GREAT MECHANICS ARCHIVES

好奇心ブック 73号 GREAT MECHANICS
GREAT MECHANICS

PUBLICATION INFORMATION

Publisher: Futabasha
Released: 2001.02.16
Price: 933 yen
Size: A5

A quarterly magazine specializing in real robots. First published in 2001 as a Curiosity Mook. It mainly conducts setting analyses of popular titles continuing from the 1980s such as the Gundam, Macross, and Armored Trooper Votoms, but also covers recent works. From the summer 2007 issue, it expanded its format and was rebranded as GREAT MECHANICS.DX (Great Mechanic Deluxe), and in 2015 it was rebranded again as Great Mechanic G.

These contents will only cover Gundam-related material presented in the books. Links will be provided below for translated material.

RGM-79 STYLES

FEATURE: MOBILE SUIT GM (Mobile Suit Gundam)

From Zaku to GM
■ GM Variations
■ In-depth Analysis: GM VS Zaku: GM VS Zaku
■ GM’s Notable Scenes Collection
■ Simulation: Battle of Solomon ~ Verifying GM’s High Performance ~
GM As Seen in OVAs
■ The Potential of GM as a Protagonist’s Machine
GM Interview.1 Shigeru Horiguchi (Sunrise)
GM Interview.2 Hirofumi Inagaki (Bandai Consumer Business Division)

FEATURE: BANDAI

■ The Bandai Style
■ History of Bandai Character Models
■ Interview with Katsumi Kawaguchi (Bandai Hobby Division)
■ Gashapon HG: The Possibility of a New “Value” as a Toy
■ Moveable Suit Gundam: MS IN ACTION!! Radio-Controlled Zaku

Publisher: Hiroshi Morozumi

Editor-in-Chief: Tekkyo Yoshioka
Editing: Office JB, Yukio Iida, Shika Mitsumoto, Yasuyuki Toyomura, Takashi Ninomiya (Futabasha)

Cover Design: Ad Isle
Cover Illustration: Naochika Morishita
Text Design: Tsutomu Nagasaki
Text Illustrations: Yasuyuki Yutaka
Text Photography: Shiro Inaba (Futabasha), Takashi Ishihara
Printing: Sanko Printing Co., Ltd.

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