Kamen Rider OOO

 
Guess this week's theme is Birth

OOO 20 released

The word:
Ibaru 威張る 【いばる】 (v5r) to be proud, to swagger, (P)
The i in this stands for majestic, but it also means to intimidate or be menacing. Baru/haru means to stick/stick out. A word that evokes the image of a person sticking out their chest proudly

You count the Medals 1, 2, 3!

The word:
Fukueki 服役 【ふくえき】 (n) penal servitude, military service, (P)
This one baffles me a bit. Fuku means clothes, and eki/yaku means role. Maybe it has some story behind how it came into being

The theme of this week is that Hina is cute. Does anyone know if models are required to pose like that though?
 Seems like kind of an awkward pose

Let's balance it out by talking about the guest of this plot, Takahashi Mitsuomi, or BoukenRed as you guys probably know him. Man, has it really been five years since Boukenger (since they were the last anniversary series)?

OOO 18 released

We have this special promo that includes this screen shot this week. What is it? It's a list of many, many names. It's pretty impressive, take a moment to go through them.

The word:
Konpon 根本 【こんぽん】 (n) origin, source, foundation, root, base, principle, (P)
Kon means "root" and hon/pon means "book", although in this case means "main, head"

OOO 17 released

So most people know by now that the new Rider is played by R5/ Iwanaga Hiroaki. The guy is hilarious, you should read his blog. In particular, I want to include his blog entry from right after his first appearance in Kamen Rider:
http://ameblo.jp/hiroaki-iwanaga/entry-10748960679.html
"As for Kamen Rider, I'm going to dash into the New Year's and rampage! Cute baby-tachi, don't fall in love with me! Good! My heart's been scaled before. No wait, sorry, I'm so tired that I'm going a bit nuts"

Before we get to the New Years, I'd just like to remind everyone that there's no weeklies next week. New episodes air again January 9th

How about reading a good book in the meantime?

How fitting, last release of the year, OOO 16

The word:
Semeru 攻める 【せめる】 (v1) to attack, to assault, (P)
In this episode it's not used literally. See if you can hear how it's used

Anything Goes MV, OOO Toys, Ganbaride Comic and promo

Goseiger Toys and Dice-O Promo

More TF toys for Animated

Can you believe Mugenbine is still around?

OOO 15 released

The word:
Yamawake 山分け 【やまわけ】 (n,vs) equal split
If you know any kanji, you can see the kanji that goes into this means to "split the mountain". Apparently splitting mountains come out evenly in Japan, who knew?

Bonus pic

Yes, everything Ankh does is product placement

OOO 14 released

The word:
Shinpaku 心拍 【しんぱく】 (n) heart rate
Shin/heart is a great kanji to know, but do you recognize the white radical in paku? If you know the radicals, sometimes you can guess the sound, like haku/paku comes from the kanji for white. You'll see a lot of the kanji attributed to haku will have the kanji for white in them since it's the main one

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OOO 13

The word:
Shittou 執刀 【しっとう】 (n,vs) performing a surgical operation
Using the kanji for taking and the kanji for a blade. If you remember Shinkenger, then Shippitsu should make sense: 執筆 【しっぴつ】 (n) writing, (P) since pitsu means brush. See a pattern?

Remember GranSazers?

OOO 12 released

Today's word:

Netamu 妬む 【ねたむ】 (v5m) to be jealous, to be envious, (P)
If you know basic kanji, I'm sure you'll notice that netamu is made from woman and stone. Hmmm...

And there's the HD version

SD version only for now. HD probably sometime overnight

I don't have anything interesting in my notes this week, so here's a picture hint for the guest of the week:

Picture from this site

Fixed! Da da da da! - Zelda sound effect

Oops, left out a line.

Spaceman Jones is sorry. Can't you see how sorry he is. We're sorry. So sorry. Sorry

Sorry.

OOO 10

The word:

Ii kagen いい加減 【いいかげん】 (adj-na,adv,exp,n) moderate, right, random, not thorough, vague, irresponsible, halfhearted, (P)

You often hear people saying things like "Ii kagen shiro" which is a command that usually translates to "cut it out". It literally means "moderate yourself" or "that's enough of that"

So who's picking up Climax Heroes OOO? If people are getting the PSP version, we can probably play against each other using Xlink Kai or a PS3 with a wired connection to the Internet.

We've been using the PS3 method the last few months to play Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker and Monster Hunter FU and it's pretty good for the most part. If you have a PS3 with a wired connection, why not play with us? To use the PS3 method, just simply go to the PSN store and pick up a software called Adhoc Party. The program basically is what allows you to connect your PSP over the Internet

Edit: If you want to use the PS3 method, if your PS3 uses a wireless connection to the Internet, Adhoc Party WILL NOT WORK

Looks like the game comes out early December

Pic from this blog, check them out

Again, no Precure or OOO this week This was kind of a neat pic though. Precure done up as God Speed Love. The best part is Coupe-sama done up as the Kabuto logo

OOO 09 released

Remember no Kamen Rider or Precure next week. Or Kamen Rider Precure

The word:

Negura 塒 【ねぐら】 (n) (uk) roost, nesting place

I like how this is something that we can make a thread about

OOO thread

HeartCatch thread

Edit: Why not kill some time by looking at this OOO fan art?