The year is After Colony 195. The inhabitants of Earth has been expanding into space creating colonies but as the United Earth Sphere Alliance's military might grows, it uses that to conquer the new found five colonies. To rebel against their invasion, each of the colonies build their own giant humanoid "mobile suit" fighting...

I was inspired to do this post after realising how many locations I recognised from shows and games I've played after visiting Japan. You will probably too once you've been since so many fictional works are based on real life locations and the great thing is you won't have to go out of your way to find these places unlike say Makoto...

Our destination today was Kyoto because we wanted to see the more traditional side of Japan. Tokyo wasn't always the capital. It's a tradition for wherever the emperor dwells to become the capital and before Tokyo, it was Kyoto. Kyoto was the second capital of Japan between 794 - 1868.   Early morning - well, not really early. Just...