12/25/2007 - Super Friends!!
I fear I've been spending more time
playing the Power Rangers: Super FriendsLegends game
than I should have...
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7/19/2007 - Seki Doctor
I am massively impressed by the fact that Toshihiko Seki (関 俊彦) is the voice of the new2nd!Doctor in new!Who. It's still not enough to convince me to watch new!Who and
I can't help but feel that he would have been much better as the
seventh Doctor in the original series but none the less it's great that
he's connected with the franchise.
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4/7/2007 - Galactic Warriors
Thanks to the ever reliable  seiji982 I had a chance to rewatch the opening episode of Gingaman
for the first time in six or seven years. I forgot how proudly this
much maligned entry in the sentai franchise stands apart, being one of
the more significant fantasy-themed shows in recent years and still
coming of a lot better than its nearest comparisons, Abaranger and Magiranger. There are certainly elements of Gaoranger but, aside from Fiveman,
I can't actually recall any other sentai show that presented its heroes
as non-native. The dynamic of the team is also a nice one, even if
Ryoma does look incredibly like a young Shou from Kishidan.
I don't think I can really post this this entry though without mentioning the other thing I'd forgotten about Gingaman:
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3/10/2007 - Aiyai! Aiyai!
Tokito Ami's Kamen Rider themed PV for Aiyai! Aiyai! is absolute genius. Possibly not quite reflective of the relationship Tachibana had with his wards but you never know...
Get it here.
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1/31/2007 - 電王
Recently I asked a friend about the response to
Kamen Rider Den-o thus far. She told me that, so far, people had been
really enthusiastic about the new show. She then went on to say how a recently
opened doughnut shop in Shinjuku had attracted a line of people so big that she
hadn't been able to get doughnuts on the day of the opening.
I think that sums up the situation quite neatly. I
don't have to look at places like Japan Hero and Rangerboard to know that the
show is already getting a kicking from 'outraged' American and European fans who
feel that a children's franchise they never grew up has strayed away from its
roots. I can imagine the rage and fury with which names are being called and
views are being denounced and I can imagine how this will continue till
somewhere just past New Year 2008.
I can also live without it.
So far Den-o is nothing at all like a
Kamen Rider series. I don't think, in this case, that's necessarily a
*bad* thing. I can't say an enormous amount about the first episode because I
honestly don't yet know what I feel about it however I do feel that I'm going to
stand any chance of actually enjoying the series then I have to stay away from
message boards full of bickering sophists.
Therefore my new year's resolution is to make this
journal slightly more intelligible this year and not so punctuated by explosions
of bitter vindictiveness.
Being in Japan really changed my ideas about how
tokusatsu is perceived. I'm going to try and learn from that experience and stay
clear of some of the ugly behaviour exhibited by certain Western tokusatsu
fansites.
...
Which means that I might at least make it to the
end of the week before lashing out at Bouken fangirls.
Maybe.
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1/17/2007 - Drinn-Wong
Ah, Toei, what better way to prop your ailing CGI-riddled children's
franchises than by importing Akiyama Rina into each one of them thus
ensuring that I have to watch at least one episode of what I have no
doubt will be utterly mindless pap.
Bastards.
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12/23/2006 - LOVELY COSTUME
Ignore luijivillasana's
highly detailed and informative posts about the nature of 2007's incarnation of
Toei's sentai franchise. Whilst in Tokyo Hands last month I was struck, like
Saint Paul upon the road to Damascus, by the revelation of the true nature of
2007's sentai. Oh yes.
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12/5/2006 - Complete Lies
"A recently leaked document from Toei surfaced on
2chan yesterday confirming rumour of an agreement between Disney and Toei to
adapt Kamen Rider Hibiki for the 2008 instalment of its popular Power Rangers
franchise. The document apparently contains specific references to suits and
footage during the entire run of the Hibiki series and the licensing of props,
confirming that new footage for the series will begin filming in New Zealand in January of next year.
It is as yet unknown whether Disney will license the concurrent instalment of
Toei's sentai franchise and run the Hibiki-based show back to back with a more
conventional Power Rangers series.
More news as it becomes available."
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11/25/2006 - Dream Team
Following mariko_azrael's
example I thought I'd post *my* 'Dream Team' for the anniversary Super
Sentai 'special':
- 椎名鷹介 Shīna Yōsuke / 空忍ハリケンレッド Soranin Harikenreddo
- 野乃七海 Nono Nanami / 水忍ハリケンブルー Mizunin Harikenburū
- 尾藤吼太 Bitō Kōta / 陸忍ハリケンイエロー Okanin Harikenierō
- 霞一甲 Kasumi Ikkō / 角忍カブトライジャー Tsunonin Kabutoraijā
- 霞一鍬 Kasumi Isshū / 牙忍クワガライジャー Kibanin Kuwagaraijā
What do you mean I'm not playing properly? ^_^;
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11/20/2006 - Project Ultraman-最新版奥特曼的预告片
anita3858 recently posted the 'internal' trailer for Chaiyo's Project Ultraman on youtube
(thanks to baltaned of 'lah for the heads up). Not entirely sure what
to make of it, although somewhat dissapointed that the main spoken
language of the trailer was in Mandarin...not that I've got anything
against Mandarin media but I was hoping for Cantonese version.
Hopefully a dub will appear for audiences in Hong Kong.
The
actual dynamic of the trailer isn't that bad, just standard action film
fare. UltraMother fits in quite well, a couple of the newly designed seijin looked
interesting at least but where the trailer really falls down is the
brief footage of the Ultras. The suits still look badly designed and
the editing necessary to keep both them and human actors in the same
frame looked shoddy and badly spliced together, which doesn't bode well
for the main selling point of the series/film/whatever it is this week.
I'm
still not entirely convinced Ekin Cheng as Ultraman is a good choice,
even if it is a fun idea...I don't really expect to be proved wrong but
I'm really interested in seeing the actual result of this 'project' and
how audiences respond to it. I can't help but feel that half the battle
has already been lost by Chaiyo's lack of understanding in making the
Ultras look decent.
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11/20/2006 - Kabuto in Shinjuku
Quite why there are ZECT operatives delivering letters in the outer
areas of Shinjuku is beyond me. None the less, that's what they're
doing. In
fact, Kamen Rider Kabuto himself, dressed in a blue boiler suit, his
hair grey beneath a white helmet decorated with ZECT markings and a
logo identifying him as the aforementioned Kabuto, seems to be doing
the rounds. I wanted to take ask
Kabuto-san if I could take a photograph of his somewhat
identity-revealing helmet but by the time I'd decided to do so he'd
disappeared inside a building clutching a handful of white envelopes. So there you have it. Kamen Rider Kabuto, making Shinjuku-ku a safer place for people wishing to send letters. Wow.
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10/30/2006 - A New Challenger
Variety
and Ain't it Cool News seem
to reporting on the possible revival of the Street Fighter II film
franchise. Allegedly, according to reporter Kei from the awfully named theOtaku.com
the film will follow the story of Chun-Li something that would be fantastic,
from my point of view, if only it's handled in the right way.
A
good step in this direction, in my humble opinion, would be the casting of
Mainland actress, Fan
Bing-Bing.
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