting column about mech designs. The article mentions Junji Okubo. This guy is the responsible for Steel Battalion´s mech designs (love the concept and realization of the game) and other cool mechanical designs that you can see in his web. The column talks about For the Barrel, a serialized novel that re-imagine the history of Gundam (I have been searching and I hadn’t found too much information about it).
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