September 30th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
Tomica Heroes Rescue Force!
Occasionally, Super Hero Time runs into competition. This year, it’s Tomica Heroes Rescue Force, which is basically as if Hot Wheels decided they wanted to fight against Power Rangers.
September 29th, 2008 by Graham Johnson
Watchmen is one of the most critically acclaimed comics out there. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s seminal work is the only graphic novel to ever receive a Hugo Award. It is the work that transformed how many people looked at comics as a whole and what they could be. This deconstruction of the superhero genre, and comics as a whole, is being taken out of its original medium of the graphic novel after over twenty years of attempts at a feature film. But while, at this moment, the film is still a year away and greatly anticipated by many of its fans, something else has appeared.
September 27th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
As history has shown, either the people working online at Disney either don’t care or don’t know that they’re putting episodes of Power Rangers up early. “Don’t Blow That Dough” premieres on TV this Monday, but you can watch it now on Disney XD. You just have to search for “Power Rangers” to find it.
Also, the episode is the first to be written by an actual writer in months, not an anagrammable writer avoiding the wrath of the Writer’s Guild.
September 26th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
It’s getting to that point of the year, where rumors start swirling about like crazy for next years Tokusatsu. While the American side of things is essentially confirmed, with Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki) headed to The CW (an adaptation of The WB and UPN) and Power Rangers RPM (an adaptation of Engine Sentai GoOnger) helping kick off Disney XD (an adaptation of Toon Disney), craziness is abound about Japan.
Super Sentai? No idea.
Kamen Rider? Kamen Rider Decade is the biggest, to celebrate ten years of consecutive Riders. Supposedly, it will feature a new Rider (Decade?) who will face off and alongside the Riders of the past ten years. Henshin Justice knows the word.
Come on, you know you want to see who is Kamen Rider Strongest: Kabuto or Den-O?
Pic unrelated and sources unknown, but always awesome.
September 25th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
You never really see the Power Rangers gets sick, unless their Sentai counterpart was absent, or it’s part of the plot, such as The Five Fingers poisoning Jungle Red or whatever.
Man… Jungle Fury can be bad at times. Anyway, enjoy the first part of this clip.
Bonus: The Red Ranger is Bruce Campbell.
September 24th, 2008 by Scott Laney
Megaman 9, the latest in the long-running franchise, was released on WiiWare this Monday. Playstation Network gets the game on Thursday, and XBox Live Arcade gets it the following Wednesday, but being Gaijinside, we’ve already beaten the game. Fair warning: while these strategies will most likely continue in the other ports, we haven’t played those yet. This is a very basic boss strategy guide that will cover the attack patterns of the Robot Masters and the easiest way around them. This was all written on the fly as the game was played and thoroughly beaten. Additionally, once that Proto Man is released as downloadable content, it IS possible that strategies will change. We will inform you and amend this as soon as we figure that out.
September 23rd, 2008 by Chad Bonin
Ah, a new Tokusatsu T’day. Refreshing.
Ah, a new plot for a Ranger series, that doesn’t wholesale copy the Japanese version (*cough* Time Force *cough*).
Straight from Funaroboard…
In the near future, the mysterious and sinister Venjix Computer Network is attempting to conquer and lay ruin to the entire planet. Mankind has retreated into environmentally-shielded domed cities to protect against the pollution and machines unleashed by Venjix. In the shining city of Corinth, an elite force of Rangers must learn to drive and operate an arsenal of radically advanced biotech vehicles in order to battle the attacking machine army bent on world domination.
September 22nd, 2008 by Ben Boerner
You’ve probably all heard of No More Heroes by now. A brutally fun, twisted game for the Wii. However, you may not have heard of a DS game called Contact, made by the same brilliantly disturbed mind behind No More Heroes. What is Contact? It’s an action RPG of sorts for the Nintendo DS that, despite its cutesy, almost Earthbound-esque graphics, and seemingly shallow story (at first), because a very hardcore, brutal fight for survival.
And? Just about everyone in the game, including shopkeepers, are killable.
September 20th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
From the floor of Anime Weekend Atlanta, I’m both glad and saddened to be the one breaking the news. Tonight’s Toonami will be the final. Anime will be shuffled off, with Adult Swim still apparently acquiring some, and Action will be a Friday Night/Saturday Morning thing. The Toonami people have been shuffled off to different departments of CN, and Jetstream will air for the forseeable future, but the Toonami we know is gone as of tonight.
Naruto? S&P has 15 more episodes to go over, and there’s no word on another season. No word, also, where it will air after Toonami.
In other CN news, they’re working on a Ben 10 Alien Force live-action movie, could air Powerpuff Girls Z at some point
(Original text after the bump for posterity sake)
September 18th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
The 2008 Models of Michael Knight and KITT, sans Mr. Feeny and Hasslehoff’s love of Wendys, premieres on NBC Wednesday. If you’re smart, you can watch it now on Hulu.
If you’re awesome, you can watch it right now on iTunes in both SD and HD, for free. One of those “let’s give it away so people can talk about it before it airs” plans of action, iTunes has rolled out a bunch of free episodes of popular televisions shows, just so they can get viewers/buyers hooked, and show off their fancy HD iterations, which Apple just rolled out. I think you can even watch HD Knight Rider on your new iPod Nanos or watchamacallits.