Previous thread: >>23789512-Check out nyaa/anidex, KRDL and the pastebin before posting requests.-If only posting an image, pop the name/title/source/whatever in the filename or post.-If you find yourself asking "Is it /otg/?", it probably is.>Metal Hero, Garo and Misc toku DDLhttps://krdl.moe/>Rare Tokusatsu Bloghttps://raretokusatsu.wordpress.com/>Stuff archived from Hi no Tori Subs (See the paste for Mitsurugi and Andro Melos, KRDL for Wecker and Bereke Scrubs for remastered Tekkouki Mikazuki)https://mega.nz/folder/NcdHFKTK#0gXtUdyzcH6Nnku2rudCvg>Big tokusatsu google documenthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1-NkUQw70itJB1sd3JjytWK0A-pGX6wOTntkkbdXKGhA/edit?usp=drivesdk>Other links of interesthttps://pastebin.com/1jy2v97j>Wait until bump limit and page 9 or 10 to make a new thread
Gonna start reading this. Jiraiya sequel comic from Brazil
>>23908637>What's going on with KRDL?The usual? It's up and down, based on the owner collecting enough to pay hosting costs.
Damn, Jiban and Shaider out of print... Fucking Discotek.
>>23913302Looks like they did well, Shiader in particular must’ve been bought by multiple SEA folks
>>23913311What are the chances they go in print again? Cause I got two Space Sheriffs and need the third.
I did not know Riichi Seike was the suit actor for Jupiter Bit in Cybercop. Ironically, it's actually even sadder than his death. If anything, people out there might be buying that PLAMATEA figure in his honor right now (unless it's sold out, because most Good Smile model kits keep getting sold out).
>>23913334It’s certainly possible they’ll be in print again eventually
>>23913518Man I hope so. Cause I've been enjoying the hell out of em. Also, how the fuck isn't Lady Battle Cop a Metal Hero? Also, buy her bluray that's gonna be released soon.
>>23913382yeah, every Bit Suits are suit acted by the same actors who portrayed their civilian form except Jupiter
>>23913521Metal Hero wasn't a term until around B-Fighter, it was originally a term made by fans. She's not included probably because of different production staffs from Metal Hero? Or maybe because of different age rating? idk
>>23913521>>23913534It was used way before that. The first time Toei used it officially was apparently around 1990 in some home video packaging.Anyway, though, the big point was same production team in the same timeslot, yes. So, yeah, nothing else they made at the time was considered a Metal Hero, even if it was a Toei original armored/robot hero (see also Changerion, which isn't a Metal Hero).
>>23913382>>23913532A good chunk of the Cybercop cast are dead. A few years ago a friend of mine found out who did the voice for the announcer in the suit-up and weapon deploy sequences. A Jazz singer by the name of Bob Timbello. Turned out he'd been dead for like 15 years now. Learned it via his son on Facebook who shares a name with him.
>>23913558Yeah but it's not like Toei doesn't slam other series that weren't originally part of the line up into them years later. Example, Suki Suki Maho Sensei and Guru Guru Medaman were placed under the Fushigi Comedy series. What's stopping Kikaider, Changeron, Kyodane and Lady Battle Cop from being Metal Heroes?
>>23913584>Kikaider, KyodainIshinomori-made. Metal Heroes were an explicit attempt to have another hero franchise that Ishinomori had no presence in>ChangerionWhile not directly Ishinomori made, it stemmed from the Kikaider reboot project and that might have influenced the staffing politics>Lady Battle CopBasically no one from the Metal Heroes teams worked on it and it served none of the utility of Metal Heroes as a franchise
>>23913809And where Suki Suki Witch Teacher and Medaman being lumped into Fushigi Comedy any different?
>>23913959Where do you see either of those being lumped in Toei Fushigi Comedy? Toei recognizes it starting at 8-chan in 1981.
>>23913382Rip.
>>23913977Their official Youtube Channel. They put Medaman and Suki Suki under the Fushigi Comedy playlist.
It's only a matter of time before Toei revives Nemurin. Just you wait, /otg/.
>>23914288>Toei revives Nemurin.
>>23914291Oh it's based on a character design by Shotaro Ishimori.
>>23914291It's in the cards, man! IT'S IN THE CARDS! NEMURIN WILL RETURN!
I just wanna see a B-Fighter revival... That's all I want...
How much of Ishitori's works and designs were used by Toei?
>>23913521Metal Heroes is just a category they slapped on them after. It's not like Super Sentai or Kamen Rider. What is and isn't a Metal Hero is far more arbitrary than what you'd expect.
