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So I watched the first two episodes of Skyrider that Toei posted and it really feels like they wanted to revist the original show. There's a really brutal moment in the first episode that's a call back to all the nasty deaths people had in the original and it would have been a really great motivator for Tsukuba had we known those people for longer then 5 minutes. The suits look good, General Monster is a cool first villain/midboss character and I like that the monsters still have their human eyes as well as the eyes of whatever beast they're based off; it gives them an even creepier look. I wish the fights were a little better done, but it's only 2 eps in so I'm sure it gets better. Like most of the Showa stuff Toei's been posting I hope they get around to uploading more episodes of the seasons. I'm on a re-watch of the original Ultraman, since I forgot that Mill Creek's BluRay editions came with digital codes; it makes for a nice break from the world during lunch-breaks. I don't remember a lot of these early episodes, like the one where they go to "Arabia" and confirm that not only was Noah's Ark real, Noah was in fact a being from the land of light and worshiped as a God by the people in a long lost city where everyone looks Japanese. Oh and a Giant Ant Lion creates, magnetic tornados and wipes out most of the world's SSSP teams and is destroyed by an artifact that looks strangely like Ultraman's color timer. Just a gloriously wild episode. Oh Ultraman Z has finally been re-uploaded to where I haven't watched before and we get some PEGUILA! Also I love that this show has no issue using cheesy miniatures but then does a great shot from a car dashboard of Peguila's frozen breath upending everything on the street. And then there's another great POV shot of Sevenger fighting Peguila from a child's room where we a big hit lands it shakes the room and all the toys fall off the self and squeak/light up. I'm such a sucker for those levels of detail. Not knowing much about more recent shows I'm assuming Juggulus Juggler (what a name) is a re-occurring antagonist, so it'll be interesting to see what he's up to. Outside of that I saw there's subs for the Zi-O vs Decade stuff, I'll probably watch those later.

I could be wrong, but I think the Rider Kick is a Kamen Rider reference. The OG Kamen Rider did the Flip -> Kick version, whereas later Riders did the dive kick that Sasuke does. Sooo TLDR: I know too much about Kamen Rider and they are both techincally Rider Kicks.

I haven't watch a ton of old Ultraman, but Ultra Q has been tons of fun; plus I think giant Kaiju fights never get old. If you're enjoying Kamen Rider, Toei Tokusatsu's Youtube page has been uploading the first 2 eps of various shows. They just put V3 and Kuuga out this week, so it looks like they're gonna keep on doing it. There's a ton of full shows to watch there too and if you've got a VPN they've got all the old Sentai shows subbed as well. Hope that helps!

Okay I'm casting some necromancy here and mods I apologize if I'm resurrecting something too old, but man there is just too much to talk about right now. Officially English subbed Toku is at an all-time high: Both Tsuburaya and Toei have Youtube channels with English subbed Toku. Tsubaraya's is more limited in that its whatever is currently airing plus random vintage episodes and they cull episodes from time to time; but you combine that with Millcreek's awesome job at getting Ultraman out in a physical format and freaking Marvel putting out Ultraman comics and it's a great time to be a fan. Toei's channel is immense, they've been uploading all their non Kamen Rider shows with subtitles (Sentai is region-locked, but that's what VPNs are for!) and finally they've started with Kamen Rider. Right now its the OG, Amazon, Ryuki and Agito getting epsidoes each week, plus Shin has been added as well. Also Toei's been doing some of the Heisei movies as watch-alongs in conjunction with Bandai's Team Kamen Rider (talk about a great job). Arrow just rereleased their Gamera set in Showa and Heisei era box sets, so if you missed out on the super-rad collector's edition, you still have a chance to get some HD Gamera action. Now if Criterion could magic up a Heisei/Millennium Godzilla collection.... Oh yeah and some nerds named Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi ( I think they were famous for the Mahoromatic anime) are doing a little movie called Shin Ultraman: https://youtu.be/AnYP1yzSe5E I've used the Quarrentimes to get caught up on a fair amount of Kamen Rider, as well as dive into Ultraman more, I'll post my thoughts in a bit. EDIT: No need to reply off myself; so to continue with that I was saying before, here's some capsule reviews of what I've watched: Kamen Rider Ghost: I bailed out of this about 3/4ths of the way through originally, it just didn't grab me a the time. So I restarted from the halfway point and by the end it was perfectly fine. Takeru and Makoto were fine protagonists, but honestly the side characters like Akari, Javel and Igor made the show for me. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: So this show definitely caught me by surprise. It took a bit for the suit designs to grow on me, but the fact that they leaned in so hard on the absurd medical drama aspect was great and helped make the second half plot reveals feel a little more in line. Dangerous Zombie was such a good suit design and Dan's fate is perfect for an egotist like him. I wish we had gotten more of Kiriya, but that's just nit-picking and Toei actually apologized to fans over it. But this is definitely going to be one to show to friends some day. Kamen Rider Build: This was so good, probably Top 5 in the Heisei shows for me. I liked the chemistry between Sento and Banjo was great and the supporting cast was fun. It was cool to see Kouhei Takeda back in a Rider show, as he was my favorite part of Kiva. Gentoku was a good character too, though I feel like they tried to make him like Dan in the end and it didn't work as well. Definitely the suit designs and even Build's odder combos still looked cool. I really hope this show ends up on Toei's youtube page as I think it'd be a great one to get people into the series. Kamen Rider Zi-O: I love me some Decade (I own the DX Decade Driver), so to have Tsukasa be a part of the show was a treat. It's an anniversary show, so it's chock full of fanservice for the other shows, but still manages to have a fun plot about the kindest demon king in the making. To me though this was the Woz show, such a gloriously over the top character and Keisuke Watanabe played it as over the top as humanly possible. My girlfriend actually got me the Woz Driver as a x-mas gift, which was a huge surprise (she really is a saint for putting up for my love of Karate Bugmen and rubber suit monsters) so I'm probably even more biased in it's favor. Kamen Rider Zero One: I just started this, I'm like 6 episodes in so I don't really have an opinion yet. I do appreciate that the Reiwa era seems to have dialed back the tranformation scenes a bit. By Zi-O they just became a cacophony of sounds and effect; so the simpler transformation and Faiz-esque engrish lines from the belt are fun. Shin Kamen Rider: Woof. I watched this on Toei's channel and I can see why nothing came of this movie. Don't get me wrong, the suits looked great and good lord do people get their throat's slit, but man the acting. I'm still glad I watched it, but it's best enjoyed in GIF form. Ultra Q: If you told me 5 years ago I'd have a legit Blu-Ray release of Ultra Q I'd say you were nuts, but here we are. I love the Twighlight Zone meets X-Files feel of the show and getting to see the birth of a lot of classic Ultra Kaiju is great. Yuriko was a great character and really felt like the lead to me, though the main trio were all fun. Ultraman Z: Sadly I didn't get to watch all of this before Tsubaraya pulled it down, but it was fun. STORAGE was a cool group and I liked the focus on the team building robots to stand up to the Kaiju/assist Z. Definitely will get this when it comes out on Blu-Ray. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy: The last episode dropped this weekend and man is it nothing but glorious Ultra fanservice. It's also a great remind that I still have a lot of Ultra shows to watch to get caught up. It's interesting as it seems to be both a prequel to Ultraman Z but also possibly teasing the next Ultraman as well. As long as they give me more Ultra on Kaiju action I'll be watching. The other cool thing is I had no clue a bunch of Garo had actually got a subbed blu-ray release, so using various sales at Funimation, Rightstuf and a lucky find of the first TV set on Amazon.Ca I've now got everything they've released.

