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Tokyo gift shop offers to put you in the cockpit of the very first anime mecha that had one<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There are hundreds, if not thousands, of anime characters who pilot giant robots, and fans can spend endless hours debating which one of them is the most skilled. Gundam\u2019s<\/em> Amuro Ray? Macross\u2019<\/em> Maximillian Jenius? Escaflowne\u2019s<\/em> Allen Schezar? You could make a solid case for any of them, plus a dozen others.<\/p>\n Ah, but while \u201cWho\u2019s the best anime mecha pilot?\u201d has no definitive answer. \u201cWho was the first anime mecha pilot?\u201d does: Koji Kabuto of 1972\u2019s Mazinger Z<\/strong>. Why? Because Mazinger Z is the very first manga\/anime to feature a giant robot that wasn\u2019t sentient or remote-controlled but instead had a human controlling it from the inside.<\/p>\n It\u2019s quite an honor for Koji, but it\u2019s also now one you can indirectly claim for yourself thanks to a new Mazinger Z figurine that kicks him out of the cockpit and puts you in there instead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the previously unimaginable offer from Meta Mate Eslite Spectrum Nihonbashi<\/strong>, a unique gift shop in downtown Tokyo<\/strong>. Inside the shop is a full-body 3-D scanning apparatus. Aspiring Mazinger Z pilots step inside the array of precision cameras, which record the contours and coloring of your features and clothing.<\/p>\n \u25bc The cheerful-looking silver-haired gentleman in this preview photo is none other than Mazinger Z<\/em> creator and legendary manga artist Go Nagai<\/strong> himself.<\/p>\n Once the scan is complete, the data is used to 3-D print a figure of you, scaled to match the size of the robot\u2019s cockpit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The cockpit is then mounted within the crown-like protrusions on Mazinger Z\u2019s head, just like it is in the anime and manga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Four different sizes of figurine are available, ranging from six to 15 centimeters<\/strong> (2.4 5.9 inches) and between 33,000 and 198,000 yen (approximately US$215 to US$1,295) in price. Once your scan is done, production of the figurine takes around six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n Though reservations for the service can be made by contacting Meta Mate Eslite Spectrum Nihonbashi ahead of time via phone or the store website here<\/a>, walk-ins are welcome too. While the scanner has no problems with eyeglasses, participants are recommended to avoid wearing lacy, shiny, or transparent fabrics, as well as dangly earrings or other accessories, as those can result in glitches in the scanning\/printing process. Also, while Nagai is seen standing up in the above promotional photo, for the best results you\u2019ll want to sit on the provided chair, to mimic the posture you, or Koji, would have inside the mecha\u2019s cockpit.<\/p>\n Shop information<\/strong> Source: PR Times<\/a>, Meta Mate<\/a><\/em> Tokyo gift shop offers to put you in the cockpit of the very first anime mecha that had one. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of anime characters who pilot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/mz-2.jpg?w=640\")
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