Visitors to the site may have noticed that it said our domain was “expired” this morning. For some reason, my hosting provider had a glitch in their system that told me it didn’t expire until 9/2011. Well, a phone call or two later the issue was resolved, so we’re back up and running. Thank you BlueHost! I <3 u guys!

I just wanted to take the time to say Merry Christmas to all of our loyal visitors out there. As the year comes to a close and I look back on the year, I have some regrets in terms of what we’ve done. We had a lot of potential that went to waste, yet towards the end we sort of made up for it. As 2011 sits on the horizon, I’m thinking of the goals that I’m going to set for that year in hopes that Zeonic|Scanlations can once again become a reputable source for Gundam related material. I hope all of you look forward to what I’ve got in store. I’ll post the information around New Years, so stay tuned!

Yes, I’m taking up valuable blogspace by shamelessly promoting an artist that I absolutely love. For those of you that are searching for some new music, I’d like to suggest Kristine Elezaj. She’s a relatively new artist to hit the scene and she has a lot of talent and spunk that clearly blows away all of the current pop artists. While I’m not a fan of Britney Spears or anything, her music is slightly in tune to that while giving off her own brand of flair and attitude.Her latest album “No Questions Remain” was released back in October, and fans are eagerly anticipating the release of her Warpath music video, a showcased song that was previously released as a single. You can see the behind-the-scenes video to your right on the site here.

If you’d like to preview her songs, you can do so via iTunes or by clicking here. Please help support and garner attention for this great new artist! We’re trying to get her mainstream! 🙂

In regards to that rumor of the new Gundam announcement next March, I decided to ask Mr. Okawara himself for a little bit more information… he gave a similar response, but speculated something a bit more concrete?

@mydogcopelove 大河原さん、アメリカから今晩は。無理だけど、来年のガンダム発表についてもう少し詳細な情報がほしいです。お願いします。宇宙世紀？未来世紀？ 新ガンダムか？英語のガンダムコミュニティーは興奮でざわめいている。お返事、待ってます。どうもありがとうorz

@zeonicscans 御免なさい。守秘義務が有りまして、、、。宇宙世紀？
“I’m sorry. I can’t talk about it but… Universal Century, perhaps?”

\o/ He responded to a tweet of mine!

–UPDATE–

So Okawara responded yet again:

@mydogcopelove お返事ありがとうございます。では、３月にお待ちしています。この神秘的なことは私をはらはらさせている。（笑） 頑張ってください！

@zeonicscans それ以前に何処からかばれるでしょう！！何時もそうだからw、、、、
“It’s likely to be leaked out before that because it always seems that way -lol-“

As many of you will notice, this is a new layout. We’ve kept the previous layout for so, so long and after growing frustrated with a proper formatting system for the database, I decided to try out a new one. Believe me when I say finding a layout was difficult. Given the way I organize material, finding something that worked and wasn’t too intrusive was quite challenging. At any rate, here is the new layout! I hope you all enjoy it. At the moment, user registration for comment postings has been disabled. I had far too many people registering and not posting, so I really don’t see a point to it right now. That’s what the forums are for and will be utilized for with commenting on releases. Now, onto explaining things!

One of the features I’m trying out with the site is having things be bilingual. If you’re looking for information on a certain Gundam series and don’t know the English title but have the Japanese title, you can slap that up in the search field and hopefully yield some info on it. There’s a lot of half-started pages floating over there and I promise I’ll get to them when I can. I have a slew of text files with information in them I need to comb through and double check, but we’ll be better than Wikipedia and the Gundam Wikia in no time =)

The publications page has yet to be created. I’m still not sure what I’ll put on that page. I may end up spreading into model information and what not in the future, but that’s something I just cannot devote time to at this point in my website career (sic). On the release page, you’ll notice some different formatting options. We’ll no longer be listing direct download links, but instead will be directing to the gallery entries. I’ve lost the hosting for Zeonic|Distro, so until I can upload to Megaupload and Mediafire, this will just have to do.

If you have any comments or concerns with the new layout, you can voice them on the forums in this thread. Until then, I hope you all enjoy what we’ve created for you =)