Japanese Entertainment

so we don't have the toku section anymore and we have threads for the new series so I am just going to make a new thread to discuss anything to do with past series of Kamen Rider... showa or heisei period! I am on my 5th Kamen Rider series... I started watching KR Kiva... hmm, now is it just me or is it going to stay as crap all the way through?? I mean its ok, the whole violin thing is whack, but I do like how its skipping from the 2 time periods, and just the plain weirdness of how an entire chunk of a building just seperates without completely ruining the structural integrity of said building, and turns into some big church monster thing that eats monsters afte…

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage looks epic!

Does anyone have any good suggestions for really good Visual Kei bands? I am looking for something on the heavy side, but I am open to those kinds of bands that like to experiment with their sound. The bands that I am currently aware of are Malice Mizer, Moi dix Mois, Dir in grey, Versailles, and Girugamesh. I know a few others, but these are the ones that I actually have listened to the most.

Recently I have been thinking that there are a lot of games out there that are not worth buying. When I worked at Wal-Mart, there were always guys talking about which games to buy and which not to buy. I heard that many games were horrible. For instance. Aliens: Colonial Marines and Alien Vs Predator as well as Terminator Salvation all did horrible. They all got bad reviews. I actually played those too and they diserved the reviews that they earned. So feel free to share your horrible experiences with games you went out bought. By all means, please share. Sony PS Forum held a vote on the 10 worst video games of 2013. Here are the following. These were t…

Did anyone go see the Legend of Hercules? One movie that I thought was downright horrible and still believe is horrible today. Is and was The legend of Hercules. I could not stand it in theatres. Me and my wife went to see this movie. Friggin terrible. I took my wife to see it because we thought it would be a good film because its Hercules. We sat in front of the movie for 25 minutes before I decided I couldn't take it anymore. The dialogue and the story was just horrible. Everything was random off the wall crap. It just went no where for the last 20 minutes. For 20 minutes it was just horr…

When I was a 10 years old. This novel ( written by Steve Perry) was very popular and I really liked it. In fact people had been saying that they were going to make a movie on it. I've always enjoyed the many novels written by Steve. Alien Vs Predator is an excellent example. Steve Perry is very talented writer. One day I hope that we can see Shadow's of The Empire as a prequel film to Return of The Jedi. I found Prince Xizor's role to be very unique and how he wanted to upstage Darth Vader.

So why am I starting a topic about a Hollywood film in a subforum that is supposed to be for topics related to Japanese Drama/anime/games/etc.? Quite simply, because the movie was inspired from the Japanese light novel, All you need is kill. It also has a manga to it. Despite my abhorrence to Hollywood takes on Japanese franchise, recently I've learned to be a little forgiving of them. Although I have not seen the movie yet, I'm here to talk about the original source. I have to say that it has a great story. On a side note, at least the name change are minimal. To my knowledge, they only changed the name of the main protagonist, from Keiji to Cage, which…

I have always wondered why the Saiyan's have a god complex in the show. Vegeta and Goku are always getting stronger...and stronger.....and stronger....etc. and the the training to get stronger seems so over exaggerated. Don't get me wrong, I like the show and I don't have a problem with it. But I am merely making an observation. Even Frieza some how knew that the Saiyans would grow far too strong for him to able to control. So he decides to go Skynet and elimate all Saiyan's in a micro second because he knew that a Saiyan would eventually over throw him and rule over the entire universe; however that didn't happen. But it just makes me laugh when the characters are like "…

Since my experience with the last three games that were produced. That being Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. I enjoyed Oblivion and Skyrim the most. Yes, I liked Morrowind. But it was not anywhere as cool as the games on the PS3 or X-Box 360 generation consoles. I enjoyed much of what I did in Skyrim and what I did. I am beginning to wonder when and where the next Elder Scrolls( That being the Elder Scrolls 6 and not the Elder Scrolls Online) will take place. It may not have been announced yet. But the next Elder Scrolls is very inevitable. Every Elder Scrolls fan knew that an Elder Scrolls 5 was going to be made, they just didn't know when. Now my only disappointed wi…

Recently I've fallen in love with the Dark Souls franchise after getting the first game a year ago. The whole feeling to the world and game was perfect and the lore and how it had people coming up with their own stories and explanations was fantastic. Then Dark Souls 2 of course came along and intensified my love for the world of that universe. If you haven't played Dark Souls I highly recommend it or even the first souls game that Dark Souls was a spiritual successor to; Demon Souls. The gameplay doesn't hold your hand and is very unforgiving which makes it so when you defeat a boss or just make it through a section where you have been failing to get by very rewardin…

I'm at a loss for words that the Ultra series doesn't have it's own thread so I'll start it off Let's discuss all things Ultra! I'll start off by listing my favorite series, and why I liked them Ultraman Leo - Talk about brutal! You have, among other highlights, a crippled Ultraseven stuck in human form, people crushed, stabbed, shot, sliced in half, team members dying in combat, the whole team is later killed except for the two main characters, graphic kaiju combat and even the graphic dismemberment of a key character. Ultraman Nexus - Amazing series. Deeper stories and slightly more compelling Kaiju. Completely dark in tone compared to earlier series. Too bad it wa…

been playing a lot lately and its awesome, anyone else playing this too?

