This month the Oxford English Dictionary is adding 23 Japanese words, including isekai and tokusatsu! OED’s website explains: Isekai is a Japanese genre of science or fantasy fiction featuring a protagonist who is transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world. The …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to hang with your sweetie and eat chocolates, give flowers, and watch Japanese monster movies. What’s that about the last part? Pluto TV is offering up a Tokusatsu style Valentine’s Day. Starting tomorrow, …Read more »
Mangaka Daiji Kazumine, who made his manga debut in 1956 when he was only 21, has passed away at age 84. According to reports, he died late last month from cerebral hemorrhage and lobar pneumonia. His first manga was Karakuri Yashiki no Himitsu. He went …Read more »
The 2017 Power Rangers reboot movie didn’t do so well compared to previous manifestations of the franchise, but that doesn’t mean morphin’ time is going away. Hasbro’s eOne is involved with It’s the End of the F—ing World creator Jonathan Entwistle to bring out more …Read more »
Sometimes, two great tastes go together in ways you would never otherwise expect. This is definitely the case in a new crossover promotional video for the Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 CG anime and the Ultraman CG anime, both of which are produced by Sola …Read more »
Fans of rubber suits and controlled explosions take note, because there’s more tokusatsu action coming to the U.S. In fact, it’s right around the corner, with Shout! Factory and Pluto TV teaming up to introduce classic live-action series via the new TokuSHOUTsu streaming channel. The …Read more »
The tokusatsu-inspired action of SSSS.GRIDMAN is going to get new life in the near future. While it’s explicitly not a sequel, Tsuburaya Productions and TRIGGER have teamed up again to produce a new anime called SSSS.DYNAZENON, with the staff from GRIDMAN set to return. Akira Amemiya is directing, with Keiichi …Read more »
The evil Kilokhan lives inside computer circuits! With the help of Malcolm Frink, he creates Megavirus Monsters to attack electronic systems! Meanwhile, a freak accident turns Sam Collins into Servo! His friends join forces in their samurized attack vehicles! Together, they transform into … Wait …Read more »
Confession time: sometimes when I go to important meetings, I wear a Fist of the North Star T-shirt under my suit and tie. By all outward appearances, I look like a guy in a regular ol’ monkey suit, but on the inside, Ken is giving …Read more »
Yep, there's still a new Power Rangers movie in the works, and it looks like things are moving along. The latest bit of news out of the project involves the casting of the Pink Ranger. 22-year-old actress Naomi Scott will be taking on the role …Read more »
If you're looking forward to the next Kamen Rider tokusatsu series, Kamen Rider Ghost , Toei recently shared an extended trailer. The latest series follows Takeru Tenkūji (played by Shun Nishime), a young man resurrected as a masked hero after a monster kills him. Kamen …Read more »
Created by Eiji Tsuburaya, the man responsible for bringing the original Godzilla to life, Ultraman has become a Japanese sci-fi staple after the first entry of the series, Ultraman , aired in Japan in 1966. The weekly monster show was a spin-off of the highly popular …Read more »
Ultraman is little more than a fond memory to the people of Japan in one of his latest manga adventures, which comes from Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The selfless heroics of the Giant of Light are documented and celebrated regularly at a memorial museum, …Read more »
Here's something you might not have expected to see this week: a short film that takes Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and darkens it up without turning it into some ironic parody. POWER/RANGERS comes from director Joseph Kahn ( Torque , commercials) and producer Adi Shankar …Read more »
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