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I'm not happy with the crummy design on kamen rider of late. I was writing about it in the wizard thread so I thought I'd move on over here so as not to go off topic too much. how should we design kamen rider? or in other words, let;s look upon the failings of the official designs, then think about the theme of the series and try and formulate some more appropriate ideas and maybe even better designs. I want to first start off with Kamen Rider OOO. I think the design of this rider fails across the board. we are given a theme of mummy's and greed. riches and treasure of ancient civilisations. The idea is that the power comes from coins and those coins are gener…

So I have been wanting to start my Gundam Model Collection but am really picky about crossing model series, if possible I would like to stick to one model series. I know most of the model series require you painting them yourself but I already have a hard time finding time painting my 40k Tyranid army. I'm sure this is a gundam model series that already comes prepainted were you just assemble the parts. Does anyone know of which model series I should look up? I've tried googling: Prepainted Gundam Model Series but only got a list of "How to Paint" model tutorails. Thanks for any help! =]

Who's excited? TV-Nihon has this vid subbed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAhGQXU3UY'> Based on the promo it looks like they might have an Akibawhite, Akibapurple/violet, and other Akibared?

a the tittle says, this info was taken from Jefusion and says that Sports Hochi announced the release of the first Hesei rider novels which are Kuuga, Kabuto, W and OOO the synopsis are as followed: Kuuga: "It’s been 12 years since Yuusuke Godai, as Kamen Rider Kuuga, defeated the unidentified lifeforms called Grongi, and disappeared. Ichijou is still trying to search for the remains of the Grongi Tribe. Recently, rumors about a white warrior surfaced in the web. This reminds Ichijou of Godai." Kabuto: "The mysteries behind Kamen Rider Kabuto will be revealed as Tendou Souji fights his final battle with the Worms. After the battle, he travels around the world startin…

well i remember starting a topic like this a bit ago but i think it got deleted?... anyway, at that time i decided to get Kabuto, and 000 but recently i thought i would start with an earlier series and got Blade... i have started to watch Blade as i tried to watch Kuuga but it was just a bit too dated for my taste. Blade was slightly slow to start but is getting better, im only on ep 10 though. so basically what im asking is what series do you guys think are the best out of the Heisei period?? and (without too many spoilers please ) why?? Kamen Rider Kuuga (ä»®é¢ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ€ãƒ¼ã‚¯ã‚¦ã‚¬ Kamen RaidÄ KÅ«ga?): 2000 Kamen Rider Agito (ä»®é¢ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ€ãƒ¼ã‚¢ã‚®ãƒˆ Kamen Raid…

As most of you know I'm a Daikaiju fan mostly because I grew up watching Godzilla since I could remember but I know there are other series out there that are worth the watch one that got me interested is Gamera arguably aside from Godzilla the most famous Daikaiju out there, at least that is my impression since I have never watched a Gamera film and I'm all for discovering new toku so I made this thread to discuss everything Gamera related in the same sense as I did with Godzilla, now to start of I found on my local Kmart a blue ray edition of the Gamera Trilogy for $9 but before I buy it I wanted to ask you guys if the movies are any good and what other Gamera films woul…

Here is something that you guys may like, a Hollywood tokusatsu film featuring Daikaiju vs Mechas, the trailer looks like it will be fun but I wont judge it until I watch it.

What is the Advocacy's opinion about this up and coming ranger series? Is anyone looking forward to it? Or are you hating it?

I doubt that there are many toku fans that don't love them! I know for sure that I do love them! I look forward to them in each and every episode of any Super Sentai series! I always get pumped! This has to be my favorite so far besides Shinkenger's and Gokaiger's! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toszcBMtaeE

Just thought I would share this cool show with you guys called Famikamen Rider it is a spin-off series of Jewario's you can play this show where he discusses imported games that are good and don't need to learn japanese in order to play them, Famikamen Rider is similar only it discusses everything Tokusatsu related from movies to manga to games. I'll just post a few videos and wait to see if you guys like it. This particular episode discusses what the guy who played Kamen Rider Ichigo did when he was not doing rider stuff as well as some very cool trivia about him, this is the main reason why I decided to post this thread.

Odin has suggested to me a wonderful anime and I am currently enjoying it. It's so great that I had to create a thread for it. In summary, Sword Art Online is a story about Kirito, who is playing a virtual reality massively multi-player online or VRMMO game. It's a game that utilizes the Nerve Gear, a helmet that you wear which intercepts the information of your brain and allows you to act out your actions in a virtual environment. So it means while you are inside the game, your body will lie still in the real world. Imagine playing a game console with a setup similar to Matrix, but instead of a bigass needle sticking in the back of your head, you wear a helmet. Wha…

The cast looks cool, but has anyone seen the new suit? It looks like rubber with spandex showing through. I like the black glass mask (with red eye line), and his gun; but the rest just feels like a horrible batman rip off. And seriously, letting him keep a human hand? Please tell me an actor just took a glove off for a second. Hopefully the movie makes up for the crappy costume