One of my favorite videos games of all time is Skyrim. I was really impressed by the vampire dlc. Being a vampire in Skyrim is really fun. Gives you a sense of superiority almost. However I enjoyed the level system quite a bit.The only downside is that the game is really really glitchy on both the PS3 and X-Box 360. You could be playing and the entire game would just freeze up and you'd have to restart from the next save point. I think I've been playing Skyrim on and off since it came out in 2011. I really enjoyed the companions quest line even though it was very short lived. Both the Dragonborn, Solsteim, and Mages Guild questlines were the longest. I really enjoyed the …

What is the Advocacy's opinion on some of the new consoles not being backwards compatible with previous generations? Would you be willing to pay for a game that you had already purchased digitally all over again? Do you think the whole situation is a crock of sh*t?

As the topic title asks what Tokusatsu, CH-Dramas, J-Dramas, K-Dramas and T-Dramas have you either seen, are currently watching or both. CH - Chinese J - Japanese K - Korean T - Taiwanese For me, it's these titles: Kamen Rider Black Black RX ZX Super 1 Original KR movie Amazon SkyRider J ZO Shin Kuuga Agito Ryuki Faiz (555) Blade Hibiki Kabuto Den-O Kiva Decade W G Super Sentai Maskman (movie) Abaranger (Aba VS Deka) Dekaranger Magiranger Hurricanger Boukenger Gekiranger Go-Onger Shinkenger Other Ultraman Nexus Garo Fuuma no Kojirou Tomica Hero Rescue Fire Armor Hero J-Drama Otomen Mei-chan no Shitsuji Mr. Brain Tokyo Dogs…

Does anyone know where the story line is going to go with this movie or if Robert will return as Tony Stark? I was hoping to see Tony fighting in the suit more and seeing Pepper Potts get her armor. I'm hoping we get to see that in this movie. Does anyone have a guess who the next enemy is and what the plot might be? Any ideas?

Anyone having issues with watching You Tube videos? Namely that you have to refresh your page, sometimes repeatedly, to get them to load properly? Over the past couple of days, I've had issues with videos loading and even playing, and I've had to refresh several of them to get them to load and play properly without stopping? A YT/Google problem, or is it an internet problem (I have CenturyLink and I've never been exactly happy to put it lightly about their service where I live)?

saw this on Jefusion, Toei has now officially trademarked the name of the next sentai series which is named Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger translated as "Vehement Car Taskforce Special Express Ranger" it is said that this season's theme will be Trains. What do you guys think? I'm not that interested personally but it is still waaaaay too early to judge, all I can say is that if this theme turns out true then a Den-O crossover will most likely happen and I frankly had enough of that thank you. Source: http://www.jefusion.com/2013/09/2014-super-sentai-confirmed-ressha-sentai-tokkyuger.html

I've come across many vlians but none have topped this guy. Slum King - In a world where the stong rule he is the strongest. He is the main antagonist of Go Nagai's Violence Jack which also happens to be the darkest manga I've ever read. He rules over the ruins of the Kanto area of japan after it was deveistated by the Kanto Hell Quake, since that event Kanto has become seperated from the mainland and still undergoes minier quakes from time to time making the land very unstayable and was abandoned by the japanese government. It has now become a lawless land ruled by the strongest and worst of mankind. Slum King has forged his empire in this place, his has been abl…

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

A new Ultraman mini series has been announced. Ginga is a part of Shin Ultraman Retsuden (an Ultraman clip show). Some episodes of SHR will be clip shows while others will be about Ginga. http://henshinjustice.com/2013/04/12/ultraman-ginga-press-conference-video/ And this is supposedly a new Baltan that shows up in Ginga's series: I love Ginga's design and Baltan's design. I wonder if this Baltan is suppose to be an updated Mecha Baltan from Andro Melos, a more cybernetic Baltan, or something else. Although I wish this was a full blown series instead of a mini series, I am still excited for this.

If so what do you think of the current progression of the story?

Hey guys, here's my latest video, enjoy

I recently finished watching the show Arrow. I was really impressed by how it turned out and how Oliver Queen went from a spoiled rich manipulative boy to a depressed, silent, vindictive vigilante. He lost his father, his girlfriend's sister after his father's Yaht, the Queen's Gambit sank. So he spent 5 years on an island learning military tactics and combat training from a military operation on the island. He also finds out his father was involved in a conspiracy to sack his home city in Canada. So when he comes home he decides to start changing things in the city and killing off a few criminals. He meets his ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance , a lawyer who believes in prote…

I seems like whenever I so much a glance at main stream western comics their seems to be another event comic starting up. While I dont hate Events it seems that some of them are done just because.....because. The ones I'm thinking of are poorly written, ignore cannon and are pointless in the end. On that note I'm curieuse as to what some of you think and what Events stood out to you as very good or bad. For a recent Event that pissed me right off DC's Trinity War. WHAT THE F##K! Your telling me that that the whole plot and all build up was just a glorified prolog for YOUR NEXT DAMNED EVENT STORY! Not only that but to do it, they have to throw a giant, out of left fieu…