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Post by jeffb on Aug 29, 2021 18:44:22 GMT -6
This showed up in my youtube feed
I loved this show
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 18:52:34 GMT -6
I haven't seen this since 1972. This and also Speed Racer and Johnny Sako!
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Post by aramis on Aug 29, 2021 19:21:34 GMT -6
I've never watched it.
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Post by jeffb on Aug 29, 2021 19:32:09 GMT -6
Fair Warning- it will likely be very difficult to get through as an adult. I used to run around the house with the toilet paper rod pretending to turn into Ultraman   |
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Post by asaki on Aug 29, 2021 21:18:22 GMT -6
I wasn't born yet.
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Post by tdenmark on Aug 29, 2021 21:35:57 GMT -6
That is my childhood right there. I can't even explain how important Ultraman was. And yeah, don't watch it as an adult. It was definitely made for 5-8 year old boys.
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Post by tdenmark on Aug 29, 2021 21:37:45 GMT -6
How are the Japanese so freaking creative?
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Post by lige on Sept 1, 2021 22:29:27 GMT -6
I think the classic D&D monsters based on those weird dinosaurs were actually Ultraman creature knockoffs sold to unsuspecting Americans as actual prehistoric beasts.
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 1, 2021 23:55:37 GMT -6
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Post by scottenkainen on Sept 2, 2021 8:46:20 GMT -6
Speed Racer, Battle for the Planets, and Voltron - yes. Ultraman, never. I will admit the theme song is catchy.
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Post by xerxez on Sept 2, 2021 8:58:40 GMT -6
How are the Japanese so freaking creative? They had a special need for escapism. |
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Post by jeffb on Sept 2, 2021 9:10:44 GMT -6
Also this  |
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Post by jeffb on Sept 2, 2021 9:16:20 GMT -6
This one does not ring a bell for me. I did a brief look on wiki for Ultraman the otehr day when I posted, and it looks like there were all kinds of spinoffs. As @doublejig2 mentioned, Johnny Sako and his Giant Robot was another of these types of MIJ shows that I remember fondly. I'm guessing the Power Rangers have these shows to thank as well. My Son had a brief period of liking MMPR when he was little but that was way after my time. |
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Post by tdenmark on Sept 2, 2021 11:18:44 GMT -6
How are the Japanese so freaking creative? They had a special need for escapism. Alright. But even now my daughters are into manga and anime so I get exposed to a lot of the new stuff and it is still amazing. Have you read or watched Demon Slayer? It is fantastic. And the output is so prolific, there is a Japanese bookstore near where we live and it is chock full of the best art, stories, and characters you can imagine. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 11:32:49 GMT -6
I was a 90's kid so my first exposure to Ultraman was the SNES game. I really got into him and Zone Fighter for a while and collected the toys. My brother and I would often run wargame campaigns on the tiled kitchen floor with Kaiju figures of various kinds.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Sept 2, 2021 12:17:10 GMT -6
Not familiar with it.
Watched little-to-no TV as a kid (family always on the move, periodically homeless, father in-between jobs, and if we did have a TV, curfew was 7pm anyway).
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Post by muddy on Sept 2, 2021 13:17:10 GMT -6
Thanks for positing this, I had completely forgotten about it. If I remember correctly it was one of those "rush home after school to catch" shows along with speed racer, marine boy, etc.
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Post by ThrorII on Sept 2, 2021 14:38:25 GMT -6
Ultraman!!!! Giant Robot!!
Speed Racer!!! Space Cruiser Yamato!! Raideen!! Gamera!! I grew up on 1970s japanese cartoons and movies! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 14:45:47 GMT -6
I can't help but notice how shows from my childhood like Power Rangers were originally Japanese shows of an adjacent genre as well. If I recall, the out of suit portions were refilmed with American actors but the action scenes are Japanese.
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Post by ThrorII on Sept 2, 2021 16:15:24 GMT -6
My childhood in the 1970s was spent in a heavily Japanese Los Angeles County city (demographics 25% at least, and 50% in my part of the city). Half my friends were Japanese kids. I grew up knowing and loving all these 70s anime cartoons, robot shows, etc.
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Post by captainjapan on Sept 2, 2021 16:20:38 GMT -6
My wife watched this, as a child:
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Post by tdenmark on Sept 2, 2021 16:34:22 GMT -6
Thanks. Now I'm on a nostalgia trip.
