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The Dragonar Pencil Case

A favorite of mine when it comes to old anime merch is stationary. I swear to god every anime in the 80s had a pencil case to go along with it.

Recently I stumbled upon this amazingly 80s pencil case on Ebay:

So, I’ve never actually seen Dragonar but my boyfriend recognized the mech immediately. I thought this was just the cutest thing ever, it’s a pencil case that’s shaped like a cassette player!

It has a little mechanism that lets you set the date!

It even has drawers!

Then came the creme de la creme: the inside

The inside of the case has the name of the original owner written inside. Kate, whoever she was, clearly loved this damn Dragonar pencil case because it’s a bit beat. I mean, she put her full name on the inside so other people would know it was hers!

At this point my boyfriend came to the conclusion that it may be a customized pencil case. He said that maybe Kate got the stickers somewhere and put them on the pencil case, maybe she was one of the OG American anime fans in the 80s.

I mean, there’s no way that this case was packaged with a Dragonar sticker along with girly little stickers with bows on them, right? I’m not so sure. I feel like it would’ve been very difficult to get your hands on this size of sticker at the time, and it just doesn’t seem right to me.

Dragonar isn’t super popular, especially amongst westerners. Although, maybe it’s similar to Orguss where it was popular at the time and fell into semi-obscurity in the years following.

I did some more digging and found THIS pencil case on Ebay as well:

Not quite the same style, but damn close. Yes, that’s the Garland from Megazone 23 with ROBOT in all caps next to it.

and yes, that’s the Orguss on the back. Also with the oh-so-coveted ROBOT text.

At this point I was CONVINCED that these two pencil cases were connected somehow, and luckily this listing included a picture of the side of the box.

FLOMO, finally I have a name to work with.

I urgently google FLOMO and learn that not only are they a legitimate company, but they’re actually still around! Honestly, it seems like FLOMO made just about every western-released mecha anime pencil case and I was just oblivious up till now because none of the listings included the names of the series. To be fair, how would they know? It’s not like it’s included. Hell, the Dragonar listing’s description calls it a “Gundam pencil case.”

Then, I struck gold.

A nearly identical pencil case listed on picclick. This one has the Zeta and a... Dragonar grunt mech? I haven’t watched Dragonar so apologies to all the millions of Dragonar fans that are surely reading this if I’m incorrect.

Yet again, made by FLOMO.

In conclusion, this was a really fun rabbithole to jump down. I’m definitely going to be posting some pictures of some of these weird pencil boxes so if anyone else is a fan of these sorta bizarre manifestations of American companies bringing over little-known Japanese IPs, I hope you enjoy!

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Emaan Inertial Control Drifand (エマーン界 慣性制御 ドリファンド)

ORGUSS-ORGROID (オーガス・オーグロイド)

● Height = 8.7 0m ● Width = 6.08 m ● Length = 5.12 m (front to back) ● Weight = 6.72 t ● Main Engine = FF 2060CT ● Armaments = Missile Gun

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AoY Podcast #173 - Takahashi vs. Tomino Round Round 6 Pt B (Wings of Rean / Super Dimension Century Orguss Review)

Also known as: “Is this the Alabama of anime or something?” And Also: “Mimsy is approaching pregnancy age, will Kei knock her up?” Download Episode HERE! (Total Time:…

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Today in Anime History

July 3rd, 1983

The Super Dimension Century Orguss premieres. The series brought together some of the same staff as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

Directed by Noboru Ishiguro

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🎮 Arrow Flash (Mega Drive)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/DHzVAHmZivA

#ArrowFlash #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive #Sega #Genesis #TecToy #アローフラッシュ #Shmup #ShootEmUp #Shooter #Rtype #Gradius #Orguss #オーガス #TransBot #AstroFlash #アストロフラッシュ #Robot #Transformers #メガドライブ #セガ #Viciogame #Gameplay #Walkthrough #Playthrough #Longplay #LetsPlay #Game #Videogames #Games

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A mecha 50x50 every day until the next SRW game is announced:

I missed yesterday's AGAIN, so have two at once:

Days 17 and 18 - Orguss and Orguss II (not to be confused with Orguss 02)

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Bonus poster for the "Orguss Hi-Tech" soundtrack album, Animage Records, October 1984. Artwork by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

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