Wouldn't Gridman be a better fit for the Ultraman thread, since it's Tsuburaya-produced and sort of an Ultraman variant?
Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion
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The folks at GraphicAudio just let me know that my tokusatsu-themed audionovel/drama Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate has just won the AudioFile Earphones Award! Their review is here:
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/203852/
An excerpt: “Talented GraphicAudio narrators imbue believability by creating accents for the polyglot characters of futuristic New Avalon… This is an aural treat for sci-fi fans everywhere.”
According to AudioFile’s Earphones Awards page, “The award is given by AudioFile to truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text.” That’s quite an honor.
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/203852/
An excerpt: “Talented GraphicAudio narrators imbue believability by creating accents for the polyglot characters of futuristic New Avalon… This is an aural treat for sci-fi fans everywhere.”
According to AudioFile’s Earphones Awards page, “The award is given by AudioFile to truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text.” That’s quite an honor.
Congrats! You deserve it!
The nomination is nice and all, but it's still sad that we still live in a time when merely acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people is exceptional enough in some branches of the media to warrant an award. That's like the bare minimum achievement.
Donbrothers press conference is going to be on 2/9 at 12 pm JST
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1488633263115571200
Lots of "DON" puns are coming....
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1488633263115571200
Lots of "DON" puns are coming....
Man, they really like that rooftop.
I wonder how they're going to introduce the CGI characters in the press conference. On video screens, I guess. I wonder if that's when we'll see what they look like unarmored.
I wonder how they're going to introduce the CGI characters in the press conference. On video screens, I guess. I wonder if that's when we'll see what they look like unarmored.
I wish they would've picked a more neutral color for the belt and the blasters.
Seriously, we don't need red on everything. A common neutral team color would be nice.
Seriously, we don't need red on everything. A common neutral team color would be nice.
New Rumor has popped up, please take with a grain of salt as it's probably fake, but you know doesn't hurt to discuss:
Prior to transforming (i.e. Avatar Changing) our heroes are all humans:
-Don Momotaro is an Ikemen High School Student
-OniSister is a Beautiful College Student
-SaruBrother is a Wild-Looking Oyaji (Old Man)
-InuBrother is an Elementary School Student
-KijiBrother is a Senior Citizen
If true it would sort of be like a family dynamic minus the mother
Red = oldest son, Yellow= older daughter, Blue=Father, Pink=Grandfather, and black=youngest sibling.
Prior to transforming (i.e. Avatar Changing) our heroes are all humans:
-Don Momotaro is an Ikemen High School Student
-OniSister is a Beautiful College Student
-SaruBrother is a Wild-Looking Oyaji (Old Man)
-InuBrother is an Elementary School Student
-KijiBrother is a Senior Citizen
If true it would sort of be like a family dynamic minus the mother
Red = oldest son, Yellow= older daughter, Blue=Father, Pink=Grandfather, and black=youngest sibling.
That would make more sense than having two characters be CGI all the time. I mean, Zenkaiger has Cutanner and Ricky, but they're hardly ever in more than a minor supporting role. If these two main characters were CGI all the time, as opposed to suit actors, then less screen time could be devoted to them compared to the other three.
Though it'd be weird to have a team with a child and two older men. And I wasn't fond of either Kou in Dairanger or Justin in Power Rangers Turbo, so the idea of another child Ranger doesn't appeal to me.
Kotaro wasn't bad in Kyuranger. I haven't heard people talk bad about him. He wasn't annoying etc etc
Oh, I forgot about him. I guess he was inoffensive enough, but I didn't really care for any of the Kyurangers that much.
What's wrong with that? Yatsude in Zenkaiger is great. And a number of Sentai teams have had older mentors that sometimes got in on the action, like Mondo in GoGoV or the grandfather in Ninninger.
I hope they're in a mentor role and not an active ranger.
If they need to get in on the action, it's generally alot safer to leave the battles to the younger generation.
Oh, come on. There's a whole recurring character type in Japanese fiction of the elderly sensei who's still a better fighter than his younger charges, e.g. the aforementioned grandfather in Ninninger. After all, martial arts keeps you strong and limber, so you stay healthier as you age. Plus the attitude in Japanese culture and fiction is that the most important thing is training and hard work, so the more decades of training and discipline you accumulate, the better you get. For that matter, there are plenty of older actors still playing action leads in American movies, like Samuel L. Jackson or Bruce Willis.
Besides, in action, he'd turn into a CGI character anyway, so what difference does it make?
How many elderly Martial Arts Master Sensei's exist out there compared to regular folks who are non combatants?
Isn't that the reason why they're the mentors, and usually not on the front line? If they ever go to the Front Line, they're only there to save the protagonists when they're in a pinch, or fight a long old time foe. They're not there on the frontline doing battle every week.
Hardwork & Training will get you very far, but there is something to be said about Age & Youth.
SLJ & BW aren't anywhere close to their prime as Action Stars and their current movies aren't nearly as big hits as when they were in their primes making action movies.
Since this would be the first elderly core Ranger out of hundreds, I fail to see how that's an objection.
You're making a generalization, which doesn't make sense in this context. Fiction is not about average people, it's about exceptional ones.
And again, they'll be morphed for most of the action scenes, so what the hell difference does it make? It's bizarre that you're so hostile to this. You don't even know if it's really happening yet, and if it is, you don't know who the actor is and how well he might be able to pull it off. What's so horrible about just waiting to see before you judge?
While that's true, basic logic should still apply.
I don't really have a choice; we're going to have to wait and see anyways, regardless of how I feel about it.
"Basic logic?" In Super Sentai?????? Are you seriously telling me you find a physically capable older person less plausible than monsters that can grow giant or entire parallel universes defined by vacations or sushi?