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Let's give a big chum-spewing ahoy for the adaptation of Eichiro Oda's juggernaut series One Piece ! FUNimation entered an agreement with Toei, Shueisha and Fuji Television Network for exclusive rights to American and Canadian online simulcasts of the show. Following in the footsteps of …Read more »
One of the pleasures of doing features like the one I did for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is getting the chance to talk to some interesting people. One of which is the Head Writer for the series, Nathan Long. As a writer, it was a …Read more »
Tokusatsu is the green eggs and ham of entertainment; once you finally try it out you'll want it any way and anywhere you can get it. At least, that's how it played out in my experience, which was only half-formed back when I first …Read more »
So you've seen the Gurren Lagann anime and if you were lucky like me you might have had a chance to screen the first motion picture. You possibly enjoyed the dynamic relationship shared by the series heroes Kamina and Simon. Watching the Gunmen take each …Read more »
This dastardly double feature begins with the requisite DBZ movie comic relief, with Chi-Chi wondering why Goku is actually encouraging Gohan to study for once. Surely he must have lost his marbles from countless episodes of fisticuffs, right? Nah, he just wants Gohan to hurry …Read more »
I recently hit up my last convention of the year (unless that Doctor Who event in Chicago announces Paul McGann as a guest). Sure it wasn't the great note to end the year on but there was one thing that kept popping up over the …Read more »
With the North American DVD release of the 1980 adaptation of Keiko Takemiya's Toward the Terra fast approaching, Right Stuf is streaming a trailer for the film on its official website. The long-awaited disc streets on November 25th, so go ahead and check out the …Read more »
Remember how I said two issues back that the reason I'm into tokusatsu nowadays is because of Ultraman ? My dad and my aunt watched the United Artists dub of Ultraman along with a majority of the other shows that were being dubbed and shown …Read more »
A little while back, I posted a really brief teaser for the upcoming Gegege no KitarÅ movie , Gegege no KitarÅ: Nippon Bakuretsu!! on the ol' blog. Well, Toei has finally given us a little bit more to look at as the holiday release draws …Read more »
As far as I can tell, everybody that has reviewed the 1995 Keita Amemiya-directed film Mechanical Violator Hakaider has given it a collective thumbs-down. You could attribute this to the fact that most of the reviewers out there aren't tokusatsu fans and didn't find it …Read more »
(If you're slick you'll have figured out by now that the title for this bit is a reference to the famed song from m-flo by the same name. Either case, it shows that I'm such a sucker for nostalgia.) It was sometime after I finished …Read more »
I'll be honest: at first glance, this doesn't seem like the kind of place one would come to pimp their robot ride. I'm being led through what could be any office in the center of downtown Tokyo. There is nothing here to distinguish it from …Read more »
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi Publisher: Del Rey Welcome to the Japan of Olde. The year is 1880, prime time for a fog-filled Tokyo night and a rolling organ of ominous music. Of course, the thunderous score is all in my head, because I'm sitting here by …Read more »
Rocket K Time Machine Rk Marguerite Music, 2007 If your ears are anything like mine, you enjoy music as it is for the most part, yet are you sometimes left with the nagging suspicion that nearly every song ever written could be vastly improved by …Read more »
Anime viewers who are attentive to the people who actually make animation itself may have previously picked out the name Mamoru Hosoda thanks to his distinctive work on the first two Digimon movies and the sixth One Piece movie. Alternatively, his name may have been …Read more »
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