Some of my favorite Kamen Rider bikes for Bike Day in Japan. Kabuto Extender might actually be my number 1. Boostriker should be on here too but I’ve already mentioned it
#バイクの日
@Cross_Ultimate
Sometimes they just use a green backdrop, give any Green rangers a different suit, and apply a heavy dose of colour correction. Top left (dark blue) is a Green Ranger. I've attached a VERY ROUGH Photoshop of how it would have looked after colour correction.
According to court documents, the United States government and Austin St. John have entered into a plea agreement on May 1 in relation to the pending charge of “Count One of the First Superseding Indictment with a violation of 18 U.S.C. $ 1349, Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud.”
Kamen Rider Black RX
Kotaro Minami returns! When the Crisis Empire invades, Kamen Rider Black isn't enough to stop them. It's time for the Child of the Sun, RX!
The series has a fantastic remaster, brand new subtitles, & a nice stack of extras!
every time I see it spelled “supaidaman” I want to quit toku twitter forever
you don’t call it “Kamen Raidaa” or “Suupaa Sentai” or “Urutoraman” so why “supaidaman”
Folks, this is an incredibly important day for Sentai music fans: SEVEN volumes of Sentai opening, ending, and for the first time in North America, INSERT themes are on Spotify! These cover from Goranger to Hurricaneger.
extremely stoked this Ultraman movie is paying homage to the tokusatsu genre by being a reference to genre’s staple “hero is mistaken by monster to be mother” episodes
Big hero. Little Monster. Based on characters by Eiji Tsuburaya, a creative mind behind GODZILLA, the action-packed animated film ULTRAMAN: RISING hits Netflix in 2024
#GeekedWeek
Kamen Rider Gotchard is based on a Grasshopper and a Train. This is a reference to the two most historically important previous Kamen Rider shows, the show that started it all, Kamen Rider, and also the show that ruined Kamen Rider forever, Den-O
🇯🇵 In the latest OED update, a new batch of words of Japanese origin has been added to the dictionary, including 'kintsugi'.
Read the definition below and discover more in this article by OED World English Editor Danica Salazar:
Update - Bandai has region locked their upload, and Episode 01 is no longer available to watch on YouTube outside SE Asia.
In the meantime, here's the first 8 episodes of the new Ultraman series, Ultraman Blazar, subbed, region-free from Tsuburaya on YT.
In 2010, Haim Saban bought Power Rangers from Disney for $43 million.
In 2018, Hasbro bought Power Rangers from Saban for $522 million.
In 2024, Power Rangers isn’t making enough money for Hasbro to care enough to make its own toys and is outsourcing it.
Conclusion: lmao
From
@Hasbro
investor call yesterday:
TLDR -
#PowerRangers
did not meet Hasbro's threshold of sales/profit ($50 million sales/$5 million profit with a growth to $100 million sales/$15 million profit), which led to the decision to license out the brand to
@PlaymatesToys
.
It’s that time again: full fiscal year results for Bandai! The short version: Rider, Sentai and Ultraman are all up from last year, with Ultraman’s meteoric rise continuing apace. Also: Sentai’s up again! Donbrothers did quite well for them.
Welcome to the SEGA family,
@Rovio
!
We’re so thrilled to celebrate Rovio becoming a member of the SEGA Group. Get ready for exciting adventures ahead! 💙
I’m not watching Kamen Rider so I can get into arguments, so if you disagree with my takes or my reactions I might reply once but if you straight up insult me I will be ignoring you in favor of enjoying myself.
“Bousouzoku” are Japanese biker gangs with heavily modified motorcycles. How does the Japanese legal system stop them? Disallow customized bikes on public roadways.
Their numbers have diminished immensely since, but also, it’s a lot harder to legally film Riders on custom bikes
um actually this translation is terrible because the word he used, クレーマー, is actually the Japanese wasei-eigo word for Kramer, the character from the 90’s sitcom Seinfeld
for context the word here is クレーマー (claimer)
it's wasei-eigo for a type of customer who goes out of their way to complain about stuff. In this case, repeatedly turning in and *claiming* their laundry
just using "claimer" just doesn't quite mean the same in English
“Japanese Power Rangers” is 100% an OK thing to call tokusatsu when you’re talking to someone who does not and never will care about the genre at all (which is most people) and people who complain about the label are taking it as an unintended qualitative statement.
The thing I’m gonna say about this is: it is extremely Power Rangers. Like, it’s not a gritty reboot, it’s not trying to be something it isn’t. It is 100% unapologetically Power Rangers. I’m kinda digging it.
Even as not a huge Power Rangers fan, it’s hard to not have a lot of (mostly uninformed) thoughts about how they’ve handled the brand.
