Synch-Point Production Blog

We just ran out of the larger sized t-shirts (large & extra-large), so we sent an order to our t-shirt printer to get a bunch more printed.

So if you requested a large or extra large… please be patient.
We should get the t-shirts from our printer in a week or so.

The global production team of Bandai Visual Japan started a blog on dot-anime.us.

We (Synch-Point) worked with them for Galaxy Angel Rune DVDs, and they’re the team that works on the English language releases.

The production @ synch-point.com email address is having trouble.
So I created an email address for those who want to contact us about the status of their FLCL Ultimate Edition t-shirts.

Please email flcltshirt @ bro-usa.com if you haven’t received your t-shirt.
Production staffer Yukiko will get back to you shortly.

Although reading the comments… those who send in the postcards one year ago should have received them. We’re not that backlogged, so email us with your name & address to check if the t-shirt was already sent out, postcard got lost, etc.

Short message to let you know that the FLCL t-shirt Powered is available for pre-order at dot-anime.us.

Available in Youth Size Medium, and Men’s sizes Small through 2XL.

Happy shopping!

From the press release:

dot-anime.us Proudly Announcing Gunbuster T-Shirt Design Contest!

dot-anime.us has teamed up with Broccoli Gear to bring North American anime fans a GUNBUSTER T-shirt Design Contest!

Fans residing in the US and Canada can submit their own Gunbuster t-shirt design for a chance to get their design used for sale and win five (5) t-shirts of their design! And furthermore, the acclaimed studio GAINAX will be judging all the entries to select an officially licensed Gunbuster t-shirt!

Gunbuster fans and budding artists or designers can show off their creativity, passions and skills by submitting as many entries as they want starting 10/15/07 to 11/5/07. Fans can impress the best of best creators at the prestigious GAINAX!

The deadline for submissions is 11/5/07. The winner will be announced on 11/19/07.
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Contest Rules & Guidelines
1. Entries are only accepted for the original Gunbuster series. Gunbuster 2 designs will not be accepted.
2. Source material for artwork can be scanned from covers, promotional artwork, or any other official Gunbuster art. Original art will also be accepted, but the final design will be created using official Gunbuster artwork.
3. Please keep in mind that entries are for CONCEPT designs and final design may change from the original submission.
4. Multiple entries can be submitted by one person.
5. Entries must be emailed. No postal entries will be accepted. Please scan all paper entries.
6. Please keep file sizes under 500k for submissions. Only jpg, gif, and pdf submissions will be accepted.
7. Contest is only open to legal residents of the United States & Canada, who are at least 18 years old.
8. The deadline for submissions is 11/05/07.
9. Submit entries to contests@dot-anime.us with the following information:
a) full name
b) mailing address (for sending the prize)
c) valid email address
10. Design submissions become the property of Broccoli International USA, Inc.
11. Please read the official rules for entering the Gunbuster t-shirt design contest.

The information of the contest and full disclaimer can also be found at http://www.dot-anime.us/contest/

Happy designing!

We’ve been making FLCL t-shirts for 4 years.
And we recently started making Evangelion t-shirts.

And now we got the license to make Gunbuster t-shirts!

We have something planned for the Gunbuster t-shirt with Bandai Visual.
More information coming tomorrow!

We had a FLCL t-shirt design contest a while back.

One of the winners was the one called “Noir” (we called it Scarface during the planning phases).

We had selected another design from the entries.
And we called it Naotamsk.

It took a long time, but we finally got the design approved & we’re going to print soon.

So this is the standard version, in brown:

This brown version will be available in anime stores.

And the black one will be a dot-anime.us exclusive.

We’ll have both products available on dot-anime.us soon.

Well, it’s not October yet.
But we’re only a few days away, so we’ll just call it the October 2007 update.

1. We’re having serious issues w/ the production@synch-point.com email address.
So if you have any questions about the status of your t-shirt delivery, please email pr@bro-usa.com.
I’ll forward them to production assistant Krystal, who’ll get back to you.

2. T-shirt shipments
We are getting through them!
Although very slowly.

So you will get your t-shirts!
Just very slowly.

We’re getting a few production interns next week, so we should be shipping out a bunch of them starting next week.

So sorry for the delay.
Designer Chris suggested having a FLCL Ultimate Edition t-shirt sending party (we call anything “party” when we force our staff to come in on a weekend to work on a task one department is behind on), but we’ve been having other parties… like “warehouse cleaning party”… “warehouse sale party”… “Anime Jungle grand opening party.”

But like I said, we have a few production interns coming in.
So we should get the stack of postcards down soon enough.

We received the Naota & Haruko plush samples from Great Eastern the last week or so.

Naota came right before Anime Expo, so we ordered a bunch so we can sell them during the convention. Hopefully some of you were lucky enough to pick one up.

Haruko came right after Anime Expo, so we’ll be taking them to Otakon.