I know it's not a popular opinion.. But after Watching Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider...
Stop giving Anno shit. He's not that great.
Stop giving Anno shit. He's not that great.
The Toku Thread
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Imagine a Ninja Turtles movie with no jokes.
That's Shin Ultraman.
Now imagine Sam Rami's Spiderman three with less humor, more villains, and the end goal of the bug bad to cause the second impact from Evangelion, in the dark. That is most of Shin Kamen Rider (and not one henshin scene... rider 1 movies seem to have an effing obsession with the helmet.)
Again, Shin Rider was better than Ultraman, but I fell the better parts were mandates.
I have recently been watching the masterpiece that is Star Fleet/X Bomber, and I must revise a previous assessment. Yume no Hero is the second greatest toku theme. The greatest toku theme is the Star Fleet theme. Specifically as covered by Brian May and Eddie Van Halen.
The mask thing is how it was in the original manga. Shin KR pulled a lot from that version of things, like with the surgery scars showing up in Ichimonji before he put on his helmet when he powered up. The entire last bit
was taken directly from the manga too. In the manga though
so if they do make a sequel, that'll probably show up in it too.
with Hongo seemingly dieing, and the bridge scene where he's telling Ichimonji he can feel the wind
Hongo became a brain in a jar that remotely connects to Ichimonji rather than downloading his mind, and eventually builds himself a robot body which saves Ichimonji's butt in a later fight
and Sentai crossover time.
news.tokunation.com
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger DX King Gaburicaliber & New Kyoryuzin Revealed
Looks like is about to get wild! A new piece of merchandise has been revealed for the current series- confirming a CROSSOVER with the iconic (which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year). This is our first image of the an updated version of the Kyoryuger weapon with a new inspired . is shown...
news.tokunation.com
So..."Explosion Squadron Boom Boom-gers"? I wonder what they could have been watching recently to come up with something like that?
Trying to go after Dynaman's crown of most explosions in a single series could be a fun time.
Part of me wonders if they could play on the "Kage" part to be some sort of ninjas, but I don't think that works with the words they're using. Not sure what's with the "booN" part, unless there's something with treasure involved? Looking it up, it looks like it's supposed to be a combination of the sound effects for a explosion with the sound a baseball bat swing makes in Japan (buun buun). So...again, Dynaman inspired, probably.
Trying to go after Dynaman's crown of most explosions in a single series could be a fun time.
Part of me wonders if they could play on the "Kage" part to be some sort of ninjas, but I don't think that works with the words they're using. Not sure what's with the "booN" part, unless there's something with treasure involved? Looking it up, it looks like it's supposed to be a combination of the sound effects for a explosion with the sound a baseball bat swing makes in Japan (buun buun). So...again, Dynaman inspired, probably.
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Ok Boomgers...
*runs and hides!*
*runs and hides!*
Turns out there's a new Garo series coming finally next year, set in Ryuga's timeline/era.
garo-project.jp
Unfortunately so far it sounds like Amemiya won't be involved. Plotwise, this might be a "passing the torch" thing for Ryuga too, since Hagane is the term for the basic initial armor knights who just finished their training get, according to the second season way back when.
牙狼＜GARO＞ ハガネを継ぐ者
『牙狼＜GARO＞ ハガネを継ぐ者』の公式HPです。2024年1月～TOKYO MX、ＢＳ日テレにて放送決定！黄金騎士ガロ・道外流牙の物語が再び幕を開ける
Unfortunately so far it sounds like Amemiya won't be involved. Plotwise, this might be a "passing the torch" thing for Ryuga too, since Hagane is the term for the basic initial armor knights who just finished their training get, according to the second season way back when.
Huh...well those helmets are sure a...choice. That they are. I guess they have to balance out those big puffy shoes. I...hmm...I'm going to need to see these suits in motion.
"Coming BOON" Okay.
We're only starting out with three, from the looks of it? Huh, okay. I can get behind that.
*squints at the picture* Are they going to be fighting birds? The birds seen fairly prominent for this poster. As well as that ONE star. A return of Car-MAGIC from Carranger, perhaps? (probably not, but still).
At the very least, it looks like they'll be doing something completely different once again. And Sentai's been on a roll lately (....pun wasn't intended, but I'll swerve into it), I have no reason to think this won't be good.
At the very least, if they manage to incorporate some sort of racing element into this, it should make for some exciting action/chase scenes.
"Coming BOON" Okay.
We're only starting out with three, from the looks of it? Huh, okay. I can get behind that.
*squints at the picture* Are they going to be fighting birds? The birds seen fairly prominent for this poster. As well as that ONE star. A return of Car-MAGIC from Carranger, perhaps? (probably not, but still).
At the very least, it looks like they'll be doing something completely different once again. And Sentai's been on a roll lately (....pun wasn't intended, but I'll swerve into it), I have no reason to think this won't be good.
At the very least, if they manage to incorporate some sort of racing element into this, it should make for some exciting action/chase scenes.
First episode of the new Garo series is out, and following Tsuburaya's lead, Garo Project is making it available internationally on youtube officially, with subtitles.
The monkey's paw twisted though, and they used LLM translation for the subtitles. There's nothing egregiously wrong with the subtitles themselves in English, just a bunch of quirks and minor mistakes that might throw you a bit. And of course the fact it uses "AI" for the translation, for those who care about such things. It looks like T-N may be doing their own subs if you know where to look, not sure if anyone else will.
If the AI subs thing doesn't bother you, or you want to support the official distribution, you can watch it here:
And if you'd rather fansubs than AI subs, as I said, T-N seems to have done them if you know where to look.
And if you just want some eye candy, here's the new opening:
The monkey's paw twisted though, and they used LLM translation for the subtitles. There's nothing egregiously wrong with the subtitles themselves in English, just a bunch of quirks and minor mistakes that might throw you a bit. And of course the fact it uses "AI" for the translation, for those who care about such things. It looks like T-N may be doing their own subs if you know where to look, not sure if anyone else will.
If the AI subs thing doesn't bother you, or you want to support the official distribution, you can watch it here:
And if you'd rather fansubs than AI subs, as I said, T-N seems to have done them if you know where to look.
And if you just want some eye candy, here's the new opening: