Artist's commentary
S.A.F.S ~my adolescence~
It was October of my first year of high school. A friend from junior high had invited me to a festival at his high school. At the festival, I almost fell over in surprise when I saw a life-sized (?) Super A.F.S. moving around happily while supported by several people.
It was made of cardboard and papier-mache, but it was very well done and even had the mark of the 15th Panzer Jager Regiment written on it. At the time I loved S.F.3.D. As I stared at the power armor, suddenly the hatch opened.
And the person who came out was the girl I'd had a one-sided crush on since junior high.
So many emotions came welling up that I thought I was going to faint!
Since I'd been feeling depressed with all the gloomy news recently, I was putting together a WAVE SAFS model to calm myself down when this memory from my youth suddenly came back to me.