>>23912994Looks decent apart from everybody's eyes being closed at the bottom. That should only be Manabu.
>>23914049That's only on the World channel so unless the Japanese side did the same it's not exactly official yet.
>>23914288oh you gotta watch Zeztz
Anyone have a copy of the JINGA subs on blu ray raws that the GaGaGa subbers did? Their blog is private now but I'm trying to grab them
Pardon my ignorance, were the english sub files for Mach Baron removed or something? https://archive.org/download/machbaronsub
Been a long time since I've been to /m/, what toku has been subbed over the past few years?
>>23915583No, they're right they're on the MKVs.
How many have you seen?
>>23915969I am very green.
>>23916087Pretty decent line up you watched
>>23916145I'm too much of a Toeifag, unfortunately their stuff is the most available.
>>23916153Yeah when I was making the list, I was shocked as how much Toei's been putting out since 1950.
>>23915969I marked everything I've at least seen some of. Also tossed a few notable things I'd seen in the blank space.
https://ukiyaseed.weebly.com/ukiyaseeds-other-blog/madan-senki-ryukendo-coming-to-prime-video-this-augustAnyone have this on their bingo card?
>>23915969I'm extremely green, I've only seen 31 seasons out of the 40 from Rider, 40 out of the 49 Sentai seasons, Juspion, the Hakaider movie, Tekkouki Mikazuki, Daimajin Kanon, Ultraman Nexus, Jigen Keisatsu, Gavan Infinity and Tokusatsu Gagaga
>>23915969The Toei section is fucking wild.
>>23916503That's a lot of Rider & Sentai. Sure they may be the basic Toku choices but you've still seen a ton of them. Nothin to sneeze at when those shows are ~50 episodes a pop.
>>23915969Shouldn't Ryukendo and Girls x Heroine in the Takara Tomy section?
>>23915969Let's see, I can't count movies but in terms of shows, off the top of my head I've seen Ultra Q, Ultraman, Ultraseven, Return of Ultraman, Ultraman Great, & just started Ultraman Max. I've seen Kamen Riders Kuuga, Agito, & Zero-One. Haven't seen any Sentai, Metal Heroes, or any other major franchises, but in terms of one-off shows I've seen Ambassador Magma, Giant Robo, Spectreman, Iron King, what's been subbed of Barom-1 & Rainbowman, two-thirds of Red Baron, & Mach Baron.
There's this guy on YouTube who remastered not only the English dub of Spectreman, but ALL dubs of it! & his remaster is uncut compared to the other remaster which keeps all the cuts the dub originally came with. & now they're uploading the series raw..... with AI-generated subs, which sucks obviously, but it makes me think, correct me if I'm wrong but surely it wouldn't be THAT hard for someone who knows Japanese to fix those, or anything with bad subs for that matter, right? Definitely gotta be way easier than subbing it from scratch at least.
>>23917494Speaking of fixing MTL subs, did anyone ever try doing it with Jisariz? I remember someone mentioned it a while back but nothing ever came of it. I was curious if having better subs would make the show less incomprehensible.
Fuck it, decided to make the list bigger. Yeah, I got bored.
>>23912994Didn't they made more comics besides the Juspion one, thanks
>>23915969
>>23921408Made a bigger one to seperate all the Riders and Sentai series.>>23918484
I wish NHK did more toku
>>23918484Huh, could you make this list a bit more like a actual list? The text placement is a mess.
>>23924867OK, I can try.
Kagestar sub update any day now, I believe.
Im watching Fuun Lion Maru despite there only being 7 subs. Any other good toku with a similar feeling? Dont ask me how I even found out about it without knowing much else I think it just popped up on my algorithm somewhere and reminded me of Danger 5.
>>23925300Imagine if the second half of Saru No Gundan and Kagestar released on the same day.
>>23925300>>23928009Saru No Gundan, Kagestar, AND the last third of Barom-1, I want to believe god damn it!
>>23925300>>23928009>>23928038Saru No Gundan, Kagestar, Barom-1, and Kyodyne. Maybe one day.
Juspion died.
>>23928871Brazil in national mourning.
>>23928941>>23928871https://twitter.com/zakdesk/status/2072621239764742276https://twitter.com/Shibaharacp/status/2072512387480211468The sources.
>>23928941But he died because Brazil 2:1 Japan
>>23928943>64Holy shit. Also, I didn't know he was a JAC member.
>Ohba >KurosakiShould we start worrying about Hiroshi Watari?