First & foremost: the fixation on MMPR I think is/was the biggest problem. Realistically, it was probably their biggest moneymaker. BUT… (1)
I’m only going to speak about toku here (I don’t know anything about anime) but I don’t think “America would like these shows if given a proper chance” holds water when Power Rangers was on TV for 30 years and tokusatsu is still very niche.
My friend over discord said this was a bit wordy but idc I’m known for making stupid memes anyways so I’m flinging this here as it’s a realization I had. (Blame/thank kikaider)
@Akfamilyhome
If you perform a reaction (emote) at a villager, they'll either react to it or do the same reaction back at you. For example, if you use "Haunt" they'll either be scared, or use "Haunt" back at you.
They are programmed to never to do the "Love" emote at the player as a response.
OK I suppose I should say something about Donbrothers and it's use of CG, as a Professional 3D Animator: I genuinely do not think that they'll be able to keep up having 2 full CG characters for the show's entire run. Here's a little thread, I guess. Pardon the industry jargon.
I thought Over-Time did a great job with the subs on Boonboomger episode 1, but I wasn't a fan of "cranked-up" as a TL for 爆上. The cool thing about MKVs/softsubs is that you can just go in and edit the subs to say whatever you like!
I know I’m like literally a year late but wow Zenkaiger rules?!?!?! I watched this episode last night and had to cut all the mecha shots together because my jaw was on the floor. Absolutely incredible tokusatsu production on display here. I loved every single frame of this.
I want to make some things perfectly clear:
1) This is not the fault of a "lazy animator," this is most likely a technical issue.
2) Problems like this are going to be exacerbated by Sentai's very quick episode turnaround times.
TOKU TWITTER
CAN WE, AS A FAMILY, PLEASE AGREE TO STOP CALLING blurry, poorly taken cellphone photos of a magazine lying on a bed "SCANS"
"SCANS" ARE WHAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU USE A THING CALLED A "SCANNER"
THANKS LOVE YOU
just call it “Toei Spider-Man” because it accomplishes the goal of differentiating it from non-Toei Spider-mans and also does not come off as maybe slightly offensive lol
"Are you Kabuto?"
"What a silly question. Do you face the sun and ask 'Are you the sun?'"
"Why do you have that belt?"
"Another silly question. Do you face the sun and ask 'Why do you shine?'"
Truly an out-of-pocket crossover. Apparently when Ken Matsudaira was offered to reprise his role from Abarenbo Shogun, he said "Wait, why Kamen Rider?"
There were only 81 days (July 5th 1989-September 24th 1989) where both Seinfeld and Kamen Rider were considered "currently airing TV shows."
Do what you will with this information.
I feel like, at this point, the Hurricaneger cast can’t find their cars in Toei’s massive parking lot so they’ve just resigned themselves to staying there and being in specials for the rest of their lives.
Glad the last year or so Toei’s had faith in Sentai side content where it’s TTFC or a 10/20 Yrs after depending on the Sentai. Sentai’s gotten disrespected so much the last few yrs the fans deserve the best. Hurricanegers meeting the Donbrothers… YES!!
me on ellen
Ellen: so I’ve heard you’ve always wanted to be a monster suit actor for a tokusatsu show
Me: yeah
*Seiji Takaiwa comes on stage, not in costume*
Me: omg Ellen you didn’t
*Seiji Takaiwa beats the complete shit out of me*
Bandai numbers are out! This is for the first 6 months of FY2023, which is April 1 2022 to September 30th 2022.
In short: Everything is up groupwide, compared to the same timeframe last year. In Toys/Hobby, Sentai and Ultra are up, Rider’s down a little bit.
I say this without a hint of hyperbole or exaggeration: Tokusatsu, as a fandom, has benefited immensely from the work
@FortMax
has done for us and no one deserves to be working on legal tokusatsu encoding more than her. We already owe her so much.
Hey tokushoutsu please hire Chris
@FortMax
to encode your Ryuki release. The combing artifacts on Kuuga were a MASSIVE bummer on an otherwise great release. She knows her way around 30i video and can really make it into something special.
Cosmic Fury should have ended with Haim Saban waking up from a nap and saying “Huh, I guess that’d what it’d have been like if I had bought the rights to that Sentai footage 30 years ago and made my own show with it. Well, I’m glad I didn’t do that.”
Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if toku twitter had been around as long as Sentai has. Just imagining people being like “Damn we’re only one episode in but I think Turboranger is gonna be the best Sentai show of all TIME”
IMO this is not only fine, this is good. It helps the MOTWs feel like a cohesive group as opposed to just a somewhat random group of single-use rubber monster suits.