How is Yano not doing a Y-T-R shrug into this as his finish?

I was actually wondering what Murakami was up to these days. Glad to see he still looks like one of Majima's subordinates.

Comics and Wrestling collide! Some friends surprised me with this Lance Archer sketch by Daniel Warren Johnson for an X-mas gift.

I know Scream Factory had said they had reached out to some producers in Europe who claimed to have the footage; maybe its finally all coming together?

I'm getting caught up on gaming news, but Yakuza 3-6 and Persona 5 Strikers being on PC makes me very, very happy.

I found it to be entertaining, but a total bait and switch. You think you're getting a horror movie with three of the all time greats, but you get a very different movie with some brief appearances.

Archer's response https://twitter.com/LanceHoyt/status/1321103606226034693?s=20

https://www.goodsmileus.com/product/16d-collection-015-minoru-suzuki-2244 In case you actually want to order it.

I believe the Cat is a reference to GoodBadFlick's production company, Angry Orange Cat

I'm biased because Battle Tendency was the first JoJo's I read, so Joseph is always THE Jostar for me. So I'd go 1) Battle Tendency 2) Stardust Crusaders 3) Diamond is Unbreakable 4) Vento Aureo 5) Phantom Blood

I feel like a lot of the ragging has more to do with the goofy outfit and that his strabismus was super obvious in the match card photo then whatever went on in Mexico. One perfectly fine match where he was probably nervous as hell since it was his big debut is a little premature to slap the Captain New Japan label on him. Working through Suzuki-gun and having some vets around will probably help a lot and a new look is easy enough.

No problem, so once you've downloaded the zip file, have it extract into your EWR directory. It'll overwrite whatever you might already have for data, so you might want to make a backup copy of your data. After that just launch the game and you should be good.

https://homeofprowrestling.com/other-games/wrestling-booker/ewr/ewrrwupdates.html has rosters from 2003 to 2019. Plus I think in another section they have historical rosters.

It was nice of Vince to commission Jim Lee to do that portrait of him.

So for giggles I downloaded EWR 4.2 and a roster update, since I haven't played it in forever. I've had such a blast as I forgot how gloriously random rosters can be. Right now I've got Big R Shimizu feuding with The Proletariat Boar over the heavyweight title and the Maine State Posse fueding with Yujiro and Chase Owens. I also forgot how weird the development system was in terms of raising people's stats. For grins I signed Mars from the great WWE developmental culling at the start of the game, figuring he wouldn't amount to much. He spent like a year and half in developmental, longer then some trainees that came after him, and is now the best overall guy on my roster. I know the game will probably get too repetitive at some point, but for sheer randomness it can't be beat.

So I started watching Gintama over the weekend with my lady, since it's one of her favorite shows. I'm enjoying it so far, the show does a great job of balancing narrative and wackiness. And good lord is the voice acting talent loaded; like every time a new character shows up and says something I'm like "Wait isnt that?" Will this show hold up over 300+ episodes? Here's hoping!

Man between this and the Tenryu match, Wataru Sakata got murdered in Hustle.

Okay, after 10,000 hours in Windows Movie Maker, I give you Ray Traylor vs Scott Norton: https://streamable.com/qvil44

@gordi The crowd is super hot for Norton, that must have been such a thrill for him. Cagematch says Norton worked a series of 4-6ish minute matches against Ray Traylor in '97, I'm trying to see if I can find those online. *Edit* along my hunt I came across this Ray Traylor vs Scott Steiner match, it might be DQed for the Frankensteiner, but it was way better than I expected.

Originally I was going to post a Don Frye vs Norton match; but there was too much laying about in leg locks to make it a true clubbering match. I think I'll take this opportunity to go on a Scott Norton learning excursion though.

Scott Norton vs the Giant is some clubbering Bonus Scott Norton vs OMG, its too short to qualify: