Theatrical release is March 8, home release July 24th (reminder that VCinext releases are such that they have short, limited theatrical runs, a successor to the originally straight to home video VCinema brand from Toei)
...Doom Geats is a separate character from Ace. Also, I'm curious if the Queen Jyamato is one that escaped Daichi's watch and disguised itself as a human or if due to the time-travel involved with the series we're seeing the very first Jyamato come to be. Also, I'm curious how Beroba's back. Niram at least has an excuse as it looks like he's in whatever higher dimension Ace resides in as possibly a spirit.
Started watching Boukenger, The end of the first episode being "So long as i live, my god will return!" *gets eaten by sea serpent* is incredibly funny.
Boukenger was really, surprisingly good. Probably my favorite pink ranger. And the new, non-TN subs that got dropped a few months ago are also great quality
So Kamen Rider Gotchard's official secondary Rider may have been in fact leaked visually thanks to a magazine cover showing off a sticker sheet that had them in the middle of various Gotchard-forms.
EDIT: And a close-up look at the suit with a feature on it now visible.
So I didn't notice it before but it does look like we're going with a Zero-Two in that the Alchemis Driver's pretty much the GotcharDriver with a new attachment. Also, a ring is part of the suit which gives me some Wizard vibes.
that's neat though seriously, didn't think the ring would actually scan that way, didn't think the unit would actually move/have a semi light animated gimmick too, that's a cool enough replacement for the faceplate gimmick
Spoilers for the Geats/Gotchard movie are out in the wind.
Apparently the investigator for the Union of Alchemists that was around for Dread's arrival, Licht Kugimiya, is the true villain of the film. He's actually 2,000 years old and ended up getting trumped in something by one of Ace's past lives, thus why him and the rest of the main DGP Riders are dragged into the movie. Also, apparently Ace WAS going to be turned into a Chemmy-self like the others but it was blocked by the spirit of his deceased pet dog Constantine who took over the role instead.
Also, it's been made official by Toei that the new Rider that'll be coming to the series soon is officially Gotchard's secondary Rider...
...which is big seeing she'll be the first official female secondary.
I'm curious how long it'll take till we get our first female lead rider, and likewise, our first female red who's actually the main character (shinkenger doesn't really count thee, alas). Suspect it'll be after we get a female sixth Ranger.
I'm assuming we're still decades out from our first enby leads, alas
I’m watching Voicelugger, a one cour long hero show that was the last tokusatsu project Shotaro Ishinomori worked on before he passed away (like, in the production phase, it aired posthumously) and it is… something
It is very clearly trying something, I do not know what yet but the gimmicks are through the roof while the budget is through the bedrock
All the cast members are well known voice actors for the 90s, including getting anisong singer Ichiro Mizuki to play both “Voicelugger Gold” and also himself for a gag about the protagonist confusing him for Gold.
None of the main heroes dialog seems to be on set; maybe some of the other cast but definitely not the mains. Instead, all their dialogue is clearly being ADR’d in what feels like a deliberate gimmick of having voice actors do live action work.
The two women on the cast are, quite honestly ahead of time even for today, the initial hero characters with Akiko Nakagawa’s Akiko Homura/Voicelugger Ruby our main protagonist, a hero obsessed country girl who moves to Tokyo to live with her childhood friend Haruka Yuuki (Voicelugger Rose, played by Haruna Ikezawa). However in a decision that has yet to stop baffling me, these two clearly adult women are being ADR’d by their actors as if they were playing junior high characters instead.
They’re joined by fellow voice actors Tomukazu Seki and Takeshi Kusao as Tomukaze Daichi/Voicelugger Emerald and Takeshi Tenma/Voicelugger Saphire.
And… well their characters are also all Voice Actors in their day jobs.
As I said, there is a gimmick and they are committed to it whole heartedly.
The whole thing was supposedly intended initially as a parody show until Ishinomori was brought on and the choice was made to play it straight and as a love letter to 70s/80s hero shows.
But the show itself is just… rough. Not the acting or anything, but just visually the series has aged incredibly poorly. Airing in 1999 we’re talking the cusp of the industry’s transition to digital and so much of the show’s look feels like it is being done on whatever low budget digital kit the project (a collaboration between Ishimori Pro and Salt Production, the latter I can find no information on), could get its hands on and incredibly garish digital effects suffuse with rainbow colors and early CG environments and rough chroma key work. Often, scenes feel blurry even beyond the fact the only sources around are SD copies and are either dramatically overexposed during day shots or under exposed and using only ambient light sources on location at night. A good chunk of the show takes place in office spaces, a Karaoke booth or a voice studio which I am 90% sure must all just be the production companies’ own assets.
And yet… it’s utterly endearing. Weird, but utterly endearing. It’s like watching a student film struggling to meet its ideal and you just want to root for it despite all the flaws and warts, and you can’t help but feel it has something up its sleeve when it throws a weird curveball, such as in episode five where a “punishment room” of the villain faction, who up till now has been depicted in this strange, aetherial space of oilslick rainbow clouds and checkerboard floors, is revealed to be a vast void of a room containing nothing but a giant stomach pulsing on a strange pillar, where the condemned are made to wait inside.
I finally decided to watch it after someone on twitter hd described it as “brilliant” yet would “hurt you in ways you didn’t know you could be.” And nearly halfway through I’m not sure what the latter warning entails, but the show is captivating for someone who loves tokusatsu not just for the shows themselves but for the craft. It’s a strange, strange thing.
Voicelugger is something I like to bring up often as trivia, but anytime I see actual screenshots or video I know it's not something I actually want to watch.
If it’s not licensing the streaming rights for black or RX, part of me wonders if it’ll be Faiz for the Anniversary/hopes to get official subs that aren’t garbage
The only toku release I could possibly be more hype for is a Discotek release of Kaiketsu Zubat
If they ever do, you know exactly what day they’d need to release it, even if it’s not coinciding with the typical day of the week for new disc releases that year
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Theatrical release is March 8, home release July 24th (reminder that VCinext releases are such that they have short, limited theatrical runs, a successor to the originally straight to home video VCinema brand from Toei)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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Red gives me OhRed vibes with his hubcap design
I was iffy at first about going back to suits without a chest piece, but now I realize the motif: they want these to be pro racing jumpsuits
And now we have a clear view of the suit:
The Alchemis Driver.
EDIT: And a close-up look at the suit with a feature on it now visible.
So I didn't notice it before but it does look like we're going with a Zero-Two in that the Alchemis Driver's pretty much the GotcharDriver with a new attachment. Also, a ring is part of the suit which gives me some Wizard vibes.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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I definitely need to catch up on Gotchard
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Also, it's been made official by Toei that the new Rider that'll be coming to the series soon is officially Gotchard's secondary Rider...
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I'm assuming we're still decades out from our first enby leads, alas
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Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
It begins
[people have been guessing since Bandai filed the trademark that this is probably a replica helmet line]
THE NEW SEASON OF GARO GOES UP ON INTERNATIONAL ACCESS YOUTUBE THE DAY AFTER JAPANESE BROADCAST
AND HAS OFFICIAL ENGLISH SUBS
KingOhger's getting TWO Vs movies; one with Donbrothers and then a second with Kyoryuger.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Well that’s unusual for them to just randomly tweet with no additional context of a marathon or anything
Video in link
Is that a pile bunker?!
It is very clearly trying something, I do not know what yet but the gimmicks are through the roof while the budget is through the bedrock
All the cast members are well known voice actors for the 90s, including getting anisong singer Ichiro Mizuki to play both “Voicelugger Gold” and also himself for a gag about the protagonist confusing him for Gold.
None of the main heroes dialog seems to be on set; maybe some of the other cast but definitely not the mains. Instead, all their dialogue is clearly being ADR’d in what feels like a deliberate gimmick of having voice actors do live action work.
The two women on the cast are, quite honestly ahead of time even for today, the initial hero characters with Akiko Nakagawa’s Akiko Homura/Voicelugger Ruby our main protagonist, a hero obsessed country girl who moves to Tokyo to live with her childhood friend Haruka Yuuki (Voicelugger Rose, played by Haruna Ikezawa). However in a decision that has yet to stop baffling me, these two clearly adult women are being ADR’d by their actors as if they were playing junior high characters instead.
They’re joined by fellow voice actors Tomukazu Seki and Takeshi Kusao as Tomukaze Daichi/Voicelugger Emerald and Takeshi Tenma/Voicelugger Saphire.
And… well their characters are also all Voice Actors in their day jobs.
As I said, there is a gimmick and they are committed to it whole heartedly.
The whole thing was supposedly intended initially as a parody show until Ishinomori was brought on and the choice was made to play it straight and as a love letter to 70s/80s hero shows.
But the show itself is just… rough. Not the acting or anything, but just visually the series has aged incredibly poorly. Airing in 1999 we’re talking the cusp of the industry’s transition to digital and so much of the show’s look feels like it is being done on whatever low budget digital kit the project (a collaboration between Ishimori Pro and Salt Production, the latter I can find no information on), could get its hands on and incredibly garish digital effects suffuse with rainbow colors and early CG environments and rough chroma key work. Often, scenes feel blurry even beyond the fact the only sources around are SD copies and are either dramatically overexposed during day shots or under exposed and using only ambient light sources on location at night. A good chunk of the show takes place in office spaces, a Karaoke booth or a voice studio which I am 90% sure must all just be the production companies’ own assets.
And yet… it’s utterly endearing. Weird, but utterly endearing. It’s like watching a student film struggling to meet its ideal and you just want to root for it despite all the flaws and warts, and you can’t help but feel it has something up its sleeve when it throws a weird curveball, such as in episode five where a “punishment room” of the villain faction, who up till now has been depicted in this strange, aetherial space of oilslick rainbow clouds and checkerboard floors, is revealed to be a vast void of a room containing nothing but a giant stomach pulsing on a strange pillar, where the condemned are made to wait inside.
I finally decided to watch it after someone on twitter hd described it as “brilliant” yet would “hurt you in ways you didn’t know you could be.” And nearly halfway through I’m not sure what the latter warning entails, but the show is captivating for someone who loves tokusatsu not just for the shows themselves but for the craft. It’s a strange, strange thing.
Onward, now, to episode 6
EDIT:
THE FLOWERS! THE SONG!
ITS HAPPENING
If it’s not licensing the streaming rights for black or RX, part of me wonders if it’ll be Faiz for the Anniversary/hopes to get official subs that aren’t garbage
EDIT: “Mystery is on the Wind”
OH WAIT DUH
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They put out a video on Twitter and the end text is glowing with purple and green chromatic abberation effects
The only toku release I could possibly be more hype for is a Discotek release of Kaiketsu Zubat
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If they ever do, you know exactly what day they’d need to release it, even if it’s not coinciding with the typical day of the week for new disc releases that year