>Susumu Kurobe is still around>Naoya Makoto is still around>Hiroshi Fujioka is still around>The Younger Ohba and even younger Kurosaki died
>>23929179Ohba and Kurosaki were JAC guys who beat the fuck out of themselves when they were younger. They burnt brighter and that means they burnt out faster. The fact Ohba in particular got so far despite the fact he was overworking his body well into his 50s is a testament to his overall constitution.
>>23929214Fujioka did his own stunts too.
>>23929123Honestly, yeah. Not too sure what he's doing except laying low in his retirement. What if he quietly died, too? Honestly, I may jinx myself on this, but even life will kill legends, after all.
>>23929298Fujioka was a solid stuntman but the shit he did paled in comparison, as he largely did grapples and pratfalls. Kenji Ohba, meanwhile, was doing shit even pre-leg break Fujioka needed two other stuntmen to accomplish. And later on he needed a separate trampoline guy (Osamu Kaneda). Ohba did all that shit himself, and also did crazier things like hurl himself off of cliffs into rocky waters.
>>23929123>>23929301He's still very active in social media with recent role in toku is Gozyuger Polar Beginning, and he will voice the protagonist in a tokusatsu-like AI-generated anime.
>>23929298And pretty much stopped after the accident.
>>23929436Hate to be that guy but source?
>>23929690Literally on his account.https://x.com/watari164/status/2072437560346116470
>>23929778>this was originally a Gavan 10th anniversary project >Tamotsu Shinohara even drawn a design of Gavan in disguise wearing robe and knight armor>plan scrapped, the knight became an entirely different character>Omegahorn having a Gavan-like character who wears clothes over his armor and the focus of the show are giant monsterswonder if this V-Cinema's original plan was a reference
>>23929734>https://x.com/watari164/status/2072437560346116470Oh wow this looks so ass. I only asked because I couldn't find it on his Wikipedia for some reason. Thanks for sharing.
There’s an 80's Korean toku movie called Thunderhawk from Outer Space (외계에서 온 우뢰매), starring the notorious Hyung Rae-Shim, which got like 8 sequels. I bring it up because I saw a bunch of English reviews for it on Letterboxd all from around the same time, meaning it had to have been subtitled somewhere, but I can’t for the life of me find where.
>>23930243The Ureme films are incredible. They use a lot of regular cel animation for the robot fights as well as cutouts of toy photos played like animation cels for stuff like big ships and space fighters. Sadly one movie is just a clip show narrated by the teapot robot kid from Taekwon V and the final two were shot on video and have zero robot fights. They even downgraded the knockoff Tobikage robot to just a dog sized flying bird prop.
>>23930270Gee, sure wish I could watch them. Or other old school Korean toku movies like Sparkman or their version of Gekko Kamen.
>>23930308>Sparkmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKvvdP52b4o I think is it? pretty sure I've seen old vhs rips too?
>>23930351Gee, I sure wish I could watch them subbed.
Casshern live action movie is available to watch on YT:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLaLdL-SV0
>>23930308There's at least one upload of each film in varying quality if you search "우뢰매"https://youtu.be/s3tBuQAIUow
will chinese be better at toku than japan?
>>23931061I really should’ve specified, I meant I wish I could watch them translated. Which as established, it seems a sub of the first one exists but apparently nobody who watched it wants to say where it is.
>>23931115I think the reviewer might have just known Korean and watched them. There's a couple of films from the same company that have been subbed like Taekwon V but the only live action one I've seen with subtitles was Friendship Power 5 (the one with the bootleg TMNT costumes).
>>23931137Nope, this Letterboxd review explicitly mentions subtitles. & most English reviews there are from around the same timeframe. When I very politely & non-confrontationally asked him where he watched it, he blocked me. Did I do something stupid?https://letterboxd.com/frucklevision/film/thunderhawk-from-outer-space/
>>23931097They're gonna be hard pressed to make a line up to rival Japan's major Tokusatsu series: Godzilla, Sentai, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, with Gamera and Metal Heroes in the reserves.
>>23931097As someone who has extensive knowledge of this subject, here’s my honest take about your question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskZoP7Ej7w
>>23931887It becomes even funnier when that anon realizes china has to import suit actors because chinese stunt men don't know how to suit act.
>>23931097Have you watched Star Ray? They couldn't even do basic cuts like webm. It's so bad that their ultra-patriotic grifters have backed away from Chinese Toku completely. >>23931919Ironically, their one decent and recent toku, with a wholly Chinese crew was that one-off Kabutack special, a Japanese IP.
>>23932050>Star RayThe series that used AI or something?
