International action star Keanu Reeves meets his match when he comes face-to-face with the man, the myth, the legend, Sonny Chiba. While doing press in Japan, the John Wick leading man was asked about one of his personal heroes, and he began to gush about the martial arts legend, only to be shocked by the […]
In 1993, the kaiju wranglers of Tsuburaya Productions devised a fresh series while on a break from their illustrious Ultraman franchise. This new show would see the birth of a digitized superhero who faced “giant monsters” in a computer-generated landscape to save the world from unseen threats. Many know him as Gridman: The Hyper Agent, […]
The armored hunters of the Garo universe reunite for one more blood-soaked battle against the demonic horde in Garo: Kaminokiba (Garo: Divine Fang), the film sequel focusing on Makai Knight Ryuga from the Garo: The One Who Shines in the Darkness television series. And his enemy for this installment in the action-horror saga, reprising his […]
As the current tokusatsu series Ultraman Geed stomps closer to its titanic climax, the giant hero franchise looks to fill the void by returning another of its ilk to television screens with Ultraman Orb: The Chronicle. The star of 2016’s Ultraman Orb, Kurenai Gai was an alien wanderer who seemed to joyfully stumble about the […]
Ultraman‘s Color Timer is blinking out! The long-running monster-fighting superhero franchise has seen action in just about every entertainment medium his enormous, red-and-silver frame could fly through, not excluding animation, live-action, television, film, and comics. Now, Tsuburaya Productions is prepping its salivating worldwide fanbase for a new announcement, and the otaku are all a-Twitter with […]
Will someone please tell these people that their finale isn’t for another several months? How is it possible that they keep coming out with one spectacular episode after another? This isn’t how things normally go. I’m not used to this! Kamen Rider Build continues to take the rule book for not just Kamen Rider but […]
The hotly-anticipated Kamen Rider Climax Fighters video game is about to feel the shadow of an eclipse upon it. Black Sun himself, the title hero of the 1987 classic series Kamen Rider Black, has arrived. And he’s about to show these young bucks how it’s done as he invades the tournament action game based upon […]
As the Ultraman Geed television series soars closer to its final episode, its young star Tatsuomi Hamada has already found his next big gig in the new Mob Psycho 100. This live-action adaptation of the eponymous manga and anime sees title character Mob forced to unleash his considerable psychic powers, to what may be disastrous […]
Wedding bells are ringing this season as two actors from the long-running Super Sentai television franchise have just announced that they’ve tied the knot. In 2012’s Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, Wada Masato played the lead hero Akagi Nobuo aka Akiba Red in his late night parody series. In the very same year, Yoshiki Risa was holding […]
I was determined not to come back with another Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger review that talked predominately about lead character Lucky, but it seems my fate was written in the constellations. This show, about a team of futuristic space trekkers boldly going up against the Jark Matter Empire, quickly became a new favorite for me, winning […]