Nikkei BP net has a special discussion between Harutoshi Fukui, author of upcoming novel "Gundam Unicorn", and Yuka Minakawa, author of Gundam Officials & The Blue Destiny. They discuss about impressions of First Gundam when it first aired and Minakawa's latest book on Char Aznable. The second batch of discussions will be released on Dec 20th.
The preface of the discussion mentions that already over 120,000 sets of MSG DVD Box1 has been reserved 3 months ago with MSG DVD Box2 expected to have same kind of figure as well. Nikkei BP estimates that these boxset will generate sales of over 6.24 billion yen.
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/style/biz/person/interview/061213_gundam/
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