>>23932052To my knowledge, it didn't actually use AI, or at least it's never actually been confirmed if they did.
>>23931220Given how recent these reviews are, they could just be watching with auto-translated Youtube captions. Maybe one of the uploads has dedicated dodgy English subs but MTL ones would be about the same quality.
>>23932143It uses lots of AI generated backgrounds in the fantastical sequences and the theme song is wholly AI.
checked the archives but I didn't see anyone mention that Yugen Jikkou Sisters Shushutorian was fully subbed a few weeks ago https://geo9875.dreamwidth.org/13196.html
>>23932393Oh, darn. Wish I was rich enough to just pay someone on Fiverr to sub stuff like this.
>>23932443I'm just reading what I was told. I do believe no AI was used during production though, so it was most likely added later.
So Megaloman's been subbed for a while, anyone seen it? Is it any good? Are the subs any good? I'd find out for myself if I wasn't busy with another show at the moment.
>>23932970Is it any good? It’s fantastic. Unique kyodai/sentai hybrid, lots of great single-take, multi-performer action sequences, main lead does well in a dual role, kid ranger is actually pretty great, OG Ultraman actor shows up as a villain later on.>Are the subs any good? ARR and Gorgom? Fuck no. I had a great time watching raw and just reading a JP episode summary after each episode to make sure I hadn’t missed anything important, so I doubt even ARR could make Megaloman a bad watch.
>>23933712are the subs crabsticks?
>>23933714At least the first few (1-15?) were definitely translated from Chinese fansubs by Gorgom who’s Malay and at least knows basic Chinese and English, so at least some form of actual translation had taken place (haven’t checked them out as I’d already watched the full series raw by that point)Any episodes beyond that I don’t know who was responsible. Anything that ARR “subbed” will 100% be haphazard MTL and/or guess-subs. Careful/diligent machine translation (especially from official JP subs) can be a valid form of translation, but ARR’s output is almost exclusively irredeemable dogshit unless based on a fairly “accurate” BR-PT dub (which is unlikely to be the case in this instance)
>>23933712>>23933768The first 5 episodes were done by Florida Man & GorGom, the rest by GorGom alone, I have no idea where you got the idea that ARR did it.
>>23933790>I have no idea where you got the idea that ARR did it.Pic related is all that I can go by for anything beyond ~ep15 as I had left Telegram by then>Florida Man & GorGomI was there at the time; Florida Man nudging GorGom on his Telegram to translate the fansubs isn’t really a collab in my book
>>23933812Dropped the pic, sorry
>>23933812Well GorGom's full sub is here.https://archive.org/details/megalomansub
On a similar note, how are Master Tyrannosaurus' Fireman subs?
Toei is doing Bluray Project vote again. I think one of the winners would be Kabutack anyway since they did remaster for the Chinese release.
>>23935339I thought Metalder already had a bluray. Also Byclosser really fucking needs it.
hello, is anyone able to please help me locate episode 1 of shisha no ara? i understand the remainder of the episodes are lost, but 1 is not
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there were no live-action Japanese superhero shows between Messenger of Allah & National Kid in 1960, & Ambassador Magma & Ultraman in 1966. Would it be controversial to say that superhero manga/anime like Astro Boy, 8-Man, & Cyborg 009 are like the missing link between those 2 eras of toku?
THE ENTIRETY OF GEKKO KAMEN IS SUBBED THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL.https://archive.org/details/gekko-kamen-mammoth-kong
>>23940199>kingmenuNot a good sign
>>23916374Does anybody still have Bereke's release of Ryukendo? Would like to keep their releases preserved in some capacity.
>>23940656Only the first couple ones are by Kingmenu, the rest are by Tesso-Lations, whose work is never anything less than watchable. & he actually took 2 years of formal education in Japanese, so he’s got that on me at least. & even the Kingmenu ones seems to be one of those times where they actually attempt to translate it instead of just pure guesswork.
>>23938751>Would it be controversial to say that superhero manga/anime like Astro Boy, 8-Man, & Cyborg 009 are like the missing link between those 2 eras of toku?Wouldn’t be much of a surprise, they do compliment one another. As for your first question there were in fact a small amount of “hero” shows released around that time period such as 1960’s Kaiteijin 8823 made by daiei but these shows are highly obscure even in Japan. There was also a few feudal era themed heroic characters and were included as such on Toei’s 100 heroes from a video they released in anticipation of Spielban
You ever watch Henshin Ponpokopondama?
RIP Uzagi. AHK has no mascot now....well unless you count Yabai Kamen himself at this point.