Hi guys, As you probably recall in the Guyver thread I posted the Rogue Productions fan dub. I am already working on our next project, Dragon's Century. However I am having some trouble finding the OST/alternate music to use. So I was looking for another production to run alongside DC (to try and keep the dubbing juices going and not stalling on 'material searching'), I already have some ideas for projects but again finding materials for them is being a pain i.e. Decent RAWs without any subs. With that I get to the point at hand. The rules of the forum are 'No linking to pirated material that is easily commercially available to the west.' The materials I am looking for …

So heres another one of my pointless customary end of Sentai Reviews... TENSHIN DAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes, next is Gosei Sentai Dairanger (Five Stars Squadron Dairanger). first off i'll say that this is kind of an old Sentai from 1993 . The Mecha was used for the Zords in the second season of MMPR and its also where they knicked the design for the White Ranger. Secondly i'll say despite its age it certainly kicks much ass! Theme Tunes - The opening is a classic - ''Tenshinda! woah woah woah woah...'', the closing not so much, but still has its own charm. Story - the Gorma tribe vs the Dai tribe, milleniums of war come to a head in Dairanger. its o…

I could not sleep so I was just checking out any tokusatsu news and I stumbled upon this juicy bit, apparently the name for the 37th super sentai series has already been registered called Jyuden Sentai Kyoryuger , From what i have gathered the name implies that the theme for this particular series will be of dinosaurs again which is not a bad idea to me since it would have to be about 20 years give or take since Zyuranger and Power Rangers was aired so it could be yet another tribute to both series, any speculations and confirmations of the name are welcomed and as soon as I see some images for this new series I will share it with you. This info was taken from Jefusion bt…

Back to a topic that i started a while back MMPR vs Super Sentai - who wins ?? so thanks to a few episodes i had seen before and after watching Dekaranger i thought 'hey why not watch all of S.P.D'?? so i did... Now i remember reading in certain places that people felt that S.P.D was good, even better than Dekaranger!.... now all i can say to that is Bullshit!!! Dont get me wrong S.P.D is quite good but its execution just lacks a quality that Dekaranger has. S.P.D uses most of its stories adapted form Dekaranger and even when they are almost copied exaclty the execution just lacks something. i cant put my finger on it but it seems like its all done too fast, one thi…

odin sent this to me. wonder what you think of it?

Jason David Frank is gonna be in Baltimore, Maryland as a guest at a cosplay convention in three weeks!!! It's the same convention where I met his former Power Rangers castmate Johnny Yong Bosch last year!!! This is a dream come true for any Power Rangers fan!!! http://otakon.com/guests.asp#Frank

reading a rumour on facebook today, seems some suggestion of a "Kamen Rider Wizard" .... first news in hte post right after this one. there are some images posted in this post - http://www.japan-legend.com/forum/index.php/topic/7010-kamen-rider-wizard-september-2012/#entry74329 there is some footage of him in action in this post - http://www.japan-legend.com/forum/index.php/topic/7010-kamen-rider-wizard-september-2012/#entry74347

something I have been working on for a few weeks now. after losing my hard disk and most of my data, I've gotten back up to speed and decided it's probably best if I start distributing instead of holding back. I present to you my project, Naruto Kai. I wanted a condensed version of naruto anyway because there is too much padding in many of the anime episodes. I never thought I would have the patience to edit it myself but then i discovered a way to do it with vdubmod. no encoding necessary. this means i can edit it in a reasonable amount of time. The editing is not perfect. if anyone wants to criticise the editing, they are welcome to do a better job. I basically we…

anyone witnessd this awsomeness?? if youre impatient go to 5mins in

I was just doing my routine research today and i suddenly found this interesting video that there is a french studio that decided to make their own series of super sentai called France Five to pay tribute to the Japan Super Sentai, heck it even had Akira Kushida do the intro theme in one of their episodes. Kushida Version Original here is a series synopsis by Benzai a french internet reviewer that works with That guy with the glasses: http://www.springboa...01/1017/485019/ if any of you guys know french maybe you should give it a try and watch it and give your opinions about it, hope you enjoy it.

Question, is this game any good? Answer, you really need to play it. it's a tough one really when it comes to any games, there will always be haters so we can never guarantee a games success, but when I compare this game to final fantasy 13, I have to say that square-enix need to take a lot of notes. this is how you make a game. this is how you tell story, this is how you do awesome cut scenes. and this is how you create an immerse world that draws people in. you may have seen screenshots of the game and you might think they are mere publicity artwork. I will give you a screenshot here and rest assured, this is an IN GAME environment. yes the view is a lot wider than i…

The newest super sentai team has been revealed, this time the theme apparently is Bounty Hunters? they are a 3 man team at the start apparently, I have brought a pic of the team with their mechs which combine to make the GoBuster Oh.

Okay people, OOO is over with now so that means that Fourze will be starting this weekend. As it is with all the other past series that we have discussion thread for, here are the rules with a couple new ones added on. Rule 1: Keep the discussion to the series of topic. If using a reference of another series to compare a certain event to one shown in the show then please do so carefully. Rule 2: Do not post regular episode info about a newly aired episode until 1 day after either TV-Nihon and/or Over-Time Fansubs have released their subbed episodes. If you do wish to post this type of info before the sub is available then please use spoiler tags. (trust me, it's wo…