Kamen Rider fans have one more reason to shout at the moon in the coming year, as the first volume to the Kamen Rider W: Fuuto Detectives manga is headed for a Spring release to satisfy all your jazzy, noir-tinted, superheroic needs. Based upon the Kamen Rider W television series, the official sequel from original […]
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is stomping its way into the print medium with a new comic based on this, the first official animated feature for the long-running Godzilla franchise. The giant lizard’s story will be told in manga form based on the character designs from the film, with new material only found in this […]
Swooping in for another pass, Garo: Red Requiem is here to provide more monster-hunting action to the new year, with this movie adventure from the Garo television franchise. Sentai Filmworks has been taking names with these domestic Blu-ray releases, as it seems western fans can’t get enough of Kouga and his crew of demon-slaying allies […]
Here’s what’s happening on the next episode of Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger. Space 44: Don Armage’s Identity! Don Armage’s ambitions were stopped by the Kyurangers! According to Hoshi MInato, the actions of the Kyurangers are increasing the resistance efforts across the universe! It finally seems like hope is once again returning to the universe! However, Don […]
Here’s what’s happening on the next episode of Kamen Rider Build. Episode 17: Outbreak of the Rider Wars! At last the war has begun! Instigated by virtue of Hokuto through their prime minister’s actions, the Touto government officially instigates the Kamen Rider as their military weapon. “I do not intent to become a tool of […]
Well, that was fast. After the high drama of our last episode in this amazing series, I incorrectly assumed it would take us a moment to regroup before leaping straight back into the business with Acting Prime Minister Himuro Gentoku and his twisted bid for power, after being exposed for the treasonous conspirator that he […]
So, here we are at the finale of the Ultraman Geed television series. And while there’s so much to have loved about this story of the son of a corrupt titan taking his place among vaunted heroes, I can say that my feelings about the show’s end, in many ways, mirror the same complicated thoughts […]
It’s never too late to celebrate the holidays for a crew of time-tossed heroes like the cadets of Power Rangers HyperForce. Twitch’s tabletop RPG series based on the Power Rangers television franchise keeps on trucking as the team recovers in the aftermath of their encounter with the mechanized wasteland of Power Rangers RPM, a series […]
Recently, the identity of the new Kamen Rider Grease was finally revealed. Yet, for those who have not been following the Kamen Rider Build television series, Grease is the third Rider that will appear in the series. This character’s information has been teased since mid to late fall through various toy catalogue and magazine scans. Now, unlike Kamen […]
Welcome to the second installment of a brand new series here on HJU, Scholars Talking Toku. My name is Justin Mullis. I’m a scholar working in the academic field of religious studies with a life long love of Japanese pop-culture. Earlier this year an essay I wrote, “Notes from the Land of Light: Observations on […]