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[...] Classic TV Show Round-up (Classic Videos You’ve Probably Never Seen) 16 scott, skip, Mahmud, Willie, James, WujouMao [...] [...]

By: scott

scott — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:28:23 +0000

skip, go to wikipedia and search “space giants”, that will lead to a redirect to “ambassador magma”, i’m pretty sure this is what you seek.

By: skip

skip — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:24:39 +0000

I cant remeber the name of a japanese tv show that i would watch in the mid to late 70′s(in chicago) it was about a family that lived in a cave and would turn into rockets and travel throughout the city helping people in trouble. The father was very large and gold. I think the mother was normal size and so was the son. Whenever this family would fight bad people, they would hit them in the neck and they would melt…..
CAN ANYONE REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS SHOW ???????

By: Mahmud

Mahmud — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:51:01 +0000

I didn’t know Spiderman was a power ranger.

By: Willie

Willie — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:45:49 +0000

i seen The Rainbow Man and Cybernetic detective

as for the others have yet to see them

By: James

James — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:30:26 +0000

The only Japanese older series I have ever liked is 水戸黄門。But I never had the chance to see any Japanese live-action series when I was young. The only Japanese show we got was Astro-boy. And I love Astro-boy.

By: WujouMao

WujouMao — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:41:55 +0000

sorry, just an update. the english version is here. [from wiki, its staed moneky magic was never shown on tv due to copyright whatevers] i loved monkey, so i would like to share this with you guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQTTq0dFT4

By: WujouMao

WujouMao — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:36:24 +0000

whats my fav japanese tv series? its monkey magic. its from the chinese story, journey to the west [its another reason why my chinese friend dislikes the japanese]
i 1st saw it on BBC in 1979 [i was born in 1972]
i found this on youtube. its just a link to the opening of the japanese version, although ‘monkey magic’i s said in english.
西遊記　モンキーマジックOP -Saiyuki Monkey　Magic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5G43c_GRug

By: paddyspoint

paddyspoint — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:20:40 +0000

oops, typo.

i meant “they showed”

By: paddyspoint

paddyspoint — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:19:38 +0000

in the philippines, they should Jiban, and all sorts of sentai. but we had localized names, like mask rider black (kamen rider), bioman, shaider, machineman, etc.

brings back the good old days, especially Jiban! gosh, i remember myself singing to the lyrics even though i couldn’t understand them!

By: Claytonian

Claytonian — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:11:41 +0000

thanks, I never knew about that section

By: lost in ube

lost in ube — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:10:21 +0000

If you’re in Japan, usually theme songs to anime and tokusatsu shows have their own separate section in the back of the book. You just have to know the full name of the show; if I’m looking for Kikaida, I have to look up Jinzo Ningen Kikaida, Himitsu Sentai GoRanger for Go Ranger and so on.

By: Claytonian

Claytonian — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:54:04 +0000

Yeah I had a hawaiian friend who was very impressed when dragon ball came to the states with the original music he remembered as a kid.

BTW, I love to do theme songs in karaoke, but do you know the artists we should be looking up in order sing them?

By: teachan

teachan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:23:00 +0000

I live for 25years as Japanese but I’ve never seen such movies??
Spiderman is so funny!

By: lost in ube

lost in ube — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:09:04 +0000

Anyone growing up in Hawaii during the 80s would have had access to a bunch of Japanese shows. Kikaida, various versions of Kamen Rider, Battle Fever J and some other shows so I’ve always been partial to them. Rainbow Man was aired just before I was born as was Go Ranger.
How popular was Kikaida in Hawaii? Well, the original series has been aired in it’s entirety several times and it still has a large following:
http://www.generationkikaida.com/
For some downloadable clips (rather than youtube) you can find some stuff here: http://www.openget.net/tokusatsu.html
Finally, for some good fun, learn some theme songs and sing along to actual clips of the shows at your local karaoke place (note: not every song has clips but lots of the older ones do).

By: raindrop

raindrop — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:50:09 +0000

I WANT spiderman’s robot.

By: Tadashi

Tadashi — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:13:25 +0000

The first has really fine animation.
For Spiderman, since when does he need a mecha?
And the last one’s successor was actually aired in Germany in the early 90ies.