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Gokaiger 11 thread

http://tracker.tvnihon.com/torrents-needseed.php

Looks like JustiRiser and Rescue Fire need seeding. Poor third party toku series. In the two party system of Kamen Rider and Sentai, is there no love for a third series candidate?

One is a 14 year old girl who has excellent hearing and the power to mimic seven voices, the other is a robot otaku. The two of them are spies!

So I finally got around to rebatching this series. I've always loved this series despite it being one of #TV-Nihon's least popular shows. The stories are funny but also heartful and sincere in a way that is kind of sad. There are a lot of quirky bits and quite often the story is unpredictable. It was just a really thoughtful and unique experience.

The actors are recognizable too. Nico is the young girl from Memoirs of a Geisha. Kazumi (correct spelling) is the manager from the drama Rookies. The father's been in stuff. Robo is from Death Note and Detroit Metal City.

Anyway, I need people to seed this new torrent. It includes the DVD versions for 1, 2, and 7 while omitting the original TV broadcast versions. Please seed this for people interested in checking out this wonderful hidden gem. If you need the files for initial seeding, please get them off the DDL forums.

Sexy Voice and Robo discussion forum

I guess some symbols are missing from the HD version, so a version 2 may be in the works. Wait for more info or grab the one that's released for now, the choice is yours.

And the HD is released

About a little guy that lives in a blue world

The word:

Kejime けじめ (n) distinction (between right and wrong), (P)
Interestingly enough, this word doesn't have a kanji associated with it in my dictionary

About #TV-Nihon I added a section to talk about honorifics and other important Japanese words to know. The wiki has a pretty good article about this too though. If you like Japanese culture, you should definite read them.

More fun with Hino and friends

About #TV-Nihon

The word:
Kudoi 諄い 【くどい】 (adj) (uk) verbose, importunate, heavy (taste), (P)

I'm sure you've heard characters shout this before

35 released So that's it for this batch. For now, please enjoy some pics of the toys that I found on some site somewhere

Actually a continuation from the roles of females in movie thread. I try to talk a bit about how I see female roles in tokusatsu.

You have been warned! Wait, about what?

These roleplay toys are pretty cute

There's five Kamen Riders missing in the first pic that are in the second one

Cool Toku shirts

Thread

Saw this in the newspaper, thought it was an interesting article. Kind of reaffirms what we probably know already, but it's kind of fun to see the numbers and to think about what they mean.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2011-04-21-movies-men-women-roles-speaking-sexy.htm

"An analysis of the 100 top-grossing movies of 2008 shows that men had 67% of the speaking roles; women had about half that, 33%"

Thread

And the HD is up

Gokai 10 released

OOO 31 released

Kotaku mentions a Kamen Rider Diner

And check out this cute comic

So I got an email from my sister that I wanted to share, since takenoko shouldn't have all the fun of posting random stuff and dashing your hopes for a new release.

So I just came in to the teacher's room with a friend for lunch cause the lunchroom is loud and dirty and etc. So we eventually got onto the topic of tv.

Teacher: Actually, Dr. Who isn't the longest running tv series. It's some japanese series from the 60's, I forget the name.
Me: It's totally Ultraman.
Teacher: No, it was something other than that. Something that you would have never heard of, it was never brought over.
Me: KAMEN RIDER
Teacher: Um, yeah that was it! But how did you-
Me: Kamen Rider aired in 1971, not the 60's. Ultraman is about 5 years older than it.

And then I proceeded to be a nerd.

Share your own geeky moment, or when you were surprised by someone else being a geek!

Happy Belated Easter, btw

This was an awesome movie. Hope you all enjoy it

About #TV-Nihon

So last night I was thinking that it'd be cool to see someone photoshop Decade posed with his DecadeDriver in hands overhead like he was about to open it like the Matrix of Leadership. Yeah, sorry for wasting your time. Hopefully my next post will be interesting or announcing something that you want to see released.

DaiRanger 33 released