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XYZpdq said:
I tried Sukeban Deka 2 and I wanted to like it but when the audio swapped to clearly new recordings with production music hiding old commercial music they didn't re-license I noped the fuck out on it.
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I'm not familiar enough with the show, 80s Japanese idol songs, or the Onyanko Club to know if songs were replaced. But I didn't notice anything out of place.. at least nothing that hurt my enjoyment of the show.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I'm not familiar enough with the show, 80s Japanese idol songs, or the Onyanko Club to know if songs were replaced. But I didn't notice anything out of place.. at least nothing that hurt my enjoyment of the show.
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I don't know what they originally had, but there's some spots where the audio clearly changes from old magnetic tape to modern digital recordings as production music plays
 
So I finished Sukeban Deka II

The series ends with Saki jumping out of a lake like goddamn Jason Voorhees, smashing an old man in the face with her yoyo and then belly flopping back into the lake--all while intense choral music blares on the soundtrack. Its the perfect encapsulation of the series: goofy shit taken completely seriously. The show only breaks kayfabe a few times, but it almost always course corrects to stick the landing.

The credits montage was also super adorable.

Great show. Would recommend.
 
Donbrothers has started to feel like what would happen if a schizophrenic Kamen Rider fanboy wrote a Power Rangers series.

Originally, the Donbrothers collected gears which enabled them to change their avatars (hence the avataro in the title), but they stopped doing that around episode 6.
Then they basically stopped doing monster fights except in the most perfunctory way possible.
Now every episode is just Momotaro and Sonoi making portentous statements about each other and occasionally fighting.
Not a single story or plotline has been developed in 33 episodes. Every time someone tries to piece something together, they are immediately shut down by a character who does have the answer.
The comedy mostly falls flat, which is a shame considering how consistently funny Zenkaiger was.

The two bright spots are Jiro Momotani (especially his "evil" form) and Don Murasame, who has a bitching costume.

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Recently found scouring Archive.org. Good Morning, Sleeping Lion, a solid little action web-film directed by Koichi Sakamoto and starring long-time suit actor Seiji Takaiwa as the main character. He'ss worked on many Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series and plays a former professional man of violence turned idol manager/bodyguard. His charge, an idol aspiring to be an actress, is targeted by a gang of violent adrenaline junkies calling themselves the Grim Reapers whose leader, Heart, (Gaku Sano) has her in mind for a scheme as part of one of their twisted "games". The other leaders of the Reapers are also recognizable faces to fans.
 
King ohger leaks

Red- stag beetle

Blue- dragon fly

Yellow- Mantis

Purple- Butterfly

Black-butterfly

It will be a 10 part Mecha with the 5 base mechs & 5 other mechs & will be articulated like Onitaijin with a ohranger robo gimmick of head swaps.
 
An obscurity I only learned about recently, a South Korean toku film released in 1988 with giant robots, rubber-suit aliens and animated transformations. Not much is known about it, it would appear and I heard that a rip of the full movie was uploaded to MySpleen

 
So what are the easiest ways to get access to these shows for someone in the west? I remember I had access to an FTP with a bunch of Kamen Rider some years ago but have since forgotten where that was, so any tips would be appreciated.
 
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