Zebraman 2 viewed. now where's my tokusatsu merchandise???

So I finally cracked and watched the zebraman 2 film. For those not familiar with Zebraman, its an awesome Tokusatsu film by fav director, Takashi_Miike. First film got good ratings on both the tomato meter and on IMDB. No word if a U.S. dvd release for the 2nd film will occur anytime soon so I'll have to settle for the original RAW dvd. Too bad no one's fansubbed it yet. Guess it'll be at least another few months(hopefully??) before I can really appreciate the takashi miike jokes and dialog. Regardless, I totally cracked and watched it; not sure if a subbed dialog will change my views, but until I have it(or improve my translation skill^^;...so behind studies), I won't give a review or anything til then.

If I had to give an impression right now, I'd say that Zebraman 2 is alot like Iron Man 2: Entertaining, but not as charming as the first one. Not that its bad or anything, I still enjoyed viewing what I did see. With that said, I'd like to say that despite being a toksatsu ZEBRA hero, I'm totally diggin the designs. I liked the designs from the first film and Zebraman 2 totally stepped up for the costume design. Remember, when you were a kid watching bad batman films,but thought the batsuits were so badass? Nevermind batnipples and the lame script or any of the other semantics-the thought was, "cool superhero costume." A grown man dressed as a zebra themed hero can't be worse than a man dressed as a bat. Cool is cool. And I think Zebraman is effin BOSS.


With Japan's very big Toksatsu genre from kamen rider,godzilla, to numerous others, there's been tons of great merchandise. from statues,busts,RAHs, Bandai released figures and more, I have one question: WHERE'S THE ZEBRAMAN MERCHANDISE?? For anyone who's a kamen rider fan and collects figures, you know what the designs are and how that translates to figures. Look at the design of a recent kamen rider, Ryuki(or Dragon Knight for the U.S.)



This is the overall basic design of Ryuki.Not bad. Now look at another design of Ryuki from The SIC line...



Similar,but more detailed. I personally prefer this look.

Thats what Zebraman 2 did to the look of the first Zebraman designs. Below is the only merchandise of Zebraman I could locate. Very impressive indeed. Very detailed. Think of the possibilities with a figure!! Hell, even Batman and Spiderman got the SIC treatment.(yeah, they're bigger than zebraman,but dammit, they already got tons of merchandise.)










Anyways, if anyone knows of any additional merchandise for zebraman, let a guy know! We'll finish up with some trailers from the films and some pics.Enjoy and if you're interested and haven't seen it, check it out ^^. Til next post.


P.S. - Happy Lunar New Year! year of the Rabbit yo.

Kamen Rider Ryuki pictures from HobbySearch
Zebraman bust pictures from GunJap blog
Zebraman film pictures from Gonin Movie Blog

April 13, 2010 - Iron Man 2 Interactive trailer.

So still busy with massive major project on the homefront so been super busy. And I only wanted to post something I thought " absolutely MUST be posted.NOW" and I found something so yay. Anyways, estimated time frame to completion of project(which leads back to more regular updates,woot^^) is about 2 to 3 weeks. At least that's the goal.

Anyhoo, without further updating- Here's a pretty cool Interactive Iron man 2 Trailer.

March 08, 2010 - Iron Man II Trailer 2 out!!!!!

Omgomgomgomgomgomg!!!!....I think I just made a mess. so damn excited. Full trailers up to 1080p at Apple Trailers. Enjoy. Oh yeah, Just got a few more IM2 figures so there'll be some new reviews soon. Such awesomeness. I'm gonna be too excited to sleep now.so rad,raaaaaahhhh!!!![>_<]!!!!!!!






Image from Rehsup at DeviantArt

Oct. 04, 2009 - Superman.Batman.Public Enemies Review.

You thought Bromance was really something? Try superhero Bromance-DC style.hahaha,got enough attention? good. I'll try not to spoil anything in this review. SBPE is I believe the first film with this much inspired Ed Mcguiness & Dexter Vines art style in it. Although that's not necessary a bad thing. All your big bads and goody goods look like the super stylized steroid induced supers you'd expect. The art style works out really well for the action sequences and there are plenty of them. Sound was fine,nothing stood out in my mind.

While It appears to be maybe more Superman than Batman(luthor,no joker), there are still plenty of baddies on both sides coming out of the wood work. Some are more known and popular and some are more of a b-type class of thug/villain. You'll see many from Grood to Hush,bane to the freeze crew, all in a frickin battle royale.However,cool superhero Foil occurs between superman and batman at one point which was kinda cool.

That being said, there's not much more. The story isn't as deep as some would like,but how deep can you go with a setup like this: Economy sucks,Luthor buys presidency, Luthor doesn't suck at it, superheroes get bored since crime is down, Giant planet killer rock flinging toward Earth, Luthor has Superman lookin like a bad guy, bats rescues supes, manhunt ensues,BATTLE ROYALE.(as can be shown on trailer.) Hahaha,still really enjoyable to watch. One thing that bothered me was what was supposed to be the mutual respect between 2 awesome superheroes and their friendship....nay,it was brokeback metropolis all over that place,heh. Seriously though, there were some parts here and there that just seemed alittle too much Bromance for a story like this. Oh and an interesting "side effect" apparently when batman is around others- Ol' bats is generally a dark character.he's a brooder. Supes normally is more Anti brooder. Put bats next to him in a film, and he's more smashy smashy than talking anything over and kinda a stubborn A-hole.little bit. heh, least he's not campy though ^^;

Overall, I enjoyed SBPE; I had a general idea of what was to be expected and it did what it was supposed to do for me,entertain. If you're alright with with minimal story pushing,massive action throughout, and the reason why power girl broke toyman's goggles(rofl),then you'll be fine. IF, you want a more super, intense, dramatic, suspense, crazy interwoven story involved film,maybe your expectation from the Dark knight to here are wee bit high(especially since this is a more kid friendly pg-13 animated feature)If you liked green lantern-first flight,you'll probably enjoy this.

BATTLE ROYALE.

Oh I just can't quit you,Clark.(Bahahahaha,superheroes are gonna super beat me.)