Eye See You
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Lots of negativity here... What's up with you people? Funny reactions from people love this stuff...
ATTENTION THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ME: I've been watching Tokusatsu before y'all were born. It's a known fact that these shows are made for children. But, because of the high-quality of the production and writing, Japanese kids shows have always been light-years ahead of what has been produced in other countries, which is why they KICK ASS. That's why I love this stuff—always have, because I grew up with it. But, that still doesn't take away the fact that they are made for Japanese kids. "Made For Kids" doesn't mean "lame". That's not denigrating the shows, it's just a fact. Period.
Now, BLACK FANG: You obviously don't know anything about San Francisco. People are very hip to Japanese pop culture, here. We've had Japanese Superheroes on TV here for decades. In the 1970s, we were watching GORANGER and KIKAIDA on television with English subtitles (as well as anime series like BRAVE RAIDEEN and CAPTAIN HARLOCK), while we also got the English dubbed versions of SPECTREMAN, ULTRAMAN, JOHNNY SOKKO and THE SPACE GIANTS as well.
"But don't be surprised if you see at least one person do some lame MMPR mock impression or something."
What does that mean? If someone disrupts the show, I'll show them the door (I've worked plenty of nightclub security gigs in my time). If they want to be a jerk about it, they can talk to me outside the theater... LOL!
VITOR... I'm not a hater. I'm a historian. Apparently, you don't know about all the work I've done (for more than 30 years to promote tokusatsu in the US, and all the DVDs I've worked on for US release: KIKAIDA, KAMEN RIDER V3, KIKAIDA 01, INAZUMAN, IRON KING and SUPER ROBOT: RED BARON, etc.). I've been "in here" posting longer than you have, and have been showing this stuff and talking about it at art galleries, film festivals, and conventions for more than twenty years. I've been hosting "Japanese Superheroes: NOW!" at WonderCon every year since 1994.
I also lived in Tokyo in the late 1980s and met a lot of the people who created these shows, including Shotaro Ishimori, who gave us Kamen Rider (among others), and I return there as often as I can. Over the years, I've been on the sets for many series and movies, and again, people in San Francisco are a lot hipper than in Podunk went it comes to Japanese pop culture, anime, tokusatsu, etc. We've done a lot of these types of shows in the past, including a big Godzilla film festival for the 50th Anniversary in 2004. The first Superhero Show Patrick Macias and I did was WAY back in 1994, called THE POWER RANGERS DE-CONSTRUCTED: THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE SUPERHERO, a sold out event at the Artists Television Access, to educate people about the origin of these shows and why the Japanese versions are far superior.
As for this upcoming event, the fact of the matter is that VIZ Cinema invited Patrick Macias to put on these TOKYOSCOPE shows, and they is supported by VIZ Meida and the local Japanese community (there's a big ex-pat Japanese population in the San Francisco Bay Area), and there are a lot of tokusatsu fans here, too.
So, don't bust the chops of people who actually get off their asses and do something to promote this stuff outside of the internet. I just don't get the vitriol... What have you done lately?
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I love this.
Welcome to Old School, you bitches.
