{"id":19863,"date":"2026-03-21T00:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/max-watanabe-on-how-he-founded-max-factory-and-his-love-of-guyver\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:08:48","slug":"max-watanabe-on-how-he-founded-max-factory-and-his-love-of-guyver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/max-watanabe-on-how-he-founded-max-factory-and-his-love-of-guyver\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Watanabe On How He Founded Max Factory And His Love Of \u2018Guyver\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One of the formative figures of Japan\u2019s model kit fandom is Makoto \u201cMax\u201d Watanabe, who founded Max Factory. I caught up with him to find out what makes model kits great.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the formative figures of Japan\u2019s model kit fandom  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}