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 2, 2021 17:12:02 GMT -6
This one does not ring a bell for me. I did a brief look on wiki for Ultraman the other day when I posted, and it looks like there were all kinds of spinoffs. As @doublejig2 mentioned, Johnny Sako and his Giant Robot was another of these types of MIJ shows that I remember fondly. I'm guessing the Power Rangers have these shows to thank as well. My Son had a brief period of liking MMPR when he was little but that was way after my time. I was in the Philippines when Ultraseven showed there. Marine Boy made an appearance in the early eighties. Go Rangers ran under the name Star Rangers. I saw a few episodes of Johnny Sakko and his Giant Robot when I visited San Francisco at that time. |
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Post by jeffb on Sept 2, 2021 18:54:22 GMT -6
My wife watched this, as a child: This seems vaguely familiar. A t least a few of the creatures do. |
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Post by xerxez on Sept 9, 2021 8:57:54 GMT -6
Thomden "Alright. But even now my daughters are into manga and anime so I get exposed to a lot of the new stuff and it is still amazing. Have you read or watched Demon Slayer? It is fantastic. And the output is so prolific, there is a Japanese bookstore near where we live and it is chock full of the best art, stories, and characters you can imagine."
It is amazing. An amazing creative/comic culture.
My wife lived in Japan for two years and speaks the language competently and can even read alot of kanji.
She introduced to me alot of great Manga and anime (which, though a comic fan, I had previously avoided as I didn't find the form attractive through limited exposure).
I have some serial comics that run Manga in them in limited stories and have been exposed to some Demon Slayer.
I am considering watching the anime but it's such a commitment!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2021 16:25:37 GMT -6
I would recommend the manga version of Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaa". The anime movie adaptation of the first two books of the seven book saga is alright for what it is, but the original story is incredible, and has a very strong and believable female protagonist and a lot of deep philosophical messages intertwined with stunning visuals and top-notch action. It's a pricey hardcover but it's one of the jewels of my book collection.
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 11, 2021 9:40:09 GMT -6
I was a 90's kid so my first exposure to Ultraman was the SNES game. I really got into him and Zone Fighter for a while and collected the toys. My brother and I would often run wargame campaigns on the tiled kitchen floor with Kaiju figures of various kinds. We lived out the same period of the Oregon Trail generation, I think. I saw Ultraman here and there, but yeah it was the SNES game that really took it to a whole other level and then we started actually seeking Ultraman stuff out. Cue kaiju wargame battles throughout the house with whatever toys & models we had to hand; I think we progressed from wing-it HeroQuest rules to slapdash house rules to D6 Star Wars rules. Good times! I've been enjoying occasionally having the Pluto TV "TokuSHOUTsu" channel on in the background while working. Those tokusatsu shows are super silly and made for little kids without any attempt to appeal to adults, but man it's cool finally getting a chance to see all those characters we knew all about but never had the chance to watch. Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, old school Ultraman. Good stuff! |
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 11, 2021 10:24:00 GMT -6
My childhood in the 1970s was spent in a heavily Japanese Los Angeles County city (demographics 25% at least, and 50% in my part of the city). Half my friends were Japanese kids. I grew up knowing and loving all these 70s anime cartoons, robot shows, etc. I believe I lived a misspent youth loitering Japanese shopping malls right in your hometown. I can't help but notice how shows from my childhood like Power Rangers were originally Japanese shows of an adjacent genre as well. If I recall, the out of suit portions were refilmed with American actors but the action scenes are Japanese. I've always been fascinated by the composited aspect of editing East Asian stuff for the Western Market. You see that all the time in old comics, shows, martial arts flicks: cut up two or more stories and edit them back together into a single new story with rewritten dialogue, or scalp half a movie and refilm the rest to a new story. It's interesting to think that over here, that wonky nonsensical editing between unrelated content has become part of the charm of those genres, in a way that maybe didn't exist in the original material. (and maybe gave rise to the myths that 'Asian style' narrative structure and storytelling is fundamentally opposed to 'Western style', or that the Asian film industry was backwards because they didn't value basic things like good editing.) |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Sept 11, 2021 10:47:38 GMT -6
My only knowledge of this in the 70s was a poster of in one of our cellar rooms (which otherwise contained a washing machine and a ping-pong table, and was the only cellar room with a decent window). I have no idea why it was there, but I was scared to look at it when I was alone down there. I didn't know what it was, or even that the protagonists were giant-sized, but the scene showed Ultraman on the ground being beaten by a monster with a single giant claw in place of each of its hands. I had no context, just this cool superhero-looking guy apparently about to die at the hands of a horrifying beast. I was so disappointed when I eventually saw the movie that scene was from. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 12:55:47 GMT -6
I've always been fascinated by the composited aspect of editing East Asian stuff for the Western Market. You see that all the time in old comics, shows, martial arts flicks: cut up two or more stories and edit them back together into a single new story with rewritten dialogue, or scalp half a movie and refilm the rest to a new story. It's interesting to think that over here, that wonky nonsensical editing between unrelated content has become part of the charm of those genres, in a way that maybe didn't exist in the original material. (and maybe gave rise to the myths that 'Asian style' narrative structure and storytelling is fundamentally opposed to 'Western style', or that the Asian film industry was backwards because they didn't value basic things like good editing.) I assume you're familiar with Kung Pow: Enter The Fist? "I am bleeding, making me the victor!" |
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