Kamen Rider Fourze

Fourze 04 HD released

SDSDSD

People sure love their SD Fourze. Oh, but the release is in HD. Please not being confused by this.

Edit from the Fourze Four thread said three times fast. Yeah, say it. Say it! The edit:
We went through this with episode two. We originally had it as Lost One, but corrected it to Last One. Taken from the TV-Asahi summary for episode 2:

In its Saishuu (Last One) Form... blah blah blah
最終(ラストワン)形態になっているオリオンゾディアーツへのとどめは空でやらないと被害がスタジアムまで及んでしまう。
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/fourze/story/02.html

I guess Last One is just a lame way to say ultimate form.

I'm glad people are enjoying the clip I included at the end. It was a lot of fun making it, and gave me a chance to try some video filters. Thanks to Mag for his ideas. The music used for it is called House of Leaves, a royalty free bgm that you can download here if you want:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free ... uspenseful

Four Four and ze years ago, a release was made

No

Quack

Kashi-kiri 貸切り 【かしきり】 (n) reserved, reservation, (P)
Kashi means to borrow. Kiri means to cut off or end. It also means to cut!

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Kamen Rider Fourze 03 SD released

RetriRetro
Talk about retro.

Fourze 03 released

Memai 目眩 【めまい】 (n,vs) dizziness, giddiness, vertigo, (P)
From the kanji for "eye" and "dazzling". The dazzling adventurer!

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The man who will befriend all Kamen Riders

Comic
So you're Fourze-kun? They say you're going to befriend all the Riders?

As your friend, let me give you a warning.

This guy, Kamen Rider Faiz, Inui.

You better watch out for him.

He's really a terrible person. He even gives me problems. If you want to know how terrible he is...

Happy Birthday
Both pics from this blog.

02 plus version 2 is Four ze!

Sorry! Looks like we don't know what we're doing. Poop!

Fourze SD ver 2 coming up next

Just fixing a small mistake. Nothing story-breaking, but it's a mistake that people will definitely notice as the series goes on. So we might as well fix it now.

This time on Super Hero Time: Space and High School Kids!

Uchuu kitaaa

Space kitaaaaa!

High school kitaaaa!

High school space drama brought to you by funny timing coincidences!

Kamen Rider Fourze 02 SD released

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Fourze 02 released Fourze is part of a well-balanced diet. Remember to have your Fourze today.

Isan 遺産 【いさん】 (n) inheritance, bequest, (P)
Insaan?! No, just kidding. From the kanji for "bequeath, to leave behind" and "products" or preposterously enough "give birth/produce". So it's like producing something to be left behind for someone.

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Kamen Rider Fourze 1 SD/HD Released

It's been a long time coming and a lot of work, slacking, being poked by a trout to stop slacking, and more work but with some sort of fishy aroma lingering in the air, but here's our very late night/early morning release of the first episode of Fourze.

So please sit back, get some Febreeze, relax and enjoy this high school drama about friendship, evil star monsters and cliques.

Oh, and SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Episode 1 Discussion Thread

A reassurance... hmm... sorta

Kitaaa

So a little bird tells me that there's some rumblings over "space kitaaa" being left untranslated, or something.

The short response: It's just a promo, have a sense of humor. We may change it, we may not.

The long response: Normally when we leave stuff in Japanese, there's a sort of reasoning for why it's done that way. Either it's to keep in line with how we do things stylistically, or it works better to fit the Japanese nature of the show, or it's a joke that wouldn't work otherwise, etc.

When I woke up at the fine hour of 2 PM on Sunday, the Fourze promo was for the most part already done. Luna originally had that line as "Space, here I come!" which would have been perfectly fine. I wanted to use "Space is awesome!" since kita is the past tense of "kuru/to come", but it's also used as a generic sort of expression of elation, as many of you have seen in Densha Otoko.

So while talking with Magenta, I guess Luna decided to change the translation since she heard it was the tagline for the show. She asked me what I thought the new line should be, and I jokingly replied "Space kitaaa!" I mean, I just woke up super late and I had stuff to do, I'm not in super translation mode. And to my surprise, she liked it.

And this is where I defend that decision. When it comes to meaning, context is everything. In a show like Densha Otoko, where it's very much about Japanese culture and its slang, keeping kitaaa was very much fitting for the show. In a 15/30 second promo, there's really no telling what's going on when that line is said. I didn't think the guy saying it was in space, Luna did, etc. And while any number of translations could have gone in there, "space kitaaa" was a nice throwback to Japanese culture as it presents itself in these shows.

The translation will probably change when we find out more about what's going on in the scene. But... if kitaaa really fits and there's a good reason to keep it... or if people in general just like the way it sounds, sure, we might just keep it this way. Again, just a promo.

Finally, this was clearly all Mag's fault. Saboteur!

Long thread is long

Heh heh heh

Kamen Rider Fourze Promo 01 SD/HD Released

Space space wanna go to space yes please space. Space space. Go to space. Space space wanna go to space. Space space going to space oh boy. Oh. Play it cool. Play it cool. Here comes the space Kamen Rider. Help me, space Kamen Rider. Space Kamen Rider, help. Space. Space. I’m going to space. Ohhhh, space. Wanna go to space. Space. Let’s go – let’s go to space. Let’s go to space. I love space. Love space. Atmosphere. Black holes. Astronauts. Nebulas. Jupiter. The Big Dipper. Orbit. Space orbit. In my spacesuit. Space… Are we in space yet? What’s the hold-up? Gotta go to space. Where we going? Where we going? Let’s go to space! I love space. I know! Spell it! S P… AACE. Space. Space. I love space. I’m the best. I’m the best at space. Oh oh oh oh. Wait wait. Wait I know. I know. I know wait. Space. Gotta go to SPACE. Going to space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m going. Going to space. Love space. Need to go to space. Space space space. Going. Going there. Okay. I love you, space. So much space. Need to see it all. Please go to space. Wanna go to space. Gotta go to space. Yeah. Gotta go to space.

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Kamen Rider pics

So I finally got around to scanning some magazines

OOO
This looks really cute.

Fourze
And this looks really badass. And some more Fourze pics from other sites:

FourzeFourze

Series-related picture submission thread. Wow, it's been months since people posted there

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