It's new years! Of course, everyone knows what by now. It has been a fantastic year for Zoids between the HMM kits, MSS, Original, and even some extras such as the Shield Liger girl. We are guaranteed to see all three lines continue forward into the new year, which is a wonderful sign for Zoids.

    Although this site was created three years ago it was actually almost completely unused for those two first years, making this the first year full of actual updates for The Iron Bible! I never expected to get much traffic and it has been pleasantly surprising to have so many people that stop by, and even a few that write into the site with inquiries and compliments. Thanks to everyone who visits! It certainly makes this site worth the while. We hope that everyone has a great new year full of fun and Zoids!

    The Iron Bible is alone in the Zoids fan world and we thought a great way to start the new year would be to link some of those other wonderful fan sites. We've added quite a few sites that can be recognized for the 'new' icon in the fan sites section. Most of them are even continuously updating sites!

    We mentioned earlier that Zoids SS would be going on hiatus until the new year. We didn't expect to start off right away, but we have! A new chapter (Chapter 6) of the Zoids SS comic can be found in the manga directory. Translations are courtesy of Falcarius! There are two more chapters to catch up on but we'll have both of those done by the end of January.

    Also in the Manga Directory we have begun work on the final Extra from Ueyama's Chaotic Century mangas. This is a crossover between Zoids Chaotic Century and Genesis, and has some compelling conversation between characters barring ethics that've never been recognized by official Zoids mangas before. Translations courtesy of Emeryl!

    Scans for both Dengeki Hobby Magazine and Hobby Japan magazine have been uploaded! Both are geared towards Gojulas, with some amazing customs in Hobby Japan especially.

    We've continued work on getting the Chaotic Century and Guardian Force files converted to Blu-Ray media. Five new episode summaries have been added, episodes 50 through 54. This includes deleted scenes (with the exception of Episode 50 which has none) and blu-ray quality screencaps for all of the episodes. As before, they are sized down from the full size.

    If you want to skip directly to deleted scenes they are all cross posted to the Chaotic Century/Guardian Force Media Box.

    The January 2014 issues have been updated for both Dengeki Hobby Magazine and Hobby Japan Magazine. You can find updated scans in the articles section!

    Zoids Original Story has been updated with Chapter 7 featuring the Command Wolf RGC. Translations courtesy of Falcarius! Starting sometime in January we'll be starting to work on updating SS again, and appreciate everyone's patience!

    A new Manga Directory has been added today! It includes the UK Comic "Zoids" by Marvel, which we've added Volume 1 of. The first couple volumes are in a story-book format, so to avoid the unnecessary data usage we've added the text as ... well, text- to the page, and only scanned the pictures. Don't worry though, the original text is riddled with typos anyway.

    While we're on the topic of CC, the Chaotic Century Manga Directory has been updated with Volume 9 of the Viz Manga. We get a lot of inquiries about this manga and just want everyone to know that it isn't forgotten! We'll continue to add to it until all volumes are complete, it just takes a lot of time to organize them~

    It's been a while, but we've got a decent update today! First in the anime section we've added two Episode Summaries for Guardian Force episodes 48 and 49. Episodes 46-49 have also been revamped with blu-ray quality screencaps. These are sized down from the originals because the blu-rays are actually so large that it just loses detail and demands unnecessary disk space for little result. Hopefully these are big enough!

    I realize that this is starting in the middle of Guardian Force but it's where I left off when searching down the deleted scenes. No worries, all of the CC/GF episodes will get Blu-ray Screencaps!

    In addition to the screencaps we've also added a Guardian Force section to the Zoids CC Media Box. It contains deleted scenes from the four episodes mentioned above. We'll add more episodes as we go along.

    The New Century Manga Directory has been updated with Part 4. This is the last part in the manga, which is only a single volume. We've bumped it down below Zoids SS on the main manga page since it'll no longer be updating.

    The Zoids Media Box has been updated! If you click on the Chaotic Century section you can find a new area for deleted scenes. These are scenes that were cut from the dub for one reason or another. They include not only generic censoring like blood and alcohol, but also some cool 2-3 second clips of the Zoids in combat that weren't shown.

    This includes only Chaotic Century. We will be adding Guardian Force clips later on. These scenes have also been added to their respective Episode Summaries under the anime section, but the content is the same between the two sections.

    In addition we've changed the screencap galleries in the Anime Episode Summaries to make them more even. Extra tall or wide images have been squished/shortened so that they should no longer mess up the row order. Soon we'll be trying to replace these with Blu-Ray quality screens but haven't been able to find a decent program yet.

    Kotobukiya will be re-releasing some more kits in 2014. The Blade Liger AB Bang Version will be rereleased in January and the Liger Zero Jager and Shadow Fox will be rereleased in March.

    A review has been added for the MSS Sinker. This is a pretty cool kit, and TT managed to find a lot of places to add articulation to the build. The review includes instruction and box scans but at the moment these are not translated.

    A translation for Zoids Original Story 06 has been added to the Books section. This is based on the Command Wolf RGC, and also mentions the return of Mirage Fox! An additional profiles page is also available, all courtesy of Falcarius!

    Stats have also been added for the MSS Great Sabre. It does not have type variations like the other model kits do, just a weapons list.

    A review has been added for the new MSS Command Wolf model kit! The kit follows OJR colors but most noticeably is a dim gray color. It is not white as it appears in a lot of online photos. The review also contains instruction and box scans, as well as translations for the battle story, Forest Combat Type, and Nighttime Combat type.

    A review for Fire Fox has been added to Model Kits. This includes box, instructions, and stats, although the stats are identicle to Shadow Fox's. The kit is really quite nice, and has some beautiful golds and silvers, although the bright red makes it glaring to stare at.

    The final pages of the Zoids EX Extra have been added. This concludes Irvine's back story and features full names for multiple characters (ignoring that Father Leon is now called Alex Pilgrim). There is still one EX story to do but the pages added today are likely the last manga translations until the start of next year. This also applies to Zoids SS which will stop updating until then, but don't worry, it'll be translated eventually! It's that time of year to start Christmas Shopping!